396 MEMOIRS OF PERIOD XTT, my fludy-day, I was quite out of cafe, tho' I got through with difficulty. In the matter of this letter I had much ado to be- lieve and wreftie againft anxiety, which on the Friday's night being like to rob me of my reft, 1 turned to my knees on mybed, made fupplication for fleep, and got it. On the Saturday I di% patched that letter, which being in Latin is in retentis ; as alfo feveral others. And on the Monday morning they were con- veyed away. According to my faith, fo it was with me: I had much ado to believe and truft the Lord in that matter ; and I had much ado to get` it accomplifhed. Moreover, in the following days, I found my indifpofition much increafed, fo that my ftudies on the Friday were in part marred, and behoved to be purfued on the Saturday. And in the time thereof, before I had taken meat or drink, I was feized with a vomiting, and threw up a great quantity ofcrudities ; the which turned to my benefit. But perceiving this to arife from not getting my meat chewed, for lack of teeth, I fet myfelf to ufe more caution in that matter. On the Taft of January came to my hand a letter from G. G. whereby I" underftood his brother Mr John was to return home, in the latter end of February, or-beginning of March ; while as yet I knew nothing done effe&.ual in my affair. But therewith came Ledhebhurius's book on the accents; by the preface where- of I underftood the difappoiutments he had been exercifed with, as to the publifhing of it. Upon this and other incidents, I was made to betake myfelf anew to my God, and in the name of Chrift to lay my feveral requefls very particularly before him ; the which I was helped to do with confidence. And thus was I fet anew to hang on about the Lord's own hand. But having unhappily fuffered the monthly meeting of the . feffion, which fhould have been kept the firft Monday of Feb. ruary, todrop, that I might have more time for my belovedfludy, which I had almoft all along that far been hampered in, I found myfelf difappointed. Acknowledging my fin, and refolving to keep that meeting on the fecond Monday, I got that week both ttrength and time for that ftudy, in a meafure, I think, I had not till then obtained. And on the Saturday, after much weari- nefs, came to my hand feveral letters, whereof one fromHall in Saxony,direéted to Mr Ziegenhagen above mentioned ; the tenor whereof follows. Vir plurimum Reverende ac Do&iffime, amice in Chriflo pie colende. Tandem poft quatuor menfium intervallum, his ipfis diebus redditm mihi funt liter, quas 18 fuperioris Augufli, Tana cum fpecimine novi operis de accentibus five interflìnétionibus facri Ebraei textus, ad me dedifti. Grato omnino animo agnofco tui in me henovoli adfe&us conftantiam, nec minus etiam da- riffimo at que eruditiffimo Bottom), pro teftificatior`ìe atnoris obftri&um me agnofco. Non putaveram inter Tranfmarinos effe, qui ob qualemcunque notitiam facrarum literarum me dill*
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