1752 December 5 (Tuesday). A very Winterlike Morning. The Day bright by 10 a.m. but Cold. I examin’d Some Number of Authorities yesterday and to Day on the ninth Commandment and am writing Something of an Exposition of it. Read also Stackhouse’s Body of Divinity.[1] It grows exceeding Cold.
[1]Thomas Stackhouse, A Complete Body of Divinity . . . Extracted the best Ancient and Modern Writers (London, 1729). A second edition was published in London in 1734.