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A testimony concerning our dear friend and brother George Watt
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Fox, George, 1624-1691.
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1688
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A TESTIMONY Concerning Our dear Friend and Brother George Watt. WHo was a tender Man toward the Lord and his Truth and upright in his Life and Conversation and had a care of Gods Glory and shewed forth an Example and Testimony in plainness against the Pride and Vanities of this World and all manner of Lasciviousness and Loosness A Man of Integrity Fervency and Sincerity for the Lord's Honour and the Truth and would have all that profess Truth to walk in it where any did not it was to his Grief He had a sincere Testimony for the Lord both in Life and Power these several years both in Meetings here in England and in Holland and in Friezland who Travelled with me and I had a sincere Love for him for his true and honest upright-heartedness to the Lord who strove to walk inoffensively both to the Church of Christ and to the World in his tender Life and Conversation and the Lord had greatly blessed him in outward Riches and he so lived above it that he did a great deal of good with it setting many poor Widows Fatherless and Servants to Work that they got a good Livelihood under him And G. Watt said to me that he paid a Thousand Pounds a year to poor Widows Fatherless and Servants Wages which was a great help to poor people so that he has been the helping and making of many and he kept very good order in his Family and amongst his Servants and Work-People And besides his Christian Charity he was always ready to help other poor Widows Fatherless and Families of the Church of Christ that profess the same Truth of Christ with him and not only so but as the Apostle saith Do good unto all but especially those that are of the Houshold of Faith for such poor Families or Widows as were not of his Religion and Faith he hath sought out help'd and relieved them in the cold Winter season with Coals and other Necessities And this he did not only to the poor Natives about London but also handed several Sums of Money to the poor French Protestants that left their native Country for their Conscience-sake besides the relief he gave several of the poor French weekly at his House Much I could write of such things of the fruits of his Christian Generous Spirit whose Bowels were not straitned from the good works of Faith and practice of pure Religion And I do not know that any one can spot his clean Life he was a Man compassed about with many Infirmities but exercised in the Word of Patience in which Patience he run his Race to obtain the Life and Crown Immortal And also he was many times very much exercised in the Lords Power and Spirit by which he was sometimes moved to go to Steeple-houses and other places to declare Gods Truth to the People which Exercise few knew but who had gone through the same and severall times he had been taken and carried before Justices and sometimes cast into Prison but the Lord by his eternal Arm and Power carried him over all and over all gave him Dominion for his Name and Truths sake and in it preserved him to the end of his dayes a harmless Innocent man a Peace-maker a true Believer in the Light of Christ and a Child of the same a living Member of the Church of Christ who is the holy and heavenly Head of the same And as Christ saith He that believeth in me though he were dead yet shall he live and he that liveth and believeth in me shall never die and in this Belief and in this Life is our dear Brother George Watt I do see him and feel him And so Blessed are all they that die in the Lord they Rest from their Labours as he hath done and their Works follow them as his do him And this was upon me to write concerning our dear Brother George Watt. Though outwardly Weak yet Strong in the Lord G. F. London the 6th of the 9th Moneth 1688. THE END