_To the Countess D――――._
_Ashby, Oct. 11, 1750._
_Honoured Madam_,
IT would give me concern, was I to return to _London_, though from ever so short an excursion, without letting your Ladyship know that you are always remembered by me at the throne of grace. Upon such a throne the Redeemer sits, holding out his golden sceptre, and asking us, “What is your petition? And what is your request?” My request for your Ladyship is, that you may increase with all the increase of GOD. This I trust your Ladyship is daily doing, and consequently increasing in inward happiness, peace and joy. The riches of the divine life are indeed unsearchable. May your Ladyship dig for them as for hid treasure, till faith be turned into vision, and hope into the endless fruition of the ever blessed GOD! That time will shortly come. I have been labouring at _Birmingham_, in _Gloucestershire_, at _Nottingham_, &c. to awaken a sleepy world to a sense of it, and I trust not without success. On last _Thursday_ I came here, and next _Monday_, GOD willing, shall set out for _London_. Good Lady _H――――_ goes on acting the part of a mother in _Israel_, more and more. For a day or two she has had five clergymen under her roof, which makes her Ladyship look like a _good Archbishop_ with his Chaplains around him. Her house is indeed a _Bethel_. To us in the ministry, it looks like a college. We have the Sacrament every morning, heavenly conversation all day, and preach at night. This is to _live at Court_, indeed. Last night I had the pleasure of seeing a little flock that seemed to be awakened by the grace of GOD; so that even out of ungrateful _Ashby_, I trust there will be raised up many children unto _Abraham_. Your Ladyship, and the other elect Ladies, are never forgotten by us. I would write to good Lady _F――――_, but I hear she is out of town. That the choicest of divine blessings, even the sure mercies of _David_, may follow you both all the days of your lives, is the hearty prayer of, honoured Madam,
Your Ladyship’s most dutiful, obliged, and ready servant, _G. W._