_To Mr. H――――y._
_London, December 9, 1756._
_My very dear Friend_,
LAST night Mr. _M――――_ informed me, that Mr. _C――――_ shewed him a
pamphlet, wrote on purpose to prove the fundamental errors of my
printed sermons, and that you had offered to preface it, but he chose
you should not. That this is true, I as much believe, as that I am
now at _Rome_. But I wish that my very dear friend may not repent his
connection and correspondence with some, when it is too late. This is
my comfort, I have delivered my soul. Mr. _R――――_ hath been so kind
as to send me the two volumes of _Jenks’s Meditations_, and desires
me to annex my recommendation to yours. I have answered, that it will
not be prudent or beneficial to him so to do. I fear they are too large
to go off. I hope that my dear friend prospers both in soul and body.
Conviction and conversion work go on here. LORD keep us from tares!
All is well at _Clapham_; I have expounded there twice. GOD hath met us
at our new building. I know that you will pray, it may be full of new
creatures. My most cordial respects await your mother and sister; my
wife joins. With great haste, but much greater love, I subscribe myself,
my very dear friend,
Yours most affectionately in our common LORD,
_G. W._