This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1798 Excerpt: ... an evidence that his days work was nearly accomplished. He attended the meeting to which he belonged, under great bodily infirmity, though at a considerable distance, until he was wholly confined. He departed this life the 20, .h of the Ninth month, 17.81, and was interred the 4th of the Tenth month following, in ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1798 Excerpt: ... an evidence that his days work was nearly accomplished. He attended the meeting to which he belonged, under great bodily infirmity, though at a considerable distance, until he was wholly confined. He departed this life the 20, .h of the Ninth month, 17.81, and was interred the 4th of the Tenth month following, in Friends burial ground at Preston Patrick; aged about seventy-one, and a minister forty-seven years. His friends of Westmoreland, in their testimony concerning him, say, We doubt not but his conclusion was a happy release from the conflicts and deep exercises attending his pilgrimage here; and that he is gathered to the just of all generations, to reap the reward of his labours. MABEL WIGHAM, a member of Newcastle meeting, was the daughter of Cuthbert Wigham, of whom an account has been given at page 95, and was about six years of age when her parents were convinced, and a meeting fettled at Cornwood, the place of her sather's abode. In her youth she discovered a warm affection for Friends, and, as she expressed to some of her near friends, tender desires were raised in her mind, after an inward acquaintance with that life and virtue which she was savoured to hear livingly testified of by her worthy sather, and many other friends, who at that time, were concerned to visit that meeting; and, being in a good degree preserved in an innocent frame of mind, and attending to the reproofs of instruction that she might be savoured to find the way of life, she was often drawn into solitary places, to pour forth her fupplications before the Lord: that he would, in mercy, K make make himself known to her as the good Shepherd of Israel; whose voice she might hear and distinguish from the voice of the stranger. The fruits of her humble seeking state of mind soon..
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Good. No Jacket. 12mo. 202 pp. plus Index. Full calf leather. Generally rubbed especially at the extremities with boards exposed on two corners. Remnant of red spine label and faded gilt on spine. Binding secure. Remnant only of first ffep; rear end-paper has a triangular tear. Text block is tight and unmarked; foxing throughout not affecting legibility. First published in England in 1795, this is one of a number of books published to promote piety among the young: "Memorials of the circumspect lives, and dying xpressions, of such as finish their course well, shew the efficacy of the divine principle which we profess; and that obedience to its dictates, yields the peaceable fruits of righteousness."