He assured assure me it was all rubbish , and exhorted exhort me , with his dying breath breath , to continue in the good old way , to follow his steps , and those of his father before him , and let my highest ambition be to walk honestly through the world , looking neither to the right hand nor to the left , and to transmit the paternal acres to my children in , at least , as flourishing a condition as he left them to me .

Wherefore , the following day being Sunday , good Mr. Stockham , our minister at Weyanoke , exhorted exhort us to be on our guard , and in his prayer prayer besought that no sedition or rebellion might raise its head amongst the Indian subjects of the Lord 's anointed .