better at Antigua than at Barbadoes, I dispatched my affairs, and took part of our cargo there, and was kindly received by our friends. We were about three days in our passage, and had fine weather therein. At Antigua I had divers meetings, my business, at no time, hindered me in my more weighty service; for I always, through Divine help, made that give way to my religious duty, in which I ever found peace and inward satisfaction. In about five weeks I finished my business in this island, having no small satisfaction in coming to it; and our vessel being now loaden, we took our solemn leave, and with the good wishes of many, departed for England.

Our friends there signified to their brethren, that they were glad of my company, and that I was serviceable to them, though I came upon business. My hand, when need required, was to my business, but my heart was, and I hope is, and ever shall be, freely given up to serve the Lord, in that work whereunto I believe he has called me. We have liberty from God, and his dear Son, lawfully, and for accommodation's sake, to work or seek for food or raiment; though that ought to be a work of indifferency, compared to the great work of salvation. Our Saviour saith, " Labour not for the meat which perisheth," but for that "which endureth" for ever, or to eternal life: by which we do not understand, that Christians must neglect their necessary occasions, and their outward trades and callings; but that their chief

labour, and greatest concern ought to be for their future well-being in his glorious kingdom; else why did our Lord say to his disciples, "Children, have you any meat?" they answered, "No;" and he bid them cast their nets into the sea, and they drew to land a net full of great fishes; and fishing being their trade, no doubt but they sold them, for it was not likely they could eat them all themselves. Also the apostle of Christ says, he that doth not take care of his family," is worse than an infidel;" and the apostle Paul, the great apostle of the Gentiles, wrought with his hands, even while he was in his travels, and in the work of the gospel; and others tasted of the benefit of his labour naturally, as well as spiritually. It is also written, that he that will not work shall not eat. By this, and much more, which might be noted, it appears that we not only have liberty to labour in moderation, but we are given to understand, that it is our duty so to do. The farmer, the tradesman, and the merchant, do not understand by our Lord's doctrine, that they must neglect their calling, or grow idle in their business, but must certainly work, and be industrious in their callings. We all ought to understand, that our hearts and minds ought to be out of the world, or above the nature and spirit of it. It is good and profitable for both soul and body, rightly to distinguish between earthly and heavenly things, and to be careful how they mix the one with the other; for it is an eternal truth, that God and

mammon cannot dwell together, or join together in the heart. If our love is more to God than the creature, or to heaven than earth, then will he dwell in us and with us: but if our love is morc to the creature than to Christ, or to earth than heaven, then will he not dwell with us, but will leave us to ourselves; for the Lord Omnipotent will not admit of any rival.

On the 11th of the fourth month, 1719, we left Antigua, stood close to the wind till we again crossed the Tropic, and got into those latitudes where the winds are variable. Sailing in the great deeps we saw the wonders of the Lord, particularly in divers kinds of fish, they living upon one another in the sea, the great fishes on the small ones; and mankind too much resembles them in that respect. About the latitude of 33 north, our master, Warner Holt, seeing a shoal of porpoises ahout the ship, though he was not very well, and had not been for most of the voyage, he took his harping-iron, and struck one of them, and we took him into the vessel, out of which we got eleven quart bottles of oil; and we most of us eat heartily of this fish, which agreed with our people very well. They fried his liver for our mess, of which I eat a large meal, which was well tasted, and eat more like fresh beef than fish. I make this memorandum of it, that if any should take them when their provisions are scarce, they may eat freely without danger, according to

our experience. When we had been at sea about three weeks, being near the latitude of 40 north, and about the longitude of 42, though it was in the midst of summer, we saw an island of ice, at which we all marvelled, and judged that there had been a severe cold winter in those latitudes on the land of America. When we saw this island of ice we judged ourselves not far from the Banks of Newfoundland. Hitherto we had easy gales of wind, and many calms, which made our passage seem long to us. We saw two sail of ships about those latitudes, but spoke with neither, being willing to shun them as it was war time.

We had in this voyage weekly meetings for worshipping the Almighty, in which the great Lord, both of sea and land, was pleased greatly to manifest his name and truth amongst us, for which my soul often secretly and openly blessed and praised his Divine and glorious name and truth; for he bore up my drooping spirits, so that I could truly say with the royal Psalmist, not because he spoke it only, but also being an experimental witness thereof, "The floods have lifted up, O Lord, the floods have lifted up their voice: the floods lift up their waves. The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea." Psalm xciii. 3, 4. This the king wrote of his own experience in a spiritual sense; but I may say without boasting, I have witnessed the rage and noise of mighty waves and waters, both natural and spiritual; the

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one, as though it would swallow up my reputation among men, and the other, as though it would swallow up my person, in this my watery peregrination but blessed be the name of Him that is Holy and Eternal, who indeed is stronger than the noise of many waters, or than the mighty waves of the sea, either inwardly or outwardly, I will through his strength, magnify his name, because he is worthy and may I do it for ever!

About the 11th day of the fifth month, we saw great flocks of birds, which we judged came from the Azores, or Western-Islands, near which we reckoned ourselves to be. The 21st day we saw, and came up with a French ship, which had been fishing on the Banks of Newfoundland, and was bound for Havre de Grace in France, the master of which came on board us, and our captain went on board them. We exchanged some rums and sugars, of our sea stores, for their French wine and cider, and some of our provisions for some of their fish. The captain was a Protestant, and very courteous to us: the Regent of France at this time being kind to the Protestants, so that they increased much in that kingdom. The Frenchman seeming desirous to know what religion I was of, I told him by an interpreter, that I was one called a Quaker, or Trembler, and that our principle was to do good to all men, and not to hurt any man, according to Christ's doctrine, Not to render evil for evil, but to overcome evil with good. When they went away and took leave of us, they desired me