Sidor som bilder
PDF
ePub
[ocr errors]

1

OF

THE EXPERIENCE

OF

HESTER ANN ROGERS.

AND HER

FUNERAL SERMON, BY REV. T. COKE, LL. D.

TO WHICH IS ADDED

HER SPIRITUAL LETTERS.

"Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what
he hath done for my soul," Psa. lxvi, 16.

NEW-YORK,

PUBLISHED BY B. WAUGH AND T. MASON,
For the Methodist Episcopal Church, at the Conference
Office, 14 Crosby-street.

J. Collord, Printer.

THE NEW YORK
PUBLIC LIBRARY

153923

ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS. 1899

REPAIR No. 7 68

'09

EXPERIENCE

OF

MRS. HESTER ANN ROGERS.

I was born at Macclesfield, in Cheshire, January 31, 1756, of which place my father was minister for many years; being a clergyman of the Church of England. He was a man of strict morals, and as far as he was enlightened, of real piety. I was trained up in the observance of all outward duties, and in the fear of sins, which in these modern times are too often deemed accomplishments. I was not suffered to name God but with the deepest reverence; and once for telling a lie, I was corrected in such a manner as I never forgot. We had constantly family prayer; the Sabbath was kept strictly sacred; and as far as outward morality, my parents lived irreproachably, and in all social duties were regular and harmonious.

I was early drawn out to secret prayer; I believed God was the author of all good, of all happiness; and sin the cause of all misery and pain. If therefore I wished for any thing I had not, I asked God in secret to grant it to me. And in any pain of body, or in any of my childish grief, I fled to him for ease and comfort; and it would be incredible to some, how often I have received manifest answers to prayer, when not more than fours old; and how my tender mind has been comforted. I was deeply affected, and had very serious thoughts of death for some time, and after seeing the corpse of a little brother of mine, who died of the small pox when I was five years old, I took great delight in the Bible, and could at this time read any part either of the Old or New Testament,

« FöregåendeFortsätt »