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- 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 II - LETTERS WRITTEN FROM HIS ACCEPTANCE OF YELLING, TO THE COMMENCEMENT OF HIS CORRESPONDENCE WITH HIS SON
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
During the early part of the year 1770, Mr. Venn was incapacitated from all exertion, by the alarming illness mentioned in the Memoir, which was brought on by excessive labour in the discharge of his ministry. In the autumn of this year he was recommended to try the effect of a journey to Bath. Whilst at that place, he received the offer of the living of Yelling, Huntingdonshire; and immediately announced the intelligence, in a few lines, to Mrs. Riland; but entered more fully upon the subject in the following letter, written from London a few days afterwards.
TO MRS. RILAND.
London, Nov. 17, 1770.
MY DEAR FRIEND,
I conclude you have, by this time, received my letter, dated last Saturday. In that you will find I am Rector of Yelling. I wrote to you of this event the very day I received the account of it from the Lord Commissioner Smythe. I had received some intimation of his design to prefer me, the Saturday before; upon which I immediately wrote to Lady ——, urging her to press for the nomination of my successor at Huddersfield; and saying in a few words what I have ever thought of dear Mr. Riland—that he is one of the best creatures living upon earth. If he is not nominated, I hope, for my own sake, his faithful labours will be joined with my feeble efforts, to promote the glory of Emmanuel, in that new place to which I am called evidently by His providence.
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1834