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rious Light of all the Nations of them that are faved, 1734. and walk therein, according to facred Writ.

As noted above, he got feveral Pieces by Heart out of the Bible, and other religious Writings, firft wri ting them with his Pen. Two fhort ones I may recité, of which Nature were divers others, which paradventure may be edifying to fome, who may caft their Eye thereon.

One Place which much affected my Mind that he wrote down, and got by Heart, was the 15th Verfe of the 57th Chapter of that evengelical Prophet Ifaiab: For thus faith the high and lofty one, that inhabitetb Eternity, whofe Name is holy, I dwell in the high and boly Place, with him alfo that is of a contrite and bumble Spirit, to revive the Spirit of the Humble, and to revive the Heart of the contrite Ones.

Another little Piece was five Verfes, which among
Others he wrote, and got by Heart, viz.
As one Day goes another comes,

And fometimes fhews us difmal Dooms,
As Time rowls on, new Things we fee
Which feldom to us do agree:

Tho' now and then's a pleasant Day,
'Tis long a coming, foon away,
Wherefore the everlasting Truth
Is good for Aged and for Youth,
For them to fet their Hearts upon :
For that will last till Time is done,

I have now but one only Daughter, Rebecca, left me out of twelve Children, (except my Wife's Son and Daughter.)

After this long and tedious Voyage, which ended in the fecond Month, I ftay'd but a few Weeks at home, and loaded with Wheat and Flour for Dublin, in Ireland; had Alice Alderfon, my Kinfwoman, and Margaret Coupland, Paffengers. We had a very comfortable, pleafant Paffage, fair Winds and Weather,

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1734. and good religious Meetings. I think it was the most pleafant Time that ever I croffed the Seas; about Nantucket we faw feveral Sloops a Whaling, and fpoke with one, by which Opportunity we enquired of the Welfare of our Friends on that Ifland, and sent our Loves to them. Not many Miles from the Sloops we faw a Shoal of Whales; I counted eight in a Row lying Side by Side in the Water.

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We were four Weeks and fix Days from our Capes to Cape Clear in Ireland; coming near the Land we met with Fishing Boats, and got plenty of choice fresh Fih; in the Evening we got into Kinfale, took in a Pilot for Dublin, and failed next Day from Kinfale, and was out one Night at Sea, got next Day to Dublin-Bay, where we went afhore, and were kindly entertained by our Friends; we were at divers large Meetings in that great City, which fome of us, while we live, at Times I believe fhall remember. My Stay in Ireland was about feven Weeks, in which Time I vifited several Meetings in the Country, and at Edenderry, the Moate of Greenough, Carlow, Ballytore, &c.

We fet fail from Dublin with a fair Wind, in Company with the Ship Neptune, and our Friends fent many Prayers and good Wifhes after us. We were about forty Perfons, Sailors, Paffengers and Servants on board, and had a good Paffage, all Things confidered. We had divers religious Meetings on board, and were on our Paffage, from the Sight of Ireland, to the Sight of our Land, five Weeks and fix Days; it was the quickest Voyage I ever made to Europe and back again to Philadelphia.

When I came home, finding all well, I was thankful to God, in the Name of Chrift, for all his Mercies, and the many Prefervations wherewithal he had favoured me.

After being a little at home, and at feveral Meetings, and not being clear of the World, in order to it, undertook another Voyage to Barbadoes, and from

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thence intending for London, in order to fettle my Af- 1734. tairs there, which I intended fome Years before, but Loffes and Difappointments hinder'd me: Wherefore, the 7th of the Tenth Month, I proceeded on a fifth Voyage in the Barbadoes-Packet, and left Philadel again to phia, and was at a Meeting the next Day at Chester Barbadoes. (being Firft-day) and in the Evening we had a large Meeting at Grace Lloyd's, where I met with my dear Friend Jofeph Gill, who had good Service in the faid, Meeting; we rejoiced in Chrift to fee each other: We left Chester the 9th, and got that Tide down the River to Newcastle, and, after vifiting those few Friends there, we fet fail the 12th in the Morning; the Wind being high, and the Weather very fharp, freezing hard, our Sails were fo froze, that we had hard Work to get the Veffel under fail. The 13th Day weighed Anchor, and failed down the Bay, and the 14th we were clear of the Capes. The Firft-day following, we had a good, feasonable Meeting, for the Worship and Service of God, and, in the faid Meeting, as I was treating of Difobedience to Parents, and Difobedience to Almighty God, our great Parent and heavenly Father, a Youth, who was a Paffenger in the Veffel, went out haftily and abruptly, as I was fhew. At Sea. ing the Ungratefulness of the firft, much more of the laft: When I afked the Reafon of his going out, he faid, It was because he could not forbear crying; and thinking I fpoke fo because of him, he said, He could not bear me any more. Afterwards I understood that he was a Youth who was very ungrateful and difobedient to his Parents; the which I knew not of, for his Mother told me, and himself alfo, that he went to Sea on Account of his Health, I thought his going out fo haftily was occafioned by fome Indifpofition of Body but it was, as he gave us to understand, thro' refenting ill what was fpoken, and by his taking of it to himself. I have in like Manner, fometimes obferved, that divers People have fhewn a Reftlefsnefs and Uneafinefs

1734. eafinefs in publick Affemblies of Worship and Devotion, and fometimes going out, &c. fo that they have thereby expofed themfelves to the Notice of the People, as Perfons guilty of the Matter publickly reprehended, or spoken against; just as though they were the only Perfons in the Affembly, who were guilty of the Evil then taken Notice of: Such publick Reftlessnefs, is a great Folly and Weakness, befides fo openly and publickly expofing themselves.

After we left our Capes, we had divers hard Gales of Wind, which lafted feveral Days. The 28th, being a First-day, we had a Meeting for divine Worship, in which God was praised, and his holy Name exalted, for his unfpeakable Grace, in fending his only begotten Son, a divine Light to enlighten the Inhabitants of the World: After which we had ftormy Weather and contrary Winds for fome Weeks, fo that our Paffage was tedious; and of 15 Times going to Barbadoes, I found this the moft difficult; and the Prof pect was very difcouraging of making a lofing Voyage, by the great Expence I expected for repairing and refitting the Veffel, &c. fo that I began to defpair of accomplishing my Defign of discharging my Debts in Great-Britain, and the Thoughts and Conf deration of lofing fo much of the Company and Converfation of my Wife, Relations, and Friends, and fpending fo much precious Time (which cannot be recalled) to fo little Purpose, lay heavy on my Mind; yet by the Grace of God, my Mind was fupported, and my Refolutions confirmed to praife the Almighty for every Difpenfation of his Providence.

The 23d of the Eleventh Month, we faw the Inland Barbadges of Barbadoes (at the Breaking of the Day) having been from the Capes of Delaware forty Days and one Night; and was truly thankful, that at laft, we, through divine Favour, got well to our defired Port; where we were lovingly received by our Friends at Speight'sTown, who were joyful at our Arrival. From thence

I went to Bridge-Town, and fo on to the Governor's 1734. in order to enter our Veffel; but, ftaying a little too late, the Governor, who was the Lord Howe, was come from his Houfe on his Way to Bridge-town, with his Coach and Six, and his Attendants; but he feeing me) courteously stopp'd his Coach, and did my Bulinefs as he fat therein; and though I made an Ef fay towards an Excufe, he would not admit of it, faying, There was no Need of any Excufe. He was indeed an extraordinary courteous Man: He died foon after, much lamented, as he was much beloved.

My Stay at Barbadoes this Time was the longest - I Barbadags. ever itay'd, believing it to be the laft Time I fhould go there, and that I fhould fee them no more. My fo faying troubled fome of them; but growing in Years (being then turned of Threefcore) I thought it would be too hard for me to undertake fuch another Voyage; therefore I was at all the Meetings of our Friends on the Island.

Here I met with Mofes Aldridge, a Friend from New-England, who came on a religious Vifit to Friends of this land, with whom we had divers good Meetings, his Service in preaching the Gofpel being edify ing and acceptable; we were together at the Marriage of Andrew Drury and Mary Lewis, after which Meeting and Marriage, I was ill of a Fever several Days, which Diftemper was very much among the People, of which near twenty Mafters of Veffels, and fome Hundreds of People died; and though I had been at Barbadoes many Times, I never had fo much Illness there before; Mofes Aldridge, and several Friends of us, had a large Meeting at John Gibfon's, where were many People, not of our Perfwafion, who generally were fober; but as I was recommending Charity to the People, according to the Doctrine of the Apoftle Paul, as the most excellent Gift, I advised them to fhow it forth to all People of all Profeffions, and alfo to their Negroes, telling them, that fome of the Gentry of this Inland had observed

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