Memoirs of the First Forty Five Years of the Life of James Lackington
Memoirs of the First Forty Five Years of the Life of James Lackington
James Lackington
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Our room over-looked the Church-yard, which contributed to increafe my gloomy ideas ; and I had fo much of the fpiritual quix- otifm in me, that I foon began to think that it was not enough for me to fave my own foul, but I ought in confciepce to attempt the converfion of my companions, who (I really believed) were in the high road to hell, and every moment liable to eternal dam- nation. Of this charitable difpofition are almoft all the methodifts ; who, as Hudibras fays, " Compound for fins th...ey are inclin'd to, " By damning thofe they have no mind to. " The frequency of newly-opened graves, which we faw from our windows, furnifhed me with opportunities for defcanting on the uncertainty LIFE OF J. LACKINGTON. 165 uncertainty of life and all fublunary enjoy- ments; I aflured them that nothing deferved attention but what related to our ever- lafting ftate, and that they might, on their repentance, receive in one moment the par- don of all their fins, have a foretafte of the joys of heaven, and know that their names were enrolled in the book of life.
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