461. Letter Mccccxxiv.
LETTER MCCCCXXIV.
T o Mrs. H――ge.
On board the Friendship, September 6, 1769.
Dear Mrs. H――ge, REPEATED labours of love demand repeated acknowledgments. God bless and reward you and your daughter! I hope you both returned home laden with the grapes of the New-Jerusalem. Gravesend Bethels, I trust, will not easily be forgotten. I am sure you do not forget to pray for a very worthless worm: a worm, and no man! And yet, (O amazing love!) Jesus, a never-failing, ever-loving, altogether-lovely Jesus, careth for and comforts him on every side. Hitherto it seems like my first voyage. Grace! grace!
What hath God wrought? With all thy mercies, glorious Emmanuel, deny not the mercy of a thankful heart! Had I more humility, I should be more thankful to God and man. But I once more bid you and yours farewel.
Salute all dear friends as they come in your way, and tell them their prayers are and will be heard in behalf of, my dear Mrs. H――e,
Less than the least of all,
G. W.