_Philadelphia, Nov. 10, 1739._
_Dear Mrs. D._,
TEN thousand blessings light upon you and yours! The LORD reward you
ten thousand-fold for receiving me and my friends into your house. The
LORD shower down his heavenly manna, and feed you with the bread of
life for those comfortable meals we have had of your providing since
we came on board. We have not been slack to pray for you; my heart
is now full of a sense of your kindnesses. I know not when to begin
and when to leave off adoring the GOD and Father of our LORD JESUS
CHRIST for these and all other of his love-tokens: He is the father
of mercies, and the GOD of all comfort; he hath comforted me in all
my tribulation, and, I am assured, will still comfort me in whatsoever
I am to do or suffer for his name’s sake. You, dear Mrs. _D._ can
subscribe to this truth, that GOD is a God of all comfort. You have
been comforted on every side; you have been filled as it were with new
wine; you have tasted that the LORD is gracious, and yet the best wine
is and will be always reserved till the last. The LORD’s compassions
fail not; they are, they will be renewed to you every morning; and
though, through much tribulation, you, as well others, must enter into
glory, yet you will find GOD to be your comforter in all tribulation.
GOD has made you a joyful mother of christian children; remember the
mother in the _Maccabees_; and, if ever your children are called to
suffering, beg of GOD that you may stand by and encourage them to die
for CHRIST. Oh that would be a spectacle indeed! A spectacle worthy
of men and angels! I pray GOD to arm you with this mind, and then you
will find that GOD’s rod as well as his staff will comfort you; nay,
though you pass through the valley of the shadow of death, yet shall
the Holy Spirit refresh you; your heart shall stand fast, and be
stedfast in the LORD. Oh, my dear Madam, my heart is enlarged towards
you: I pray GOD to fill you with all his divine fulness, and make you
daily more and more meet to be an inheritor among the saints in light.
With much love I have wrote to dear Mr. _D._ Oh pray him not to be
angry with
Your most affectionate friend and brother,
_G. W._