November 8, 1809 letter from Baptist Noel to Thomas Haweis
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Title |
November 8, 1809 letter from Baptist Noel to Thomas Haweis |
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Post Date |
November 8, 1809 |
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Author |
Noel, Baptist |
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Recipient |
Haweis, Thomas (1734-1820) |
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Date |
1809-11-08 |
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Physical Description |
4 pp. total; 3 pp. text; 1 p. address |
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Dimensions |
37.3 x 23.9 cm |
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Location (Box, Folder) |
Box 2, File 21 |
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Address To |
Beaufort Buildings, Bath |
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Country To |
England |
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Address From |
Winkfield Rectory [Berkshire] |
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Country From |
England |
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Transcriber |
Gareth Lloyd |
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Plain Text Transcription |
From Baptist Noel at the Rectory in Winkfield, Berkshire to T.H. at Beaufort Buildings in Bath, Somerset. Noel does not know how to apologize for his negligence, but it has not been from want of will. He is very grateful for T.H.’s kind advice and he will certainly try to follow all of these wise words for it is his duty as well as his privilege and nothing delights him more than visiting the poor. Since T.H. last wrote, Noel has received ‘joyful news of our Lord’s grace in dealing with our beloved sister Mrs [unreadable name] in giving her a son that ‘he may be a son by adoption and grace of our almighty Jehovah.’ The Lord should be thanked that he has spared the life of such a sister who is rich in grace but afflicted in body. He was sorry that T.H. was not able to come over when he visited Turley. Last night Noel was at Road – he does not know if T.H. knows it or any of the Ledyard family where Mr L. and Mrs Jay were staying. Mr [William?] Jay was too ill to preach, so Mr March(?) (Noel thinks that he is from Frome in Somerset) preached instead – it was an excellent sermon from the text “to be spiritually minded is life and peace”. (Romans 8:6) (1 sheet, 3p.) 8 November 1809 William Jay 1769-1853) was born at Tisbury in Wiltshire, the son of a small freeholder and stonemason. Jay himself trained to be a stonemason but from 1785 started to study for the Congregational ministry at the academy run by Reverend Cornelius Winter. Jay started to preach at the age of 16 and had delivered over 1000 sermons by the time he came of age, earning himself the nickname ‘the boy preacher’. After leaving the academy in 1788, Jay worked as a lay pastor in Wiltshire and Bath. In 1791 he was ordained and appointed minister of Lady Glenorchy’s Argyle Chapel at Bath. His ministry at the chapel was to last for 62 years. Jay was an outstanding preacher possessed of the rare gift of touching all classes of people. He avoided gesture and rhetoric but relied instead on a simple earnest discourse. Jay was also a prolific writer whose published sermons were influential in both Britain and the United States. Jay was a patron of many societies and an enthusiastic supporter of the London Missionary Society. |
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Digital Resources Type |
Image |
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Digitization Date |
Digitized: 2012 |
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Digitization Process |
Digitization process: Derivatives resized at 4030 pixels in height or width |
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Digital Publisher |
Bridwell Library, Special Collections; Perkins School of Theology; Southern Methodist University |
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Rights |
Permission to publish materials must be obtained from the Head of Special Collections of the Bridwell Library |
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Decade |
1800-1809 |
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