_To Lady H――――._
_Gloucester, March 4, 1749._
_Honoured Madam_,
HAVING been moving this week from place to place, I could not write
to your Ladyship as usual, and even now my body is so fatigued, that I
cannot say much. However, I would beg leave to inform your Ladyship
that the glorious _Emmanuel_ continues to smile upon my poor labours,
and that about the middle of the week, by his leave, I purpose waiting
upon your Ladyship in _North Audley-street_. I doubt not but I shall
find your Ladyship riper for heaven, than when I left _London_. There
you will be always thronged with company, and yet free from the least
distraction. On earth it is otherwise. However, as we advance in the
divine life, we shall be more and more conformed to those ministring
spirits, who, though waiting on us below, do always behold the face of
our heavenly Father above. This divine lesson, honoured madam, GOD has
begun to teach you. May you daily make a proficiency therein, so that
your progress may be made known unto all men! I will follow as fast as
I can, though alas! with too slow a pace. I must now add no more, but
my usual prayers for your Ladyship’s temporal and eternal welfare, and
hasten to subscribe myself, honoured madam,
Your Ladyship’s most dutiful though unworthy humble servant,
_G. W._