LETTER DCCCLIV.
To Mr. W.
Dear Sir, Glasgow, July 23, 1750.
I Received your kind letter last week, but till now had not time to answer you. Blessed be God, it brought glad tidings. Thanks be to the ever-loving ever-lovely Jesus, for causing his arrows to stick fast in any sinners hearts! May he that hath wounded, in his own due time and way heal and ease them!—He is the awakened sinners only refuge. To Him the weary and heavy laden are invited. Let them but come to him, and he will, indeed he will give them rest. O that those who have begun to put their hands to the plough, may be kept from looking back! Awakening times are like spring times. Many blossoms, but not always so much fruit. However, glory, glory be to God, that the Winter of deadness is in some degree over, and that a Spring time of grace is seen at Kendal. Pray remember me in the kindest manner to all under awakenings, and exhort them all with full purpose of heart to cleave unto the Lord. Whether I can see you again in my return, is uncertain. If it be any way practicable, I shall comply with your earnest solicitation. Next week, God willing, I leave Scotland, and if I can come, you shall hear from me. In the mean time, as the Lord enables, I shall not cease to pray for all that are setting their faces Zionward. You know the many turnings that lie in the way thither, and therefore can direct young travellers. It is pretty work for you in the decline of life. Methinks you may be surprized like Sarah, who said, "who would have thought that Sarah should have given suck!" But is there any thing too hard for the Lord? O for faith, patience and humility! These are graces my soul thirsts after. How humble, how thankful ought I to be! After leaving Kendal, the word of the Lord ran and was glorified in several places, and in Scotland I think congregations are rather greater than ever. You must exhort all to pray for me, that I may be kept from flagging in the latter stages of my road. My love to Mr. G. I shall take care to answer his letter when it comes to hand. I have ordered some volumes of my sermons to be sent to him. May God sanctify the reading of them to the
