Levi Frisbie, letter, to Eleazar Wheelock, 1767 May 3

Author Frisbie, Levi

Date3 May, 1767

Call Number767303

abstractFrisbie writes to express gratitude for Wheelock's favors, his wish to do honor to the school, and his hopes to become useful as a missionary despite lacking "the grace of God" in his heart.

handwritingHandwriting is largely clear and legible. The trailer is in an unknown hand.

paperLarge sheet folded in half to make four pages is in good condition, with light-to-moderate creasing and wear.

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Rev.d Sir
Agreeable to your Advice, and
Desire, I attempt to addreſs you with a few broken Li­
=nes. I am sensable I am unable to render that Respect
(either with my Tongue or Pen) which is justly due to you;
but yet I look upon myself bound in point of Gratitude
as well as on other Accounts to testify my Senſe of your
Kindneſs to me by every token of Respect, and act of
Obedience that I am capable of. and as I trust you
will put me to nothing but what is just so I
[illegible]shall endeavour to perform your Will with the ut­
most Freedom and Dexterity. and since you have
been pleas:d to [illegible][guess: Re] receive me into the School,
notwithstanding I am utterly underserving of
such a Favour, I desire to return you the most
grateful Thanks, as all the Acknoledgment I
am capable of making you at present for such a
Kindneſs. and God grant I may so conduct my­
self at all times and under all Circumstances
that I may be an Honour to the School, to Religion
and to you my e great Benefactor. Concious of my
own Impotency I desire you would be mindful
of me in your ardent Requests to Heaven, that
God would Aboundantly replenish me with his
grace, that I may be made the Instrument in his
Hand, of converting Multitudes of the Poor benighted
Savages to Himself; that I may be endowd with

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all that Courage, Fortitude, and Love, to God and the
Souls of the poor Savages as may be neceſsary
in order to my being Servisable in carring on
such and Important Work. One great Barr in the
way to my becoming Servisable in this Affair (and
perhaps this is enough without any other) is that
I have the greatest Reason to fear that I have not
the Grace of God in my Heart; without which I Shall
not only be miserable to all Eternity, but also be
unable to do any thing in this grand and interesting
Affair; but it appears to me if I can have the
Aſsistance of God if I may have his Preſense,
if I may be enable.d to trust in him in every
Streight and under every Difficulty, I can travel
from one End of the Wilderneſs to the Other spend my
Life my Strength and my All in his Service, can
encounter the greatest Difficulties, and undergo the
greatest Hardships, that may attend me in
the Savage Land: but notwithstanding I am
in Some measure Sensible that without the
Assistance of God I Shall be wholly unequal
to the task; yet O! how unconcernd am I about
it, how hard is my Heart how Stubborn my
Will!— — but least I be tedious even to a Crime
I [illegible] conclude with Subscribing myself Sir
Honourd Sir

your most unworthy yet most
oblig.d Serv.t
Levi Frisbie
[illegible][guess: I]
[illegible][guess: I] Rev,d M:r Whelock

From Levi Frisbie
May 3.d 1767

To the Rev:d
M:r Eleazer Wheelock
at
Lebanon
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