_To the Rev. Mr. S――――, at Worcester._
_London, June 13, 1741._
_Reverend and dear Sir_,
I Thank you heartily for your last kind letter: As you are so aged and
infirm, I take it as an especial favour, that you are pleased to write
to me. You need make no apology, reverend Sir, for your plain dealing:
I love those best, who deal most sincerely with me. Whatever errors I
have been, or shall be guilty of in my ministry, I hope the LORD will
shew me, and give me grace to amend. This is the language of my heart;
_Correct me when I go astray,
And lead me in the perfect way._
I also thank you, dear Sir, for your kind benefaction. My arrears
upon the Orphan-house are yet large; but I hope ere long the LORD
will enable me to pay them all. At present, I am kept from doubting.
Unworthy as I am, JESUS CHRIST is yet with me, and is pleased daily to
strengthen me both in soul and body. My ministry (for ever adored be
sovereign grace) is attended with a continual power. I am shortly
going a large circuit, perhaps as far as _Scotland_. Dear Sir, let
your prayers follow after me.――I am a poor, weak, unworthy worm; as
such be pleased to remember, reverend and dear Sir,
Your obedient, though unworthy brother and servant
in our common LORD,
_G. W._