Memoir of the Rev. Francis Higginson (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Felt, Joseph B.

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ISBN 10: 1331867320 ISBN 13: 9781331867326

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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As Leicester was accounted a place generally favorable to Puritanism, many courtiers, lords and gentlemen agreed on a plan for tarnishing its good name, by degrading themselves. Accordingly they visited it, invited the mayor and aldermen to, partake of a collation, and prevailed on them to drink so many healths on their knees, that they were intoxicated. This disgraceful scene became the topic of common conversation. Mr. Higginson, believing, that the offence came within the Scripture injunction, Them that sin before all, rebuke before all that others may fear, felt it his duty to deliver a public discourse. This he did in the presence of the Mayor and Alder men, from a text, which was the basis of his remarks on the sinfulness of drinking healths and drunkenness, and particularly so in magistrates, whose obligation was to punish it in others under their authority. He applied the subject by admonishing them to repent of the scandal, thus committed. The reproof was variously taken. They who lightly esteemed the yoke of Christianity, were much displeased, and denounced it as impudence instead of faithfulness. Of this class were some of the men implicated in the fault. Others, who had so fallen, made ingenuous confessions of their offence. Many more, who counted divine command far above human deception and resentment, approved the sermon. No ill effects appeared to come on the preacher.

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Excerpt from Memoir of the Rev. Francis Higginson Wise, emphatically wise, is the government of the universe. While the christian philanthropist ventures his all in the cause of reformation, and knows not that his eye will ever behold the end, for which he toils, he cherishes a heartfelt assurance, that a reward awaits him above the skies, proportioned to the purity of his motives and the fulness of his sacrifices. This is lire key, which unlocks the mystery as to the readiness, with which multitudes of our race have forsaken the dearest attractions of life, and subjected themselves to labor, peril and suffering. This explains the reasonableness of the holy enterprize, in which Francis Higginson and his associates embarked, not knowing what of earthly experience awaited them. But this they knew, and it was the impulse above all others, that the God whom they trusted and whom they served, would not suffer an iota of their devotedness to him and his cause, though hidden from the eye of human perception in its exercise and result, to be lost in his assignment of their everlasting portion. Connecting the short period of Mr. Higginsons continuance at Naumkcag, with that he passed in his father-land, we will endeavor to follow him by the comparatively small number of points in his history, which the consuming progress of time has left to our vision. He was the son of John Higginson, born 1587. He received his A. B. 1609, at Jesus College, and his A. M. 1613, at St. Johns, both of Cambridge University. We are informed, that he was settled as a strict conformist, with the rites and ceremonies of the national church, about I615, at Claybrooke, one of the parishes in Leicester. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original for

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• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1331867320
• ISBN 13: 9781331867326
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 30