Boston - BX9225 B68 A1 1805

1í72Z, MRTHDMAS BOSTON. 313 Hebrew text agreeable to theaccentuation, or facred fligmatology, I fpentfome time in prayer, Oct. 30. for direáion and afì'if{ance in that work ; and on the morrow after I began it. Having dipt into that work, it proved at ,length quite another thing than I at firft defigned. Herein I was employed that winter, and the fpring following ; wherein, having carried it to the 15th chapter of Genefis, tranflating, and writing notes on the-troth., tion, I left it in April 1724 ; at which time my daughter Alifon was taken ill Of a fever. That was but fmall progrefs made in fo long a time i but afterwards it was much lefs. For my plan was by degrees brought on, (till more difficult and laborious and was but tarried to its height on the the 18th and 19th chapters : and this, in the regrefs on it, made me much new work, towards the beginning of the book. One will hardly have a juft notion of rthe huge toil in tolling lexicons and the Hebrew concordance, forfrnding out the formal fignifications of the Hebrewwords, fat down in the literal tranflation, without one make trial Of it him- felf. But the more hard any thing was to reach, I had ufually the greateft fatisfaótiion and pleafure in it when difcovered ; and was in the whole abundantly rewarded. On the 7th of June the facrament Was celebrated *. I had had muéh weary work from the family of J. A. he having repeated his abominations, and another of that family having fallen into fornication. Mrs A. fpoufe to the Paid J. had much ado to bear my proceedings in thefe odious cafes ; 'but her huf- band being a peaceable man, things were kept in tolerable cafe . betwixtthem and me. But he dying in February this year, lbe of a long time after came not to the church.- Having come at length, fore time before the facrament ; fhe on the faft-day, I think, defired of me a token to partake. Now a woman had gone out of the family, and abfconded, being famed to be with Child ; and another had depofed, that fhe told to Mrs A. that fhe thought the party aforefaid was with child, the deponent and The being fellow-fervants, and lying in one bed together. This relating to the time before the abfconding ; I did, upon the oc- cafion of demanding the token aforefaid, lay this Matter before ,her : whereupon the, taking it hainoufly, came not to the facra- anent, and all along to this day hath turnedher back on the pub- lic ordinances in the church. I have dealt with her again and again ; her children alto have dealt with her, to return : but all in vain. She remains wilful, and goes no where on the Lord's day ; but fome few times has appeared at Mr Macrruilan'"s Meetings, which now are very rare in thecountry. TE this the has added, not to come into 'our houfe for fo many years; to vitit my wife in her longdifrefs. This is a piece of malignity which one muff; lay his account with, in following duty. At this facrament having only my two helpers, and my wife's The aótion-i mon wason 1 John iv. 14. and was publifhed ina volume in 1753 Q q 2

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