55. Letter Liv.
LETTER LIV.
L ondon, July 26, 1739.
Rev. Sir, JUST now I received your kind letter, and am endeavouring to catch a few moments to answer it. I thank you for your encouraging hints. O! dear Sir, continue to exhort, and provoke me to love and to good works, that I may with patience run the race that is set before me. Hitherto my dear Master magnifies his strength in my weakness. Ever since he honoured me to suffer a little reproach for his name's sake, at Basingstoke, he has caused me to rejoice with exceeding great joy. My spirit was stirred within me. Methinks
I could willingly have died to have borne my testimony against the lying vanities, and devilish entertainments of this generation. By the help of my
Master, I will go on and attack the devil in his strongest holds. O pray, dear Sir, that my zeal may be always tempered with true Christian prudence. It would grieve me, should I bring sufferings causelessly upon myself. A trying time, perhaps, is at hand. O that I may be found faithful! If providence permits, I will perform my promise. I am blind, I am a child, I
know nothing. I only desire the whole will of God may be done, in, by, and upon, dear Sir, Your unworthy brother and fellow-labourer in our dear Lord Jesus,
G. W.