My own Will and Desires were now very much broken, and my Heart, with much Earnestness, turned to the Lord, to whom alone I looked for Help in the Dangers before me. I had a Prospect of the _English_ along the Coast, for upwards of nine hundred Miles, where I had travelled; and the favourable Situation of the _English_, and the Difficulties attending the Natives in many Places, and the Negroes, were open before me; and a weighty and heavenly Care came over my Mind, and Love filled my Heart toward all Mankind, in which I felt a strong Engagement, that we might be obedient to the Lord, while, in tender Mercies, he is yet calling to us; and so attend to pure universal Righteousness, as to give no just Cause of Offence to the _Gentiles_, who do not profess _Christianity_, whether the Blacks from _Africa_, or the native Inhabitants of this Continent: And here I was led into a close laborious Enquiry, whether I, as an Individual, kept clear from all Things which tended to stir up, or were connected with Wars, either in this Land or _Africa_; and my Heart was deeply concerned, that, in future, I might in all Things keep steadily to the pure Truth, and live and walk in the Plainness and Simplicity of a sincere Follower of Christ. And, in this lonely Journey, I did, this Day, greatly bewail the Spreading of a wrong Spirit, believing, that the prosperous, convenient, Situation of the _English_, requires a constant Attention to divine Love and Wisdom to guide and support us in a Way answerable to the Will of that good, gracious, and almighty Being, who hath an equal Regard to all Mankind: And, here, Luxury and Covetousness, with the numerous Oppressions, and other Evils attending them, appeared very afflicting to me; and I felt in that which is immutable, that the Seeds of great Calamity and Desolation are sown and growing fast on this Continent: Nor have I Words sufficient to set forth that Longing I then felt, that we, who are placed along the Coast, and have tasted the Love and Goodness of God, might arise in his Strength; and, like faithful Messengers, labour to check the Growth of these Seeds, that they may not ripen to the Ruin of our Posterity. We reached the _Indian_ Settlement at _Wioming_; and here we were told, that an _Indian_ Runner had been at that Place a Day or two before us, and brought News of the _Indians_ taking an _English_ Fort westward, and destroying the People, and that they were endeavouring to take another; and also, that another _Indian_ Runner came there about the Middle of the Night before we got there, who came from a Town about ten Miles above _Wehaloosing_, and brought News, that some _Indian_ Warriours, from distant Parts, came to that Town with two _English_ Scalps, and told the People, that it was War with the _English_.