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 perseverance, will keep the soul steady amidst all the temptations of a malicious devil, and ensnaring world. O for grace and zeal to endure unto the end! Finis coronat opus. I could say much, but company waits for me. Vast multitudes come to hear, and I trust much good is done. Good Lady H has an extract of a letter from a soldier, which will please you. Here are two devout soldiers in Edinburgh. May the add more to his church of such converts as may be saved! You will not forget to pray for me. That you may increase with all the increase of God, is the earnest prayer of, very dear Sir, Your most affectionate friend, &c. G. W.    LETTER DCLXXXV. To Mr. H.

Glasgow, Sept. 28, 1748.

My very dear Mr. H.

YOU are every day upon my heart. I must not, I cannot refrain writing to you any longer. How do you? Old love revives in my heart towards you, because, I trust, love to the blessed begins to revive in your heart. May the glorious Emmanuel fan the divine spark, till it break out into a holy blaze! Do not lose one moment more, my dear Sir: let this be the language of your soul continually,

Be gone, vain world, my heart resign, For I will be no longer thine: A nobler a diviner guest Now takes possession of my breast.

It pleases me to think, how loud you and I shall sing of infinite, free, and unchangeable love in heaven; for because changeth not, therefore you and I have not been consumed. O pleasant, transporting thought! What a saviour is of Nazareth! How precious was his blood! How profusely, as it were, was it shed for sinners! That you and yours may every moment feel its pardoning, renovating, cleansing, and purifying power, is the earnest prayer of, my very dear friend,

Yours most affectionately in our common , G. W.