Cloudy but cleared. Exercises as usual, head ach and early to bed.

On first rising I had a light warning of what would come, but hoping that with fasting it would disappear I occupied myself as usual. Attended to the ordinary exercise with my daughter Louisa, and then attended divine service.

Mr. Pierpont preached from that famous text of Genesis 1. 3. “And God said, Let there be light.” A poetical discourse drawing a parallel between the value of light in the physical as in the moral world. I was surprised at a quotation of Lord Byron’s darkness which sounded to me extravagant in the pulpit. Afternoon from Matthew 4. 4. “It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.”

Read a discourse from the English Preacher by the Revd. Jeremiah Tidcombe from 2 Samuel 12. 7. “And Nathan said unto David, Thou art the man.” Upon the character of Reproof and the state of the receiver of it. I read also nearly the whole of two dialogues of Alciphron, to prove the value of the Christian Religion. But before I had quite finished the last my head grew so much worse that I was obliged to give up all reading and finally to retire to bed. I have not for a long time had such an attack as this.