burial of S. B.; in both of them, my mind was awfully impressed with the dreadful sentence which was pronounced 'concerning the unprofitable servant, and that of the fig-tree on which no fruit was found. In the meeting of ministers and elders, there seemed something similar to a solemnity in the night season.

21. This day I entered into the 67th year of my age; my days pass more swift than a weaver's shuttle;" "with the Lord one day is as a thousand years:" "he can save by many or by few." In the monthly meeting, before the women friends withdrew, our beloved friends, W. M. and G. D. were graciously anointed to preach the gospel to the poor; the sound seemed in some degree to extend to me, in the land of my captivity.

22.

This day sorrows seemed for a season to be rather suspended; may I, through great grace, be enabled, as at the eleventh hour of the day, to exchange the burthens which have been so heavy upon me, for the yoke which is easy, and the burthen which is light. My intellectual eye seemed to glance towards that woman, who having " had much forgiven, loved much." O! may I, for the few days or hours remaining, demonstrate my love to Christ, "by keeping his commandments." At an appointed meeting held at Ware this evening, after our friend, W. Matthews, had closed his testimony, so awful a solemnity covered a numerous and mixed assembly in silence, that the

language of some formerly might, with much propriety, have been adopted, viz. "it is good for us to be here."

23. The week-day meeting at Hartford was a large and favored season, W. M. being led to open the spiritual import of Christ's washing his disciples feet; and to recal the attention of the back-sliders, to "the fountain which is opened for sin and uncleanness."

24. This morning our friend W. M. set forward on a visit to the western part of this county, and some of the counties adjacent: he had lodged with us five nights, and been mostly at our house in the day time; many friends had been with him his conversation was such as becomes the gospel. On the first day he was much shut up, as to his public ministry; but in the subsequent meetings, opened and enlarged, to the reaching of many.

25. Walking in the Borough, my spirit was measurably contrited, in a remembrance of former days, and the Lord's mercies, which have been as the former and the latter rain."

26. During my confinement in the winter, and for some time after I was liberated therefrom, a fresh visitation seemed to be extended for my help, and the "strengthening the things which were ready to die;" but not rendering to the Lord according to the benefits which he had bestowed upon me, and obedience not keeping pace with knowledge, for some time past, horror and

deep distress have been usually the companions of my spirit. During the present week, the mercies of heaven have been renewed more often than the morning, and some sense of the divine presence has attended. This day," the shooting up of the latter growth" hath been consumed, as by an east wind from the wilderness. "Forgive, O Lord, I beseech thee;" "By whom shall Jacob arise, for he is small ?”

FOURTH MONTH, 1785.

I. The former part of the last month, sackcloth was my covering; afterwards a glimpse of hope attended, in seeking after that obedience which is by faith. We are not to place our confidence in any thing short of the great Author of every good work; but every degree of reformation from evil, and increase in the labour of love, is acceptable in His sight, who has promised to reward those who give a cup of cold water in the name and spirit of true discipleship: for a mite cast into the treasury shall be approved, when the pompous offerings of the proud shall perish.

4. In the monthly meeting, a short testimony was delivered concerning the gospel mantle; the subsequent business was transacted in peace.

18. Near the close of the forenoon meeting, some sentences were uttered concerning the sufferings of Christ, and of our suffering together with him.

23. The former part of this week, insensibility respecting spiritual things was sorrowfully prevalent. I have been incapable of being exercised in the volume of the book, either within or without, the vision of the whole having been so sealed, as with seven seals, that no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, could open it, but "the Lion of the tribe of Juda," who can quicken the dead, and call those things which are not, as though they were. O! that I might come into his presence and plead with him, as a man pleadeth with his friend; for although I see him not, yet judgment is with him; therefore, O my soul! trust thou in him.

25. I was visited by John Hoole, the celebrated translator of Tasso; who read to me some memoirs, which are intended to be prefixed to a posthumous work of my deceased brother, John Scott, who in his life time had the praise of men ; but in his latter end, I humbly hope, his "praise was of God."

30. The failures of the pillars of the house, presage its dissolution; the sins of my youth, even. of my religious youth, as well as the iniquities of more advanced years, have been recalled to my remembrance; and passed before me as a roll, marked with " mourning, lamentation and woe." I am confident, whatever my friends may suppose to the contrary, that for some years past, I have too freely indulged my palate, both in the eating. of meat, and the drinking of wine; and though L

have strictly adhered in both respects to what is esteemed moderation by men; yet I have not sufficiently bridled the body, nor adhered to the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ; "which is the power of God," "and crucifies the flesh, with the affections and lusts."

FIFTH MONTH, 1785.

13. Divers acceptable testimonies were delivered at Gracechurch Street. My mind was measurably turned to Him "who hath the tongue of the learned, and can speak a word in season to him that is weary," for with him only are the words of eternal life." I was glad of the crumbs which fell from the Master's table.

14. This week has been spent pretty satisfactorily, but not without some exceptions; desires having at intervals attended for the removal of hardness of heart, that a heart of flesh might be graciously imparted, meliorated and contrited, under a sense of the Lord's manifold mercies, which are new every morning of them mankind are too unmindful, of them I myself have been too unmindful.

Man, infatuate man,'

Lays for himself on earth his little plan, 'Dreads not, or, distant, views mortality.'

My plan, my pleasurable expectations, have indeed been little and singularly circumscribed: neither