The Autobiography of Henry Newcome, M.A., Volume 26Chetham society, 1852 - 388 pages |
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acquaintance afternoon Angier April August brother Machin brought buried Caldcot Chelford Cheshire Chester CHETHAM SOCIETY child church Colonel comfort Congleton cousin Unwyn Daniel daughter dear death December desired died discourse eldest father fear February fell fellow Francis Worthington Friday Gausworth gave Gawsworth Hall gone Gresford hath heard heart HENRY NEWCOME Henry Williamson Heyricke Hoghton Tower January John journey July June knew Knutsford Lancashire Langley letter lived London Lord Lord's day Manchester Manwareing married matter mercy ministers Monday morning never Newcastle night November occasion October pleased prayed prayer preached private day providence received remember resolved Richard Sabbath sacrament sadly Saturday Seabridge sent September sermon Shenley Shrewsbury sick Sir George Booth sister soul stayed Stockport sweet things thither Thomas thought Thursday told took town trouble Tuesday unto Warden Wednesday whilst wife
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Page 1 - ... that by two immutable things in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation who have fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us...
Page xxvi - My son, fear thou the LORD and the king : and meddle not with them that are given to change...
Page 5 - That they might set their hope in God, And not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments...
Page 124 - the rabble of prophane youths and some doting fooles' had put a maypole on the green again. Henry Newcome, travelling through Leicestershire and Rutland, 'found May-poles in abundance as we came, and at Oakham I saw a morris-dance, which I had not seen of twenty years before'.
Page 1 - Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst : but thou saidst, There is no hope : no ; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.
Page 87 - They shall not be ashamed in the evil time; and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.
Page 4 - I know how little it can avail me, when I am gone hence ; but out of a sincere desire to give glory to my God, (whose wonderful providence I have noted in all my ways) have I recorded some remarkable passages of my fore-past life. What I have done is worthy of nothing, but silence and forgetfulness : but what God hath done for me, is worthy of everlasting and thankful memory.
Page 29 - ... that it is a mercy I was not ensnared by them, for they were high Independents, and were, I remember, talking of embodying the saints, &c.
Page 56 - ... in the glass, and so to pass out of the world. A lovely, sweet, person, she was, but thus blasted before us, dyed Jany 21, just after evening service. She was buried the next day, at night.
Page 112 - Heyricke absenting himself from the church this day, (though he knew of the business as well and as soon as I,) I was unwilling to have had it begun as it was. He told me he was resolved to invite the people to arms upon the score of the Quakers being up.