_To Mr. H. H._
_Savannah, Feb. 4, 1740._
_My dear Brother_,
WILL this find you in prison or not? Your last letter (which I
received upon my arrival here) gave me some expectations that ere
long you would be both in prison and bonds. By and by, I shall follow
perhaps.――The LORD sanctify all his dispensations to us, and make us
not only willing to be bound, but even to die for the sake of our
dear Master. When I read how my letters, &c. are blessed to your
comfort, it quite confounds me. Oh the free-grace of CHRIST JESUS
our LORD! My dear Brother, let us continue instant in season and out
of season.――Let us continually preach up free-grace, though we die
for it; we cannot lose our lives in a better cause. As I am enabled,
I remember you at the throne of grace; in general I sigh out my
prayers.――But the spirit, I trust, makes intercession for me with
groanings that cannot be uttered.
I have not had much enlargement in preaching, since I have been here;
but my heart is often weighed down, and torn to pieces with a sense
of my desperately wicked and deceitful heart. I can subscribe to what
you say, “Was GOD to leave me to myself, I should be eminent for,
and a ring-leader in sin.” I sometimes think my heart is more vicious
and perverse than any one’s; and yet JESUS CHRIST will come and dwell
in me.――Methinks I hear you say, “Glory be to free grace: All praise
be given to electing love.”――Let all that love the LORD JESUS say,
_Amen_! Pray write to me as often as possible.――GOD, I believe, is
laying a foundation for great things in _Georgia_. I am building a
large house, and taking in many children. Wrestle with GOD in behalf
of, Brother,
Your’s eternally in CHRIST JESUS,
_G. W._