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religious , worthy men . And in thankfulness to God for his mercies to him , built a well-founded hospital near Stourbridg € 9 to teach poor children to read and write , and then set them apprentices , and endowed it with about
five hundred pounds per annum . Such worthy persons , and such strange prosperity and holy use of it , are so rare , and the interest of my poor neighbours in it so great , that I thought meet to mention it , to God ' s praise and his / ' Pt . III . p . 93 .
Reverend Sir , I have too great assurance of your kindness for me to doubt y acceptance of a letter which comes to give account of my affairs since I left our family . J Tis now about a month since I came to Wigan , where I have found a great people , and generally , I fear , very great strangers to religion , though hitherto ( so far as I have had opportunity of converse with them ) they
appear to be of a loving , courteous temper , nor do I perceive that they are any of them prejudiced against me or my ministry . Some I find there are that have a name for
religion , though fewer than would be expected in so large a parish : the prevailing temper is I think different from most trading towns , which what it is you know well enough . s t present I table in a good honest « nly , with one Mr . Herle , son to him nho was
some time prolocutor of the assembly . The revenue I have is bare ^ 60 per annum ; for all the church dues from christenings , &c , I give to a reader , who thereby gives me an ease which is more worth . I have indeed by my removal from Holiot ai < 4 Dunton lost
« £ 20 per annum , and my diet : but I have this good reeompence , that I commonly preach to near twenty times so many people as I then did , upon which account I am very well contented , yea , and shall be much more than contented if my God will give me but to Bee some good fruit of my
labours amongst them , to which great and blessed end I do earnestly beg , and indeed do promise myself , a particular interest in yr prayers . The Bishop came the last week hither , ( his constant residence being at Chester , ) and l > r . Tillotson was with him , who is expected back to preach here next Lordi ' s-day , being now with his friends
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in Yorkshire . The last day I preacht before my Lord , which was the first time he heard me . There is some talk and some probability of his being removed to Worcester , for yet I hear 'tis not disposed of , and then 'tis
likely I may remove with him into that diocese . Dr . Tillotson was , between jest and earnest , wishing me to Kiderminster , which he heard was , now vacant , and you the patron , having himself wrote to you , as he said , in behalf of Dr . Worthington . At
present , I thank God I am very well satisfied where I am , and for the future , without any solicitousness , I desire to be entirely resigned to that will and providence by which I must be governed , and the wisdom and mercy whereof I have so largely and frequently experienced . We have had
many stories of your conformity and preferments , Dean of Rochester , Parson of St . Martin ' s , and I know not what . A knight in our parish shewed me a letter from London very confidently reporting it , but we soon heard it confuted . I should be extremely glad to receive one line or two from
you at some spare minute ; you may at any time send by the post , directing your letter only to me , minister of Wigan ; or if you please to send to my bookseller , Mr , Sim , at Swithin's Alley , near the Old Exchange , he can send it away . 1 find that sober men about us . both Conformists and
Nonconformists , ( for of both we have some such , ) are very well pleased with your last treatise , which I have sent for , but not yet seen , and do heartily pray God that both this and all your other
pious endeavours may be blest to those ends for which they are intended , and that he will yet long * preserve you in a capacity of being thus serviceable to his church . Pray , Sir , present rny service to Mrs . Baxter , and do me
the favour to acquaint me where you are and how you enjoy your health . Pardon , I entreat you , this interruption I give to your studies . The many instances I have had of your kind remembrance of me ever since I had the
happiness of being known to you , makes me hope that in your prayers you will not forget him who lies under so great engagements to be , Sir , as perfectly yours as I may , JOHN RAWLET « ,
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Original Letters from and to Richard Baxter . 145
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1825, page 145, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2534/page/17/
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