October 27, 1750

1750 October 28 (Sunday).  This Day Twenty Six years ago I receiv’d holy ordination.  Blessed be God for His Longsuffering towards so unprofitable and unfaithfull a Creature!  and O that the Lord would pardon, through the mediation of Jesus Christ, my great defects and miscarriages!  May he be pleas’d to quicken me by His Spirit, assist me, Support and strengthen me for his Mercys Sake!  I preach’d at Hopkinton a. and p.m. on Jer. 8.4.5.  May God grant Success, that those serious, weighty Things may duely affect us all!  and especially be profitable to my own Soul!  Mr. Barrett din’d at Esquire Bakers.  My wife not at meeting.  Mr. Barrett read Levit. 5, omitted reading p.m.  We return’d home at night.  I lodg’d there.