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 plentifully of that water, whose streams refresh the city of . I can now add no more, but to subscribe myself, ever-honoured Madam,

Your Ladyship's most dutiful, obliged and ready servant for 's sake, G. W.    LETTER DCCCXCVII. To Mr. T.

Dear Mr. T,     Belfast, July 4, 1751.

VERY providentially, your kind letter reached me this morning. As I am detained by the importunity of the people, I must snatch a few moments to answer it. Thanks be to the of all Lords, if my poor administrations have been any ways blessed, either to you or others. "Not unto me, not unto me, but unto thy free and unmerited grace, O, be all the glory!" Preaching, I find to be the best means of winning sinners, and of building up saints. This done with a single eye and disinterested heart, will make its way through all opposition, and stand fast, when all other schemes built on a legal bottom and supported by low politics, will fall to the ground. I wish you may have grace given you to act aright in your present circumstances. Let all bitterness and wrath and clamour be put away from you. Go on simply preaching the everlasting gospel; and if rejected for that, and freely discharged from your present connection, I shall do all in my power to promote your usefulness. I suppose, you will hear from other hands what hath been doing in Dublin. I hope the of all Lords hath been with us. Thousands flock in this place also, to hear the word preached. I thought to have left Belfast to-day, but have complied with the people's earnest requests, to continue in these parts till Monday. O for a pilgrim heart with my pilgrim life! At present, I have no thoughts of nestling. Fain would I be kept from flagging in the latter stages of my road. I beg the continuance of your prayers. My prayer to for you and yours is, "that you may live together as heirs of the grace of life, and walk in all the ordinances and commandments of the  blameless." You are entered upon a new scene, and will require more