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 turn and live; ſaying, Turn ye, turn ye, for why will ye die! Behold Jeſus interceding at the right hand of the throne of God for you; that God would exert his almighty power, in turning your mind from ſin to righteouſneſs. O how can you reject ſuch pathetic expreſſions of divine benevolence? Or why ſhall Jeſus entreat in vain? O why will you oppoſe the wiſhes of your beſt friend? Or how can you bear the thoughts of being caſt off from the preſence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power, ſentenced to everlaſting deſtruction? O my dear friends! think of theſe things, leſt you ſhould come to cry when there be none to regard or anſwer you; But leaſt I weary your patience I will purſue my narrative:—

After living three years in North Carolina as I obſerved, I began to think of my father, and his family, all buried in miſery and Popiſh ſuperſtition, and wilfully ignorant. I thought it was poſſible, in caſe I could ſee them, that I might be made an inſtrument in God's hands, of leading them to a conſideration of the folly of their ways. I therefore thought very anxious about the matter I alſo felt a natural affection for them I alſo conſidered that my father was a rich man, and I in a dependant ſituation, and knew, that if he had not loſt his former regard for me, that he would help me, notwithſtanding our difference of