_London, July 26, 1739._
_Rev. Sir_,
JUST now I received your kind letter, and am endeavouring to catch a
few moments to answer it. I thank you for your encouraging hints. O!
dear Sir, continue to exhort, and provoke me to love and to good works,
that I may with patience run the race that is set before me. Hitherto
my dear Master magnifies his strength in my weakness. Ever since
he honoured me to suffer a little reproach for his name’s sake, at
_Basingstoke_, he has caused me to rejoice with exceeding great joy.
My spirit was stirred within me. Methinks I could willingly have died
to have borne my testimony against the lying vanities, and devilish
entertainments of this generation. By the help of my Master, I will
go on and attack the devil in his strongest holds. O pray, dear Sir,
that my zeal may be always tempered with true christian prudence. It
would grieve me, should I bring sufferings causelessly upon myself.
A trying time, perhaps, is at hand. O that I may be found faithful!
If providence permits, I will perform my promise. I am blind, I am a
child, I know nothing. I only desire the whole will of GOD may be done,
in, by, and upon, dear Sir,
Your unworthy brother and fellow-labourer
in our dear LORD JESUS,
_G. W._