In this passage I had great experience of the goodness of God and often liad ocasion to reflect on the Royal Psalmist's expressions in Psalm 10.7. 23 &'^ where he has these woj-ds -- They that go down to tlie Sea in ships and occupy their business in great waters these men see the works of tlie Lord and his wonders in tlie dee]> L" I saw indeed & wondered and often expected in the great tempests we had to have been swallowed up of tlie merciless waves, but when we Avere in our trouble and almost brouglit to our wit's end We cried unto the Lord and he was graciously pleased to hear us and bring us tho' not into the haven where we would have been yet unto a Ciiristian s'>ore yea unto the Island where my Mission was to terminate about 100 miles from my Parish Here the ship and part of her Ladhig was lost on the 7'^ July but not the life of one person.

The week Ibllowing I did set out for this place where to this time I have not ceased (aecording to the ability that Gcd hath given me) to instruct tlie Flock committed to my charge I have laboured faithfully in my Lords Vineyard and in my private advice from House to House as well as public discourses I have exhorted tlicm to faith in Christ and amendment of life and to live in Love I have likewise endeavoured to possess tliem with as due a sense of the fundamentals of our religion as I could and the Great God has vouchsafed to give such a blessing to my poor yet well nieaning endeavours the number of the communicants of the Church of England here before my time never exceeded 30 I have had above CO -- of the Independents who are the most numerous in my parish I have gained some and of the Quakers more some that were very rigid Indeperidejits since I came and that have reflected very much on our Church and constitution are now very frequently my hearers; and among the Quakers where my predecessor M'" Urquhart tliought it not worth his while to go I seldom have so few as fifty and often more than one hundred bearers.