received by Friends, and had very good Service during a fhort Stay there; but being defirous of being at the Quarterly - meeting to be held at York, in Company with feveral Friends of London, he went as directly to the faid City as he could well do, being near Two Hundred Miles, and reached there by the 24th of the Sixth Month, at which Time began the Quarterly-meeting; and this our dear Friend had a very memorable and weighty Opportunity in Ministry, in the Meeting of Minifters and Elders at the Opening thereof; but, in the fucceeding Meetings for Worship, was moftly filent; yet in those for Discipline, was divinely led to fet forth the Nature, good End and Tendency of the fame, and very zealoufly preffed to the keeping them up, in the fame Wisdom and Power in which they were first established; evidently fetting forth, that they proceeded from that which gathered our Forefathers to be as a peculiar People unto God ; the no fmall Edification and Comfort of many fincere Hearts, who rejoiced greatly in having his Company, which remains fresh in their Remembrance; his Services being as Bread caft upon the Waters, which, according to the wife Man's Obfervation, shall be found after many Days.

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After the Quarterly-meeting was ended he went to Pickering, where a very large Meeting is kept Annually for Worfhip, and had feasonable and profitable Service. He travelled

to many other Places in that County, and Friends were greatly refreshed and edified by his Christian Visit, though not always attended by publick Declarations in their religious Meetings appointed on his Account, which were moftly very large, and Expectations high, yet his Eye was to his great Mafter's putting forth. He often was led to famifh that too eager Defire after Words; and in feveral publick Meetings he had nothing to fay amongst them; which, tho' a great Difappointment to many for the prefent, yet there afterwards appeared a fignal Service in it.

He was at Yarm, Stockton, Bainbrig, and several other Meetings in and about the Dales; then came to Leeds, Bradford, Wakefield, Doncafter, and fo into Lincolnshire; which County he vifited pretty generally, alfo the Ifle of Ely, and came into Norfolk, and to this Place in the Eleventh Month 1755, as afore-mentioned; was at moft, if not all, of Friends Meetings in our County; then went into Suffolk and Effex, and returned to London the latter End of the first Month 1756, where he remained a few Weeks, being exceeding ill; yet was at most of the Meetings in that City, and was very ferviceable, with many other Friends, in Affairs particularly relating to the Society in Penfilvania at that Time.

He went back again into Effex, and fo for Hertfordshire, fome Parts of Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Gloceflerfhire, and to the Yearlymeeting

meeting at Bristol in the Fifth Month 1756; and had good Service both in Meetings for Worship and Difcipline, which was well received, and, it is hoped, made lafting Impreffions on the Minds of many who had the Opportunity of being present.

His Indifpofition ftill continued, but did not hinder him from travelling: From Bristol he paffed through fome Part of Glocefter fire,WiltShire, and Oxfordshire, and got to the Yearlymeeting at London in the Sixth Month, and altho' his Ilness continued upon him, was enabled to bear feveral living Teftimonies, in the Demonstration of the Spirit and of Power.

After the faid Yearly - meeting was ended, he came down to the Yearly - meetings at Colchester and Woodbridge, where he was eminently fupported to be ferviceable in the Churches. At Woodbridge he was strengthened to bear a large, powerful and affecting Teftimony in the last Meeting of Worship, to the tendering of many Hearts, whose States were fo effectually fpoken to, as that it may be fitly compared to the Excellency, and glorious Situation which the P/almift described, when he fays, How good, and how pleafant a Thing it is, for Brethren to dwell together in Unity! It is like the precious Ointment upon the Head, that ran down upon the Beard, even Aaron's Beard, that went down to the Skirts of his Garments: As the Dew of Hermon, and as the Dew that defcended upon the Mountains of Zion; for there

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the Lord commanded the Bleffing, even Life for evermore, Pfalm cxxxiii. 1, 2, 3. It was indeed a moft Heavenly, precious, baptizing Sealon, (this being the laft publick Opportunity our dear Friend had) in which he was wonderfully led to fet forth the progreffive Steps the Almighty was pleafed to make ufe of, in appearing to Gideon, confirming him in the Certainty of his Requirings, condefcending to grant his Requests in a very peculiar Manner, and fealing them with his Prefence, and giving him Victory over his Enemies, as he was faithful to follow the bleffed Author that pointed forth the beginning as well as finishing that great Work, to which that extraordinary Servant of God, Gideon, in his Day was called which memorable Service of our dear Friend, there is great Reafon to believe the great Lord, who prepared him for the fame, was graciously pleased to fix as a Nail in a fure place; and may it fo continue in the Remembrance of those then prefent, who are left for a fmall Space yet in Mutability.

He continued very weak in Body all his Stay in Woodbridge, being about five Days, and no Perfwafions could prevail with him to hinder his fetting forward for his Journey, having trong Defires in his Mind to fee Friends in this Place again; and to a particular Friend he expreffed his Love fo great to us, that he thought be could willingly die with us. He was favoured to accomplish it in two Days after he left

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Woodbridge, though with great Difficulty, and lodged at the House of our Friend John Oxley, as he had done before, but took to his Bed foon after he got in, to which, the remaining Part of his Time, he was mostly confined.

It being the Time of our Yearly - meeting, many Friends went often to vifit him, and he expreffed to fome, That he was fatisfied be was in his Place, in giving up to follow the Requirings of the Lord, in leaving his outward Habitation, and thofe near Bleffings of a most tender affectionate Wife and dutiful Children.

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The Severity of his Ilness kept him mostly delirious, yet he was favour'd with fome clear Intervals; in one of which, being in a sweet Heavenly Frame of Mind, he broke forth in the following fervent Supplication, viz. Oh! poor Soul bath been for many Days on the Brink of the Pit of Diftrefs; but thou, dear Father, doft not afflict thy Children willingly, but for fome great and good Caufe known only to thyfelf: Dear Father! Suffer not thy Children ever to defpair of thy Mercies, but that we may be helpful, as much as may be in our Power, to one another in all fuch times of Trouble. Deareft Father! thou hast been pleased to open, and to favour with thy Goodness; my Soul is thankful, and can fay, thou art worthy of Glory and Praife for evermore.

He continued to the 13th of the Seventh Month 1756, and then departed this Life, and was interred in Friends Burying Ground

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