_On board the Elizabeth, Gravesend, August 14, 1739._
_Reverend and dear Sir_,
YOUR kind letter gave me much satisfaction. It breathed the language
of one, who is a Boanerges in the church of GOD. Excess of business
prevented my answering it sooner. As I am now retired from a public
life, I trust I shall have time to try my heart and search out my
spirit. Forget me not, dear Sir, when you are praying for all those,
who travel by land and by water, when storms and winds are blowing
over me. I hope I shall always carry you, and others of my dear
friends in _Wales_, upon my heart, whenever I go in and out before the
LORD. It would rejoice my soul to hear from you, when abroad. Exhort
me, oh exhort me, to be valiant for the truth. Bid, oh bid me, dear
Sir, to be mindful of a dying and risen JESUS.――Bid me to remember the
riches of his free grace in pulling me as a brand out of the fire, and
exhort me to lay down my life for his sake.――Brother _Harris_, I find,
has come off triumphantly.――The hour of suffering is not yet come. GOD
prepare us all for it! I expect to suffer for my blessed master’s name
sake. But, wherefore do I fear? My master will pray for me.――Dear Sir,
adieu. I know you not in person. Perhaps I may never see your face in
the flesh. However, I shall see you in heaven, and then you shall see
how sincerely I now subscribe myself,
Your unworthy brother and fellow-servant in CHRIST,
_G. W._