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ing the Lord <emotion>with tears</emotion> to bless the
fruit of her womb, & if her child
saw the light of this world, that he
would give it grace to prosper for
him; but should he foresee this would
not be the case, that he would
take it in its infancy. I was born
<date>May 14</date><hi rend="underline"><hi rend="superscript"><date>th</date></hi></hi><hi rend="superscript"></hi><date> 1746</date> in <placename>London</placename>. My Pa-
rents were then only constant hear-
ers at the B<hi rend="underline"><hi rend="superscript">rn</hi></hi><hi rend="superscript">,s</hi> Chapel, wherefore their
application to have me baptized by
the B<hi rend="underline"><hi rend="superscript">rn</hi></hi> could not be granted; they
however determined to defer my bap-
tism till one or both of them were 
in such <sic>connexion</sic>  <corr>connection</corr> with the B<hi rend="underline"><hi rend="superscript">rn</hi></hi><hi rend="superscript"></hi> as
to admit of it. In the same meeting
in which my Father was rec<hi rend="underline"><hi rend="superscript">d</hi></hi><hi rend="superscript"></hi> into
the Cong<hi rend="underline"><hi rend="superscript">n</hi></hi> I was baptized by the late
<persname>B</persname><hi rend="underline"><hi rend="superscript"><persname>r</persname></hi></hi><hi rend="superscript"></hi><persname> Schlight</persname>. In my being brought
home to my dear Mother, she took
me in her arms, & said with peculiar