_To the Right Honourable lord L――――_
_Edinburgh, Oct. 2, 1741._
_My Lord_,
LAST night I returned from the south country, and receiv’d your
Lordship’s kind letter. My invitation to _Coupar_ was in the name
of many: who the persons were that signed the letter I cannot tell.
I have sent it inclosed in this. Had I known it to have been more
agreeable to your Lordship, I would have appointed the meeting at
_Melvill_; but I fear, as such public notice has been given, it
will be now impracticable. I cannot possibly stay with your Lordship
all _Tuesday_, being to preach at _Dundee_. But in my return from
_Aberdeen_, I hope to be at your Lordship’s house. I am glad your
Lordship intends to be at _Kinglassie_. I shall have both sermons
very early, and hope the glorious JESUS will be with us in our going
to _Melvill_. O my LORD, I want a thousand tongues to set off the
Redeemer’s praise. Having him, tho’ I have nothing else, I find I
possess all things. I have not forgotten your Lordship since I wrote
last. You are, and will be much upon my heart. I have heard of the
piety of your Lordship’s ancestors, and hope many prayers are yet in
store for you. Above all, I trust, JESUS prays for you, and then you
cannot but be a conqueror; nay, more than conqueror over the world,
the flesh and the devil. Take courage then, my Lord, and fear not to
follow a crucified JESUS without the camp, bearing his sacred reproach.
Beware of honour, falsely so called: dare to be singularly good, and
be not ashamed of JESUS or his gospel. O that you may find it to be
the power of GOD to your salvation! Look but to CHRIST by faith, and
your Lordship’s great possessions will not retard, but further and
promote your progress in the divine life. What sweet communion will
your Lordship then enjoy with GOD, in your walks and gardens? It will
then be a little paradise to your soul, and every thing you meet with,
will only draw you so much nearer to _Jehovah_, in whom all fulness
dwells. This I find by daily experience; and that your Lordship may
daily experience the same, is the earnest prayer, my Lord, of
Your Lordship’s most obliged humble servant,
_G. W._