The Fifteenth Remove

We went on our travel. I having got one handful of ground nuts,
for my support that day, they gave me my load, and I went on
cheerfully (with the thoughts of going homeward), having my
burden more on my back than my spirit. We came to Banquang
river again that day, near which we abode a few days. Sometimes
one of them would give me a pipe, another a little tobacco,
another a little salt: which I would change for a little
victuals. I cannot but think what a wolvish appetite persons
have in a starving condition; for many times when they gave me
that which was hot, I was so greedy, that I should burn my
mouth, that it would trouble me hours after, and yet I should
quickly do the same again. And after I was thoroughly hungry,
I was never again satisfied. For though sometimes it fell out,
that I got enough, and did eat till I could eat no more, yet I
was as unsatisfied as I was when I began. And now could I see
that Scripture verified (there being many Scriptures which we do
not take notice of, or understand till we are afflicted) "Thou
shalt eat and not be satisfied" (Micah 6.14). Now might I see
more than ever before, the miseries that sin hath brought upon
us. Many times I should be ready to run against the heathen,
but the Scripture would quiet me again, "Shall there be evil in
a City and the Lord hath not done it?" (Amos 3.6). The Lord
help me to make a right improvement of His word, and that I
might learn that great lesson: "He hath showed thee (Oh Man)
what is good, and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do
justly, and love mercy, and walk humbly with thy God? Hear ye
the rod, and who hath appointed it" (Micah 6.8-9).