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LETTER I.
New-Tork, ‘lice. 17.173^
Jl fy dear Friend, _*
Cannot omit any convenient Op¬
portunity that offers, to let you
know I am yet (thro’Mercy) up*
on the Stage, and in Health. A
Line from you would be very ac¬
ceptable. \Vhen you do write, let
me have a particular Account of the Seced¬
ing Brethren, viz. Meffieurs Ershines, &c.
how it goes with them, what Pr©grefs they
make. 1— We of Nc-ue-Tork,, have
been lately favoured with a fliort Vifit from that
excellent young Evangelift, the Reverend and
famous Mr. George Whitefield, in his Voyage to
Georgia. Afl'oon as he arrived here, he applied
himielf to the Parlon of the Engl ip Church,
( as his Manner is) for the Uie of his Church,
which was denied him: Application was alio
made to the Dutch, for their large Church,
which being alio denied him, he went out and
preached in the Fields, to a very large Auditory
of all Profeiftons, Je-zvs and Gentiles, fome of
W'hich, viz. the Rakes of the Town, came (as
they afterwards told) with W hi dies in their Poc¬
kets, onPurpoie to mock and difturb him: But,
behold the Power of the Word, when backed by
th: Spirit, quickly catch’d them, and made them
change their Mind, fo as ever afterwards they
were coniiant and devout Hearers of him. Be¬
ing denied the other Churches, and the Weather
bemg*excrffive cold, we offered him our Church,
which he was plealed to accept of, and leftu red
which