No service at our church the whole day, the inside being all taken up for to be new-pewed. I dined on a knuckle of a leg of mutton boiled and a plain suet pudding and turnips.
In the afternoon Mr Tipper and myself and Samuel Jenner, whom we met with on the road, walked to Little Horsted Church where we heard a sermon preached by the Rev Mr Warnford from I Corinthians 7:31: “And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.” After churchtime we walked down to my uncle Hill’s, but he not being at home, we did not stop, but came home immediately.
Mr Tipper and Thomas Durrant sat with me in the evening, to whom I read three of Tillotson’s sermons. My servant at Laughton Church in the afternoon. The Rev Mr Warnford, Rector of Horsted, which I heard today, is I think as good an orator as I ever heard and really made a good harangue.