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 LETTER CCXXXIX.

To Mr. N. in New-York.

My very dear Brother,     Charles-Town, Dec. 10, 1740.  IN eight days, the  brought us hither. We arrived last night, when the Redeemer vouchsafed so to fill me with his divine consolations, that I could scarce sleep. I have been preaching this morning on the fire that happened of late from these words, Isa. i. 9. "Except the of  had left unto us avery small remnant, we should have been as Sodam, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah." I am now determined to see England as soon as possible. I have had much of 's presence in our passage hither from Philadelphia, and have many precious letters to send you. O follow me with your prayers. I leave Charles-Town, willing, to-night, in order to hasten to their relief, and shall go in the same sloop which brought me here, to my beloved Georgia. As soon as possible, I will send you a long letter. In the mean while, accept of my love from, dear Mr. N, Your very affectionate friend and brother and servant in,  G. W.     LETTER CCXL. To Mr. G C.

On board the Savannah for Georgia, Dec. 11, 1740.

Dear Brother C,

YOUR late letters, especially that which you sent me by way of Charles-Town, made me smile.—I was glad to find that you had not so far thrown off all outward things, as to resolve not to write to any one; and I thought I knew the frame of your heart, as though I was within you. My dear, dear George C, I love you tenderly in the bowels of, and therefore would not have you be deceived. Alas, why do you pervert this text of scripture, "Be still, and know that I am the ," as if it was designed to keep a christian from striving, or meant a stillness of body, or waiting upon only in silence? The expression is taken out of the 46th Psalm, where 's fury against the heathen is