7.0 OF HESTER ANN ROGERS; AND HER FUNERAL SERMON, BY REV. DR. COKE. TO WHICH ARE ADDED HER SPIRITUAL LETTERS. Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what New-York: PUBLISHED BY CARLTON & PORTER, 200 MULBERRY-STREET. 1857. Gift Tappan Press. Ass. 11-11-1931 EXPERIENCE OF MRS HESTER ANN ROGERS. I was born at Macclesfield, in Cheshire, January 31, 1756, of which place my father was minister for many years; being a clergyman of 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 those 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 constantly 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 to me. And in any pain of body, or in any of my childish grief, I fled to him for ease and comfort; and it would be incredible to some, how often |