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Title	Letter to The Revd. Mr. [Thomas] Haweis, at the Countess of Huntingdon's, Vineyards
Post Date	January 29, 1790
Author	Huntingdon, Selina Hastings, Countess of, 1707-1791.
Recipient	Haweis, Thomas, 1734-1820
Date	1790-01-29
Physical Description	4 pgs total; 3 pgs text; 1 pg address
Dimensions	24 x 38 cm.
Address To	Bath
Country To	England
Address From	Spa Fields, London
Country From	England
Transcriber	Wanda Smith
Plain Text Transcription	Letter 112 [January 29, 1790] My dear & kindest Friends What must I say, What can I do, to explain the thousand part of my feelings to you both - afflictions seem to bring the latest comforts of my life & all I have lost by sin pride &c &c seems to be to me as restored a thousand fold - indeed from variety of trials my spirit seems so broken that reading your letters brings tears of Love & Gratitude to the Lord & to you as you his faithfull & most kind Instruments for his purposes of relief[sic] to so poor & unworthy a pilgrim yet on earth - I have but one wish & that to fullfill every thing that might in the Lords hand add Blessings upon both your heads & these as the only reward of so suffering a Creatures Prayers & many tears when so loudly call for from the bottom of a heart so evil as hers can mercy engage - Could even you know, much less that poor man F , the Critical situation I stand in it would but prove the reason why the hand of mercy has held out such uncommon supports as you evidently have been to me - I shall be happy to see my d[ea]r & kind friends Plan for the Heathen Mission - it Charms my heart & suffer me only to fullfill your meaning in all I can do - the barral of meal and the cruse of oyl fils in each day of famine & bread & water would be such a rich repast to me to have that greatest earthly honour to all my spiritual sensations that God should suffer from such a dog to allow a Crumb to unite with you in so noble & so great a witness for his services - let us loose no time - my day is far spent - set me to work in what way you see best - my few & evil days shall be spent in labour, & my nights in prayers & tears for its Blessing, & as the marked work of His own right hand & with that Power that emminently proves it his own Power alone, - do you bid me begin. He whom I would serve can save me from any blundering Zeal by the most humbled faithfullness, & so through all his own Glory be preserved the most evidently for our Joy everlastingly - dont fail in this kindness while you are abounding to me all the day long in every Instance - the Work abounds so much & my distance from Wales is so inconvenient that I must remove my College & to prepare by Masters for Lanuages for France & Flanders &c some large house must be had & this might Contain preparation for all your intended services - Consider well of this, & let me know your wishes - time will shew the property that poor & yet unhumbled man means to make of me - but alas such vile unparraled deceit is for the trial from our dear Lord to prove what he can make such a poor unworthy soul go through by various sufferings & as the worst kind of martyrdom to be experien[ce]d & I may truly say in body & mind [some hours now & then] the rack seems little - W--- from the pulpit abuses & labouring day & night by every artifice to breed division - this, with those vile impositions of the other which excludes all Confidance which when such uncommon degrees was placed must account for the greatest Caution of Conduct that his word cannot be taken, silence & distance I sensibly observe but his manner of speaking of me & the ministers Chose at his own request renders horrid to me - I mean next those H pointing of words appears but too evident, - the Welsh are my most attached Friends, & our Plan is so to unite the principality of Wales & my Connection as to render it but one - & the same Confession of Faith, the Ministers abiding in the Churchs, but universal in the services of the Gospel - this both of these miserable men abhorred as encluding their absolute power, but five & twenty years of the most disinterested & universal services must secure my honor & & invariable esteen for them & the sad effects of the very work in others so trusted has been wise Instruction to me - thus my d[ea]r Friends I speak all in my heart - blame me if you can but simple views of these facts & which means this only on all occasions from me to save from that world of Woes "Woe to them that put Evil for good and Good for Evil" - No accomodation will do, patience & endureing must be my Gospel hold & by these at all events be found ready for that call my life & all has & is willing ventured daily for - Save me no blame when you may differ, & Blessings follow your faithfullness - take my most loving & kindest thanks for the other but - I am forced to add your af[fectiona]te but most miserable & suffering tho ever while here your devoted Friend, S: Huntingdon Spa Fields Jan 29 P S: I must add for justice sake nothing can come up to the affection of Lord Rawdon my grandson to me. [On back] Forgive forgive this miserable scrawle but it is two days hard labour - add a thousand Loves to my very d[ea]r old friend your Partner. [Addressed :] To: The Revd. Mr Hawies at the Countess of Huntingdons Vineyards Bath [Postmarked London, January 29, 1790]
Catalog Link	http://libcat.smu.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=196972
Unique Identifier	Huntingdon 01291790
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	1790-1799
Location (Box, Folder)	Box 2, File 04