in others; and his humble, meek Behaviour, his remarkable Charity to the Poor, and other amiable Qualities, correfponded well with his Doctrine. His Teftimonies were not tedious to the Hearers, nor unfeasonably delivered; what he said, being the Effect of his Duty, knowing he was answerable for the Talents received.

He often vifited Friends in London, and several Parts of England and Scotland: Once he went with Andrew Jaffray, by Inverness, to the High-lands, having Meetings as they paffed along, where no Friends had ever been before. He never flinched from what he was convinced was his Duty; particularly, at the publick Meeting-place of the Parish where he lived in, where he was concerned, to warn the People to come out of their Forms, and turn to Jefus Chrift, whom, if they did look unto in Faith, they should as certainly be healed, as thofe of old were, who looked in Faith towards the brazen Serpent which Mofes caufed to be lifted up in the Wilderness.

In the Year 1708, one Garden, a learned and much followed Preacher at Aberdeen, tainted with Bourignonism, having in his Writings inveighed against Friends Principles, Robert Barclay wrote a notable Answer, intituled, A ferious Addrefs to the well-meaning Followers of ANTONIA BOURIGNON; which had fo good an Effect, being printed and difperfed among a great many, that the Sect afterward dwindled much away.

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About the Seventieth Year of his Age, he wrote a small Treatife concerning FAITH; and after his Death there was found about a Sheet of Paper, wrote with his own Hand, upon CHARITY. It was thought his Sickness prevented his enlarging upon fo good a Subject; for about two Years ago he contracted a Weakness, from which he never quite re'cover'd; though, when he was able, was diligent in vifiting the Meetings of Friends, in the adjacent Places, and in a fincere meek Frame of Mind waited for his Change; and when much afflicted with Sicknefs, he used to repeat,-Not his, but the Lord's Will be done in every Thing And a fhort Space before he was fpeechleis, one flanding by his Bedfide whispered to another, thinking he had not heard it, that She was furprised to feel fuch a Sweat upon him; he aniwered, as with a strong Voice, This is the Sweat that comes before Death; and I fhall now foon be among the Spirits of just Men made perfect. Which was among the laft of his Expreffions; for he afterwards flept away, and expired about the seventh Hour in the Morning of the 27th of the Firft Month, at his Houfe of Springhall, and was interred on the 1ft of the Second Month 1747, in the Family's Burying Place, in the Prefence of moft Friends in the North of this Kingdom, with feveral of the Gentry who were his Relations, and alfo his own Tenants, in the plain decent Manner he himself prefcribed.

A Testimony

A Teftimony from the Monthly meeting of Leominster in Herefordshire, concerning WILLIAM OSBORN.

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AVING a Concern to fay fomething in Remembrance of our worthy deceafed Friend and Elder, William Ofborn, we hope it will be edifying to others, as he was well known to be a found and powerful Gospel Minifter and fo careful not to move without, or exceed his Commiffion, as rendered him truly a good Example.

He was alfo of fuch an exemplary, fweet, inoffenfive and felf-denying Life, as demonftrated him to be a true Follower of the holy Lamb of God; and made an intimate Acquaintance with him very pleasant, as feveral of us can witnefs; to whom, in his laft IInefs, he fpoke very encouragingly of the Goodness of God, and expreffed a particular Satisfaction in bearing a faithful Testimony against the Payment of Tithes; on which Account he had been a great Sufferer.

He is, we doubt not, entered into etérnal Reft with the Bleffed, and his Memory remains dear to us. He, departed this Life the 15th of the Eighth Month 1747. Aged about Seventy eight, a Minifter upwards of Forty Years.

A Teflimony

A Teftimony from the Monthly meeting of Hitchin in the County of Hertford, concerning MARY RANSOM.

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and worthy Friend Mary Ranfom of Hitchin, deceased, who was educated, and rested in the meer Profeffion of the Truth, till about the Twenty first Year of her Age; when it pleased the Lord to awaken her by the powerful Vifitation of his Love, by which she became inwardly convinced of Sin, feeling the Terrors of the Lord for it; and being made fenfible that the Axe must be laid to the Root of the corrupt Tree, and that every Plant, which was not of the Heavenly Father's planting, must be rooted up, became willing, in the Day of his Power, to deny herself of those captivating Baits of youthful Pleasure and Vanity, which had before but too far betrayed her, into a Conformity to the vain Cuftoms and Fashions of this prefent evil World.

But when it pleased God to reveal his Son in her, and to give her an effectual Touch and Call by his Grace, fhe plainly faw, no Fig-leaf Covering of a formal Profeffion, no Excufe nor Delay, no Reasoning with Flesh and Blood, would avail in his Sight, before whom all

Things are open and naked, who is a jealous God, and will not admit of any Rival in the Minds of his Servants; fo that being brought into the Obedience of the Crofs, the knew it to be an acceptable Time, and a Day of Salvation to her Soul; fo that thofe Things which had been taking to the natural Part, now became to her as Drofs and Dung, that fhe might win Chrift, and be efpoufed to him, the Bridegroom of her Soul, in the Covenant of Life and Peace. And as the Lord was thus pleafed to reach and vifit her, in her young and tender Years, it appeared by her future Progrefs, that the Grace of God was not bestowed on her in vain; for as fhe was faithful in the little received, it was bleffed with an heavenly Increase ; fo that having her Candle lighted, her House swept and fet in order, fhe was then able to call to others to rejoice with her, faying, Come and feel the Weight of that Power, and fee that Light that has fhewed me all that ever I have done, is not this the Chrift?:

She foon became fkilful in the Word of Righteoufnefs, and an able Minifter of the everlasting Gospel; being of strong natural Faculties, and thefe truly fanctified by the heavenly Gift, render'd her Miniftry the more acceptable. Her Miniftry was plain and powerful, and had often a very great Reach on the Meeting, and tended very much to gather the Minds of People to the Gift of God in themselves.

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