Lambeth, September 30, 1766

My dear Friend: — I have been carrying here and there the sweet savor of Jesus’ dear name ever since I left you. I was in Sussex for a month, and have heard, since my return, a better account of your health, for which I am thankful. The Lord having appointed you for his heavenly kingdom, has also appointed all the steps which are to lead you thither. Every pain is in the covenant. Your confinement, your miscarriages, your faintings, your disappointments, not one thing that thwarts your will, but it is in God’s will. Nothing can befall you but what is ordered, contrived for you by wisdom, brought upon you by love. O for eyes to see, for a heart to receive, all God’s dealings with you in this covenant view! How sweet would be your many trials, if you found them all appointed and managed for you by the best of friends! Learn to receive them thus.

I am going to Bath, and hope for a little leisure there to write you a long letter. My subject is ready. After you receive it, I shall be glad to hear how your sentiments and mine agree. Pray remember me with many

thanks to. I am in debt more than

I can acknowledge. My best respects to her. Pray for a a poor worm.

W. R.