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Several living testimonies given forth by divers friends to the faithful labours and travels of that faithful and constant servant of the Lord, Robert Lodge ... ; also, two general epistles, written by himself long since to the believers in Christ, and are now printed for their edification and refreshment.
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SEVERAL Living Testimonies Given forth by divers Friends TO THE Faithful Labours and Travels Of that Faithful and Constant Servant of the LORD Robert Lodge Who was a true Minister of the Gospel of Christ a Valient Sufferer for the Testimony of a good Conscience one that held out to the end and is saved ALSO Two General Epistles written by himself long since to the Believers in Christ And are now Printed for their Edification and Refreshment The Name of the Righteous shall be had in Everlasting Remembrance c. Printed for T. Sowle And Sold at the Crooked Billet in Hâ—llâ—â—â—â—-Loâ—e Shâ—â—â—ditch 1691. The Testimony of Peter Hardcastle concerning the Life and Death of Robert Lodge THis our Friend and Brother a Servant of the Lord Jesus Christ Robert Lodge I was acquainted with before we were gathered to be a Meeting to sit down in silence to wait upon God in his Light for he then lived near me with one related to me and we had much discourse about Religious matters and he saw the Errors of the Priests more clearly than I did and was serviceable to me at that time But after this it pleased the Lord to send his faithful Servants amongst us to Preach the everlasting Gospel and they directed our minds to the Light of it in our Consciences and many were convinced of the way to eternal Life and Salvation and thus were we gathered to be a Meeting to sit in the silence of Flesh waiting upon God in his Light And in process of time we being gathered in the Name of the Lord Jesus he made his Power known in our Meeting in an admirable manner to the renting of the Vail and breaking down the partition Wall and raising our Souls from Death unto Life which caused great Joy and Comfort in us and amongst us And by the Power and Spirit of Life after a little time our deceased Brother Robert Lodge was moved to go into Ireland to bear Testimony with other Brethren of the everlasting Truth and way of Truth and Salvation and having done his Service there at that time he returned again into England and travelled in many parts of it and went into Ireland again and travelled in both Nations to visit the Gatherings of the Lord's People and to stir up their pure minds by way of remembrance of the manifold Mercies and Favours and Loving-kindnesses of God which he hath made known unto his People in this our day after the long Night of Apostacy And the Prophecy of Daniel is fulfilled in this our Age where he saith Many shall run to and fro and Knowledge shall be increased and he saith also They that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the Firmament and they that turn many to Righteousness as the Stars for ever and ever Dan. 12. And he was Instrumental in the hand of God to turn many to Jesus Christ God's Righteousness the sure Foundation and Rock of Ages which yields living Water unto the Soul and so his Testimony reached to the Witness of God in the Consciences of many and I have been many times sweetly refreshed under his Testimony and Ministry Oh the sweet Union and Society and Fellowship we have had together in the Gospel it breaks my Heart and tenders my Spirit at this time when I am writing these Lines I loved him before we were gathered and much more since because of his Sincerity and Truth in his inward parts for he kept his first Love and Habitation in the Truth And he was Instrumental also for building up in the holy Faith that the Spirit of Opposition and Separation might not get advantage to draw us from the Spirit and Power of our Lord Jesus Christ he was committed to several Prisons in this Nation and in Wakefield-Prison he wrote an Epistle to Friends and when he suffered Imprisonment or otherwise for the Testimony of the Truth he was kept in patience and rested in the will of God So he having kept the Faith and Patience of our Lord Jesus and dying in the Lord is at Rest his Body is in the Grave but his Spirit is with the Lord Jesus and with the Spirits of just and holy Men and Women who have served the Lord in their day according to his Will revealed unto them by his holy Spirit Praises Honour and Glory to the Lord God and the Lamb for evermore So I having known him so long a time and some of his Tryals and Exercises and faithfulness to God and his Truth I could not well but give this short Testimony concerning him Peter Hardcastle senior Thomas Whitton his Testimony concerning the Life and Death of Robert Lodge THat the Memory of the Just may be had in Remembrance and the Travel of the Righteous in future Ages not forgotten this Testimony I have to bear for our dear Friend Robert Lodge who is now gone whose Exercises and Travels are at an end and I doubt not but that he is at rest with the Lord He was a man whom I knew above this thirty Years even from his Youth who received the Truth in his tender Years in a large measure and the Lord hath made him a very serviceable Instrument in his hand for gathering many to the Way of Life out of the ways of the World and that in his young Years both in this Nation and also in Ireland as many can testifie and not only so but the Lord hath as I may truly say made him a Son of Consolation amongst his People to the watering and refreshing of many weary Souls his Travels in Spirit I knew being one of the same Meeting even for the hindmost of the Flock and his sympathizing with those that travelled for the same I also knew him in the helping on the Work of the Lord and when that Life and Power of God rose in him in a Meeting to the opening his Mouth the Lord hath made his Words as the Balm of Gillead to the broken hearted Much might be said of his Service in and for the Truth in his day and toward the closure thereof he laboured with and for the young Friends that they may come up in the Footsteps of those who are gone before and at Rest with the Lord with many and frequent Supplications to the Lord for them that they might walk as becomes the Truth in their Generation The time of his Sickness was short but about three or four days and about three or four days a little ill before I going to see him asked him how he did and how it was with him he gave me account of his Distemper and Infirmness and did question his recovery of the same But saith he the Lord knows my Heart and that I have served him and it hath been of more account to me the gaining of one Soul than all my Labours and Travels So I have great cause to believe he was in a good sence of the Recompence of his Reward so leaving him very weak that night and
Works may praise him to whom all Praises doth belong and is freely ascribed from my Soul now henceforth and for ever Katherine Winn. The Testimony of Christopher Blackburne concerning my dear Friend Robert Lodge who departed this Life the 16th Day of the 7th Month 1690. Dear friends I could not with clearness be silent in this matter because I found it as a Duty incumbent upon me being one of the same Meeting to write a little amongst my Brethren concerning this faithful Champion of the Lord whom he hath taken to himself and is at Rest with him who is over all God blessed forever I being but young in years have not been so long acquainted with him as many have been but what I know I shall write He was a man that ever had a tender regard over me and other young Friends and I can truly say his Counsel and Advice to me when I was a Child was reaching and I hope will never be raced out of my remembrance and as I grew up I loved him as my Father he was of a lovely Countenance and an undaunted Spirit his Service was much in the Ministry he had a quiek discerning in a Meeting Oh how hath he laboured for the good of a Meeting and if at any time a Vail hath been over or that any seemed to be unconcerned Oh how he would have been weighted and laboured to with-draw the Vail and raise the Life at such a time and on the contrary when the Life was up in a Meeting and that he saw Friends in a Heavenly Order Oh it was Marrow to his Bones his very Countenance was comfortable to the Meeting and his Travel especially in che latter part of his days was much for the settling the Meeting in a divine Order and his Prayer for us that were young was frequent in this manner Heavenly God ingraft thy heavenly Truth in the Hearts of our Children that they may stand up to bear Witness for thee when it shall please thee to take us hence Now I come to his Sickness and Death which was on this manner Upon that 4th day at Evening I went to see him as was my usual manner when in that Town not knowing that he was Sick so asked him how he did he said He had a very bad Night the Night before but was something better He also told me how it was with him and said That many had dyed of the like Distemper but whether I dye or not the Will of the Lord be done So I went over Night to see him and he grew weaker and weaker yet he was able to go till the First Day and after the Meeting that day he got up by help for then he was taken with a strong Feaver which grew extreamly upon him and as he was getting up he said Blessed be God I have Heavenly Peace So after a while I going away took my leave of him for I had a sence of his Death and he said to me He was freely given up to the Will of God So the next day I went again but was not present when he did declare but I understood it was powerful as at other times so in the Evening I went but he was in a sweet Sleep and so continued till about the first or second Hour the next Morning and so departed this Life in a Heavenly frame arid is at Rest with God whom he served to the utmost of his Power I can truly say he was a man worthy of Everlasting Remembrance and one of the Worthies of God's Israel So seeing it was the pleasure of the great God to take him from us it is the desire of my heart that I with the rest of God's People may be kept and preserved in God's heavenly Truth as this man was so shall we meet again in God's Kingdom where we shall receive the full of what we enjoy the Earnest of here So seeing it hath been the pleasure of God who is the Orderer of all things and hath the Souls and Bodies of all Men at his dispose to take this dear Friend from us we have reason to be content knowing that our Loss is his Gain our Sorrow his Joy I cannot but return him the Praise who is God over all blessed for ever and evermore Amen Christopher Blackburne The Testimony of Rebecca Blackburne concerning Robert Lodge who departed this Life the 16th Day of the 7th Month 1690. HE was a dear and loving Friend towards me and his desire was much for the prosperity of Truth it was great joy to him to hear that the Truth prospered especially in those that were young and that they might bear their Testimonies for the Lord after the decease of the Elders One time after the Meeting he looking towards a young Girle turned him about and said The Lord bless you all Children which caused me to say within my self Whither is he going Now seeing the Lord hath taken him from us he is able to preserve those that are left behind and will do as we put our trust in him So to him that orders all things according to his pleasure do I return all the Honour and Glory both now henceforth and for evermore Amen Rebecca Blackburne The Testimony of Ann Blackburne concerning Robert Lodge THis dear Friend I knew him from a Child and was acquainted with him from his Youth He was of a quick apprehension and had much discourse with one Anthony Procter and Other Priests in the days of Oliver Cromwell but they were always put to the worst by him He was of a Valient Spirit from his Youth upward and it was great gladness of heart to me to see him in a Meeting it was also great Sorrow to me to part with so near a Friend but seeing it was the pleasure of God to take him from us iâ—â— my belief he is at rest with him who is God blessed for evermore Ann Blackburne The Testimony of Alice Clarke concerning Robert Lodge THis is my Testimony for my dear Friend Robert Lodge of Massam lately deceased he was an Instrument in the hand of the Lord and the Lord by him wrought upon the Hearts of many to turn them out of the broad way of destruction into the narrow way that leads to Life and Salvation and good cause have I amongst many more to praise the Lord that ever I was acquainted with him I being of the Meeting that he was of was many a time sweetly refreshed and comforted which I hope shall never be forgotten of me â—or raced out of my remembranceâ— and though he be gone from us yet his Spirit is with us in our Meetings as we come to the Spirits of just men made perfect he had a heavenly Gift and had good skill to use it so that he got love of most that knew him He was taken away of a short Sickness and what he spake relating to Truth in the time thereof was much to the satisfaction of all that loved him for he