_To Lady H――――._
_Exeter, March 24, 1750._
_Honoured Madam_,
AS I am persuaded your heart’s desire and prayer to GOD is, that the kingdom of the LORD JESUS may be set up on earth, I cannot return to _London_ without informing your Ladyship, that the gospel has been most gladly received in these western parts. I have been very near the land’s end, and every where souls have fled to hear the word preached, like doves to the windows. The harvest is great, yea very great; but the labourers are few. O that the LORD of the harvest would thrust out more labourers! Something out of the common road must be done, to awaken a thoughtless world. GOD has been terribly shaking the metropolis. I hope it is an earnest of his giving a shock to secure sinners, and making them to cry out, “What shall we do to be saved?” I trust, honoured Madam, you have been brought sweetly to believe on the LORD JESUS, and have experienced the beginnings of a real salvation in your heart. What a mercy is this! To be plucked as a brand out of the burning, to be one of those few _Mighty_ and _Noble_ that are called effectually by the grace of GOD; what consolation must this administer to your Ladyship under all afflictions! What can shake a soul whose hopes of happiness, in time and eternity, are built upon the rock of ages? Winds may blow, rains may and will descend even upon persons of the most exalted stations; but they that trust in the LORD JESUS CHRIST never shall, never can be totally confounded. That your Ladyship may every day and hour experience more and more of this blessed truth, is the earnest prayer of, honoured Madam,
Your Ladyship’s most dutiful, obedient humble servant, _G. W._