Yours most affectionately in our common Lord,

G. W.


LETTER MXXIV.

To Mr. ——.

London, February 2, 1754.

Dear Sir,

BY your writing, I guess you are a brand plucked out of the fire of the polite and gay world.—Happy deliverance! I intreat you to rejoice, give thanks, and sing,

Be gone, vain world, my heart resign,

For I must be no longer thine;