_To Captain H. M._
_Savannah, March 2, 1740._
_Dear Sir_,
WITH pleasure I received your kind letter last night, and immediately
prayed, that GOD would never leave you before he had finished the good
work begun in your heart. He has given you a rational, I hope ere long,
he will give you a _spiritual conviction_ of sin and of CHRIST. When
that comes, all opposition will fall before it. The world will be as
nothing in your eyes, and you will act like a soldier of JESUS CHRIST.
Indeed, dear Sir, I travail as it were in birth, till JESUS CHRIST be
thoroughly formed within you. If I do not forget my promise, I do not
forget your favours.――I make mention of you in my prayers. Linger not,
dear Sir, but haste out of your spiritual Sodom. Flee, flee to JESUS
CHRIST, whose sacred blood has made an atonement for sinners. Lay
hold on his everlasting righteousness, and chuse rather to suffer
affliction with the people of GOD, than to enjoy any thing which this
world may afford, for a season. Accept the sermons I have herewith
sent, and believe me to be, _dear Sir_,
Your affectionate friend and servant in CHRIST,
_G. W._