Paragraph 1: "Dear friends Brethren & Sisters--I feel at this time the running of that Love that wishes well to the whole bulk of mankind," Comly omits "Dear friends Brethren & Sisters," changes "running" to "flowing" and "bulk" to "family"; "so that in the night season sleep (many times) departed from mine eyes:" Comly omits "many times."; "and brought me to see (as I believe) what was the cause why he suffered me to fall into such exercises" Comly omits "as I believe" and "he suffered me to fall into such."; "And as I thus became resign'd to the will of God, he in his great mercy redeemed my mind" Comly changes "mind" to "soul."; "patiently abide under his refining hand in the time of tryals, for the Lord will have a tryed people" Comly omits "for the Lord will have a tryed people"; "dear friends there are many hindering things & snares in the lawful things of this world" Comly changes "lawful things" to "concerns"; "and thus the Enemy works with poor mortals as hiddenly as he can to fasten the mind in the injoyments of this life" Comly deletes these words.
Paragraph 2: "which is set forth by our Blessed Saviour in the parable concerning the prodigal son, setting forth the great love of God to mankind, and his readiness to receive those that repent of their evil ways and willingly return to him" Comly omits; "remove the clods of the earth that have long buried the Seed that God hath sown there:" Comly changes "buried" to "obstructed"; "which is a cause of sorrow to those that are truly concerned for the prosperity of Sion" Comly omits.
Paragraph 3: "for the Lord will be clear of the blood of all men and his faithful servants will be clear and have peace in the discharge of their duty" Comly omits.
Paragraph 4 "distressed under the consideration of it (at times,) not expecting to publish it after this manner till of late" Comly omits; "which is certainly a great evil" Comly omits.
Paragraph 10: "And now being eased of that which lay as a burden" Comly adds "somewhat"
between "being" and "eased"; "thus I reasoned and shrunk under the cross" Comly changes
"under" to "from."