_To Mr. I. R――――._
_Charles-Town, July 18, 1740._ _My Dear Friend_,
I Thank you for going with friend _E――――_ and _B――――_ to _Nazareth_. May GOD bless you, and cause great good to come to that place! GOD seems to be carrying on as great a work in _Charles-Town_, comparatively speaking, as in _Philadelphia_. Surely our LORD intends to set the world in a flame. O that the holy fire of his divine love was kindled in every heart! Be pleased to read what I have sent to Mr. _N――――_. If you please you may print that extract, which I sent from my journal: GOD willing, I hope to be at _New England_ by the beginning of _September_, and to be refreshed with your and my dear friend’s letters. Indeed, I love you all in the bowels of my dear LORD JESUS. Do not let us forsake him. Let us not be ashamed of him, though we live in a crooked and perverse generation. I thank my dear friends for their zeal in building a house;¹ but desire it may not have any particular name, or be put to any particular use, till my return to _Philadelphia_. I wish them good luck in the name of the LORD. Last night I appeared a third time in a public court; but they not accepting my _Recusatio judicis_, I appealed home; so that now I have free liberty to embark when providence pleaseth. O my dear friend, think of a bleeding, dying LORD. Keep close to him, and exhort all friends to pray and give thanks for
Your assured friend and servant,