Clear day. Attended divine service as usual and the remainder of the day passed in writing and reading. Evening at the Mansion.

I was unable to find the other volumes of Milman’s History so that I could not go on. What time was not devoted to the usual exercises of the day was spent in continuing to copy my papers.

Attended as usual at Meeting and heard Mr. Muzzy of Cambridge, from Matthew 24. 35. “Heaven and earth shall pass away but my words shall not pass away.” The permanency of the Christian faith from which neither the attacks of avowed infidelity nor the divisions of its disciples can detract aught of it’s durable principle. Sensible enough. Mark 9. 23. “Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.” Upon faith as the engine of power in the mind itself.

Read a Sermon of Mr. John Balguy from Job. 37. 14. “Stand still and consider the wondrous works of God.” The creation is a never ending source of reflection and moral exhortation and is not treated in this discourse with remarkably new or striking thought. Mr. Beale and his daughter paid a short visit in the evening and we then accompanied them to the Mansion.