Diary of Ebenezer Parkman, 1731
1731 September 5 (Sunday).
In my own retir’d Devotions I offer’d Thanks to God for the return of this Day, and Specially for the Divine Goodness in the Course of this Year past in Vouchsafing me Such Measures of Recovery and Strength for the Divine Service; humbled my Self as I could for my innumerable Transgressions, the Sin of my nature and the Vanity and impurity of my Childhood and Youth; and humbly Devoted my Self wholly to God and Committed my Self to Him in Covenant. Read Ps. 103 and then proceeded to the Family and Public Offices. I preach’d on Ps. 51.10. I may Lament before God my Coldness, unhumbledness, my undedicatedness to God Seeing I am under So peculiar and unspeakable Obligations.
1 From the Natalitia.