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A50608	The Memory of that servant of God, John Story, revived shewing what manner of man he was from his youth to his grave, by the testimonies of several friends, to whom he was well known, and by whom, for his work sake in the truth, he was greatly beloved : to which is adjoyned something written by him, &c., in his latter years, wherein his judgment is shewn concerning some particular things, and his great desires for love, unity, concord, and peace in the church of Christ.	Wilkinson, John, d. ca. 1683. Brief relation concerning the life and death of John Story.	1688 (1688)	Wing M1702; ESTC R19789	42,298	47

our Hearts and made thee as a sharp Instrument in his hand to dash all our Formal Professions to pieces that the Broken-hearted might be bound up and that we might be created anew unto his Glory and when we come truly to know the Lord and to help to fill up the Measures of the Sufferings of our Lord Jesus Christ that was behind for us to fill up and were Prisoners for Conscience fake what Care was upon thee in that Day that we might be Visited And Oh! the pretious Opportunities and often Visitations that then thou gave us Fear did not surprise thee nor the Prison daunt thee from administring to us the Comforts of the Holy Ghost for we were the Prisoners of the Lord and the wrath of men was turned upon us but thou comforted'st our hearts with this testimony agreable to our one Faith that the Wrath of Man would turn to the Praise of God and the rest God would restrain Thy many Visitations are not forgotten although thy Silver Cord be loosed and thy Golden Boule be broken neither art thou out of our Remembrance although thou art Departed from us and though many have a great loss yet my loss is far greater because of my often Journying with thee being in such my Travels a pertaker with thee of the Brests of Consolation and of the Milk of the Word of Life Thou wast not willing to eat thy Morsel alone but that others might pertake of the same Table and come to the Injoyment of the Feast of Fat things and though somtimes I have met with hard speeches and been Rendered as a dark Spirit and gone under many Reproaches and my wayes endeavoured to be hedged up as in Ireland and some other parts and called to an account about thy deportment because of matters laid to thy Charge yet proving them false the Reporters have confessed and to the Glory of the Lord that thou wast not the man But thou art ascended above the strife of Tongues and we may come to thee but thou shalt never return to us yet Days shall speak of the loss of such a Prophet because pretious in the Sight of the Lord is the death of his Saints and now in thy latter day when thou hast spent thy strength in the Service of the Lord notwithstanding great weakness of Body was upon thee yet thou planted a Vineyard and then eat of the Fruit thou feedest the Flock and eat of the Milk thereof at which some were angry and either knew not or willingly forgot thy former Travels for the Gospel-sake when thou spared not thy Flesh and sometimes thy Blood to shew them that were distressed the way to the Kingdom yet how evilly have some spoken of thee as if thou wert negligent in the Lord's service when to the utmost thou did what thou wast able and when thy Leggs would not perform the service of thy mind thou then Rode up and down according to thine ability that then was given thee and we often looked for thy change many years before thy Departure but what hard hap had the Prophet to be a Fool and the Spiritual man to be mad to Prophesie in the Name of the Lord that thou John Story should that year dye when neither did the Lord send him now his Prophesie came to pass but the God of Heaven made manifest his kindness to thee kept thee alive beyond many of our expectations and made the foolish Prophet to confess as I have been Informed to this purpose that it was an Imagination of his own brain not the Word of the Lord. And thus his Words became his Burthen in his Life time and seeing he is also gone to the Earth we must leave him to the Lord and this I mentioned the rather because I was an Eye and Ear Witness of the Declaration of that false Prophesie But Oh! the weakness of Body that then appeared in thee thou didst not much controvert with him but said time would soon manifest it thy years being almost at an end and so committed the cause to God the Judge of all for thou wast no●striver neither did Contention dwell with thee in that matter but in much Patience thou heardst his words and as thy Beginning was so was thy End in the Lamb's War with the Lamb's Nature thou wentest from the South to the West taking thy leave of thy Friends and then returned into the North where in the weakness of Body thou visitedst the People of the Lord and having compleated thy Masters Business thou encounteredst with Death and overcame it and quietly yielded up thy self into the Arms of the Almighty left the World and art gone unto God where out of the reach of all thy Adversaries thou art in that Mansion that Jesus Christ hath prepared for his People where no Destroyer shall ever come T. C. An ELEGY of John Story by John Raunce IN Peace with God he now is gone to Rest Out of this World in which he was Opprest Having ill Vsage met from his Brethren Nothing would do with some like wilful Men So set themselves that they would not believe That he spoke Truth this did him sorely grive Oppressing Sorrows did his Body pine Rending his Soul with Grief from time to time Yet in all this the Lord he always found Yea Help from God did still to him abound Yea and Amen his Grace to him was Free Yea to the End his Grace hath Saved thee Yea now he doth possess Jerusalem Yea now Christ is his only Requiem More in Remembrance of John Story THy Lot was like Good Prophets gone before With Lamb like Nature thou as they did bear The frowns of Friends and Enemies much more Whil'st Envy did of thee sore things declare Oh happy thou who didst with Meekness then Preach Christ the Way the Truth and Life in all With Holiness thy Doctrine Sounds to Men That they might know and live in Gods great Call Thy Work is done and thou art now at Rest And all thy Labour in this World doth cease The Wise in Heart will say that thou art Blest And pray to God such Prophets may increase With blameless Life thou didst Truth 's Cause maintain And out of that which might defile didst live As Blessed Man didst Holiness retain And unto God all Honour thou didst give The Lord who doth the Saved People Bless He was thy Peace thy Comfort and thy All Much was the Gift Christ gave thee to possess Which thou didst use as he for it did Call Much could I say if I to Write were free Of many things which did attend thy Life But Silence shall Apologize for me As one that loves and lives above all Strife John Raunce The 20th Day of the last Month in the Year 1682. Something added by another Friend of that Antient in Israel J. S. Deceased IN Christ that is the Alpha all in all O mega th' Last from Death to Life doth call How Holy Harmless Sweet then is that

I have had with this my dear Friend in which I have often admired the goodness of God who afforded us such good Opportunities wherein my heart hath many times been overcome and rejoyced in a sense of the feeling of the dissolving and tendering Power and living Presence of the Lord God who assisted him with his heavenly wisdom and strength and the testimony of Truth often opened through him reaching and extending unto many states and conditions even as the still Sowres that descended upon the tender Grass in its due season for which my Soul hath blessed the Lord on his behalf many a season and which was and is the only ground and cause of my Love to him and all the Lords faithful Servants whom I cannot but truly esteem for the Truths sake and account worthy of double Honour and I have often thought that if we should not truly love and esteem of such in the Truth it might be just with the Lord to let us know the want of them and to Suffer a Famine of the Word and a Cloud of Ignorance and Darkness again to overspread the Earth which I desire the Lord may in his Mercy prevent and that more faithful Instruments and living Witnesses for his blessed Name and Truth in the room and stead of them that are gone to their Rest may yet be raised up and that many may yet be gathered unto God for the Comfort and Encouragement of the Lords People in this Age and the Ages to come Much more I might say concerning this faithful Servant of God according to my knowledge but herein I have satisfaction believing he is now at Rest and out of all his Troubles and Exercises which in this world he had his share of and through Death hath obtained a Crown and Kingdom that is Everlasting where all Tears are wiped away and Sorrow and Sighing comes to an End Oh that we who are left behind may not content our selves that this our dear Friend live well and is entered into everlasting felicity but may follow the Example of this and all the rest of our dear Brethren which are gon before in all faithfulness and circumspect walking serving the Lord in sincerity and holy Conversation keeping to the Word of his Grace and Truth through which we may overcome all Corruptions receive and possess the Recompence of endless Peace Joy and Happiness when time in this fading World comes to an end that God over all may be glorified who alone is worthy to be Feared and Praised for ever and evermore B. C. Reading the 15th of the 10th Month 8681. Leonard Keep 's Testimony SInce I heard there would be something Printed concerning our dear Friend J. S. it was with me this 15 th of the 12 th Month 1682 to give in this short Testimony concerning him He was a Man of Peace and instrumental in the Hand of the Lord for the turning many to Righteousness he desired the good of all People and I believe is now entered into Rest and Peace with the Lord where all Tears will be wiped away and Longsuffering come to an end notwithstanding Blindness hath happned to many in this Age that they could not see him to be so by reason of the Enmity and Prejudice that have entred their minds more through the Instigation I believe of others than from any deportment that appeared by him I have been in his Company often both in Meetings and out of Meetings and am an Eye and Ear-witness of what is here writ I have often heard him put a more favourable Construction upon his Opposers actions than I believe they could put themselves I have heard him openly opposed and charged falsly and when he hath called for Proof of what hath been said there hath nothing been made appear but at the last shift have referred Friends to the 44 Articles of London M. C. may remember this And I have heard him spoke over when he hath had a concern to the Meeting and had begun to speak first as many may remember which I must needs say was not practised amongst us in the beginning nor was it so in the Primitive times for then all might speak one by one that had any thing upon them as a concern to the People but these things hath happened amongst us in these latter times since some have been apt to pin their Faith on other folks Sleeves and then may speak words as they would have them or else their own and it hath been said it is the Word of the Lord when time hath manifested it to be otherwise So many are kindling a fire of their own and warming themselves by the sparks thereof whose Portion will be such as they had formerly that were so doing unless they repent they must lye down in sorrow God Almighty if it be thy will give to all that have been Opposers of him a sight of what they have been and are yet a doing that so they may say as it was once said Let the time past be sufficient and that for time to come they may do so no more And whatever any may think I have nothing but good will to all men L. K. Thomas Curtis's Testimony who at some time was his Companion in his Travels AS it was said by David concerning Jonathan after his Death so can I in Truth say touching my antient Friend and Brother in the Truth John Story Viz. Very pleasant hast thou been unto me and dear John although thy Body be turned to the Dust yet thy Name liveth now thou art dead and the memorial of thy Faithfulness remains amongst thy Brethren thy Portion is with the Righteous who shall be had in Everlasting Remembrance and shall continue as an everlasting Foundation time shall declare the Meekness of thy Nature and that Gentleness that was in thee towards the Flock of God for in the Lamb-like Nature didst thou come amongst us and as a Lamb among Wolves so was thy Carriage Wisdom went before thee and Vnderstanding was thy Guide So that when first I saw thy Face thou wast to me a Messenger of God and though thou met with many under various Forms opposing each other yet how carefully didst thou instruct them and with great diligence helped th●ir Weakness and such was thy Carriage after a sweet manner that I soon saw a Door of Hope opened by the Lord for the Relief of many and although thou wast but a Lad because of thy tender Years yet such Gravity did appear in thee as made both Old and Young to love thee and thy Testimony was not from Man neither wast thou sent by any Born after the Flesh but thy Testimony was from Heaven and it did accomplish the Work that the Lord sent thee for and thy Doctrine dropt as the Dew upon the Tender-hearted and surely the Spirit of the Lord was upon thee and the Meek and Quiet Spirit was in thee which ever was and still is of great price with the Lord and thou