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A38513 An epistle by way of testimony to friends and brethren of the monthly and quarterly meetings in England, Wales, and elsewhere, concerning the decease of our faithful brother George Fox. From our second days morning-meeting in London, the 26th of the 11th month, 1690. 1690 (1690) Wing E3164; ESTC R219565 4,816 5

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take that regard to their Service and Ministry as they ought and mentioned the Apostle's Exhortation to Timothy to take heed to his Ministry and to shew himself approved c. And exprest his Grief concerning such as preferred their own business before the Lord's business and sought the advancing worldly Concerns before the Concerns of Truth And concluded with a tender and fatherly Exhortation to all to whom God had imparted of his Heavenly Treasure that they would improve it faithfully and be diligent in the Lord's Work that the Earth might be sown with the Seed of the Kingdom and God's Harvest might be minded by those whom he had called and inabled to labour therein and that such would commit the care of their outward Concerns to the Lord who would care for them and give a Blessing to them However this is not mentioned to encourage any to run unsent or without being called of God Many are living Witnesses that the Lord raised him up by his Power to proclaim his mighty day to the Nations and made him an effectual Instrument in our day to turn many from Darkness to Light and from Satan's power to God and freely to suffer and bear all Reproaches and the manifold Persecutions Buffetings Haleings Stonings Imprisonments and Cruelties that were in the Beginning and for some time inflicted on him and others for the Name of Christ Jesus He was in his Testimony as a fixed Star in the Firmament of God's Power where all that be truly wise and that turn many to Righteousness shall shine as the brightness of the Firmament and as the Stars for ever and ever He knew and Preached the Mystery of Christ Revealed the Life and Substance and the power of Godliness above all Shadows and Forms The Lord endued him with a hidden Wisdom and Life He loved Peace and earnestly laboured for universal Love Unity Peace and good Order in the Churches of Christ And where-ever he met with the contrary it was his great Grief and Burthen He was greatly for the Encouragement of faithful Labourers in the Lord's Work and it was a great Offence and Grief to him to have their Testimony weakned or Labours slighted through Prejudice in any professing Truth And inasmuch as the Lord suffered him not to be delivered up to the will of his Enemies and Persecutors who often heretofore breathed out Cruelty against him and designed his Destruction but in his good Pleasure so fairly and quietly took him away in his own time when his Testimony was so blessedly finished and his Work accomplished This is all remarkable and worthy of serious and due Observation as being by a special and divine Providence and Wisdom of God to whom we ascribe the Glory of all and not unto Man or Creatures Though we must needs allow and own that good Report and due Esteem which faithful Elders Ministers and Servants of God and Christ have by Faith obtained to the Praise of that blessed Power that upheld them in every Age in their day Many whereof are even of late taken away from the Evil to come and are at Rest in the Lord out of the reach of all Envy and Persecution where the wicked cannot trouble them any more And we must patiently bear our parting with them and our loss and sorrow on that account with respect to their unspeakable Gain Yet how can we avoid being deeply affected with sadness of Spirit and brokenness of Heart under the sense and consideration of such Loss and Revolutions which we have cause to believe are ominous of Calamities to the wicked World tho' of good to the Righteous Did the death of plain upright Jacob namely Israel who was as a Prince of God so deeply affect both his own Children and Kinred Gen. 50. as that they made a great and exceeding sore Lamentation for him and even the Egyptians also that they bewailed him seventy days And the Death of Moses so deeply affect the Children of Israel Deut. 34. as that they did weep and mourn for him in the Plain of Moab thirty Days And the Death of Stephen that faithful Martyr of Jesus so deeply affect certain Men fearing God Acts 7. as that they made great Lamentation for him And the Apostle Paul when taking his leave of the Elders of the Church of Ephesus and telling them Acts 20. They should see his face no more If this did so deeply affect them that they wept all abundantly sorrowing most of all for these Words That they should see his face no more With many more of this kind How then can we otherwise chuse but be deeply affected with sorrow and sadness of Heart tho' not as those which have no hope when so many of our ancient dear and faithful Brethren with whom we have had much sweet Society are removed from us one after another We pray God raise up and increase more such Yet must we all contentedly submit to the good Pleasure and Wisdom of the Lord our God in all these things who taketh away and none can hinder him nor may any say unto him What dost thou Yet we have cause to bless the Lord that he hath of late raised and is raising up more to publish his Name in the Earth And we that yet remain have but a short time to stay after them that are gone but we shall be gone to them also The Lord God of Life keep us all faithful in his holy Truth Love Unity and Life to the end He hath a great Work still to bring forth in the Earth and great things to bring to pass in order to make way for Truth and Righteousness to take place therein and that his Seed may come forth and be gathered and the Power and Kingdom of our God and of his Christ made known and exalted in the Earth unto the ends thereof Dear Friends and Brethren Be faithful till Death that a Crown of Life you may obtain All dwell in the Love of God in Christ Jesus in Vnion and Peace in him to whom we tenderly commit you to keep and strengthen you Bless and preserve you to the end of your days In whose dear and tender Love we remain Your Dear Friends and Brethren Stephen Crisp Geo. Whitehead Fra. Camfield James Parke John Elson Peter Price John Feild John Edridge Nicholas Gates Francis Stamper John Vaughton Gilbert Latey Charles Marshal Rich. Needham James Martin Daniel Monro Jo. Heywood George Bowles William Robinson William Bingley John Butcher POSTSCRIPT BEfore his Death he writ a little Paper desiring all Friends every where that use to write to him about the Sufferings and Affairs of Friends in their several Countries should henceforth write to their several Correspondents in London to be Communicated to the second Days Meeting to take Care that they be answered LONDON Printed for Thomas Northcott in George-Yard in Lombard-street 1690.