GLEANINGS OF THE VINTAGE; OR LETTERS TO THE SPIRITUAL EDIFICATION OF THE CHURCH OF CHRIST; BY THE REF. WILLIAM HUNTINGTON, S. S. LATE MINISTER OF THE GOSPEL, AT PROVIDENCE CHAPEL, GRAY'S INN LANE. PART VI. There shall be as the shaking of an olive tree, and as the gleaning Isa. xxiv. 13. The new wine is found in the cluster, and one saith, Destroy it not, LONDON: PUBLISHED BY E. HUNTINGTON, 55, HIGH STREET, BLOOMSBURY. CHRISTIAN READER, IN preparing the fifth part of this work for the press, my attention was arrested by a particular passage in the thirty-first letter, and on the ninety-fifth page, the words are these, 'Nevertheless the time will come when Christ will say, what I will not say, namely, that they shall know that there hath been a prophet among them!' This letter was penned in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, and it struck me as being remarkable because of its coincidence with what forms a striking feature in his epitaph, For England and its metropolis shall know that there hath been a prophet among them!' I advert to this merely to shew that it was no hasty conclusion of my father's mind, but that he expressed the same opinion in confidence, eighteen years before his decease. The first letters of this part are of a very early date, written during his abode at Thames Ditton, and were addressed to Samuel, the husband of Ann Webb, whose name is recorded in the Bank of Faith; she is still living, and feels a pleasure in surrendering them up for a short period, for thy use and benefit. High Street, Nov. 9, 1813. E. HUNTINGTON. |
