Cephas Thompson relation of faith, 1832

To the Rev. Wm Eaton, Paster of the first Church in Middleborough Dear Sir I feel it my duty to offer myself to become a member of your Church, that I may be en -abled to pertake of all the Holy privileges and benefits that are administered amongst you. On the 2nd day of June last, I was alone, and the Lord was pleased to strike me under a strong conviction, and I was then absolutely dead in sin and unbelief, knowing not, nor careing any thing about my saviour and my God, and my future Salvation I often doubted the existence of the Soul hereafter, and was forming in my mind strange theories. In that state of darkness and delusion, the Lord placed his strong arm upon me; it was instantanious, and the first I recollect I was crying for mercy to that God who is able to save; I formed a determination to persevere to the last, as it might be my only chance of salvation, I was in great distress for six or Eight hours _____ when the Lord was pleased to give me relief _____ the next mor- __ning I found my heart full of gratitude and praises to God _____ in the course of the fournoon a gloom came over me, I thought it might be a partial fit of derangements, everything appeared so strange and new to me