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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41850	A Short account of that faithful servant of the Lord, and diligent labourer in his vineyard, George Gray, who finished his testimony, and laid down the body at Achorthies, in his native country of Scotland, the 8th day of the 12th month, 1689/90 whereunto are added two epistles written by himself in the time of his imprisonment for the truth at Aberdene.	Gray, George, d. 1689 or 90.	1692 (1692)	Wing G1623; ESTC R18552	6,447	30

of his Ministerial Services in that outward Vocation and Trade he was off being as many of the Lords Servants were of old of a manual and mechanick Trade which he kept most diligently and assiduously to the very end of his Dayes Yea so steadfastly unmoveable was he in this his Principle of not making the Gospel chargeable and of being a good example in Laborious diligence with his Hands being indeed not sloathful in business though fervent in Spirit serving the Lord that his care on that account can hardly be expressed His Care and Zeal was great not only to have his own Conversation well ordered but that the least appearance of evil might be abstained from by all Friends and that all things that were truely Lovely Comely of good Report and for the Honour of the Blessed Truth might be Zealously followed both by himself as an Example to the Flock and by all others that were under the same Profession with him He truely loved to spend and be spent in the unwearyed Labours and Services of the Gospel His Zeal therein was so great that it seemed even to spend his natural Strength so that he did swiftly run his Blessed Race and lay down his earthly Tabernacle wherein he had served the Lord with Cheerfulness being about forty nine Years of Age. A little before his departure being filled with the Power of the Lord he gave weighty Exhortation and Counsel to all that were present especially to his Children To some Friends that came to see him he said He had not kept back the Word and Counsel of the Lord from them and now he could say it was good Doctrine to leave nothing to do till a dying Bed He had been sometimes much exercised in Testimonies at Fairs or Markets and in Speaking to People out at the Prison-Windows in the time of that long Imprisonment at Aberdene wherein he was a faithful Yoke-fellow in Suffering for Truth to his own great comfort and advantage as well as to the Honour of God being ever after that Suffering to his dying-dying-day raised up in a publick Ministry for the Lord who had given him not only to believe but to suffer with Joy for his Name both the imprisonment of his Person and the spoiling of a great part of the mean outward Substance which he possessed Among many remarkable passages which might be mentioned concerning him this one thing was thought fit to be here inserted That being once called to declare Truth in a publick Fair or Market in Old Meldrum one pretending some Authority there did violently beat him who fell quickly after into a heavy disease and sore pain crying often out to some about him that it was for beating the Servant of the Lord. He was little in writing outwardly but hath left living Epistles written in the Hearts of many yet these two following Letters being providentially found may serve for some taste of his Spirit being writ when he was but very Young in the Truth and but entring in to his publick Ministry in the time of his Imprisonment This Testimony concerning our Dear Friend aforementioned was given forth at our Mens Meeting at Aberdene in the first Month 1692. And subscribed in behalf of the Meeting by Thomas Mercer John Robertson Robert Gordon Robert Burnet Andrew Jaffrey John Gleny John Hall John Forbes The Papers written by himself are as followeth A VVARNING TO THE Priests of Aberdene Sent to them by George Gray Weaver and Prisoner for the Truth in the said City the 6th Day of the 3d Month 1676. O Ye Priests of Aberdene How long will ye resist the Spirit of the Lord How long will ye despise Prophecying How long will ye speak lying Divinations and speak Lyes in the Name of the Lord How long will ye hold up mens Inventions and Traditions and Customs and Fashions after the Rudiments of this World which must pass away How long will ye deceive your selves and deceive and delude others by not knowing the Lord but by hear-say and as ye have learned it as a Trade to gain Money withal For all ye do is for Hire and if they give you no Money then you will give them no Preaching nor Praying and so it is a sign and token that God never sent such to be Ministers who will not teach without Hire and without Money for ye are Teachers for your Backs and Bellys and not careful to gain Souls to the Lord and therefore Dreadful will the Day be that will come upon you when you will not be looking for it and Wo and Misery will overtake you before ye are aware O ye Priests ye Priests Woful and Dreadful is the Day which is approaching you from the dreadful God of Heaven and Earth for your Covetousness and Deceitful Dealing with poor People poor indeed for want of the true Knowledge of God for ye Murther and Kill their Souls with dead Lifeless Words not coming to the Spirit of Jesus Christ nor yet speaking in and from the Power and Life but stealing and gathering Words from others and out of old Authors and Books and tells that over having it measured by an Hour-glass and so feed Peoples fleshly Ears for a time and learn them a notion without any feeling of Life to their Souls they not being spoken from the Life and so People come bad and go as bad away yet for all that ye profess to be Ministers of Christ Jesus and in the mean time you deny to be led acted or moved by his Spirit or to wait for his Power Spirit and Life to enable you therein But upon the contrary you do maintain that men may be sufficient Ministers without Grace without the Power and Spirit of Christ and that a Reprobate may be a Minister and Convert Souls And for this cause ye hold people from the Power and suffer them not to come to it nor know it but cry up the Letter of the Scripture to be the only and alone Rule and reject the Spirit of Christ as he reveals himself in Men and Women's Hearts by his Light So ye are they that pretend to the form of Godliness and deny the Power thereof you are they that are Enemies to the Cross of Christ which is the Power of God your end is destruction if you repent not whose Belly is your God who mind Earthly things and beget People into the same mind with you in Pride and Lust and Vanity living without God in the World O what will come upon you O ye Priests but anguish of Spirit Tribulation and Horror of mind which will make you to cry out Wo and alas that ever we were born O Ye Priests take Warning in time and come out of your dark d●ce●tful wayes or else Darkness will be your Portion for ever for they that hate the Light in their Life time shall not enjoy it hereafter Therefore ye Priests turn to the Light and believe in the Light that you may become the Children of

the Light yea and all your Hearers and sit down in Silence until the Lord by his Power Spirit and Life raise you up and open your Mouths and then will you be true Ministers and never till then pretend what you will And so take Warning in time before the dreadful Day come upon you which shall come upon all the Inhabitants of Babylon which that ye may do is the desire of my Soul George Gray A Copy of a Paper sent by George Gray to the Country Meeting at Collihill dated from the Tolbooth of Aberdene the eight day of the third Month 1676. MY Dear Friends in the Truth the Salutation of Love and Life be multiplyed in and among you from the Father of Life and Love and in the sence of the Pure Love of God which flows in my Heart towards you do I warn and exhort you to walk in the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ which Crucifieth us to the World and the World to us and watch in Patience Meekness and Calmness of Spirit against every thing that would draw out the mind in any measure from the true Meeting-place either in Meeting or out of Meeting For truly my Friends he or she that doth not watch diligently out of Meeting but let their minds go a gading to the ends of the Earth and take no heed to have them gathered in before they come to Meeting truely it 's no wonder to see such disappointed and therefore my dear Friends be careful every one in particular to have your minds stayed upon the Lord and the Lord will not be wanting to you for great is his condescending to us in this day and wonderful is his work to those that truely watch and wait upon him Therefore my dear Friends every one know your place and let not any go out nor look out beyond your measures and let none Speak nor Sing nor Sigh nor Groan but in a true sence of their Conditions and let none make haste to speak any thing before the Lord which they know not to be from the true power but all to wait for the Power and Life and the Love of God for truly where the Love of God is not placed in the Heart the true Power will not attend their performances neither will God regard their Speech or Prayer Therefore dear Friends dwell in Love and walk in Love towards all Men and Women and feel the Love of God in your Hearts flowing forth to all whether they love you or hate you for truly my Friends where hatred is brought forth against any Person upon whatsoever account it be although you may think the cause just yet it will separate you from the Love of God for envy and hatred is of the Devil and he is there where it is and Christ Jesus will not dwell with him in Unity And therefore my dear Brethren and Sisters Love one another in that Love wherewith Christ hath loved you and likewise your Enemies for Love gathereth to God but envy scattereth and therefore I warn you in the Fear and Dread of the Everlasting God that ye be not Hinderers of the Work of the Lord for dreadful will their Portion be that let or hinder it in this day or bring an evil report upon it So take warning my Friends and every one look to their way and to the prosperity of Truth And my Friends I thought the Zeal of Truth should have had more effect upon some then I see it hath but I shall forbear leaving every one to their own Master But they that follow for Loaves and Fishes when they get them not they will fail even in that Zeal also My Little Children Love one another George Gray THE END His Spiritual Accomplishments beyond Mens natural reach His care not to make the Gospel chargeable Weighty expressions upon his Death-Bed A Remarkable Passage * It is to be observed that the Priests of Aberdene did strongly contend against the absolute Necessity of Grace to the Constitution of a Minister of Christ