1761 April 12 (Sunday). A.M. read Ps. 10 and preached on Rom. 13.11, but had no New-composed Sermon for p.m. Having read Gal. 4, I named for my Text Mat. 13.24.25 and acquainting the Congregation that I did not expect to have been with them to Day and was not therefore prepared to carry on the Meditations which I had begun in the forenoon, but must deliver them what I had already delivered some Years ago to them — to many of them — but there was Some Number I perceived in the Audience who had never heard them and I conceived it probable that those that had, it being so long ago, had very much forgot, as I confessed I my Self had, a very great part or the most of it: but they being very Seasonable Things for them at this time of the Year (for I had so chosen the Sermon for that purpose) I hoped that if they received ‘em with meekness, they would by the divine Blessing be apposite and profitable to them — and then proceeded to deliver the Exposition No. 217 and part of No. 218, viz. to Head 4 in page 4 of that Number. N.B. Propounded Molly Hills, wife of Benjamin Hills, and Persis Rice, Daughter of Zebulun Rice, to join in full Communion with the Church and told the Church and Congregation that as the former was somewhat of a stranger, I had writ to Rev. Mr. Joshua Prentice of Holliston, and had received an Answer that She had discharged her Duty there, and there was no Impediment to her being admitted to Special Ordinances here among us.