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humbly commend to Thy Fatherly care. May my consort and children become
devoted to Thy worship more and more, and forgive all our sins in the all-atoning
blood of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Give us Thy grace and Spirit to walk
with and before Thee in the midst of our house, and may we experience Thy
mercy and truth. Remember Zion and Thy Churches throughout this land. Unite
them to the Fear of Thy name, and true love and Holiness. Sanctify our rulers and
blessings, and may we live to praise Thy name in Jesus Christ. Amen.
Saturday before Easter. 192 Thanks to my God in Jesus Christ for all His mercies
towards unworthy me. The next Lord’s Day after the Sacrament, Dominee
Romein from Schenectady preached twice for me, and I rejoice in this my brother
and His faithful discharging of the ministerial office. May his labors be more and
more successful, and the Lord own and crown them with His grace in O. L. J. C.
But I am and have been weak in health and strength, though helped last Lord’s
Day most graciously, since I was attacked by a colic in my bowels, and advised by
the doctor to a course of physic, which may the Father of mercies bless, and my
health be restored for the service of tomorrow. I desire, o my God and Father, to
submit with humble patience and confidence, but o spare me in mercy, mitigate
my pains for the sake and merits of Christ, my Savior. Speak more and more
peace to my troubled soul, and make me conformable to the Holy Image of Thy
dear Son. Oh, may I be enabled to bear and overcome all my trials through Thy
Spirit and strength. Pardon all my sins and shortcomings, and renew my spirit and
courage for Thy cause and interest. Forgive my enemies, and give them
repentance unto life. Heal the sick and convert their souls. May my family and
congregation be visited with the dayspring from on High, and many be quickened
with Christ, and we live to see the happy day of a life from death. Pity Thy
Church and ministering servants, and hear our prayers. Now, Father, may I
become more and more sanctified and made meed for Thy Communion and
service, in time and to all eternity. Amen.
30. Last Lord’s Day I had a silent Sabbath, the first Easter I have ever been
prevented from public service. What a mercy, and that it was not, as formerly, a
Sacramental day. The night before I was troubled and brought low by a wind
colic, which, however, through Divine mercy, did abide, so much that after a good
night rest I ventured in the strength of the Lord on Monday to preach from
Romans 4.25, 193 with life, light and strength. Restored in the God of my salvation,
I went in the afternoon to visit General Philip Schuyler, who lay very ill of the
gout. I spoke freely and offered to pray with him, which was given unto poor me
to perform with much affection. Oh, may the Father of mercies pity me and all
my weaknesses and distresses. I withdrew, but was desired to come again in the
room, when he confessed that he had been reading many books for and against
Revelation, but found that the world would not know neither worship God without
it, appealing to the recent experience of the Hollanders with respect to some newfound
lands, and adding that he was also convinced of the necessity of a mediator,
that this conviction was of God and His free gift, and he thanked God for it, and
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The example of Abraham’s faith: [It will be reckoned to us who believe in him who raised Jesus our
Lord from the dead,] who was handed over to death for our trespasses and was raised for our
justification.
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