William Jay
William Jay
The Rev. William Jaywas an English nonconformist divine who preached for sixty years at Argyle Chapel in Bath. He is considered to be one of the most eminent English Congregationalist preachers of Regency England; one of the first Independents or Congregationalists to articulate the Great Awakening or Religious Revival championed by George Whitfield and John Wesley...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth6 May 1769
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A dislike of death is no proof of the want of religion. The instincts of nature shrink from it, for no creature can like its own dissolution. But though death is not desired, the result of it may be, for dying to the Christian is the way to life eternal.
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Only the active have the true relish of life.
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Half the pleasure of solitude comes from having with us some friend to whom we can say how sweet solitude is