ABSTRACT
The Reverend J. Glyde was born at Exeter on the 1st of January, 1808. It was his frequent custom to refer to the blessings of a pious ancestry, and to claim descent from three ministers ejected in the time of Charles II. His parents were distinguished for piety; the father being a deacon of one of the Independent churches of Exeter, and his mother an eminent example of tenderness, virtue, and consecration to God … Mr. Glyde’s conviction was that ‘where a religious education has been enjoyed, and where, from infancy, it has been the aim of parental anxiety to keep the conscience awake, and to promote religious impressions, it is often impossible to fix the precise period of the consecration of the heart to God’. Nor did he know the exact moment of his own conversion, – in this he resembled Richard Baxter, and other eminent servants of Christ.
