March. 5. All this week long I and all my family through mercy were upwards, and truly in all our trouble the lord was merciful to me in quieting my Fiend, and bestowing sweet and inward peace on me in the apprehension of his love towards me through Christ Jesus blood and merit: I praise god for it, and the remembrance of it to me is very sweet that notwithstanding the sense of my wretchedness: my heart was stayed in god, so that death and judgement was not feared, because of the love in god through Jesus: this day was a calm and shining day, though sharp and cold; the lord in mercy was good to me in the same in strength for the work of the Sabbath, I preached twice and stood two hours in the afternoon; divers places round about had no sermons this afternoon, its gods goodness to raise me up and give me strength that people that came from divers places might hear the word; through mercy I was only a little ill in my head, but at night, I slept indifferently well. my water this day broke as formerly, my cold broke away very tough and thick,