Account of the Experience of Mrs. H.A. Rogers / Spiritual Letters of Mrs. H.A. Rogers; Calculated to Illustrated & Enforce Holiness of Heart & Life / The Character & Death of Mrs. Hester Ann Rogers; Set Forth in a Sermon etc. (3 TITLES TOGETHER in 1 BOOK)

Rogers, H.A. [Hester Ann]

Published by Printed by T. Cordeux, Sold by T. Blanshard, London, 1818

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THREE TITLES TOGETHER in the ONE BOOK. Three separate related titles, with full titles as follows: Account of the Experience of Mrs. H.A. Rogers - Written by Herself, with a Brief Extract from Her Diary / Spiritual Letters of Mrs. H.A. Rogers; Calculated to Illustrated & Enforce Holiness of Heart & Life / The Character & Death of Mrs. Hester Ann Rogers; Set Forth in a Sermon, Preached on the Occasion, in Spitalfields Chapel, London, on Sunday, Oct. 26, 1794, by the Rev. Thomas Coke - Also an Appendix, Written by Her Husband; With Various Pieces, Selected & Transcribed by Him from Her Manuscript Journals. The first title is dated 1818, the second & third titles are dated 1822. Paginated separately. "Hester Ann Rogers (1756-1794) was a British Methodist writer. She had a strict but caring upbringing. She was confirmed in 1769 by the Bishop of Chester, Edmund Keene, into the Church of England. She dated her conversion to Methodism to 11 November 1774 after hearing Samuel Bardsley preach. He was one of John Wesley's Methodist itinerant preachers. Hester began a lifelong correspondence with the Methodist founder John Wesley after meeting him in 1776. She was a Methodist class leader and one her students was Agnes Bulmer. Hester visited the sick. Five years later she met another Methodist preacher named James Rogers and his wife Ann. His wife died in February 1784 after childbirth and in line with Ann's wishes James married Hester in the following August. They both then went to evangelise in Ireland. Rogers died in Birmingham in 1794. After her death, a sermon entitled The Character and Death of Mrs. Hester Ann Rogers was published which presents Hester Rogers' life as a role model for female Methodists. The sermon had been given by Bishop Thomas Coke at Spitalfields and it had been published with an appendix by her husband. By 1876 it had been reworked into a Methodist tract." Printed by T. Cordeux, London. BOOK BLOCK ONLY without binding, all that remains is the leather gilt-ruled spine with gilt-lettered maroon leather label ("Life of Rogers"). NOTE: A FAIR COPY ONLY. Covers detached, much handling wear, upper corner of final pages heavily creased (with small marginal loss), mild foxing, former owner's neat ink notation (dated 1828) to top of first title page, top edge of title page clipped, otherwise a solid complete copy. Internally Very Good. 76pp + 105pp + 108pp. RARE. SB-93. Seller Inventory # 007002

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Title: Account of the Experience of Mrs. H.A. ...

Publisher: Printed by T. Cordeux, Sold by T. Blanshard, London

Publication Date: 1818

Binding: Leather

Condition: Fair

Edition: First Edition