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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
I going again next day with my Sister to see him finding him near to Death and being beside him in great brokenness of Heart to part with such a near Friend he as one sympathizing with us said We shall meet again in Eternity Then a little time after his Mouth was opened and in great power and tenderness with heavenly Expressions and Praises to the Lord and after some time again I went to him and told him I was come to take my leave of him but thought see him next day then he named me by my Name and said It is well with me and I have no disturbance in my mind He spake these words as a man at ease from whom the Lord had taken Sin away which is the sting of Death this being about the third hour in the Afternoon and he departed this Life that Night it being the 15th of the 7th Month 1690. And though his Body be gone to the Earth yet the Memorial of his Life and Spirit lives with us as it is written For the Righteous shall be had in everlasting Remembrance and pretious in the sight of the Lord is the Death of his Saints for they rest from their Labours and their Works follow them and they live in that Life which is hid with Christ in God And indeed a Lamentation might be taken up for the loss of such an Instrument in the Hand of the Lord who had laboured and gathered many by that powerful Word of Truth which the Lord put into his heart unto God and also to the refreshing watering and consolating of the Heritage of the Lord in that meek lowly Spirit of Life and Love which very frequently did run through him and reached the Life in others for which I cannot but praise the Lord for the many Visitations of his Love in our Meetings but this bears up our Spirits that as the Lord hath begun so great a work in our day for his Truth and Name sake he will carry it on to his own praise and will not leave himself without a witness upon the Earth that from Age to Age and one Generation after another his own Works may praise him who is God and changes not to whom be everlasting Praise for evermore He was buried at Low-Ellington at the Burying-Place for the People of God the 17th of the 7th Month 1690. And was accompanied with many Friends of divers parts and Neighbours also being one well-beloved of the Neighbourhood and there was a living and serviceable Testimnoy foâ— God born that day by our Friend George Myers to the great satisfaction and refreshment of Friends and to the Convincing of others T. W. The Testimony of Miles Oddy concerning Robert Lodge AS concerning my dear Friend and Brother Robert Lodge I have had knowledge of him ever â—â—nce that day it pleased the Lord God in his Mercy and Favour to visit us and make his Power known and manifest himself both to him and me and many others in these parts and though he was very young even a Boy yet the Lord did wonderfully appear unto him in his great Love and God's eternal Power did mightily seize upon him and operate in him so that he was constrained thereby to open his Mouth and make mention of God's Eternal Power even when we were but a few and God's witness was much reached in several present with us blessed and praised be the Name of God for evermore The mighty Power of God did work wonderfully at that very time in the Hearts of those whom the Lord had touched and also made to believe but especially in the Heart of our dear Brother above-mentioned and thereby in the Lord 's due time was he fitted imboldened and raised up and made an Instrument in God's hand and a true and faithful Minister of Jesus Christ and sent forth by him to preach the everlasting Gospel into some parts of this Nation of England and in a short time into the Nation of Ireland where he met with many great Tryals and Exercises yet the Lord did mightily preserve him and attend him with his blessed presence What shall I say or write concerning this our dear Brother in the Lord Jesus Christ whom the Lord hath been now pleased to take away from us surely the loss is very great unto many of God's People but unto him great gain When I consider of the blessed and heavenly Opportunities and wonderful Appearances of God in by and through him many a time amongst God's People when met together my Heart is truly broken and tendred even as at this present time and this is my belief of him he was a man well-beloved of God and also of his People every where that had a true knowledge of him and the great Power of God did mightily attend him and his presence comfort him and many sweet and pretious Testimonies have sounded through him to the comforting refreshing of God's People in their Assemblies He was convinc'd of God's heavenly Way and pretious Truth thirty Years since and upward and hath born a faithful and living Testimony for God ever since not only in Words but in Life and Conversation and also in Sufferings both in this Nation and in the Nation of Ireland he was a man not subject to Passion that ever I did see but meek and gentle and of a healing Spirit Given forth the 18th Day of the 8th Month 1690. By Miles Oddy senior The Testimony of Thomas Hardcastle senior concernning Robert Lodge IN the tenderness and brokenness of Heart and in the remembrance of the goodness of the Lord am I made willing to give forth this Testimony concerning my dear Friend and Brother Robert Lodge In his young Years we travelled many Miles together and great was his Care at that day in much love to bring me to the knowledge of the Truth sparing no Labour nor Pains in much patience and good-will his endeavour hath been among us and the Power and Presence of God hath mightily appeared in and through him many a time and in Innocency his labour hath been and great have been his Exercises and Abuses that he received from unreasonable men but the Lord did uphold him and carry him on in his blessed Work and many heavenly Testimonies hath the Lord enabled him to bear and our Hearts many times have been comforted together and filled with Praises to his holy Name And this dear Servant of the Lord he was lowly in Mind tender in Spirit lovely in Behaviour his Ministry very precious and truly the Gifts and Graces the Lord bestowed on him were very large and in the same hath he finished and laid down and is gone to Everlasting Rest with the Lord forever and evermore This short Testimony is given forth in the love of God by him who is a Lover of Truth and Righteousness Thomas Hardcastle senior Katherine Winn's Testimony concerning Robert Lodge THe Memory of the Just and Travels of the Righteous are worthy to be kept in