Memoir of William Cookworthy : formerly of Plymouth, Devonshire / by his grandson.

  • Harrison, George.
Date:
1854
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Memoir of William Cookworthy : formerly of Plymouth, Devonshire / by his grandson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Having been severely tried himself, he became the J better qualified to give comfort to a correspondent, who a was undergoing a like deprivation. Richard Kingston’s wife had lately died. He, therefore, addj^^ses him 1 and his family, jointly. ’| FOR RICHARD KINGSTON, SURGEON, IN PENRYN. .’l My dear friends, ] Whom I truly and tenderly love, and with whom I am made one, both in suffering and in joy. I may say, that my spirit hath been deeply dipp’d in sympathy with you for your great loss ; and my heart is so bound up, that I hardly know what to say. But, as I find and feel, there is a sympathy between the members, so in the pure motion of it, I am en- couraged to desire and advise you to look up, for j relief, to the Head; to Him, who was touch’d with a feehng of our infirmities, and ever liveth to make ] intercession for us, and will not suffer us to be tried I beyond measure; but as our eye is to Him, He will I support His poor, depending children, and help them i through all their afflictions ; of which, my soul hath j been, and is daily, made a sure witness. For I have | long dwell’d in the House of Mourning, and the Lord hath blessed this habitation to me; as I hope, | He will do to you, my dear friends; for I clearly see ! that the Lord is at work in the Earth in a very signal | manner, visiting the hearts of His creation, in order i to bring all into a nearer union with Him, so that