_To Mr. S――――._
_London, August 16, 1748._
_Dear Sir_,
GLAD shall I be to have the pleasure of your dining with me on _Thursday_ between twelve and one. If you please, you may leave your chaise and horses at the other end of the town, and ride to my lodgings in an hackney coach. Or if you choose to come in your chaise, we have inns near at hand. I shall devote _Thursday_ afternoon to you; and if you please to stay the evening and hear me preach, and then sup and take a bed at our house afterwards, I shall be much obliged to you. You need only enquire for the tabernacle new house near _Moorfields_. I hope matters will be so ordered, that you will be _solus cum solo_. I pity persons in your circumstances, and humbly hope that you will be one of _Nicodemus_’s children every way. You know, though he came by night at first, yet afterwards he was as bold as a lion. Go on, dear Sir: “To him that hath, shall be given.” CHRIST will not quench the smoaking flax, nor break the bruised reed. That his love may be shed abroad in your heart, that you may be enabled to confess him before men, and be confessed by him before his Father and the holy angels in heaven, is the earnest prayer of, dear Sir,
Your most affectionate friend, and willing servant for JESUS CHRIST, _G. W._