This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1827 Excerpt: ... cross, within five years-afterwards on the quarter-deck, in the midst of prayer and praise, carrying the everlasting gospel to the Isles of the Pacific Ocean? Yet such are the mysterious ways of providence, such the irresistible influence of truth, and such the power and efficacy of Christian principles.. SOAME JENYNS ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1827 Excerpt: ... cross, within five years-afterwards on the quarter-deck, in the midst of prayer and praise, carrying the everlasting gospel to the Isles of the Pacific Ocean? Yet such are the mysterious ways of providence, such the irresistible influence of truth, and such the power and efficacy of Christian principles.. SOAME JENYNS. Soame Jenyns, a gentleman of learning and abilities, and an elegant and miscellaneous writer, ranks among the number of distinguished laymen, who have volunteered their services in the cause of revelation. In his younger days, his mind had by some means, been warped aside to the paths of infidelity, in which he continued to wander for many years. Like other disciples of that fashionable creed, he was not sparing in the avowal of his sentiments; but time and reflection brought him to a sense of his folly; and by duly exercising the powers of his reason, he arrived at those convictions which not only reclaimed him from his errors, but drew from him a very popular and useful tract in defence of Christianity. Mr Jenyns was bora in Great Ormond Street, London, on the 1st of January, 1704. He used wittily to observe, that he considered himself at liberty to choose his birth-day, as he came into the world exactly at twelve o'clock at night; and accordingly he preferred dating his existence from the commencement of the new year, which in all civilized countries was celebrated as a day of general festivity. He was the only son of Sir Roger Jenyns, who was descended from the ancient and respectable family of that name, at Churchill, in Somersetshire. Sir Roger's country residence was at Ely, and afterwards at Bottisham-Hall, ' near Cambridge; where he spent much of his time, in the performance of such civil duties as became his station. He bore the cha...
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