As God was pleased to afford me clearness of thought almost continually, for several weeks together; so he enabled me in some measure, to employ my time to valuable purposes. I was enabled to write a number of important _letters_, to friends in remote places; and sometimes I wrote I was speechless, _i. e._ unable to maintain conversation with any body.――*Besides this I had many visitants; with whom when I was able to speak, I always conversed of the things of religion: and was peculiarly assisted in distinguishing between _true_ and _false_ religion. And especially I discoursed repeatedly on the nature and necessity of that _humiliation_, _self-emptiness_, or full conviction of a person’s being utterly undone in himself, which is necessary in order to a saving faith, and the extreme difficulty of being brought to this, and the great danger there is of persons taking up with some _self-righteous appearances_ of it. The _danger_ of this I especially dwelt upon, being persuaded that multitudes perish in this hidden way; because so little is said from most pulpits to discover any danger here: so that persons being never effectually brought to die to themselves, are never truly united to Christ. I also discoursed much on what I take to be the essence of true religion, that God-like temper and disposition of soul, and that holy conversation and behaviour, that may justly claim the honour of having God for its original pattern. And I have reason to hope God blessed my discoursing to some, both ministers and people; so that my time was not wholly lost. [Also the honourable Commissioners in Boston, of the incorporated society in London for ♦propagating the gospel in New-England, and parts adjacent, having a legacy of the late Dr. Daniel Williams of London, for the support of _two missionaries_ to the Heathen, were pleased, while he was at Boston, to consult him about a mission to those Indians called the _Six Nations_; and were so satisfied with his sentiments on this head, and had that confidence in his faithfulness, and judgment, that they desired him to recommend a couple of persons fit to be employed in this business. ♦ “propogating” replaced with “propagating”