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Beyond Penn's Treaty

Some Notes Kept of a Journey

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me I may be enabled, in patience
and humility to wait for thy coming;
and when thou art pleased to be near
and feed me I may not slide from
the true path; for in thee and thee
alone is safety.-

1806 1 Month 7th

All things as to the out-
ward glide comfortably along but I
have often to pass thro’ seasons of deep
humiliation. -- Thou only Lord knows the
anguish of my spirit and sincerity of
my heart, that I desire above all things
to serve thee but, the cross and the assault
of the enemy. - Will I never be able to
overcome the many hindering things!
Thou hast at seasons O Father clearly man-
ifested to me thy will-- and sweet peace
has accompanied faithfulness thereto
Then Oh my soul why dost thou doubt.
dwell low; in humility wait. let not
thy faith fail, that so in the littleness thou
mayest be enabled to do the Lords will.