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his Mercy at the End of all Distress, as he did the Penitent Thief. In the
Year <date>1726</date> I was sent to the University at <placename>Stratsburg</placename>; In the year <date>1727</date>
to <placename>Jena</placename> and <date>1728</date> to <placename>Wittenberg</placename>. Here that Corruption broke loose like
a Deluge, which had hither to been restrain'd by the Laws Severity,
and I ran blindly into Sin, the wages of which quickly follow'd; some=
=times I wept and cried to Jesus for deliverance, but Sin became still
more Sinful, till at length I was <sic>litterally</sic> <corr>literally</corr> the express Picture of
the Prodigal Son! and in the Year <date>1730</date> I actually set out for home
with these Thoughts: I will return to my severe Step Father; he may if
he pleases make me his Servant! To such a pass I was come!
Oh thou Merciful Lamb! thou has taken a poor Creature indeed to
thy Mercy! I was immediately put under the care of a Man who
had formerly been our House Preceptor, but was now become Parson
in a Country Village, who continued his usual rigorous treatment of
me. At length I grew weary of the distress which Sin occasioned
humbled myself, and beg'd the Lord Jesus for support, would fain
have been converted but knew not where to begin, and to my Sor
=row had no one to Inform me. I came into works, pray'd and
wept, yet sin not being brought under <sic>thro</sic> <corr>through</corr> the Blood of Jesus con
=tinued to rage the more in heart. In the year <date>1731</date> I was sent
to the Seminary of the Candidates to the Pastoral Office and was
a Teacher in the Gynmnasium. O that I had but then been ac
=quainted with my Bleeding Redeemer perhaps I should have been
of Service to the Youth under my care as they all loved me.
In the Year <date>1733</date> I receivd ordination to a Preacher of the <sic>Gosple</sic> <corr>Gospel</corr>
and in the Year <date>1734</date> was introduced as Deacon at <placename>Ingweiler</placename>
and teacher at <placename>Ripperhweiler</placename>. The office of a Teacher was weigh?
to me, I was <sic>truely</sic> <corr>truly</corr> Sensible of my <sic>unworthyness</sic> <corr>unworthiness</corr> and <sic>innability</sic> <corr>inability</corr>
knew not which way to turn, pray'd frequent and fervently and
yet continued unconverted, was forever Restless wept in private
before the Lord Jesus and beg'd for Mercy; my poor distress'd
heart cleav'd to him, and nothing was more pleasing to me than
to preach of his Death and bleeding wounds, which I <sic>allways</sic> <corr>always</corr> did
with
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with great Emotion, well knowing nothing but Jesus blood and wounds
could <unclear>Sanchify</unclear> me poor wretched and corrupted Man; and I experi=
=enced, that the word of his Suff'rings was thunder which <sic>shoock</sic> <corr>shook</corr>
my Soul and the Souls of my hearers. After I had been 16 Weeks at