LETTER DCCI.
To Mr. R——.
Topcliff, Nov. 1, 1748.
My dear Friend,
HERE, with thankfulness of heart, will I set up my Ebenezer; for hitherto assuredly hath the Lord helped me. We reached Fetton on Saturday night. There being no public worship on the Lord’s-day, I came on to Morpeth to worship there; got to Ferry-hill on Monday evening, and to-night am writing at Topcliff. Though I do not preach, yet I hope I am preparing for it. Reading, prayer, and meditation are three necessary ingredients. Riding, and getting proper rest, have recruited me; but I am apt to believe I have strained myself inwardly. I feel sensible pain in my breath.—But no matter; it is for a good master, who bore inexpressible pain for me.
O Lord, enlarge my scanty thought,
To see the wonders thou hast wrought;
Unloose my stammering tongue to tell,
Thy love immense, unsearchable.