LETTER LIX.

_London, August 3, 1739._

_Dear Sir_,

I Cannot leave _London_ without answering your last letter. I am

convinced that GOD calls me now to _Georgia_, and so are our friends.

GOD’s ways are like the great deep.――He will go a way by himself.

Exitus acta probat. The prophecy you mention, I dare not apply to

myself. What am I, that GOD should so delight to honour me? However,

I believe the LORD will work a great work upon the earth. Whatever

instruments he shall make use of in effecting it, I care not. If

CHRIST be preached, if my dear LORD be glorified, I rejoice; yea, and

will rejoice. I wish all the LORD’s servants were prophets. Oh, dear

Sir, my heart is now melted down with a sense of the divine love!

Never was a greater instance of GOD’s free grace in CHRIST. What am I,

O LORD, that thou shouldest delight to honour me? Even so, Father, for

so it seemeth good in thy sight! Dear Sir, I could now write all day;

but other business demands my attendance.――Yet a little while, and we

shall sit down in the kingdom of GOD for ever. Dear Sir adieu. Oh give

thanks, give thanks, and pray for

Your’s most affectionately in CHRIST JESUS,

_G. W._

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