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 LETTER DCCCXXXIII.

To Doctor S.

My Dear Doctor,     Ashby, May 11, 1750.  HOW do you? I have thought of, and prayed for you much, since we parted from Northampton. Now I believe is the time in which the ax is to be laid at the very root of the tree. How wonderfully doth the watch over you? How sweetly does he lead you out of temptation! O follow his leadings, my dear friend, and let every, even the most beloved Isaac, be immediately sacrificed for. Kindness is cruelty here. Had Abraham consulted either Sarah or his affections, he never would have taken the knife to slay his son. 's law is our rule, and will have all the heart or none. Agags will plead, but they must be hewn in pieces. May the strengthen, stablish, and settle you! Good Lady Hn was much rejoiced to hear that you had been without the camp. May you quit yourself like a man, and in every respect behave like a good soldier of ! Her ladyship is very weak, but I hope will yet be spared to do much good on earth. O the happiness of giving up all for, who hath given himself for us. The be with you! I am yours to command, G. W.    LETTER DCCCXXXIV. To the Reverend Mr. M.

Ashby, May 14, 1750.

Reverend and very dear Sir,

I Have desired to write you a long letter for a considerable time, but was so hurried when at London, that I could not be so explicit as the affair I wanted to write about, necessarily required. It is concerning the Presbyterian College in the New Jersies; the importance and extensive usefulness of which, I suppose you have long since been apprized of. Mr. A, a friend of Governor B, is come over with a commission to negotiate this matter; he hath brought with him a copy of a letter, which Mr. P sent to you some months past.