The Aged Christian's Cabinet: Containing a Variety of Essays, Conversations, and Discourses, Adapted to the Improvement, Consolation, and Animation, of Aged Christians of Every Denomination (Classic Reprint)

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When only seventeen years of age, the death of his father called him from his incipient professional pursuits, to reside with his widowed mother, and assist her in the care of the family. Here he pursued his studies privately, until Circumstances led to their entire abandonment, and turned his attention to another avocation. Hrs religious impressions deepened by his recent bereavement, and by other serious domestic calamities which soon after befel him, ripened gradually under the salutary influence of affliction, into that deaded piety Wth distinguished all his future life. While thus exercised havmg been imperfectly instructed, as was too generally the case in his day, in the claims of the Church in England - the Church of his birth and his baptism - to h1s confidence - thrown very much on his own mental resources, and left to form opinions, and shape out a course for himself - he made acquaintances and contracted intimacies, which ultimately led to h1s adoption of the distinctive tenets of the religious denomination, with which he was ever afterward connected, and in which, at a very early period of his connection, he was set apart as a preacher The first and only congregation he ministered statedly to in England, he served but a few years, when after much and serious deliberation, and consultation w1th friends, he decided on emigrating to the United States, as his future home.

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