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now like one, who was come home again from a dang-
erous voyage into safety, after having been very near
cast away; As our Saviour is always pleased to bring good
out of evil wherever he can, he also turned this bad 
affair to a great blessing for me, by bringing me out of my
anxious and legal course, and making it clear to me,
that I might at all times come to him <emotion>as a poor helpless
sinner, with all my misery, and enjoy peace, comfort and
happiness in Him and his bloody atonement,</emotion> not in 
proportion (according to my former selfrighteous notions)
to my feeling more or less of my sinfulness) but only and
alone for the sake of his atoning blood, shed for me as
a sinner, whereby he saves me freely. For this great
grace and mercy, I shall thank and praise him to
all eternity. Having served in the Children's <sic>Oeconomyies</sic>  <corr>Economies</corr>
and the Pedigogium in <placename>Lindheim</placename>, <placename>Marienborn</placename>, and
<placename>Hennersdorf</placename> for 9 years to a great blessing for my own
heart. In the year <date>1757</date>, I got a Call to go to <placename>England</placename>, to
have the care of the Boys <sic>Oeconomy</sic>  <corr>Economy</corr> then in Smithhouse
in <placename>Yorkshire</placename>, where I arrived in <date>August</date> and in <date>1753</date> I
moved with the same to <placename>Fulneck</placename>. In <date>April 1755</date> I was
married to my first wife, the widow <persname>Sister Anna Hagen</persname>,
[illegible] and appointed to have the care of the
Cong<hi rend="underline"><hi rend="superscript">n</hi></hi><hi rend="superscript"></hi> at <placename>Fulneck</placename>, together with both the <sic>Oeconomies</sic>  <corr>Economies</corr> of
Boys and Girls. The first Daughter of this marriage