but as thou hast commanded us to pray one for another so graciously heare us
even for thy Son \our sav[i]our/ Jesus \Christ/ sake, and be \mercyfull/ to
this my cosin, with all other my kindred, and frinds.
which are farr from thee; convert them and they shall be converted yea make us
one sheepfold under one shepherd Christ Jesus;
at this time my brother had an
ague: and after his recovery wee
lay together in \a/ chamber where my sister lay, \where/* I well remember
the
fearfull dremes of
I call to mind the evill enclinations of my Childhod being to subject to covet \or desire/ after vane things \favrings/ of the servants when they had come from a fare or merket which I well remember my father reproved me for my eating of those things which were \not/ good for me with my too full feeding, and my slothfullnes, my abusing of thy good gifts being to proud of \them/ when I ought \rather/ to give thee thankes I cannot omit to praise thee O Lord, for \the/ unity and love betwext my father mother and granmother: remembering well those good bookes of my Granmothers reading to my mother being weake in her Chamber, wherin they rejoyced together before thee. there agrement hath ofton made mee call to mind of the love betwext Naomi and Ruth16 which they would sumtimes mencion;
About this this time17
which \I/ take to be the 8 or 9 yeare of my life my
Granmother
begun to be sumthing ill and after a while fel into a fever by which
she was
so weake that wee douted of life but \throught/ thy goodnes O Lord and my
parents
useing those meanes which thou hast
\ordained/*
she was sumthing recovered. and my mother at this time
16. This refers to the biblical book of Ruth.
Naomi was Ruth's mother in law.
17. This would be in
1617
or
1618 .