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me, and refuſed to let me in. I called to my daughter, but ſhe gave me no anſwer. I now began to conclude, that he that would live godly in Chriſt Jeſus muſt ſuffer perſecution.
Thus was I diſowned by all my former friends and relations, in that place, and the miniſter ſeeing me in this diſtreſſed ſituation pitied me, and told me, that as long as he had one ſhilling of money left, I ſhould ſhare part of it and deſired me not to give way to trouble of this kind, he then carried me away and hired my board for three weeks, at the end of which time he came again, and baptized thoſe fifteen perſons before mentioned for they all gave ſatisfactory evidence of a work of grace in their hearts, and alſo brought a carriage for me to go with him to North Carolina as I did and there I lived with him and his people three years: and a happy happy three years it was to my poor ſoul, although rejcted by my natural relations: yet I think I had daily communion with a friend that ſticketh cloſer than earthly friends and relations; even Jeſus, who was to me the chiefeſt among ten thouſand, and altogether lovely. I really enjoyed that peace of mind which the world can neither give nor take away: yea, this peace was like a river, flowing from the right hand of God. So great and inexpreſſible was this peace and happineſs, which I then enjoyed that all other happineſs looked extremely deſpicable and wholly un-
