Memoirs of Dr. Joseph Priestley, to the year 1795 / written by himself: with a continuation, to the time of his decease, by his son, Joseph Priestley: and observations on his writings, by Thomas Cooper ... and the Rev. William Christie.

  • Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804.
Date:
1806-1807
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Credit: Memoirs of Dr. Joseph Priestley, to the year 1795 / written by himself: with a continuation, to the time of his decease, by his son, Joseph Priestley: and observations on his writings, by Thomas Cooper ... and the Rev. William Christie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    AF 28 I, found myself:incommoded. by the rigour of the congrégation with which I was.connected,. I'shall al- ways'acknowledge with great eratitude:that. I owe much to;it, The business of religion, was effectual. lic till, we were grown up; servants as well as/o- with as much regularity as he preached, and. there was hardly a day in the week, in which there was not’some meeting of one or other part of the congre* gation, On one evening there was a meeting of the young men for conversation and prayer. . This I con- stantly attended, praying Seapine with. others when called upon. ‘At'my ‘Aunt’s there was a monthly meeting of wo- men, who acquitted.themselves in prayer as well as ing at first a child in the family, I was permitted to Aunt after the death of her husband, prayed every seventeen, when that duty devolved upon ite ocure The Lord’s day was kept with peculiar strictness, Nog