OF MISS SARAH BROSTER, OF CHESTER. BY THE REV. P. C. TURNER. LONDON: W. F. CALDER, 180, OXFORD STREET, AND SOLD BY JOHN MASON, 14, CITY-ROAD, AND 66, PATERNOSTER-ROW. 1839. PREFACE. THE Editor regrets that the following Memoir is not all that it might have been, if he could have given more time to the compilation of it. He has endeavoured so to arrange Miss Broster's papers as to make her, her own Biographer, and he will feel repaid for the attention which he has given to this work, if those whe read, shall glorify God in her. He yielded to the wishes of his friends in undertaking what he fears is very imperfectly performed, and commits the whole to their indulgence and the blessing of Almighty God. Devonport, November, 20th, 1838. MEMOIR OF MISS SARAH BROSTER. "When we find any excellent persons our world attain far and high towards the perfection of the heavenly state, it ought to be a great encouragement to us, and is an obligation to aspire to some like pitch :-wê see it is not an impossible or an impracticable thing; and should disdain to crawl now as worms, when we are to soar as angels. "The spirits of the just on earth, are in a great propinquity, and have a near alliance to Heaven. They have in them here the first principles, the elements of their final blessedness,—heaven in little, as the acorn contains the tree, or the embryo the man." Howe. MISS SARAH BROSTER was born in the city of Chester, in the year 1770. She was the eldest daughter of the late Mr. Alderman Peter Broster, who, with his lady and family, was a regu B |