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but <emotion>peace and serenity</emotion> was to be seen. She
told us, that in the night when she considered her
<sic>deploreable</sic>  <corr>deplorable</corr> condition, she thought she would how-
-ever venture to try, whether what I had told her
yesterday was really true, and she turned with
<emotion>greif and sorrow</emotion> to our d<hi rend="underline"><hi rend="superscript">r</hi></hi> Saviour, imploring
him, that if mercy could was to be had for so
great a sinner as she was, he would also bestow
it upon her, and then she added: "Upon this
he drew near to my heart, and made himself known
to me as my Redeemer, who shed his blood also
for me, so that I have done nothing the whole
night, but <emotion>wept for joy and thanksgiving.</emotion> <persname>B</persname><hi rend="underline"><hi rend="superscript"><persname>r</persname></hi></hi><persname>
Erasmus Miller</persname> & I visited her by turns. and
some of the Sisters visited her also, This affair
made a great noise in the City, and the Pietists
said we had deceived the poor ignorant woman.
Some of them went to see her, and told her that
her repentance, must be of quite a different 
nature, if she would be saved, but her solid answers
stopped their mouths. Sometime after this she was
<sic>brot</sic>  <corr>brought</corr> to her trial, and when her indictment was read,
she pleaded guilty to all. The judge asked her how
it came that she did not look like a Criminal, but 
looked so contented? She answered: "My Lord, I am