Morning windy and clouds but before Sunset it became quite pleasant. I went to take a little walk on the Common with Louisa which was all my exercise for the day. Read a Canto of the Faerie Queen and worked upon Catalogue.

Attended Divine Service all day and heard Mr. Newell1 preach from Romans. 8. 15. “For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the spirit of adoption whereby we cry Abba, Father.” Upon the character of the Divinity as given by the Christian faith, with large quotations from Pope’s Essay on Man. I John 4. 15 or 16 I am not certain which and shall not therefore transcribe it, but the subject was the character of religion by the effect it is desired to produce in us, i.e., what is required and what means are afforded to do it. Mr. Newell is an amiable man but a tedious and very common place preacher. He like many others that I have known does not show in life as well as he did at College.

Read a Sermon of Dr. Barrow in continuation of the subject of last Sunday and amplifying the second head, the modes of cultivating the love of God. The discourse was a further dilation upon a subject that needs it as little as any one in the Bible. The injunction is enough. Read the first Canto of Crabbe’s Poem, The Village—Vigorous and melancholy.2 Evening quiet at home. To show how quietly I live, we have hardly had a single visitor. Wilhelm.