the entry and first day of this new year, that I desire as
formerly to enter (in this hidden record) a new surrender and offering
of myself to my dear Lord and Master, who hath been wonderfully tender
and gracious to me, and hath brought me by his immediate conduct through
the days and years of my pilgrimage past, hath still cared for his poor
servant, and given more singular mercies and evidences of respect than
to many else; and now, as still formerly, hath taken me through this
last year with singular evidences of his presence and assistance, and as
I trusted myself to my Lord, so he hath graciously answered; for which
and his special grace hitherto, I desire to insert this witness of my
soul's blessing the Lord my God.

And now I do here with my full and joyful consent testify my giving up
myself again to the Lord, and to his work and service here, and wherever
he shall call me, with desire to consecrate my old age to my God and the
guide of my youth. I love my Master and his services, and let my ears be
nailed to the posts of his door, as one who would not go free from that
blessed yoke and service, and lay in hope the whole assistance hereof on
his grace and help, &c. To him I commit myself, my ways, my works and
services, which, with my whole desire, I offer to my Lord, in whose hand
I desire to secure my credit for the gospel's sake, my comfort and
enlargement in this day of deep trouble and anguish, together with my
poor children and the whole interest of my family and concerns, desiring
to put myself with humble confidence, and all that is dear to me, under
his care and conduct. O my soul, bless thou the Lord! This I write the
first of Jan. 1692. _My Lord and my God._

R. FLEMING.

1694. In the first day and Monday of this new year 1694, that as I have
formerly through most of my life past, so now I desire to renew my
dedication and engagement to the Lord my God, and to join in the same
witness with what herein hath been formerly with my whole heart and
desire, and to offer to my dearest Lord praise, in remembrance of what
he hath been through the year past, and in the whole of my life, whose
gracious tender conduct hath been so wonderfully (and well hast thou,
Lord, dealt with thy servant according to thy word) in all that hath
befallen me, &c.

And now I do again by a surrender witness my entire commitment of
myself, my poor children, my credit for the gospel, my conduct and
comfort in so extraordinary a