_Philadelphia, Nov. 10, 1739._
_Dear brother H._,
I Congratulate you on your success at _Monmouth_. GOD has yet further
work for you to do, ere you are called before rulers and governors,
for his name sake. By divine permission, in about a twelve-month,
I hope to make a second use of your field pulpits. Our principles
agree, as face answers to face in the water. Since I saw you, GOD
has been pleased to enlighten me more in that comfortable doctrine of
_Election_, &c. At my return, I hope to be more explicit than I have
been. GOD forbid, my dear brother, that we should shun to declare the
whole counsel of GOD. The people of _Wales_ are much upon my heart.
I long to hear how the Gospel flourishes among you. How prospers your
inward man? Being always doing, no doubt you grow in grace. May you
increase with all the increase of GOD! You will see my letters to _Mr.
Jones_, &c. As fast as I can, the rest of our Welch friends shall hear
from me. Oh that I may never forget their works of faith and labours
of love! Salute them most affectionately in my name; and exhort them,
my dear brother, to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered
to the saints. Put them in mind of the freeness and eternity of GOD’s
electing love, and be instant with them, to lay hold on the perfect
righteousness of JESUS CHRIST by faith. Talk to them, oh talk to
them, even till midnight, of the riches of his all-sufficient grace.
Tell them, oh tell them, what he has done for their souls, and how
earnestly he is now interceding for them in heaven. Shew them in the
map of the word, the kingdoms of the upper world, and the transcendent
glories of them; and assure them all shall be theirs, if they believe
on JESUS CHRIST with their whole hearts. Press them to believe on him
immediately. Intersperse prayers with your exhortations, and thereby
call down fire from heaven, even the fire of the Holy Ghost,
_To soften, sweeten and refine,
And melt them into love._
Speak every time, my dear brother, as if it was your last; weep out,
if possible, every argument, and as it were compel them to cry, Behold
how he loveth us. Remember me, Remember me in your prayers, as being
ever, ever
Yours, &c.
_G. W._