parts of heaven, from thence will the Lord thy God gather thee,
and from thence will he fetch thee. And the Lord thy God will
put all these curses upon thine enemies, and on them which hate
thee, which persecuted thee" (Deuteronomy 30.4-7). Thus hath
the Lord brought me and mine out of that horrible pit, and hath
set us in the midst of tender-hearted and compassionate
Christians. It is the desire of my soul that we may walk worthy
of the mercies received, and which we are receiving.

Our family being now gathered together (those of us that were
living), the South Church in Boston hired an house for us. Then
we removed from Mr. Shepard's, those cordial friends, and went
to Boston, where we continued about three-quarters of a year.
Still the Lord went along with us, and provided graciously for
us. I thought it somewhat strange to set up house-keeping with
bare walls; but as Solomon says, "Money answers all things" and
that we had through the benevolence of Christian friends, some
in this town, and some in that, and others; and some from
England; that in a little time we might look, and see the house
furnished with love. The Lord hath been exceeding good to us in
our low estate, in that when we had neither house nor home, nor
other necessaries, the Lord so moved the hearts of these and
those towards us, that we wanted neither food, nor raiment for
ourselves or ours: "There is a Friend which sticketh closer
than a Brother" (Proverbs 18.24). And how many such friends
have we found, and now living amongst? And truly such a friend
have we found him to be unto us, in whose house we lived, viz.
Mr. James Whitcomb, a friend unto us near hand, and afar off.

I can remember the time when I used to sleep quietly without