Chapter CCXCVII: Letter CCXCVIII: To the Rev. Mr. S――――, at Worcester

_London, June 13, 1741._
_Reverend and dear Sir_,

I Thank you heartily for your last kind letter: As you are so aged and infirm, I take it as an especial favour, that you are pleased to write to me. You need make no apology, reverend Sir, for your plain dealing: I love those best, who deal most sincerely with me. Whatever errors I have been, or shall be guilty of in my ministry, I hope the LORD will shew me, and give me grace to amend. This is the language of my heart;

_Correct me when I go astray,
And lead me in the perfect way._

I also thank you, dear Sir, for your kind benefaction. My arrears upon the Orphan-house are yet large; but I hope ere long the LORD will enable me to pay them all. At present, I am kept from doubting. Unworthy as I am, JESUS CHRIST is yet with me, and is pleased daily to strengthen me both in soul and body. My ministry (for ever adored be sovereign grace) is attended with a continual power. I am shortly going a large circuit, perhaps as far as _Scotland_. Dear Sir, let your prayers follow after me.――I am a poor, weak, unworthy worm; as such be pleased to remember, reverend and dear Sir,

Your obedient, though unworthy brother and servant
in our common LORD,

_G. W._