March 25, 1750

1750 March 25 (Sunday).  So rainy Night, and in early Morn, I was so indispos’d I was not determin’d to go to meeting: but I was afterwards better, and the weather Clear’d; so that I went to Meeting; but having only one Horse but few of us got to meeting.  I carry’d Lucy and Ebenezer, and William went on Foot; all the Rest tarried at home a.m.  N.B. Public Thanks for God’s great Goodness in restoring my son: this being the first of his going to meeting since his sickness.  I read Exod. 18, with some considerable of Exposition and Observations.  Preach’d about an hour on Jer. 5.20.25.29, and did not break off till about half after Twelve — but ask’d their pardon for detaining them so long.  Din’d at Justice Bakers.  Rode before his wife to Meeting.  P.M. read Luke 20, and since I chose rather to deliver all my Preparations in one Exercise than to divide it; and Because of the Paragraph in the Reading of our Lords Answering the Pharisees concerning the Resurrection, I therefore took the latter part of my Exercise on the Resurrection, and repeated instead of a Sermon or Exposition.  After the services I gave a Warning to such of the Congregation as in the late Contribution put in Bills of poor Credit.  But as the forenoon Sermon was very moving, May God be pleas’d to impress all our souls deeply with what was then deliver’d!