Diary, to Which Are Added Particulars of His Subsequent Life, Given in Connexion with Memoirs of the Rise, Progress, and Persecutions, of the People Called Quakers in the North of Scotland, Among Whom He Became One of the Earliest Members
Diary, to Which Are Added Particulars of His Subsequent Life, Given in Connexion with Memoirs of the Rise, Progress, and Persecutions, of the People Called Quakers in the North of Scotland, Among Whom He Became One of the Earliest Members
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1834 Excerpt: ...for the Lord and his Truth is concerned in it. "And therefore, finding that thou, and some others, interested persons, who act by thy order, endeavour to weaken this my testimony, by affirming, that my present sufferings are only occasioned by my own wilfulness, or my relations' neglect, who, by paying a little money, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1834 Excerpt: ...for the Lord and his Truth is concerned in it. "And therefore, finding that thou, and some others, interested persons, who act by thy order, endeavour to weaken this my testimony, by affirming, that my present sufferings are only occasioned by my own wilfulness, or my relations' neglect, who, by paying a little money, might have prevented the same;--to undeceive thee and them herein, I find it my duty to tell thee, I am engaged upon far other grounds than those of wilfulness or peevishness, to decline paying or in any way to assent to the payment of that money, --even, on that of a real and well-grounded fear of God. For, as thou well know'st, that fine was incurred, not for any crime or guiltiness, but for my testimony to the work of God imposed upon me. And, to do any thing to weaken this, either by paying, or permitting to be paid on my behalf, any part of that money, would be a very betraying of the cause of God into the hands of its enemies." "Thus do I warrantably and truly judge of this matter, however thou or others may conclude, through the darkness that is in you, as to a discernment of the work of God in this day, and what is required of the true witnesses of it. I can truly say, my own particular case should not have been so much as mentioned, were it not for the sake of my testimony, which above my natural life, and all that is on that account dear to me, I desire to preserve full and entire. God hath so overruled, and I know that he will continue to overrule, the sharpest of my sufferings, to his own glory and my soul's advantage, and hath likewise so overruled your designs therein; that, through his grace, I am made willing, (so far as I am alone concerned, ) to pity and freely forgive both them, and thee in particular, who hast ...
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