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 LETTER DCCXXX.

To the Countess of D.

Honoured Madam,     Bristol, Feb. 1, 1749.  WILL your Ladyship pardon me, if I inform you, that love and gratitude constrain me to send your Ladyship a few lines? As I am daily praying for the temporal and eternal welfare of your Ladyship, and your honourable sister, so I cannot help informing you, that I trust you have both such a view of the present great salvation; purchased for the very chief of sinners by the blood of, that you will neither of you be at rest, till made real partakers thereof. Has not your Ladyship already had a taste of this inward happiness? Assuredly you have. Should not this encourage your Ladyship to expect, seek after, and pray for unspeakably more? Undoubtedly it ought. The fulness which is in is inexhaustible. Out of that fulness your Ladyship may be always receiving grace for grace. Thanks be to for teaching you the way! Let not your honoured sister think herself too unworthy of such a mercy. Jesus is worthy; she hath nothing to do but to bring all her unworthiness to the our righteousness, and accept of compleat salvation as a free gift. Hearing, when last in town, that your Ladyship would not be offended if I wrote, encouraged me to take the liberty of troubling your Ladyship with this. As the glorious Emmanuel enables, it shall be followed with my most fervent prayers, which have been, are, and, through strengthening, shall always be put up in behalf of yourself, and your honourable sister, by, honoured Madam,  Your Ladyship's most obliged, obedient humble servant, G. W.     LETTER DCCXXXI. To Mr. .

My dear Sir,     Bristol, Feb. 4, 1749.

THE contents of your letter surprized me; and yet it is time for me to learn to be surprized at nothing. But what shall we say? It must needs be that these trials should