1739 November 29 (Thursday). Public Thanksgiving. Mr. Jenison preach’d on Eph. 5.20. Among the great and Signal Benefits receiv’d from a most merciful and gracious God, his redeeming my Life from Destruction, easing my Limbs and granting me a great measure of Comfort, and the mercy Shewn my wife at the time of her Fall on the 26th, is to be Celebrated with gratefull Joy and Praise. But O that it might not be with me as with Hezekiah in 2 Chron. 32.25!