_To Lady H――――._
_Exeter, March 24, 1750._
_Honoured Madam_,
AS I am persuaded your heart’s desire and prayer to GOD is, that the
kingdom of the LORD JESUS may be set up on earth, I cannot return to
_London_ without informing your Ladyship, that the gospel has been
most gladly received in these western parts. I have been very near the
land’s end, and every where souls have fled to hear the word preached,
like doves to the windows. The harvest is great, yea very great; but
the labourers are few. O that the LORD of the harvest would thrust
out more labourers! Something out of the common road must be done,
to awaken a thoughtless world. GOD has been terribly shaking the
metropolis. I hope it is an earnest of his giving a shock to secure
sinners, and making them to cry out, “What shall we do to be saved?” I
trust, honoured Madam, you have been brought sweetly to believe on the
LORD JESUS, and have experienced the beginnings of a real salvation in
your heart. What a mercy is this! To be plucked as a brand out of the
burning, to be one of those few _Mighty_ and _Noble_ that are called
effectually by the grace of GOD; what consolation must this administer
to your Ladyship under all afflictions! What can shake a soul whose
hopes of happiness, in time and eternity, are built upon the rock of
ages? Winds may blow, rains may and will descend even upon persons of
the most exalted stations; but they that trust in the LORD JESUS CHRIST
never shall, never can be totally confounded. That your Ladyship may
every day and hour experience more and more of this blessed truth, is
the earnest prayer of, honoured Madam,
Your Ladyship’s most dutiful, obedient humble servant,
_G. W._