_Philadelphia, Nov. 10, 1739._
_Dear Mr. W._,
I Long to be in heaven, chiefly to see GOD even as he is; next, that
I may have my soul satisfied with the blissful communion of saints.
There I hope to see you and your wife, and to shew how sincerely I
love you both in the bowels of JESUS CHRIST. My heart has went along
with my hand, when I used to stretch it out to you in the field.
I only wanted more time to converse with you. Oh my dear brother, let
us keep ourselves in the love of GOD through faith in CHRIST JESUS,
and then, yet a little while we shall meet in glory. As faith is
the beginning, so faith is the end of the christian course. Let
us keep this grace in continual exercise, and we may bid death and
hell defiance. Faith makes us more than conquerors over all; I speak
thus to you, because I hope you and dear Mrs. ―――― have been in
some measure made partakers of this free gift of GOD. I pray GOD to
increase it more and more, till it be swallowed up in the fruition of
our supreme good. Perhaps our faith may be put to the trial ere it be
long; I expect nothing but sufferings. Oh pray that I may be faithful
unto the end, and that a crown of life may be given to
Your affectionate brother in CHRIST,
_G. W._