Book contents
- Frontmatter
- ADVERTISEMENT
- PREFACE BY THE EDITOR
- Contents
- MEMOIR BY THE REV. JOHN VENN
- CORRESPONDENCE
- SECTION I LETTERS WRITTEN FROM HIS FIRST APPOINTMENT TO HUDDERSFIELD, TILL HIS REMOVAL FROM IT
- SECTION II LETTERS WRITTEN FROM HIS ACCEPTANCE OF YELLING, TO THE COMMENCEMENT OF HIS CORRESPONDENCE WITH HIS SON
- SECTION III LETTERS WRITTEN TO HIS CHILDREN AND DIFFERENT FRIENDS, FROM THE YEAR 1777 TO THE TIME OF HIS SON'S ORDINATION
- SECTION IV LETTERS WRITTEN FROM THE TIME OF HIS SON'S ORDINATION, TO THE YEAR 1788
- SECTION V LETTERS WRITTEN FROM THE YEAR 1788, TO THE CLOSE OF HIS CORRESPONDENCE
SECTION VI - LETTERS ON PARTICULAR SUBJECTS, WHICH WERE DEEMED TOO LONG FOR INSERTION IN THE PRECEDING SECTIONS
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2011
- Frontmatter
- ADVERTISEMENT
- PREFACE BY THE EDITOR
- Contents
- MEMOIR BY THE REV. JOHN VENN
- CORRESPONDENCE
- SECTION I LETTERS WRITTEN FROM HIS FIRST APPOINTMENT TO HUDDERSFIELD, TILL HIS REMOVAL FROM IT
- SECTION II LETTERS WRITTEN FROM HIS ACCEPTANCE OF YELLING, TO THE COMMENCEMENT OF HIS CORRESPONDENCE WITH HIS SON
- SECTION III LETTERS WRITTEN TO HIS CHILDREN AND DIFFERENT FRIENDS, FROM THE YEAR 1777 TO THE TIME OF HIS SON'S ORDINATION
- SECTION IV LETTERS WRITTEN FROM THE TIME OF HIS SON'S ORDINATION, TO THE YEAR 1788
- SECTION V LETTERS WRITTEN FROM THE YEAR 1788, TO THE CLOSE OF HIS CORRESPONDENCE
Summary
TO JONATHAN SCOTT, ESQ
Nov. 6, 1765.
DEAR SIR,
I cannot leave Shropshire, without giving you joy, on your knowledge of Christ, and determination to live in His service. This connects us more closely than if we had sprung immediately from the same parents : for, in numberless instances, own brothers will be separated from each other, far as Heaven from Hell; but all who love the Lord Jesus shall dwell for ever with Him. Love to Him and your soul prompts me to lay before you a few hints, furnished from long service in the Church of Christ; which, had I received on my entrance into it, might have preserved me from many hurtful mistakes.
Your Christian calling is a warfare, where no quarter can be given on either side. If you prove faithful unto death, angels will receive your departing soul; eternal glory will be your crown; the armies of the saved will receive you with transport, as a soul ransomed with that precious blood to which they owe their all; and the Redeemer's presence will be your Heaven for evermore. Should you forsake His service, or hold secret correspondence with His foes, you must be punished, like them, with eternal infamy in Hell.
The enemies you have to oppose, and conquer, will probably be, first, your former intimates, friends, and nearest relations, whose polite conversation and affection for you have been so pleasing: for, till their judgment of sin, true religion, and man's chief good, are formed from Scripture, as your own now is, they must both despise and hate the way of life in which you must persist.
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1834