me as he pleases for his own glory. My writings are to set forth his praise, and to exalt his salvation. The enclosed plan will shew you what I propose, and to make it more easy to be understood, I shall relate it by way of experience, giving an account of the Life of Faith, as it was begun in one of my acquaintance, and carried on to this day, he being now a father in Christ; and I shall make remarks upon it as I go on. ject is but little known. I pray you, friend, forget not me, nor my book. Lord Christ to bless it. If he smile upon it, it will be useful to his people. That is my highest wish. May it be profitable and useful to your soul! The sub my dear Beg of the I have many letters to write to-night, and yet I could not help acknowledging the receipt of yours. To a precious Jesus I commend you. To his love and to his power leave all your matters. What cannot, what will not he do for you, if you do but trust him? Are they not all happy in heaven? It is his happiness. They have it from him. Trust him, and he will not only bring you safe there, but also make you happy by the way. Oh! what a savor is there in his name! I did but just mention him, and I can scarcely stop my pen; his love so warms my heart. Dear precious Jesus, thou art above all blessing and praise, fill my friend's heart with thy love, and make her rejoice in thy finished salvation. My kind respects to Miss and pray tell her she cannot possibly think too highly of Christ, nor love him too much, nor live too much by faith upon him. His salvation is infinite and eternal; The love of him for this salvation is heaven upon earth, and living by faith upon him for the present graces and the future glories of this salvation, is getting every moment fresh tokens of his love to us, and exciting fresh love to him. In short, I wish she may be married to Christ; and then his person being hers, his honours, his estate, and all he has will be hers also. Once more to that dearest of all names, Jesus, F commend you, and am yours unfeignedly for his, sake. W. R LETTER IV. LAMBETH, May 14, 1763. BLESSED be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed you with so many blessings already, and who having begun will not cease to bless you in life and death, and for ever more! Your letter of May 2d puts me in mind of his goodness, as I wish all things may. It rejoices my very heart to see him displaying the glories of his grace far and wide, from London through Europe, from Europe to America; yea, as far as the sun travels his fame is spread. And does he not deserve it? Oh, my friend, what have we to tell of, but the loving kindness of JESUS, and what to praise, but his wonders in saving such as we are, and in saving so many of us? Blessings for ever on the Lamb! May we glorify him by resting upon him for righteousness and strength, and by living wholly upon him for grace and glory. Then all goes well, when On all besides his precious blood, As to what you mention about, I know not what to say. It is in the best hands. He knows what I to do. Let him alone. Remember he is the head of the church, and he will look after hisown matters, and well too. At present I see not my way clearly from London. Here my master fixed me, and here I must stay till he call me tosome other place. When he would have me to move, he will let me know his will. Besides, what am I? What does it signify where I am? A poor dumb dog, the vilest, the basest, of all the servants of my Lord. If you could see what is passing for any one hour in my heart, you would not think any thing of me; you would only admire and extol the riches of Jesus's love. Wonderful it is, that he should set his heart upon such a very incarnate devil, and humble me so as to make me willing to be saved by his sovereign grace; and that he should send such an one to preach his gospel, and bless it too to many souls (while every sermon covers me with shame and confusion) oh, this is wonderful, wonderful, eternally to be admired, grace! What cannot he do, who can form a preacher out of such a dry rotten stick, fit for nothing but the fire of hell. Glory, glory be to him alone, and for ever, and for ever more. All the tongues in heaven, and in earth, want. men and angels throughout eternity, cannot praise him enough for what he has already done for my soul, and therefore I am, and I shall be content to be, a poor bankrupt debtor for ever. Hereby I shall be enabled for ever to exalt him, and to put the crown upon his head, and that is all I It will be heaven enough to join that bles-sed company, who are crying, Worthy is the Lamb (but none else) to receive blessing and glory, &c. Nothing is mentioned among them but Jesus's goodness, and he does not leave himself without witness among us poor sinners. He has been doing miracles of mercy for Lady H— and asshe herself says, In the midst of judgment he remembered mercy. You have heard, I suppose of Lady S's illness. She had a violent fever for about seventeen days, and the physicians did not apprehend she was in any great danger, although she was near her end. On Thursday morning about four o'clock, the Lord took her to himself. O what a stroke was that, say you,. to Lady H! No, indeed, it was all mercy, all love, like the rest of Jesus's gracious dealings with his people. During her illness, Lady H had every day many promises given her of God's kindness to her daughter; all which she interpreted in a carnal sense, like the Jews, and thought her |