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
In the evening he came again into the house of judge Fell, where he
took occasion to speak to the servants, and those of the family, who
most of them came so effectually to be convinced by him, that they
embraced the Truth which he preached. Among these, was also William
Caton, of whom more hereafter. Margaret Fell in the meanwhile being
come home, was so reached, that she scarce knew what to do, her husband
being from home; for she clearly perceived what she had heard G. Fox
preach, was truth.
The First-day after, he went to Aldenham steeple-house, where, when the
priest had done, he spoke to the people, and admonished them to return
to the Lord. From thence he went to Ramside, where was a chapel, in
which one Thomas Lawson, who was an eminent priest, used to preach;
who having some notice of G. Fox’s coming, preached in the morning,
and told the people that G. Fox was to come there in the afternoon;
by which means very many people were gathered together. When he came,
he saw there was no place so convenient to speak to the people as the
chapel, and therefore he went into it. The priest Lawson, willing
to give a full opportunity to G. Fox, went not up into the pulpit,
but left all the time to him. And G. Fox so powerfully declared the
doctrine of Truth, that many received it, and among these, the priest
himself, who left off his preaching for hire, and in process of time,
came to preach the Lord Jesus Christ, and his glorious gospel freely;
which however did not hinder him to exercise himself in the knowledge
of herbs, wherein he came to be so experienced, that he was, as I have
been told, one of the most skilful herbalists in England; which gave
occasion to an eminent botanist, who at first seemed a little shy of
him, when he perceived his great skill, to love him as a singular
friend. But this transiently.
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