Moravian Lives

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money. I spent a whole year without any other
help, than what I earned by writing for such who
desired it; and giving some instructions in Lattin  Latin.
whereby I procured my needful subsistance. At the end
of the year the Dean of the Cathedral Mr Gerner, desired
me to come and live with him, as Tutor to his Children,
which I accepted of, This Clergyman was a secret but
very sincere friend of the Brn, and as by an edict of
the King all meetings, where a Clergyman did not preside
were prohibited, whereby no other People were [?], but
the Brethren of whom it was believed, they had not one
friend among the Clergy, whereas the Pietists had many.
Another edict of the King was likewise past  passed, that every
-body who went to the Congns of the Brn abroad,
should forfeit all their possessions and expectations,
in the Country. Dean Gerner who knew the meaning
of all this, invited the Brn to come and keep their
meetings at his house which (after having represent
-ed to him the danger to which he would expose him-
-self) we agreed to, and he openly and firmly main-
-tained the cause of the Brn against all even power-
-full  -ful opposition. The Pietists were now highly incensed 
against the Brn, and some of them particularly so
against me, yea they even preached against the
Brn. When once visiting one of them, with whom I