and lowly in heart, I should certainly find rest to my soul. May God, for his dear Son's sake, give it to you, to me, and to all our dear friends! "Some like, some dislike the extract," you say. I did not do it, to please man, but God.
"Mr. W. is too much engaged in temporals." Is he? Oh dear Sir, pray that when I enter the ministry, I may be wholly engaged in spirituals: But "Mrs. H. has been ill, and is now recovered." God be praised for both! Our Saviour, Sir, learnt obedience by the things which he suffered, so must we. Pain, if patiently endured, and sanctified to us, is a great purifier of our corrupted nature. It will teach us excellent lessons. I hope Mr. H. has been enabled to learn some of them. So much in answer to your kind letter. You say "it was too long." Believe me, Sir, it was much too short; but a line is more than I deserve. However, I have made out in mine, what was wanting in yours. My Mother's journey to Gloucester, I fear, is spoiled by the weather. God's blessed will be done! I hope to be with you about next Tuesday sevennight. "I am missed," you say; and you may well miss such a troublesome guest. Well, God will reward you richly, I trust. Never despair of my brother; when God acts upon the soul, he makes quick work of it. Be pleased to tell Mr. M. that his remissness hath occasioned me many a sigh, and his return from his relapse, matter of abundant thanks to God in his behalf. Oh let us young, unexperienced soldiers, be always upon our guard; the very moment we desert our post, the enemy rushes in; and if he can but divert our eyes from looking heavenward, he will soon so blind us, that we shall not look towards it at all. A great deal may be learned from a little fall. But I must not detain you any longer, than to assure you how much I am, Dear Sir,
Your and Mrs. H.'s sincere friend and servant, in our common Lord, G. W.
LETTER III. To Mr. H.
Dear Sir, Oxon, Sept. 17, 1734.
I Had the favour of your letter last Friday, which brought me the agreeable news of your and Mrs. H.'s welfare, to-
