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money. I spent a whole year without any other
help, than what I earned by writing for such who
desired it; and giving some instructions in <sic>Lattin</sic>  <corr>Latin</corr>.
whereby I procured my needful subsistance. At the end
of the year the Dean of the Cathedral <persname>M</persname><hi rend="underline"><hi rend="superscript"><persname>r</persname></hi></hi><hi rend="superscript"></hi><persname> Gerner</persname>, desired
me to come and live with him, as Tutor to his Children,
which I accepted of, This Clergyman was a secret but
very sincere friend of the B<hi rend="underline"><hi rend="superscript">rn</hi></hi>, and as by an edict of
the King all meetings, where a Clergyman did not preside
were prohibited, whereby no other People were [?], but
the Brethren of whom it was believed, they had not one
friend among the Clergy, whereas the Pietists had many.
Another edict of the King was likewise <sic>past</sic>  <corr>passed</corr>, that every
-body who went to the Cong<hi rend="underline"><hi rend="superscript">n</hi></hi><hi rend="superscript">s</hi> of the B<hi rend="underline"><hi rend="superscript">rn</hi></hi> abroad,
should forfeit all their possessions and expectations,
in the Country. <persname>Dean Gerner</persname> who knew the meaning
of all this, invited the B<hi rend="underline"><hi rend="superscript">rn</hi></hi><hi rend="superscript"></hi> to come and keep their
meetings at his house which (after having represent
-ed to him the danger to which he would expose him-
-self) we agreed to, and he openly and firmly main-
-tained the cause of the B<hi rend="underline"><hi rend="superscript">rn</hi></hi><hi rend="superscript"></hi> against all even power-
<sic>-full</sic>  <corr>-ful</corr> opposition. <emotion>The Pietists were now highly incensed 
against the B</emotion><hi rend="underline"><hi rend="superscript"><emotion>rn</emotion></hi></hi><hi rend="superscript"></hi><emotion>,</emotion> and some of them particularly so
against me, yea they even preached against the
B<hi rend="superscript">r</hi><hi rend="underline"><hi rend="superscript">n</hi></hi>. When once visiting one of them, with whom I