As Good Friday rolls around again, I recall how, as a "good little Catholic" boy I went regularly to confession. However, I'm not sure I committed many of the 48 sins that 19-year-old Isaac Newton self-admittedly “committed” before Whitsunday. I am intrigued by no.7 (did they have supersoakers in the 17th century?) and nos.26 and 44 (poor old Dorothy Rose and Arthur Storer), although on reflection I may have been guilty of 24, 28, 31 and 32, and I couldn't possibly comment on 16...
- Using the word (God) openly
- Eating an apple at Thy house
- Making a feather while on Thy day
- Denying that I made it
- Making a mousetrap on Thy day
- Contriving of the chimes on Thy day
- Squirting water on Thy day
- Making pies on Sunday night
- Swimming in a kimnel on Thy day
- Putting a pin in Iohn Keys hat on Thy day to pick him
- Carelessly hearing and committing many sermons
- Refusing to go to the close at my mothers command
- Threatning my father and mother Smith to burne them and the house over them
- Wishing death and hoping it to some
- Striking many
- Having uncleane thoughts words and actions and dreamese
- Stealing cherry cobs from Eduard Storer
- Denying that I did so
- Denying a crossbow to my mother and grandmother though I knew of it
- Setting my heart on money learning pleasure more than Thee
- A relapse
- A relapse
- A breaking again of my covenant renued in the Lords Supper
- Punching my sister
- Robbing my mothers box of plums and sugar
- Calling Dorothy Rose a jade
- Glutiny in my sickness
- Peevishness with my mother
- With my sister
- Falling out with the servants
- Divers commissions of alle my duties
- Idle discourse on Thy day and at other times
- Not turning nearer to Thee for my affections
- Not living according to my belief
- Not loving Thee for Thy self
- Not loving Thee for Thy goodness to us
- Not desiring Thy ordinances
- Not long {longing} for Thee in {illeg}
- Fearing man above Thee
- Using unlawful means to bring us out of distresses
- Caring for worldly things more than God
- Not craving a blessing from God on our honest endeavors
- Missing chapel
- Beating Arthur Storer
- Peevishness at Master Clarks for a piece of bread and butter
- Striving to cheat with a brass halfe crowne
- Twisting a cord on Sunday morning
- Reading the history of the Christian champions on Sunday
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