Solomon Mack

“ The love of Chrifl is beautiful ; there is more fatisfaction to be taken in the enjoyment of Chrift one day, than in half a century ferving our mafter, the devil. You that have children under your care, that have no parents, when you put any thing upon them to do, confider them as your own, that when death overtakes you, you need not fear their apparitions appearing in your fight, for tyranny and mifuiage of the fatherlefs and ntotherlefs. Time will come when we fliallM all be called for, fooner or later, when monew cannot buy our breath one moment. ”

“ His whole at- tention was taken upon the purfuits of the good things of this world ; wealth was his fu- preme object. I am afraid gold was his God, or rather he never converfed on any other fub- jecl, and I mull fiy he lived without God in the world, and to*all appearance God was not in his thoughts. ”

“ I give you a weak advice, I am almoft brought to the ground with fore accidents and greatly advanced in years. I always lived in fin, an enemy to God till in my feventy lixth year — then I began to hearken to thefe calls- made alive through the bieiTednefs of Chri'l— reconciled to God. ”

“ I had a terrible fever fore on my leg, which had well nigh proved fatal to my life, which it feeins was occafioned by a fcald that terminated in a fevere fit of ficknefs. In thefe trials my mafter was very kind to me, he procured the beft phyficians & furgeons, and provided eve- ry thing neceffary for my comfort, all which, as I fuppoie that he might again reap the benefit of my labour, for although it was thought for a time that I could not live ”

“ My friends when you read this journal re- member your unfortunate friend Solomon Mack, who worried and toiled until an old age, to try to lay up trealures in this world, but the Lord would not fuffer ihe to have it, I ut now I trufl I have treafures laid up that no man can take away, but by the goodnefs of God through the blood of a bleeding Saviour. ”

“ I arrived at home fometime in the winter, poor enough, the veffel did not arrive till the next fpring. Afterwards I broke my wrift, with which 1 had a great deal of pain and ex- pence j for a long time I was unable to do any labour. Though I ftill fought to make myfelf great and happy, l5 the VflJ I was educated, the Lord would not fuffer me to profper. I was not yet difcouraged. Soon after I went to Moudus and learnt of my brother-in-law how to make Salt Pet r ”

“ About mid- night 1 faw a light about a foot from my face as bright as fire, the doors were all {hut and no one ftiring in the houfe, I thought by this that —
1 had but a few moments toiive, and'OI what J diftrefi I was in ; I prayed that the Lord woulcJ have mercy on my foul and deliver me from this horrible pit of fin. I thought myfelf that
I had been fuch a vile wretch that the Lord would not have mercy on me, and I thought as 1 had flighted fo many warnings from my com- panion, and fo abufed the fabbath ; but I pre- ceived my body and foul was in danger ”

“ Another night foon after 1 faw another light as bright as the iirit, at a i'mall diilance from my face, and I thought I had but a few mo- ments to live, and not deeping nigh's, tad reading, all day I was in mifery ; well you any trunk 1 was in diftrefs. foul and body. ”

“ I'd prefs them to thy breaft, Their fouls would find fweet reft.
My Children I will tell "you now^
The labour I have, had for youj My pillow is witnefs to my tear,
That I have fhed for my Children dear;
Oft times my heirt has been in pain, That your poor fouls might be born again, ,
That you might tafte redeeming love, And with your parents reign above. ”

“ Havens, there was about eighty men on board, we
3 were chafed by five Britifh privateers ; they drove us in upon Horfe-neck, where we got fome of our guns on {hore } we brought them to bear upon the enemy, we exchanged a great many {hots; they mattered our veffel and cut away our rigging. The next day our offi- cers went up into town, and five repaired our veffel — then hauld off from the wharf — then caft anchor — every man on board went to their reft except myfelf in the month of March and very foon I efpied two Row-gallies, two {loops two fchooners ; I rallied all hands on deck ”

“ Poor fearful made the firft fpeech though Gam- bling as he flood, Saying Iv'e of't told this prifoner his religi- on was not good, When I forefee her danger it made my heart to bleed, Often times I've couneled her never more proceed. ”

“ Henry, an was annexed to a regiment commanded by CjL Whiting. 1 marched from Connecticut to Fort Edwards ; there was a fe- vere battle fought at the half way brook, in the year 1755.
I had been out a long fccut, and I ccught a bad cold and was taken fick, and remained fo all the reft of the winter, and in the fprirg 1 756, I was carried to Albany in a waggon, where I faw 5 men hung at one time. I remain- ed lick the biggeft part of the fummer. I went
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to Lime and purchafed a farm — in the year 1757, I muftered two teams in the King's i'or- vice for one feafon. ”