Clear and cool. Divine service as usual. Evening to Mr. Brooks’.

After the usual hearing of my children for an hour, having now regularly joined my second child John in the reading of the Scriptures, I attended divine service and heard Dr. Frothingham preach from Joshua 4. 6. “That this may be a sign among you.” A communion sermon discussing the peculiar characteristics of that service. I shall soon reach an age now when it will be advisable for me to reflect more seriously upon the propriety of my partaking of it.

Afternoon Dr. Henry Ware Jr. from Luke 10. 40.41.42. the well known verses addressed to Martha and Mary. Upon the attention to worldly matters, a very beautiful discourse much affected in the delivery by the defect of enunciation caused by the loss of his teeth.

Read a Sermon by the Reverend John Balguy Proverbs 12. 15. “The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise.” Mr. Balguy has had some reputation in the English reviews without much deserving it. Evening, we paid a visit at Mr. Brooks’. Nobody there but C. Brooks. Home shortly after ten.