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you one of these letters for insertion in your Magazine, if you approve of it. Though this Gentleman was conversant and familiar with most of the Nobility and Gentry of England in his day, yet he was not ashamed of the Christian Religion, but held the principal tenets thereof, both doctrinally and practically, to his ]ife’s end. I am, your’s, James CREIGHTON. (We insert only an Extract from this Letter.) “ To Sir Ep. B. Knight. * Sir, «¢T RECEIVED your's; and as, among other instances of your love, you desire to know what method [ observe in the exercise of my devotions; I thank you for your request, which I have reason to believe proceeds from an extraordinary respect for me. I will, therefore, deal with you herein as one should do with his Confessor. « I will begin with the last day of the week, and with the latter end of that day, I mean Saturday evening, on which I have fasted ever since I was a youth in Venice, for being delivered from a very great danger. This year I use some extraordinary, acts of devotion to usher in the ensuing Sunday, in hymns and, various prayers of my own penning, on Sunday morning [ life earlier than upon other days, to prepare myself for the duties of it; nor do I use Barber, ‘Tailor, Shoe-maker, or any other mechanic, that morning; and whatever diversions, or lets, may have hindered me the week before. I never miss, except in case of sickness, to repair to God’s holy house on that day; where I come before prayers begin, to make myself fitter for the work by some previous meditations, and to take the whole service along with me. Nor do I love to mingle speech with any in the in terim, about news or worldly negociations in God’s holy house. I prostrate myself in the most humble and decent way I can imagine; nor do I believe there can be any excess of exterior humility in that place. ‘Therefore, I do not like those squatting, unseemly bold postures upon one’s tail, or muffling the face in the hat, or thrusting it in some hole, or covering it with one’s hand , but with bended knee, and in open confident face, I fix my eyes on heaven, I endeavour to apply every tittle of the service to my own conscience and occasions; and I believe the want of this, with the huddling up, careless reading of some Ministers, and the commonness of it, is the greatest cause why many undere value our public service. “For the reading and singing Psalms, as most of them are either petitions or eucharistical ejaculations, I listen to them Aath attentively
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Methodist Magazine
London, Middlesex, GB
Fri, Aug 01, 1806
Page 45
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