"ACcording to your Request, I have herewith sent you an Account of what GOD has done for my Soul since I left England. The sole Motive (if my Heart doth not deceive me) which induced me to leave my native Country was a full Conviction that it was the Divine Will I should. What Reasons I can urge for this Persuasion, is needless to mention, because few in this Case would judge impartially, and what seems a Reason to me, may not be deemed so by another. Let it suffice to inform you, that after earnest Prayer for a Year and a half, that if the Design was not of GOD, it might come to nought, tho' strongly sollicited to act in a contrary Manner, I found myself as eagerly bent on going abroad as ever."
This is an edition of a classical book first published in the eighteenth century.