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Excerpt from The Diary of the Rev. Henry Newcome, From September 30, 1661, to September 29, 1663 Newcome composed three journals. The first, the Diary, though only commenced at Cambridge in 1646, was car ried back to the writer's birth in 1627, and ended with his death in 1695. The only portion of this work with which we are acquainted, is here printed; it extends from Sep tember 30, 1661, to September 29, 1663. The value of the book consists in its having been written as the events it describes occurred, and in its being designed solely for the author's use. The passages of life are set down to be me dilated upon, and as disguise would have been the writer's own fraud upon himself, it evidently does not exist, eripitur persona, manet res. Whilst we perceive some faults in the full revealment thus afforded, as a want of moral courage and an exaggeration of theological trifles into essentials, yet, tried by this severe test, Newcome deserves the reputation which he has ever enjoyed - of being an earnest Christian. His Objections to the Church are inconsistent and trifling, propugnat nugis armatus; and the vulgar belief, that a Puritan minister was necessarily a melancholy person, will not be removed by a perusal of this diary. It is, perhaps. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.