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An Account of the Life of John Richardson
An Account of the Life of John Richardson Author:John Richardson General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1832 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: ACCOUNT ow THE LIFE JOHN RICHARDSON; INTRODUCED WITH A BRIEF RELATION CONCERNING HIS FATHER WILLIAM RICHARDSON. It has been repeatedly revived in my mind, to leave the following account concerning my dear father William Richardson, having also seen something of his own in manuscript, concerning his convincement, with remarks on some other things; hut I being young when he died, did not then much heed it, and when I would gladly have seen it for my own satisfaction, I could not, nor as yet can meet with it; therefore, Inasmuch as my father was early convinced of the truth, a sufferer for it, and bore a public testimony to it, I found it my duty, as near as I could remember the contents thereof, to leave this short account concerning him, viz. He was born at North Cave, in the east part of Yorkshire, in the year 1624, of honest parents, and of good repute; and was educated in the Episcopal way, being soberly inclined from his childhood and upward, a lover and seeker after purity and virtue; and I have heard him say, gave his mind much to retirement, reading the Holy Scriptures, breathing and seeking after the Lord, especially in the fields, being by calling a shepherd ; and it pleased the Lord to open his understanding so clearly, that he saw and longed for a more excellent dispensation to come; and also saw that the priests were wrong, and generally proud and covetous, so that he was weary with following them, and much weaned from them and all company, except two or three men who did meet with him, and spoke one unto another concerning their inward conditions, and what they had experienced of...« less