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The life & death, travels and sufferings of Robert VVidders of Kellet in Lancashire who was one of the Lords worthies together with several testimonies of his neighbors and friends concerning him.
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that we have had together in the enjoyment of God's Power and Presence in our Spiritual exercise from time to time Within this 34 years since 〈◊〉 Lord our God brought 〈◊〉 â—o believe in his Nâ—me and maâ—◠〈…〉 whereby Redemption from the evil of the World is known and the freeing vertue of the eternal Truth witnessed And when I consider his sincerity and-zeal he was alwaies concerned for the Testimony of Jesus for the promoting of the glorious Gospel Worship and for the good of the Brotherhood in which heavenly exercise the Lord did endue him with wisdom and gave him a discerning eye and the Spirit of a sound mind and true judgment in the Authority and Dominion of which he was made bold and valiant for the Truth of God upon earth and therein was a terror to Evil-doers where eâ—er he came of all sorts as Priests hypocritical Professors and profane or Will-worshippers of any kind And if any had been overtaken with a fault as the Apostle said he would have endeavoured to have restored them with the Spirit of Meekness good Advice and sound Judgment and he would have said our God hath put us upon a Spiritual Travel and ought not to leave a Hoof in Egypt he was a a strength and encourager to the Faithful And as concerning his Travels in godly Zeal for the Truths sake both in England Scotland and some parts of America tho his Gift was not much in Declaration yet he had the word of Wisdom discerning and sound Judgment good Advice and Admonition to Friends and for the establishing them in the Faith and Truth of God where ever he came and herein the Lord prospered his Work and labour of Love in his service And he was faithful in his Testimony against Tythes the Hirling Priests and Impropriators and was a great sufferer by them And was faithful and zealous for meeting to Worship God in the Spirit and in the Truth as Christ Jesus set it up above sixteen hundred years since tho for standing his Testimony herein He was a Sufferer but in all these exercises he was valiant and stedfast and the Lord God did bear up his head and through the enjoyment of Gods power and presence he was content in every condition of a chearful mind and good example And when weakness of Body attended him and the time of his departure drew hear his love to God and good will to his Brethren filled his heart with tenderness and heavenly comfort in the feeling sence of which I with other Friends being present was made glad in the Lord on his behalf for he talked with me very sensibly within unto hours of his departing at which time I was assured he was Reodtemed from the Earth and quit of all Worldly trouble and care and in the enjoyment of the seasoning Grace and sanctifying power of God he hath ceased from his Labour and left a good savour behind him and laid down his Head in peace This being the sence and Testimony of one of his old acquaintance the blessed Truth and Unity of the peaceable Spirit of Life Robert Barrow James Taylor his Testimony of Robert Widders THis is a short but true account of the faithfulness and innocency of Robert Widders being with him some months to visit Friends both in prison and out of prison in Cheshire Darbyshire Yorkshire Bishoprick often meeting with hardships in the way it being in Winter wicked people would take up Stones and roul them in Snow and cast them at us And in all this time and travel dear Robert was still meek and harmless yet noble and valiant for the Truth of God. And I am satisfied that my faithful and well beloved Friend is entered into everlasting Rest Joy and Peace where I hope e're long to be also This is written in much weakness of Body by me James Taylor who is since Dead James Lancaster his Testimony concerning Robert Widders THis Testimony I have concerning our dear Friend and my fellow Traveller in the Service of God late deceased at his own House at Kellet in Lancashire yet lives in the Spirit in our remembrance of his works and labour of love with us in out Service all along as we travelled in the Truth soon after it appeared amongst us being well informed in our selves by a Messenger of God sent of him into our North Country calling us out of the worlds worships and forms and likenesses to the substance Jesus Christ c. his Light within Gods Covenant so came our peace made manifest within in our Hearts Souls Minds and Spirits and so came to know what did belong to our peace in that day of our Visitation from on high from God by his Light Grace and Spirit within and so were called to go to our neighbouring County called Cumberland that they might come to the same the Light of Christ Jesus within in whom and by whom we found that which we had lost in Adam in the fall thorow disobedience to God we found Souls Life and Peace This was our message all along in that County And afterward in Scotland in Northumberland Bishoprick Yorkshire and in our own County Lancashire and in several Counties in England with London City and were well refreshed meeting with our Brethren there who had been in the same work with us and had our reward from God and Life and peace in our own Bosoms that which will last and indure and abode with us in all forms and tempests great and high Winds made great Tossings and put great fears upon many But blessed everlastingly be the Name of our God in which we first believed and went out none of these things did move us so that we might finish our course and testings as he my dear Brother and fellow Traveller has done and ended his days in peace And I farther give in my Testimony concerning our dear Brother Robert Widders who was a Man as my self stricken in years yet was willingly given up at the requirings of the Lord as to go into some parts of America where we arrived at Barbados in seven weeks time where we visited our Friends and Brethren in the Truth and from thence he with other Friends passed to Jamaica and was very serviceable there and from thence Robert Widders with other Friends passed to Virginia and so to Mary-land after that Robert with other Friends passed thorow the Wilderness to East and West Jersey Long-Island New-York and so by several Islands to Rhode-Isâ—and and New England where we had many precious meetings amongst Friends And after our Service was performed in New-England with much difficulty Robert Widders with other Friends returned thorow the Wilderness to Virginie and Mary-land again and had good Service there in our Journey where many were turned from the dumb Idol Shepherds to serve the living God in the Spirit and in the Truth And so with much hardship in the Wilderness having nodwelling places to lay our Heads in but in the open wilderness
one Body of which Jesus Christ is head and that it might be presented without spot or wrinkle or any such thing unto God the Father He was a good example and adorned his profession with a good Conversation which is the substantial part of Religion He was one of the Valiants in Isruel whose Bow abode in strength and carried perfectly to the mark his Bow was bent against Hypocrifie and Deceit and Unrighteousness his Feet was shod with the preparation of the Gospel of Peace But prepared and ready to trample upon that which would have risen in opposition to the Life and power of Godliness though never so fair a shew he was of a good discerning and found in judgment his Countenance very amiable to those that were faithful to God and his Truth But terrible to the workers of Iniquity his deportment was Grace and Comely I had a reverent esteem of him in my Heart being one of the same Meeting with him he is often fresh in my remembrance for I have often been refreshed with his presence And altho his Body be removed from us yet his memorial lives with us and is worthy to be recorded to future Ages that by the Foot steps of the Flock of Christ's Companions many who make a true enquity after the beloved of their Soul may come into the fold of Rest and lay down their Heads in everlasting peace as he hath done when time here shall be no more Thomas Jackson Robert Hubbersty his Testimony concerning Robert Widders THis loving Testimony I have to bear for our ancient and well beloved Friend and Brother Robert Widders who indeed was a very Fatherly man amongst us for so I can truly call him in respect of his Godly care and unseâ—gned love he had unto the Lords Children and People for indeed he was one of the Lords Valiants who ventured his life freely for the Captain of his Salvation and was never weary nor fainted in his service that he required on him tho he went many times as with his life in his Hand to many Steeple-houses and spoke the word of the Lord faithfully both to Priests and People who often recieved great abuses from them and castings into Prisons But blessed be the Lord for ever more who gave him courage and boldness and made him of an undanted Spirit that he grew more and more valiant for the Lord and did bear the Burthen in the heat of the day and passed thorow great Sufferings both in Body Prisons and Goods for bearing his faithful Testimony to the Truth and for keeping his Conscience clear in the sight of God. But this good man indured all with great patience constancy and chearfulness Dear Robert the remembrance of thee refresheth my Soul for thou ever preferred the Lords business before thine own and was very faithful and valiant for him and never lost an Inch of Ground He was a Man of a quick sight spiritually of good discerning and sound judgment I speak my own experience of him and as I took his Counsel it always wrought to a good effect He was one that truly feared the Lord his delight was in obeying of him who taught him to live a Godly life in this evil World and hath made his latter end everlastingly blessed And now dear Robert thou hast been an upright man and hath followed the Lord fully and hath received the Answer of a good and faithful Servant and is entered into the joy of the Lord to reign with him in Glory out of the reach of all the Persecutors and greedy Informers But certainly the Lord will plead with them in Judgment who will reward all according to their deeds done in the Body and out of the Body be they good or evil Robert Hubbersty John Hudson his Testimony of Robert Widders THE Testimony that I have to bear for our dear Friend Robert Widders he was a Man of a Noble and discerning Spirit and very weighty in judgment he was tender of the young in the Truth and if any walked disorderly he was ready to labour with them for their good by exhorting them and would have dealt plainly with all people and would have said that was the purest love that dealt plainest and if any was weak and had a tenderness in them he was kind to such and would have admonished them to mind the Lord and he would give them strength over the Enemy yea he was a Man that was valiant for the Lord and his Truth as his life and Sufferings does demonstrate as by Imprisonments and spoiling of his Goods for Tithes and by the Informers But in them all still was noble and chearful and exhorting Friends to be faithful and trust the Lord with all who was a strength to me in the time of my Sufferings when the Informers followed us very hotly both week-days and other Meetings dear Robert was very constant tho weakly of Body and incouraged Friends to be faithful to the Lord and diligent to their Meetings and the Lord in mercy did strengthen us and made us willing to give up for his Name and Truth-sake and the Lord hath given us peace therein And tho dear Robert suffered much by the Tythe-mongers and Informers yet he was still Noble Patient and chearful who was so good an Example as is worthy to be had in Remembrance And tho he be removed outwardly to endless Rest with the Lord yet his Memorial of good Savour lives with us John Hudson The Testimony of John Beakbayne concerning Robert Widders THis Testimony I have to bear He was a man quick spirited and of a chearful Countenance and when the Messengers of the Truth came among us he was one with the first in these parts that received them and their Testimony which he hath faithfully kept and holden even to the last of his daies He was sharp in Reproof gentle in Admonition his Bow abode in strength he was as a sharp Sword to Deceit and Hypocrisie but as Balm and Oyl to help the Tender and afflicted in Spirit about spiritual things I being newly Convinced of the Truth he was ready to give good Advice to me and told me as concerning the Work of Truth That there was nothing got but through Judgment which then I knew little of but since hath found it the way to Life and Mercy I have been Prisoner with him several times at Lancaster and his chearful Countenance and good Example and Advice to Friends alwaies Ministred strength and comfort He was as an Elder and his presence was encouraging And tho he be gone as to the outward man yet his Life and Spirit is in our Remembrance His Sufferings were great yet he never did shrink what ever Storm or Tempest came but followed Christ Jesus his Captain through sufferings patiently and hath obtained an eternal Reward where the Spoilers cannot come John Beakbayne Robert Barrow his Testimony of Robert Widders O It is freshly in my mind the many comfortable daies and sexsons of Love