1747 April 12 (Sunday). Sacrament Day, yet this Morning just as I was going out to Meeting (with my Hat in my Hand), comes Levi Brigham with his and his wife’s Relations which must be look’d over etc. A number of other Persons came, divers of them to my House, with various Cases — all by word of mouth which caused me to Speak to the Congregation to bring their Desires written — and when they have Business that takes any Time, they must not defer it till the Lord’s Day. A.M. preach’d on Isa. 1.18. P.M. from Rom. 12.11, first Clause, but us’d the Heads in sermon on Mat. 20.6, from page 24 to 31, resolving the Doubts which old men might frame against converting and becoming Religious. N.B. Mr. Jenison was at the sermons, and Sat in my Pew, but withdrew from the Communion. No fresh Occasion of Disgust that I know of. Deacon Fay, Mr. Nathan Balls wife, and Mr. Zebulon Rice’s wife din’d here.