Moravian Lives

ways that I did think to [gett] happiness in,
[abought] this time I [goot] aquainted
with my dear Wife and was married in the
year 1736 by whome I have had Eleven
Children, For the first two years and more
I went on in my old [cource] of life
with my Merry Company thinking by and
by it will be better, but I [new] not how
for I was disapointed in every thing and
all that I took in hand seem'd to make
against me, that I knew not which
way I shou'd come through in the World.
About this time Mr. Whitfield came
in these parts and I went to hear him
at a place cal'd Hannam Mount, He spoke
of the [prodigall] son returning to his Father
and of our fall by Nature And how willing
Jesus Christ was to receive every returning
sinner, He painted my case and condition as
tho he [new] me from the very bottom, and
[envited] all such poor sinners to Jesus Christ
in a loving manner, I thought this was
to good news to be believ'd that ever he
cou'd receive or look upon such a poor [rech]
as I was who had been fighting against him