to prayer. At this time a person gave me five guineas; which kind Providence I rather wondered at. But the following night I had a dream, (I hope my brethren will not hate me yet the more because of my dreams, Gen. xxxvii. 5; seeing we have a scriptural warrant for the relation of them: "The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word," Jer. xxiii. 28.) I dreamed that the person before mentioned sent to inform me that he was going to leave his house; that the things were to be appraised on Friday morning; and that he should expect me to pay him the money down for the fixtures. I said in my dream, Lord, thou knowest I cannot go, for I have not money enough.' Then came this answer; 'Go to Mr. Munday, cutler, at Kingston-upon-Thames, and he will lend you as much as you want.' I soon after awoke, and behold it was a dream! therefore I took little notice of it. But in a few hours the person sent me word that he was going to leave his house, and should expect me to come and see the things appraised the next morning, and pay him for the same. Then I began to think it was more than a dream. The same night Mr. Munday, of Kingston, called on me; and, to the best of my remembrance, he had never been at my house before. I asked him if he would lend me a little money; he replied, 'I will lend you all that I have in my pocket; and, if you will call on me to-morrow at Kingston, I will lend you five pounds, if you want it.' He

accordingly lent me what he then had with him; and the next morning, after the things were appraised to me, I paid for them, having just nine shillings left. This is the end of my dream. Whether this blessing came from Fortune on the wheel, or from the Searcher and Disposer of hearts, I shall leave those to determine who have got learning and an independent fortune at command.

My year being now expired, I wanted a new parsonic livery; wherefore in humble prayer I told my most blessed Lord and Master that my year was out, and my apparel bad; that I had no where to go for these things but to him; and, as he had promised to give his servants food and raiment, I hoped he would fulfil his promise to me, though one of the worst of them. Seeing no immediate signs of my livery coming, I began to omit praying for it; though God says, For all these things I will be inquired of by the house of Israel, that I may do these things for them. It fell out one day that I called on a poor man, who complained that he could not attend the word of God for want of apparel. This drove me to pray again for my new suit of clothes, that I might give my old ones to him. A few days after this I was desired to call at a gentleman's house near London. Indeed it had been impressed on my mind for six weeks before, that God would use that gentleman as an instrument to furnish me with my next suit. And so it fell out; for, when I called on him, upon

leaving his house he went a little way with me; and while we were on the road he said, 'I think you want a new suit of clothes.' I answered, 'Yes, Sir, I do; and I know a poor man that would be very glad of this which I have on, if my Master would furnish me with another.' When we parted he desired me to call on him the next morning, which I accordingly did; when he sent a tailor into the room, and generously told me to be measured for what clothes I chose, and a great coat also. When I got the new, I furnished the poor man with my old suit. This was the fourth suit of apparel that my Master gave me in this providential manner, in answer to the prayer of faith. Thus God, who kept Israel's clothes from waxing old, though in constant use for forty years, gave me a new suit every year.

I was soon afterwards brought into another. strait. Having contracted a debt of five pounds for some necessaries which I wanted, I promised to pay it on a certain day; and I put up many prayers that God would enable me to fulfil my promise. At last the day arrived, and I had not one farthing towards it. About ten o'clock the bell rung at my gate. Supposing it to be my creditor, I kneeled down, and begged of God not to let him come till he had sent me the money to pay him. It proved not to be the man I expected: but soon after the bell rung again, and I kneeled down again, and prayed with the same words; and was informed a stranger wanted to see me. He

had much to say to me about the things of God; and when he left me he gave me two guineas. Soon after this I went to work in my garden; and another person, who lived at a great distance, came to speak with me, and gave me another guinea. After that I took a walk in the fields, and met with two gentlemen who feared God, and who came from London on purpose to see me. They gave me two guineas. The next day my creditor came, and his money was ready for him. This is like the Lord's dealings with the poor widow by Elisha; when the creditor came to take the mother and son for bond-servants, God sent the creditor all his demands in a pot of oil.

I have omitted one providence, which has just occurred to my mind, and which happened at the time when I carried coals for my bread. It fell out one night that we were forced to put our little ones to bed without a supper, which grieved me much, and on which account I got but little sleep all night; for I lay and wept bitterly under my hard fate. While I was weeping and praying a person came to the window, and told me there was a load of wooden hoops come to the wharf from Dorking, in Surry, and that I must get up and unload them; which I soon did. When I had done the farmer told me he had brought me a little meat pie and a flagon of cyder, of which he had heard me say I was very fond. As soon as he was gone I went home, and endeavoured to awake my young ones, but in vain; however, I set them up on the

bolster, and they began to eat before they were fully awake. Thus God sent food from a very remote place, in answer to the groaning petition of my burdened heart. God grant that, if my reader be a poor Christian, he may take encouragement from these accounts to pray and watch the hand of God in every time of trouble; until he sees, agreeable to the promise, that God causes all his goodness to pass before him. Oh, how sweet is the least mercy, when fitly timed, and brought forth so seasonably! how it endears God to the soul! When the poor widow of Zarephath was gathering two sticks, to bake the last cake for her and her son, that they might eat once more before they died, then comes the man of God, and swears that the barrel of meal shall not fail till God send rain upon the earth, 1 Kings xvii. 14.

At this time I had many doors opened to me for preaching the gospel, very wide apart. I preached at Margaret street in London; at Richmond, at Ditton, at Cobham, at Woking, at Worpolsdon, and at Farnham, in Surry. This I found too much for my strength. However, I continued for a considerable time, till at last I was generally laid up sick about once a month. I found I had great need of a horse; but feared I should not be able to keep it, if I had one. However, it happened that I had a very severe week's work to do; I was to go to Woking and preach on the Lord's day morning, to Worpolsdon in the afternoon, and from thence to Farnham in the evening; to preach