Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1820 Excerpt: ... calmness and indifference. "Secondly, That you take off your mind from me, and fix it unmoveably upon your eternal relation, the Lord Jesus Christ; in whose glorious and blessed presence, we shall meet ere long, to our eternal rejoicing. It is the goodness of the Lord to us, to remove all creature-comforts from us, that our souls might have no resting place to delight in, or to promise them safety, until we return to the ark of his testimony, the bosom of his love, manifested and exhibited for us in our blessed Lord Jesus Christ. I write in baste, therefore excuse my abruptness. "Thine in sincere love, "Toioer, Sept. 19, 1660. - John Jones." Mr. Corbet was a gentleman of an ancient and honourable family in Norfolk, who after going through his academical studies, settled himself to the profession of the law, and was for many years a member and resident in Lincoln's-lnn. It cannot be objected to him as to many others of his republican brothers, that he was one of the mushroom breed, engendered only and fostered through the troubles of the times they lived in, Mr. Corbet having been returned a member to serve in every successive parliament for thirty-seven years prior to the restoration; he was burgess of, and recorder for, Great Yarmouth, in the long parliament; early became a committee-man for the County of Norfolk; and, from his well known legal abilities, was, by the parliament in 1644, made clerk of the court of wards; and in March, 1647-8, he, with Mr. Robert Goodwin, were made registrars of the Court of Chancery, in the room of Colonel Long, one of the eleven impeached members; this place alone, to Mr. Corbet, was worth seven hundred pounds a year. Corbet had the principal management of the office of sequestration against the l..."
