the vacating of that design. Besides, there was a probability of doing more service to that unhappy people, in England than I could do in Georgia, by representing without fear or favour to the Trustees, the real state the Colony was in. After deeply considering these things, they were unanimous, That I ought to go. But not yet. So I laid the thoughts of it aside for the present : Being persuaded, that when the time was come, God would, make the way plain before my face. . . .
Friday, Dec. 2. . . . In the Afternoon the Magistrates publish'd an Order requiring all the Officers and Centinels, to prevent my going out of the Province ; and forbidding any person to assist me so to do. Being now only a Prisoner at large, in a Place where I knew by experience, every Day would give fresh opportunity, to procure Evidence of words I never said, and actions I never did ; I saw clearly the Hour was come for leaving this Place : And as soon as Evening Prayers were over, about Eight o'Clock, the Tide then serving, I shook off the dust of my Feet, and left Georgia, after having preach'd the Gospel there (not as I ought, but as I was able) one Year, and nearly Nine Months.
[An Extract of the Rev. Mr. John Wesley's Journal, from Oct. 14, 1735, to Jan. 29, 1783], 8-52 passim. (Taken from a contemporary copy, of which the title-page is missing.)
100. A Good Man's Letter (1752)
BY GOVERNOR JONATHAN BELCHER
Belcher had been Massachusetts s agent in England, and later governor of the province. At this time he was governor of New Jersey. The letter is inserted as an excellent example of the formal but sincere expression of a Christian gentleman. — Bibliography: Palfrey, New England, IV, 517-579; Winsor, Narrative and Critical History, V, 166-169.
Dear Mr Whitefield & Worthy Sir
YOUR Excellently good and religious Letter of the 13th of Oct. 1750 came to my hands the May following and which I had Answered long before now But that your Sudden Motions from place to place made me quite at a loss how to get a Letter in safety to you and I now Cover this to the Care of our good Friend Mr Bradford of Phil for its better Conveyance.
Dr Sir how much have you disappointed great Numbrs of your longing Friends by not making a Stride a Cross the Ocean from Carolina hither of which we were big with Expectn but we must Submit believing your
