1 May 2025

Diary Extract 17 May 1 1760

May 1, 1760 I have been but little this day in prayer and meditation.

I have found pride and ambition working in my heart.
I have reason to fear that I have sought my own praise more than the glory of God in writing the foregoing verses.
I have been very cold in my evening devotions
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