THE
CLU A K E R
AND
MET HODIST
COMPARED.
In an Abstract of
George Fox's Journal^
With a Copy of his
Laft Wi L LandTfi s t a m e n T;»
And of the Reverend
Mr. George fFJytteJiehfs Journals,
WITH
Historical Notes,
Humbly recommended cothe Pcrufalof thcQuAKERS
and Methodists.
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PREFACE.
ii"w^^feL^-
7" //;/(/?, 1 ihink^ 7nanif(:flh appear t§
every candid and unprejudiced Render
of tbefe Abftrafls, that George Fox,
the Facher cf the Quakers, and the
Reverend Mr. George Wliircfield, one
cf the Apoftles of the Methodifts, m
man-: Rejfe:i5 refemhie each other ^ and that, votwith-
fiatidmg they may pcjjihly differ w fome particular Points
and Sentiments, they are both fond of the Jame Phrafc
and Diftion •, and their Pretences to Inlpiration, to a
very intirndte Familiarity with the Deity, and the
Pczier of working Miracles, are of the fame Stamp
and Author ity.
IVhether Mr. Whittfield eier had the Curiofity to
read George Fox'j Journal, being an utter Stra?:ger to
his Perfon, and having but a very flcndcr Acquaintance
ijith his fVritings (his Journals excepted) J cannot pre-
tend to determine : But fur e I am, uhoever compares it
tilth his own Journals, may, witLout a Spirit of Divi-
niiion, pronounce them both to proceed from an enthufi-
aflic Spirit.
The Conduct, indeed, cf the Methodifts ;// carcfling
the DilTcnters of all Denominations, particularly the
Quakers, is to me- a plain Indication, that at (eajl they
bavc no Antipathy to (/^eir Principles. Nay, J think
lam
•Vsi %j j_
P R E F A C E.
7 ,i>fi z-rr\ n'l'Jiblj {>; former!, that they have nlrrady
iIogniati.al!y deilarcdt th'it ilr Qthiktr is right in
rvery Article^ excepiiiii only in the Crt/(? 0/ Sacraments
end Ivthcs.
k^.\U the Coiifr-quenre of this tipzu Do^riiie -lvHI b^,
ccn/uJrrif7g the Ciddifiefs of the wavering, unflablc Po-
]iulacf, their Creedine/s (svilb the Arhciiians of old) 6f
iinlil)i}:g the Poylon of Novelty, and even their Affec-
tion for Delufion, it is not difficult to prefage.
This is, tm/i certain, as vilifyng the excellent Liturgy
cf the Church <?/^ England, decrying all ^cho]Al\\c and
Academical Learning, and redictning the learned Lan^
^uageSy are the common Topicks of their popular Ha-
rangues, lie have little R/afcn to expt(5l a good one.
1 JJjall conclude this jhort Preface in the IVords of a
late RL'vert-nd and I earnfd {a') Divine, " IVhcn ize
" Jb all fee in their Ajfemllies (ffedking cf the Quikers)
** as the unbelieving Jews and Gentiles dia^ in the
*' Primitive Chriltian Meetings, that they have the
" Gift of Tongues, and the Gift ot interp-eting
** t her erf : JFhen^ together ijuith the Gii't of Tongue.%
** i^jejhalljee^ that they have, as the Chaiftians had^
** all the other miraculous Gifts -, 'ujhcn^ vcith all this^
" they fljall preach no other Doolrwe than ichat the
*' Apodles had preached , ^;r^ //>f Catholick Church
** received, &c. then ':ve will believe that it is the
*' Spirit -ujhich is j peaking in them, and that God is in
*< them, and among them of a Truth: But till then,
*' 'ic-e nu'.Jl helie-^e them all to be Impof^ors, or Enthu-
*' fiafts, and Blafphemers of the Holy Ghoil.
(a) Dr. Hicks'i Sermon, iotitlcd, Tic Sfnit of Ent'':uf..if>r
rxt)rcired. Sermons, vul. i. p 102.
A N
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ABSTRACT
O F
George Fox's Journal.
Page i.
Was born ac Drayton in the Clay, in
Leicejierjljlre, 1024, my Father a
Weaver,
P. 2.] As I grew up, my Retla-
tions thouglit to have made me a
Fr'iejl \ but others perfuaded to the
contrary. Whereupon, I was put to a Man thac
was a (^) Shoefnaker by Trade, &c. Whilft I was
with him he was hkjfed -, but after I left him, he
broke, and came to nothing — For the Lord's Power
was with me, and over me, to prelerve me.
P, 3.] At the Cotmnand of God, on the 9th Day
of the 7th Month, 1643, I left my Relations, and
brake off" all Familiarity with Young or Old, aiid
palTed to Lutterworth ; from thence to Northampton ;
B from
(») Alexander Rcfs [View of all Religions in the IVorlJ^ 6th
Edit, p, 4203" fBentions one Herman, a Cobler, of Opzant (an
Anahaftijl) who profeired himfelfa true Prophc:, that he v, as
the true M^^^j, X^xSn-^wir^ zni Redeemer of the I'Vc'lJ.
from thence to NcWfort-PagneU in Euck'mghatnjhire \
from thence to Bnrnet — Now, during the Time 1
was at Bartiet, a ftrong Temptation to [h) Defpai'r'
came upon me •, and then 1 law how Cbrifl wa's terrpt-
ed, and mighty '['roubles I was in •, fome times t
kept myfcH retired in my Chamber, and ottcii
walk'd iolitary in the Chaccy there to wait upon the
Lord.
P. 5.] As I was walking in a Field on a firfl: Day
Morning, 1646, near Coventry^ the Lord opened to
me, I'hat being bred at (c) Oxford and Cambridge^
was
{b) Mr. Lffley obferves [Smike in the Grafs, 3d Edit. p. 33]
' That as George Fcx, the Shoemaker^ and Lodo'duick MuggletOH^
* the Taylor, were equal in their Endowments j fo the Ground
' and Occafion of their Enthufium was the lame j that is, De-
' /fair : Fer (b Georgi Fox tells us of himfelf, in the Beginning
' of his Journal, p. 3, 4, s, 8, &c. And I had it, fays be, as
' fo Muggleton, from his own Mouth, long before Fox's Jour-
' nal was printed. 1 hey were both fo deeply feized with De-
' fpair, that, like the fojf-fs'd Man in theGofpel, they forfook"
' all human Converfation.
(c) Gerard Brandt informs us [See Abridgment of hisHiftory
of the Reformation in the £ou' Cci/«?//Vj, London, 1725, p- 39j
" That the Anabaftijis in Holland, about the Year 1534, af-
*' firm'd, Thar it was needlefs to apply onefelf to y4rts and Sei-
*' tr.ces ; that Knowledge was to be fought in God alone."
Mr. i^eljon (in his Life of Bifhop Bull, p. 80.) gives the fol-
lowing remarkable Acc(vjnt '* There was one who was a
*' Preacher among them [the ^akerj'\ who would Irequently
*' accoft Mr. Bull -. And once more particularly, faid he, George^
*' as for human Learning I let no \'alue upon it, but if thou -wilt
" talk Scripture, have at thee. Upon which Mr. Bull, willing
" to corred his Confidence, and to fhew him how unable he
" was to fupport his Pretenhons, anfwercd him, Come on then.,
" Friend. So opening the Bible, which lay before them, he
*' fell upon the Book ot Proverbs . Seelt thou, Friend, faid he,
" Solomon faith in one Place, y^ifwer a Fool according to his
*' Folly ; and in another Place, j-infvjer not a Fool according to
" his Folly. How doft thoj reconcile thefe two Texts of
'* Scripture? Why, faid the Preacher, Solomon dont fay fo.
" To which Mr. Bull replied, y(y but he doth j and turning
" to the Places, be loon convinced him. Upon which the
" Sluaker, hereat being much out of Countenance, laid, li^ hy
*' t'le/i Solomon'-' a Fool . Which ended the Controverly.
[3 ]
was not enough to fit and qualify Men to be Mini-
fters of Chriji, I ftranged at it, becaufc it was the
common Belief of People: But I faw it clearly, as
the Lord opened it to me, and was fatisfied, and
admired the Goodnefs of the Lord, who had opened
this Thing unro me that Morning.
P. 6.] At another Time it wns opened in me.
That God, who made ths ff^orld, did Jiot dwell in Tem-
ples made with Hafids. This, at firft, feemed a {d)
flrange Word, becaufe both Prieib and People ufe
to call their Temples, or Churches, dreadful Places,
and holy Ground, and the Temples of God : But
the Lord fhevved me, fo that I did fee clearly, that
he did not dwell in thefe Temples which Men had
commanded and fet up, but in People's Hearts. —
This opened on me as I walked in the Fields to
my Relation's Houfe ; and when I came there, they
told me, that Nathaniel Stephens^ the Priell, had
been there, and told them, he was afraid of me for
going after new Lights : And I fmiled in n)yfelf,
knowing what the Lord had opened in m,e concern-
ing him and his Brethren -, but I told not my Rela-
tions, who, tho' they faw beyond the Priefts, they
went to hear them, and were grieved becaufe I
would not go alio : But I brought them Scriptures,
and told them, there was an Anointivg within Man
to teach him, and that the Lord would teach his
People himfelf : And 1 had great Openings concern-
ing the Things written in the Re^celations \ and when
I fpake of them, the Priejts and Profejfors would
fay, That was a fealed Book, and would have kept
me out of it j but 1 told them, That Chriji could
B 2 open
(i) Mr. LeJIey, in his Obfervation upon rhis PafTage [^Snake
in the Grafs, p. 3^sJ ^^y^^ " ^''^i '^ leems, did noc know be-
** fore but that God d.vck in a Church, as a Man does in a
** Houfe, \o as to be lock'd up, and to be no wbei« eife when
*' he was there. Thii is a worthy Man to make a Prof bet of!
*' and thefe are notable Difcoveriss that he has made I and fuch
" are all hii Difcourfes , all his n:uu Light.
[4]
open the Seals, and that they were the nearcft Things
to us.
P. 6.] About the Beginning of the Year 1647,
I was fhoved of the Lord to go into Derby/hire^ where
1 met with feme friendly People, and had many
Difcourfcs with them.
P. 7.] I was often under great Temptations, and
I faded much, and walked abroad in folitary Pla-
ces many Days, and often took my Bible and went
and fat in hollow Trees, and lonefome Places, till
Night came on, and frequently in the Nighc walk-
ed mournfully about by myfclf •, for I was a Man
of Sorrows in the Time of the firjl JVorkmgs of the Lord
in me : And tho* my Exercifes and Troubles were
very great, yet were not they fo continual, but that
I had fome IntermifTions, and was fome times
brought into fuch a heavenly Joy, that I thought i
had been in Abraham's Bofom.
P. 8. J Now, after 1 had received that Opening
from the Lord, That to be bred at (e) Oxford or
Camhrid^ey was not fufficicnt to fit a Man to be a
Minifter of Chrifl, I regarded the Priejls lefs, and
looked more after the d:ffentwg People ; and among
them I faw there was fome Tendernefs, and many
of them came afterwards to be convinced, for they
had fome Openings.
P. 9.] Again I heard a Voice, which did fay.
Thou Serpent^ thou dojt feek to deflroy this Life, hut
canfi not ; for the Sword which keepeth the Tree of
Lye /hail deflroy thee : So ChrijJ^ the Word of God,
which bruifcd the Head of the Serpent the Deftroyer,
preferved
(e) " Had this Cai/er (fayj M;. L'JIfy, Snakf in the Grafs^
" p. 334.) and his Brother Botcher, Mkggleton, been bred at
" Cambridge or Oxford, in all Probabllicy the Nation had been
'' free from both theie Madmen ; they had not been fo mad, fo
" [ottijbly ignsrant^ to take the commonejt Notioni in the World
'' (or (uch. t'Vonderi^ {uchfufernatural Revelations j and to have
*' magnified thcmfelves above all Mankind^ for what ail Man-
kind knew better than they did.
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preferved me i my inward Mind being joined to his
good Seed, that bruifed the Head of this Serpent
the Dcftroyer, and this inward Life did fpring up in
me, to anfwcr all the oppofing Profejfors and Priefisy
and did bring Scriptures into my Memory to confute
them with.
P. 12.] I wondered that the Children o^ Ifrael
(hould murmer tor Water and Viftuals ; for I could
have fiaftcd long without murmuring or minding
Vidluals. But I was judged fometimes, that I was
not contented to be fometimes without the fFaier
and Bread of Z,z/<?, that I might learn to know how
to ivani, and how to abound.
And I heard of a Woman in Lancafiire, that
had failed iwo and twenty Days, and I travelled to
fee her ; but when I came to her, I faw that Ilie was
under a Temptation •, and. when I had fpoken to her
what I had from the Lord, I left her, her Father
being one high in Profeffion : And pafTing on, I went
among the ProfefTors at Buckenfield and Manchefier^
where 1 ftaid awhile, and declared Truth among
them : And there were fome convinced, who re-
ceived the Lord's Teaching, by which they were con-
firmed, and ftood in the Truth ; but the Profejfors
were in a Rage, all pleading for Sin and Imper-
fcclion i and could not endure to hear talk of Per-
fe^ion, and of an Holy and {f) Smlejs Life : But the
Lord's
(/) Is Gtorge Fox, or St. J^ohn to be believed, who, in his
ift Eplftle, chap i. ver. 8, g. fays, 1/ we fay that -we have no
Sin, we deceive ourftlves, mnd the Truth is not in us. If ive con-
fefs our Sins, he is faithful and ^uji to forgive us our Sins, and to
cleanfe us from all Unrighteoufnefs. Mr. Lcfley fays, Snake in the
Grafs, p. 8. " That they make themfelves equal with Gody
** infallible and ferfcSly finlcfs, as He is. They laugh at us
" for confefling ourfelves to be Sinners, or praying to God for
*' Mercy." Jlas I foor Souls (fays Mr. Fen, in his Truth ex-
halted) of the Church oi England. Are you not at have Mercy
riifon MS miferable Sinners j There is r.o Health in us, from Seven
to Seventy ? And for this he upbraids the Church oi England as
Oppofers oiPer/e£fiov.
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Lord's Power was over all, tho' they were chain*<i
under Darknefs and Sin, which they pleaded for,
and quenched the tender Things in them.
P. 13.] As I was walking by the Steeple Houfe in
the Town of Mansfield^ the Lord faid unto me,
^bat which People trample upon mujl be thy Food :
And as the Lord fpake, he opened it to me, how
that People and Profeflbrs did trample upon the
Life, even the Life of Chrijl was trampldi upon i
and they fed upon Words, and fed one another
with "Words, but trampled upon the Life, and tram-
pled under Foot the Blood of God. It feem'd
ftrange to me at firfl:, that I fhould feed upon that
which the high Profelfors trampled upon, but the
Lord opened, it to me clearly hy his eternal Spirit
and Power. Then came People far and near to fee
roe, and I was fearful to be drawn out by them ;
yet I was made to fpeak, and open Things to
them. There was one Brown who had great Pro-
phecies and Sights upon his Death Bed of me ; and
he fpoke openly of what I ihould be made inftru-
mental by the Lord to bring forth : And of others
he fpake. That they Ihould come to nothing -,
which vyas fulfilled on fome that were then fomcthing
in Shew. And when this Man was buried, a great
Work fell upon me, to the Admiration of many,
who thought I had been dead . And many came to
fee me for about fourteen Days Time [g) for I was
very much altered in Countenance and Per/on, as if
my Body had been new vioulded^ or changed. And
while 1 was in this Condition, I had a 5>cnfe and
Difcerning given me by the Lord, thro' which I
faw plainly, that when many People talked of God^
and of Cbrijl, ^c. the Serpent fpake in them ; but
this was hard to be borne.
P. 14]
(g) This dark EnthufiAji^ I prefume, took this Change to be
Hk.c our hiejfed Saviour's Transfiguration.
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P. 14.] A Report went abroad of me. That I
was a young Man that had a difcerning Spirit ;
whereupon many came to me from far and near,
Profejfors, Pfiejis, and People, and the Lord*s
Power brake forth, and I had great Openings and
Prophecies^ and I fpake unto them concerning the
Things of God.
Ibid.] Jn the Year 1648, as I was fitting in a
Friend* s Houfe in Nottingham/hire (for by this Time
the Power of God had opened the Hearts of fome
to receive the Word of Life and Reconciliation) I
faw there was a great Crack to go throughout the
Earth, and a great Smoke to go as the Crack went ;
and that, after the Crack, there fhould be a great
Shaking : This was the Earth in People's Hearts,
which was to be ihaken, before the Seed of God
was raifed out of the Earth : And ic was fo ; for
the Lord's Power began to fhake them, and great
Meetings we began to have, and a mighty Pew.'*-
and IVork of God there was amongfl People, to the
Aftonifhment of both People and Priejls.
P. 15.] I met with a great Company of Profejfors
in IVarwickJhire, who were praying and expounding
the Scriptures in the Fields, and they gave the Bi-
ble to me -, and I opened it on the 5th of AfatiheiVt
where Chrijf expounded the Law -, and I opened the
Inward State to them, and the Outward State, and
they fell into a fierce Contention, and fo parted -,
but the Lord's Power got Ground.
Then I heard of a great Meeting to be at Let-
ce/ter, for a Difpute, wherein both Presbyterians,
Independants, Bapttjls, and Commsn- Prayer Men,
were faid to be concerned. The Meeting was m a
{h) Sieeple Houje, and thither was I fnoved by th6
Lord
(i) George Fox ridicules the Church by the Name ofa Stee-pU
Houfe qiiite thro' his Journal. ^And Mr. Lejley fays {Snahe in
the Graf J, p. 262.) " That fome fakers yet more prophanely,
[8]
Lord God to go and be amongft them. At laft one
Woman asked a Queftion out of Petery what that
Birth was, \'\z. Being hrn again of incorruptible Seed
by the Word of G$d that livetb and abide th for ever ?
And the Priejl faid to her, (i) I permit not a Woman
iojpeak in the Church ; tho* he had before given Li-
berty to any one to fpeak. Whereupon / was
wrapt up. as in a Rapture in the Lord's Power : And
I ftepr up in a Place and asked the Priejl, ** Doft
*' thou call this Place (the Steeple Houje) a Church,
'* or doll thou call this mix'd Multitude a Church ?
For the Woman asking a Queftion, he ought to
have anfwered it, having given Liberty for any to
fpeak •, but he did not anfwer me neither, but a«ked
me, what a Church was ? I told him. The Church
was the Pillar and Ground of Truth, made up of
living Stones, living Members, a fpiritual Houfehold,
which Chrift was the Head of: But he was not the
Head of a mix'd Multitude, or of an old Houfe
made up of Lime, Stones, and Wood. Thii fee
them all on Fire.
p. 17.]
" have called the Church a Baivdy Houfc, a ll'hore Houfe^ &c.
" Which, fays he, I have from thofe that heard them.
I have heard of a modern ^aker^ of a more polite Caft, who
being asked to contribute towards the rebuilding of his Parijh
CJturch^ anfwered, That the building of Churche* was not con-
fiftent with his Principles: But if they'd accept 2ot. towards
pulling down of the old Church, it was at theip Service.
(/') Remarkable is George Fox's Interpretation of thofe Texts,
1 Tim. ii. ri, r2. and of i Cor. xiv. 13. IVomcn are to learn itt
Silence^ and not fuffered to teach, nor to ufurf Authority over the
Man, hut to be in Silence. In a Letter to the Duke oi Holjfeyn,
1684 (Journal, p. 5^4-) who had given Orders to the Rulers of
Fredrickjladt, to make the fakers leave that Place, becaufe
they fuffered Women to preach, " Now here the Duke may fee
" what Sort they be, that were to be in Silence and Subje(f^ion,
" which Law commands to be fihnt, and not ufurf Authority
" over the Man ; nor to fpeak in the Church, were unruly JV«
" men.
p. 17.] Now was I cojuc up vi the Spirit thro* the
flaming Szvord into the Paradife of God. All Things
were new -, and all the Creation gave another Smell
unto me than before, beyond what Words can utter.
I knew nothing but Puretie/s^ and Imiocency^ and
Right eoufnefs^ being renewed up \n i\\t hna^e of God
by Cbrifl Jefus : So that I fay, I was come up to the
State of (;^) Adam before he fell.
P. 22] I faw that the Grace of God, which
brings Salvation, had appeared unto all Men,
and that the Manifeftation of the Spirit of
God was given to every Man to profit withal.
Thefe Things I did not fee by the Hc^lp of Man,
nor by the Letter (tho' they are written in the Let-
ter) but I faw them in the Light of the Lord Je/tts
Chrijl^ and by his immediate Spirit and Power, as
did the holy Men of God, by whom the holy Scrip-
tures were written.
P. 24.] When the Lord fent me forth into the
W^orld, he forbad me (/) to put off my Hat to any
C High
(/t) Mr. LeJJey fays {^nake in the Gr.ifi^ p. •;6.) " That one
*' yames Seaton having parcel with his Wii'e, fell in League
" with Mary Rofs ^ who, becaufe as George Fox, fays, 7hty were
" come to the State of the fir Jl Adam in his Innocency^ ftripped
*' \\^\{^\{ Jl ark naked^ and ll) appeared, laying. It was a Sign of
'' Guilt to be afhamed of one Part of one's Body more than ano-
" thcr • But his Wife meeting with her, beat her fo well, that
*' ihb' flie cared not for Cloaths as a Covering, yer {he thought
*' them convenient as Armour ,• which that S^ark, more bold
" than wife, wanted ^ who, adventuring too near this naked
" Virtue^ received fuch a Token of her Love as Ituck to him,
" and gave him Occafion at once to bemoan and Revenge himfelf
" in this Dijlich upon his yidamical Miltreis.
" In Mariam Rofam
" ?tr Mariam j;iro Dolieo quam Vulneic Duro,
" Defere Famofam fpinigeramquc Rolam.
(/) George fox, as Mr. Lfj/iry inf'jrms us [Snake in the Grafs^
p. 299.J made it Heathemfm and Idolatry^ in his Treatife, lur-
named Iconoclajles^ and an Order of his printed at the End of
Tyranny and Hyfocrijy^ '^73' ^^ ^^^^ ^^'^ Image cr Likrnefs of
»ny
[ I°]
High or Low, aiul I was required to ihee and thou
all Men and Women, vvichout any Kcfpecft to Rich.
or Poor^ Great or Small \ and as 1 travelled up and
down, 1 wai not to bid People Good Morrow^ or
Good Evening \ neither might I bow or fcrape with vvj
Le^ to any one : And this made the ScSls and Pro-
fejjions to rage.
P. 25.] 1649, The black earthly Spirit of the
Priejl wounded my Lite ■, and when I heard the Bell
toll to call People together to the Steeple Hotife^ ic
ftruck my Life ; for it was jult like a Market Bell,
to gather People together, that the Priell might fet
forth his Ware to Sale. O the vail Sums of Money
that were gotten by the Trade they make of felling
the
any Creature in H^avin^ or in Ear rb^ fatntfd'ufon a Sr^n, but
only a Bid-Staf^ Fire-Shovfl, Sa-u-, Fork, or rhe like, oi Man's
making And where he preaches againft Skimin^-D'rjh Hats^
unneccffary Buttons on Costs or Clo.iks ,• Slit Pr.iki behind on
the Skirts of Wonacn's JVaJicoats, Short black /-Jprons, needlefs
flying Scarfs, Fizia^d Masks, hare Necks, &c. All which, he
die^ares as frcnn immediate Infpiration. And in another Place
(Snakr in the Grafs, p. ri9.) Mr. Lfly has the rollowing
Words, ** Let mc only obferve, what an uncouth and prepofte-
** rous Piece 01" Humili'y it is, to deny the Title or Civility of
Majf-r, or of their Hat, whiilt, at the fame Time, they
worship one another wifh divine Honour, and beltov^' upon
thcmfelver Titles, far above what any Angels, lince Lucifer^
durft pretend to, to ii- even equal -with God, of the fame Sui-
" fiance, and oi the fame Soul, with him, and grudge not to
apply all the Attributes of God, to the Light -within them^
and to themlelves for ic'i.Suke , thus tranjferring the Honour
of God to themfelves." Mr. Seixell, a ^aker (in his Hillory
of the i^'/<ji(-.-r.(, p. 1609.) iiif:)rms -js, " That King J^ames]].
tiled the i^akers wed in all Refpe£l$, and would not fufTer
his Servants to niole!t any for not fulling off their Hats when
they came near liis ^'>Vj/ Pr/yo^ ; nay, fo iar went this Con-
defcenfion, that a certain Co'incryman of the fakers Per-
flation, coming to him with his Hat on his Head, the King
■' took off his own Hat, and held it under his Arm ; which the
other feeing, faid. The King needs not to keep off his Hat
*' for me. To which the Prince return'd, ^'ou don't know the
** Cuftom here j for that requires, that but one Hat mi>lt be on
'^ here.
^he Scripture?, and from their preaching, from the
higheft Bifhop, to the lowed Frit;!!: ! what one Trade
tile in the World is comparable to it?
P. 26.] Now, as I went towards Nottinghain on a
firft Day of the Morning, with Friends to a Meeting
there, when 1 came on a Top of a Hill, in the Sight
of the Town, t efpied the great Steeple Houfe^ and
the Lord faid, Thou mud p and cry aiainjl wonder
great Idol, and aga'w(l the IPorJJoipp^s therein. When
I came there, all the People looked like falloib
Groiuid^ antl the Fried (like a great Lump of Earth)
dood in his Pulpit above : And he took for hi5
Text thefe Words of St. Peter, IVc ha've a more fitre
Word of Prophecy, '■iXjhereunto ye do -well that ye take
heed as unto a Light that JJjineth in a dark Place, un-
til the Day Baijun, and the Day Star, arije in your
Hearts. And he told the People, That it was the
(;;/) Scriptures by which they were to try all Doc-
trines, Religions and Opinions. Now the Lorc^i
Power "joas fo mighty upon me, and [0 Jirong :n me, that
I could not hokC but was made to cry out and
lay, Oh no, (n) it is not the Scriptures i but I told
C 2 them
(m) Mr. Lejley fays {Snake in the Grafs, p. ;37.) " That they
" thought themfelves to have a Diffenfation beyond the Pro-
" fbets and Apojilcs, whom they called Lo-^ and Carnal^ iii
'* their Day. I can name thofe, fays he, chat now Hand hign
" among them ; who being prcfs'd with a Text out of one of
" St. Paul'^ Epiftles (not 20 Vears ago) did, before many Wit-
" neflesofthe principal i^.i/^.Ti, not Ibck to fay, That P>iul
" wa3 dark and ignorant (like him whom they oppofed) and that
they faw beyond him.
{n) Mr. Lejley obferves fSnak: in the Grafs, p. 87.) that they
called the Holy Scriptures hy the wicked and contemptible Namei
ofDuJf^ Death^Scrpent's Meat, Si.c. Nay, in another Flace, p. loi;.
That a ^aker was ill ufed at a Meeting Houfc in Gracc-;hurth
Street, tor reading a Part of a Chap-ev befoie the Meeting be-
gan. " But that this (^lays hcihicl.) may not fecmitrange to the
•' Rejder, he muft kno.v, that there never was, from their firlt
*' appearing in the World, one (Chapter in the Holy Scriptjres
" reid in any sf their Meetings, tho' many ot th'^ir own Ep'-
them what it was, namely, the Holy Spirit by which
the holy Men of God gave forth the Scriptures,
whereby Opinions, Religions, and Judgments were to
be tried ; for it Ifd into all Truth, and lo gave the
Knowledge of all Truth.
P. 27.] After 1 was let at Liberty from NoLtwg-
ham Gaoiy 1649, 1 travelled, as beiore, in the Work
of the Lord, and coming to Alansfield M^'oodhoujCy
there was a dij1ra£led IVovian under theDo^or's Hands,
with her Hiir loofe all about her Ears, and he was
about to let her Blood, fhe being firft bound, and
many People being about her, holding her by Vio-
Jence ; but he could get no Blood from her •, and I
defired them to unbind her, and let her alone, for
they could not touch the Sprit in htr, by which fhe
was tormented -, lb they did unbind her, and I was
moved to fpeak to her, and, in the Name of the
Lord^ to hid her he quiet and Jlill \ and fhe was fo 5
and the Lord's Power fettled her Mind, and Ihc
mended, and afterwards received the Truth, and
continued in it to her Death. And the Lord's
Name was honoured, to whom the Glory of all his
Works belongs. Many great and wonderful Things
were wrought by the heavenly Power in thole
Days •, for the Lord made bare his omnipotent
Arm, and manifclled his Power to the Aftonifh-
ment of many : By the healing Vertue of which,
many have been delivered from great Infirmities,
and the Devils were made fubjccfl thro' his Name.
P. 29.] I heard of a People that were in Prifon at
Coventry for Religion -, and, as I walked towards
the Gaol, the Word of the Lord came to me, fay-
ing,
" files have been frequently, and enjoyn'd there to be read —
Thus their great George Fox commands, This j'j the Herd of the
Lord, fays he, I ch.-irg.- ycu^ in the Prefence of the Lord God^ to
fend this Eftji^e amoKgl} all Frier.di and Brtthren, everywhere to
le read in all Meetings. To them all this is the Word of God^
&c. "i'et he calls it Blafphemy to lay the Holy Scriptures aie
the Word of God.
[ M ]
ing, A/y Love was always to thee, and thou art in
my Love : And 1 was ravifhed with the Scnfe of the
Love of God, and ftrengthened in my inward Man.
But when I came into Gaol where thofe Prifoners
were, a great Power of Darknefs ftruck at me, and
1 fat ftill, having my Spirit gathered in the Love of
God. At lafl thefc Prifoners began to ratii, and
vapour, and blafpheme •, at which my Soul was great-
ly grieved. They faid, they were God. I perceived
they were Ranters, and I had met with none before.
After this, one of thefe Ranters, whofe Name was
(c) Jofeph Salmon, put forth a Book, or Paper of
Recantation i upon which, they were fet at Liber-
P. 30.] And as I paffcd thro' Fairs and Markets;
and divers Places, I faw Death and Darknefs in all
People where the Lord God had not fhaken them.
Ibid.] There was, in the Town of Twv-Crofs, a
great Man that had long laid fick, and was given
over by the Phyftcians -, and fome Friends in the
Town defired me to go fee him, and I went up to
him in his Chamber, and fpake the Word of Life
to him, and was moved to pray by him, and the
Lord was intreated to rejlore him to Health : But when
I was come down Stairs into a lower Room, and
was fpeaking to the Servants, ^c. a ferving Man
of his, came raving out of another Room with a
naked Rapier in his Hand, and fet it juR: to my
Side : but I looked fledfaftly at him, and faid,
Alack
(0) The Title of the Bock, Height in Depths, and Depths in
Heights j or, Truth no lefs ftcretly than fweetly ftarkling out its
Glory from under a Cloud of Obloquie. Wherein is difcovendy
the various Motions of an experienced Soul, in and thro' the mani-
fold Difpenfotions of God. And bow the Author hath been aSled
in^ and redeemed from, the unknown Paths of Darknefs, wherein,
as in a IVildernefs, be bath wandered, without the clear Vijion of
a divine Prefence. Together with afincere Abdication of certain
Tenents, either formerly vented by him, or now charged upon him.
Per me, Jo. Salmon. London: Printed by T. Newtomb. 1651 .
[ ^4]
Alack for thcc^ jwof Creature^ wlidt wilt thon do with
thy carnal Weapon ? It is no more to me than a Straw.
The Slanders by were much troubled, and he wenc
away in a Rage, and full of Wrath. Thuf? the
Lord's Power prcferved me, and raifed up the weak
Man.
P. 37.] Juftice Benncty of Darby, was the firft
that called us ^hikers, becaufe 1 bid them (p) trem-
ble at the "Word of the Lord ; and this was in the
Year 1650.
P. 46.] Among others that came to fee me (in
Darby Prifon) there came a certain Perlbn from
Nottingham^ a Soldier, and that had been a Baptiji^
as 1 underftood •, and with him came feveral others;
and in Difcourfe this Perfon faid, 7mir Faith Jlands
in a Man that died at Jerufalem, and there was nevef
any fuch Thin^. From this Man's Words was a
Slander raifed upon us, that the fakers fhould deny
Chrijf^ that fuffered and died at Jerujalem {q) which
was ali utterly falfe.
P. 50.]
if) Mr. Z^/7f)' ohferves {Snake in the Grafs^ p. 77.) That the
Shahcrs defend their preternatural Shaking and Trsmbling^ from
Hahbakuk's Lips quivering.
(q) The anonimous Author of a Btjok, intltled, Vindicia
ylnti-Baxteriame -. or, yinimadverjions nn a Booh, intitled. The
Life 0/ Mr. Richard Baxter, p. 168. fays, " Mr Gabriel El-
*' dredge^ in Marjhfield, in Glc.Jlerjbire^ told me, That he was
" with a Man of good Eftate on his Death-bed, and askipg
*' him about Jefus Chrijl ; Jefui ChriJ}, faid the_ Man, IVto
*' is that ^ I do not remember that ever I heard of him in my
" Life. When I once went from Ho'jfe to Houfe, fome coulti
*' not tell me whether Chriji were a Man or a Woman ; kne«r
*' not what crucified was."
Leonard Fell, George Fox*s Follower, profcfled, That Cbrijf
had never any Body but his Church (Snake in the Grafs, p. 12.)
Mr. LeJ/ey fays (Snake ii the Grafs, p. ^S.J " I can name one.
" who reafoning concerning the Oat-ward Chrijf, oh Horror ro
*' repeat it ! bid, that Chriji might kifs his . And 1: is
" nor much behind this which a leaker Preccher^ now in Lo':-
*' don, faid to one I can produce, who was endeavouring to
*' pcrfuade him, that Chriji was now a M11, the PreKher re
" plied, The Man Coift a { rt.
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P. 50.] Pdul did not preacli for Wages, but la-
boured with his Hands, that he might be an Exam-
pie to all them that follow him. Oh People fee
who follow Paul, (r) The Prophet Jcr.'m'iah faid,
" The Prophets propliecy falfely, and the Priefts
*' bear Rule by their Means •, " but now the Priefts
bear Rule by the Means they get from the People -,
take away their Means, and they will bear Rule over
you no longer.
P. 54.] I came into the Parts of 2 or k/hire where
(s) James Nay 'or lived, 1651, and he and Ibomas
Godyear came to me, and were both convinced, and
received the Truth.
P- S5-^ While I was here, at Juftice Holham%,
came a great Woman of Beverley to fpeak with
Jullice Hoiham about fome Bufiaefs, and in Difcourfc
ilie told him, " That the hill Sahhath Day, as fhe
" called it, there was an /Uzel or Spirii came into
** the Church at Beverley, and fpake the wonderful
" Things of God, to the Aftonifhment of all that
" were there ; and when it had done, it palTed away,
*' and they did not know whence it came nor whi-
" ther it went, but it aftonilTicd all, both ProfeJJbrs
*' and Magijhates, of the Town." This Relation
Juftice Hot bam gave me afterwards, and then I gave
him an Account, how I had been that Day at
Beverley Steeple Houje, and had declared Truth to the
Prieft and People there.
P. 56.]
(r) Fox ufes the very fame Words to prove the Clergy Hire-
lings. Journal, p. c;o.
(i) This yumsi Naylor fijtfered himfelf to be Hofanna'd into
Brijiol^ as Chriji wa^ into yerujalcm ; for which he was fevere-
Jy puniflied, as appears Trorn molt of our Englijh Hillorians.
Nlr. LrjJey takes Notice i^^akc 'n the Graj's^ p. 47.) " Thar
" Naylor was brougiit upon his Knees betore their Church,
" where Gioige Fox preiided, to acknowledge his Failings.
*' And I faw, lays he, in Gcorgr Fax's own Hand, this Sentence
" agalnft yames Nayior^ Friends Jball not he judged for judging
" of him.
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P. 56.] In the Afternoon I went to another SteepU
Houfe about three Miles off, where preached a High
Priejl called a DoHor •, fo I went into the Steeple
Houfe, and (laid till the Prujl had done. Now the
Words which he took for his Text were thefe, Ho
every one that thirjleth come to the IVaters., and be that
hath no Money ^ come ye and buy and eat^ yea come
hiy Wine and Milk without Money, and without Price.
Then was 1 moved of the Lord God to fay unto
him, (/) *' Come down, thou Deceiver, doft thou bid
" People come freely, and take of the Waters of
*' Life fueely, and yet thou take 300/. a Year of
" them, for preaching the Scriptures to them ?
" mayft not thou blurfi for Shame ! Did the Pro-
** phct Jfatah and Chrijl do fo, who fpake the
" Words, and gave them forth freely ? Did not
" Chrijl fay to his Minifters whom he fent to
" preach. Freely ye have received, freely give?** So
the Prieft, like a Man {u) amazed, halted away.
P. 60.] From Stath we paffcd to Whitby and Scar-
borough, where we had feme Service for the Lord.
P. 62.] 1651, After fomc Time travelling in the
Country, I came to Pickering, where, in the Steeple
Houfe, the Juftices had their SefTions.
Ibid.] I itood up in the Steeple Houfe Yard, at a
Place near Pickering, and declared to the People,
Tiiat I came not to hold up their Idol Temples, nor
their
(t) Mr. Lf/Iey obferves (Snake in the Grafs, p. 83 J " That
the furefl Method amongil the Sluakers for a young Man to
ilep into an abounding Trade, and a rich ^yifc (of which
there are many among lb wealthy a People) is to fet up flrft
for a Preacher; and if hc happens to pleafe, his Fortune is
made. Of which many Examples daily occur, far beyond
the much-envied Allowance given to the Hirelings, as they
call our Priejls, which is hardly fufficient to afford Bread to
moft of them. And G. F. \(^trge Fox] had more Money at
his Difpofa), than any Bifhop in England; he having tfce
Command of the fakers Treafury.
(u) He was amax'd, probably, at his Ignorance and Imfudentt.
( 17 )'.
their Pritjls^ nor their Tythes, nor their Augmenta-
tions^ nor cheir Priejis IVages, nor their Jewijh and
Heathenifi Ceremonies and Traditions (for I denied
all thefc) and told rhem, that chat Piece of Ground
was no more holy than another Piece of Ground.
And T fhewed them, that the Apoftles going into
tlie Jews SynagogU£5 and Temples, v/hich God had
commanded, was to bring People off from that
Temple and thefe Sinagogues^ and from the Offerings
and Tythes, and covetous Priefts of that Time :
And that all who preach Cbrijl the Word of Life,
ought to preach freely, as the Apoftles did, and as
he had commanded. So 1 was fent of the Lord God
of Heaven and Earth to preach freely, and to bring
People off from thofe outward Temples made with
Hands, which God dwelleth not in ; that they
might know their Bodies to become the Temple of
God and ChriJ}.
P. 64.] Prom thence I travelled up into Holdernefs,
and came to a Juftice's Houfe, whofe Name was
Pearfon, where there was a very tender Woman
that believed in the Truth, and was fo aftetfled
therewith, that fhe faid, (x) She could have left all,
and have followed me.
P. 67.] A falfe Accufer accufed me falfly before
all the People, at Gainsborough ; That I fiid, / was
Chrifly and had got Witnefles to prove the fame —
Then I was moved of the Lord God to ftand up
upon the Table, in the eternal Power of God, and
tell the People, That Chrift was in them, except
they were Reprobates i and that it was Chrift the
D eterna I
(x) " Afternoon preached at Ufffj Deat on ^Ss xxviii. 2S.
" Many feemed prick'd to the Hearty and feme h quickned,
*' that they txfrtffed a Dfflre to follco me inhertfcever Ijbouli
" go. I have I'carce known a Time I preached any where, but
" I have feen fome Etfedl of my Dodtrine. h Proof, I
" hope, that the Words are not my own, but that God is in
" me of a Truth. Mr. lVbitfitld'% Journal from London cc
" Gibreltar^ P- '7*
[ ^n
fternal Power of God, that /pake in me at that Time
unto them •, (y) not that I was Chrijf. — And I called
the Accufer Judas, and was moved to tell him, he
was Judas, and that (2) Judas'^ End (hould be his :
and that was the Word of the Lord and of Chrijl
through me to him. So the Lord's Power canfie
over all, and quieted the Minds of the People, and
they departed in Peace. But this Judas went away,
and fhortly after hang'd himfelf, and a Stake was
driven thro' his Grave.
p. 70.]
(y) In a Book printed 165;;, fays Mr. Lefley (Snake in tht
Grafs, p. rg.) intltled, ^ Brief Relation of the Religion of the
Northern leakers, &c. p. 2, 3. you have the Account, how
George Fox did avow himfelf over and over to be equal with
God. Being asked by Dr. Mar/hall, in the Prefence of Mr.
Saivro, Coll. Fell, and Coll. IVeJl, Juftices of the Peace of rhe
County of Lancajhire, at a private Sefiions in the Town of
Lancajier, whether or no ht ivas equal ivith God, as he had be-
fore that Time been heard to affirm ^ his Anfwer was this, I am
equal -with God. The Blafphemy hath been attefted upon Oath
by the aforefaid Dr. Manhal and Mr. Altam, Schoolmafter of
Lancajier, before the Julfices at the lall Seffion held at Affleby
the %\.\\ o^ y anunry , i6j^2, and before J'jdge Pulejlon, at the
laft Afiizes held at Z^'jr.i^fcT, rhe 1 ^ih oi' Marrb, i6c,2.
(z) Tht'xr fretended Prophets failed in their Denuntiation of
Judgments; feveral Inftances of which, are to be met with in
Mr. L'-Jley\ Snake in the Grafs. A remarkable one he gives,
p. 54. in one J^chn Storey, who was one of the Oppofers of the
ii^omen's frearhing, and the Jurifdiftions of the If'omen's Meet-
ings liet up by George Fox. Solomon Eccles (one of their Pro-
fhets) after a {harp Reprehenfion to the faid John, for oppo-
fing himlelf to the great Apoftle George Fox, denounces thus y
This is the Word of the Lord, fays he, fhat this Year jb alt thou,
(John Storey) die, bccaufe thou hnj} taught Rebellion againjf the
living Gcd. One prcfent ask«d the Prophet, What Sort of
Death he meant? whether a natural or a fpritual Death?
Solomon anfwered, That John Storey had been fpiritually dead
Icno before (for they had excommunicated him) and that he
meant it of a natural Death. This I have from one prefent in
the Room. Note, That John Storey wzszx. that Time fo fick
and weak, that his Death was expected every Day: Bur this
John Storey lived about Four Tears after this, to the crernai
Confufion of the Sluahers Pretence tu Infallihilitj.
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P. 70.] We came to Lieutenant Roperh ( in the
Well- Riding of Tork/hire ) where we had a great
Meeting of Icveral confiderable Men ; and the
Truth was powerfully declared amongft them, and
the Scripture wonderfully opened, and the Parables
and Sayings of Chrijl were expounded, and the State
of the Church, in the Apoltks Days, was plainly
fet forth, and the Apoflacy fince from that State
dilcovered.
Ibid.'] James Najlcr had been a Member of an
IfidependdfJt Church in Wakefidd ; but upon his re-
ceiving the Truth he was excommunicated.
P. 74.] Francis Howgill^ who was a Preacher
to a Congregation, undertook to anfwer the Cap-
tain ( who asked George Fox, why he did not go
into the Church, for the Church-yard was not a
Place to preach inj and foon put him to Silence.
This Man /peaks with Authority, and 7iot as the
Scribes.
P. 74.] In the Openings of the heavenly Life, I
opened to the People (in Firbank Chapel, fVe/imor-
land) the Prophets, and the Figures and Shadows,
and directed them to Chrijl the Subftance. Then I
opened the Parables and Sayings of Chrijl, and
Things that had been long hid ; fhewing the Intent
of the Apoftles Waitings, and that their Epiftles
were written to the EkiJ.
P. 78.] Margaret Fell, Wife of Judge Fell, alk'd
me to go with her to the Steeple Houfe at Ulverftoney
where there was a Day to be obferved for Huifiilia-
tion. I replied, / mull do as 1 am ordered b^ the
Lord. So I left her, and walked into :he Fields ;
and the Word of the Lord came to me, faying,
i^a) Go to the Steeple Houje afrer tiiem. When I came
D 2 the
(a) George Fox'i MefTage? from tho Lord, were of the fame
Nature with that of Mr. Lacy, a Fol^o^ver of the Seel of French
Prophets, in Q.yinn's Reign , wh'j came one Day to the Lord
Chief Jultice ^o//'s, and defired to fpeak with him .- The Ser-
vants
the Priejl Lampii was fmging with his People : But
his Spirit was (o foul, and the Matter they fang fo
unfuitable to their States, that, after they had done
finging, 1 -was moved of the Lord, to fpeak to him
and the People.
P. 79.] I returned to Swarthfnore^ where the
Lord's Power feized upon Margaret Fell, and her
Daughter Sarah, and feveral of them.
P. 81.] After this (his Journey into Lane ajhire)
I returned into Wejimorland, and fpake thro' Kendal
on a Market Day : And fo dreadful was the Power
of God that was upon me, that People flew liks
Chaff before me into their Hcxifes. I warned them of
the mighty Day of the Lord, and exhorted them to
hearken to the Voice of God in their own Hearts,
who was now come to teach his People himfelf.
P. 83.] I went up to Swarthmore again» whither
came up four or five of the Priejls — I afked them,
whether any one of them could fay, he ever had the
Word of God to go and fpeak tc Juch or fmh a People ?
None of them durft fay he had : But one of them
burft out into a PafTion, and faid. He could /peak his
Experience as well as L I told him, Experience was
one Thing, but to receive, and go with a Meffage,
and to have a Word from the Lord, as the Pro-
phets and j^pvflles had and did, and as {h) I had done
unto them, this was another Thing.
Ibid.]
vants told him, that he was not wiell, and would not fee Com-
pany that Day, " Tell him, faid Lacy, I muft fee him, for
*' I come to him with a MefTage from the Lord God : which be-
" ing told the Lord Chief Juftice, he ordered him t9 be admit-
" ted, and asked him his Bufinefi, I come, faid he, from the
*' Lord, who fent me to thee, and would have thee grant a
" Noli Profequi to yobn Atkins (a French Prophet) whom thou
" haft caft into Prifon." Thou art a lying Knave, and f'alfe
Prophet, anfwered the Chief Juftice ; For if the Lord had fent
thee, it would have been to the ./Attorney General. He knows
it is not in my Power to grant a Noli Profequi.
(h) Mr, Ltjley, alluding to this PafTage (Snake in the Grafs^
p. 29.) fays, " He vouches this by a Company of vile znd fenfe-
Ibid.] A precious Meeting chere was (at Crofland,
Weftmorland) wherein the Lord's Power was over
all, and the People were direfted to the Spirit of
Gody by which they might come to know God and
Chrii?, and underftand the Scriptures aright.
P. 84.] About this Tmie (1652) {c)John Aud-
land, and trancis Ho'-u^giii, and John Camm, and
Edward
" hfs Miracles , to which he pretends in his Journal^ that he
*' might in nothing come behind the holy PiOphtJ and JfoJ^les^
" to \A-hom he compared and equall'd himielt." And in another
Place, p. 185. he fays, " That the falf* and foolijh Miracles
" which George Fox tells of himfelf in his y-ournal^ exceed the
Foppery of a Pofijh Legend.
(c) John yludlandh blafphcTOUS Letter to George Fox, fpelt
and printed according to the Original. Lejlley'i Snake in the
Grafs, p. 169. T • - . L
*' Deare and prefious one, in whome my Lite is bound up,
" and my Strangth in thee ftands, by thy Breathings I am nou-
" riflied and refreflied • and by thee my Strength is renewed?
*' bleffed art rhou for ever more ; and blelTed are all they that
" enjoy thee: Life and Strength come« from thee, holy one?
" and thow- art the Bleffed oi the Lord ivx ever-more, dear,
" dear reach unto mce, that I may be ftregthened, to lland in
■' the mighty Power and Strenth in the Lord, for the SarvifTe
" is very great, my Travell and Burthen was never foe, as now
'* fmce 1 faw thee : but dayly doe I find thy Pretence with mc,
" which doth exceedingly prelerve mee : for I cannot reane but
*' in thy Pretence and Power- pray for me that I may Hand in
thy Dread for ever miore ■ deare my deare Brother, yohn
' Cam hath been exceeding ficke, and he is very weake .- 1 can
lay little of hys Recovery as yet : his Wife is with him : ihe
is deare and precioufly kcept ; their deare Love is to thee,
oh reach through all in thy mighty Power to him. This
Bearer can declare to thee of the Work this Way: jfo. IVill-
'' kinfon and Jo. Story is heare, their Love is dearly to thee :
deare Harte there is one Thing that lies upon mee: I thall
lay it before thee : as tuching thy comeing into ^f //.y-S/rtf .- I
" was there at Juitice Stck's Houfe : and his Famaley is all
*' pretty loveing and convinced : and he is a I'ober wile Man,
" and there is Honelty in him which will lUnd : and there is
" a pretey People that way: it hath laid exceedingly upon
" me thele three Dayes of thy beeing at that Place : 1 know nor
" fuch aji other Place in all the Countrey • for thee : dear : I wai
*' much wounded to know that thow wa* in fuch a rudePlace,and
" fuffers
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Edward Burroughs (d) Richard Hubherthorn, and
Miles Hubberjiy, and Miles Halhead, with fevc-
ral others, being endued with Pozver from on high,
came forth into the "Work of the Miniftry, and
approved themfelves faithful Labourers therein.
P. 85.] Much Work I had in thofe Days with
the Priejls and People concerning the old Majs
Houfes, which they called their Churches \ for the
priejls had perfuaded the People, that it was the
Houfe of God.
P. 86.] A Mafon^ a Profejjor^ but a rude Fellow,
with his walking Rule Staff gave me a Blow with
all his Might, juft over the Back of my Hand, as
it was ftretched out ; with which Blow my Hand
was fo bruifed, and ray Arm fo benumcd, that I
could not draw it unto me again : So that fome of
the People cried out, He has fpoiled his Hand for
ever having an) Ufe of it more. But I looked at it
in the Love of God ; and, after a while, the Lord's
Power fprang thro* me again, and thro' my Hand and
A^ni ; fo that in a Moment I recovered Strength in
ray Hand and Arm, in the Sight of them all.
P' 103.] (e) Great Openings I had from the
Lord,
*' fuffers fo amongft them .- and this was I moved to Jay
*' before thee : and great is my difere that it may be foe : the
*' Place is about lo Miles from hrefiol in ■wiltjhire^ one Mile
*' from Chiftnam, a Markete Towne. Juftice Stohs Houfe,
*' yo : Cam tould me that the Juftice he was with was a very
*' loving and prety Man: this Bearer was there, he can declare to
*' thee more : but oh that thou weare b'jt at that Place I men-
*' tion r it is free and futeable for Frends coming to thee ! it lies
*' much upon mce : and if thow find Moveings ftrike over
" thither. I ftall fay no more of it- the Worke is great heare
" away, pray for us all that in thy Power we may abide foi
*' evermore: 1 am thyne begotten and nurifhed by thee and in
*' thy Power am I preferved. Glory unto thee holy one for
" ever. ^"^^ yiudhnd.
(d) Richard Hubbertbern wrote, that Chrlj? coming in the
Flefh was but a Figure. LeJIey'j Snake in the Grafs, p. 22.
(e) It being objected to George fax, fays Mr. LeJIey {Snake /a
the Grafs, p. 94.) " That one of hit fakers had pretended an
" immediate
[^3 3
Lord, not only of divine and fpiritual Matters, But
alfo of outward Things relating to the civil Govern-
ment : For, being one Day in Swarthrnore-HalU
when Judge Fell and Juftice Benfon were talking of
the News in the News Book, and of the Parliament
that then was fitting (1653) which was called, the
Long Parliament, I was moved to tell them, that
before chat Day two Weeks, the Parliament (hould
be broken up, and the Speaker pluck'd out of his
Chair: And that Day tv/o Weeks Juftice Benfon
coming thither again, told Judge Fell, that now he
faw George was a true Prophet *, for Oliver had bro-
ken up the Parliament by that Time.
Ibid.'\ After fbme Time, I went to a Meeting at
Arnfiue, where Richard M)er was. Now he had
been long lame of one of his Arms, and I was moved
of the Lord to fay unto him, amongft all the Peo-
ple (f) Prophet Myer jland up upon thy Legs, and he
ftood up and ftretched out his Arm, that had been
lame a long Time, and faid, Be it known unto you
all People, that this Day 1 am healed: But his Pa-
rents would hardly believe it ; but after the Meet-
ing was done, had him afide, and took off his
Doublet, and then they faw it was true. He came
foon after to Swarthmore Meeting, and there decla-
red how the Lord had healed him. Yet, afte^ this,
the Lord comm.inded him to go to 7'ork, with a
Meffage from him •, and he dilbbeyed the Lord»
and the Lord ftruck him again -, fo that he died
about Three Quarters of a Year after.
P. loS.]
" immediate Call from Heaven to commit Ti>fftf R'iblery and
" Sacrilege^ in taking our of the Church an Hour Glafs. (jforgt
" Fox {Great Myjtery, p. 77.) does vindicate it in thefe Words ;
" j^nd as for any being moved of the Lord to take away yaur Glaff
" from you. By the eternal Power it is ozuntd.
(f) Gecrgs Fox, more fjccefiful in Pretence than his Brother
Enthufiajl Herman the Cobler {Alexander Rojfe's Vi:-M of all Re-
ligions, p. 4^1.) who pretended by fp faking a IVord, to work a
Miracle of the like Kind, upon ore Efpo an h^ik"f!r, b-jt was
defeated.
p. 1 08.] As I was fitting in a Houfc full of Peo-
ple, declaring the Word of Life unto them, I caft
my Eyes upon a Woman, and dilcerned an unciean
Spirit in her ; and I was moved of the Lord to
fpeak fharply to her. She was a (g) IVttch •, where-
upon the Woman went out of the Room. Now I
being a Stranger there, and knowing nothing of the
Woman outwardly, the People wondered at it,
and told me afterwards, 1 had difcovered a great
Thing, for all the Country looked upon her to be
a Witch (h) The Lord had given me a Spirit of dif-
ccrning, by which I many times faw the States and
Conditions of People, and cauld try their Spirits.
P. 112.]
(g) Mr. Lf/Icy obferves (Snake in the Grafs, p. 3 r 2) " That
" two of thofe Witches (^«-ho endeavoured to take away the
" Life oi Henry fVinJifr, upon a falfe Accufation of MurdeO
*' were allowed to be Preachers amongft the iiluakers 20 Years,
" from near their Beginning 1650, ro 1674. that they wer«
" deteif^ed at C^r/i/e Aflizes.
(hj Notwithltanding this Spirit of difcermng which is laid
Claim to by George Fox, and feveral of his Followers, 'lis cer-
tain that it failed them in feverallnftances. " 'Tis evident,
" fays Mr. Lejley, Snake in the Grafs, p. 1,6.) that they did not
" difcern G^^orge Keith, Francis Bugg, and many others whorn
*' for many Years they owned as true Shakers, and feme pt
" them Mir:ijiers among them, and boalted a long Time in
" their Gifts, and thought them to be principal Ftllars among
*' them, which now they vilify as -wicked ^fofi ate sr And he
further take^ Notice (Snake in the Graf, p. 44.) of a remarkable
Failure in this their Spirit of diferning in the Year '.6\^. In
t\itQ^{toiChriJiofhcr Atkir-.fon, " 7. 'Quaker of great RcnowR
" in thofe their early Days, an- ^fojile. Preacher indJVrzter
^' for their Ca:fe, and one who mightily confirmed their
" Churches. Yet fo it fell out (becaufe the Devil would have
•' it) that he, even this fame Irigbt Lam^, being in Pnfon at
*' Ncr-ujich for the ne-w Faith in x\it inf all: ble Light ^jtoytd
" carnally fallihh in Darkncf with a dear Stfter the Maid ot
" nomas Symons, who was likewile one ot tVt Infallible^
Notwithltanding all this, neither George Fox, George i'Vbite-
• • •'-■'■" ^--- could find Jt our,
ith the Stings
confefs it."
Najy
[^5 3
p. 112.] While he (the Jailer of Carlile, where
George Fox was imprifoned) ftruck me, I was made
to fing in the Lord's Pozter^ and that made him rage
the more, then he went and fetched a Fiddler, and
brought him in where 1 was, and fee him to play,
thinking to vex me thereby •, but while he played,
I was moved in the rjeriajling Power of the Lord God
to fing i and my Voice drowned the Noife of the
Fiddle^ and ftruck and confounded them, and made
them give over fiddling and go their ways.
P. ii8.] Now {viz. after he was releafed out of
Prifon) I went into the Country, and had mighty
great Meetings ; and the everlafiing Gofpel and JVord
of Life fiourifhed \ and thoufands were turned to the
Lord Jefus Chrifi, and to his Teaching.
P. 120.] We came thro' the Country {Northum-
berland) into Cumberland again, where we had a
general Meeting of many Thoufands of People a
top of a Hill rear Langlands •, a glorious and heai-enly
Meeting it was, for the Glory of the Lord did fhine
over all, and they were as many as one could fpeak
over, the Multitude was fo great. — A great Con-
vincement there was in Cumberland., Bifhoprick., Nor-
thumberland, JVeftmoreland, Lancafhire and Torkfhire \
and the Plants of God grew and fiourifhed fo, the
heavenly Rain defcending, and God's Glory Ihining
upon them, that many Mouths were opened by the
Lord to his Praife, yea to Babes and Sucklings he
ordered Strength.
P. 123.] 1653. About this Time the Oath, or
Engagement, to Oliver Cromwell was tendered to
E the
Nay, remarkable is Mr. L(Jley'% Account of tne ^aJttr G/cjcr
in Cheaffide (p. 50, 52, 53, 54.) who had his Till robbed j one
ofthe^^flirr Prc^if /J charged it diredly upo.n his Mc/f?, and
told her by his frofbttick ^uthoTity, that the Lord f WW her -. and
anorfier, with equal Confidence, charged it upon his ^fprmtue
in the Namf cf the Lord : But, af'er this, the Robber uas tsken
robbing a Tilt at another Shop, and then corf"clTe<d, amorg giher
Robberies, thaj he robbed the Gloxer's Till-
the Soldiers, and many of the Soldiers were dif-
bandcd, becaulc, in Obedience to Chnji, they would
i^otfwear. •' ^
iir '^^"L^ Butcher that had been accufed of
killing a Man and a Woman bffore, and who was
Tn ^^''?. '^^° ^^^'^^ ^'"^^^l^" by an Oath to
kill mc killed anorhe-r Man, and was fcnt to York
OaoJ. Another of thofe rude Butchers who had
threatened to kill me, having accuftomed himfclf
to tbrujt his ro>i^ue out of bis Mouth in Derifwn of
trttnds, when they pajjed by htm, had hts Tongue fo
jwollcnout ofbh Mouth, that he could never draw it
in again, out died fo. Several ftrange and fudden
Judgments came upon many of thefe Confpirators
againlt me God'. Vengeance from Heaven came
upon the Blood thirfty, who fought after Blood :
f;or all>r/^ Spirits I laid before the Lord, and left
them to him to deal with them, who is Itronger
than them all: In whole Power I was prefervcd
and carried on to do his Work. '
P. 137.] (i) I was moved of the Lord to write
a Paper - to the Pr.iettnr, by the Name of Oliver
• Cr.r;;j£^//, w-hereii I did, in the Prefence of the
I.ord God, declare, that I did not deny the wearing
or
•• That the Editors of rhu Jour.at made bold to alter h,
Words ; to l.ave out and put in as rhey fee Caufe to bhnd
^, the Eyes or the UV-rld. and ro obv.a-e the Objedions aga nft
theu horrid Bla phem.es " And gives /"..'s genuine Letre
in the following VVords^ " 1 u ho am of the U'orld called
" ?-'7J \ *^'">' ^^.V"">'^-K or drawing .ny car.at
^^ jWagamftany, or againft thee, O/rt.r Cro>«W/, or any
my W itnels, by whom I am moved t« give thi: forth from
,^ h.m whom the World call. Gror.r Fo!, who is ZsolZ
^^ ^'d,^i^o .s tent to Ihnd as a VV.rnefs againll all Violence -l
- n'.Tf . Tk''^'^' '^'''^'''' *''^ rh.ca^nal Weapon I do
not hghr." fh.s was :ranicribed by a ^.ai.., and prelbrved
aj a precio-s Piece. i'^ciervea
" or drawing of a carnal Sword, or any f/fj other
*' Weapon againft him, or any Man : And that I
♦' was ftnt of God to ftand a Witnefs againft all
** Violence, againft the Works of Dirknefs."
After fome Time, Captain Drury brought me be-
fore the Protc^or himfclf at //^/ji/f/W/ — Many Words
I had with him, but People coming in, 1 drew a
little back ; and, as I was turning, he catched me
by the HanH, and, with Tears vi his EyeSy faid.
Come again to my Houfe, for if thou and I were bat
an Hour of a Day together, we Jhoiild he nearer the
one to the other. Adding, Thai he 'xnfhed me no
more Ul than be did to his own Soul,
E 2 P. 146.J
(h) 'Tis remark'd by Mr. Lejliy (Snake in the Grafs, p. 2o8.)
" That fho' the !^ahers do rot care (ox fighting themfelves,
*' they can hlow the Tramfet to Others j as they di<i to Oliver
" etre(f^ually. Oh, Oliver (fay5 Grorge Fcx to him, Ccvncil
" and Advice, p. 27, 36.) Arile and come out, for thou haft
" had Authority, ftand to it — Nor let any other take thy
Crown — And he farther charges Oliver, not to turn foher
" Mti, and true Hearts, out ot' his Army. So that they
" efteemed fighting Iwuful, and a pood Thing (in a good
*' Caufe) becaufe they thought it conllltent with foher Men and
" true Hearts — And George Fox (S.'f Snake in the Grafs, p.llO.)
in a Letter directed to the Council of the Army, and the Heads
of the Nation, and lor the inferior Officers and Soldiers, to be
read, i6<;9, complains of many ^uak.'rj being disbanded out of
the Army, and that for bring Quakers, tho' they were gocd
fighter J, Kay, in his Letter to Cromuell, he has the follow-
ing Words ; " Oh, Oliver, thou (houldll not have ftood tri-
" fling about fmall Things ; don't Ibnd cumbering thyfclf
'* about dirty Priejls.^' And then tells him (Snake in theGrafs^
p. ij9.) That if he had followed hisCounfel, " the Hollanders
" had been thy Subjects, Germany \\i\ g'^'t" up to thy Will,
" and the Sfaniard had quivered like a dry Leaf — The King of
'* Franit fliould have bow'd under thee hi;. Neck : The Pope
" fliould have withered as in the Winter : 'XhtTurk, in all his
" Fatnefs, fljould have fmok'd , thou flijuldit hava crumbled
*' Nations to Duft ; therefore let rhy Soldiers go forth with a
" free and willingHeart,thac thou mayft rockNationsas in a Cra-
" die— This h the Word of the Lord God to thee, as a Charge
'• to thee from the Lord God " When a fair Occafion feemed
to
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P. 146.] Moreover it came upon mc about this
Time (1654) from the Lord, to write a fiiort Paper,
and fend it forth as an Exhortation and Warning
to the Pope, and all Kings and Rulers in Europe.
P. 152.] The Ranters ^at (I) Readwg) pleaded
that God made the Devil : But I denied it, and
told them, " That I was come into the Power of
" God, the Seed of Crijl, which was before the
*' Devil was, and bruifcd the Head of him j and
" he became a Devil by going out of Truth, and
*' fo became a Murderer and a Deftroyer : And fo
" I (hewed them, that God did not make the De-
*' vil i for God is a God of Truth, and he made
" all
to offer, fays Mr. LtJIey (Snake it thf Grafs, p. 237. ) towards
reaflerting the good old Caui'e in A/o'jwoi^ri's Rebellion, 1685,
feveralofthe fakers in the IVcj) to^k Arms, and fought in his
Quarrel— In the laft Dutch War, fays the Author of Vindicia
Anti Baxtsriana, p. r6.) " There was a Captain of a Man of
" War who defired a ftout, lufty Quaker to go along with him.
" Why, faid he, J cannot fight. Who talks of fightiwg, faid
" the Captain ? Go with me. He did fo. When he came to
'* engage, he requires this ^aher to fire a Gun. I cannot figbt^
" faid he, as I told thee. Then, faid the Captain, I will tie
" thee faft to the Caf>Jione ; which he did. The ^uaher defires
" him to let him go- Will you ^^i»/ then ? I cannot whilfl
" here tied, faid he. I'll try thee once more, faid the Captain y
*' but if I tie thee there again, there thou Ihait remain. He let
" him go, and the ^akcr was one of the beft Fighters in the
Ship.
(I) 'Tis obferved by Mr. Simon Ford^ in an Allize Sermon at
K:ading^ Fth. sS, 165^, p. 2r, 22. " That in the little Town of
" Reading he Wis verily perfuaded, thit li Augujiin'ii and £^/-
" fhaaiuj's Citnlog'jes o( Here/:ej were loft, and all other mo-
*' dern and antient Records of that Kind, yet it would be no
*' hard Matter to reftore them, with coniiderable Enlargements,
" from that Place. That they have yinahaftifm^ Familifm,
*' Socinianifm., Ftlagianifm^ Ranting, and what|nO'. And that
*' the Devil was ferved in Heterodox Alfemblies, as frequently
as God in theirs. And that one of the moft eminent Church
Livings in that Country, was poflefTed by a Blaffbemer ; and
one in whofe Houfe, he believ'd fome there could teftify,
thar the Devil ivas as v^fitly familiar, as any one of tkt Fa-
*' mily.
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«*all Things good, and blefled them ; but he did
** not blefs the Devil." And fo the Truth ftopt
them, and bound them, and came over all the high-
eft Notions of the Nat'wn^ and confounded them ;
for by the Power of the Lord God I was manifejl^ and
fought to be made manifejl by the Spirit of God in all,
that by it (which they vexed, and quenched, and
grieved) they might be turned to God i as many as
were turned to the Lord Jefus Chrijl, by the Spirit
of God, and were come to fit under his Teaching.
P. 154.] I had a Meeting near Colchefler (1655)
After I had done fpeaking, one of the Independent
Teachers began to make a Jangling, which jlmor
Stoddart (who was with me) perceiving, he faid to
me, Stand up again, George -, for I was going away,
and did not at the firft hear them : But when I
heard the jangling Independent, I ftood up again ; and,
after a while, the Lord*s Power came over him and his
Company, and they were confounded \ and the Lord's
Truth went over all •, and a great Flock of Sheep hath
the Lord Jefus Chrift in that Country, that feed in
his Paflures of Life.
P. 154.] Having fet up our Horfes (at Lyn) we met
with JojephFufe, who was an Enfign, and we wifhed
him to fpeak to as many of the People of the Town as
he could, that feared God, and to the Captains and
Officers, to come together •, which he did : And
we had a very glorious Meeting amongft them, and
turned them to the Spirit of God j by which they
might know God and Chrifi, and underftand the
(m) Scriptures, and fo learn of God and Chrifi, as
the Prophets and Apo files did.
P. 155.]
(m) Mr, L-py {Saaie in the Grafs, p. 8j, 84.) obferves what
Blunders the ^aktrs who pretend to Infallibility, have made
in their quoring of Scripture ; fome of which are mentioned In
Satan dijrobed, p. 29. aS, *' Will Pennh printing ia his ChrU
*' Jtian Siuaker, p. 104. That Chrijl was born a? Nazareth ^
*' whicli
[ 3^1
P. 155.] We came the next Day, by the Ele-
venth or Twelfth Hour, to a Town near the JJlff
of Ely, called, Sution—A Multitude ofPeopkwas
gathered thither, and there were no lels than four
Priejis. The Priejl of the Town made a great
Jangle, but the Lord's Power fo confounded him,
that he went away — A great Convincement there
was that Day, and many Hundreds were turned
from the Darknefs to the Light, and from the
Power ef Satan unto God, and from the Spirit of
Error into the Spirit of Truth, to be led thereby
into all Truth.
Ibid.] I pafled from thence to Camhridge^ and
when 1 came into the Town, the Scholars hearing of
me, were up, and were exceeding rude, I kept
on my Horfc*s Back, and rid thro' them in the
Lord's Power ; but they unhorft Amor Stoddart^ be-
fore he could get to the Inn. — They knew I was fo
againft their Trade ^ their Trade of preaching, which
they were there as Apprentices to learn, that they
raged as bad as ever Diana's Craft/men did againlt
Paul.
p. 156.] We returned to London., vfhere Friends
received us gladly, the Lord's Power having carried
us thro* many Snares and Dangers ; and great Ser-
vice we haci for the Lord, for many Hundreds
were brought to fit under the Teaching of the
Lord J ejus Chrijl their Saviour. — Amongft other Ser-
vices for the Lard., which lay upon me in the City,
I was moved to give fqrth a Paper to thofe that
make
which Tlomas Ellvjood repeats in his Truth defended, p. 167.
Will Walker's miftaking J^obn xiv. 2. In my Father's Houfc
are many Manfionx, for, In my Fatber't Houfe are many Maa-
ehets i and from thence improving, what fine Bread, even
" pretty little Manchtts, were in God's Houfe." Another,
preaching upon Paul's being bred at the Feet of Gamaliel, and
being asked by one in the Meeting, What that Gamaliel was ?
anfwered, A Town in Judea.
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vi/ike a Scorn (n) at trembling and piaking (of which a
Copy here followcth).
P. 165.] But Sufferings and Imprifonments con-
tinuing and increafing, and the Prote^or (under
whofe Name they were now inflided) hardening
himfeJf againft Complaints that were made unto
him, 1 was moved to give forth the following Lines
amongft Friend^ to bring the Weight of their Suf-
ferings
(n) LeflefsSnahf in the Grafs^ p. 3®i. A Mlnifter in EJfe*
pave this Narration to a Friend of mine, written with his own
Hand, and his Name to it ^ and the Copy is true that I here
ol?er to the Reader.
^^ " The Eighth Month, 79th Day, 1654. At the etrneft
Defire of fome Friends^ I went with John IVar J and Anthony
1^ Hunter to a Meeting of the deluded Souls call'd fakers, at
John Hunter's of Benfield Side, in the County o( Durham^
II where I found about twenty Perfons fitting zWfilent • After
" «'f had fat awhile (all being mute) the Lord moved me to
•| arile and call upon his Name by Prayer. I was no fooner up,
^1 but my Legi trembled greatly, fo that it was lome Difficulty
^^ to ftand i bur, after I had prayed a (hort Time, the trembling
^^ cealed. While I prayed to God as a Creator^ there was but
^1 little Difturbance ,• but when I cried in the Name o( Jefus
^1 ChriJ}^ my Mediator^ God in my Nature, now in the highclt
^^ Glory appearing, and interceding for his Saints, then the
Devil roared in the deceived Souls, in a mod ftrange and
II dreadful Manner, fome bowling, fome Jbrieking, yelling^
II roaring, and fome had a ftrange confufed kind oi humming,
II finging Noife ; fuch a Reprefentarion of Hell I never heard
'* of; nothing but Horror and Confufion.
^^ After I had done praying (not opening my Eyes before) I
^^ was amazed to fee about the one Halt of thefe miferable
^^ Creatures fo ttxi'ihly jhaken, with fjch violent variojs Mo-
^^ tions, that I wonderetl how it was poffible fome of them could
^^ live. In the Midlt of this Confufion, one of them asked, If
I were come to torment them > To whom I applied this Word
Mattb. viii. 29.
^^ " And while I fpake fomething o{ Faith, they declared, that
^^ they were come to the Faith cf Devils, Jam. ii. 10. but faid
We were not attained t© fuch a Faith. *
^^ " After two Hours, as we were departing out of the Houfe
.. o^e of them curfed me with thefe Words ,• ^11 the Plagues of
» ^^^ ^f "Z'^" '^^^- Whereupon I returned, and prayed for
luch ot them as had not committed the unpardonable Sin.
[ i- ]
fcrings more heavy upon the Heads of Perfecutors,
(The Conclufion. Given forth from the Spirit of the
Lord thro* G. F.)
P. 169.] I pafTed up the Market (at IVarwick)
in the dreadful Power of Gody declaring the Word of
Life to them, and John Crook followed me •, fome
Aruck at me, but the Lord*s Power was over them,
and gave me Dominion over all. — Having cleared my-
felf, I turned back out of the Town again, and
pafled to Coventry ; but when we came thither, we
found the People clofed up with Darknefs.
P. 170.] Here (at Badgly in Warwickfhire) WiUiam
Edmundfon^ a Friend that lived in Ireland^ having
lome Drawings upon his Spirit to come over into
England to fee me, met with me.
Ibid.] When we came to Baldock in IJertfordfhire^
I alked, If there was nothing in that Town i no
Profeflion ? And it was anfwered me. There were
fome BaptiflSy and a Bapiijl Woman fick. John
Rufh of Bedfordjhire went along with me to vifit
her ; and when we came in, there were many Peo-
ple in the Houfe that were tender about her. And
they told me, Jhe was not a Woman for this JVorld ;
but if I had any thing to comfort her concerning
the World to come, 1 might fpeak to her ; fo I
was moved of the Lord God to fpeak to her ; and the
Lord raifed her up again, to the Aftonifhment of
the Town and Country : Her Husband's Name was
Baldock. This Baptijl Woman and her Husband
came to be convinced •, and many Hundreds of Peo-
ple have been at Meetings in their Houfe fmce.
P. 172.] Many fubftantial People were convinced
Cat Dorcheflcr) and a precious Service we had there for
the Lord ; and his Power came over ail. Next
Morning, as we were pafLng away, the Baptifls be-
ing in a Rage, began to fhake the Duft from off their
Feet after us. What, faid I, in the Power cf Dark
nefs.
ii3]
^ejs. IVe^ ivho are in the Power of God-, Jfjoke offth^
Dujl of cur Feet aga'wjl you.
P. 173.] At Honiton (Devorflnre) there came to
Us fome of the particular Baptifts., with whom we
had a great deal of Reafoning. I told them, they
held their Do(ftrine of particular Ele6lion^ in Efaiis^
Cain^Sy and Ijhmael's Nature, and not in Jacob the
Jecond Birth -, hut they mud be born again before
they enter the Kingdom of God.
P. 175.] 1 writ a little Paper to be fent to the
Seven Farifhes at the Land's Efid (Cornwall) to de-
clare to them, that the Lord was come to teach hia
People himfdf by his Son Chrijl: Jefus.
P. 223.] From hence (^Marichorough) we went to
Newberry, where we had a large blejfed Meeting.
P. 225.] Having travelled over mofl: Part of the
Nation, I returned to London again, having cleared
myfelf of that which lay upon me from the Lord : For,
after I was releafed from Lanceflon Gaol, I was
moved of the Lord to travel over moll Parts of the
Nation.
P. 231.] In this Year (1656) the Lord's Trutli
Was finely planted over the Nation, and many Thou-
fands were turned to the Lord, infomuch, that;
there were feldome fewer than One thoufand in
Prifon, in this Nation, for Truth's Teftimony ;
fome for Tythes, forne for going to the Steeple
Houfes i fome for Contempts (as they call them)
fome for not fwearing •, others for not putting oh:
their Hats, i^c.
P. 247.] When Oliver Cro?nwell fet forth a Pro-
clamation for a Fall throughout the Nation for
Rain, when there was a great Drought (1657) ic
was obferved, that as far as Truth had Ipread in the
North, there were pleafanc Showers, and Rain enough,
when in the South, in many Places they were al-
moif fpoiled for want of Rain. At this Time I was
moved to write an Anfwer to the ProtecJof?, Procla-
F mation j
[ 34 1
marion, wherein I told him, If he had come to own
God's Truth, he iLould hiive had Raiu i and the
Drought was a Sign to them oi BarrenncTs and wane
of the Water of Life.
P. 251.] We palicd \imo IValcs \.\\xo* Monlgomery
JJjire^ where there was a Meeting like a Leaguer for
Multitudes — Then came Morgan Watkins unto me,
who was then become loving to Friends — I bad him
go up alfo and leave me, tor 1 had a great Travel
upon me for the Salvation of the People.
P. 254.] I asked the Governor of Tenhy, Why
he caft my Friend {^Joim ap John) into Prifon ? He
faid, For (landing with his Hat on in Church. I
faid, Had not the Pricft two Caps on his Head, a
(0) black one and a white one? and cut off the
Brims of the Hat, and then my Friend would have
but one j and the Brims of the Hat were but to
defend him from the Weather.
P. 254.] In PemhrQke Town we had fome Service
for the Lord.
P. 256.] As we gravelled (in Wales) wc came to
a Hill, which the People of the Country fay, is two
or three Miles high : From the Side of this Hill, I
could lee a great Way : And I was moved to fet
my Face fcveral Ways, and to found the Day of the
Lord there: And I told John ap John (a faithful
fVelch Minifter) in what Places God would raife up
a People to himfeU, to fit under his own Teaching.
Thofe Places he took Notice of; and fince there
hach a great People arif^^n in thofe Places. The like
I have been moved to do in many other Places and
Countries, which have been rude Places ; and yet I
have been moved to declare, the Lord had a Seed
(0) By bhci Caps underlaid with -white^
Give certain Guefs at imvard Light j
Which Serjeants at the Gcffel wear
lo make the Sphitual Calling clear.
audi has, Fart I. Canto III.
[35]'
in thofe Pbces: And akcrwards there has been a
brave People raifed up in the Covena; t ot God, and
gathered in the f^ame of J^'us, where they have Siil-
v^tion and free Teaching. ^ . n ; ,. ,
P 2-0 1 There was a Soldier (m Scctlafid) that
was "very' envious againft us, and haced both us and
the Truth, and mighty zealous he was for the
Pric-lh and thc-ir licorers. As this Man was hearing
the PrieiK holding his Hat before his Face vyhiHt
the Prieft prav'd, one of ti.e Prieft's Hearers ftabbed
him to Death^. So he who had rcje^ed the Teachtng
o^'the Lord Jefus Chrift, and cried down the Scrvayits
of the Lord, was murdered among them whom he
had fo cried up, and by one of them.
P 281 1 When firft I fet my Horft s Feet upon
ih^ S.ctl^Jh Ground, I felt the Seed of Gcd to fparkk
ahut me, lil<e innufnerahle Sparks cf Fire : Not but
there is abundance of thicl: cloddy Earth of Hypo-
crify and Falfenefs, that is atop, and of a hruir\\,
hramhl) Nature, which is to be burnt up iinth God's
fVord, and plozved up iz'ith God's Spiritual Plozv, be-
fore God's Seed brings forth Heavenly and SpiriLual
Fruit tor his Glory.
Ibid.] From thence {Newcaftle) we came to Dur'
ham (i6;:7) where was a Man come down from Lon-
don to feVup a College there, to make Minirters of
Chrtji, as tliey faid ; I went with fome others to
reafon with the Man, and to let him fee, " that to
»* teach Men (p) Hebrew, Greek, and Latin, and
" the
rt) Mr. Lepy ^Snah in thf Grafs, p. 84.) fpeakingof a large
Book in Folio, cLlUd-y^^ Battle-Door, in Defence ot the Phrale
th'c and thou, ctof leveral Languages, Greek, Hebrew, ^c.
(This Book, Fox fays, Journal, p. 245. was taken out ol the
Scnpcb'res, ^c. in abou: thirty Languages) ot which George to*
underltooa nor one Letter, yet fublcribes G /. ' nor ony to
" the Book, but to leveral Pages ot the PUyglott. Hut lome
" Fn^r.d^ do know the ^^u- who; had Ihreeicore Pounds in
*' new Clowns ^s hinnt.i" told ir) out ot the ^ahn Treajury,
[3^]
*« the feven Arli^ which was all but the Teachingi
*' of the natural Man\ was not the Way to make
*' them the MifiiJ^ers of Chriji : For the Languages
*' began at Bahd ; and to the Creeks that fpake
" Greek a.s their Molber Tongue, the preaching of the
" Crofs of ChriJI was Foohfhnefs ; and to theJen^Sy
*' that Ipake Hebrew as their Mother Tongue, Cbrijlr
*' was a Stumbling Block ; and as for the Romans,
*' who had the Latin and Italian, they perfecuted
*' the Chyiftians •, and Pilat, one of the Roman Go-
*« vernors, fct (q) Hebrew, Greek and Latin atop of
" Chrijl when he crucified him. So he might fee
*' the many Languages began at Babel, and they
*' fet them atop of Chrijl the l^Ford when they cruci-
*' fied him. And John the Divine, who preached
*' the Word, that was in the Beginning, faid. That
*' the Beajl and the Whore have Power over Tongues
*' and Languages, and they are as Waters. Thus
*' 1 told him, he might fee, the IVbore and Beajl
*' have Pov/er over Tongues and many Languages,
" which are, in Myjlery, Babylon ; for they begun
*' at Babel', and the Perfeculors of Chrijl J ejus fet
*' them over him when he was crucified by them :
" But he is rifen over them all, who was before
" them all. Now, faid 1 to this Man, doft thou
" think to make Minifters of Chrifi by thefe naiu-
" ral confufed Languages, which fprang from Babel,
*' are
** for helping George Fcxh Infallibility as to the Hebrew ; and
*' by the like Means they procured rhe reit : And all not Two-
** Pence to their Purpofe , only to boaft their Gift cfTo'igueSy
*' and to afford Giorgs Fox to fay, as he does in his Introduc-
*' tion to this Battle-Door magnificently thus i y^ll Languages
" are to me no more than Duji ; who -was before Languages "wre.
i^q) Dr. iS'oa/^ obferves upon rhe Fanaticks rf the Times {Cbri-
Jiian Fenteccji^ Sernn. vol. 3. p. 5'44.) " That Latin unto them
" was a mortal Crime , and Greek, inftead of being owned tor
" the Language of the Hoty Gkc/i (as in the Ne'u> Tejiament it
*' is) was looked upon like the Sin againji it. So that, in a
*^ Word, they had all the Confufion of Babel amongit them^
V 'wix\iOUt iht Diverjity of Tongues.
is7]
'* are admired in Bahylcn^ and fet atop of C/?rfy? the
" Life, by a Perfccutor ? Oh no ! So the Man
"* confeflVd to many of thefe Things. Then \vc
'* fliewed him further, That Chrijl made his Mini-
♦* fters himfelf, and gave Gifts unto them, and bid
*' them pray to the Lord of the Harveft to fend
" forth Labourers. And Peter -dnd Johfij tho*«K-
*' learned and ignorant (as to School- Learning preach-
" ed Cbrijl J ejus the IVord, which 'was in the Begin-
** rJ/ig^ before Bnhd was. P<?«/ alfo was made an
•' Apoftle. not of Man^ norh'j Maji^r^txihtT iGctiwtd
*' he the Gofpel from Man, but from JeJusCbriJi ;
" who is the fame now, and fo is his Gofpel^ as it
** was at that Day." When we had thus difcourfed
wicli the Man, he became very loving and tender ;
and after he had confidered further of it, he never
iet up his (r) College.
]btd.'\ At Nottingham I fent to Rice Jones, defiring
him to make his People acquainted, itiM I had joms-
tbing to fay to them from the Lord.
P. 194, alias 294.] Diverfe Tim.es, both' m the
Time of the long Parliament, :[nd the Protestor (fo
called) and of ihe Co?nmittee of Safety, when they
proclaimed Fads, I was moved to write unto them,
and tell them, their Fafts were like unto Jefahels ;
for commonly when they proclaimed Fafts, there
was fome Mifchief concerted againft us ; and I knew
their Fafts were for Strife Sind Debate, to finite the
Fiji of Wickednefs \ as the New-England Prcfejfon af-
ter did, who, before they puc our Friends to Dfath,
proclaimed a Fafl alio. Ibid.']
(r) It appears what 2n Enemy George Fox v.zs to Univerjities
and Colleges^ from a Paper of his, /4nno Dom. 1658, called,
Fafijis Strength (See Sr.cike in the Grafs^ p. 220.) where he re-
queited, or demanded, from the Parliament, even the Aboli-
tion of Schools and Colleges^ as well as Churches. Thefe are his
Words ; " And I do declare in the Prefence of the Lord God,
*' and all the Magijirates that be in God's Fear, they will
*' break down the Mafs-Houfes, Schooli afld Colleges^ which
*' you make Pri^jis and Minijen in.
[38]
Ibid.] Little Favour could we exped from thofe
f-rofeffin^ Parliaments ; bur, inftead tlieieoF, they
(vould be in a Rage, and tbmetimcs threaten thofe
JFriends that thus atrended them, that they would
whip them and fend them home.
P. 199 alias 299] I had a Sight and Senle of the
King's Return a good while before, and fo had fom^
others-, and when fome forward Spirits that came
amongfl: us, would have bought (j) ^'oinerfet Houje,
that we might h.ivc Meetings in it, 1 forbad them
to do fo4 for I did then {orckci\-\t King'' s coming in
again, Befides, there came a Woman to me in the
Strand, who had a propbecv concerning King Charles'^
coming in again, three Years before he came •, and
fhe told me, fhe mult go to him to declare it. I
advifed her to wait upon the Lord, and keep it to
herfelf i for if it fhould be known that (he went on
fuch a Meffage, they would look upon it to be Trea-
fon. But fhe faid, fhe muft go and tell him, that
Jie fhould be brought into England again.
Ibid.] Thomas Aldam and Antbony^ Pear/on, were •
nioved to go through all the Gaols in England, ar. i,
to get Copies of the Friends Commitments under
the Gaolers Hands, that they might lay the Weight
of Friends Sufferings upon Oliver CromwelL and when
he would not give Order for the relcafing of them,
loomas
fs) 'Tls obferved by Mr. L-Py {'^nahc in the Grafs, p. 2.8.)
That 'twas defired in the Women^s .^ddrefs xo th^ Parl.arrent
.6«;o, " That the late King (as they rebell.oufly termed h.m)
' \ul Rents, Parks and Houfcs, fhould be fold. And to what
' End > To pay thtfacriiesious Inifrcfnctors, that they (ot all
' Men) (hould not Jofe b^ rhe Abolition of 7>/ky In the
' fame Place they joyn with ^^^^^^'^ }'^''\'\!',f*^' ^Z:,
' and all the clllgcs, and their Lands, to be lold ■ and upon.
♦ the fame Foot; and the very Bells out of Churches, except
' one in a Town to ^ive Notice of F,re. Thofe Papers were
' fent to the Parliament the 20th Day ot the 5th Month 1659,
' being above -7000 of the Namas of the Handr.nids ^^dOaagb-
' tersofthe Lord, and fucb as fed tb. Offrefjionof'Tythc^,*
Frtmcdfor Mary H^'.-ji iv$o(l.
r39i
Thomas Aldam was moved to take his Cap from off
his Head, and rend it to pieces before him, and
fay unto him, So Jhall thy Gcvermnent he rent from thee
and, thy Houfe. Another Friends alfo a Woman,
was moved to go to the Parliament (that was envi.
ous againfl: the Friends) with a Pitcher in her Hand,
which fhe broke into Pieces before them, and told
them. So fljould they he broken to pieces, which came
to pafs fh )Ftly after.
P. 202.] In the Time of the Coinmittee of Safety (fo
called) we were inviced by them to have taken up
Arms and 2;reat Places and Commands were offered
fome of us ; bat we denied them all, and declared
againfl it, both by Word and Writing, teftifying,
that our fFeaj)o?!s and Armour were not carnal but
fpirilual.
P. 206.] We pafTed into Somerfetjhire, where the
Presbyterians and other Profejfors were very wicked,
and ufed to difturb Friends Meetings. One Time,
cfpecially, as we were then informed, there was a
very wicked Man, whom they hod got to come Co
the Ridkers Meeting. This Man put a Bear*s Skin
on his Back, and undertook with that to play Pranks
at the fakers Meeting, Accordingly, fetting him-
felf juft oppofue to the Friend that was Tpeaking, he
lolled bis Tongue out of his Mouth, having his Beards
Skin on his Back •, and fo made Sport to his wicked
Followers, and caiifed a great Difturbance in the
Meeting : But an eminent Judgment overtook him, and
bis Punijhment flumbered not \ for, as he went back
from the Meeting, there was a Bull-baitmg in the
"Way, which he ftaid to fee ; and coming within
the Bull's Reach, the Bull ftruck his Horn into the
Man's Chin into his Throat, and flruck his Tongue
out of his Month, fo that it hung lolling outy fo as he
ufed it before in Derifion in the Meeting •, and the
BulTs Horn running up into the Man's Head, he
Ivvung him about upon his Horn in a moft remark-
■ 3ible and fearful Manner, Thus he that came to do
Mifchief
[4<i]
Mifchicf amongft God's People, was mifchievM hirri*
fclh
P. 2 1 2.] A glorious Meeting there was fat Brijlol)
wherein the Lord's everlafting Seed Chrijl J^^fus, was
fet over all, and friends parted in the Power and
Spirit of the Lord in Peace, and in his Truth that is
over all.
p. 215.] There was a Friend went (i) naked
thro* the Town (of Skipton, Torkfoire) and he was
much beaten.
P. 220 ] The ^ahrs are not a Se^^ but are in
the Power of God, which was before Se^s were,
and witnefs the Eledlion before the World began ;
and are come to live in the Life in which the Pro-
phets and y^pofJes lived in, who gave forth the Scrip^
tures.
P. 229.] There being about 700 Friends in Prifon
in the Nation, v;ho had been committed under Oli-
ver's und Richard's Government, upon Contempts^ as
they call them, when the King came in, he fet them
all at Liberty.
P. 239.] Many Ways were the ProfelTors warn*d,
both by Words, by Writing, and by Signs •, but
they would believe none till it was too late. fP^illiafH
Symp/cn {u) was moved of the Lord to go feveral
Times,
(r) Mr. lepy tell; us {Snahe in the Grafs, p. r04.) " That ore
" of their mighty Prophets, Solomon Ecclcs, came into the Church
*' oi Aldermanbury, in London, in the Time of Divine Service,
" all naked, and befmeared up to the Elbows with Excrements ; ^
" and othtT Quakers did jutlify this Be.i/t, and laid, he might
*' as well come into the Church with that fiitb in his Hands,
*' as the Minilter with a Bil^le. And he was, after this, very
*' dear ro George Fox, and the Companion of his Travels. _
{u) This wa-; in Imitation of fome of the old y^naiatt/jfs in
Germany and Hcllaid; for we are informed by Gerard Brandt
(See Abridgem.entof his Hiftoryof the Reformation in the Lo~jj
Countries, p. 42.) That John Bokelfon of Taylcr Leydcn (afrcr-
uards mock King of Munjhr) ran Ihrk naked in the Streets (of
J^l-jHjJer, jinfto \^l\-) pretending to be moved hy the Sprit of
God. ' "^ ^
[41 1
Times, for three Years, naked and b -.re-foot before
thrm, as a Sign unto them in Markets, Courts^
Towns, Cities, to Priefts Houfes, and to great
Men's Houles, telling them. So jlmdd they all he
Jlrippcd fluked^ as he wasjlripped naked. And fomc-
limcs he was moved to put on Hair, Sackcloth, and
to befme.ir hi^ Face, telling them. So would the T.ord
God hej'mear all then Religion., as he was hefmeared.
' Another Friend, one Robert Huntington, was moved
cf the D.rd to go into Carlile Steeple Houfe, with a
white Sneet about him, amongll the great Presbyte-
rians and Independents there, tO fliew them that the
Surplice was coming up again ; and he put a Halter
about his Neck, to fi:iew them, that an Halter was
coming among them ; which was fulfilled upon fome
Perfecutors not long after.
P. 240.] After this, on a Leflore at TVejl-CheJler,
Richard Sale was moved to go to the Steeple Houfe in
the Time of their WorOiip, and to carry thofc per-
fecuting Priefts and People a Lanthorn and a Candle
as a Figure of their Darknefs. >
Jhid.^ Some of thofe who were counted the mod
eminent Priefts, were the bittereft and greatcft Stir-
rers up of the Magiftrates to Perfecution : And it
was a Judgment upon them, to be denied the free
Liberty of their Confcience v/hen the King came in,
becaufc, when th':y were uppcrmoft, they would not
have had Liberty of Confcience granted unto others.
But, as ftifF as this Sort of Men were then againft
Toleration, it is well known, that many of them
petitionej the King for Toleration, and for Meeting-
Places, and paid for Licenfes too.
G P. 244.]
STo fdif)' ufon the RjirifS
O/'John 0/' L.eyden'j old Outgcinvs^
IV ho for a IVeathcr-Ccck bung up
U^on their Mathtr Church'i Tof.
Hudlbras, Part III. Canto II.
[ 4'- ]
V. 244-1 (^) The ftingy Perfecutors of Netv T^yig-
lan'd^ were a People that fied out of old England
thither, from the Perfecution of the BiHiopis here;'
But when they had got Pov/er in their Hands, they
fo far eicceedcd the Bifhops in Severity and Cruelty,
that whereas the Bifhops had made them pay 12
Pence a i'^/r^ajy (fo called) for not coming to thf^ir
Wordiip here, they impofed a Fine o{ Five Shillings
a Day upon fuch as fhould not conform to \.\\G\r Will-
Worjhip there ; and fpoilcd the Goods of Friends
tliat could not pay it : Befides many they imprifoned,
diverfe they whipp'd, and that^ mcll cruelly ; ot
fome they cut off their Ears, and fome they h;inged,
ds Books of I'rlends Sufferings in Nezv-EngUnd
largely fnev/.
; F. 254.] It was, indeed, the immediate Hand
and Power of the Lord that did preferve me out of
their Plands at B/iJlol, and over the Heads of all oui
Perfecutors ; and- the Lord alone is worthy^ of all
the Glory, that did uphold and preferve for liis
Name and Truth Sake.
■ P. 262.] The Officers were envious Men, and
had an evil Mind againft /v7>//tf c -, but the Lord
brought his Judgments among them •, fo that it was
taken Notice of by their Neighbours : For whereas
before, they werevvcalthy Men, after this, their
Lflates. wafted away, and John Line.^ who was the
Conftable, and who was not only very forward in
putting
(x) Mr. L-Jley nhferves {Sr:ake in the Gr/jfry P- 2<<o) " Thar'
*' the fakers, when they had tafted a Jirtle of rhc Sweet of
"^ Government in Pe!}/:/vania, prolecated G. Ke^i'th^ znd other
** D/Jpfjtcrs thcrt, and took up the old Pretence, that it was
*' not forhisDoftrine, but as it was a Difturbance to the Go-
*' v.ernment,: No Church, not. that of i?'9Wf, prerends to any
-^' Power farther than to e^Acommunicate ; and the ^luahers pre-
tend to the fame, and exercife it : And all who can get the
*' Alliftance ofthe C/W/Gowr/jOTif';/, do take it : And all Cor-
'''' foralFunijhmenti are only from the Ciril Government, everi
in Pcfijb Countries, and the fame Diflindion ferves at Kom^
." and in Penfiivania."
putting on the Sokiiers to take Friends, but alio car-
ried thole that were taken, to Prifon, and took a
falle Oath of them at the AlBze ; jupon which they
were fined, and continued Prifoners,: He was a fad
Speftacle to behold; for -his FieOi rotting away
•while he lived, he died in a very miferable Condi-
tion, wifning that he had never meddled wkh the
^takers, and confefTing, that he never profpered
fince he had a Hand in perfecuting them ; and that
he thought the Hand of" the Lord wa^ againft him
fornt. . \, "^
P. 306.] (y) I could not but take Notice how the
Hand of the Lord turned againft ihofe my Perfecu-
tors who had been the Caufe of my Imprifonment,
or had been abufive and cruel to me in it : B'or the
Officer that fetched me to Houlker Hall, wafted his
Eftate, and foon after fled into Ireland: And moft
of the Juftices who were upon the Bench at the
ScfTions, when I was fent to Prifon, died in a little
while after ; a§ old Thomas Prejlon, Rawlinfon^ and
Porter, and Matthew JVeJi of Barwkk : And tho'
Juftice Flemming did. not die (yet his Wife died, and
left him Thirteen motherlefs Children) v/ho had im-
prifoned two Friends to Death, artd thereby made
leveral Children fatherlef*. Collonel Kirby never'
profpered after: And the Chief Conftable, Richard
Dodgfofiy died foon after: And Mount, the petty
Conftable, and the other petty Conftable. Jchn
Aiburnham\ Wife, who railed, at tne in her Houfe,
died foon after.: And William Knipe, who was the
Witnefs they brought againft me, died foon after,
alfo : And Hunter,, the .Gaoler of Lancajier, who
was very wicked to me while I was his Prifoner, he
G 2 was
{y) Mr. LeJIey obierves {Snake in the Grafi) that Lodozuick.
Muggletor.j who lived at the fame Time with/o:^, wasjuft futh
znozhtx curfifjg Profhct. " That he pronounced a Curfe againlt
feveral Sluakers by Name ; lomc of whom {'Jcf. Cole wa;one)
died foon after ; v.jjjch he attributed to the Weioht of his
*' Carfe, and urges a: a Proof of his Fro^hetick Spirit."
C 44 ]
Was cut off in his young Days : And the Under She-
riff, that carried me from Lancnjler Prifon towards
S^arbcrough^ he lived not long after : And one Joblin^
the Gaoler of Durham^ who was Prifoner with me
in Scarborough Cartlc, and often had incenfed the Go-
vernor and Soldiers againll me, tho' he got out of
Prifon, yet the Lord cut him. ofi' foon after. When
1 came into that Country again, irioft of thofe th:it
dvfth in Lancajhire were dead, and ruined in their
Eftatcs *, To that tho* I did not leek Revenge upon
them for their Aftings againlt me contrary to Law,
yet the Lord hath executed his Judgments upon
many of them.
P. 307.] On the Fourth Day (after he was releafed
fi'om Scarborough Prifon) I came into Scarborough
again, and had a Meeting in the Town. To this
Meeting came ons called a Lad'j^ and feveral other
great Perfons — 'lliat L^Jy, jo called^ came to me,
and faid, I fpake againft the Minifters : I told her,
vSuch as the Prophets and Chrijl declared againft for-
merly, I declared ag.iinft now.
P. 308.] I palled thro' the Country (Torkjhire)
(1666) vifiting Friends^ till I came to Sinderbill-
Grecn^ virhere I had a large and general Meeting.
The Priejl of the Place hearing of it, he fent the
Conftable to the Juftice's for a Warrant, and they
rid their Horfes \o hard, thar they almoft fpoiled
them •, but, the Meetin^^ was over before they came.
Thus the DevH and the PrieJl loft their Defign ; for
the Lord's Power bound them, and preferved mc
over them. And the Officers went away as they
came -, for the Lord God had fruftrated their De-
fign ; praifcd be his Name for ever.
P. 309] I travelled out of Darby/hire into Notting-
hawjh'tre. and had a great Meeting at Skegby. Palfing
jhro' the Foreft in a mighty thiindermg and rainy
T)a\\ I came to Ncttingjmm^ and lb great was the'
Tempeft that Day, that many Trees were torn up
by
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by the Roots, and fomc People killed ; but the
Lord preiVrved us.
P. 311.] The Lord opened to me, and let me fee
what I muft do, and how the Men's and Women's
monthh and quarterly Meetings Ibould be ordered
and eftabliHied in this Nation, and in other Nations,
and that I iliould write to them, where I came not,
to do the fame.
Ibid.'] Leaving Things well fettled in Berhyjhire^
we travelled over the Peak-Hills (which were very
cold, for it was then Froft and Snow) and fo came
into Staffordfhire •, and at Thomas Hamerjlry\ we had
a general Men's Meeting ; where Things were well
fettled in the Go/pel Order, and the monthly Meet-
ings were eftabliflied there alfo : But 1 was fo ex-
ceedirgly weak, that 1 was fcarce able to get on or
dfF my Horfe's Back \ but my Spirit being earneftly
engaged in the Work the Lord had concerned me in,
and Tent me forth about, I travelled on therein, noc
withftanding the Weaknefs of my Body, having
Confidence in the Lord, that he would carry me
thro', as he did, by his Power.
P. 312.] After i had cleared myfelf there {"jiz. in
Chejhire) in the Lord's Service, I paffed unto Lanca-
jhire, to ff^illiam Barneses, near li^arrington, and
there alfo the fnonthly Meetings were cftablifhed in
the Go/pel Order. From thence I fent Papers inta
IVejlmorland ; and alfo into Bi/ho prick, and Cleveland^
and Norlhufnherland, and inpo Cumberland and Scot-
land, to exhort Friends to fettle the monthly Meet-
ings in the Lord's Poiver in thofe Places, which they
did : And fo the Lord's Power came over all, and
the Heirs of it came to inherit it : For the Authority
of our Meetings is the Power of God, the Gofpel, which
brings Life and Lnmortalitj to Light, that they may
ice oyer che Devil chat hath darkened them.
P. 314.]
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P. 3t4-] (^^^7) We pciflTed into Here for djhire.
There was, about this Time, a- Proclamation againrt;
Meetings. Then they met in heinfler privately, and
provided Bread and, Cheeje and Drink in Readineis.,
that if the Officers fhould come, they would puc up
their Bibles and fall to eating, 'the Bailiff found
them out, and came in among them, and faid,
^ke\r "Bread and Cheefe fljoidd .not cover than ; but he
■would have their Speakers. They cried then, what
would become of their Wives and Children? But he
took their Speakers, and kept them awhile. This
the Bailiff told our Friend, Pekr Toung, and faid,
they were the verieft Hypocrites that ,ever made Pro-
feffion of Religion. The like Contrivances they had
in other Places : For there was one Pocock at Lon-
don., that married Abigail Darcy, who was called a
Lady, and ffie being convinced of Truth, I v/ent to
his Houfe to fee her,. This Pocock had been one of
the (z) Triers of the Priefis i and being an high Pref-
lyterian, and envious againft us, he ufed to call our
Friends Ploufe Creepers. Now, I going to vifit his
"Wife, afnd he being prefent, fhe faid to me, / have
fomeihing to /peak to thee againfl my Husband. Nay,
faid I, thou muff not fpeak againft thy Husband,
Yes, faid ihe, but I muft in this Cafe. The lafi
Firjl Day, faid fhe, he, and all his Priefis and People,
ihe Presbyterians., met, and they had Candles and To-
bacco Pipes, and Bread and Cheefe ^ and cold Meat on
the
(z) Dr. South ('Sermon, intltied, fhe Chrijlian Ventecrji^
vol. j, p. 54^yl fpcaks of the Trj'.Ti as follows : " And likewifc
*' fox {hsGlf: of difcfrnh^ o/Sfirjts. They had their Tryerj,
" that is, a Court zppo'imed for the Tryal of Minifters j but nsoft
*' propeily czUed Cro/mvft/'s Inqurfition ^ in which they would
pretend to know Men's Hearts, and inward Brnt of their
*' Spirits (as their Word was) by their very Looks. But the
*' Truth is, as the chief Pretence of thofe Tryers, was to look
* into Men's Gifts ; fo if they Ibund them but well gifted in the
*' Hand^ they never look'd any further: For a full and free
** Hand with them, was a Demonftration of z gracious Heart -^
*' a Word in great Requelt in thole Times,"
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the TnUfy and they agreed before Hand, that if the
OJJicers (houid come in upon them^ then they would leave
their Preaching and Prayings and fall to their cold
Meat. Oh, ikid I to him, is not this a Shame to
you, who perfecLited and imprifoned us, and Ipoiled
our Goods, becaufe we would not follow you, and
b2 of your Religion, and called us Hcufe Creepers ;
and now ye don't (land to your own Religion your-
lelves ? Did you ever find our Meetings fluffed with
Bread and Cheefe and Tobacco Pipes ? Or did yoii
ever read in the Scriptures, of any fuch Pradlicc
amongfl the Saints ? IFhy^ fiid the old Man, we muji
be as wife as Serpents. Then, faid 1, this is the Ser-
pent's M'lfdom indeed. But who, faid I, would ever
have tho<.ight, that you Presbyterians and Indepen-
de'fits^ v;ho perfecuted and imprifoned others, and
fpoiled their Goods, and whipped fuch as would not
follow your Religion, fhould novy flinch yourfelves,
and not dare to Hand to, and own your own Reli-
gion, but cover it with Tobacco Pipes^ Flaggons of
Drinks cold. Meat, and Bread and Cheefe ? But this,
and fuch- like deceitful Pradices, I underftood after-
wards, were too common amono; them, in Times
of Perfecution.
P. 315.] As I was lying in Bed at BriJloJ^ the
Word of the Lord came to me, that I muft go back
to London. Next Morning Alexander Parker, and
feveral others, came to me, and 1 asked them, what
they felt ? They asked me, what was upon me ? I
told them, I felt I muft return to London : And they
faid, the fame was upon them ; fo we gave up toi
return to London ; for which Way the Lord moved
and led us, thither we went in his Power.
P. 317.] We came to a Place called Newport \
and, it being Market Day there, feveral Friend:
came to us, with whom we fat together awhile \ and,
after we had 2if,ne refrefhing Seafon together, wc part-
ed from them, and went on our Way,
P,321.]
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P. ^IT.] I was fentto vifita Friend tint was ficic
(in Sujfex) and went to {c^ Friends that were Prifoncrs,
and there was Danger of my being apprehended \
but went in the Faith of God's Power, and thereby
the Lord preferved me in Safety.
P. 331.] Since the Time that thefe Meetings (wz.
Monthly ones) have been fettled, tliat all the Faith-
ful, in the Power of God, who be Heirs of the
Gofpel, have met together in the Power of God,
many Months have been op'^ned in Tbnnkf^ii-ings and
Praife^ and many have bleffed the Lord God, that
ever he did fend me forth in this Service •, yea, with
Tears have man-j prdifcd the Lord. — Thus the Lord's
everlafting Renown and Praife is let up in every
one's Heart that is faithful : So that we can now fiy,
That the Gofpel Order eftabliflied amongft us, is not
cfMan^ 7wrby Man, hut of and h) Jcfus Chrift, m
and through the Holy Ghojl.
P. 333.] John Fox was complained of in the Houfe
cfConwwm for having a tumultuous Meeting,in which
treajonahle Ifords were Jpoken ('which, according to
the befl Information I could get of it) was thus :
This John Fox had formerly been PrieO: of Mansfield^
in JFil ijhire ; and being put out of that Place, was
afterwards permitted, by a Common-Prayer PrieJI,
to preach fometimes in his Steeple -Hou/e. Ac length,
this Presbyterian Pnej}^ prefuming too far upon the
Parilli Priell's former Grant, began to be more bold
than welcome, and would have preached there, whe-
ther the Parifh Prieft would or no. This caufed a
great Buttle and Conteil in the Steeple //oz//^- between
the two Priejls and their Hearers on either Side :
J n which Contejl the Co7n?non- Prayer Book ivas cut to
Pieces; and, as it was fiid, Ibmc treafonahle Words
were then fpoken by the Followers of this John FoXy
the Presbyterian Prieft.
P. 336J
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P. 336.] (1669) After this Meeting in Ghucejler^
Jh'ire was over, we travelled thro' the Country till
we came to Brijhl, where I met with Margaret Fell^
who was come to vifit her Daughter Teomans there i
I had feen from the Lord^ a confiderable Time before,
that I fhouki rake Margaret Fell to be my Wife :
And when I firil: mentioned it to her, jhe felt the An-
fwer cf Life from God thereunto : But tho' the Lord
ha(i opened this Thing unto me, yet I had not re-
ceived a Command from the Lord for the accom-
plifliing of it then ; but it was done at (a) Brijiol
atterwards.
P. 349.] The Perfecution a little ceafing (1671)
I was moved to fpeak. to Martha Fifher, and another
JVoman (b) Friend, to go to the King about her (his
Wite*s} Liberty. They went in ths Faith, and in the
I.ord*s Power •, and the Lord gave them Favour
with rlie King, fo that he granted a Difcharge undep
the Broad vSeal to clear both her and her Eftate,
after fhe had been ten Years Prifoncr, and premU'
mred. 1 fent down the Difcharge forthwith by a
Friend ; by whom alfo I writ to her, to inform her,
how to get it delivered to the Juftices, and alfo to
H acquaint
(a) Mr Li/Iry (s^ys {Snake in the Grafs, p. 191) " Thar G,
" Fox marrie(i an old H idou.', who was paft the Age of Child-
" bearing, and laiii, that fhe was a Figure of the Church coming
" out of the IVild.-rnefs : And therefore, that Ihe mull not be
*' barren, but wodld, as Sarah, bring forth an 7/(W in her old
" Age. With this he pleas'd himl'elfj and this was given forth,
*' and certainly expected among the ^^(^<fr.f : For, to feed, and
*' at lift to expol'e their Deluficn, flie grew bigg, as if with.
*' Child, and the Spirit of difcerning fail'd them j lor all Things
** were provided for the Lyirg-in, and xht Midwife attended
*' feveral Weeks in the Houfe, till Belly fell, the Figure
*' was fpoil'd, and the leakers dil-ippointed of their Ifatic."
{b) Mr. Le/ley takes Notice {Snake in the Grafs, p. 47) " That
" there are Inltances of fome of their ihe Preachers (whom they
** czWtd travflling Friends) that went abroad to propagate the
** Faith, and to fettle the Churches, who got fomecbing in
their Journey, which made them ^ro^agate and travail^ even
" atcording eg the Letdr,"
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jrcquaint her, that ii was upon vie from the Lordy to'
go beyond the Seas, to vifit the Plantations in jme-
fica ; and defined her to haften up to London^ be-
caufe the Ship was then fitting for the Voyage.
P. 350.} When we had been about three Weeks
at Sea, one Afternoon we efpied a VclTel about four
Leagues aftern of us : Our Maflcr faid, it was a
Sallee Man of War, and he fcemed to give us Chafe.
Friends were well fatisfied in themfelves, having
Faith in God, and no Fear upon their Spirits. When
the Sun was gone down, 1 law the Ship out of my
Cabbin 5 and I law fhe made up towards us : When
it grew dark, we altered our Courfe 10 mifs her -,
but fhe altered alfo, and gain'd upon us. At
Night the Mafter and others oamc into my Cabbin,
and ask'd me, 'what they fiould do? I told them, I
was no Mariner y and ask*d them, what they thought
was belt to do ^ They faid, there were but two
Ways, either to outrun them, or tack about and
hold the lame Coarfe we v/ere going before. I told
them. If he were a Thief ^ they might be fure he
would tack about too ; and as for outrunning him,^
it was ta no Furpofe to talk of that, for they faw
he failed fafter than we. Then they asked me
again, what they fhould do ? For, they faid, if the
Mariners had taken Fatd's Counfel, they had net
come to the Damage they did. I told them, it was'
a Trial of Faith •, and therefore the Lord was to
be waited on for Counfel : So retiring i« Spirit (c) the
iLcrd fhewed me, That his Ufe and Power was placed
l?etween us and the Ship that purjued us. I told this
£0 the Mailer and the reft, and that the belt Wa/
was to tack ahouty and fteer our right Courfe. I
wifhcd them alfo, to put out all their Candles, buc
that
"^ ff/This in Imuation of St. Paul, who bad an A/Turance
£rt>m an •^"gel, that God would fave all the Lives in the Ship'
for his Sake. By which Rfvtlatiofj, ha was enabled to give
Jincourigemjnt and Direclion to the Stamen^ who had othct-
Wife gtvcn »ii up in Diffair^
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that they (tcered by ; and to fpeak to all the Paf«
fengcrs to be ftill and quiec. About the Eleventh
Hour of the Night, the Watch called, and faid,
they were juft upon us. That difquieied fomc of
the Paflengers •, whereupon, I Hit up in my Cabbin,
and looking thro' the Port-Hole, the Moon being
not down, I faw them very near us. I was getting up
to go our of the Cabbin ; but remembering the
Word of the Lord, That his Life and Power was
f laced between us and them^ I Jay down again. The
Mailer, and fome of the Seamen, came to me
again, and asked me, If they might not fteer fuch
a Point ^ I told them, they might do as they would.
By this Time the Moon was gone quite down, and
a frefh Gale arofe, and the Lord hid us from them,
and we failed briskly on, and faw them no more.
The next Day, being the hrft Day of the Week,
ve had a pubiick Meeting in the Ship (as we ufu-
ally had on that Day throughout the Voyage) and
the Lord's Prefence was greatly among us j and I
dcfired the People, " To mind the Mercies of the
♦' Lord, who had delivered them i for they might
*» have been all in the Turks Hands by that Time,
*' had not the Lord's Hand faved them.'* After-
wards, whilft we were at Barbados^ there came in
a Merchant from Salke^ and told the People, that
one of i\\t Bailee Men of War faw a monjirous Tatch
at Sea, the greateft that ever he faw, and had her
in Chace, and was juft upon her, but that there was
a Spirit in her^ that he could not take. This did
confirm us in the Belief, that it waa a Sallee Man we
faw make after us, and that it was the Lord that
delivered us out of his Hands.
P. 351.] (d)\ was not Sea-fick dunn^ the Voage,
as many o{ the Friends and other Paflengers were.
H 2 P. 352}
(d) Whi t-e fit Id's ]0Mtii2\ from London to Gibraltar, &c. p. 8.
Some of the Paflengers, amonglt whom was Mr H. began row
to hejick ; but 1 felt very litrle of it j on the the vXtiary, C«A
enabled me to rejoice with very great Joy,
[5^1
P. 352.] Soon after I came into the Iflapd (Bar-
hados) I was informed ot a remarkable PafTage,
wherein the Jullice of God did emincnily ap{ieAr.
There was a young Man of Barbados, whofe Name
was John Drakes (a Perfon of lome Note in the
World's Account, but a common Swearer, and a bad
Man) who having been in England, and at London,
had a mind to marry a young Maid that was a
Friend's Daughter, left by her Mother very young,
and with a confiJerable Portion, to the Care and
Government of feveral Friends, whereof I was one.
He made his Application to me, that he might have
my Confent to marry this young Maid. I told him,
*' I was one of her Overjeers, appointed by her Mo-
*' ther to take care of her •, that if her Mother had
*' intended her for a Match to any Man of the IVorld,
*' fhe would have difpofed her accordingly : But
•' fhe committed her to us, that fhe might be train-
*' ed up in the Fear of the Lord ; and therefore I
*' fhould betray the Truft repofed in me, if I
*' fhould confent that he ijuho was out of the Fear of
*' God, fhould marry her, which 1 would not do.'*
When he faw that he could not obtain, he returned
to Barbados with great Offence of Mind againft me,
but without jufl Caufe. Afterwards, when he heard I
was coming to Barbados, he fwore dcfperately, and
threatened, that if he could pojpbly procure it, he would
have me burnt to Death when 1 came there ; which a
Friend hearing, ask'd him, what I had done to him,
that he was fo violent againfl me ? he would not
anfwer, but faid again, / will have him burnt.
Whereupon the Friend replied, Do not march on too
furioufly, lefl thou come too foon to th'j Journey s End.
About ten Days after this, he was (truck with a
violent burning Fever, of which he died \ and by which
his Body was i'o Jcorched, that the People took No-
tice of it, and faid, // was as black as a Coal : And
three Days before 1 landed, his Body was laid in
the
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the Dujl •, and it was taken Notice of as a fad Ex*
ample.
p. 362.] We went on board (Trom Jamaica) the
8th ot" the I ft Month, 1671-2, and having contrary
Winds, were a full Week failing forwards and back-
wards, before we could get out of Sight of Jamaica,
A difficult Voyage this proved, and pretty dangerous,
efpecially in our paffing thro* the Gulf of Florida^
where we met with many Trials by Winds and
Storms : But the great God, who is Lord of the
Seas and Land, and who rideth upon the Wings of
the Wind, did, by his Power, preferve us thro"
many and great Dangers, when, by extream Stre(s
of Weather, our Vef^el was divers Times like to be
o'jerfet, and much of her Tackling broken; and,
indeed, we were fenfible that the Lord was a God at
Hand, and that his Ears were open to the Supplica-
tions of the People : For when the Winds were fo
ftrong and boyfterous, and the Storms and Tempefts
fo great, that the Sailors knew not what to do, but
were tain to let the Ship go which Way flie would ;
then did we pray unto the Lord, and the Lord did
gracioufly hear and accept us, and did calm the
Winds and the Seas, and give us feafonable Weather,
and made us rejoice in his Salvation : BlefTed and
praifed be the holy Name of the Lord, whofe Power
hath Dominion over all, and whom the Winds and
Seas obey.
P. 364.] John Eurneyaie, Rohert JVidders, George
Pattifon and I, with feveral Friends of the Proving
(of Maryland') went over to the Eaftern Shore, and
had a Meeting there on the firft Day A very
Heavenly Meeting it was, and feveral Perfons of Qua-
lity of that Country were at it : Two of which were
Jujlices of the Peace. And it was upon me from the
Lord, to fend to the Indian Mmperor, and his Kings
to come to that Meeting : The Emperor came, and
was at the Meeting i but his Kings lying further off,
could
[54]
could nQt rtfach thither Time enough ; yet they
came after with their Cockaroofes. I had in the Even-r
ing, for they ftajd all Night, two good Opporru-
nicies with them *, and they heard the Word of the
Lord willingly, and did confcfs to it.
P- ?^7-] i had a great Travel of Spirit concerning
ihe Rantersy for there were many of thtm in thole
Parts (and they had been rude at a Meeting which I
was not at) wherefore I appointed a Meeting amongft
them*, and I believed the Li rd would give me Pow-
er over them ; and he did fo, to his Praifc and
Glory, blcfTed be his Name.
P. 369.] I had a Meeting among the Indians, at
Shelter JJIand^ at which were their King with their
Council, and about a V{\.\r\6Ttdi Indians more. They
late down l!ke Friends, and heard very attentively,
while I fpake to them by an Interpreter, an Indian
that could fpeak Englijb well. After the Meeting,
they appeared very loving, and confefs'd, that what
was faid to them, was Truth. They were very well
fatisfied with the Meeting, and would not go
away when the Meeting was done, till they had fpo*
ken with me: wherefore I went amongft them, and
found they were much taken with the Truth ; and
good Defires were raifed in them, and great Love.
Blejffed he the Lord^ his Name fpreads, and will be
great among the Nations, and dreadful among the
Heathen.
p. 407.] (1675) AlCcJJel, among other Friend:
that came to fee us, there came a Woman, and
brought her Daughter to me to fee how well fhcwas:
Putting 7ne in mvid, that when I was there before, Jhe
bad brought her lo me, much troubled with the Dijeafe
called the Km G*s Evil ; and had then defired me to
jjray forher, which I did^ and Jhe grew well upon it^
Jiraifed be the Lord.
p. 430.] In my Journey I obferved a Slackncfa
and Shortnefs in fame th^Li ^rofefs' d Truth, in keeping
UD
A
\
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Up the ancient Tedimony of Truth againfl: Tytbes'y for
whcre-cver 'that Spirit got Entrance, which wrought
Divifions in the Church, snd oppofed the Men's and
Women's Meetings, it weakened thofe that received
it intheir Teftiinony agsinft Tythes. Wherefore, /
was moved of the Lord, £o give forth a (hort Paper, by
Way of an Epiftic to Friends, to ftir up the pure
Mind in them, and to encourage and ftrengthen ihcm
in their Chrifiian Tejiimony againil the Aniicbrijlian
Toke and Opprcfliai .
F.469.] (167S) At Ives i n Huntingtofijhire, George
IVkUshsad came CO me, and travelled with me in the
Work of the Lord for five or [\x Days in that Coun-
try, and in fome Parts of Northamptonjhire.
P, 480.] After I had fpent fix Weeks time in the
Service of the Truth in and ii'^cux. London (1680)
/ was moved of the Lord to go with Friends into
fome Parts of Surrey and Su^ex ; I went down to
Kingjlon by Water, and I tarried there certain Days :
For while I was there, the Lord laid upon me to
write to both the great Turk, and King of Algier
feverally (he had wrote a long Letter before 1678,
fee p. 459. to Johannes III. King o^ Poland, as he
cxprciTes himfelf) to warn them both, and the Peo-
ple under them, to turn from their Wickednefe and
fear the Lord, and do juftly, left the Judgments of
ood come upon them, and deftroy them without
Remedy, But to the Algcrir.es I writ more particu-
larly concerning the Cruelty they exercifed towards
Friends and others, whom they held Captives in
Algiers.
P. 503.] While I was at li^orminghurfl in Sujfex^
where I had a very blefTed Meeting among Friends,.
a,nd Utt from Difturbance. While I was there,
James Claypde, of London, was fuddenly taken very
iil, with fo violent a Fit of the Scone, that he could
neither (land nor lye \ but, with the Extremity of
Pain, cried out like a Woman in Travel. When I
heard
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heard it, I was much cxcrd/ed in Spirit for him, and
went to him \ and after 1 had fpoken a few Words
to him to turn his Mind nward, 1 was moved to
lay my Hand upon him, and prayed to the Lord to
rebuke his Infirmity : And as \ laid my Hand upon
him, the Lord's Power went through him ; and,
thro* Faith in that Power, he had fpeedy Eafe ; fo
that he quickly tell into a Sleep, and when he a-
waked, the Stone came from him like Dirt, and he
was fo well, that the next Day 't\t rode with mc
five-and-tv/cnty Miles in a Coach, tho* he ufed for-
merly, as he laid, to lye two Weeks, and fome-
times a Month, with one of thofe Fits of the Stone ;
but the Lord was intreated for him, and his Power
foon gave him Eafe at this Time •, blefled and praifed
be his holy Name therefore.
P. 518.] Being on a Firft Day (1683) at the
Bull and Mouth, where the Meeting had long been
kept out, but was on that Day peaceable and large,
the People were fo affecfted with the Truth, and
refrefhed with the powerful Prefcnce of the Lord,
that, when the Meeting was ended, they were loth
to go away.
P.519.] The yearly Meeting (1684) was in the
Third Month, and a blefled v/eighty Meeting it
was •, where Friends were fweetly refrefhed together,
for the Lord was with us, and opened his heavenly
Treafures amongft us. And tho* it was a Time of
great Difficulty and Danger, by realbn of Informers
and perfecuting Magiftrates, yet the Lord was a
Defence and Place of Safety to his People.
Ibid.'] A glorious Meeting we had (at Colchejler)
to the fettling and ftablifliing of Friends both in
Town and Country •, for the Lord's Power was over
all, blefTed be his Name for ever : Truly the Lord's
Power and Prefence was beyond Words : For I was
but weak to go into a Meeting, and my Face (by
reafon of a Cold 1 had taken) was fore, but God
wa«
[ n ]
was ftrong, and mani felted his Strength in us, anc)
widi us, and all was well. The l.ord have the
Gl"6ry tor ever- more for his uipporting Power.
P.'52\l M.iny Things at this Time I writ •, fomfi
for the Pre fs, and Ibme for particular Service : As,
1-etters to the King of Denmark and Duke of Hol-
Jieyn, on Behalf ot Friends that were Sutferers iii
thfjir Dominions.
P. _^t»8.] I writ a Letter to the King of Poland
C16S5) on Be-half of Friends at Z)cJ«/~(t^, wf.o had
long been under grievous Sufferings.
F. 5S6.] I had not been long in London (1688)
before a great Weight came upon me, and a Sighc
the l.orci gave hie of the great Buftles and Troubles,
Revolution and Change, which foon after came to pafs.
P. 5SS.] About this Time (the Eighth Month,
1688) great Exercife and Weights carne upon me
(as hath.ufually done before gieit Rcvolulions and
Changes 0: Government} and my Strength dej^arted
from me.; fo that I reeled, and was ready to fall as
I went along the Streets •, arid at length I could noc
^o abroad at all, I vvas fo weak for a pretty while,
till I felt the Power of the Lord to fpring over all,
and had received an Afiurance from him, that he
would prefer ve his faithful People to hlmfelf througli
all.
' P. 601.] When I was come to London (16S9) I
went from Meeting to Meeting, labouring diligently
in the Work of the Lord, and opening the divine
My/ieries of the heavenly Things, as God, by his
Spirit, opened them in me.
P. 1614.] He died on the 13th Day of the Ele-
venth Month [Novdmher 1690) in the 67th Year of
h's Age.
THE
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THE
LAST WILL
Of that Impostor
GEORGE FOX.
X^S^^y^^ %^/^^n great Apoftle and admired
"^i^^MP^ Idol, wrote with his own Hand, and
I T j^ll witnefTed fo to be, by three eminent
^^^^-^bi ^akers^ upon their Atteftation, or
^^d'Ji^^ new Oath, v/hen it v/as proved before
Dr. BramJIon, namely, S. Mead, W»
Jngram, and Ceo. Whitehead^ and is now lying in the
Prerogative-Office by Do^on- Commons., Lo7idon.
And (as in the Broad Side publifhed by Mr. Haws,
at the Rofe in Ludgate-Street) figned by Mr. Thomas
fVellham., Deputy Rcgifter, with a Copy of the Admi-
niltration in Latine, dated the 30th of December^
1697. And whereas I firft publifhed this Will in
my Book, A Seafonahle Caveat againjl the Prevalencj
of ^.akerifm., &c. He7iry Pickworth, with the Ap-
probation of the ^.akers Second- Day- Meeting, has
printed a Book called, A Narrative and Charge.,
&c. where he fays, p. 9. That as I never read of
any fuch Saying in any Book of his {i.e. Fox) that he
that hath the fame Spirit that raifed Jefus from the
Dead, is equal with God -, fo if any fuch Inftance
there were unknown to me, he was acquitted. A%
in our An^uii Fiagkcotui, to his eternal Defenfe,
aganift
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againft all fuch un-ighteous Suggeftions, i^c. And
t'^-reupon I am concerned to publifh a fccond Edi-
ti(Mi of this his Will, with feme additional Remarks
for their Hearers Sake ; and which I propofe (if
they d-ny them) to prove at our Conference at Slee-
forii, or thereaway, where, if God permit, I pur-
pofe to m-ret him the 25th o^ Auguj}^ 1701, as in
my lite Book-News, Numb. I. and printed Letter,
is accepted ; and this is timely Notice. Signed this
2yi\\ o^i J tine ^ 1701. Fra. Bugg.
George Fox*s /FI//, as it lies in the Prerogative'
OJice. *
♦' I. T Doe give to thomas lover my Sadell the ar ag
\_ '* Jhon Nelfons and bridall and i" Sporg
" and bootes inward letherethd and the Newingland
" indan bible and my gre^t book of the fignifing
*' of names and my book of the new teflement of
*' eight langves and ail my fifehall things that came
*' from beyand the Seay, with the ovtlandefh Cvfl
" and that thing that people do give gliders witll
'.* and my tov diales the one is an eknockfa diall.
" And all my over plcfii bookes to be devided
«' amovng my 4 Sones in lav/ and alfo my other
»' bookes and my Hamack j doe give to thomas.
** lover that is at Bengajnin Antrvbvs his Clofet and
" rachail may take that which is at Swarihmor.
*' And Thomas lover may have my walnvt eqvnock-
<i' fhall diall and if hee can he may geete one cut by
" it which will be hard to doe and hee fhall have
*' one of my profspedf glaffes in my trovnk at Lon-
^* don and a pare of my gbveses and my Seale^_^'
*' the fflaming Sward to nat. Mead and my other
y two Seales j rofe the other dan abra}:>a7u.
I % <* And
* Endorfed on the fiiil Paper, Numb. I. iEj; 'XkQmai lovrr.t
this.
'j' Sjpuis.
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" A:}(\ thomcs lover fhall have my Spafjf/h ]cihcc.
V hvd G Jf. ;ind S Mead Ihall have my Magnifing
'/ glas & tho torkclll'hclL Com & cafe.
*' II. And all that J, have v/rittcn Confaring what
J doc give to my iclaHions etocr iiionty or other
•* wsicsjijon lofi may put Ic up in my tronke atjion
'/ Elfones & wright a]J thinuis dovne in a paper &:
" make a paper out of all my papers how j have
*' ordeid things for them & jImti lofi may fend all
V things c.ovn by povelfivorth Carrcr in the trovnUe^
'* to ]bon ffox at poveheivorlb in ivarick/hfr & let jbon
'' fpx kndjbon lofl a full receat 6c a difcharge &; in
" this Matter ami non of you may be confarned hut
V jbon loft only & my other lettcli tronke that ftand-
*'. eth in bengmin ylnirubei is Cloeict with the Ovtlan-
** defh things ibomas lover fhall have and if it be
'^' ordered in any other papers to any other that mult
*' not fland foe but as now ordered Off he Sary thou
*' may give Sary ffrickenf eld half a gi.ne for fhee hath
•' bene farvefable to mee a honeft earful young wo-
V mon G ff.
" Make no j Noves of thes things but doe them
*« in the life as J have orderd them be when all is
" don and cleared what remencs to the printing my
*' bookes ben^?nln /hitrvhves and j\:I,rry, h-'^th too
*/ pound of mine take no Notes of them tor it when
" you doe reeve it 6c in my cheaft in b^i-gameu .in-
" trvbs Chamber ther is a Ictell gilt box with lome
" gould in it Sary Mead_ to take it Sc let it do ic
••' Sarveses among the refl foe far as it Tvill goc the
box is Sealed up G Jf.
And let thomas docker that knoeth many of my
*' epefeles & wrten bookes whjch hee did wright
** c^m up to London to alfift trends in Sorting ot my
** epefeUs 6i other writings &c give him a gine G ff.
JIL
* On the Second, Numb. II. "I'liis \i to be p'jt up among
GJF'% fen'ed up Papers, thac Fickc: :hat Sjrah M:^d hath.
"f Noife.
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«' • III. J doeorde IFm^Sa Mead & T. kv€r tq
** take care of all my bookes & Epefeles & papers
** that be at benjmin Jutrvhjes & at r. r Chamber &
•* thoes that com from S-warth mor and my jornall
** of my life &: the paleges & traveis of trends & to
*' take them all into ther hands and all the over-
V pluch of them the may have & keep together as a
*' libarv when the have gethered them togethei
*.' which ar to be printd.
'* And for them to take charge of all my money
1* & defray all us j have orderd in my other papers.
*' And any thing of mine the may the my take &
S^ God will and fnill be ther reward the 8 Mo "1688.
" thovias lover & John Rovs may a (lift you G ff".
'' And all the pafiges & traveles & Suferings of
*' ffrinds in the beging of the Spreading of the trouth
*' which I have keept together will make a fine
*> l-.illery & the may be had at Sivarihmor with my
" other bookes & if the com to London with my
*« papers then the may be had ether at fVm or ben
*» Anirubs clofet for it is a fine thing to know the
*' beging of the Spreading of the Gofpell after foe
**! long might of apoltace fince the apoleles daye?
*' that now Chrijl raines as he did in the harts of
*' hi^ people Giory to the Lord for ever Amen.
Gf. the 8 Mon 16SS.
Reader, obferve, that in this Will there is not
two Lines good Senfe, or Englifh •, the next obferve
his Pretence to Learning, and then tell me whether
the fakers Judgment is found, touching his eternal
Defence.
iji. Remark is. That he that cannot write one
Line, either Engli/h or Senfe, cannot write a Book ;
ergo^
* On the Third, Numb. III. For G.£', to be laid In the.
Trunk, iV. M, the 8tb Month, 1688.
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trip^ George Fox never writ any one Page in any one
Book of thok many Hundreds the fakers have
mod impudently publifhcd in his Name.
idl-j. We lee he did not in his Will bequeath his
Soul to God, nor cxprefs any Hopes of a joyful Rc-
furrc6tion, nor his Body to Chriftian Burial, nor
begin. In the Name of God, Amen, as Chrijliam
ufually do.
2,dly, Likewife here is no Mention made of any
Confeflion of Sin, nor Hopes ol Pardon by the Me-
rits and Satisfadion of Chriji Jefus. 3ut as in his
Life-time he preferred the Heathens before the Cbri-
fiians, even fo he died more like a Uealktn than a
Qhrijiian,
\ihly. Bcfides, he difiered in the Manner of gi-
ving from all other People •, he doth not fay, I will
and give, or I give and bequeath, or i will and dc-
rnife, is^c. but, fuch an one may take this, that, or
the other Thing, i^c.
Sihly. He is likewife fmgular as to the Trivials
he gives away, viz Boots Spur?, Safhoons, Dials,
a nafty Clyfter-Pipe, Comb and Comb-Cafe, to the
great Quaker- Dodor Thomas Lou:er, I juppofc ta
be kept as holy Relicks in Remembr:incc of his
Holinefs, yet in all this Senfe, or Nonfenfe, hii
Pefence is eternal.
Reader, \{ Jefus oi Nazareth, who fuffered on the
Crofs, was properly the Son of God j if his Ordi-
nances of Baptilm and the Supper, inflituted by him,
are to be pradtifed •, if the Scriptures be the revealed
"Will, and written Word of God, and fuch as fm-
cerely believe, profefs, and praflife the iame, be
the Church of God, which this Fcx and his Difciples
utterly deny, then I will, in the Faith and full AfTu-
rance thereof, fay according to that of EJiher vi. 13.
If this Church be the Church of God, before whom
the fakers begin to fall, ^akcrifm Ihall not pre-
yail
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Vaii againllic ; but, from the Year 1700 fhall furc!/
fall before it. Amen.
Thus much as to the Matter and the Manner of
his Will •, I come in the next Place to give the
World an Account of the Man, namely, George Fcx^
the fakers great Apoftlc and High -Pried of" their
Profclfion, as fome Protejiant Writers have done of
Pope Leo., and other proud and idolatrous Popes
and blalphemous Prelates of the Romifn Church •, and
rhe rather, becaufe, notwithftanding all that I hiive
faid in Conjuniflion with the reverend Author of the
Znake in the Crais., and others on the fame Foot,
yet the ^^ahrs, this very Year, has publifhed his
Defence., yea, his eternal Defence ; and what I now
write, I propoll- to prove upon the Spot, at our Con-
ference, out of their Books, if they defire.
1/?. In order to make us believe, that George FoXy
the Author and Scribe of this Will, was divinely-
infpired in one Night with 24 Languages, as myfelf
and J. Ellington., R. Ellington, ftill of their Profef-
fion, with many Hundreds more, by fetting his
Hand as Author to fix or eight learned Languages
in Wi^Eitttle-DoQr., printed 1660, viz. Laiirj, Italian^
Greeks Hebrew., Cbaldee, Syriack, and others, that
fo he might appear to us a learned Pcrfon.
2dly. As alio by his Book, intitled, A Primmer
for all the Dolors and Scholars in Europe, t^c. con-
taining, 2434 Queries, which were as filly and im-
pertinc:nt as his Will, yet thefe his high Pretences trf
that Learning he never had, made hrm famous.
Q,dl'j. As alfo his Epiltle to John III. King of P<7-
land., in the German Tongue, fo exadlly and learn-
edly done, that, as Mr. Croefs well obferves in his
General Hiffory of ^takerifm., p. 244. That it did
not look like the Work of a Tingle Perfon, though
learned, much lefs by fuch an ignorant Fellow as/^x.
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4t^jly- Likewife his Anfwer to Bifl-.op A'^drcrvs^y
Sermon, innermix'd wich both Grirek and Hebrc^Vy
of which he, by fubfcribing his Name, is faid ro be
the Author^ whillt yet he underflood not a Word
ot it. Thus did tlie Quakers ki liim ap as a Statue
to be adored, as anon you will fee.
Sihly. Likcwife in his Great AI)jler)\ there is both
Greek, Hebrew^ and Laliu, all which ferve to dif-
cover the Pride of this Impoftor •, but notwlthltand-
ing all this, his Defence is eternal.
Well, I have done with his Will and his Learn-
ing, tho* I could fay much more to both, and am
come to fhew his Pretence to extraordinary Miracles
and Gifts of the Spirit.
i/?. In his Journal he (by the Hands of the fa-
kers) give us a Catalogue of his Miracles, faid to be
wrote by the Power of God, yet done in his own
Name, and not in the Name ofjefus of Nazareth y
and confequently George Fox, like Simon Magus^ was
taken for the great Power of God.
idly. That he faw the Heavens open as St. Stephen
did.
^dl-j. That the Keeper of the Prifon came trem-
bling to him, as the Gaoler did to St. Paul, i^c.
4tbly. That he had Vifions and Revelations, and
prophefied, as Ijaiab, Jeremiah, iffc. did.
p^thly. That he fpake like an Angel in Bnerley
Church the wonderful Things of God.
6tb'y. That he faw a Pool of Blood, and a Chan-
nel of Blood, in ihtQiiy o\ Litchfield, when no Man
elfe could fee a Drop of Blood, much Icfs a Pool or
a Channel of Blood.
ythly. That he was before Languages were ; for,
faid he, All Languages are to me no more than
Duft, who were before Languages were, and am
come before Languages were»
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Wjiji. That neither he, nor his Name, were known
in the World.
^:hly. ThAC he was a Prophet, and wras propheficd
of too, yea, and that he was naked, and ftood na-
ked, cloatheci only with Righteoufnefs, and fpoke
from the Mouth of the Lord.
lotbly. At his Trial at Lancajler AfTize, he faid.
Before 1 cime to the Bar, I was moved to pray •
The thundering Voice anfwered, I have glorified
thee, and will glorify thee again i and I was fo filled
full of Glory, that my Head ind Ears Were filled
full of It.
But why fhall I mention any more of his Blafphe-
mies, fince the Quakers lay his Defences are eternal ?
Let me give a brief Hint how the Quaker Teacntrs
idolized this blind Buzzard Fox^ this great Cheat
and Impoflor.
iJI.OrJofiah Coaie, in his Letter from BarhadcSy
thus. Dear George Fox^ who art the Father of many
Nations ; whofe Being and Habitation is in the Power
of the Highefl, in which thou rules and governs ia
Righteoufnefs, and thy Kingdom [Fcx) is eftablifhed
in Peace, and the Encreafe thereof is without End :
This, and more of the like, is juftified by the Slua^
kers in their Book, Judas and the Je-u;s, ^c, p. 44,
45, 46. and Fox\ Defence is eternal.
idly. Solomon Eccles., their Prophet, in his Book,
The ^takers Challenge^ p. 6. thus, George Fcx is a
Prophet indeed — Ic was faid of Cbrij}, he was in the
World, and the World was made by him, and the
World knew him not •, fo it may be faid of this
Prophet (Fox) ^c. yet excusM by George PFhiteheady
in his Sermu Search, i^c. p. 5S. and hnocency againjl
Envy, i^c. p. iS.
K ^dly.
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3ii> "^^^ S^ahrs, in Defence of Fox, and id
confirm their People in their divine Adorations of
him, in their Epiflle dated the i6i\\ of January,
1690. S>\gnt(^by Georg" iP'hitehead, and twenty more
of their Leaders, compare him {Fox) to Aloles^ St.
Paul, and St. Stephen, and call him their fixed Star,
•with many other high Appellations. See my Book,
A Seafonahle Caveat^ tl^c. p. 87. for more of this.
4/^/y. John Bhickling, in a Certificate in Behalf of
"George Fox, faid thus, Qeoris Fox is blefTed with
Honour above many Brethren : His Life reigns,
and is fpotiefs, innocent, and ftill retains his Inte-
gritVj whole eternal Honour and blefTed Renown
fhall remain j yca^ his Prefence, and the dropping
of his tender Words in the Lord's Love, was my
Soul's Nourifhmcnt, l^c. All which is defended by
George lyhitebead, in his Book, Judgment Jixed, i^c.
p. 19, 20. Thus, as Fox\ Honour is eternal, lb it
feems are his Defences eternal, by //. Pkkworth's
Doiftrine in his Narrative, p. 9. but I believe Half
a Century more will determine his eternal Honour
in his fpiriiual Pretences, as his lafl Will has already
his high Pretences to Learning, i^e.
Sthty. John Audland, in his Letter from Brijlol to
George Fox : The Original lies in Mr. Thomas Crifp*s
Hand, and was fliev/n at Turner'' s Hall, before many
Hundreds of People, at Mr. Keith^s Conference,
January 1699, A fliort Abftra(fl of it is thus. Dear
and precious one, in whom my Life is bound up*
snd my Strength in thee (lands, by thy Breathings
I am nouriflied, and by thee is my Strength renewed,
blefTed art thou for ever more, and blefTed are all
that enjoy thee ; Life and Strength comes from thee,
holy One— Daily do I find thy Prefence with me,
"Which doth exceedingly preferve me, for I cannot
reign but in thy Prefence and Power Pray for us
all, that in thy Power we may abide for ever more.
1 sm thincy begotten ?.nd nourifhed by thee, and in
thy
fhy Power am I prefer ved ^ Glory UQto thee, hoijf
one, tor ever. John Au^lanL
Reader, marvel not at thcfe Adorations, for if
Ceorie Hx was lb endued, and fo glorified, as in the
ten Inft.mccs he pretended, thefe divine Attributes
wcrediie to him \ but as his Pretence to be fo^endued
with the learned Languages, as to be head i utor to
all Europe, was as great a Cheat as the Nature of
th- Thing will bear •, even lb his Lndferian Pride, aa
to rj-)u-ituAl Attainments, 2. e. Revelations, Vifions,
Pri)phecies, and working of Miracles, are a far
greater Cheat, and a more horrible Impofture y and
were the Origi'.al Will of this Fox in my Hand on-
ly, we (hould, t'cr this, have had eternal Defences
come out foF the Continuance of his eternal Honour :
But, alas! cry the ^akerj, the World's People
have got it lock'd up in the Prerogative Office, and
Xiiree of us, George fVhttehead^ miliam higram, and
Sarah Mead, have, upon our Atteftation (or Oath)^
affirmed it to be of his own Hand- writing ; by which,
alas! for us, the Cheat is come out„ and we are
horribly confounded, and cannot defend him.
Reader, having thus far drawn the Pi(fcure of this
cunning Fox •, firit, as to his Pretence to Learnir>g ;
and, fecondly, as to his Seif-exhaltations, and hcr-
i;id Blalphemies •, and, thirdly, By a Hint of their
Teachers Idolatry in worihipping of him \ let me
ihew alfo, that he pretended to have Power to bind
and loofe. See their Book, Judai and the Je-wu
p. 85. Friends (laid Fox) altho' 1 have not yet told
it you, 1 do now declare it, I have Power to bind
and to loofe : And as he had this Power, fo doubc-
lefs did he difpenfe it to them that prayed to him,
and worfhipp'd him : One Inftance I will alfo give
you, and it fhall be from Jofiab Coale, mentioned in
;he Erft Inftance, who paffed this Sentence upon one
of
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of his Oppofers, as may be fcen \n hb Works, p,
243. viz.
In the Name of that God that fpanneth the Heavens
with a Spatiy and meafureth the IVaters in the Hoilou'
of his Hand^ I bind thee here on Earth,, and thou art
Jurely bound in Heaven, and in the Chains under Dark-
nefsy to the Judgment of the great Day thou Jhalt be re~
fervid. Jofiah Cpalc.
The 2d Edition of this Will, correded, and the
Fruits oi ^takerifm enlarged, by Francis Bugg. Lon-
don^ printed by R. Janeivay^ tor the Author, 1701,
^'Ife,
A N
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r^.
A N
ABSTRACT
O F
Mr. George Whitefield's Jour-
nal of a V^oyage from Lo^ido?^ to
Savammhy in Georgia,
In Two Parts.
PART I. Page 3.
H E fole Motive (if my Heart doth not
deceive me) which induced me to leave
my native Country, was a full Con-
viclion that it was the divine Will I
Ihould. What Reafons I had for this
Perfuafion, is needkfs to mention, be-
caufe few in this Cafe would judge impartially : And
what feems a Reafon to me, may not be deemed fo
by another,
P. 4.] It happened providentially that a Le(flure
was to be preached a: Ikpiford ; and feveral impor-
tuned
$uned me to preach it. At firfl I w.is fearlil (0 ms
of little (a) Faith) having no Notes. Bui afrcrwards
(having got the Confent of the Minilterj I went up,
depending upon the Promife, T jo I am with sou al-
ways^ even unto the End of the M'orld •■> and was ena-
bled to preach to a large Congregation, without the
leaft Hefuation. What gave nie great Comtort,
and made me more thankful, was, that the Opportu-
Tiify^ I believe, was gra^jted in Anf'-j.-er to Prayer.
Ibid.} Return'd at Night to the Ship, and lay
with my Friend //. upon the Ground, on a Mattrefs,
in the great Cabbin, and God was plcafed to giva
me a Proof that he was with v^ in the Ship.
p. 5.] Sunday., January r. bleffed be God for the
happy Beginning of a new 7'ear ! for it has been a
J) ay of fat Things.
P. 7.] T'hurfday, January 5. This Day God wax
with
(a) What a Man oUtfth Faith reuft then the great Bp !san-
^erfon ippar In Mr. Whitefield':, Elleern .• who (tho' he was en-
dued, wih'^'jt pretending, with as much Goodncfi, and as many
Gifts and Graces zs the beft Methodilt of them all) when Dr.
Hammond paid him z V'ifit at Bootbhj Panitl , " and having for-
*' merly perfuaded bim to truft his excellent Memory, and not
** to read, but 'O fpeak a Sermon as he had writ it, "Dr. San-
" derfon became fo compliant as to promiie he would ; And to
*' that End, they two went eaily the Sunday Mocning to a
*' Neighbour Minifter, and requeued to exchange a Sermon, and.
*^ they did To i and at Dr. i?flfld'<r/yo«'i going into the Pulpit, he
*' gare his Sermon (which was a very fhort one) into the Hand
*' of Dr. Hammond., intending to preach it as it was writ , but
** before he had preached a third Part, Dr. Hamwor.d (looking
*' on his Sermon) obfervcd him to be out, aad fo Jolt as to the
*' Matter, cfpecialJy the Method, that he alio became afraid
*' for him ; for 'rwas difccrnablc to many of that plain Auditory.
*' B'Jt when he had ended his fhort Sermon, as they two walked
*' homeward, Dr. Sandtrfon faid, with much Earneitnefs, Good
*' Do9cr, give me my Sermon^ and kiow^ that n:itber you nor any
*' Man living Jhall fvcr ferfunde me to f reach again -without
** my Books. To which the Reply was, Good Do9or be not angry^^
" /or if e^^tr I ferfuade yea to preach if it ho at your Books, 1 iiill
" gi-^'^you leave to hum all tU Books I am Majier of." (Bp. ^^-
derfoo^ Life pefix'd to his Sermons, p. 27^ 28. |
t^o
with me of a Truth-^Qumt on Board, read Prayers,
and preach'd, vifited the Sick, and had God with me
ail tie Day long.
P. 8.] Now i fulfilled my Promife to the Lord's
People, and while the Winds and Storms were blow-
ing over me, 1 made earneft Supplication to God
for them. The Ship continued at the Nore ; bur I
hope we made fome Advunces towardi Eternity^
Thought much of mv dear London Friends, ihvugb
ubjent in Body., "iVUi pnfeKt in Spirit, in facred Ordi-
na^ues.
p. 9.] Began now to live a little by Rule, and tO
examine into the Interiors of thofe that came with
trie, which 1 found a ufrful Exercife both to them
and me.
P. 12,] Even here ''.Deal) God did not Jeave my
Miniftry without Witnefs j for he was pleafed to
imprcfs fomething I faid upon a poor Woman's
Heart, that providinliaiiy came in^ and joined with
us in Family Prayer, for which we endeavoured to
thank him-, Bdhold howgreat a Fire ibis Utile Spark
kind'.ed before we left Deal.
P. :5.] It being the 16th Day of the Month,
Mr.//, and I joined in an Ho\ir's IntercefTion and
AbRinence, with all thofe that meet together to be-
wail their own, and the Sins of the Nation. About
Four took fome bodily Refrefhment, and from
ih'-'nce till One in the Morning continued anfwering
my Correfpondents {b) havingjirjifpread their Letter;
before the Lord in Prayer , and beg'd, that I mighl
f"nd ihem Anfwers of Peace.
P. 16.] Went on in expounding the Catechifm
after Evening Prayer, and now began to read the
firft LelTon, which I purpofely omitted before, not
knowing they would bear it v and willing to imitate
Ja^oby who zi,as careful of hts little ones not to over
drive them. P. 17.]
{h) kWfuch Sftrits (thofe that confpired againft him) / laid
hfoTt tht lord G. fix'j Journal, p. 1 29.
r 7t ]
p. 17.] Suftdnyy Jattuary ii. about Noon, went
en Shore (at Deal) with Captain IV . and Mr. H.
Afternoon preached at Uffer Deal on Afls xxviii.
26. Many fcenr/d fnck'd to the Hearty and fome lb
quickened, that they exprefs'd a Defire to follow me
wberffoever I jhou'.d go. O free Grace in Jcfus Chrift !
I have fcarce known a Time I have preached any
where, but I have ften fome Effedts of my Dodrine.
From the Hearts of the Mig^hty^ the If^ofJ of the Lord
hath not turned hack \ iheSivord of the Spirit returned
not empty. A Proof this, i hope, that the Words
are not my own i but that God is with me of a
Truth.
P. 18.] Stayed all Night on Shore to expound the
Lord's Prayer, and had a large Company to hear
me, and fhould have had 700, as my Hoflffs told
me, would the Houfe have held them {c) fo fijutfti'j
ran the iVord of God and pre^'ail'd.
P. 21.] Glad Tydings of great Joy fent me by
four or five Correfpondents, iat up till One in the
Morning anfwering them, and then went to bed, and
had a feeling Pofjeffon of my God.
P. 23.] "We went to Mr. R — 'j, where oUr Friends
cxpedled us, but we had not been long there, before
the Wind fhifted about on a fudden, and a Cry came,
the IVind isfair^ prepare yourfehes for failing — But oh,
what Affection did the dear People exprefs to my un-
u-orthy P erfon ! for no fooner were they apprized of
the Wind being fair, but they came running in
Droves after me to the Sea-Shore, wilhing me good
Luck in the Name of the Lord — I was confounded
with a Senfc ot God's Mercies to me.
PART
(c) See G. /ox'i Journal, p. r20. The evtrlafling Goffd^ ar.i
the IVsrd of Life jfiourijbed ; and Thoufands Ufre turn'd to thf
Lord "Jtfui Chriji^ and to bis Teaching,
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P A R T II.
FROM
GiBR ALT AR/oSAVANNAiti
Page 32.
>?^>*$l!?|!r^ Y dMr Friends, the' I know rd Reafon
s^C^ ^ >^ why you fhould be fo folicitous about
^/_ --'^ any thing that (hall happen to fuch a
r-';- ';:3 de:id Dog as I am •, yet, as your L.ove
%^'5;i^ 'Oh unmerited Kindnefsj abounds ex-
ceedingly towards me, I am pofuive
you wijl give Thanks to our good God for all the
Mercies he has conferred upon rhe.
P. 33.] IFediiefday^ Fib. 22. This Day I intended
to (lay on Board to write Letterj, but (J) God be'wg
f leafed io Jkivj me it was not his IFill \ 1 went again on
Shore, and paid both the Miniflers o'iQihrailar a
Vifit, who received me very affeflionately, 2nd
offered rnc the Ufe of the Pulpit. 0 what a blejfed
Ihing it is for the Clergj to dwell together in U"ity.
Friday, Feb. 24. BL'ffed be God^ who hath this Day
fhewn me^ that he hath heard my Prayer^ and not ta-
ken his loving Kmduefs from me. Long before I reach-
ed Gibraltary 1 prayed, that God would open an
cffcdlual Door at the Phce whither we were going,
and direSl me where I Jhotild lodge, and lo this hay he
L anfwered
^i. Coxpare thU with G Fox's Journal, p. 315,
Cm]
kn^werei w^— About Ten in the Morning comes
Captain M. on Bo.iid, telling nic, one Major S. fa
Perfon I never law) had provided me a convenient
Lodging at ore Merchant />\, and defirt-d that I
would come on Shore. I looking upon this as a CdU
from Provideuce^ received it with all Thankfulnefsi
nnd went with Friend //. on Shore, but not without
firft praying, that God would direi'^ us how to be-
have. About the Middle of the Town, Major .S'.
gave us the Meeting, condutfted us to our new Lodg-
ings (which were vv'ry commodious) and engaged us
to dine with him and Captain M. IVhen I fent "jou
tvitbout Scrip or Shoe,, lacked ye any thwi ? ahd they
jaid^ Nothing, Lord.
p. 34.] Rctir'd in the Evening to my Lodgings,
had Family Prayer, v^oit fome tew religioub Let-
ters, and (pent about Half an Hour in lerious Con-
verfation with the People of" the Houle, gave Thanks
for the BleiTings of the Day, and was foon convinced,
that God bad fent me to that particular lodging of a
Truth. Be careful for nothing, hut in every (even the
minutejl) Thtng, make your Wants known unto Gody
for be careth for jou.
P. 36.] Intended to go preach to my People, was
prevented by the VioL-nce of the Wind, but was
pleafcd to hear from fome Gibraltar Officers, who
dined that Day on Roard the /P'bitaker, that lome of
iny Fi(^-'^ had Courage to read Prayers, and fing
Pfabns themfclves ; and, as I found afterwards, con-
tinued to do fo, during my Abfencc from them,
praifed be God. I hope I fhall have fome that dare
be fingularly good ; and will not be kept out by the
Prefs.
P. 40.] Sunday, March 5. Expounded in the
Evening to- above a Thoufand Hearers of all Deno-
minations ; fupped with General C. went home be-
times, full of unfpeakable Comfort. 1 am never
letter than when I am upon the full Stretch for God.
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P. 40.] Mouliy, March 6. Had ne;ir, ifnotmorf^
than a Hun J red at Morning Kxpofition : And it be-
ing the laft Day ot my fojiurning at Gibraltiir^ many
L.ime to me weeping, tclhng me, what God had
done for their Soul?, dcfiring my Prayers, and pro-
mifing theirs in Return, others both gave and fcnC
me Tokens of their Love ; [c) as. Cakes, tigs,
Wine, Eg"), and other Neceffaries for my Voyage j
and Teemed to want Words to exprefs their Affec-
tion. The ^cod Lord note their Kindurjjes in his Book,,
and reward them a ihoufand Fold.
P. 4.3.] Sunday, March 12. Preached the Sermon
God enabled me to make in the Storm before wc
came to Gibraltar, in the Great Cabbtn, and God
wxs plea fed to fet his Seal to it.
P. 44.] Saturday^ March 18. Married a Couple,
difperfcd Bbles, Teftaments, Soldiers Monitor?,
amongft th«e Men. Exchanged fome Books for fomc
(f) Cards, "Juhich 1 threw over board.
P. 47. J Exchanged fome bad Books which wera
on Board Twhich i threw immediately into the Sea)
for fome good ones, bklfcd be God — I find it by
daily Experience more and m.orc, that People who
L 2 arc
(f) *' O my gooJ Lorl God, (sPc. I pfai-Je fhee for fuppfying
** my Wanrj by the ri/any fe\eral Gifts which I had Velier-
*■ day, as rhe Kewari of my Labours at the Fait at Mr. SnJ'
^" bury' i on Tu-fday. }^h. Burrozirs^ 2S 6d. ^]t. Sudbury, ";s 6d,
^\t--. SuJbury, a Pair of Gloves j Wt. Sudhry M,, Lemo;iS
and Oranges. Goody Grundy, a lemon ; y times Grundy, cs
" for baptizing his Chiid, and giving Thanks for his Wife.
Good Lord, acccft my Thanks for this Supply."
^\x. George S-Mathe's Pra) ers, 1 64 1 , 42. Appendix to a Tra<;\
in:italed, Sibifmaticks d^^iinenttd, p. 8.
(f) Mr. Fulifr, in hi* \i\^o\y oi Cambridge, p. 159. rrenri^
omoiiQ Hitt/a/n ^ma. Fellow of Cir///'; Collej^c ; who, in a
Sermon before that L'/j/wryfry, " condemn'd all playing at Cardi
and Dice j at^irming,^ That the Latrer, in all Ages, was.ac-
cuunred the Dtyiie of the Devil ; that as God invented the
one-and-twcnry Letters, whereof he mad^ the Bible, th^
Devil faith, gtheis found out the one-and-lwenty Priiki of
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arc truly awakened to a Senfe of t\v: arSvie Life^
cannot bear to read any thing trilling, but thr()\y
away all their ufclefs Books, as thoft^ did the Books
of Divination and curious /Irts^ whofc Convcrfion wc
read oF, Acis v.
P. 52.] April 15. To Day was called in a Hurry
t'^ pray by one of the devoul Soldiers who came trom
Gihrahar^ and who was fuppofcd to be expiring, /
cafne {I faiso) and rej;-)iced in Spirit, i'ox hi: Soul feem-
ed full of Gcd. Inrtead of being afrighted at the
Aproach of the Kir.g of Terrors^ he welcomed it,
and faid, he was going to his dear Redeemer i tiien
he fell into a fort o\ 'Trance., and pour'd out his Heart
in repeating fonie very applicable Verfes out of the
Ffalms. Upon which, we thought he would have
died ; but lo ! God brought him from the nether mnjl
Hell (g). From that InlUnt the Fever left him,
and he recovered.
A Continuation cf Mr. White-
field V "Journal from ip'ts ^4rrwnl at
Savannah, to his Return to London.
Preface.
I Am fcnhble that this, as well as everything el/e
of fuch a Nature, muft nccefTarily meet with
great Contempt from (h) natural Men, who are
Strangers to the Influences of the Holy Ghojl upon
the Heart.
p. ..}
(g) See fox'j J.ournal, p. 503.
ry) George Fox calh thole thar were not of his own Se3, Mta
of thislVorld, ^tt Journal^ P- 352.
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P. I.] Sunday, May j. ArrWed 21 Savannah Towtk
about Seven this Evening, and joyn'd in Prayer, and
a ^' "ilm ot' Thmfgiving, with Mr. Ddamotte^ and
ll)^ pious Souls that were rcjoyced at my Arrival :
Spent the Remainder of the Evening in taking Iwccc
Counlcl with Mr. Delan'joite^ who feems providen-
tially left behind at Ciavaiumb againft my Coming.
P. 2.] Alter another Week's Confinement by the
Return of my Fever, which went off with a Fit of
an Ague, 1 attempted to read Prayers, hut was fo
exceedingly faint and weak, that I was obliged to
leave off before I began the i'econd Service. Oh
(Ix'it rr.) Friends had f^^n me at thai Hour •■> thy then
Zm^ht have Uarnt not to have any Man's Perfon in
Admiration^ and not to think more highly of me than
{key oughi to think,
P. 3.] Friday, June 2. This Evening parted with
kind Cx^ti'm JVhiting, and my dear Friend Dekmotte^
Who embarked for England about Seven at Night.
TiiC poor People lamented the Lofs of him, and
\vent to the Witer-fidc to take a laft Farewel : And
good Reafon had they to do fo i for he had been
indefatigable in feeding Chnjl^s Lambs wtb the ftncert
Mdk of the World \ and many of them (bleffcd be
God) have grown thereby.
P. 5.] Thur/day, June 11. Was taken (as all about
pie thought) for Death, with a violent Purging and
Vomitting, which, in the Space of five Hours,
quite exhaufled my Spirits, and brought me in Ap-
pearance almoft to the Point of Death. But God
lupported, me with his inward Comforts, cauicd me
:o rejoice in it, and call me into a deep Sleep, out
o; which 1 awoke perfectly well, to the Surprize of
all about me,
P. 8.} Tuefday^ Augujl 8. Arrived at Frederica, a
Town fit uated Southerly above an hundred Miles
irom Savannah. The People received me molt glad -
Jy, having had a Fam/ie ef the fFord for a long Seafon.
P. 10.1
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P. 10.] JVednefday^ Augufl \6. Arriveil this Day
at Savannah. As loon as I had refrefhcd my fell", i
went and vifitcd my Parifhioners from Houfc to
Houfe, to return them Thanks for their Kindnc-fs
to my Friends. An unufual Joy appeared in their
Faces at my unexpedted Return, and they were rea-
dy to fay, How beautiful are the Feet of him uh^
hringeth glad Tidings of Salvation.
P. II.] Sunday^ Augufii'j. \i) Ood having row
fhewn both me and my Friends, that it was his Will
I fhould return for a while to England, this After-
noon I preached my Farewel Sermon, to ihe great
Grief of my dear Pan/bioMers.
P. 13.] Monday^ September ^. Was much delight-
ed -with a Packet of Letters I received from Savan-
vah, notonlyasa Proof of the Wrirers Aft'edlion for
me, but alfo, that the Ho!) Ghojl ti^as efft'cluall) mo-
ving on their Souls.
P. 1 4.] Saturday^ September 23. Still God was
pleafed to fend us contrary Winds, except one Night
about the Middle of the Week. However, he en-
abled me to give Thanks: And great Reafon have
I fo to do •, for the Holy Ghofl has been 'with me of d
Truth.
P. 15.] Friday, Oflcber 6. Before Ikh Savannah,
the Leffon appointed for the Morning was St. Paul's
Shipwrack, out of the Jcls. And be'ore I left
Charles Town, the LefTon was the firfl: o(/onah, both
which made fuch an ImprefTion upon me, that 1
wrote to my Friend Haberfham, to acquaint him, I
was apprehenfive we fhould have a dangerous Voyage.
Since I have been on Board, what St. Paul Ciid to.
his Companions, that he perceived that their Voyage
iiculd be to their great Damage, has frequently been
prefled upon my Heart ; and God has now fhcwn
us, wherefore he gave me thefe previous Notices ;
for, on Tuefday Night lafl, after we had failed about
- (i) See George Fox's Journal, p. 3' 5.
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r.^0 Miles the hft 24 Hours, about Eleven o'Clock
arolc a fuJdcn violent E.ill Wind, which continued
till about Four in the Morning, and put all the
S.iilors to their IVrts End. Mod of them declared,
ihcy had never fccn the like before. But God (for
ever be adored his gracious unmerited Goodnefs) was
exceeding gracious unto me •, for I felt a fweet Com-
placency in my Will, in Submifllon to his {k) ; and
many particular Promifes God has made me from
his Word, that 1 Ihould return in Peace, flow*d in
upon my Heart, and he enabled me greatly to re-
Joyce.
P. 20.] IVcdnefdas., Novefnber i. This Afternoon
about Four o' Clock, as I was in Secret humbling
my Soul before God, intcrceeding for my Friends,
and had been praying for a fair Wind, and AfTift-
ance in the great Work lying before me. News
were brought that the JUind was fair., which put me
in Mind of the Angel's being fent to Daniel, to tell
him, his Prayer was heard, when he was humbling
his Soul in Fading and Praying for the Peace and
Kc{\:ordiion of Jerujalem.
P. 22.] This is now the eight Week I have been
aboard. If my Friends ask me, why I arrived no
fooner, I may truly anfwer, Saian hindered us •, for
I believe it is he that is permitted to do this : But
this fh'ill give me greater Hopes, that a more effec-
tual Door than ever will be opened in England for
preaching the cverlafting Gofpel — 0 Satan, Saian^ I
defy thee ; thou may^fi iojs me up and dswn, and bring
me in Jeopardy on every Side, but Jefus Chrift is gray-
ing for me in the Mrunt.
P. 25] My Outward Man fenfibly decayeth, but
the Spiritual Man, I trufl:, is renewed Day by Day.
I have befought the Lord many times to fend us a
fair Wind, but now I fee he does not think fit to
anfwe
{h) See G. /vx'/ Journal, p. 550.
ahfwTr mc '!]. I nm wholly rcfigncd, knowing*
that his Grace will be fufRcient for mc, and tliat his
Time is bed.
Ihid^ Sunday^ November 12. This Morning the
Doctor of our Ship took up the Common- Prayer
Book^ and obferved, that he opened upon thefc
Words, Blejffd be the T/)rd God of Ifrat- 1, for he has
'Vijited and redeemed his People : And (n indeed he has ;
for, about Eight o' Clock this Morning, News
were brought, that our Men faw Land, and I went,
and was a joyful Speft.icor of it.
p. 28.] After our Provifions were brought aboard,
rhe Wind ftill continued fair, and by Six at Night,
blew us to a little Place on Karrighrh Ifland before
we caft Anchor. Kver fince I had been on Board
the Mary^ thcfe Words, Howbeit we mufl be cajl
upon a certain Ifland (which were Part 0*1 the LefTon
which I read lalt at Savannah j have been continually
prefs*d upon my Heart ; fo that I have often men-
tioned it to one of my Conipanisns. Behold they
are now fulfilled.
P. 29.] About Seven at Night I drclTed myfelf,
and went on Shore, and was received in a ftrong
Caftle belonging to Mr. Mac Mahon^ the Gentleman
who fent mc an Invitation. He himfelf was not at
home, having went fome Miles up to meet me:
But his Maid Servant kindly received us •, / asked for
Water ^ and frje gave me Milk^ and brought forth But-
ter in a lordly Dijh.
P. 30.] At my firft coming into our Inn (at Kil-
rufhy in Ireland) v/e kneeled down and prayed, and
again at Night fung Pfalms, and prayed with my
Captain^ and feveral Ship-Mates. The firft Time,
I believe, the Room was put to fuch a Ule by a
Ship*s CrcM^ and their Chaplain,
P. ??5]
(/) " Lord I difchim all Truft in any Thing but m thy Pow-
*' er anu Pro%'idence i yet having Abilities and Opportunities,
*' I -would not be" -wholly Burthenfsme to tbj Fr(.vidence." Mr.
Qfcr^c Swathe's Prayers, p. 35-
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P. 35.] V:urfda\\ Novemh. 30. Afcf r near Twelve
Months Abfcnce from London^ Three Months from
C-^rr/fi, an(l ii pkafant Paflage of 24 Hours from
Dublin^ to my int-xprefilble Comfort, God brought
mc to P^nk Gaif, and f) fulfilled a Promile which
w.is prefTcd u[K;n my Heart lafl Imwccrd's Day in
liiiiv.jh'rey when I v/as under a great Concern what
my Mother would fay to the Rcfolution I had then
made to go to Geor^m. Rachel weeping for her Cbil-
Sren^ refuted to be comfcrted for her Children^ hecaufe
they izere nol. Thus faith the Lord, *' ReiVain thy
" Voice frum Weeping, and chine Eyes from Tears ;
** for thy Work Ihail be rewarded, and there is
*' Hope in thine End, faith the Lord j that thy
*' Children Hiall come again to their own Border.
Jer. xxxi. 15, 16, 17.
ui CoxTlNUATlON o/" M/v White-
field j Jof{r?jnl, jrom his Arr'rjul at
London, to his Departure from thence
ifi his fTay to Georgia.
P A G E I.
FPMa\^ December 8. About Noon I reached Lon-
d-yfi, with much Joy to my Chr:j{ian I'rir/ids.
Sunday, December 10. When I was on Board the
Mary^ thofe particular PaiTages of the Book of 7c'-
"emiah, which relate to the Oppofuion he met with
from the fa/fe Prophets, were deeply im pre (Ted on
my Soul. And now 1 Ice the Wifdom of God in
M ic,
[ 8i 3
it (m) ♦ for five Church/'s have already been denied
me,, and fome of the Cirrgy^ if pofTible, woul(i
oblige me to depart out of ihfje Coaf\s. But 1 rejoyce
in thrs Oppofition, it bring a certain Sign that a
more effectual Door will be opened, fincc there are
lo many Adverjaries.
P. 2. J Here feems to be a great pour'wg out of tie
Sliriiy, and many who were awakened by my preach-
ing, a Year ago, are now grcrji'u Jlrong Men in Cbrijl^
by the Miniflrations of my dear PViends and Fellow
Labourers, Jcbn and ChnrUs Wejley.
Jbid.] In the Evening I went to letter- Lane Soci-
ety, where we had (what might not be" improperly
called; a Lovs F^njJ, eating a little Bread and Wa-
ter, and Ipending about Two Hours in Singing and
Tracers.
P. 3] Mcndd's^ December 25. About Four went
Jind prayed, and expounded to a Society in Red-
Crojs-Sireet, confifting of near Two or Three hun-
dred People, and the Room was exeeding hot. /
b^d been icatcbing unto Prayer nil Nigbt, yet God
I'oucbfafed to fill me with his blejfed Spirit, that I fpake
■with as gieat Power as ever I did in my Life. My
Body was weak, but I found a. fupernatural Strength,
and the Truth of that Saying, ff^hen I am "^veak, then
I amjtror.g.
Saiurdjx, December 30. ij-T) Preached nine Times
this Week, and expounded near eighteen Times,
With great Enlargement : BlefTed be God ! I am
every
(m) Tl'ii Gentleman 15 very free in hij Cenfures, in calling
thole Ctc-roymrn Fii/J} Frophfts ; who, no doabt, fur prudential
Realbns, refulcd him the life of their PuJpits. In this Point
he bur too near rcfembles d'orgr Fox.
(1) Dr. Souto (in his Sermon, intitled, The Chrijlian Perite-
fc/?, vol. ^, p. 5^5.) judicioLjfly oblerves, " That it is the irra-
tional and ablurd Humour of the prelcnt Age, uhich thinks
all Senle and Worth confined to the Pulpit : And many excel-
lent Perkns, becajfe they cannt^t make a Noife with Chapter
and \ trie., and harangue it tA ice a Day to fadious Tradcfmen,
and igr.orant eld H'omen^ are e'.ieem'd of as nothing fcarc«
•' thought wouhy to cat the Church'* Bread.
r Si ]
cvfry Moment employed, from Morning till MiJ-
night : There's no End ot People's coming and (end-
ing to me, and they feem more and aiore Jefirous,
like new horn Babes, to h fed iviih the fincere Milk of
the IVord.
p. 4.] Sometimes I perceive myTclf deferted for a
little while, and much opprclVd, elpccially before
pi caching ; but Comfort foon alter flowed in — '^he
Kw^^dojn of Gcd is '■jjitbin vie. Oh ! free Grace in
P. 5.] Friday, Jar.uar^ s- Held a Conference nt
JJIingtcn, concerning feveral Things of very great
laiportance, with Ibme true Miuifers c/ Jelus Chritt,
defptfed Metbodijh, whom God has bjought together
from the Eaj7 and the IVi^f}, the North and the Soi:tL\
What we were in Doubt after Prayer, we determined
by Lot •, and every thing elfc was carried on v.ith
great Love, Meebiefs, and Devotion. We continued
in Fading and Prayer till Thr^e o* Clock, and then
parted with full Convidtion, that God was going to
do great Things amongft us.
P. 6.] Expounded t^vice or thrice this Week, the
Holy Ghofi fo pov/erfully work'd upon my Hearers,
fricking their Hearts, and melting them into fuch
Floods of Tears, that a ffiritual Man fliid, he never
faw the like before. God is lijith me of a Truth.
P. 7.] Sunday, January y. Preached twice to Day,
and expounded with great Power to three great So-
cieties, one of which I never vifited before -God
grant I may purfue the Method of expounding and
praying {oj extempore. 1 find God blelTes it more
and more.
M 2 O X-
(0) " This Error (fays Dr. ///f/&i in his Sermon, intitJcd,
•' The Spirit 6/ Lirhb/iajm Exorci/'etlj vol. f. p. I 05.) Concerning
*' the Lxtem^orary Spirit of Prayer, hath been the Caule of
*' much Milchiel'to the Church, and of much Difhonor to the
" Name ot God — By this, the People of thcfe Kingdoms have
*' been led into the molt unnaiuxal Sihifm and Kebdlion thac
" ever
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O X F 0 R D.
P. 9.] SuvJa), January 14. This fblcfTcd heCio'T;
has been a Day of /rf/ TO;/^j — Rofe in the Mcrnin^
and prayed and fung Pfalms lujhly^ and with a ^or,d
Couraie^ and afterwards was ordained Priell at Chrijt-
Church — Preached in the Afternoon at Si. Albans ro
a crouded Congregation — The Church was fur-
Voiinded with Go-^vufvien of all Degrees \ who, con-
trary to their Cuftom, flood attentive at the Win-
dows during my Sermon. God enabled mc to
preach with l\\t Demon fir at ion cf the Spirit^ and ■-j.hh
Power ^ and quite took away my Hoarlencfs, fo that
1 could lift up my Voice like a Trumpet.
LONDON.
P. 12.] 7uefday^ January 23. Received a Packet
of Letters from my dear Friend H — ni ; by which I
find the infinite Wifdom of God more and more?
in fending me to England — Read Prayers and prcachM
at
•' ever was, not to mention the later Mr/rJ'-rs^ Rchellions anii
*' Covenants., v:\\\c\\ rhft Scfaratij}i \'xovc\ out lifter Churrbhi\e
" commirted, raifed, and carried on by the Help of thii D/u-
" Jion : And they may frrurb and fray the People to what they
*' pleafe, fo long as they hold them Captive under this Error ;
*' which is not only inconfiltent v\ ith whac 1 have now delivered
" concerning the Gifts 0/ the Holy Ghojt, but contrary to the
*' Practice of the Catholick Church j and it may be confuted,
*' wo'jld People but reflet, by the Example ot the Pbanjecs
*' amongft the _^<rw.S and tlie flagitious Lives of many Chrtjii-
*' ans j*'as of Bafilidfs, the bloody Tyrant of Mufcovy\ ^ rhe
*' late CJar^*-/- of thefe three Kingdoms, the Rounder of the
*' Jcfuites^ Labbode Major IVeer (who was a Wizzard., and, il
*' I miibke not, z Sodomite) and Captain Fcnner., who, ol all
*' Enihu/iajis or Imfojiors that ever pretended to fray by the
*' Sfir'it^ were in this Senfe, the molt Powerful and Eloquent ;
*' for they had Words, and T:ears., and Sighs at command, and !o
" bewitched the People by their rapturous y/>/V/V«<j/-//i^ Deva-
*' tions, as to pafs for Men extraordinarily inffired.^
(fj See Fox's Journal, p. 155.
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at S/. Helen* s^ with great Power to a crouded and
attentive Audience ; and col levied about 40 s. for the
Colony of Georgia •, I could wifh to have it built
with Aiitcs.
lFednejda\\ January 24. Writ feveral Letters to
my Friends at Savannah^ and W3.s filled ivith the Hol'j
Ghojl i and oh that all that deny the Promife of the
Father^ might thus receive it themfclves,
P. 14.] Sunday, January iS. Received the Sacra-
ment at Crooked Lane, but was a little dijjipated ;
however, I found I received Chriji, and fed on him
VI my Heart by Faith with Tkankfgiving. Afterwards
went and preached at Ironmongers Almshoujes^ at St.
Catharines in the Afternoon. Afterwards expounded
to two large Companies in the Minories, with fuch
Deinonjlration of Spirit, as I never fpoke before. /
offered J ejus Chrifi freely to Sinners, and many, I
believe, were truly pricked to the Heart. Now, my
Friends, your Prayers are heard, God has given me a
double Portion ef his Spirit.
P. 13.] Monday, January 29. Eupounded twice,
and fat up till near One in the Morning with my
honored Brother and Fellow Labourer John Wefey,
in Conference with two Clergymen of the Church of
England, and fome others, ftrong Oppofers of the new
Birth — God enabled me with great Simplicity to de-
clare what he had done for my Soul ; which made
them look upon me as a Mad-man. We Jpeak what
we do know, and teftify what we have feen, and they
receive not our Witnefs. Now, therefore, 1 am fully
convinced there ii a fundamental Difference between us
and them. They believe only on Outward Chriji, we
farther believe, that he mujl he inwardly formed in our
Hearts alfo. But the natural Man receiveth not the
Things of the Spirit of God : For they are Foolifhnefs unto
him ; neither can be know them, hecaufe they are JpiritU'
ally difcerned.
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P. 17.] Near nine times has God enabled me to
preach this Week, and to expound twelve or Tour-
teen Times. I find I gain great Light and Knowledge
by preaching (q) exteinpore ; fo that I fear I fhould
quench the Spirit, did I not go on to /peak as he gives
me Utterance.
P. 18.] Sunday^ February 4. This hath been a Sab-
hath indeed \ how has God own*d before near livehe
tboufand People this Day ? How has he ftrengthened
m-j Body ? How has he filled andfatisfied my Scul 'f Now
inow J that J did receive the Holy Ghojl at hnpofnion
of Hands ; for I feel as much as Elifha did ivhen Elijah
dropped his Mantle. Nay, others fee it aljo \ and my
Oppojers, would they but fpeak, cannot but confefs, that
God is with me of a Truth. Wherefore then do they
fight againfl God ?
P. 19.] Friday., February 6. Went to St. Helenas,
where Satan withfiood me greatly : For on a fuddcn I
was deferted, and my Strength went from me : Bur I
thought it was the Devil's Doing, and therefore was
refoived to rejifl him, iledfaft in the Faith. Ac-
cordingly,
fq) i^mongft all the divine Gifts (fays Dr. Soufb^ Sermon on,
1 Cor. 12, vol. ^. p. 546.) " I mult declare, that 1 cannot
*' find the Gi/t of Canting and IVkining, and o( rraking Faca ^
*' That is, of fpeaking bad Senfe with worfe Logick ^ nor can
*' find the Gift of uttering every fuddain crude, undigel^ed
" Thought coming over their Minds ; and of being impudently
*' bold and familiar with God in Prayers. One eq-jivccal
" Phrafe ^fays Dr. Hicks' s Spirit of Enthujinfm hxoriifed, p.
*' J04.) which is commonly in the Mouths and Writings of
" thefc fafi9imcnioys Men, is the Sflritoi Preaching, and the
*' Spirit of Pr(3);?r, which, tho' by an Hfhraijm in Kno/i/ii^ thuy
" ought now to fignify no more than the Skill or H.ibit of Fra}^
*' ing ox Preaching -. \ tt thefe SophiJ}crs and Uj'urfers (fo molt
** ot themarc^ of our Holy Prcfejjion fo ufe them, that the de-
" luded People generally take them in a more obvious Senfe j
*' for praying and preaching by immediate Inffiration from the
*' HolyGhoJi. To-this Purfofe they talk much of the Incom-
** /'^j, Out-lettings^ and h-dixellings of the Spirit j and have
" taught their Difciflis to obje^, that to pray by a Form doch
*■' Jfivt the Sftrit,"
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cordlngly, tho' (r) I was exceedingly fick in reading
the Prayers, and almoft unable to (peak when I
entered the Pulpit, yet God gave me Courage to
begin, and before I had done, I waxed warm and
jiror.g in Spirit, and offered Jefus Chrift/r^f/y to all
that "would lay hold on him by Faiih.
P. 24.] Sunday, February ii. Rofc full of Love
and Joy, but afterward, on a fudden, was dejertedy
and taken very ill in Body — I (truggled jufl: like one
in his lajl Agonies, and longed (j) to Jiretch msfelf into
God. After having vomited feveral Times, I was
obliged to go to bed, and it would have melted any
down, to fee my dear Friends (efpccially my deareft
Mr. Z/'s) weeping and praying around me.
P. 33.] Among the Letters I received from reli-
gious Correfpondents {viz. at London) one writes to
me thus; {t) Mr. , who wrote that Letter
in the Mifcellany, died Yelterday . He is ne^u; gone to
giz'e an Account of the many hard Speeches contained
therein, and is convinced, that Orthodoxy in Notions is
not the U'^bole of Religion.
BRISTOL.
(r) O my good Lord,{5'c.I mofl humbly pray thee, accept of my
" humble Thanks lor hearing my Prayers Yelterday ; tor help-
" ingme to ^rezz\\\nK\\& Forenoon Jttoigly ^ for enablino; me to
*' hold out rhe hix^xnon^-juhtn I-j.-us/tc.k in the Midjl of Prayer^
" ready to fall into a S-Juoon at tbf End of it ^ yet, by rubbing
'* wy Bro'dies, I ivas refrejied, and enabled to bold cut above an
*' Hour. (Mr. drorr." 5" -ajr^f'j Prayers, p. 19.)
(j) This much like the Cant of the old Fanaticks, of rolling
*' thfmjelvei upon Gcd^ &'c.
ftj This Refiedtion upon the reverend and very worthy Mr.
y — «, is far from becoming the /w^fi and mild Mr. U' — : For
this Gentlemen was a Chrijlian of the truly primitive Stamp,
and had not a Form of Godlinefs cvly, -without the Power thereof.
And I defire Mr. ff — . toconfider, what St. Paul fzysof Charity
in r Cor. xiii Thit Charity tbinketb no Evil ^ and tho' (fayS
lie) Ijpeakwith the Tongue of Men and Angels, and love not Cha-
rity, I am before as founding Brafs^ and a tiickljng Cymbal, Scc
Georgz Fix, p, 262, 306.
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BRISTOL.
P. 36.] lVednejda\\ February 21. Had fcveral
came to fee me this Morning, to enquire about the
State of their Souls, amongft whom was a little Girl
of thirteen Years of Age, who told me in great
Simplicity, ** She was prick'd thro' and thro* with
*' the Power of the Word." And, indeed, a good
Work I believe has been wrought in her Heart
Out of the Mouths of Babes and Sucklings hafl thou per-
feoied Praife.
Friday^ February 13. After Dinner I was taken
▼cry ill, fo that I was obliged to lie upon my Bed :
But looking upon it only as a Thorn in the Flefh^ at
Three I went, according to Appointment, and
preached to near Four or t ive thoufand People, from
a Mount in Kin^s-Wood, with great Power. The
Sun fhone very bright, and the People (landing in
fuch an awful Manner round the Mounts in the pro-
foundcft Silence, filled me with holy Admiration.
P. 41.] Preached at Newgate (Brijhl) was refrefh-
cd by the Converfation of fome that God had
wrought upon by my Miniftry — Anfwercd my reli-
gious Friends Letters, and expounded twice in the
Evening to two larg'e Societies — Blcfled be God, 1
find myfelf much refrefhed in Spirit ^ and a new Supply
of Strength given me. Thus it fhall be done to the Man
ivhom God delightdh to honour. Oh free Grace in
Chrift Jefus.
P. 42.] Thurfday, March i. Amongft my other
Letters by this Day*s Poft, I received the following
one from Mr. John Wefley,
My dear Brother^
« Our Lord*s Hand is not fhortned amongft us ;
«' Yefterday I preached at St. Catharine' ^^ and at
« * IJlmzton. The Fields, after Service, feem to be
* White
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♦' IFhite with People praifing God — The Society ac
•' Mr. Croiicos docs noc meet till Eight ; To that I
** expound before I iip to him near St. Jamei'i
*' iiquare^ ivbere one young IFoman was lately filled
*« wilh the Holj Ghoii^ and oi'erfio'ws with Joy and
" Love. On f'P'^ednefiiay at Six we have a noble
*' Company of Women, not adorned wiih Gold and
*' co/Ily AtpareK hut a meek and quiet Spirit, and good
*' IVorks — A Week or two ago a Note was given to
•' me there (in Mr. P's Room) as near as I can re-
*' member in thcfe "Words ; Tour Prayers are defired
'*■'- for afick Child that is lunattiky and fore vexed Day
*' and Night, that our Lord ivould heal him, as he
** did thoje in the Days of his tlefh \ and that he would
** give his Parents Faith and Patience till his Time is
*' come.
*' On Saturday Sevennight, a middle-aged, well-
*' dreflcd Woman at Beech- Lane (where 1 expound
** ulually to Five or Six hundred, before I go to
*' Mr. £*s Society) was feized, as it appeared to
*' feveral about her, with little Ids than the y^go-
** mes of Death. We pray'd, that God, who had
** brought lier to the Birth, would give her Strength to
*' bring forth, and that he would work fpeedily, that
*« all might fee, and fear, and put their Trujl in the
*' Lord. Five Days fhe travelled and groaned, be-
'* ing in Bondage. On Thurfday Evening cur Lord
*' got himjelf the Vt£iory ; and from that Moment
*' fhe has been full of Love and Joy, which fhe
*' openly declared at the fame on Saturday laft i (o
*' that Thanklgivings alfo were given by many to
*' God on her Account. It is to be obferved, her
** Friends have accounted her mad for thefe three
" Years ; and accordingly bled and bliftered her,
** and what not, Come and let us praife the Lord,
" and mag^iify his Name together.
N CARDIFF
(a) See a Uiam Mifach of the like Kind wrought by Gtdrge
Pof: (it he is :'j be believed! Jumal^ p. 27
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CARDIFF,
p. 47.] IVedncfday^ March 8. Arofr before Twelve
at Night, fung PTalms and prayed ; and the Wind
being fair, we had a fpeedy PaflTage over to the
IVdcb Shorey and reached Cardiff" about Eleven in
the Morning. The Town, 1 foon found, was ap-
prehenfivc of my Coming \ and therefore, whilft I
was giving a Word of Exhortation to fome poorPeo-
ple at the Inn, ivho banged upon me to hear thelVord^
Mr. Seward went to ask for the Pulpilt, but being de-
nied, he pitched on the Town HalU which Mr. Seward
got by hislnterelt ; and at Four in the Afternoon I
preached from the Judge's Seat to about 400 Hearers.
Mort were very attentive, but fome mocked \ how-
ever, (x) I offered Jefus Chrift freely even to tbeniy
and (houid have rejoyced if they would have accept-
ed of him j but their foolifh Hearts arc hardened.
After 1 came from the Seat, I was much refrefhed
with the Sight of my dear Brother Howel Harris,
whom, tho' I know not in Perfon, I have long fincc
loved in the Bowels of Jefus Chrift ; and have of teri
felt my Soul drawn out in Prayer in his Behalf.
P. 49.] When I firft faw him, my Heart was
l<nit clolWy to him. I wanted to catch Jome of his
Fire, and gave him the Right-hand of Felloivfhip with
my whole Heart. After I had faluted him, and
given a warm Exhortation to a great Number of
People who followed me to the Inn, we fpent the
Remainder of the Evening in taking fweet Counfel to-
gether, and telling one another what God had done
for our Souls — We eat a little Supper, and then, af-
ter finging a Hymn, we went to bed, praifing and
blefTing God for bringing us Face to Face. 1 doubt
not
(«) George Fox fays in his Journal, p. r'/$. that he declared,
** That the Lord-was I'Omf to feacb bis People himfelf hy hii San
V. Chriji Jefus:*
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not but Safan fnvicd our Hiippinefs : But I hope,
by the Help ofGod, ws Jhall make bis Kingdom /hake.
P. 50.] Thurfday^ March 9. I went to the Town
Hall, and preached for about an Hour and Half to
a large Afltmbly of People ; my dear Brother
Howel Harris fat clofe by me, I did nor obferve any
Scoffers within •» but without fomc were pleafed to
honour me fo far, as to trail a dead Fox^ and hunt
it about the Hall, (y) But, bleflcd be God, my
Voice prevailed.
■ BATH.
P. 52.] March 12. Received News of the won-.,
derful Progrefs of the Gofpel in Torkjhire^ under the
Miniftry of my dear Brother Ingham.
P. c^'].'\ Tuefda-j., March 20. Had the Pleafure of
hearing of the Succefs of my Difcourfe (at Bath)
Ycftcrday upon many Souls, efpecially upon two
little Children, who were obfcrved to come home
crying, and to retire to Prayers ■<, fpent the Morning
in writing Letters, and vifuing fome righteous Souls
that live in this Sodoin ; God has a Remnant every
where.
P. 65.] Saturday^ March ^\. At my Return
home, I was much refrcHied with the Sight of my
honoured Friend Mr. John IVcJlcy^ whom God's Pro^
vidence has fent to Brijhi — Lord no'jj leitejt thou thy
Servant depart in Peace.
P. 78.] MoHcltiy, J/ ril 16. Received Letters from
Jbergavennvy acquainting me, how many had been
convinced (ince 1 was cherc — Heard of one that had
N 2 received
(v) " While the Gaoler of Carlile ftruclc me, I was made t^
(ingin the Lord's Poiver, and that made him rage the more*
then he went and fetch'd a Fidhr^ and fee him to play, think
ingto vex me thereby ; but while he played, I was moved in
the Everlafting Power of the lord God to fing^ and my Voice
droivncd the Not'fe of the Fiddle^ ar.djiruck und confounded them."
fox's Journil, p. 11 2.
[ r- ]
received the Hoh Ghofl immediately upon \ry preach-
ing Chrijl — Indeed there is fcnrce a D.iy j)alTes over
my Head, but God fhews me, that he works cfTe-
dually upon the Hearts of many by my MiniRry.
P. 79.] It often ple.^fes me to think how God
makes Way for me into the Hearts of his People *,
nay, even of his Enemies, whcrc-cver I go My
firft asking Leave for the Pulpit, and preach-
ing in the Fields, notwithlknding rhey are denied,
puts mc in mind of the Children of //>W, firft in-
treating Leave of Og, Sihon^ &c. to go quietly thro*
their Landy but fighting their Way thro* when Leave
was denied ; like them^ by the Strength of my divine
Leader^ I Jhall at lajl be more than Conqueror over all
the Canaanites and Carnal Teachers among the Ifrael
of God.
Cheltenham, Seven Miles from Gloucejler.
P. 80.] Being earneftly invited by feveral of the
Inhabitants, 1 came hither by Five of the Clock,
and the Ufe of the Pulpit being refufed me, I
preached on the (2) Bowling Green belonging to the
Plough Inn — At the firlt I found my k\^ quite Jhut upy
tny Heart and Head were as dead as a Stone : But
when 1 came to the inn, my Soul began to be in-
larged. I felt a Freedom in my Spirit, and was in^
abled to preach with extraordinary Power to near
Two thoufand People. Many were C(^nvi6t'd. One
was drowned in Tears, becaufe, flie" faid, I was
crazy, (a) Andfome were Jo filled with the Holy Ghoft^
that
(z) See a remarkable Paper of George Fox* s to the Bowlers
that came to fport themfelves in the Caflle G\ttmr. Laniejion.
Journal, p. 218.
{a) Mr. Francis Bugg, in his Remarks upon George Fcx'f Will,
lays, that George Fox, at his 7 ryal at Lancojier AlTiz'c, faid,
" Before I came to the Bar, I was moved to pray— The thunder-
" ing l^oice^ anfwered, I have glorified thee ^ and ivill glorify thee
" again: And I was io filled full of Glory, that rr.y Head and
*' hars -was filled full of it."
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that rhey were almcjl unahk tofupport themfelvfs under
it. This I know is Foohfhnefs to the Ndtural^ and
Letter leA7):ed Men ; but I wrire this for the Comfort
of God's Children. They know what thefe Things
mean.
P. 87.] April 27. Went this Morning to IJlinpon
ro preach, viccording to the Appointment of my dear
Brotlier in Chnft the Reveiend Mr. Stonehoufe •, but,
in the Mi-ill of the Prayers, the Church-fVardett
came, demanding me to produce my Licenfe., or
otherwife he forbad my preaching in that Pulpir.
{b) I believe I might have infifled upon my Right to
preach, being in Priejls Orders^ and having the Prc-
fentation of the Living of Savannah^ which is in the
Eiiliop oTZ-Wo^'s Dioc-'fe, a ftronger Licenfe than
tlv.n iwplictle one^ by which Hundredsof the i«/(fmr
Clergy are by his Lordfhip permitted to preach.
Hov/cver, for Peace fike, I declined preaching in
the Church.
P. 89.] Sunday., April ig. Preached in the Morn-
ing in U) Moorf.iids to an exceeding great Multitude.
Beins:
o
{h) This GentJeman, 'tis plain, is unacquainted with the Ca-
Twis oioux Church, as he may be convinced by perufing the i;oth
CanoR ot r<^)0^. The Words as follo.v, " Neither the M/W/?^r,
" Cburchvjarilins, nor any other O^ceri cf the Church, Ihall
*' fuifer any Man to preach within their Churcbrs or Chafels,
" but fuch as, hyjie-j.ir.g their LLfirc- to f^reach^ fhall appear
" unto them to be I'ufficiently authorized thereunto, as is
*' aforefaid."
(c) Mr. Lfjry i3ys {Snjk^ In the Gr.i/s, p.?? 7.) " I was one
" Day vifiting 0//\vr'j Por/c-r, with the reitot" his Colhgiates
*' (in Bedlam) an:i upon a Grafs Plat before his Window, which
" was the End Room ol the Building next the Pcjiern, I law
*' fome Women very bufy with their Bibles, turning to the
" Quotations, as he preached to them out ot the Window ; and
*' they did ftgb and groan, and (hewed as ftrong Motions of
*' Devotion, as could b« i'een in any ^aksr's Meeting. I
'' thought, indeed, they had belonged fo the Family, and told
*' the Keefer, that he ought not to dilpofe of thoic fo near one
*■ anorbcr j but (hould feparace ^ha: Preacher and hi> Congrega.
" tio»
C 94]
Being weakened by my Morning's preaching, in the
Afternoon I refrefhed myfejf by a little Sleep j at
Five went and preached at Kennington Common^ about
two Miles from London^ where no Jels than Thirt'j
ihoufand People were fuppofed to be prefent. The
"Winfl being for me, it carried the {d) Voice to the
extreameft Part of the Audience — The People were
much affedled, and exprefied their Love to me ma-
ny way?.
P. 93.] Tutfda)^ May S. Preached in the Even-
fng, as ufual, on Kennington Convnon- Some confide-
rable Time before 1 fet out from Town, it rained
very hard, fo that once I thought of not going ; but
leveral pious Friends joined in Prayer^ that God
would be pleafed to {e) with-hold the Rain, which
was
//o», becaufe, they fed one another's Mainefs • But he told
me, that he had Charge of none but the Preacher ,• and that
there often came People to hear \\\Tr\ freach^ and would fit
many Hours under his Window with great Signs of Devotion.
This gave me the Curiofity to fpeak to one of thole Women*
z grave ^ foher-l'tlte Matron \ and I asked her, what (he could
profit by hearing that Madman ^ She, with a compofed
Countenance, and as pitying my Ignorance, replied, That
Fe/iuj thought faul was mad. Which made me refletf^, 7bat
ttere -aiere fever al Sort i of Madnefs ; and -juhat ill Luih fomt
mad Folks bad to he clofed uf^ -ji'hilji others ivent about the
Street]." I leave Mr. fV d, and his Felloivers^ to make
the Application.
(d) I have heard of an old H'oman, who, tho' out of the
Reach of his Voice, feem'd to be much atfecfted with Mr. IVbite-
jf^/6?'s preaching. A Gentleman \Aho ftooJ next her, told her,
He could not hear one Word, and ask'd her, if {he could. No,
Sir, faid Ihe, but fee -what a heavenly l^ ag he has zi-ith his Heait.
Another was moved by hhheavenly Leer., asfhe called it.
(e) Enthujiajls oiten ho3.(i (){ having their Petitions anfwer'd,
whether they are, or are not j whether for Rain or fair JVeather^
Mr. George Swathe {Pnyers, p. 24.) in a great Drought has thefe
W'ords " Lord, let not thefe prefent Clouds difperfe, nor diltil
Drops any where, but where there is an apparent Shew (een
** to promife Rain. Lord, thou knoweft my confident Boldnefs
** to come unto thee for this Bletling ; I praife thee for really
anfwerirg my Prayers for Rain diverfe Years paft. I pray
" thee
( 95 ]
was done immediately To my great Surprize,
when 1 came to the Common, I faw about Twenty
thouf;\nd People — All the while, except for a few
Moments, the Sun fhone out upon us •, and thus the
Sun of Right eoufnefs arc]: on fame with healing in his
IVitigs.
P. 96.] I doubt not but many Self-righteous Bi^ots^
when they fee me fpreading my Hands to offer J ejus
Chriji freely to all, are ready to cry out, *' How
'* glorious did the Reverend Mr. Whitefield look to
** Day, when, neglecting the Dignity of a Clergyman^
*' he (tood venting his Enthufiajiick Ravings upon 2l
*« Common, and colleding Mit€s from the poor
•' People** J but if this be vile, Lordy grant me to bs
more vile.
p. 97.] Friday, May 18. Dined with feveral of
the (f) Moravian Church, and could not but admire
their great Simplicity, and deep Experience, in the
Inward Life. At Six preached in an open Place in
Shadwell^ being much prcfs'd by many to go thither.
I believe there were upwards of Twenty thoufand
People. / perceived a divine Power came upon me
from absve. The Word, I believe, made its Way
into their Eiearts — Bleffed be God, we now begin to
iurround this great City Js the Walls of Jericho
once fell down at the Sound of a few Rams Horns, fo^
I hope y even this Foolifhnejs of preachifig^ under God,
will be a Means of pulling down the Devil*s Jirong
Holds, which are in and about the City <?/London.
ihid^ Received feveral exceilent Letters, amongfl:
which
*' thee rcaUy anfwcr this Petition at this Time r Send a feafona-
*' ble, fpeedy, moderate Rain, which may do very much Good ,
" do this for me at my Requelt, and I will record it for thy
^' Praile."
(7) See the Principles of the y//»a3.7^///?i oi Moravia, in Ger-
many, in Alexander Roffe's P'ie-jo of all Religions in the WorlJ^
^h Edit. p. \6ix6^. and £)«^/V$ i(ith Century, chap. xr. p. 3.
[ 96 ]
which was one from Mr. Ralph Erskine (%) a Field
Preacher of the Scotch Churchy a noble Soldier of the
Lord Jefus ChrKt.
p. 1 06.] PreachM at Northampton about Five in
the Evening — At Seven, according to Appointment,
I preached to about Three thouland -Hearers, on a
Common near the Town, from the Starling Pojl —
Great Power, I believe, was amongft us, and I
preached with wonderful Pleafure, becaufe tb.en I
thought I had adual PoffcfTion of one of the Bevirs
Jirong Holds.
BEDFORD.
P. 108.] About Eight I preached from the Stairs
of a IVind-Mill (the Pulpit of my dear Brother and
Fellow Labourer [h^j Mr. Rogers) to about Three
thoufand
fg) BKhop Barnet (HtJJ. of his own Time j^ vol.1, p. 5i'2.)
calls the field Preachers {or Cameronians) a mad SeSf^ and Dr.
Hicks Ihews (in a Trail, intitlcd. The Spirit of Pofcry ffeaking
tut of the Mouths of fhanatical Protejlants^ or the lalt Speeches
of Mr. jfohnKid, and Mr. jfohnKing, two Preslyterian Minif-
ters^ 1 680) what defperate Rebels thofe Field Prcai h:rs were, and
©bfervesin his Preface. " That the firft Difcovery of that horrid
•* Pofijb Plot declared to all the World, and that Jefuits were
** fent into <S'co///3W about the fame Time, that they begun ta
** Field Conventicle^ to encourage them to rebel."
(h) His dear Brother^ and Fello-w Labourer^ Mr. R-^rj^ at the
Biihopof Z/^co/;7's Vifitation, at Bedford, the laft Summer, did
not behave with common Decency: For when tht learned Preach-
er, with great Candour and Judgment, was expofing the Foil iei
of this upftart SeS, and exhorting the People to beware ot him,
this Gentleman called out, loud enough to be heard by more than
one or two, that's a Lye, that's a notorious Lye, that's a villain-
ous Zyffj with other Expreffions to the fame Purpofe. I am at a
Lofs to know under which of the Fruits of the Sfirit he will
rank this Kind of Behaviour. Sure lam, it is contrary to the
Laiv of the Land. By 5 and 6 of Ed. VI. chap. iv. 'tis enatfled,
** That none (hall ufe any chiding IVords in the Church, in Pain,
" if a Clerk, ofSufpenfion from the Miniftration ofhis Office:**
And by I. iW«r;>, Sefs. 3, chap. 3. 'tis enabled, *' Thiit any
Pcifon
[ 97 ]
thonfand People •, and God was pleafcd to g.-- .iie
fuch extraordinary Amflances, that I believe few it
anv, were able to refift the Power with which God
enabled me to fprak. M^ Heart wai full of Cod {})
and If pake as or.e having Autborifj.
P. 109.] Rcrelved an excellent Letter from the
ik) P evert nd Mr. Eheiuzer Erskine o\^ Scotlandy Bro-
ther to Mr. Ps^abh Erskine, aequainrint^ me with his
preaching laft Week to Fourteen thoufand People-—
B!( (Ted b^'e God there are more Field Preachers in the
World beO.drs myfelf-, the Lord fur ni/h us all with
fpiritual Focul whcreivuh to feed fo great Multitude.
P. III.] Friday, June i. d'med at 0/J'crJ— Gave
a fliort Exhorr;uion to a few People in a Field, and
preached in the Evening at a Place called May-Fair.,
near Hxde ParkCor-ner—ThQ Congregation confifted,
I believe, of near Eighty Thoufuid People It was,
bv far, the largeft that ever 1 preach'd to yet.
' P. 1 13.] I now go in Trui}. under God's holy Spirit
to Penfhania, and Virginia, and from thence to
Georgia, knoiving not i:;hat will hefal me, fave that the
Hcly Ghofl r^itneffdh in every Place, that Labours,
and Affliaions, and Tryalsofall kinds abide me.
O my dear Friends pray that none of thele Things
O may
*' Perfor. difturbing a Wtnijler mtreacUng, (hall be apprehended,
«' and committed by a >///Vf */ Peace, who, wuh one other,
•' ftiall examine him within fix Days, and finding him guilty,
" Ihal! commit him to Geo/ till the next ^^arter Sejpons."
U) George Fcx (Journal, p. ':4.) ^ays ot himlelt, tbjs JV^an
ft^^nks cn-ith Juthorirv, and not as the Scribes
(k) I can fee no Reafon why we fhould call Mr. Ebcnezer tr-
jhi'iexht Rev. and not dignify his dear Brother Howel Harris
with the fame Title : For they are equally uruomnnjfioned Teach-
ers Our difcnting Revcrenc'S [hyi that Blafphemer n ocl/ton^
" in his firji Free Gift to the Clergy, p. 87.)rorfooth' ot late> cars,
" call themfelves Rexnences, as well as the Clergy ol the Church
" of£^<r/^'/'/; like zs&.q Horf- Turds that fwam with the^/>-
♦' pies in the Fable, would, lor Company Sake, lay ot them-
" lelves, ^^Jpfles." vFfofi Fables, Numb. 134-
[98]
may move me, and that I may not count even my
Life dear unto my felf, fo that I may finifh my
Courfe with Joy, and the Miniftry which 1 have
received of the Lord Jefus,
f I N I S,
^m'^^Mfmws^'^'^'^'Mm^'m^'^^m^^
Pagt 9.
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