24 Sunday.

At Colledge, a Cloudy morning, heard Mr. Cotton of New-town vociferate from the 19. of Proverbs 2nd verse.1 In the afternoon, from those words in the 37th. Psalm and 4th. verse, Delight thyself in the Lord and he shall give thee thy Desires.

1. John Cotton (1693–1757), Harvard 1710, had been minister of the church in Newton since 1714; JA’s language suggests that Cotton’s preaching resembled that of the revivalists he formerly admired (Sibley-Shipton, Harvard Graduates description begins John Langdon Sibley and Clifford K. Shipton, Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Cambridge and Boston, 1873– . description ends , 5:517–524).

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Source Project: Adams Papers
Title: 24 Sunday.
Author: Adams, John
Date: 24 June 1753

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Cite as: “24 Sunday.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/02-01-02-0004-0001-0017. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Earliest Diary and Autobiography of John Adams, June 1753 – April 1754, September 1758 – January 1759, ed. L. H. Butterfield. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1966, p. 47.]