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fallen away, that I go to God without hope, without faith. 

 Yet I am not totally without hope ; I know God will have 

 my whole heart, and I know when I give him that, I 

 shall experience the lightof his countenance with a perma- 

 nency. I pray that he would assist my weakness and 

 grant me some portion of his grace, in order tliat I may 

 overcome the world, the flesh, and the devil, to which I 

 have long, very long, been a willing though an unhappy 

 slave. Do you pray earnestly with me, and for me, in 

 these respects; I know the prayers of the faithful avail 

 much ; and when you consider with what great tempta- 

 tions I am surrounded, and how very little strength I 

 have wherewith to resist themx, you will feel with me the 

 necessity of earnest supplication, and fervent interces- 

 sion, lest I should be lost, and cast away for ever. 



I shall gladly receive your spiritual advice and direc- 

 tions. I have gone on too long in coldness and uncon- 

 cern ; who knows whether, if I neglect the present hour, 

 the day of salvation may not be gone by for ever ! 



TO ]\m JOHN CHARLES WORTH. 



St John's, 22(1 Sept. 1806. 

 My dear Charlesworth, 



Thank you for taking the blame of our neglected cor- 

 respondence on your own shoulders. I thought it rested 

 elsewhere. Thrice have I begun to write to you ; once in 

 Latin, and twice in English ; and each time have the fates 

 opposed themselves to the completion of my design. But, 

 however, fax sit rebus, we are naturally disposed to for- 

 give, because we are, as far as intention goes, mutually 

 offenders. 



I thank you for your invitation to Clapham, which came 

 at a fortunate juncture, since I had just settled with my 

 tutor that I should pay a visit to my brother in London this 

 week. I shall of course see you ; and shall be haj^y to 



