_To Miss R――――._
_London, March 18, 1742._ _Dear Miss_,
I Am yet of opinion, there is mercy and love laid up for you in the heart of the blessed JESUS. You look backward, instead of forward. You look into yourself, instead of looking up to Him, who is mighty and willing to save. O that you may have strength to go to him just as you are! You would then be delivered from your bondage. The case of the poor _Syrophœnician_ woman may give you comfort. How did the Lamb of GOD seem as it were to turn lion? How did he seem to turn a deaf ear to her complaints? And yet heard and loved her all the while. Why may not you believe? He will yet say to you, “Be it unto you even as thou wilt.” I fear some tell you, that it is well to doubt. Indeed they are mistaken. Dear Miss, expect great things from JESUS CHRIST. “He is able to do abundantly for you above what you can ask or think.” His name, his nature is Love. Fear not; be not faithless, but believing. Wait, and you shall yet see the salvation of GOD. In JESUS there is plenteous redemption. That you may feel the full power of his blood, prays, dear Miss,
Your affectionate friend and servant in CHRIST,