1. The reading of Law's Christian Perfection and Serious Call gave him, he said, a sublimer view of the law of God; and he resolved to keep it, inwardly and outwardly, as sacredly as possible, believing that in obedience he would find salvation. He pursued a rigidly methodical and abstemious life, studied the Scriptures, and performed his religious duties diligently, depriving himself so that he would have alms to give.

Auf der Überfahrt schloss er sich einer Gruppe der Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine um Nikolaus Ludwig Graf von Zinzendorf an und war beeindruckt, als diese, Männer, Frauen, und Kinder während eines fürchterlichen Seesturms ruhig ihre Psalmen sangen, während die Engländer auf dem Schiff in Panik gerieten.