"Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare PSALM Ixvi. 16. London : Printed by T. CORDEUX, for T. BLANSHARD, 14, City-Road, and THE EXPERIENCE OF MRS. H. A. ROGERS. read. 19 May 1982-Zubat I WAS born at Macclesfield, in Cheshire, Jan. 31, 1756, of which place my father was Minister for many years; being a Clergyman in the Church of England. He was a man of strict morals, and, as far as he was enlightened, of real piety. I was trained up in the observance of all outward duties, and in the fear of sins, which, in these modern times, are too often deemed accomplishments. I was not suffered to name God but with the deepest reverence; and, once for telling a lie, I was corrected in such a manner as I never forgot. We had constant family prayer; the sabbath was kept strictly sacred; and as far as outward morality, my parents lived irreproachably, and in all social duties, were regular and harmonious. I was early drawn out to secret prayer. I believed God was the Author of all good, of all happiness; and Sin the cause of all misery and pain. If, therefore, I wished for any thing I had not, I asked God, in secret, to grant it me A 2 |