{"id":25468,"date":"2025-08-14T00:39:47","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T00:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/?p=25468"},"modified":"2025-08-14T00:40:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T00:40:53","slug":"the-life-and-testimony-of-elizabeth-ainscow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/2025\/08\/the-life-and-testimony-of-elizabeth-ainscow\/","title":{"rendered":"The Life And Testimony Of Elizabeth Ainscow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Gospel Standard 1872:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Death. On Oct. 28th, 1871, aged 54, Elizabeth Ainscow, a member at Zoar Chapel, Preston.<\/p>\n<p>She was sister to the late Mrs. M&#8217;Kenzie, and was brought up in the Church of England; but when very young she was led to see that she was a great sinner; and living in a country village, near Preston, she used to go into the fields, and there implored the forgiveness of her sins. One day the passage, &#8220;Come, let us reason together,&#8221; was applied so powerfully to her that she ex- claimed, &#8220;What, Lord? Reason with me, a poor sinner like me?&#8221; She went home and told her mother (a God-fearing woman) what love she felt, and how the passage of scripture was applied to her heart. She was afterwards led to hear Mr. M&#8217;Kenzie preach, and was subsequently baptized by him.<\/p>\n<p>She was a kind friend to the cause at Zoar, and firmly established in the truths of the gospel. Latterly she had much bodily affliction; but she had a sweet confidence that she was a sinner saved by sovereign grace.<\/p>\n<p>In her last illness she was visited by two of the members of the church, who said to her, &#8220;W e were very desirous to see you again at Zoar.&#8221; She said, &#8220;I am longing to go to chapel again.&#8221; She expressed her love and attachment to God&#8217;s people, and that she was resting on his everlasting love.<\/p>\n<p>She suddenly got worse, and died the same evening. Our loss is her eternal gain.<\/p>\n<p>J. H.<\/p>\n<div class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"25468\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"box-shadow:none;-webkit-box-shadow:none;-moz-box-shadow:none;\"><div class=\"bookmark-off\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She was sister to the late Mrs. M&#8217;Kenzie, and was brought up in the Church of England; but when very young she was led to see that she was a great sinner; and living in a country village, near Preston, she used to go into the fields, and there implored the forgiveness of her sins. One day the passage, &#8220;Come, let us reason together,&#8221; was applied so powerfully to her that she ex- claimed, &#8220;What, Lord? Reason with me, a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":25467,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1861],"tags":[1232],"class_list":["post-25468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elizabeth-ainscow","tag-baptist-history"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25469,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25468\/revisions\/25469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}