Wesley Corpus

“MY prayer shall always be, that the merciful may find mercy, and that the great kindness I have found under your quiet roof, may be showed you everywhere under the canopy of heaven. I think with grateful joy on the days of calm retreat I have been blessed with at Newington, and lament my not having improved better the precious opportunity of sitting, Mary-like, at the feet of my Great Physician. May He requite your kind care of a dying worm, by abundantly caring for you and yours, and making all your bed in your sickness! May you enjoy full health ! May you hunger and thirst after righteousness, and be abundantly filled therewith ! May you sweetly rest in Christ ! May His protection be as a wall of fire round about you and yours! May His rod and staff comfort you under all the troubles of life, the decays of the body, the assaults of the enemy, and the pangs of death ! May you stand in the clefts of the Rock of Ages, and be safely sheltered there, when all the storms of justice blow around ! And may you always have such spiritual and temporal helps, friends and comforts, as I have found in your pleasing retreat! You have received a poor Lazarus; (though his sores were not visible;) you have had compassion, like the good Samaritan; you have admitted me to the enjoyment of your best things; and now what can I say? what but, ‘Thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift; and thanks to my dear friends for all their favours? They will, I trust, be found faithfully recorded in my breast, when the great Rewarder of them that diligently seek him will render to every man according to his works; and a raised Lazarus shall then appear in the gate, to testify of the love of Charles and Mary Greenwood, and their godly sister ! “I was a little better, but I now spit blood, more than I had done for weeks before. Glory be to God for every provi dence | His will be done in me, by health or sickness, life or death. All from Him is, and, I trust, will be, welcome to “Your obliged pensioner, FROM HIs LEAVING NEWINGTON, TILL HIs RETURN FROM 1. HE continued with Mr. Greenwood at Newington upwards of fifteen months.