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Title	Unknown - Addressed to My dear Friends
Post Date	1765
Author	Huntingdon, Selina Hastings, Countess of, 1707-1791.
Recipient	Unknown
Date	1765
Physical Description	4 pgs total; 4 pgs text
Dimensions	24 x 38 cm.
Bibliographic Reference	Tyson, John R., In the midst of early Methodism: Lady Huntingdon and her correspondence. (Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2006), p.201-2.
Transcriber	Wanda Smith
Plain Text Transcription	Letter 59 [incomplete] [1765?] My dear Friends I am bound to thank you for my letter by the last post as I hope (by the Lord’s leave) to Go from this place Some day this week for Bath. Mr & Mrs Wills accompany me there & dear Townsend takes Care of St Agnes till their return—severe attack of suffering from my Compounded state of gout and stone kindly brought his Physical Care as we as tender compassion for me to give me every friendly assistance & his old spirit seemed to unite my heart to the Lord in expecting a revival that will be manifest in the end I must believe he has in order to release Mr Wills for Bath taken the whole care of this Parish—Pugh giving him he help of the common duties of the parish he now chuses the Serious Subjects with me & open sweet and friendly, I feel no different[?] to him & if prayers & tears Could help to Bless him he could never want them from me. I feel myself at his feet. More the object of many than I can see him. He now speaks & prays with [p. 2] with the poor & the sick. O! think how happy this makes me. I don’t let him see this but take my thoughts [“vis”] if ever he appears for God it will be as an Apostle indeed. I am willing to wish for this Blessedness over him from the Lord he feels (I am sure) the meanness [increase] of every reserve where the Lord Calls & I do believe he waits & prays for this—don’t think me bad [brash?] & sanguine in this but believe it the true Charity that hopeth all things from the Lord’s tender Mercies to his Church. O! how we want labourers. My heart mourns for them. This country would be gathered had we hands for the harvest. Dear Mr Glasscot with but a few Sermons has done much on warming the hearts of hundreds & awakening Many. We seem to have done little but that sweet passage of the Mustard Seed has been so opened & blest to me that I leave Cornwall fully satisfied in my heart. The time is coming when these little Hills of Sion Shall be for a Name & a praise upon the Earth to the dear Immanuel’s glory. Nothing can come up to the aff[ectiona]te & tender care of the dear Wills for me. They would [p. 3] heartily unite in the wish of having you both with us he is a real Blessing to this place— May the Lord extend his borders yet further it is his own Choice to go to Bath as I don’t winter with them & I believe the hopes of sharing the labour with our dear Mr Haweis has a great share in the satisfaction he & his dear wife is ever alive for the one point of her Gracious heart— My poor vile Body will make it a very long journey to Bath—but this with all else is for the Lord when it lives or when it dies & our Work Calls for much Care, diligence & faithfulness while the Lord smiles so powerfully upon us & I must believe greater things are at the door if I have ever known the voice of the Lord. I can’t pretend to resist the arguments urged on the subject of women’s Testimony for the Lord, yet see the special & particular to the one point they are call’d to & for some one purpose. When this appears from the Authority duely [sic] received the great necessity layed upon them by the Holy Ghost renders their Commission such as will subject all to the accomplishment of God’s ends for them. [p. 4] With respect to Myself this has been the Matter between the Lord and my own heart & as he has Seen this in Secret he has favoured me with many more voices [?] for him, & where mine could not have reached yet always this constant reserve before him that his call & mind [?] Well understood should carry me to the ends of the earth for or as his living Sacrifice, & in this I am a happy creature & in this late near approach to the Grave I thought nothing about life or death but O! the Glory of seeing only & that simply his Will being done in me & by me & Could joyfully present him with every earthly or heavenly choice for me. O! the Glory of seeing only & that simply his Will being done in me & by me & Cold joyfully present him with every earthly or heavenly Choice for me. O! my dear friend I could preach for him had I ceased to breath & alas how little very little that would be for such a worm of his mercy as I am upon earth – Dear Jos[eph] desires to hear from me & I mean to write as soon as I can get to Bath as I find much liberty in my heart for it. I enter upon no particulars farther than he himself carrys me into & am silent where premature faithfulness appears to me as such – knowing how both your hearts are engaged on this subject it is a great Joy to give these hopes [the last page[s] of this letter, including the address panel, are wanting]
Notes	[the last page(s) of this letter, including the address panel, are wanting]
Catalog Link	http://libcat.smu.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=197198
Unique Identifier	Huntingdon xxxx1765
Digital Resources Type	Image
Digitization Date	Digitized: 2011
Digital Publisher	Bridwell Library, Special Collections; Perkins School of Theology; Southern Methodist University
Rights	Permission to publish materials must be obtained from the Head of Special Collections of the Bridwell Library.
Decade	1760-1769
Location (Box, Folder)	Box 1, File 08