_To the Marquiss L――――._
_London, December 27, 1753._
_My Lord_,
A MATTER of some importance, is the occasion of my troubling your
Lordship with another letter. The reverend Mr. _G―――― T――――_ of
♦_Philadelphia_, and the reverend Mr. _D――――_ from _Virginia_
(both eminent ministers of JESUS CHRIST) are just arrived. They are
commissioned to apply for a general collection in _Scotland_, and
to procure private contributions for the building and maintaining a
presbyterian college in _New-Jersey_ province. What I would therefore
beg of your Lordship is, that your Lordship would do them the honour of
permitting them to wait upon you, and that they may be also introduced
to Lord _L――――_. One Mr. _D―――― D――――_, who I believe was lately
chosen a correspondent member of that society, over which your Lordship
presides, and who is a steady friend to the interests of the Redeemer,
if your Lordship is pleased to give leave, will come along with them. I
shall wait for your Lordship’s answer, and then apprize them of it. In
the mean time, I heartily wish your Lordship not the compliments, but
the blessings of the season, even all those blessings that have been
purchased for a lost world by the death and sufferings of an incarnate
GOD.――Adored, for ever adored be his free grace, he vouchsafes to
♠manifest himself amongst us here. Conviction and conversion work seems
to go on prosperously, and GOD’s people are abundantly refreshed. That
your Lordship may continually drink of divine pleasures as out of a
river, is and shall be the earnest prayer of, my Lord,
Your Lordship’s most dutiful, obliged and
ready servant for CHRIST’s sake,
_G. W._
♦ “Philadephia” replaced with “Philadelphia”
♠ “mamanifest” replaced with “manifest”