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Letter from Cowling
Hill Baptist Chapel to the Church at
Bacup - 1756
Supplied By:
Eric Emmott
Dearly Beloved Brethren in Christ Whom we Esteem as Such
you being always Sociable Agreeable and Christian Like
Disposed to us witnessed by your Kind Receiving Gentle
Dealing and Constant Care for us, Since Received into
Church fellowship with you. Which we trust hath been
God's Care Manifested Instrumentally by you to usward.
But we having for sometime Laboured under Many
Difficulties, which, you are not unacquainted with, Yet
we have not been Straitned from you but Mostly from our
own bowels, But however the Reason we have to Shew for
Separating from you and Gathering into a Body of our
Selves; Ariseth not from any Disagreeableness Either in
Minister or People, Nor from the Dislike of Doctrines or
Discipline; our principles being Agreed so far as we
have knowledge one of another Not withstanding our
weakness both in principles and practice. But our only
Reasons are the Distance we live one from another, and
the Inconvenience of our Ministerial Supplies. These
Cases have been often Mentioned both by us and you, and
our well Beloved Pastor Jospeh Piccop; who himself hath
laboured amongst us in Very faithfulness and Openly
Showed his Constant Care over us A Loving Kindness
towards us, in his Laborious pains & Industry So far as
possible in Every Respect. And Now at Length the
providence of God, our Long Suffering and Gracious God,
hath seen meet to favour us with the privilege of
Sending amongst us our beloved Brother in Christ Stephen
Wilkinson, whom we hope the Sovereign Lord Almighty hath
made faithful and able to Dispense the word and
Ordinances of God unto as agreeable to the Revealed Will
of God
The people at Cowling Hill to the Church at Baccop
Give in the names as followeth
1. Colbeck Sugdon
2. James Emmott
3. Ellener Emmott
4. Willm. Cowgill
5. Eliz. th Cowgill
6. Chris. Emmott
7. Grace Emmott
8. Willm. Smith
9. Willm. Mattock
10. Margress Pighles
11. Susanna Waddylove
12. Joseph Wattson
13. Martha Wattson
14. Eliz.th Barbour
15. Hannah Thistlewait
16. Peter Wattson
17. Margrett Smith
18. Anne Thompson
19. John Naylor
20. Phillis Holdsworth
21. Mary Eastwood
22. James Wallbank
23. Elizabeth Hargreaves
24. James Emmott
25. Liddya Emmott
26. George Thristlewait
27. Sarah Thristlewait
28. John Tillottson
29. Anne Smith
30. Robert Wright
31. Stephen Wilkinson
32. Henry Smith
33. Jane Smith
In all 33 in number.
Signed at our Church at Cowling Hill July the 4th 1756. |
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