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on the Cross. As soon as it was day I went out in the Field, which was cover'd
with snow, fell on my knees, and repeated a Prayer which I had learn'd out
of a Book, for I could not pray out of my heart. Yet sin soon overpower'd
me again. My first Campaign in <placename>Poland</placename> being at an End, in which
I made one at the siege of <placename>Dantzig</placename>, I was quarterd in a Saxon Village
near <placename>Herzberg</placename>. Here I got a Picture of our Saviour on the Cross, this
I naild to the Wall, and fell down before it on my knees, and beg'd for
my Salvation, the certainty of which I had never heard one word off.
In the Year <date>1741</date> I was in the Campaign at <placename>Bohemia</placename>, we had a very
smart engagement, and when I saw so many fall at my side, My whole
load off Sins was <sic>pourtray'd</sic> <corr>portrayed</corr> before me, I sigh'd after deliverance for my
Soul, and made a Solemn Oath to our Saviour, that if he would
give me my Life for a Prey, and let me have time to be conver=
=ted then I would be wholly his. After this I endeavourd in earnest to
become happy, and believing a Soldiers Life was a hindrance
I begd for <sic>dissmission</sic> <corr>dismission</corr> and pleaded My Arm, which I had broke in
a fall from my Horse, but was obliged to stay till the Campaign
was ended, after which I obtain'd my <sic>dissmission</sic> <corr>dismission</corr>, and knew not
to what part of the World I should go. At length my Tent com=
=panion offer'd to take me to his Farm in <placename>Thüringen</placename>, I went
thither, begging our Saviour on the way that he would bring
me to a <hi rend="underline">Peter</hi> or send such a one to me, as he did the Cen=
=turion in the Acts of the Apostles, that I might hear Words of
Life. Then I shed the first Tears for my Salvation, and believ'd I
should be heard. I did not stay long in <placename>Thüringen</placename>, refused several
offers which was made me here and elsewhere, and resolved to go to my
Sister who lived beyond <placename>Sorau</placename>; In <placename>Sorau</placename> I <sic>staid</sic> <corr>stayed</corr> some weeks with=
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