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388 Two Lttiersflrom Mr . Emlyn to Mr . William Manning .
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seud you copies of two letters from that sufferer iu the cause of truth , to Mr . Manning . From their elate , I should conclude that tfeey were written in London . I am also favoured with the perusal of some letters written by Mr . Manning , and addressed to his son at Yarmouth ; but these being letters of condolence
on account of losses by death in ihs family , I have not thought them sufficiently interesting to have a place here , although valuable for the sentiments of ' affection , resignation and piety which run through them . Mr . Manning was ejected from the living of Middleton , in Suffolk , and resided afterwards in the adjoining parish of Peasenhall . JOHN TAYLOR .
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sphere ; and above all , to taste and feel the satisfying sweets of infinite Almighty Love ! I doubt not but your own mind have ( bas many more serious speculations about the matter : We aU lye at the door of- eternity , ready to be called in ; " may God help us to set our affections on things above . —The publick is in great ferment : aud violent animosities make
all people uneasy . The high church hitherto hatf / gained considerably in the elections tb ?* t a . re over : though in this city , 1 suppose , the whigs will keep their ground- Our poll is not yet over . 'Tis well we have better views than this world affords . May we come safe , at last , to the general assembly , &c . and to the spirits of the just made perfect * Yours T . EMLYN .
[ What follows is iu the hand-writing of Mt . Manning , to whom the letter is addressed . ] — " this suited my then case , but God thought fit to alter the scene with me , and to bring me back again on a new trial into this darksome tempestuous world , wherein I am unavoidably exposed to a number of
daily cares , detrimental to the concern of my soul : to divert me also , a shattered head and state of body prevents me froni a sedate thinking on and pursuit of things ab 6 ve , relating to my change at the door , as it behoves me to attend unto . '
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Letter If . Dear Sir , Dec . 5 , 1710 . BY yoors of October I 8 fch , I find you are somewhat raised again from your languishing state : 1 am glad that you are free from acute pains , amongst the other sorrows that do attend old age . You are cottie to Baraill&i ' s case , who was eighty \ ears old , and could
not taste when he Aid eat , nor hear the voice of singing men ; and you enjoy his desired retirement . Wonder not if yoor affections and passions , even as to spiritual objects , become flat and slow , nor that your
impressions from death and eternity should be less than under the thoughts of your late nigh approach to them : all this is natural and almost necessary . I know they are days of no pleasure ; but the wise Author and Loffd of Life
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Letter I . To the Rev . Mr . William Manning , PeasenkalL Dear Sir , Oct . 10 , 171 O . I WAS glad to receive yours ; 1 find * you were nigh to have put into the quiet harbour and to have landed on tiie shore of the good land , along with your consort , who rests from her
lahours : but you are put back into this troublesome ocean again a little longer : 'tis probable you lye but at the mouth of the haven , and some favourable gale wtil soon blow yon in , and I hope , with fiill sails of faith and hope , and then adieu , vain and intserable earth ! Invent portum , Spes
et Fortuna , valete * Methinks I read ( and I do it often ) with great pleasure the words of the ancient Cicero de Senectute at the end ; how noble and generous are his thoughts of the vanity of this liife , and the excellency of the tfnture state , which in a Pagan , I can't but admire greatly * and find
his discouTse very pathetick and usefull ; and yet all this is much below trie triumphant courage and assurance of St . Paul , 2 Cor . v . 1 , 2 Tim . iv . 7 , 8 . Here are no trembling doubts and uncertain ifs . Who that has the treasure of a good conscience , should not be glad to die aiitl to drop these infirmities and bodily necessities and
trifling cares , and to shake off a body of death that so depresses and debases the inind I Who that is ambitious of wisdom and knowledge , will not cQvet thpse noble and enlarged views which will present themselves when we get out of ti > i » dark and narrow
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1817, page 388, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2466/page/12/
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