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Comfort to him it sudenly enter'd into my mind to
write that I might now & then look it over
& consider if I had been left to myself without
a guide, without a Shepherd, & without a Saviour
in what a sad state I would be, in my life no com-
fort, in Death no comfort, no comfort through
a long Eternity -
I was born in Ireland in the County of Lymrich
in the year 1721 & instructed by my parents
who were high Dutch or Germans, brought from
Germany & planted by Queen Anne in Ireland
my parents thought one to read the high Dutch
testament plain before they sent me to school
afterward sent me to one of our friends to learn
the English Bible, which I learn'd so that I could read
both that & all other English Books, & was greatly
Belov'd Both by my master, my parents & all who
heard me Read, & afterwards I was put to writting
& cyphering, but my father being a Farmer &
Business great I was not left to that long
But as I grew up in years sin encreas'd in me
so that I began to be Disobedient to my parents, &
gave them now & then hard speeches, which I can
well Remember but them, especially my mother to
great grief, which often wrought sorrow in my
own heart, but not being guided by grace, the
corruptions of my unregenerated heart prevail'd &
like a storm carried my from one Day to another
on in sin so I remain'd a slave to my lusts which
prevail'd much against me, the Delight I had in
& among the younger who were mine Equals I remember
to my shame, till I was about 16 years of age
my heart began to fill with jesting, sporting
drinking, gaming & the like, especially
on Sundays & as we then call'd the holidays, the Lords
Day was to me & to my companions a Day of Carnall
& earthly pleasure, but I can well Remember that
Every Lord's Day Evening my mother who seem'd to
be much concern'd for our Everlasting happiness
spoke to me & to my Bros & told us how bad it was
to Break the Sabath & to make it a day of play