the celestial Kingdom of God, independent of mobs, persecutions, this world’s goods, or the highest honors of the Mammon of unrighteousness. <​Nothing could give me more joy.​> Were I to labor for gold, or for conquest, or for empires like thousands that have flourished and fell, in all ages, of before me, I might amass means; gather hosts; extend power, and gratify ambition, like an Alexander, or a Napoleon, and the world, in its ordinary course, would soon leave a wide waste for future conjecture and desecration:— but I stand up in the midst of this crooked and perverse generation, for a general reformation of all; by the voice of truth; by the accomplishments of virtue; by the blessings of pure religion, and by the holy revelations of God, and thus far, over vexatious laws suits, mobs, “spiritual wickedness in hi[g]h places,” demons, devils and dev[ilish] men[,] in the name and by the power o[f] God, [I] [a]m triumphant: And while I have knowledge of heaven to guide me, and the riches of eternity to back me, I shall continue to strive for the emancipation of all kinds of slavery, as well as the slavery of sin; yea, until I can exclaim like Caësar: Veni, vidi, vici!