_To C―――― W――――._
_London, December 20, 1753._
_My dear Friend_,
I MOST sincerely rejoice in, and have given private and public thanks for the recovery of your dear yoke-fellow. My pleasure is increased by seeing your brother so well, as I found him on _Tuesday_ at _Lewisham_.――O that you may both spring afresh, and your latter end increase more and more! Talk not of having no more work in the vineyard; I hope all our work is but just beginning. I am sure it is high time for me to do something for Him, who hath done and suffered so much for me.――Near forty years old, and such a dwarf! The Winter come already, and so little done in the Summer! I am ashamed, I blush and am confounded. And yet GOD blesseth us here. Truly his out-goings are seen in the tabernacle. The top-stone is brought forth; we will now cry Grace! grace! I must away. Our joint respects attend you all. I hope Mr. _H――――_ mends; I hear that his brother is dead. LORD, make us also ready! My most dutiful respects await our elect Lady.――GOD willing, she shall hear soon from, my dear friend,
Yours, &c.