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.
to the Chief of Sin1ters.
1 I
great greedinefs of
l\1i~d,
ft!ll
&rndging
that
I
could
not be
fo
fatisfied with
1t
as I would.
This did
continue
with
me about a
Month,
or ~ mere:
But
one
day,
as I
was ftanding.
at a
Neighbours Shop-window, and
there curfing
and·fwearing,and playing the l\1ad-man,after
. my
wonted manner,there
fat
within,theWo–
nlan of the Houfe,and
heard
me; who
though
1healfo was a
ve~y
loofe
&
ungodly Wre,tch,
yet
protefted that I fwore and curfed at
that
mofl:
fearful
rate,
that
fhe wc1s
made
to
trem· · /
ble
to
hear me ; and told
me further,
That I
was the ungodlieft Fellow for Swearing,that ever
fhe
heard
in all her. Life; and
that
I, by
thus
do–
ing,was able to fpoil all the Youth in/the
whole
Town,
if
they came but
in
my
Company.
_ 27.
At
this Reproof
I
was
filenc'd,and
put
to
fecret fhame; and that too,
as
I
thought,
before the God
ofH~aven
:·Wherefore,while
·
· I ftood
there;anq
h2nging clown
my
Head, I
_vvifh'd with all
1nyHeart-that
I ·might be a
lit–
tleChild again,that
my
Fathet~\rilight
learn
me
to fpeak witiloutthis wicked
way
1
offwearing;
:
for
1
thought I, 'I am fo
accuftomed to
it,
tha£
it
is but jn vain for me to think of a reforma-
tion,
for I
thought
it
could never.be.
~
18.
But how it catne
to pafs, I
know
not;
I .
did~.
from this.
time
forward,
·ro
l~ave
n1y
· ~.
Swear1ng, that
It
was a great wonder
to
my
felftoobferve
it;
and
whereas
before
I
knew
not how to
fpeak,unlefs
I put an
Oath
before, ,
and another behind, to
n1ake
my
\vords have
·
autho-
I