Moravian Lives

he askd me Several qeustions  questions: he ask me also
Why i was not Baptisd on Staten YLand  Island? i
answered, i was afeard  afraid to Let my father know
of it, beCause he was he was a Baptist
and whe  we had no English minister there as
a Churchman, and i told him i would not be 
Baptised by him; he ask'd me Why? and i Sayd  Said
beCause he Sign'd with the Sign of the
Cross; he Sayd  Said nothing to me but about
that, but he askd me Several other
questions about my faith: but i answered but
Litle  Little and then my husband and Cussin  Cousin was
Calld in the room, and we all Stood and he
askd me Some Church questions to wich  which i ans
wered: he told us to kneel down, and then he
Baptised me and Signd me with with the Singr
of the Cross but it Seemd to mee  me as tho' he
Struck his fingers upon my heart in Stead
of being Rejoyst  Rejoiced my heart Sunk in my body, o
the pain of my heart i cannot Express
i Slept but Litle  Little that night i thought
what Shall i Shall i do now i have made
So many promises how Shall i perform them

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and thought if i Could Keep them i would
feel Ease in my heart, but i soon found
i was not able to perform them, as i thought
i Should do: i was much troubled but kept
it for my Self, but i had Litle  Little Comfort
from within or without: i then thought
to Seek it in good Boocks  Books to read them
dilegently  diligently but found no true peace i poor
misarabel  miserable Creature Live Without Com
fort; many ways i triyd  tried at reading and fas
ting, but i remaind the Same for about Seve  Seven
teen year and then i hear mr Trahinghuyden
a Dutch minister Came from the Jersey
who Went onCe to Long YLand  Island to preach,
i understood Very Litle  Little Dutch that time, i
went to hear him his teach was in the 16
Chapter of St John: When the Comforter
Shall Come he Shall Convince the
World of Sin of rightousness  righteousness and of
Jugdment  Judgment i thought by my Self, what he
would make of Sin and Jugdment  Judgment i could
aprehend  apprehend but of rightoughness  righteousness i knewd  knew not
he preached Very powerfull  powerful i thought i