Mild, clear day. Time divided in the usual manner on this day. Attended divine service all day. Mr. Lunt preached in the morning from 1 Corinthians 10. 31. “Whether therefore ye eat or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.” A discourse which made no 125great impression upon me. Mr. Whitney had no better effect in the afternoon from John 15. 22. “If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin.” I remarked only in it that it appears to have been written long ago as a qualification of opinions thought to incline over much to Universalism.

Read a Sermon of Revd. John Abernethy upon the causes and danger of self deceit. Matthew 6. 22.23. “The light of the body is the eye, if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body is full of light; but if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light, that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness.” A respectable essay upon the operation of conscience and the common modes of soothing or neglecting or evading it’s reproaches.

Finished the first volume of Milman’s History of the Jews, which ends with the captivity. I am much pleased with this book so far. Also read a little of Grimm. Evening at the Mansion.