_To Mr. H――――y._
_London, December 9, 1756._
_My very dear Friend_,
LAST night Mr. _M――――_ informed me, that Mr. _C――――_ shewed him a pamphlet, wrote on purpose to prove the fundamental errors of my printed sermons, and that you had offered to preface it, but he chose you should not. That this is true, I as much believe, as that I am now at _Rome_. But I wish that my very dear friend may not repent his connection and correspondence with some, when it is too late. This is my comfort, I have delivered my soul. Mr. _R――――_ hath been so kind as to send me the two volumes of _Jenks’s Meditations_, and desires me to annex my recommendation to yours. I have answered, that it will not be prudent or beneficial to him so to do. I fear they are too large to go off. I hope that my dear friend prospers both in soul and body. Conviction and conversion work go on here. LORD keep us from tares! All is well at _Clapham_; I have expounded there twice. GOD hath met us at our new building. I know that you will pray, it may be full of new creatures. My most cordial respects await your mother and sister; my wife joins. With great haste, but much greater love, I subscribe myself, my very dear friend,
Yours most affectionately in our common LORD,