From [Thomas Adam/Adams, the Calvinist lay preacher?] in London to Howell Harris . It is nowthree weeks since he arrived here and although he loves and honours Harris and has often thought ofwriting to him, yet he has been prevented until now through lack of time or freedom.
The Lord knows that Adam came here with the greatest resolution and desire to persuade thepeople that ‘Brother [unreadable initials] etc and we are all in one hart and that we want thesame things though our messages were somwhat different, as they always had ben. This I began to tellthe people in publick & privat, till[?] the Lord knows I dredfully wouned[sic] my own conscience& that several times but espesialy one night at the society when I had ben spak much to thatpurpose, my hart smote me while I was spaking, & when I came in & was by my self praying toGod to direct me it came to me as, tho the Ld had spoken, saying you have ben telling the people alis wel & you are al one but it is not so, & though thou hast heald up the mater yet I havenot nither wil I for I have acontoushen[sic] with them. I was made to weep before the Ld & myhart was made like wax in my bosam & I sayd Ld do not sufer me to be deluded by Satan...let notSatan hinder our Union...& it came strong on my minde, Preach thou the things that be come sounddoctrin & do not justify them that are in errors...my minde was filld with peace’.
The following morning, Adam did as the Lord instructed and he was given a token for good and hissoul was filled with the love of Christ ‘& made my tongue like the pen of a redywriter’. He has had many trials yet has been at peace. Last Wednesday they had a solemn‘assembly’ where they fasted and prayed before God and it was indeed a blessed day. Adamcan see now that the consequences of maintaining some of the same principles as some of theirbrethren [Wesleyan Methodists or Moravians?] ‘& making so lite of the word of God...asthey do...I fear the consquences will be very dreadful’. For though Adam does not question theexperience of the brethren and does believe that the spirit of God is with them, yet he has observedthat pride, biogotry and presumption has been building up in many souls. Some are ‘downing alunless they directly fal in with them’. He suspects also that they talk of a liberty that theyknow little or nothing of. They can expect dreadful consequences in the rising generation. Harriscan be assured that Adam has seen a great deal of delusion and hypocrisy in these last three weeks,more than he ever has before. Spiritual matters are discussed in detail.
He does not have any prejudice against the brethren, rather, he loves them. It would greatlyrejoice him to see them all as one in the truth.
In a postscript, he mentions that those who do not like his preaching have gone either to[unreadable word] or [William] Cudworth . He has also enclosed a letter from [George] Whitefield.