The Diary
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Chapter_8

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Jan. 1st (Lord’s day). This morning (we living lately in the garret) I rose, put on my suit with great skirts, having not lately worn any other clothes but them. Went to Mr. Gunning’s chapel at Exeter House, where he made a very good sermon upon these words:⁠—“That in the fullness of time God sent his Son, made of a woman,” etc.; showing, that, by “made under the law,” is meant his circumcision, which is solemnized this day. Dined at home in the garret, where my wife dressed the remains of a turkey, and in the doing of it she burned her hand. I stayed at home all the afternoon, looking over my accounts; then went with my wife to my father’s, and in going observed the great posts which the City have set up at the Conduit in Fleet-street. Supped at my father’s, where in came Mrs. The. Turner and Madam Morrice, and supped with us. After that my wife and I went home with them, and so to our own home.