Moravian Lives

the Exercise of Godliness in our own Strength, &
were very anxious & legal, but when we had carried
it to the highest Pitch God sent Br. Zellich to us
from Herrnhuth, who lodged 4 Days with me, I was
quite openhearted towards him, he told me, that we
were upon wrong Ways, & he declared the Friend of Sinners
to me, who justifieth the Ungodly, this was a Gospel
for me, & now I could draw Breath , but soon after
I got Differences with the Pietists, who mistrusted
me, because I spoke of free Grace. 1737 the Brn.
Lawatsch & Henry Nitschman paid us a Visit. who
preached to us the Gospel of Jesus Death & Suffering.
Soon after I visited the first time in Herrnhuth, &
repeated it diligently, made also Application for
a Br. & Sr. to stay with us for some Time, & we
got Br. Münster & his Wife who were still with
me when the King of Prussia took Breslau. My
Wife was present at the first Elders Festival in
Herrnhuth, & stayed there 18 Weeks on a Visit, & went
several Times as a Guest to the H. Comn. with the
Congrn. I then went to fetch her, & found her in quite
a different Situation of Heart, this gave me a very

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deep Impression. I intended to move immediately
to the Congrn. but the Brn. would not receive me,
but said, we should stay in Breslau till they drove
us away. It also did not last long. Br. Seidliz
came to Breslau; I desired him to keep us a 
Meeting in the Evening, to which he was directly willing
& when it was known a great many People came to
it. Br. Seidliz said: It will now not last long
before they will cast you out, & he was scarce gone
then when I was sumoned summoned before the Clergy & declared 
to be a Seducer. My Masters were ordered to hurry sent 
me away as fast soon as they coud, which they did not like
they therefore endeavoured to persuade me to leave the
Brn. for they wanted to keep me. I told them, that I
could not obey them herein, I neither could nor would
leave the Brn. Thus I was honorably dismissed, where,
upon I obtained Leave to move to Herrnhuth, where
we arrived in June 1742 we were soon received into
the Congrn & admitted to the H. Comn. since that Time
I could always cleave to our Savr. as a poor Sinner.
I thought to live & to die there, & we thanked our dr.
Savr. with many Tears, that he had brought us to his
People. The Congrn gave me the Flower & Bread Trade