Wesley Corpus

To Ebenezer Blackwell NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, May 25, 1752. I receive several agreeable accounts of the manner wherein God is carrying on His work in London; and am in hopes both Mrs. Blackwell and you partake of the common blessing. My wife set out for Bristol last week. See previous letter. I hope her fears will prove groundless, and that all her children will live to glorify God. Anthony, I hear, is recovered already. The people in all these parts are much alive to God, bung generally plain, artless, and simple of heart. Here I should spend the greatest part of my life, if I were to follow my own inclinations. 'I know no place in Great Britain comparable to it for pleasantness.' See Journal, iv. 323. But I am not to do my own will, but the will of Him that sent me. I trust it is your continual desire and care to know and love and serve Him. May He strengthen you both therein more and more! I am, dear, Your ever affectionate servant.