_To the Same._
_Nov. 14, 1737._
_Dear Sir_,
I Heartily thank you for your last, and having a few moments, sit down
to answer it. Let not my friends trouble me with temporal offers, I
shall accept (GOD assisting me) of no place this side _Jordan_. We
embark for _Georgia_ in about three weeks or a month at farthest. You
wish me good luck in the name of the LORD. I hope to send to you again
before I sail. Mr. _M――――n_ is going amongst the colliers again at
_Bristol_, and a church, I hope, will be built for them. Prosper,
O LORD, the work of his hands upon him!――Mrs. _Farmer_, whenever my
circumstances will admit, shall be paid all that is due to her on
my mother’s account. GOD still works more and more by my unworthy
ministry. Last week, save one, I preached ten times in different
churches; and the last week seven; and yesterday four times, and read
prayers twice, though I slept not above an hour the night before,
which was spent in religious conversation, and in interceding for you,
Mrs. _H._, good Mr. _Pauncefoot_, &c. I now begin to preach charity
sermons twice or thrice a week, besides two or three on _Sundays_, and
sixty or seventy pounds are collected weekly for the poor children.
Thousands would come in to hear, but cannot. This night I preached
a funeral sermon before a most crouded audience, and GOD, I believe,
worked upon the people’s hearts. O pray for me still, _dear Sir_, that
I may renew my strength, that I may walk and not be weary, run and
not be faint. Admire GOD’s free grace in CHRIST JESUS, and let his
goodness to me, the worst of sinners, strengthen your faith, and make
you never to despair of mercy. Farewell. My love to all, and am, Dear
Sir, in sincerity,
Your friend, &c.
_G. W._