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The Newton project, a non profit organisation dedicated to making all Sir Isaac Newtons work freely available online, has recently added a
You must login or register to view this content. that he kept for a short period of time, when he was 19 in 1662 detailing sins he had recently committed.
- Vsing 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 sermons11
- 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
- Vsing 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
The fact he took time to write them down shows how much they affected him.
How does your list compare to this? No where near as heinous as these I presume