Select passages from the diary and letters of the late John Blackader, Esq.

1708.] col. blackader's papers^ 87
health, and very eafy. O how great is
the Lord's goodnefs to me, for moft of the
officers who were with me are lying groan-
ing with broken bones. Have good quar-
ters, an excellent phylician and expert
furgeon ; but, Lord, be thou my phylician
thyfelf.
17. Was fent to vifit an officer who
was on the attack with me, who is lying
in great torment, and very weak. O how
thankful ought I to be, that God deals fo
tenderly with me.
18. Sent for again to fee this gentle-
man, but he died before I reached him.
Lord, be a God and a father to his poor
wife and children.
29. There are more of our officers come
in wounded at this late action down the
country, where God's goodnefs has been
very great to us in giving us victory,
though they were more than two to one,
and he has been merciful to our regi-
ment. There is not a man killed or
wounded who was with the regiment ex-
cept one officer who had his finger mot
through.
21. My wound is not painful, confider-
ing the place where it is, the elbow, where