![]() The Preface To Joseph Hart's "Hart's Hymns" from 1759 is a classic in spiritual autobiography.Īs I had the happiness of being born of believing parents, I imbibed the sound doctrines of the Gospel from my infancy nor was I without touches of heart, checks of conscience, and meltings of affections, by the secret strivings of God’s Spirit within me while very young but the impressions were not deep, nor the influences lasting, being frequently defaced and quenched by the vanities and vices of childhood and youth.Ībout the twenty-first year of my age I began to be under great anxiety concerning my soul. ![]()
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