G. W.
[♦] “ines” replaced with “lines”
LETTER MCCXVIII.
London, November 3, 1758.
Dear Sir,
THOUGH I hope to have the pleasure of seeing you next week, yet love and gratitude constrain me to send you an answer to your kind letter. Blessed be God, that you have some spiritual ministers and people to converse with! I hope that the waters will be blessed to the recovery of dear Mr. H——’s health, and that out of his belly will be made to flow rivers of living waters for the refreshment of many souls. Dear Mr. C——’s sharp affliction I never heard of till lately: sharp indeed. God make it sweet to his soul! O these Isaacs! how hard to sacrifice! He hath my unfeigned sympathy, and worthless prayers. Dear Mr. A——’s sister hath met with such another trial: she is left with five children. As Mr. A—— hath been a steady friend, and his brother-in-law was a spiritual child, I have proposed putting the two eldest boys to boarding for one year. Twenty pound will do it. Ten guineas are already given. Perhaps Mrs. B—— or G—— may speak to you about it. I write to each by this post. Mr. A—— hath taken the children with him into Gloucestershire. Your kind sisters remembered them. They and your mother were all here last night. I hope our Lord was with us too. That is all in all. This must be my Winter Bethel. Without retirement I cannot go on. Comforts come sweetest from the fountain head. That you may be filled with them, both here and hereafter, is the earnest prayer of, my very dear Sir,
Yours, &c. in our common Lord,
G. W.