Diary of Ralph Josselin (Private Collection)

28.5.1648 (Sunday 28 May 1648)

document 70003375

May: 28: This week the Lord was good and merciful to me in my peace, health, and in comfortable enjoyment of abundance of outward mercies, which are the more considerable in regard other places and persons through the tumults and troubles of the times are deprived of the same, god good in the season warm and moist, the earth is richly laden with the creature the lord merciful in preserving me from molestations by divers temptations, he was good in the Sabbath, the duties thereof and enabling me for the same, only I could not being straitened for the time go on in my ordinary courses of expounding the scripture,