s able as Caesar, I hold myself as much
obliged in my own person to serve you, and, to the utmost of my
capacity, shall do all good offices for any of you, who have, with
so much affection, respect, and hazard, adventured your persons with
me.

"I am obliged, and do return my hearty thanks, to our worthy
friends who have so excellently performed the work of the day, and
shall pray that it may be powerful upon every one of our hearts, to
build us up in the knowledge of this duty; and I should be glad to
promise, in the name of all my company, that we shall give a ready
and constant observance of those pious instructions we have received
from you.

"Some here have been actors with us in our story; have gone down to
the sea in ships and done business in great waters; have seen the
works of God and His wonders in the deep; His commanding and raising
the stormy wind, lifting up the waves thereof, which mount up to the
heavens and go down again to the deep, whose souls have melted
because of trouble, and have been at their wits' end: then have
cried unto the Lord in their distress, and He hath brought them out
of trouble. We have seen Him make the storm a calm, and the waves
thereof still: then were we glad, and He brought us to our desired
harbour. Oh that we would praise the Lord for His goodness, for His
wonderful works! Let us exalt Him in the congregation of the people,
and praise Him in the assembly of the elders.

"These my companions, who have been actors, and others, I hope will
give me leave to make them auditors of some special providences of
the Lord, wherein we may all reap benefit from the relation. The
Apostle saith, 2 Pet. i., 'Wherefore I will not be negligent to put
you always in remembrance of these things, though you know them, and
be established in the present truth.' To all I may say, with the
wise man (Prov. viii.), 'Hear! for I will speak of excellent
things,' free mercies, great deliverances, wonderful preservations:
excellent things to those who were sharers of them in action, and
for the contemplation of those who are hearers of them; therefore I
may shortly recite some of the most eminent of them.

"In the first day of our voyage with a fair wind, at night it
changed, and we were stopped till comfortable letters came to me,
which otherwise could not