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FRIENDS' LIBRARY

CONSISTING PRINCIPALLY OF

JOURNALS

AND

Extracts from Journals and other Writings

OF MEMBERS

OF THE

SOCIETY OF FRIENDS.

VOL. IX.

LINDFIELD:

PRINTED AT THE SCHOOLS OF INDUSTRY,

AND SOLD BY LONGMAN AND CO. PATERNOSTER-ROW, LONDON;
HARVEY AND DARTON, GRACECHURCH STREET; J. AND
A. ARCH, CORNHILL; W. DARTON, HOLBORN; EDMUND
FRY, HOUNDSDITCH, AND BY ALL THE

BOOKSELLERS.

1834.

HARVARD COLLEGE LIDBARY
GIFT OF FRIENDS' BRARY
PHILADELPHIA
FEB 12 1935

W. EADE, PRINTER, LIndfield.

35-242

BRIEF NARRATIVES

OF THE

LIVES

or

GILBERT LATEY;

CHRISTOPHER STORY;

AND

JOHN BANKS.

PREFACE.

To render lines harmonious to every ear, is hardly possible; yet since no part of history is more instructive and delighting than the lives of good and worthy men; and though the present treatise may not entertain the reader with a great variety of passages, it is hoped it will afford him some things acceptable, as well as plain and familiar instances which deserve imitation, and may be a means to persuade him to religion and virtue; which having been asserted, maintained, and suffered for with constancy, to a great degree in this age, such memorials are fit to be delivered to posterity, as may carry with them evident tokens of the Divine goodness and protection to succeeding times; yet not to be done to procure glory to man, to set up his wisdom, or natural or acquired parts, but altogether the abasing of self, and to exalt alone the Lord Jesus Christ. Time to man here is short, in comparison of eternity; it glides away apace and possibly it may not be long ere thy forehead, Reader, begin to wrinkle, and thy hair change grey, thy eyes become dim, and knees tremble, and thou perhaps to all enjoyments here, be as And as the fol though thou hadst never been. lowing passages of the life of my deceased dearl

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