{"id":7201,"date":"2021-09-30T00:51:54","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T00:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/?p=7201"},"modified":"2023-05-17T07:09:08","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T07:09:08","slug":"before-settling-in-manchester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/2021\/09\/before-settling-in-manchester\/","title":{"rendered":"Before Settling In Manchester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"large\">The following is a copy of the first letter by my father which is in my possession, and it is most likely the first one in existence. I have none between this and 1814. I give this as a curiosity. It was directed, \u201cMr. Warton, Nuneaton, near Kibworth, Leicestershire. With all speed.\u201d Kibworth is some miles from Nuneaton, and Nuneaton is now a large town. I cannot make out where Killuth is.<\/p>\n<p class=\"drop-cap\">My dear Friends,\u2014God willing, I shall be with you on Lord&#8217;s day the 25th of this instant; the which you may depend upon, if life and health, permit; and if the friends think well, I shall preach at Kibworth on the Lord&#8217;s day, at Mowsley on Monday, at Bosworth the next day, and at Killuth the next day. But if you have a minister for the Lord&#8217;s day, let me know by return of post.<\/p>\n<p>May the Lord bless you and keep you from day to day.<\/p>\n<p>Hinckley, July 19, 1802. Yours in the best Bonds.<\/p>\n<div class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"7201\" 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>The following is a copy of the first letter by my father which is in my possession, and it is most likely the first one in existence. I have none between this and 1814. I give this as a curiosity. It was directed, \u201cMr. Warton, Nuneaton, near Kibworth, Leicestershire. With all speed.\u201d Kibworth is some miles from Nuneaton, and Nuneaton is now a large town. I cannot make out where Killuth is. My dear Friends,\u2014God willing, I shall be with you on Lord&#8217;s day the 25th of this instant; the which you may depend upon, if life and health, permit; and if the friends think well, I shall preach at Kibworth on the Lord&#8217;s day, at Mowsley on Monday, at Bosworth the next day, and at Killuth the next day. But if you have a minister for the Lord&#8217;s day, let me know by return of post. May the Lord<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":14239,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[885],"tags":[1232,1226,1196],"class_list":["post-7201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-william-gadsbys-letters-complete","tag-baptist-history","tag-gospel-preachers","tag-pastoral-care"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7201","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7201"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15868,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7201\/revisions\/15868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}