TO THE Rev. Mr. WESLEY. Honoured and very dear Sir, PERMIT me ERMIT me to lay at your feet the first Publication of any magnitude that I have ventured to offer to the public Eye. In you I have for thirteen years found a Father and a Friend, and feel a peculiar happiness on every opportunity afforded me of expreffing my obligations to you. I know you hate Flattery, and therefore I must avoid all panegyric. To fay but little of you, would derogate from THE very favourable reception my little Journals have met with, de monftrated by the rapid fale of the former editions, induces me to publifh the wholeof them collectively; and to add thereto an extract of the Journal of my firft: vifit to America, which was never printed before. Two things only I can venture to mention in their recommendation, They have been written with artlefs fimplicity,. and with truth. If the account which I have given, of the infant work of God! among: A 3 |