A short account of the life and death of the late Mr. N. Aspden, surgeon, of Blackburn / by T. Wood.

  • Wood, Thomas, -1826.
Date:
1798
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Credit: A short account of the life and death of the late Mr. N. Aspden, surgeon, of Blackburn / by T. Wood. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    unto the glory and firaife oj God;—IVifdom is juflijied of her children. And as he loved the gofpel himfelf, fo he wiflie'd all its profeffors to walk worthy of their high vocation. He considered this as the greateft proof, and moft powerful recommendation of true religion. And if he faw, or heard, of any thing, in any religious profeffor. contrary to this, he was much grieved •, and his zeal for God and hatred to fin, led him fometimes into what fome might call feve- rity towards thofe, who, through unwatchfulnefs or temptation had been overcome of evil. Pride, the firff-born of the devil, he could not endure. He viewed it as being oppoiite to the difpofition and injunction of our bleffed Saviour. Such are the bleffed effedts of real religion, that in this refpedl he was a new creature. And when he faw it in any one, he would, either diredtly, or indiredtly, have a Broke at it, and endeavour to bring it down, and, if poffible, cut it up by the roots. It has a baneful influence: Only by p.ride cometh contention; and ■•where envying and ftrife is, there is coif uf on and every evil •work. It often introduces fchifm into religious fo- ciety : and, O what a horrid thing is fchifm ! u It has, I believe,” lays Dr. Coke, 44 injured the work of God in the different ages of the world, more than ail the outward vices of mankind. It fignifies but little to the individuals themfelves, whether they be grofs tinners or painted fepulchres: But the fpirit of Ichiftn enters within the vail, nips in the bud all the fair bloffoms of grace, eats up the vitals of religion, quenches the whole fpirit of a revival, and