Diary of Ralph Josselin (Private Collection)

15.11.1648 (Wednesday 15 November 1648)

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15: My navel was a little sore again, lord purge the corruption out of my heart, and give me patience, and improvement of thy dealing, and it shall be my gain that you thus deal with me: [Bellarmine scale etc.] this night I made an end of reading Bellarmines scale ad deum, a book that contains divers sweet meditations in it, and now I intend on nights to read over the ecclesiastical history: