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A66605	The memorial of the just shall not rot, or, A collection of some of the letters of that faithful servant of the Lord, William Wilson who departed this life the tenth day of the fifth month 1682 ... together with several testimonies concerning his faithfulness in his day : unto which is added a brief accompt of some of the buffetings, imprisonments, and spoiling of goods he patiently suffered for his testimonies sake.	Wilson, William, d. 1682.	1685 (1685)	Wing W2955; ESTC R30210	52,995	72

him that Persecutes and pardon every Foe The Poor mans name is Nicholas Tyson I belive thou hast nothing against him but for his worship to God and God is without respect of persons for whosoever feareth him and works righteousness is accepted of him and he will remember all those things that is done against those harmless people and will clear their cause and their oppressors shall not go free for they are written where they can never be blotted out by the power and cunning sleights of men and it grieves many good mens hearts that ever such unreasonable men should bear the name of Christians that work such wicked works for ungodly gain and use the Kings name for a cover wickedly didst thou work and evil will be the end of it if thou look not to it in time the Lords decree is gone out against injustice and ungodly deeds that 's done against his People that he hath promised to preserve and deliver out of all their troubles though they suffer for the tryal of their Faith therefore Repent for thou must come to Judgment and an account must thou give and how canst thou appear before the Lord in those things that makes thee shame before men the world crys out of thee and saith it will never be forgotten it deserves to be posted up in the Markets and Steplehouses when seven years is come and gone the Lord abhors thy doings it stinks in his Nostrils but the poor innocent sufferers is a sweet smell in his sight this is in love to thy Soul that thou mayst remember thy evil deeds done and past that thou mayst learn Repentance in due time before it be too late for the Lord wills not the death of a Sinner but rather that he would turn from his wickedness and live Thy friend and lover of thy Soul Willam Wilson Written in the 9th Month 1664. with my own hand A Letter to John Ambrose Priest of Gaissiner in the County of Westmoreland JO. Ambrose wilt thou remember thy Prisoner that thou hast in Prison for the Lords cause and not for any due debt I owe thee for if thou wert a Minister of Christ thou would ask me none and as thou art not a Minister of Christ I owe thee none therefore let me forth of Prison that I may go at liberty and do my service as it s required at my hand or else let it fall on thy own neck and then it will be to heavy for the to bear yea and all that will take thy part This I write unto thee that I may let thee know that thou hast the Lords Servant in thy hand and will not let me go for not paying thee Wages that doth me no service nor work but the first work thou doth to me is sending me to Prison a work we never read of in all the Scriptures that all the men of God that ever we read on did cast men into Prison for their Bellys but if thou wilt not let me out do as thou will and let the Lord do as he will for I am well content but I must remember thee of the evil work which thou has done in casting me into Prison from my Wife and Childred but the Lord will Plead my cause and set me at liberty when thou and all unrighteousness shall be made fast for ever therefore remember what I have told thee and do good while thou may for thy time will spend and thy Repentance prove too late let me not lye here while thou is feeding and feasting thy self but remember the Widdow and Fatherless as it were Fatherless Children thou hast made by casting me into Prison from them and will not let them have their right the Lord allows them this must stand upon thy head thou unrighteous man if thou wilt not let me go as the Lord requires it of thee for he hath more for me to do then thou knows on therefore say not but thou art warned from the Lord before thy evil day come upon thee which will overtake thee as a Theif in the Night and come upon thee as an armed man when there is none to deliver thee so send thy Letter to fetch me forth if thou will if thou wilt not do even as thou will So I leave thee William Wilson JO. Amborse I am here in Prison upon thy account for about six pence or seven pence by the year which I should never have refused to pay to thee if I were convinced that thou were one of Christs Ministers but as I am perswaded that thou art not I rather choose to suffer for the non payment of it then to pay it contrary to that of God in mine own Conscience thou had better have taken a Cow or a Horse form my Wife and Childred then have cast me into Prison from them the Lord will hear their cry of Oppression more for want of me then for the want of either Cow or Horse and I would wish thee for the good of thy own Soul to let me out again that I may work for my Living and it will be more honour to thee among men and less condemnation before the Lord if thou have any respect either to old or young Wife or Children hear their cry for want of me their Father which if thou will not I doubt not but the Lord will hear their cry and deliver when thou canst not resist and in the undaunted Spirit of God I can rest and wait with much patience who am thy friend and lover though I have a little tasted of thy Envy yet I desire the welfare of thy Soul if possible the Lord may grant it Kendal the 29th of the 9th Month 1672. William VVilson Here follows two short Letters to John Kirby in the behalf of two friends imprisoned by him for Tyths JO. Kirby I can do no less then let thee know that we remember these two friends of ours which thou ungodlyly hast cast into Prison for non payment of Tyths and not only we the friends of the Lord but even the Lord himself doth remember them with many more of his dear Children who suffers for the same Holy Testimony for whose sakes the Lord of Glory will plead with their Adversarys by Fire and Sword the Lord hath spoken it by me and that thou is one of them that the Lord will plead with for the sakes of his Servants George Benson and Richard VValker their wives and little Children who is dayly mourning for the loss of their natural fathers whom the Lord of life and Glory is as Subject to hear as they are to mourn and hast said Ah ah I will ease me of mine Adversarys I will be avenged of mine oppressors I will be known that I am the Lord notwithstanding my Enemies who promise themselves ease and peace when they have done the Devils work by casting into Prison as it is said the Devil shall cast some of you into Prison but the Lord remembers these things and will

hard to suffer for the testimony of Jesus and for the love of him who had satisfied his Soul he was seeking the truth in its purity and glory which he did receive and did continue faithful to the Lord in what he had received of him even until the day of his departure out of the body so that his memorial is blessed and he hath left a sweet smelling savour behind him and the sweet unity of his life and the blessed fellowship of his Spirit lives and remains with us and as he lived an innocent life so was his latter end comfortable It was not my happiness to see him in his sickness yet I had the Relation by several honest Friends that he was in a sweet and heavenly frame of Spirit and when he was asked how he did he would have said he was well for my pain said be cannot mount so high but my peace is above it but I hope further account of this will be given by some that were eye and ear witnesses well tho his body be gone to its place and his Spirit to God that gave it and is entered into his rest with the Lord and is Crowned with an immortal Crown of life and glory which was laid up for him and not for him only but for all them that love the appearance of our Lord Jesus Christ yet the unity of his life lives in my heart and I have fellowship with him in Spirit and even at the time of the writing of this Testimony my heart is made glad and my Soul is sweetly refreshed in the remembrance of the blessed seasons which we have had together for many of them is fresh in my remembrance and I do remember his Exhortation was often to Friends to keep in the unity of the Spirit for said he it is of a longer extent then we it will live and remain when we are gone of the truth of which I am made a living Witness glory to God for ever And so I desire unto the Lord God of Righeousness and Truth that all the gathered sheep of my Heavenly Fathers fold may be preserved from the Ravenous Beasts of Prey and that we my all be kept faithful in our Testimony for the Lord while we have a day that we may lye down our heads in peace with the Lord as do I stedfastly believe our dear Friend and Brother William Wilson hath done By a lover of Truth and Righteousness William Rigg James Pask 's Testimony concerning William Wilson WIlliam Wilson was truly a Man of God who did much good and was a Pillar in the House of God in his Generation he did not gad abroad to change his way or go out from the pure way of God but stedfastly keep and walked in it all his dayes after he came to know it he was a man of love to God and his people that is good and knew well how to chuse the good and refuse the evil unblamable in holiness and served the living and true God saithfully his rest is glorious and his reward great in Heaven with the Lord God and the Lamb for ever and ever For his labour of love and service in the Church of God which very much he desired the welfare and prosperity of he overcome by the blood of the lamb and the word of his Testimony which he held who loved not his life to the death I cannot but think of him and lament for the Churches loss thereabouts of such a tender overseer of such a Friend and saithful Brother and for his Widow and Childrens loss of such a Husband and Father so careful for their good so loving and tender to them I desire they all may be contented and rest satisfied in the will of the Lord in which he is gone to his eternal rest from us all as to visible appearance but that spirit of God in which he walked still we enjoy to our great comfort in all our tribulations I knew him well Five and Twenty Years he was ever very dear and near to me we travelled through Scotland together many years since where we patiently endured what exercises perils and troubles we then met with having a good and Estectual service for the Lord God in that Nation which after we had truly performed we returned in peace and Gods favour In the pure love of God was I moved to give this Testimony on the behalf of this my late dear Brother and companion in the work of the Lord who is fallen asleep and taken up his everlasting Rest in Christ Jesus who lives and Reigns for ever and evermore James Pask WILLIAM WILSON was arrested with several more of his Friends and had before Justice Fleeming and Justice Kirby only for meeting together in Gods name and fear for which he the said W. W. with several other friends was sent to Lancaster-Castle where he had the Oath of Alleagance tendered to him upon the refusal of which he was sent to prison again and there remained several months who soon after the Assizes his fidelity being made known to the King was released and set free from that bondage William Wilson who for conscience sake could not pay Six pence or Seven pence a year to Priest Ambross Parson of Grovenor was by him sued in the Exchequer court and run to a writ of Rebellion and by vertue of the same arested and cast into Prison several Months during which time he wrote several letters to Dorothy his Wife and Friends Coppies of some of them is as followeth Dear Wife I received thine from Ambleside and hath heard of thee since by B. B. and J. W. and its satisfaction to me that I hear of thine and my Childrens Health and wellfare And I long to see that opportunity that thou might come to see me but dear Wife I do not at all desire it till thou canst well for Alas I know that thou hath over much travelling up and down about thy needful affairs but the Lord will order as he sees good and all will be well in his due time we have had true experience of Gods love to us and therefore we may speak for we can tell of his goodness towards us and may believe in the same For there is no doubtfulness in our cause for he knoweth our hearts and the end of all our doings and sufferings and therefore he will deliver in his season and that is to be waited for with us all thee and me and all that knows the Lord for he that will not spare to reprove Kings for the sakes of his anointed of which anointing we have all received a measure of he will not spare an old Hireling Priest who are in the steps of following after the wages of unrighteousness and greedily seeking his Prey and even devouring the poor if it were possible will not the Lord hear for the sake of his own Ye he will hear and be revenged even for the sake of his dearly beloved and Anointed whom the Devil