_To Peter B――――._
_Aberdeen, October 10, 1741._
_My dear Brother_,
I Write this, to ask pardon for mentioning your name in my answer to
brother _W――――_’s sermon. I am very sorry for it. Methinks I hear you
say, for CHRIST’s sake I forgive you. I thank you, and shall be glad
of a conference with you when I come to _London_. There have been
faults on both sides. I think, my dear brother, you have not acted
simply in some things. Let us confess our faults to one another, and
pray for one another, that we may be healed. I wish there may be no
dissention between us for the time to come. May GOD preserve us from
falling out in our way to heaven! The world and the devil are united
against us; O that we could all unite against them! “GOD is love,
and he that dwelleth in love, dwelleth in GOD.” I long to have all
narrow-spiritedness taken out of my heart. JESUS is able to deliver
me. His blood is Almighty. I trust I shall not rest, ’till I have felt
the full power of it in my soul. Blessed be GOD, I am still carried on
from conquering to conquer. JESUS causes me to triumph in every place.
I desire to lie as a poor sinner at his feet, and to cry, Grace!
grace! I find I am shortly to be called before the higher powers. Help
me, my dear brother, by your prayers. In about nine days I think to
leave _Scotland_. I commend you to JESUS, and desire to subscribe
myself, dear brother _B――――_,
Yours affectionately in the bleeding Lamb,
_G. W._