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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

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. Where unto are added Two Epistles written by himself in the time of his Imprisonment for the Truth at Aberdene Psal 112. 6. The Righteous shall be in Everlasting Remembrance Rev. 14. 13. Blessed are the Dead which dye in the Lord from henceforth yea saith the Spirit that they may Rest from their Labours and their Works do follow them London Printed and Sold by T. Sowle at the Crooked-Billet in Holywell-Lane Shoreditch 1692. THE PREFACE TO THE READER THe living Remembrance of the many Heavenly Comfortable Testimonies that were born by this Faithful Minister of the Lord George Gray and also of his Stedfastness and Patience in the great Sufferings and long Imprisonment which he Cheerfully underwent for the Truth being fresh upon the Minds of those who were experimental Witnesses of the powerfulness of his Ministry and of the Blessed success it had especially in Aberdene and the Country thereabouts where he was most frequently concerned in the Work of the Lord while in the Body It was therefore thought fit to publish these short Testimonies following as an evidence of the sweet Savor he through his Faithfulness to the Lord hath left behind him among those who in the fellowship of the Gospel were Conversant with him and also of the real esteem they bear to his Memory in the Truth Which that they may have that good effect in those who read them as to stir them up to faithfulness unto the Lord while they live in this World That so they may receive a Crown of Eternal Righteousness hereafter is the earnest desire of Alexander Seaton Patrick Livingston's TESTIMONY Concerning George Gray AS to Dear George Gray my dear Friend and Brother in the Service of the Blessed Truth and my fellow-Sufferer in Aberdene Prison He was à man whom I greatly loved for though he was a Poor Man in this World yet he was rich in Faith and though his Education was mean and low he was endued with divine Wisdom and Understanding in the things of God and a good sound and Solid Testimony he had in the Meetings of the Lords People insomuch that many Considering him in his place among Men have taken notice of the Gift he had in Delivering his Testimony with that Soundness and Weight as no Critical Enemy did ever catch him in a Word as ever I knew off and I knew him at his first coming amongst us and the Love of God in my Heart was towards him For I never found him under Blame nor ever heard of any that could Justly Blame him either in his Testimony Life or Conversation since he was restored into the Obedience of the Truth but he was of a good Report And when I heard of his being taken away from amongst us I was satisfied in my self having that Constant experience of him in his Life time that it was well with him and it came near me the Consideration of the great loss and miss Friends in those parts would have of him But I live in the Hope that the Lord will in his own time raise himself up Faithful Labourers in the room of those Worthy Men he hath been pleased to remove from us and to take to himself of late in this Island of England and Scotland and my Prayer to God is through the Son of his Love in the moving of his Holy Spirit that all who remain behind may so live and walk in Unity and Fellowship with the Lord God in the Spirit of his Son and one with another as that his Glory may shine forth thorow us all to the reaching and gathering of many more and that all who are gathered may grow up in the Spirit and Power of the Lord God Almighty That over all Heaven and Earth he may have his Honour Glory and Praise forever Amen Patrick Livingston THE TESTIMONY OF FRIENDS Of the Monthly Meeting at Aberdene Concerning George Gray AMong the many Watch-Men and Proclaimers of the blessed Morning of the Everlasting Day of our God this faithful Instrument was one who was raised up to Visit Salute and Comfort the Seed of God in this Nation of Scotland and to be as a Nursing Father unto many Babes and a Communicator of Spiritual Gifts as a Faithful Steward to the Household of God therein Especially in the Northern parts thereof where his Comfortable Labours and useful sweet Ministry mostly was and truely we can say it is fulfilled as to him that the Memorial of the Just doth flourish and remain as a fresh sweet savour with many who know the Seals of his Ministry on our Hearts and of Christ's speaking in 〈◊〉 thorow him to the refreshing watering and building up of many in the Unity of the most pretious Faith and Love which was the end of all the Gifts given by Christ Jesus as saith the Scripture And truly his Gifts for this end not onely of a large understanding in the Word of God's Wisdom that dwelt richly in him but also of utterance to express and bring forth the same abundantly and with great and clear demonstration of the Spirit were much the more remarkable that he was a mean unlettered Man except simply Reading and Writing and of a very low condition in the outward whereby his Masters Power and Spiritual Wisdom and Furniture of Gospel Ministers by which he doth immediately replenish them did shine and evidence it self the more clearly through him according to the Exhortation of the Apostle who said Let him that speaketh Speak as the Oracles of God and him that Ministers do it of the ability that God giveth him So that he being without any pretence of mixture or assistance of the acquired Learning and Sciences so much admired in the World and pretended though falsly to be the most necessary accomplishment of Gospel Ministers it hath been certainly known to some of us that very understanding Persons not of the Profession he was of have confessed their admiration at the utterance excellent matter and pertinent Conexion they observed in his Testimony whom they knew to be no learned Man as to outward Learning being very apt to Judg according to their way that the Testimonies of others among us who they knew had some of that Learning were hepled or furnished thereby but as to him they were at a stand judging it as indeed it was somewhat beyond their natural Reach Now this Gospel Ministry which he freely received was not taught of man or by man he was exceeding careful freely to give it forth for his Glory that gave it him and to make it no wise chargeable to any Yea in this he might glory in his God that his Hands ministred to his Necessities by very constant diligent hard Labour at all the intervals

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-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