The History of the Rise, Increase, and Progress of the Christian People Called Quakers: Intermixed with Several Remarkable Occurrencs.Sewel, William
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The History of the Rise, Increase, and Progress of the Christian People Called Quakers: Intermixed with Several Remarkable Occurrencs.
Sewel, William
Society of Friends -- History -- Early works to 1800
On a First-day of the week he came to one colonel Overton’s house, and
had a great meeting of the chief of the people of that country; where
he opened many things out of the Scriptures, which they never heard
before. Coming afterwards again to Patrington, he understood that a
tailor and some wild blades in that town, had occasioned his being
carried before the justice. This tailor came to ask him forgiveness,
fearing he would complain of him; the constables also were afraid lest
he should trouble them; but he forgave them all, and exhorted them
to turn to the Lord, and to amend their lives. Now that which made
them the more afraid, was, that he having been not long before in the
steeple-house at Oram, there came a professor that gave him a push on
the breast, and bid him get out of the church. To which G. Fox said,
‘Dost thou call the steeple-house the church? The church is the people,
whom God hath purchased with his blood, and not the house.’ But justice
Hotham having heard of this man’s thus abusing G. Fox, sent a warrant,
and bound the said man over to the sessions. So zealous was this
justice to keep the peace, that he had asked G. Fox before, whether any
people had abused him: but he esteeming it his duty to forgive all,
told him nothing of that kind.
From Patrington he went to several great men’s houses, warning them to
repent. Some received him lovingly, and some slighted him. Passing thus
through the country, at night he came to another town, where he desired
lodging and meat, offering to pay for it; but they would not lodge him,
unless he went to a constable to ask leave, which they said was the
custom of strangers. But he told them, that custom was for suspected
persons, and not for such as he, who was an innocent man. So after he
had warned them to repent, and to mind the day of their visitation,
and directed them to the light of Christ, and Spirit of God, he passed
away. As it grew dark, he spied a hay-stack, and went and sat under it
till morning. The next day he came to Hull, where he admonished the
people to turn to Christ Jesus, that they might receive salvation. And
being very weary with travelling on foot so far, he got that night a
lodging there.
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