_Philadelphia, Nov. 28, 1739._
_Dear Mr. B._,
YOUR kind present of flour has been of singular use to me and my
family; I pray GOD, in return, to feed you with that bread which
cometh down from heaven. You are one of my first and choicest friends.
You have not been ashamed to own me, or to attend on my ministry.
It will wonderfully rejoice me, to see you exalted at our LORD’s
right-hand in a future state. The way you know. JESUS CHRIST is the
way, the truth, and the life. Through faith in his blood shall you
have free access into the holy of holies. I hope dear Mr. _B._ is not
in the number of those, who want to make a Saviour of their own works,
and thereby deny the LORD, who has so dearly bought them with his
precious blood: No, I am persuaded you are more noble. Mr. _B――――_
has not so learnt CHRIST. He is willing, I trust, to ascribe his
salvation to GOD’s free grace, and to let JESUS CHRIST be all in all.
I hope your brother, and those young men you brought with you out of
_Spittlefields_, are likewise thus minded. Though absent, yet I do
not forget them. O exhort them from me, to save themselves from this
untoward generation. My dear friend, do you go before them, and let
them learn of you how to walk with GOD. It is a difficult thing to
be a christian indeed. Numbers are _Pharisees_, and do not know it. I
pray GOD you may be delivered from them, and be made experimentally to
know that no one can call JESUS CHRIST “his LORD,” till he has really
received the Holy Ghost. I could dwell on this, but other business
obliges me to hasten to subscribe myself, dear Mr. _B――――_,
Your most obliged friend and servant,
_G. W._