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His Will, as well as delight to do it. My trials are manyand complicated, yet Though, Lord, deliverest my soul at allseasons, out of the hand of the adversary, who seekethmy life by various means, and has tried every new tempta-tion to beguile and entangle my soul; knowing my delightand glory is the overthrow of his kingdom of darkness,in the hearts of poor sinners, whom I feel much for onaccount of being misled by his base machinations, where-with millions are undone, choosing to yield the membersof their bodies servants to sin, and their souls an habituationmyself called upon also, to exalt the Redeemer of theworld, as a Gracious, Long suffering God, full of pity tothe children of men, whose clemency is so great to all,that each must be his own accuser at His Righteous Bar,condemned by their reiterated sins, which have ben vio-patins of His Just, and Holy Law, made to model the lifeof man by, or that whereby his actions shall be examined:for the Law is fixed in the heart of man, and thereforemany are a Law to themselves who never saw the Tablesof Stone, or read the Outward Letter. The Grace of ourLord Jesus Christ hath appeared unto all men, teachingthem to deny themselves of all ungodliness, and wordilylusts, that they may live soberly, righteously, and bodilyin this present evil world. [11th 8th mo. 1805.] Having rode five miles in the burning sun this morning,I feel like Jonah, and mourned for a shade, as he did forhis pleasant Gourd, which withered away for his instruc-tion. The person who went with me, left me in Stock-bridge, at the house of Abraham Serjeant, who has been amissionary to the Tribe of Indians nineteen years suc-cessively, and since he first visited the Indians, he toldme It was thirty. Feeling much distressed by a violentpain in my head, first with cold, and then with heat, Icould not take the satisfaction I would, in case I had beenof the Indian women, whom I felt dear to me. Kneelingin the midst, my prayer was offered in faith for them and