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whole time of my estrangement from
them had viewed me with love & pity,
now did all they could to comfort & en-
courage me. Every meeting to which
I was permitted to go, had proved a
strengthening cordial to me, & my
heart's longing increased to be again
united to that people
of whom I was
thoroughly convinced that they were
my people. In this view I wrote a
letter to the Congn bemoaning my
past misconduct, & earnestly beseech-
ing each member thereof to pardon
& forgive me, & to receive me again.
Jany 7th 1775 was the joyful day when
my petition was granted, & I partook
again with the Congn of the Holy
Communion. What I felt I will
not attempt to describe
for I was
more inclined to fall prostrate than
to sit on the bench. The situation of
my heart during the course of this
year, I cannot describe better than
in the following lines: from Olney
Hymns by the Revd John Newton Ao 81.

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