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along on the <sic>Busness</sic>&nbsp; <corr>Business</corr> myself. But several things making<br />
me not <sic>chuse</sic>&nbsp; <corr>choose</corr> to stay with my Master any longer, I went<br />
to another Brew House, where I carried on the <sic>Busness</sic>&nbsp; <corr>Business</corr> 14 Years.<br />
During this season many things <abbr>offer&#39;d</abbr>, which might have<br />
been a snare to me, and I was often near being drawn into<br />
sin, but Just as I was upon the Point, something <sic>allways</sic>&nbsp; <corr>always</corr><br />
held me back. So that afterwards I have often <abbr>wonderd</abbr> how<br />
it came to pass. My faithful Saviour had something better in<br />
store for me which I now enjoy. In the year <date>1735</date> I was <abbr>awakend</abbr><br />
and went on some years under a great concern for my Salvation,<br />
<abbr>till</abbr> the year <date>1742</date> I had a severe <sic>fitt</sic>&nbsp; <corr>fit</corr> of Illness. Then my Concern<br />
became real, I had no Assurance of my Salvation, and felt nothing<br />
but doubts and Fears. I <abbr>beg&#39;d</abbr> of God to restore me to my Health, or at<br />
least not to let me <sic>dye</sic>&nbsp; <corr>die</corr>, <abbr>till</abbr> I knew what would become of me. As soon<br />
as I <abbr>recoverd</abbr>, I earnestly thought to amend my life, and gave myself<br />
much trouble, but nothing would do, when I thought had done my best<br />
a Circumstance would happen which quite <abbr>overturn&#39;d</abbr> my Self Righ=<br />
=teous Building. At length in the year <date>1744</date> I became acquainted with<br />
the <abbr>Brn.</abbr> and heard of them, that only in our <abbr>d</abbr><hi rend="underline"><hi rend="superscript"><abbr>r</abbr></hi></hi><abbr>.</abbr> Saviours <sic>Merrits</sic>&nbsp; <corr>Merits</corr><br />
and Wounds, grace and Blessing was to be sought and <abbr>attaind</abbr>.<br />
This was agreeable to me to hear, yet I <abbr>feard</abbr> I was <sic>to</sic>&nbsp; <corr>too</corr> undeserving<br />
to receive it, and that <sic>keept</sic>&nbsp; <corr>kept</corr> me back some time. But our dear <abbr>Sav</abbr><hi rend="underline"><hi rend="superscript"><abbr>r</abbr></hi></hi><abbr>.</abbr><br />
did not desist following me, <sic>untill</sic>&nbsp; <corr>until</corr> I gave myself up to him just as<br />
I was, and <abbr>receivd</abbr> the <sic><abbr>offerr&#39;d</abbr></sic><abbr>&nbsp; </abbr><corr><abbr>offer&#39;d</abbr></corr> grace and Salvation gratis. By which<br />
Means my heart was at Peace and I <abbr>obtaind</abbr> the Forgiveness of my<br />
Sins and a Childlike Confidence in our Saviour. And <sic><abbr>alltho</abbr></sic><abbr>&nbsp; </abbr><corr><abbr>altho</abbr></corr> I<br />
afterwards often <abbr>griev&#39;d</abbr> him, yet he never <sic>forsook</sic>&nbsp; <corr>forsaken</corr> me, but <sic>allways</sic>&nbsp; <corr>always&nbsp;</corr><br />
<abbr>pardon&#39;d</abbr> me anew, and gave me to find his gracious Countenance <add>was</add> <abbr>turn&#39;d</abbr><br />
towards me. I became tired of my hard Labour in the Brew House<br />
in which our <abbr>d</abbr><hi rend="underline"><hi rend="superscript"><abbr>r</abbr></hi></hi><hi rend="superscript"></hi><abbr>.</abbr> Saviour had <abbr>prosperd</abbr> me in temporals greatly,<br />
and left my Abode without knowing rightly what I would under=<br />
=take: At first I thought I would visit my Parents in <placename>Hollstein</placename>, and<br />
childlikely <abbr>believ&#39;d</abbr> that then, my further Path would be <abbr>shew&#39;d</abbr> me.<br />
Our Saviour <abbr>order&#39;d</abbr> it so, that Just as I was going to <sic>sett</sic>&nbsp; <corr>set</corr> out got <placename>Holl=<br />
stein</placename>, <persname><abbr>Br.</abbr> Cr</persname><span style="display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; visibility: visible; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><persname>&ouml;ger</persname> went to visit the <abbr>Cong</abbr><hi rend="underline"><hi rend="superscript"><abbr>n</abbr></hi></hi><abbr>.</abbr> I laid <sic>asside</sic>&nbsp; <corr>aside</corr> my intended&nbsp;</span><br />
Journey and went with him without considering <sic>wether</sic>&nbsp; <corr>whether</corr> I would go<br />
to visit, or to stay there. But on the way thither it was made<br />
out to me that I should spend the Remainder of my days in the <abbr>Cong</abbr><hi rend="underline"><hi rend="superscript"><abbr>n</abbr></hi></hi><abbr>.</abbr><br />
We <sic>arived</sic>&nbsp; <corr>arrived</corr> there in <date>May 1754</date> and our Saviour granted my Request