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Next day John Claus and I passed to Buyckslote, Purmerent, and Alkmaer, about thirty miles from Amsterdam. We went to a Friend's whose name was Willem Willems, where I had a meeting that night. I had another meeting the next day, which was larger; several professors came, and all was quiet and well. After the meeting I visited some Friends; then taking boat, passed to Hoorne, known as the chief city in North Holland. We lodged at an inn, and taking a wagon early next morning, we passed to Enckhuysen, where we took a ship for Friesland. Landing in the afternoon at Workum, we took water, and rode upon the high bank of the Friezen seas, until we met two Friends coming with a wagon to meet us, with whom we went to Harlingen, the chief sea-port town in Friesland. We went to Hessel Jacobs,' where several Friends came to visit with us that night. Next day we visited the Friends of the place; and I wrote a paper, directed, 'To those who persecute Friends for not observing their fast-day.' The day following being first-day, Friends had a meeting there, to which we went, and many professors came to it. I declared the everlasting gospel among them, John Claus interpreting. They were all very civil, and heard attentively; and when the meeting was over, departed peaceably, without making any opposition. After the meeting I went to Hessel Jacobs' again, where after awhile came a Calvinist, to ask me some questions, which I answered to his satisfaction; and he departed friendly. Soon after he was gone, a preacher of the collegians came to discuss with me, who seemed well satisfied also, and we parted lovingly. That evening I had another meeting with the Friends there and the next morning we traveled to Leuwarden, the chief city in Friesland, and lodged that night at a Friend's house whose name was Sybrand Dowes. Next morning early we traveled to Dockum, and walking through the city, took a boat again to Strobus, which is the most distant part of Friesland. There we waited at a commissary's. Then taking a boat, we passed to Groningen, the chief city of the province of Groningland. One of the magistrates of that city came with us from Leuwarden, with whom I had some discussion on the way; and he was very loving. We walked near three miles through the city; then took a boat for Delfziel. In the evening we traveled through Appingdalem, where there had been a great horse fair that day, and many officers came rushing onto the boat, who were drunk and very rude. I exhorted them to ‘fear the Lord and beware of Solomon's vanities.' They were a sort of boisterous fellows; yet somewhat more civil after I spoke to them. We landed at Delfziel about the tenth hour at night, having traveled about fifty English miles that day. We went to an inn to lodge; and as we passed through the guards, they examined John Claus as to whether or not I was a militia soldier? He told them I was not, and they let us pass peaceably. Delfziel stands on the river Eems, over which we passed the next day to Embden, where Friends had been cruelly persecuted, and from which they had often been banished. I went to an inn where I dined with some men that understood English, with whom I had a fine time, and they were loving. Meanwhile John Claus went with his wife to her father's in Embden; after I had dined, I went there also, understanding her father desired to see me. In the afternoon John Claus and I walked through the city, to the place where the wagon was to meet us; and while we tarried for it, the Friends that were in the city came to the house where we were, and we had a little meeting. When the meeting was over, and the wagon did not come, we sent to find out the reason. The master of the wagon sent us word that he dared not let his wagon come; for the bishop of Munster's soldiers were up in the country, and he was afraid they would take away his horses. Being deprived of our transportation, we returned to John Claus' father-in-law's house, where I left him, and went to my inn for the night. We took a ship the next day, and passed about fifteen miles upon the river Eems, to a market-town in East Friesland, called Leer, where there lived a Friend who had been banished from Embden. After we had visited him, we hired a wagon and passed to a garrison town called Strikehuysen, where the guards examined us. Then we went to Deterren, and there hiring another wagon, we passed to another garrison town, where we were very strictly examined. From there we passed to Apre, in the king of Denmark's country, where we lodged that night. In our traveling that day, we met the earl of Oldenburgh, going to the treaty of peace at Lembachie. Next day we passed to Oldenburgh, lately a great and famous place, but at that time burnt down, with only a few houses left standing in it. At this place we hired another wagon, and went to Delmenhurst; where, after we had been examined by the guards, we went to a magistrate's to lodge, whose house was at an inn. Since there were many people there, I declared the way of truth to him and them, warning them of the day of the Lord that was coming upon all evildoers. We passed next day to Bremen, a stately city in Germany; and from there after a double examination, we went to a body of water called Overdeland, and there took a boat to Fisherholder; where finding a number of people together, I declared the way of God to them, and exhorted them, ‘to fear the Lord.' There we took a wagon again, and traveled in the bishop of Munster's country, to Closter-Seven. Having no inclination to stay there, we got fresh horses, intending to travel all night. Accordingly we went a little way; but it quickly grew so dark, and rained so hard, that we thought it best to turn back again; for our wagon was open, and we had no defense against the rain, and our clothes were already wet with the rain that had fallen for several days before. So we went to an inn, and got a little fresh straw; upon which we lay until about break of day, then set out and traveled to the city of Buxtehude. The people in the bishop of Munster's country were very dark. As we passed among them, I preached truth to them, warning them of the great and notable day of the Lord, exhorting them to soberness, and to mind the good spirit of God in themselves. It was on a first-day that we went through Buxtehude; and outside the walls was a great fair of sheep and geese that day. We stayed a little to refresh ourselves, and went on as fast as we could to Hamburg, partly by wagon, and partly by water. We got to Hamburg in time to have a meeting there that evening. A good and glorious meeting it was. There were, among others, a Baptist teacher and his wife, and a great man of Sweden with his wife; and all was quiet, blessed be the Lord, whose power was exalted over all! Yet a hard, dark place this is, and the people are much shut up from truth. At Hamburg was a woman who had spoken against me in John Perrot's time, though she had never seen me until now. She had been troubled for it ever since and now was glad of an opportunity to acknowledge her fault; which she very readily did, and I as readily and freely forgave her. We stayed that night at Hamburg, encouraging and strengthening the Friends there in their testimony to the truth; and sometime next morning we set off towards Frederickstadt, which is two long day's journey from Hamburg. We went the first-day to Elmshoorn, where we waited and then rode through a garrison-town of the king of Denmark's; and passing by the monument of the earl of Rantzow, came to the city of Itzeho, where we lodged that night. I had some service in the evening among the people at the inn, whom I exhorted to soberness and to live in the fear of the Lord. Next morning we traveled to Hoghenhofn, where we dined at an inn with one of the council of Frederickstadt; to whom and to the rest of the people present, I declared the truth, with which they seemed to be affected. Then traveling on, we came to a river called Eyder, where we took boat and went to Frederickstadt. We went to William Paul's, where several Friends came to see us, for there is a large company of Friends in that city. We had a fine refreshing meeting together that evening, which made us forget our weariness; for we were indeed very weary, having traveled hard those two days, and were wet through our clothes, having had much rain in our open wagons. But the Lord made all easy and good to us; and we were well and glad to see Friends; blessed be his holy name forever! This city is in the duke of Holstein's country, who would have banished Friends out of the city and country, and sent to the magistrates of the city to do it; but they said, they would lay down their offices rather than do it; since they came to that city to enjoy the liberty of their consciences. Friends still enjoy their liberty there; and truth and Friends have a good reputation among the people, both in city and country. On first-day I had a meeting here, to which many people came along with some with rough spirits; but the power of the Lord bound them down, and the seed of life was set over all. While I was here, I had a discourse with a Levite concerning the coming of the Messiah; and he was much deceived in what he said; yet he carried himself lovingly and invited me to his house. I went and there discussed with a Jew, who showed me their Talmud, and many other Jewish books; but they are very dark and do not understand their own prophets. There was in this city a Baptist teacher, who had reproached and mimicked Friends. Jahn Claus went with two Friends of the town to the house where he lodged, cleared truth and Friends from his reproaches, and charged his lies and slanders upon his own head to his shame. Before we left this place, I had another meeting with Friends only, where I told them about the usefulness of a Monthly Meeting, for looking after the poor and taking care that marriages; and all other things relating to the church were performed in an orderly manner. This answered the witness of God in their consciences, so they readily agreed to have Monthly Meetings from then on among themselves, so that both men and women might take care of the outward concerns of the church. Feeling my spirit clear of that place, we took leave of Friends, whom we left in good order, and turned back far Hamburg. When we had traveled one day's journey and came to an inn at night to lodge, I inquired whether there were any tender people in the town that feared God or that had a mind to discuss the things of God? The innkeeper told me that there were few such people in that town. The next night we got to Hamburg; and having passed the guards, we went to a Friend's house because we were very weary; for we had been up the previous two mornings before the third hour, and had traveled each day hard and late. Here we met with John Hill, an English Friend, who had been traveling in Germany; and being on a ship bound for Amsterdam, which waited for a favorable wind, he had been sick an board for about two weeks. Now, hearing that I was in the country, he got off the ship and came here to meet me and to go along with me. We had a very good meeting here, and it was very peaceful. After which I had a discussion with a Swede, an eminent man in his own country; who having been banished from there because of his religion, had come to Hamburg, and was at the meeting I had there previously. When I had finished talking with him, I had another discussion with a Baptist concerning the so called sacraments; in both cases I had good service, having an opportunity to open truth to them. Being clear of Hamburg, we took leave of Friends there, who we left well; and taking John Hill with us, we passed by boat to a city in the duke of Lunenburgh's country. Here, after we were examined by the guards, we were taken to the main guard and there examined more strictly; but when they found we were not soldiers, they were civil to us and let us pass. In the afternoon we traveled by wagon; and since the waters were high, (because of the great rains that had fallen), when it drew towards night, we hired a boy to guide us through a great water. When we came to it, the water was so deep that before we could cross the bridge, the wagon driver decided to wade, and I drove the wagon. When we came upon the bridge, the horses broke part of it down, and one of them fell into the water; the wagon remained standing upon that part of the bridge which remained unbroken. It was the Lord's mercy to us that the wagon did not fall into the water. When they had gotten the horse out, he lay awhile as if he were dead; but at length they got him up, hitched him to the wagon again, laid the planks right, and then, through the goodness of the Lord to us, we got safely over. After this we came to another stream; and since it was very deep, and it was night, we hired two men to help us through. These men put ropes on the wagon to haul it by, so that the force of the water would not drive it out of the way. But when we came into it, the stream was so strong that it swept one of the horses off his legs and was carrying him down the stream. When I saw this, I called to the wagon driver to pull the horse to him by his reins, which he did, and the horse recovered his legs; and with much difficulty we got over the bridge, and went to Bormerhaven, the town where the wagon driver lived. It was the last day of the sixth month that we escaped these dangers, and being about the eleventh hour in the night when we came in there, we got some fresh straw and lay upon it until about four in the morning. Then getting up, we set forward again towards Bremen, going part of the way by wagon and part by boat. On the way I had good opportunities to declare the truth, especially at a market town where we stayed to change our passage. There I declared the truth to the people, warning them of the day of the Lord that was coming upon all flesh; and exhorting them to righteousness, telling them, 'that God had come to teach his people himself,' and that they should turn to the Lord, and hearken to the teachings of his spirit in their own hearts. At Bremen we were examined, and afterward went to an inn, and stayed until another wagon was provided to carry us further. Though I felt the Lord's power was over the city, which kept the wicked and unruly spirits down, my spirit suffered much in this place for the people's sake. When our wagon was ready, we left Bremen. We traveled to Keby, where we lodged at an inn, and early the next morning we set out for Oldenburgh. It was a lamentable sight to see such a great and brave a city burnt down. We went to an inn, and though it was first-day, the soldiers were drinking and playing at shovel-board; and at those few houses that were left, the shops were open, and the people were trading one with another. I was moved to declare the truth among them and warn them of the judgments of God, and though they heard me quietly and were civil towards me, I was burdened with their wickedness. Many times in the morning, and at noon, and nights at the inns, and on the way as I traveled; I spoke to the people, preaching the truth to them, warning them of the day of the Lord, and exhorting them to turn to the light and spirit of God in themselves, that by that they might be led out of evil. Next day, passing through many great waters, we came to Leer. The next day we came to Embden, where John Claus' wife's father lived. When we first went into Germany, we had left a young man who wrote for me and had been traveling with me at his house because he was sick, whom we now found pretty well recovered. John Claus went to his father-in-law's. John Hill and I went to an inn where we dined. After dinner we went also to John Claus' father's, and had a good meeting there in the evening. The following day we took a ship at Embden and passed to Delfziel, where we went to an inn. A Friend came to see us who then lived in Delfziel and was often banished from Embden. He was a goldsmith by trade, and had a house and shop in Embden, and even though they banished him he went back again. Then they imprisoned him, fed him with bread and water, and at length took his goods from him and banished him along with his wife and children, leaving them neither a place to come to, nor anything to live on. We comforted and encouraged him in the Lord, exhorting him to be faithful, and stand steadfast in the testimony committed to him. When we had taken leave of him, we passed the same day to Groningen, where we met with Cornelius Andries, a Friend that had also suffered much by imprisonment and banishment at Embden. We went with him to his house, and the next day we had a good meeting in that city, to which several professors came, who were very peaceable and attentive. After the meeting we passed by boat to Strobus, and Dockum, where we lodged that night at an inn. Taking a boat again the next morning, we passed to Leuwarden, the chief city of Friesland, where I found my daughter Yeomans, who had come from Amsterdam to meet me. That day we had a precious meeting at Sybrand Dowes' house. After the meeting I had a discussion with some who were at the meeting, who had formerly been convinced of truth, but had not come into obedience to it. We stayed there that night; but John Hill left us, and went that day to Harlingen, and so to Amsterdam. The next day we passed down the river to the lake of Hempen-Sarmer, and so by lake Lugmer, and to a town called Anderigo; from where sailing through lake Whispool, we came to Gardick by nightfall. We lodged at an inn; and the next day being first-day, we were at Friends' meeting there, which was very large with many of the town's people coming to it. I declared the truth in the power of the Lord that was upon me, which tendered the people; and they were very sober. After the meeting we stayed to refresh ourselves, and continued on by boat again; but the people observing us, gathered together at a bridge we were to pass; and there I declared the way of life and salvation to them, and they were very attentive and civil. We went back that evening twenty-seven miles to Leuwarden; but before we could reach it, the gates were shut and the bridges drawn up, so that we could not get into the city and were forced to lie in the boat all night. A man had been killed in the city that night, so it was late before the gates were opened. When we could get in, we went to a Friend's house, where we stayed awhile; then taking a boat, we passed through Franeker to Harlingen to Hassel Jacobs', where we found several Dutch Friends had come to be at the meeting there the next day. William Penn, returning two or three days before from Germany, had been at a large meeting at Amsterdam on first-day; and after the meeting, understanding I was at Harlingen, came there to be with me. Next day was the Monthly Meeting for men and women, which we attended. It was a large and good meeting. And there it was agreed that 'a meeting should be held there once a month, both for the men and for the women, to take care of the outward concerns of the church.' In the afternoon we had a public meeting, to which came people of several sorts: Socinians, Baptists, Lutherans, etc., among whom was a physician and a priest. I declared the truth pretty largely, opening the happy state that man and woman were in while they kept under God's teaching and lived in paradise; and the woe and misery that came upon them when they went from God's teaching, listened to the serpent’s teachings, transgressed God's command, and were driven out of the paradise of God; and set forth the way that man and woman might come into that happy state again. The priest, an ancient grave man, stood up just as I had finished speaking and putting off his hat, said, ‘I pray God to prosper and confirm that doctrine, for it is truth, and I have nothing against it.' He would willingly have stayed until the meeting had been ended, but since he was to preach that evening, he could not stay any longer, because it was time for his own worship. Therefore, when he had made confession of the truth, he hurried away so that he might come again; and it seems he did come to the meeting-place, but the meeting had ended. After this we went to Hassel Jacobs' where I had a meeting with Friends, and the physician came there to discuss with William Penn, who had a good opportunity to open truth to him. By this doctor, the priest sent his love to me; wishing him to tell me that he had stopped his preaching that evening half an hour earlier than he usually did so that he might come to our meeting again to hear more of that good doctrine. I heard afterwards that his congregation questioned him about what he had said in our meeting; and that since he stood by his words, they had complained of him for it to the other priests of the city, who called him to account about it; but the result I could not learn. Early next morning William Penn, taking John Clause with him, passed from Harlingen for Leuwarden, where he had appointed a meeting, intending to travel into some other parts of Germany to visit a tender people there. I and those Friends that were with me took a ship the same day for Amsterdam, where we arrived a little after midnight; but the gates were shut, and so we stayed on board until morning. We then went to Gertrude Dirick Nieson's, and many Friends came to see us and were glad of our safe return. The next day I felt a concern upon my mind about those seducing spirits that made division among Friends; and I sensed that they tried to infuse themselves into the tender part of Friends. So I was moved to write a few lines to Friends concerning them as follows:
The next first-day, I was at a Friends' meeting at Amsterdam, to which many people came, and were very civil and attentive, hearing truth declared several hours. John Roeloffs interpreted for me. Before this several of the Friends that came over with me returned to England again, (Robert Barclay, George Keith's wife, and others); and now my daughter Yeomans went back also; so that I was left alone in Amsterdam. While I was there, it came upon me to visit my suffering friends at Dantzick, with a few lines to encourage and strengthen them in their sufferings, as follows:
The next day, the fourth of the week and the nineteenth of the month, I had a large meeting at Amsterdam, many professors being at it, and truth was largely opened to them, in the demonstration of the heavenly power. The day following I went by boat, many Friends going with me, to Landsmeer in Waterland (a town in which, they say, there are more than a hundred bridges), where I had a very good meeting, to which several professors came. After the meeting I returned with Friends to Amsterdam again, where I stayed until the first-day following, and went to their meeting which was large. Many professors of several sorts were at it and heard the truth declared with great attention.
After I had written this letter, which eased my spirit, in some measure, of the weight that lay upon it, I went in the afternoon to the Monthly Meeting of Friends at Amsterdam; where the Lord was present with us, and refreshed our spirits together in himself. I had thought to go the next day to Harlem; but there was a fast appointed to be kept that day, and I was stopped in my spirit and moved to stay at Friends' meeting at Amsterdam. We had a very large meeting, a great assembly of people coming to it, and among them were many great persons. The Lord's power was over the meeting and in the openings I was moved to declare to the people ‘that no man by all his wit and study, nor by reading history in his own will, could declare or know the generation of Christ, who was not begotten by the will of man, but by the will of God.’ After I had largely opened this, I showed them the difference between the true fast and the false; showing that the professed christians, Jews, and Turks, were out of the true fast; and they fasted for strife and debate, being under the band and fists of iniquity and oppression, with which they were striking one another; but they did not lift up pure hands to God. And though they seemed to men to fast, and hung down their heads for a day (like a bulrush), yet that was not the fast which God accepted. But in that state all their bones were dry, and when they called upon the Lord he did not answer them, neither did their health grow; for they kept their own fast, and not the Lord's. I exhorted them to keep the Lord's fast, which was to fast from sin and iniquity, strife and debate, violence and oppression, and to abstain from every appearance of evil. These things were explained to the astonishment of the listeners, and the meeting ended peaceably and well. I went to Harlem the following day, having before arranged a meeting. Peter Hendricks and Gertrude Dirick Nieson went with me, and a blessed meeting we had. There were professors of several sorts, and a priest of the Lutherans, who sat very attentive for several hours while I declared the truth, Gertrude interpreting. When the meeting was over, the priest said, 'He had heard nothing but what was according to the word of God, and desired the blessing of the Lord might rest upon us and our assemblies.' Others also confessed to the truth, saying, ‘They had never heard things so plainly opened to their understanding before.' We stayed that night at Harlem at a Friend’s house, whose name was Dirick Klassen; and returning next day to Amsterdam, went to Gertrude's house. We had not been there long, before a priest of great reputation, (who had formerly been priest to the emperor of Germany), and another German priest, came, desiring to have some conference with me. I took the opportunity to declare the way of truth, opening to them how they might come to know God and Christ and his law and gospel; and showing them that they could never know it by study or philosophy, but by divine revelation through the spirit of God, opening to them in the stillness of their minds. The men were tender, and went away well satisfied. The first-day following, I was at a Friends' meeting at Amsterdam, where, among several sorts of professors, was a doctor of Poland, who for his religion was banished from the place he lived, and being affected with the testimony of truth in the meeting, he came afterwards to have some discussion with me. After we had been together some time and I had opened things further to him, he went away very tender and loving. While I was at Amsterdam, I spent much of my time writing books, papers, or epistles on truth's behalf. I wrote several epistles from Amsterdam to Friends in England and elsewhere as the Lord moved me by his spirit to do. I wrote also from there, ‘A warning to the inhabitants of the city of Oldenburgh, which had lately burned down;' also, 'A warning to the inhabitants of the city of Hamburgh.' I wrote also an epistle to the ambassadors that were making treaty about a peace at Nimeguen. I also wrote to the magistrates and priests of Embden, showing them their unchristian practices in persecuting Friends. I wrote several other books there in answer to priests and others of Hamburgh, Dantzick, and other places, to clear the truth and Friends from their false charges and slanders. After some time George Keith and William Penn came back from Germany to Amsterdam and had a dispute with one Galenus Abrahams, (one of the most noted Baptists in Holland), at which many professors were present. They did not have time to finish the dispute then, and so they met again two days later; and the Baptist was much confounded and defeated, and truth gained ground. Between these two disputes we had a very great meeting at the Friends' meeting place, to which many hundreds of people came; some of high rank in the world's opinion. An earl, a lord, and various other eminent persons were present, who all behaved themselves very civilly. But, when the meeting ended, some priests began to make opposition. When William Penn understood, he stood up again, and answered them to the great satisfaction of the people, who were much affected with the several testimonies they had heard. After the meeting several of them came to Gertrude's, where we were staying, and George Keith had a discussion in Latin with them. Having now finished our service at Amsterdam, we said goodbye to Friends there and passed by wagon to Leyden, about twenty-five miles distant; where we stayed a day or two, seeking out and visiting some tender people who we had heard of there. We met with a German, who was partly convinced. He informed us of an eminent man who was enquiring after truth. Some sought him out and visited him, and found him a serious man. I also spoke to him and he owned the truth. William Penn and Benjamin Furly went to visit another great man who lived a little out of Leyden, who had been general to the king of Denmark's forces. He and his wife were very loving to them and heard the truth with joy. From Leyden we went to the Hague, where the prince of Orange kept his court; and visited one of the judges of Holland with whom we had much discussion. He was a wise tender man, and put many objections and queries to us, which when we had answered, he was satisfied, and parted with us in much love. Leaving the Hague, we went to Delft, and from there that night to Rotterdam, where we stayed several days, and had several meetings. While I was here, I wrote a book for the Jews, with whom I had desired to have some discussion when I was in Amsterdam; but they would not. Here I also reviewed several other books and papers which I had written before and were now transcribed. Finding our spirits clear of the service which the Lord had given us to do in Holland, we said goodbye to Friends in Rotterdam and passed by boat to the Briel, in order to take passage that day in the packet boat for England. Several Friends from Rotterdam accompanied us along with some from Amsterdam, who had come to see us again before we left Holland. But the packet boat was not coming in until night, so we were forced to lodge at the Briel. The next day, the one-and-twentieth of the eighth month, and the first-day of the week, we went on board and set sail about the tenth hour; the party traveling included William Penn, George Keith and I, and Gertrude Dirick Nieson, with her children. There were about sixty passengers in all, and we had a long and hazardous passage; for the winds were opposing us, and the weather was stormy. The boat was also very leaky, so that we were forced to have two pumps continually running day and night, and it was estimated that we pumped twice as much water out as the vessel could have held. But the Lord, who is able to make the stormy winds to cease and the raging waves of the sea to be calm, yes, to raise them and stop them at his pleasure, he alone did preserve us; praised be his name for ever! Though our passage was hard, yet we had a fine time, and good service for truth on board among the passengers, some of whom were great folks and were very kind and loving. We arrived at Harwich the twenty-third of the eighth month at night, having been two nights and almost three days at sea. Next morning William Penn and George Keith rode horses to Colchester; but I stayed, and had a meeting at Harwich. There was no coach to Colchester available. The post-master's wife was unreasonable in her price to hire a coach, and reneged on her agreement after we had hired it; so we went to a Friend's house about a mile and a half in the country, and hired his wagon, which we bedded well with straw and rode in it to Colchester. I stayed in Colchester until first-day, having a desire to be at the Friends' meeting there that day; and a very large and weighty meeting it was; for Friends hearing of my return from Holland, flocked from several parts of the country; and many of the town's people came also. It was thought there were about a thousand people at the meeting, and all was peaceful. Having stayed a day or two longer at Colchester, I traveled through Essex, visiting Friends at Halsted, Braintree, Felsted, and Saling, and having meetings with them. At Chelmsford I had a meeting in the evening. There were many Friends who were prisoners; they got liberty, and came to the meeting, and we were well refreshed together in the Lord. Next day, the ninth of the ninth month, I got to London, where Friends received me with great joy; and the on the first-day went to Gracechurch-street meeting, where the Lord visited us with his refreshing presence, and the glory of the Lord surrounded the meeting, praised be the Lord!
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