227. Letter Mcxc.
LETTER MCXC.
T o Lady G―― H――.
London, December 15, 1757.
Honoured Madam, HAVING lately heard of your Ladyship's being returned to Bath, I cannot help wishing your Ladyship joy of Sir Charles's most agreeable marriage.
May your Ladyship's present joy be consummated, in seeing them and all your honourable relations sitting down together at the marriage-feast of the supper of the Lamb. I have had frequent prospects of this, since I saw your
Ladyship. Often do I groan in this earthly tabernacle. I long to be cloathed with my house from heaven. O that the great God may vouchsafe to improve me, till he is pleased to call me to my wished-for rest. Hitherto he owns my feeble labours. The work in London seems to be but as it were beginning. We live in troublesome times; I trust the streets of the spiritual
Jerusalem will be built in them. Happy they who have fled to Jesus Christ for refuge: they have a peace that the world cannot give. O that the pleasure-taking, trifling flatterer knew what it was! He would no longer feel
such an empty void, such a dreadful chasm in the heart which nothing but the presence of God can fill. But I forget myself. I shall tire your Ladyship; besides I must drop a few lines to good Lady H――n; she is in the furnace.
When she is tried, her God will bring her forth like gold. But I must detain your Ladyship no longer, than while I add my dutiful respects to your
Ladyship's daughters, and beg your Ladyship's acceptance of the same from, honoured Madam, Your Ladyship's most dutiful, obliged, and ready servant for Christ's sake,
G. W.