continuing thread of his Journal for today: "Here I was led into a close and labourious inquiry whether I, as an individual, kept clear from all things which tended to stir up or were connected with wars, either in this land or in Africa, my heart was deeply concerned that in future I might in all things keep steadily to the pure truth, and live and walk in plainness and simplicity of a sincere follower of Christ. In this lonely journey I did greatly bewail the spreading of a wrong spirit, believing that the prosperous, convenient situation of the English would require a constant attention in us to divine love and wisdom, in order to their being guided and supported in a way answerable to the will of that good, gracious, and Almighty Being, who hath a equal regard to all mankind. And here luxury and covetousness and other evils attending them, appeared very afflicting to me, and I felt in that which is immutable that the seeds of great calamity and desolation are sown and growing fast on this continent. Nor have I words sufficient to set forth the longing I then felt, that we...might arise in the strength thereof, and like faithful messengers labour to check the growth of these seeds, that they might not ripen to the ruin of our prosperity."
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