I Greatly bewail my Profanations of the Lord's Day, and my
Disobedience to my Parents.
And my Cursing and Swearing, and my blaspheming the Name of the glorious
God.
Unto which I have added, the Sins of Unchastity. And I have provoked the
Holy One, at length, to leave me unto the Crimes of Pyracy and Robbery;
wherein, at last, I have brought my self under the Guilt of Murder also.
But one Wickedness that has led me as much as any, to all the rest, has
been my brutish Drunkenness. By strong Drink I have been heated and
hardened into the Crimes that are now more bitter than Death unto me.
I could wish that Masters of Vessels would not use their Men with so much
Severity, as many of them do, which exposes to great Temptations.