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 banner. As your day is, so shall your strength be. Look up continually to ; and be so good as always to remember, when before his throne,

Your assured friend and ready servant, G. W.    LETTER DCCCCXLVII. To Governor B.

Honoured Sir,     London, Dec. 20, 1752.

WITH great pleasure and satisfaction, I received and read your kind letter, and took the first opportunity of transmitting the inclosed to good Lady Hn, who is now near Bristol. If the ship which brings this, doth not fail soon, I believe your Excellency will have an answer by the same conveyance. She is an elect lady indeed; one who hath fairly renounced the world, and scorns to divide her affections between it and her. Her Ladyship corresponds with the Dutchess of, but I fear that the latter doth not glory in the cross of, so much as might be wish'd. You know, honoured Sir, that we must have true self-denial, and a disinterested spirit, before we can be sincerely willing to be accounted fools for 's sake. And yet there is no going to heaven without it. Blessed be, your fight, honoured Sir, is almost over; the days are now coming wherein you must necessarily say, "I have no pleasure in them." The 71st psalm, translated by Dr. Watts, seems to be sweetly adapted to your circumstances. Part of it was lately sung for your Excellency, by many true followers of the Lamb.

I.

''Still hath his life new wonders seen, Repeated every year; Behold his days which yet remain, We trust them to thy care.''

II.

''Cast him not off, should health decline, Or hoary hairs arise; And round him let thy glories shine, Whene'er thy servant dies.''