1775 November 19 (Sunday). Preached a.m. on Ps. 130.1.2. P.M. on Isa. 55.5 to the end of p. 124. The widow Judith Bellows dined here. Mr. May here after Meeting — and tarried over night. May God grant us the Grace to cry to Him out of the Deeps of our Present both private and public Distresses! and may we be excited to prize and improve the outward Advantages we enjoy by means of Grace; — the Calls of God by His Word and Providences to His Glory and to our own eternal Benefit! Received from my son Cushing Mr. Ortons sermons to the Aged.[1] Began to read it. They are very Natural and profitable. May the Blessing of God accompany my use of them!
[1]Job Orton (1717-1783), Discourses to the Aged (Boston, 1774; Evans 13,510).