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to feel after his power within, to guide me, and enable me to be resigned, and to do his holy will.

21st. Unto Thee, O Lord! do I lift my soul! cause me to know the way wherein I should go; and strengthen me to walk therein; in faith and obedience to thy revealed will.

23d. This day I have met reproof; and how unwilling is something within me to submit, in truth, unto that declaration of the Psalmist: "Let the righteous smite me, it shall be a kindness; and let him reprove me, it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities." O! how I did think of this passage, and try myself, and felt the unwillingness to arise against submission to true judgment. However, I learn how easy it is to say one to another, 'Don't spare me, when thou seest any thing wrong in me'; but when judgment is laid to the line, and righteousness to the plummet, what flinching, and seeking to excuse self, rather than to resign self to the death of the cross. The solicitude of mind under these impressions, mercifully is, that I may be resigned to endure in such a manner, that I yield not unto temptation; that my faith fail not in the hour of trial. O, the danger!

the need of true humility, and constant watchfulness, lest the enemy get advantage of me

14th of 11th Month. This morning the secret supplication of my heart, before setting out for Meeting, was, that I might be fully devoted and resigned unto the righteous government of Him, whose name shall endure for ever, and his memorial unto all generations; that I may be so under the controul of his pure Holy Spirit, that nothing may be able to separate me from his love in Christ Jesus our Lord.

1st Month, 1820. Entered into another year. O, for a free surrender of heart and life, in the precious cause of truth! that, if continued through it, it may be wholly a year of resignation unto Divine disposal; and may it please Him, who knoweth all things, and what is needful and best for his creature man, to help me to attain to full dedication, and to bring down and subject all within me, unto his power; and may his merciful kindness be known unto me through life.

2nd Month. Surely goodness and mercy have followed me hitherto! O! that love and gratitude may, in return, be offered unto Him, who thus deals out to a poor, weak, unworthy creature, so

many favours, as have been dispensed unto me! May my trust and confidence be alone in the Lord, my Saviour and my Redeemer, for guidance and strength to do his will!

19th of 2nd Month. Great is my desire that through the remainder of my life, preservation may be known in Christ Jesus, the Lord of life and glory, so as to bring forth fruit unto righteousness and peace.

21st of 3rd Month. About to set out from home this morning, to attend a Quarterly Meeting.Ardent is my desire for right direction and preservation, in humility and fear. Declined the same, under an apprehension, that it is safest to stop at home. I remembered that saying of the Psalmist: "The Lord preserveth the simple; I was brought low, and he helped me;" so that relief of mind was mercifully granted, and it raised a solicitude to endure the exercise of the day, and to abide under the restraining power of truth.

31st. "Bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns of the altar," and may I not look back by any trial or affliction, that may attend me, in my remaining pilgrimage through life; but be enabled to look forward, holding fast the

profession of faith without wavering; knowing Him to be faithful who calleth. May nothing separate me from the love of God in Christ Jesus; but may I be more than a conqueror through Him who hath loved us! O my soul ! remember thou the renewal of his love this morning, for thy encouragement not to faint in low times!

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The Letters from which the two following Extracts are taken, have no dates.

This day I have received my dear friend's letter, and carefully read the same; and find an acknowledgement of sensibility of favour granted to an unworthy receiver. This is no bad sign, for if we begin to think any thing contrary to that, there is much danger; indeed, as to myself, if any thing does arise like pluming myself, (and what is there that will not arise that is bad,) I begin to be alarmed; for I remember often what hath been said to me more than once, by a friend "If we begin to think we are getting on well, we are in the most danger;" and I also remember, whilst I am writing, the Apostle's saying: "If any man thinketh he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet, as he ought to know."

I am much afraid of that knowledge which puffeth up; but long for that more excellent way which edifieth; not so much on thy account as

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