Autograph 'Advice from John Blackburne of Orford - to his grandson J B of Hale & Orford [i.e. the future Member of Parliament for Lancashire John Blackburne of Hale Hall]'

Two documents, with covering leaf (1p., 8vo) carrying the following note by the recipient: 'Advice from John Blackburne of Orford - to his grandson J B of Hale & Orford 1770'. The first document is 2pp., 8vo.; the second 5pp., 8vo. In fair condition, on aged paper, with wear and chipping to extremities. Both documents in the elder Blackburne's remarkably neat and close hand, with occasional emendations. Both document with 'By my Grandfather' by the recipient at the end. The first document is headed 'My dear Grandson' and begins: 'I sincerely wish that you may enjoy true comfrort in this world & go to heaven when you die; neither of wh. can happen without living under a due sense of your duty to god your neighbour & your self, & leading a religious life; we are sent into the world not like to the leviathan in the deep to take our pastime therein, but to improve our nature (corrupted by the fall) by conforming our lives to the doctrine contained in the Scriptures'. The second document begins: 'Adam was created in the Image of God, & indeed with talents equal to the tryal he was to undergoe, yet as he was placed in a state of probation, that necessarily imply's a possibility of falling & a free will in the Agent otherwise there cou'd be no merit in obedience'. The second document concludes: '[...] bread & wine, wch. after consecration become the Eucharist, the representatives of our Saviour bleeding & dying on the cross for our redemption & are as food to our Souls & intitle us to all the benefit of his sufferings: on our devoutly praying for it, he hath promised us the assistance of his holy Spirit, to be with us allways even to the end of the world, to enable us to know & practice the Dutys of a Christian'.