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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26640	A short testimony concerning that faithful servant of the Lord, Thomas Aldam of Warnsworth in the county of York who in patience and tribulation was a follower of the Lamb, finished his course in the truth, and departed this life in the fourth month in the year 1660 : something also concerning Mary his wife, and also concerning Margaret Kellam, and Joan Kellam, his two sisters : with a few words in exhortation to such as are the children of believing parents, or are more lately com'd to be convinced of the truth / given forth in the sense of the great love of God, which hath visited his people in this our age and day, by Thomas Aldam, son to the abovesaid Thomas Aldam.	Aldam, Thomas, 1649-1723.	1690 (1690)	Wing A894D; ESTC R36721	9,885	12

Power with him whom he many times warned as from the Lord to harken to the cry of his poor Oppressed People and under the heavy Burdens under which they lay or otherwise if they would not he signified unto them the Lord would cut them off and that speedily And at one time he was moved to take his Cap from off his Head and to rent it in pieces before Oliver Cromwell as a Sign to him that the Government should be rent from him and such as were not covered with the spirit of the Lord which things he saw fulfilled before he Depart●● He was also moved of the Lord to Travel into Scotland and Ireland and went to the chief Rulers there upon the accompt aforesaid Another time he went to all or most of the Prisons in England where there was any of the people of God called Quakers in Prison to take a perfect accompt of the number of them that so being an eye Witness of their Sufferings he might be more capable of laying their Cases before the then Rulers yea he was freely given up to spend and be spent upon the Truths accompt being always willing at the Assizes Sessions or elsewhere to appear to plead the cause and help to bear the burden of Gods Suffering people it being unto him as his Meat and Drink to be found in Truths service doing the same chearfully and of a ready mind being one to whom the Commandments of Christ Jesus were not grievous but joyous He was always one that had a tender regard to Unity amongst Friends and never known to joyn with any which deviated from Truths Testimony ever bearing a good esteem in his mind for such as Laboured and Traveled in the Gospel and especially for him whom the Lord raised at first to be an Instrument to beget him with many others to the Lord so that in reading though it had been but Two or Three lines which had been sent him from him his Heart would have been broken And when I do remember the fervency of Spirit which did attend him and how when he had been to take any Journey upon Truths accompt he would have called his Wife and Children in great tenderness and humility have bowed his Knees before the Lord and poured out his supplications unto him before his departure from us desiring earnestly that the Lord might go with him and committing us into his keeping and what brokenness of Heart was amongst us at such times and how the love of God did abound then can my Soul say those were precious Seasons and are not to be forgotten by us but to be recorded to posterity that we may tell our Children and they also may declare it when we are gone how good the Lord hath been unto his People and what great cause they have to love him and put their trust in him that so his name may be renowed amongst our Families so long as they shall have a being And now after these his Exercises the time of his departure drawing near he was visited with Sickness in which time he set his House in order and in the time of his Weakness the Lord was good unto him and eminently appeared with him so that one time he did say to his Sister though near his latter end walking up and down in the House that he found his Strength so renewed that he believed he could go to London if the Lord required it but answered again I am clear of the Blood of all men I find nothing to this Man meaning King Charles the II. he was very sensible to his latter end and the day he died called for us his Children and advised us to live in the fear of God and to Love and Obey our Mother and so being freely resigned into the hands of his Creator he departed this Life And about Three Months after Mary his Wife my Mother departed this Life who was a Woman that truly feared God and served him in her Day and Generation and in all the Exercises which my Father passed through in those early days I never heard she once grudged or repined being of a very meek and quiet Spirit given up in all things to Gods disposing her remembrance is sweet and her name to be recorded amongst the Faithful of Gods People She was convinced of the Everlasting Truth at the same time my Father was convinced and through the Same Instrument and bore Testimony to the same according to her measure My Father had also Two Sisters the one called Margaret Kellam the other Joan Kellam who were also convinced at the same time by G. F. and were Two Faithful Women in their day the said Margaret travelled much in Truths service in the breaking forth of the same and many were convinced by her She suffered Imprisonment in several places as at Exeter in Devonshire where she was fully Accused and the envy of some such against her as they sought her Life out the Lord delivered her she was also Prisoner at Barbary and in York-Castle for declaring the Truth yea great was the boldness that did attend her in sounding forth the Truth in the Streets Steeple-houses and Market-places and to the Heads and Rulers of the People and the Lord was with her She finished her course in Faith signifying to a near Relation before her departure the great peace she enjoyed with the Lord and the clearness of Conscience she had before him she laid down the Body in the Joan Kellum was also a Woman that truly feared the Lord a good Example and Pattern where God had placed her one of a sound Judgment and well Experienced in the Work of the Lord Zealous for his Honour and Faithful to Truths Testimonies ready to encourage and stir up to Diligence and Stedfastness ever watching over those that were Young and endavouring to instruct them in the right way of the Lord she was one that could speak a word in due season to an afflicted Soul having past through many depths and seen the wonders and goodness of the Lord therein she was even as a Mother in Israel and would sympathize with the least of Gods suffering Children in the remembrance of her and of the sweet Communion which my Soul many times hath had with her when in openness of Heart we have Declared one to another what the Lord had done for us I have cause to bless the Lord and though these our Friends and near Relations be outwardly removed from us yet their Spirits live with us even amongst such as are comed to have Unity with the Spirits of just men made perfect and these can say their Memorial is Blessed and their Names to be recorded amongst the Righteous for they died in the Lord and are at rest from their Labours and their Works do follow them In the time of her Sickness she was very well disposed and gave good advice to them which were left behind her that in Faithfulness they might persevere to the finishing of that

Work which the Lord had for them to do She departed this Life in the Year 1681. And now in the remembrance of these and many other Faithful Servants of the Lord who have obtained a good report through that precious Faith which was once delivered to the Saints for which they in their day earnestly contended and suffered many and great hardships in the openings of Life I find at this time a few Words springing up in my Heart by way of Exhortation to such as are the Children of Believing Parents or are more lately com'd to be convinced of the Truth that they may all prize the Day of their Visitation and make a good use of the Mercies which the Lord hath bestowed upon them that they may keep the Foot-steps of the Flock of God and take such for Examples as walk in that pure and strait way into which the Lord at the first brought these and many other of his People and that none may slight undervalue or let fall the Testimonies of Truth which have been born by such as God at first visited amongst us considering what great hardships and sufferings they passed thorow who bore the heat of the Day through these things many of them hazarding their Lives Liberties and Estates in bearing Testimony to the day of the Lord and the coming of his Christ against such as would have kept the People of God in Bondage and not have suffered them to have gone free to serve him but as the Lord in those days did appear wonderfully with his People in giving them Dominion and Victory over their Adversaries through patient Suffering Now let it be the care of us who are a Succeeding Generation to them and comes to enter to the fruits of their Labours Exercises and Travels that we may ever in Humility dwell before the Lord and keep that which is commited to our trust standing fast to that Liberty wherewithal Christ hath made his followers free and beware of being intangled any more with the Yoke of Bondage keeping out of the Spirit of this World and the Customs and Fashions therein with the Friendship thereof which is enmity with God which whilst some have lookt at and gone after they have lost the right way of the Lord. and have let fall the Testimonies which their Fathers and near Friends have passed through such great things for and as much as in them lies would make their Sufferings and Travels of no effect When I take a view of the sad estate of such my Soul cannot but mourn over them desiring that all such to whom there is yet a day of Visitation continued may speedily return to the Lord that if happily they may find Mercy with him and again put their hands to Gods Plow taking Christs Yoak upon them which is easie and his burden which is light and learn of him who is meek and low in Spirit that they may find rest to their Souls but if they will not turn at his reproof but still revolt more and more going on in their backsliding ways this let them know that the Day of the Lord will overtake them in which he will require his own from them and it will be more tollerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of Judgment than for them But all you whose Faces are still Sion ward and it is in your Hearts to keep the word of Gods Patience and the Testimonies of Jesus be ye comforted in the Lord and let your Souls with mine Bless and Magnifie his Name that he was pleased in his unspeakable Love to visit our Families and Fathers Houses in that great and notable Day of the breaking forth of his Glory and thereby hath stained and removed from amongst the remnant of his People the Beauty and Glory of this World so that now to them there is nothing to be compared with his Love which is not enjoy'd but as we keep his Commandments Oh now let us priue our time and make our calling and election sure and wait to know an increase in the increase of God for this is a day wherein the Lord is looking for Fruits and every Tree which doth not bring forth good Fruit shall be hewn down and cast into the Fire and therefore all keep to the pure Spirit of God in your own Hearts which is that Teacher that cannot be removed into a corner and as you are here found waiting you will be made wise to Salvation and the Lord will seal up his Laws and bind up his Testimonies yet more and more unto your Souls and you will be kept and preserved in a due regard to his Honour following the Footsteps of Christs Flock and so you will come to know the Shepherds Tents where you may all sit under your own Vine and under your own Fig-tree where none can make you afraid your Bread will be sure and your Water will not fail the munition of Rocks will be your Defence and the Lord God Omnipotent coming to take the Dominion in your Hearts to himself you will feel that joy which is unspeakable and full of Glory and this is the Lord making his Babes and little ones in a measure witnesses of so that they can say their lot is fallen in a good Land and their beloved is the chiefest of ten thousands their redeemer is the holy one of Israel their God is the God of the whole Earth Blessed and Magnified be his Name for ever and evermore He it is that hath set bounds to the Sea that the swelling Waves thereof should not surmount their Banks and a Hair of the Heads of his Servants shall not fall to the Ground without his Divine Providence and therefore let us all be encouraged to be stedfast in the Faith and never to be moved from the hope of the Gospel keeping up our Testimonies in our several places to the Truth as it is in Jesus then will the Lord our God still take pleasure in us and honour us with his loving Presence making us instruments in his hand for the shewing forth of his Praises And that thus it may please the Lord to pour yet more abundantly of the Spirit of Wisdom and Holy Understanding upon his Sons and Daughters his Handmaids and Servants that hereby they may be preserved as lights in their several stations where God hath placed them with well doing putting to silence the ignorance of foolish men is the desire of him who is as one of the least amongst Gods People yet in some measure hath obtained Favour and Mercy from the Lord to bear Testimony of his goodness and to his unchangeable Truth for which my Soul is truly Thankful and ascribed unto him the Glory who over all is worthy of the same for ever and for evermore Written the 20th of the 9th Month 1689. Thomas Aldam FINIS

the things God revealed unto him wherefore some of the rude sort smote him with their Tongues as their Priest had done as also with their Fists and punched him with their Feet and spit upon him and put him forth of the place called their Church these things did they upon that day they call their Sabbath-day He went also into the Steeple-house at Hansworth and there stood and kept silence until the Priest Carr had ended his Service as it s called afterwards he spoke in that place his Wife my Mother being then there also who had before in that place declared the Truth and he seeing the rude multitude arising in a tumultuous manner cryed aloud do Justice and see the peace be kept which after he had spoken a rude young Man put his Hat off his Head and pulled him by the Hair of his Head another smote him with his Fist others spit in his Face and haled him out of that place unto the Town-Clerks house where the Constable kept him and his Wife Prisoners for a certain time Another time he went into the said Steeple-house at Hansworth and spoke of the things of God revealed unto him bearing witness that he owned what was of God and that he was not one which what was not of God for which words speaking he was laid hands on by the Neck and Throat Shaken and held by the Hair of the Head by a rude man who said he would lose his Life rather than that fellow should Speak in the Church also other some of the rude sort smote him with their Fists and Feet and as they haled him out of the Steeple-house some of them smote his Legs from under him so that he fell to the Ground and they trod upon his Back and Legs with their Feet he was much bruised and had his Cloaths rent The Priest went away leaving the Sufferer amongst the rude Multitude who was in danger of his Life to be destroyed amongst them Oh! mark the fruits surely they betoken not right Christianity No no its Antichristian yea of and from the wicked one who was a Murderer like Cane The same day in the Afternoon he went into the Steeple-house at Rosington and there Spoke to the People then one Hen. Barton called a Church-warden there with his Fist smote him upon the Cheek who turned to him the other but some of the sober minded People seeing his rudeness laid hands on the said Henry and held him that he might smite no more Another time going to the Steeple-house at Pontefract about when the Sessions was to be held in the Town in which were at that time many called Justices to whom the Priest made a Sermon and after he had done my Father began to Speak of the things of God but the rude multitude would not suffer him but haled him away and smote him Another time going into the Steeple-house of Warnsworth upon a First day after the Priest Thomas Rookby had done his Service as he called it he read a Bill of Declaration which that Priest had put into Court against him for not paying Tyths in which Bill was many lies the Priest coming by him said Sirrah Sirrah you have broken the Law then commanded the Constable to take him away and the rude sort kicked him with their Feet and smote him with their Fists and endeavoured to have rent the Bill in which was written that Thomas Aldam had led away Thirty one Loads of Oats which was of the Priest Tyths whereas there was not Three that was one of the said Priests lies in his Bill of Declaration besides many more Another time he went into the said Steeple-house at Warnsworth and bore Testimony to the Truth for which the said Thomas Rookby got a Warrant against him from some called Justices and he was had before them but the Witnesses which were against him they were so confounded in their Testimonies that he was deliver-out of the Snare which was laid for him the Priest using his endeavours to have had him sent to Prison but the Lord preserved him out of his hands These are some of the Sufferings and Exercises which my Father met withal in bearing Testimony to the Truth and against such as ran when the Lord did not send them and therefore did not profit the People at all And further he being called at an Assizes at York in the Year 1655. to the Barr before Judge Windham one Philip Prince a Lawyer took his Hat from off his Head and kept it contrary to Justice afterwards he did appeal to the Judge for Justice in the Case which thing he did consent to in private but at the end of the Assizes he requiring Justice that Philip Prince might be brought to the Barr who had taken his Hat and kept it then Judge Windham broke forth into much passion and said Sirrah Sirrah you may have your Hat again to whom he Answered otherwise I cannot receive it Judge Windham would have had the Hat restored but would not have had Philip Prince condemned or reproved for an evil doer in that matter so the Sufferer lost his Hat for want of Justice to be had upon the Transgresser and the said Thomas Aldam my Father went Seven Months without a Hat in obedience to the Command of God with his Head uncovered who was a wonder and a sign to all who were covered and not with Justice whose Service to God was accepted which the Proud Lofty High-minded professing Persecutors and Oppressers could not see Another time he being at Doncaster-Market and there declaring the Truth he was sore abused and had his Head broken by a rude man These and many other hardships and beatings he suffered of his own Country-men for seeking the honour of God and his Truth and the peace happiness and well being of their immortal Souls because of which the Devil that wicked one raged and poured forth floods of violence and cruelty to destroy the Birth brought forth by the Lord in him But the Lord being his refuge and hiding place he dwelt in safety where his Enemies could not prevail against him for though he was persecuted and smitten of Men yet was he owned and beloved of the Lord which made his Soul to rejoice that his lot was fallen in this good Land and that he was not only call'd to Believe but counted worthy to Suffer for Christs sake knowing that all such as will live Godly in Christ Jesus must suffer Persecution his reproaches being unto them great Riches And further as he was freely given up in Life Body and Estate to suffer for the most precious Truth of Christ so also was he much concerned in his day with such as were the then Rulers of the Nations he being often moved of the Lord to lay before them the Sufferings of Gods innocent People by reason of which and for the spreading of the Truth many were the trials which he underwent going often times to Oliver Cromwell and such as were in