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and all other institutions for the promotion of true knowledge, virtue and piety,
and prepare us for that Kingdom of glory, where there shall be no sin nor sorrow,
no temptations nor desertion, but all light, love, peace, Holiness, and complete
happiness forever more. Amen and Amen.
8. Thanks to the Lord for His strength on yesterday. Though much depressed in
body and mind, I was not forsaken, but carried through the duties of the day! May
my poor services have been acceptable to the Lord. I feel myself unworthy the
least of His mercies, but it is unbelief, ingratitude, and impatience under my
present indispositions that exaggerate my guilt! Oh, may the Father of mercies
pity my poor stomach and bowels, and restore strength and health in and for His
service. I would not complain but of my own sinful self. May I be comforted
from 2 Corinthians 5.21: 595 Domine, ego sum iustitia tua; tu fuisti peccatum
meum. 596 The Lord pardon the sins of our Holy Things, and sanctify His dealings
with me to my precious soul. May I be directed also to proper means for my
present indisposition, and the Father of mercies grant me and all His people
strength and peace in believing. Oh, blessed Jesus, it was once Thy own saying:
The Spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. 597 Remember my pains, and for Thy
suffering’s sake, support and comfort us by Thy grace and Spirit, and cause us to
wait on Thy salvation, and help in every time of need. Father of mercies, I desire
to commit my all and all mine unto Thee as my faithful Creator, and to leave my
concerns for soul and body, and my family and my congregation, in Thy merciful,
almighty hands. Lead me and mine in every part and path of duty, and prepare us
for immortal glory, through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen.
16. I would bless the Lord for all His mercies unto me, my family and
congregation, and desire to promote our mutual interest and prosperity, both
temporal and spiritual. From such a principle I had proposed to the consistory, if
they and the congregation would dispose of the parsonage house and lot wherein I
now dwell, and which is in my tenure during ministry, to pay unto them £1720, on
condition then to enter with me on new terms for a call, of £200 annually, as may
be seen in the proposals made in waiting, by which, I humbly conceived, the
Church would gain about £100 per annum from the interest of the money, as may
be earlier computed. N.B. They pay £175 salary now, and offered if I would give
£2000, to pay me £35 more for a house, which amounts to £210. The £10 less in
my proposals, joined to the £120 by the interest of £1720 comes to 130 and 25
deducted from that; the clear interest of the whole amounts to £105 annually,
which 105 interest (suppose 10 years for my life in the premises) will come
£1050, and of consequence, in ten years hence, the Church would get by this
agreement for the house and lot £2770, which I thought was as high an offer as I
could make for the premises. However, the consistory have thought proper not to
accept of my proposals, for reasons best known to themselves, and I am perfectly
satisfied with having done my duty. I hope and pray the Lord further to direct our
church councils and to keep us joined together in the Holy Bind of peace, love,
595
For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the
righteousness of God.
596
Latin: Lord, I am your righteousness; you have been my sin.
597 Matthew 26:41.
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