_To Mr. S――――._
_Edinburgh, July 3, 1759._
_My very dear Friend_,
THERE hath been a long interval between my last and this. My quick motions, and frequent preaching, have been the causes. O what am I that I should be employed for JESUS! In _Gloucestershire_ the cup of many of his people ran over. In _Yorkshire_ I preached for a week twice a day. Great congregations! great power! Blessed be the name of the great GOD for ever and ever! Here also people, high and low, rich and poor, flock as usual, morning and evening. I am growing fat: but, as I take it to be a disease, I hope I shall go home the sooner. Happy they who are safe in harbour. A storm I fear ♦is at hand. JESUS will be our hiding-place. He shall preserve us in trouble: he shall compass us about with songs of deliverance. That this may be the peculiar lot of you and yours, is the earnest prayer of, my very dear Sir,
Yours, &c. under manifold obligations,