1747 January 13 (Tuesday). Very Cold Season. Ebenezer thrashes Barley. Thomme to Mr. Johnsons Mill. I read Fullers pisgah sight;[1] and at Eve transcrib’d the Applicatory Part of the last sermon on Tit. 2.12. My Wife in great pain and Swell’d in one Legg and Foot. Nor am I free from Pains of Rheumatism. Diverse also of the Family complain of Agues in their Faces — Molly and Bekky particularly.
[1]Thomas Fuller, A Pisgah-Sight of Palestine and the Confines thereof, with the History of the Old and New Testament Acted thereon (London, 1650). Another edition was published in London in 1662.