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Peter Embury's account of Himself
I often had a desire to write a few lines
& to lay them by, that my children after my departure
might read them over, & thereby understand my state
both in the time of my ignorance & blindness, the time
& times of my awakenings & calls, my Terrors
my fear, my Reasoning, & several Resolutions
I fixt to mend my life, the means I us'd, the Despai-
ring thoughts I often felt of being cast of or
lost for ever, this I say oft came to my mind
to shew in writting, but one thing or other has
hindred it hitherto sometimes not knowing whether
it was the will of God or no, but now as the dear Friend
of Sinners has Brought & plac'd me in the City, &
joyn'd me to the Church call'd the Brethren's Church
which I do not repent & as I was at one of the
meetings where I heard read over the lives of several
of their Departure out of this world, & afterwards
heard Bro Yearls say he could wish that all the Breth
would write their Experiences it would be a