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 Ladyship dig for them as for hid treasure, till faith be turned into vision, and hope into the endless fruition of the ever blessed ! That time will shortly come. I have been labouring at Birmingham, in Gloucestershire, at Nottingham, &c. to awaken a sleepy world to a sense of it, and I trust not without success. On last Thursday I came here, and next Monday, willing, shall set out for London. Good Lady H goes on acting the part of a mother in Israel, more and more. For a day or two she has had five clergymen under her roof, which makes her Ladyship look like a good Archbishop with his Chaplains around him. Her house is indeed a Bethel. To us in the ministry, it looks like a college. We have the Sacrament every morning, heavenly conversation all day, and preach at night. This is to live at Court, indeed. Last night I had the pleasure of seeing a little flock that seemed to be awakened by the grace of ; so that even out of ungrateful Ashby, I trust there will be raised up many children unto Abraham. Your Ladyship, and the other elect Ladies, are never forgotten by us. I would write to good Lady F, but I hear she is out of town. That the choicest of divine blessings, even the sure mercies of David, may follow you both all the days of your lives, is the hearty prayer of, honoured Madam, Your Ladyship's most dutiful, obliged, and ready servant, G. W.     LETTER DCCCLXVI. To Lady Hm.

Honoured Madam,     Ashby, Oct. 11, 1750.

IT is with great pleasure that I have heard of your Ladyship's being so supported under your late bereavement, and of the good impressions made on surviving relations by it. Thus the Redeemer delights to magnify his strength in his people's weakness, and causes the death of one, to be the life, as it were, the resurrection of another. O what amazing mysteries will be unfolded, when each link in the golden chain of Providence and Grace, shall be seen and scanned by beatified spirits in the kingdom of heaven! There all will appear symmetry and harmony, and even the most intricate and seem