Life and diary of Lieut. Col. J. Blackader

CHAP. XI. CAMPAIGN FOURTH. 265
at the enemy, yet our prospects have been blasted,
and we have been kept as a lion in chains, and cannot
get out. There seems also to be a spirit of division
sown among our generals, and as long as it continues
I never expect we shall do any great things. I con-
fess I begin to turn more dull than when the pros-
pects of danger and death were more frequent. God
gives the charges suitable to the errands he sends us
on. If he sends us among snares and temptations,
he gives the more grace ; if he do not send difficult
errands, we need the less expenses. Blessed be God
who has borne us both so well through. O that we
may have grace to pay our vows when he deals so
bountifully with us, and to walk before him in all
holy circumspect tenderness, as becomes the children
of so many mercies. The Lord's rich blessing be
with you. I am thine. J. B.
Mrs. Blackader, Rotterdam.
P. S. — August 27. St. Lewe is over when we
thought it was but beginning ; which gives us a new
proof, that the French, if they be well holden to, are
no formidable enemy. We are now demolishing the
lines here-about, after which I believe we shall march.
These three men of mine that were taken, I have got
again, they were exchanged.
Early in September he left the army to return to
Rotterdam.
September 7. Travelling this day, but not so serene,
being continually in company. I slipped off from the
party on pretence of hunting, and retired alone where
I had sweet and spiritual meditation. I look upon it