1740 May 29 (Thursday). A.M. at Madam Thatchers[1] and bought out of the Library of her venerable Husband, Willards Body,[2] Shepherds Sincere Convert and sound Believer,[3] Flavell’s[4] A Saint indeed, Small New Testament in Lattin, and a quarto of Clean Paper. Then we repair’d to the Convention. Lecture preach’d by Mr. Prince on Isa. 9.7. The Collection amounted to £235. Din’d at Mr. Checkley’s.[5] P.M. at the Sale of the late Mr. John Adams’s[6] Books. I bought Melchior Adams’ Lives of the German Divines,[7] Owen’s Theologoumena, and Aristotles works in Greek and Latin, 4 Tomes. At Mr. Fennells bought Crudens Concordance. N.B. Conversation with Mr. Jacques[8] and Mr. Smith of Marlborough on the Affair of his settling there. Rode to Cambridge after Ten at night.
[1]Widow of the Rev. Peter Thatcher of Boston.
[2]Samuel Willard, A Compleat Body of Divinity in Two Hundred and Fifty Expository Lectures on the Assembly’s Shorter Catechism (Boston, 1726).
[3]Thomas Shepard, The Sincere Convert, Discovering the Small Number of True Believers, and the Great Difficulty of Saving Conversion (Cambridge, 1664).
[4]John Flavell, A Saint Indeed; or the Great Work of Salvation Opened and Press’d (Boston, 1726).
[5]Rev. Samuel Checkley of Boston.
[6]Preacher, poet, classmate of Parkman.
[7]Melchior Adamus, Vitae Germanorum Theologorum, Qui Superiori Seculo, Ecclesiam Christi Voce Scriptisque Porpagarunt et Propugnarunt (Heidelberg, 1620). Another edition appeared in Frankfurt in 1653.
[8]Rev. Richard Jaques of Gloucester.