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 of Mr. W's conduct—Poor man! The love of money is rooted in his heart. Where is the honesty he so much boasts of and relies on? Does not this more and more convince you that nothing but a true faith in will enable you to act aright? However, he is not to be envyed. I pity him. Money, thus got, will never prosper. I rejoice that you and your spouse are content. I wish you both may have formed in your hearts, and am  Ever, ever yours, &c. G. W.    LETTER XLVIII. To 

My dear Brethren in,     Blendon, June 12, 1739.

I Am jealous over you with a godly jealousy, and therefore write to you this second letter. I find more and more that satan has desired to have some of you in particular, that he may sift you as wheat, and will strive if possible to divide and separate you all.—I hear there is a woman among you, who pretends to the spirit of prophecy, and what is more unaccountable, I hear that Brother (whom I love in the bowels of ) seems to approve of her. Need therefore, great need have you, my brethren, at this time to take the apostle's advice, and to try the spirits whether they be of. For the devil is beginning to mimic 's work, and because terrors will not do, he is now transforming himself into an angel of light in order more effectually to gain his point. Brother also, I cannot but think, at present is under a spirit of delusion. He, as well as brother, I believe imagines there will be a power given to work miracles, and that now is coming to reign a thousand years upon the earth.—But alas! what need is there of miracles, such as healing sick bodies, and restoring sight to blind eyes, when we see greater miracles every day done by the power of 's word? Do not the spiritually blind now see? Are not the spiritually dead now raised, and the leprous souls now cleans'd, and have not the poor the gospel preached unto them? And if we have the thing already, which such miracles were only intended to introduce, why should we tempt in requiring further