He was taken ill the 19th of the Eighth Month 1740, being feized in a fudden and violent Manner, which he bore with Patience and Refignation to the Will of God; and though his Pains were very great, he faid, It was the Lord's Goodness in fupporting him under the fame. And when he was asked, If he would have a Doctor? he faid, He believed his Time was come, and that his Dependance was not on Doctors, but the great Phyfician of Souls; and that what he had laboured for in his Lifetime, he was now going to enjoy. And feeing his Wife and Children in Trouble about him, faid, Why do ye afflict your felves fo? Sorrow not for me as without Hope. I have not my Day's Work to do now; for though my Body is full of Pain, my Mind is eafy. And further faid, The Lord who promifed to be an Hufband to the Widow, and a Father to the Fatherless, I make no doubt will be fo to you, if you keep near to him.

He departed this Life the 23d of the Eighth Month 1740, we are fatisfied, in Peace with the Lord.

Aged about Sixty nine, a Minister about Forty four Years.

A Teftimony

A Teftimony from the Monthly meeting at Woodbridge, in the County of Suffolk, concerning MARTHA KING.

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Concern is on our Spirits, to give the following Teftimony concerning this our antient and worthy Friend. She was born in the Parish of Chaffield, in the County of Suffolk, 1645. She was foberly inclined in her Youth, and when arrived to Woman's Eftate, fhe was favoured with the Vifitation of God's Love unto her Soul; and by Virtue thereof, fhe became zealously concerned to get to Meetings, both on First and other Days of the Week, though fituated many Miles from her Habitation,

About the Thirtieth Year of her Age, the Lord was pleafed to call her into the Work of the Ministry, wherein he had good Service. amongst Friends, in the time of Perfecution, by Exhortation and Example, in going conftantly to Meetings, though the often met with Mockings, Scoffings, and Abufe, from the rude People; and fometimes was haled out of Meetings and carried to Goal; which she fuffered with Patience and Chriftian Courage. She would frequently fay, with great Thankfulness to the Almighty, That, in the Midft of. all her Exercifes and Trials, the Lord was her

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Comfort and Support; in which Enjoyment the would often, even in the Prifon - house, praife the Lord, with rejoicing of Soul, amongst her Friends in Confinement. She hath alfo been of good Service amongst us, in her old Age, both in Converfation, and in the Work of the Miniftry; the Stream of her Testimony being attended with lively and powerful Exhortations unto all, but in particular to the Youth. amongst us.

She travelled in the Work of the Ministry through feveral Counties in England, with a very folid and becoming Conduct, fuitable to fuch a great and weighty Work; and with like Service and Conduct fhe continued amongst us, even to a good old Age. Though she lived fome Miles from Meetings, yet the would, if poffible, conftantly attend both Firft and Week-day Meetings, till about the Eighty fixth Year of her Age; and feveral of those Years the travelled to Meetings on foot, with her Husband Thomas King, a very antient and fteady Friend. But Friends confidering the Difficulties the laboured under, thought proper to remove her into the Dwelling belonging to the Meeting-houfe at Woodbridge, for her better Conveniency in attending Meetings. She had not lived there long, before the buried her aged Hufband, who had been her comfortable Companion for many Years.

As to her inward Condition, we have good reafon to believe, in Concurrence with her

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own Testimony, that She dwelt fo near to th Lord in Spirit, that he often was favoured with inward Peace of Soul. She fometimes faid, to fuch as vifited her, That the Lord, in the Riches of bis Love and Mercy, was ftill pleafed to favour and bless her with the Enjoyment of his living and comfortable Prefence, now in her old Age; for which, she would express so much Joy and Thankfulness to him, for his continued Love to her poor Soul, as shewed her Heart to be filled with Praises to him, in the fenfible Enjoyment thereof. And for feveral of the laft Years of her Life, when lame and feeble as a Child, yet she would defire to be led into Meetings; and was frequently enabled to drop many innocent and comfortable Exhortations, to the Admiration of many. She earnestly defired, That the Lord would be pleafed to enable her to hold out unto the good End that crowns all. And it may be said of her, that the lived and died a Servant of the Lord and his People, and hath left a good Savour behind her.

She departed this Life the 16th of the Third Month 1740, in the Ninety fifth Year of her

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A Teftimony from the Monthly meeting of Brighouse in Yorkshire, concerning AARON ATKINSON.

E was born at Mafthorn in the Parish of

H Stapleton, and County of Cumberland,

about the Year 1665. His Parents dying when he was young, the Care of his Education was committed to fome Relations who were of the Prefbyterian Profeffion, among which People he walked till about the Twenty fecond Year of his Age; when being at a Meeting at Christopher Taylor's, at Hether fide in the Parish of Kirklinton, and County aforefaid, he was there convinced of the Truth, by the powerful Preaching of our late efteemed Friend Chriftopher Story, and became an eminent Example of Plainness and Sobriety.

He was anointed for, and called to, the Work of the Miniftry in his young Years, in a very extraordinary manner; and preached the Truth, not in the Wisdom of Man, but in the Power of God. He had a lively and affecting Teftimony, and in his Doctrine was fo clear, as frequently to reach the Hearts of the Hearers fo effectually, as to convince Oppofers.

As he was duly qualified for, fo he was a painful Labourer in the Work of the Gofpel,