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Personals of the Single Brother
Who departed to our Saviour the
at New Dietenderff. He has left the following account
of his Path thro time:
I was born at
Strahlsund the
th
was a Captain of a Vessel, dying when I was very young, and
in the Plague, our Relations took care to place my B.
rand
Orphan House, where my Brother soon after
a wicked Child. As I was in full Career towards all evil, wild and thoughtless,
I saw one day the
Callico. As I look'd earnestly at it, It seemd to me as the Blood broke out
at every Pore. I ran away from this sight, and full of Surprize and
Terror, Jump'd down a high pair of stairs. My Fright was so great
that I had one
yea I lost my speech 3 days, and could tell no one what had befallen me.
Soon after I fell ill of a violent Fever, in which I was lightheaded and
thought I saw nothing but Devils, and it was to me as if I was really
in Hell. In this distress I beg'd of God to spare me this time, I would
be converted and be a good Child. I repeated all the Ejaculations I had
and gave to feel his
Health, I set faithfully about performing the promise I had made to God,
with the Assistance of his Holy Spirit, who was my faithful Bystand,
at which the Guardian of the Orphan House grew displeas'd and endeavoured
to distress me all
into Holes and Corners, wept and pray'd to the Lord whom I had griev'd
so long, but who was now so gracious to me, that I had a Heaven upon
Earth. I could not refrain letting my School fellows know what pass'd
with me, which was a means of Increaing my Persecution. When I
was alone at Prayers the other Children would listen, and that prov'd
a means of bringing several to think as I did, that their Hearts was
touch'd and they was of the same Mind with my self; their number
was 8. Here upon the Enemy was enraged, and as I was accused of being
the cause of this stirring among the Children, I suffered a great deal,
and receiv'd more stripes than as
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