A short account of the life and death of the late Mr. N. Aspden, surgeon, of Blackburn / by T. Wood.

  • Wood, Thomas, -1826
Date:
1798
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Credit: A short account of the life and death of the late Mr. N. Aspden, surgeon, of Blackburn / by T. Wood. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    renounced the riches of the worlds and fincerely embraced his duty and his God. And, accordingly, at the quarterly vidtation, in September, 1790, he was admitted by Mr. Bramwell ; and afterwards found that his fears, refpedting his bufinefs, were groundlefs. The fear of man, the love of praife, and an inordinate attachment to fecular honours, and advantages, prevent many perfons embracing religion, and enjoying its benefits. According to the Rules of the Methodid So¬ cieties, there is one only condition previoufly required of thofe who defire admiffion, name¬ ly, a defire to flee from the wrath to come, to he faved from their fins; but wherever this is really fixed in the foul, it will be fhewn by its fruits. Air. Afpden entered in at this door; he had a perfect hatred to fin, and a fincere defire to enjoy God; and gave the mod indubitable proofs of this in his whole deport merit. True religion is of an affimi- iating, and of a cementing nature : in all ages it has-influenced its dneere votaries to come out from among the ungodly, and to unite with each other ns .members of the fame family. In the days of Mala chi, when iniquity greatly abounded, they't ha/ feared the LordJfiqke often one to another, which fuppofes their knowledge of each other, and their meeting together. We may conjecture, that they fpake to each other of the exiftenee,, nature, and per¬ fections of God;—the vyifdom, ,holinefs, righteouf- nefs, and myderious works of his providence—the origin, nature, progrefs, and confummalion of re¬ demption by the Alediah-—the meflages brought them
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