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the Church on Newyearsday 1737, & inteneded to par-
take again the first Time of the H. Comn. At the 
Entrance into the Church, it came all at once into
my Mind: What hast thou promised to God in Frey-
burg on the Fortification-Wall? What, if thou now gavest
him thy Heart? My Heart melted, I begun to weep
& said Yes. Mean while they begun to sing: With
Jesus I begin, with Jesus I'll be speaking & this
made a deep Impression upon me; I was very
attentive in the Preaching, but at the H. Communion
I felt so heavy, that I could not help thinking I had
partook of it for my Condemnation. After divine
Service my Companions persuaded me to go with
them to the Orphan House Church, where a good
Minister was at that Time. I did it, & heard the
loving Heart of Jesus to Sinners described in so
sweet a Manner, that I got a Confidence to Him, &
resolved to keep & give myself intirely entirely up to him.
I then frequented diligently the Preachings &
Meetings of this Minister, whose Name was Beckhen,
till in 1738 when in his House I learned to know the
first Brn. from the Congrn & among the rest our

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late Br. Samuel Krause. Nov. 5th. this Year
standing Sentinel our Savr. manifested himself to
my Heart in his meritorious Life, Suffering & Death,
& how he still intercedes for all poor Sinners, on ac-
count of which my Heart grew at once clear & easy,
& was delivered from all its Fetters. In 1739 I got
in Tübingen a printed Pamphlet into my Hands entitled: The right
& straight Way to Life &c. which proved a great Bless,
ing to my Heart. In 1740 working in Studtgard Stuttgard
among many wild natural People, & being ignorant
of the Sinnerpoint, having also no body to whom
I could discover my Heart, I became dry & came into
new Perplexities; which excited in me a Desire to
come into Fellowship with the Brns. Congrn. I resol-
ved thereto & prayed our Savr. to prepare himself the
Way for it. What I asked for was granted, I got Leave
to go on a Visit to Herrnhaag. I was received heartily
by the Brn. & it being just Comunion Day I was ad-
mitted to the Love feast, & had Leave to be a Spectator
at the Lords Supper. I had a thorough Conversation with
the late Polycarpus Müller, & came again into the right
Track. I was all the Month of July 1742 in Herrnhaag
& in August I returned to Stuttgard. I made the