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cause_n	good_a	great_a	people_n	3,792	5	4.4298	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26640	A short testimony concerning that faithful servant of the Lord, Thomas Aldam of Warnsworth in the county of York who in patience and tribulation was a follower of the Lamb, finished his course in the truth, and departed this life in the fourth month in the year 1660 : something also concerning Mary his wife, and also concerning Margaret Kellam, and Joan Kellam, his two sisters : with a few words in exhortation to such as are the children of believing parents, or are more lately com'd to be convinced of the truth / given forth in the sense of the great love of God, which hath visited his people in this our age and day, by Thomas Aldam, son to the abovesaid Thomas Aldam.	Aldam, Thomas, 1649-1723.	1690 (1690)	Wing A894D; ESTC R36721	9,885	12

Power with him whom he many times warned as from the Lord to harken to the cry of his poor Oppressed People and under the heavy Burdens under which they lay or otherwise if they would not he signified unto them the Lord would cut them off and that speedily And at one time he was moved to take his Cap from off his Head and to rent it in pieces before Oliver Cromwell as a Sign to him that the Government should be rent from him and such as were not covered with the spirit of the Lord which things he saw fulfilled before he Depart●● He was also moved of the Lord to Travel into Scotland and Ireland and went to the chief Rulers there upon the accompt aforesaid Another time he went to all or most of the Prisons in England where there was any of the people of God called Quakers in Prison to take a perfect accompt of the number of them that so being an eye Witness of their Sufferings he might be more capable of laying their Cases before the then Rulers yea he was freely given up to spend and be spent upon the Truths accompt being always willing at the Assizes Sessions or elsewhere to appear to plead the cause and help to bear the burden of Gods Suffering people it being unto him as his Meat and Drink to be found in Truths service doing the same chearfully and of a ready mind being one to whom the Commandments of Christ Jesus were not grievous but joyous He was always one that had a tender regard to Unity amongst Friends and never known to joyn with any which deviated from Truths Testimony ever bearing a good esteem in his mind for such as Laboured and Traveled in the Gospel and especially for him whom the Lord raised at first to be an Instrument to beget him with many others to the Lord so that in reading though it had been but Two or Three lines which had been sent him from him his Heart would have been broken And when I do remember the fervency of Spirit which did attend him and how when he had been to take any Journey upon Truths accompt he would have called his Wife and Children in great tenderness and humility have bowed his Knees before the Lord and poured out his supplications unto him before his departure from us desiring earnestly that the Lord might go with him and committing us into his keeping and what brokenness of Heart was amongst us at such times and how the love of God did abound then can my Soul say those were precious Seasons and are not to be forgotten by us but to be recorded to posterity that we may tell our Children and they also may declare it when we are gone how good the Lord hath been unto his People and what great cause they have to love him and put their trust in him that so his name may be renowed amongst our Families so long as they shall have a being And now after these his Exercises the time of his departure drawing near he was visited with Sickness in which time he set his House in order and in the time of his Weakness the Lord was good unto him and eminently appeared with him so that one time he did say to his Sister though near his latter end walking up and down in the House that he found his Strength so renewed that he believed he could go to London if the Lord required it but answered again I am clear of the Blood of all men I find nothing to this Man meaning King Charles the II. he was very sensible to his latter end and the day he died called for us his Children and advised us to live in the fear of God and to Love and Obey our Mother and so being freely resigned into the hands of his Creator he departed this Life And about Three Months after Mary his Wife my Mother departed this Life who was a Woman that truly feared God and served him in her Day and Generation and in all the Exercises which my Father passed through in those early days I never heard she once grudged or repined being of a very meek and quiet Spirit given up in all things to Gods disposing her remembrance is sweet and her name to be recorded amongst the Faithful of Gods People She was convinced of the Everlasting Truth at the same time my Father was convinced and through the Same Instrument and bore Testimony to the same according to her measure My Father had also Two Sisters the one called Margaret Kellam the other Joan Kellam who were also convinced at the same time by G. F. and were Two Faithful Women in their day the said Margaret travelled much in Truths service in the breaking forth of the same and many were convinced by her She suffered Imprisonment in several places as at Exeter in Devonshire where she was fully Accused and the envy of some such against her as they sought her Life out the Lord delivered her she was also Prisoner at Barbary and in York-Castle for declaring the Truth yea great was the boldness that did attend her in sounding forth the Truth in the Streets Steeple-houses and Market-places and to the Heads and Rulers of the People and the Lord was with her She finished her course in Faith signifying to a near Relation before her departure the great peace she enjoyed with the Lord and the clearness of Conscience she had before him she laid down the Body in the Joan Kellum was also a Woman that truly feared the Lord a good Example and Pattern where God had placed her one of a sound Judgment and well Experienced in the Work of the Lord Zealous for his Honour and Faithful to Truths Testimonies ready to encourage and stir up to Diligence and Stedfastness ever watching over those that were Young and endavouring to instruct them in the right way of the Lord she was one that could speak a word in due season to an afflicted Soul having past through many depths and seen the wonders and goodness of the Lord therein she was even as a Mother in Israel and would sympathize with the least of Gods suffering Children in the remembrance of her and of the sweet Communion which my Soul many times hath had with her when in openness of Heart we have Declared one to another what the Lord had done for us I have cause to bless the Lord and though these our Friends and near Relations be outwardly removed from us yet their Spirits live with us even amongst such as are comed to have Unity with the Spirits of just men made perfect and these can say their Memorial is Blessed and their Names to be recorded amongst the Righteous for they died in the Lord and are at rest from their Labours and their Works do follow them In the time of her Sickness she was very well disposed and gave good advice to them which were left behind her that in Faithfulness they might persevere to the finishing of that