49. Letter Dxlvi.
LETTER DXLVI.
T o the Same.
London, Jan. 18, 1744.
THIS afternoon I received your kind letter, and thank you a thousand times for your great generosity in lending me some furniture, having little of my own. I know who will repay you. Next week, God willing, my dear wife and little one will come to Gloucester, for I find it beyond my circumstances to maintain them here. I leave London, God willing, this day sev'nnight. Your affairs and concerns are mine. I shall lay them before our common Lord. My brother will receive a letter about my wife's coming.
She and the little one are brave and well. But why talk I of wife and little one? Let all be absorbed in the thoughts of the love, sufferings, free and full salvation of the infinitely great and glorious Emmanuel. Blessed, for ever blessed be his holy Name, for such happy beginnings of another year! How would it rejoice you to see the many thousands in this metropolis, like newborn babes, desiring to be fed with the sincere milk of the word, that they may grow thereby. This, if I know any thing of my heart, is all my
salvation, and all my desire. In respect to other things, at present I know this is, and I trust always will be the habitual language of my heart: O blessed
God, Thy gifts, if call'd for, I resign, Pleas'd to receive, pleas'd to restore; Gifts are thy work; it shall be mine, The giver only to adore.
That both of us may be always kept thus minded, is the earnest prayer of Yours most affectionately, G. W.