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This first volume contains nearly five hundred correspondences written between 1734–1742. It is said of these letters in the preface, “his friends, and even his enemies (should there be any such) will here openly behold his unwearied diligence, undaunting firmness, noble disinterestedness, and exceeding usefulness in the work of the ministry; also, his remarkable fidelity in friendship, exemplary...

and lowly in heart, I should certainly find rest to my soul. May GOD, for his dear SON’s sake, give it to you, to me, and to all our dear friends! “Some like, some dislike the extract,” you say. I did not do it, to please man, but GOD. “Mr. W. is too much engaged in temporals.” Is he? Oh dear Sir, pray that when I enter the ministry, I may be wholly engaged in spirituals: But “Mrs. H. has been ill, and is now recovered.” GOD be praised for both! Our Saviour, Sir, learnt obedience by the things which
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