_To Mr. C――――._
_Lisbon, March 26, 1754._
_My dear Friend_,
SHALL I promise and not perform? I dare not. This therefore comes to inform you, that I am now as it were an old inhabitant of _Lisbon_, having been here above a week. In that time, what have I seen and heard? Strange and incredible things, not more strange than instructive. Never did civil and religious liberty appear to me in so amiable a light as now. What a spirit must _Martin Luther_, and the first Reformers be endued with, that dared to appear as they did for GOD! LORD, hasten that blessed time, when others, excited by the same spirit, shall perform like wonders. O happy _England_! O happy Methodists, who are Methodists indeed! And all I account such, who being dead to sects and parties, aim at nothing else but an holy method of living to, and dying in the blessed JESUS. This be their, this be my happy lot! Blessed be his name for calling me to a pilgrim life! Thanks be to his great name, for constraining me to leave all that is near and dear to me, for the sake of his glorious gospel. He takes care to provide for me. A gentleman hath most gladly received me into his house, and behaves like a friend indeed. To-day I dine with the Consul: ere long, I hope to sit down and eat bread in the kingdom of GOD. I wait for this salvation, O LORD! You must pray for me, and desire others to join with you. I intend writing to our elect Lady before I leave _Lisbon_. In about ten days we expect to sail. For the present, adieu! This leaves us all well. My fatherless charge is in good health. O that they may be converted and made new creatures in CHRIST! O that I may begin to begin to be converted myself.――I am a dwarf.――Less than the least of all, shall be my motto still. As such, pray for, my dear friend.
Yours most affectionately in our common LORD,