_To the Marquiss L――――._
_London, December 27, 1753._
_My Lord_,
A MATTER of some importance, is the occasion of my troubling your Lordship with another letter. The reverend Mr. _G―――― T――――_ of ♦_Philadelphia_, and the reverend Mr. _D――――_ from _Virginia_ (both eminent ministers of JESUS CHRIST) are just arrived. They are commissioned to apply for a general collection in _Scotland_, and to procure private contributions for the building and maintaining a presbyterian college in _New-Jersey_ province. What I would therefore beg of your Lordship is, that your Lordship would do them the honour of permitting them to wait upon you, and that they may be also introduced to Lord _L――――_. One Mr. _D―――― D――――_, who I believe was lately chosen a correspondent member of that society, over which your Lordship presides, and who is a steady friend to the interests of the Redeemer, if your Lordship is pleased to give leave, will come along with them. I shall wait for your Lordship’s answer, and then apprize them of it. In the mean time, I heartily wish your Lordship not the compliments, but the blessings of the season, even all those blessings that have been purchased for a lost world by the death and sufferings of an incarnate GOD.――Adored, for ever adored be his free grace, he vouchsafes to ♠manifest himself amongst us here. Conviction and conversion work seems to go on prosperously, and GOD’s people are abundantly refreshed. That your Lordship may continually drink of divine pleasures as out of a river, is and shall be the earnest prayer of, my Lord,
Your Lordship’s most dutiful, obliged and ready servant for CHRIST’s sake,