The journal of George Fox, vol. 2 of 2 : $b Being an historical account of his life, travels, sufferings, and Christian experiences.Fox, George
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The journal of George Fox, vol. 2 of 2 : $b Being an historical account of his life, travels, sufferings, and Christian experiences.
Fox, George
Fox, George, 1624-1691
On his return from America, John Taylor, being on gospel service
in London, was taken from a meeting and committed to prison. He
visited America a second time, and resided some time in Jamaica,
also in Barbadoes, where he became a merchant, but finally
returned to England, and settled at York as a sugar refiner. After
which, he was also largely engaged in the ministry in different
parts of the nation, and died in 1708, aged about seventy, a
minister about fifty years.
John Taylor is described by a contemporary as “an able minister of
the New Testament; in the publishing of which, the Spirit of God
and of glory rested upon him, to the comforting and true
refreshment of the churches, where the Lord ordered him, or his
lot was cast.”
Footnote 40:
Robert Lodge, mentioned before, was of Masham, in Yorkshire, born
about the year 1636. He was religiously inclined from his youth,
was convinced about 1658, and became a valiant gospel minister. He
was very serviceable in gathering many out of the ways of the
world, into the way of life, travelling up and down in the service
of his Lord, enduring many trials, exercises, and imprisonments
for his sake. John Whiting says of him, “He was an excellent
minister; he had a fine refreshing testimony, and an extraordinary
gift in prayer. He was instrumental to turn many to righteousness,
and to build them up in the most holy faith. His testimony reached
to the witness of God in the consciences of many; and was a
consolation to the watering and refreshing many weary souls. He
kept his first love and habitation in the truth to the last; and,
towards his latter end, laboured much with and for the young
generation, that they might come up in the footsteps of those who
were gone before. He was a man of a sweet disposition, and left a
good savour behind him.” Much might be said of him, but I refer to
the _Several Living Testimonies given forth by divers Friends
concerning him, and his Faithful Labours and Travels_, printed in
1691.
Footnote 41:
The above is the last mention of Leonard Fell, whose name has
frequently occurred in the progress of this Journal. Very little
is known of him but that he was a faithful minister amongst the
early Friends.
I feel inclined to insert an anecdote respecting him, as an
instance among others that might be adduced, of the carrying out
of the non-resistant principle. The conduct of several “Friends”
who, having “fallen among thieves,” were, of course, precluded
from retaliating violence, even in their own defence, affords an
exemplification of this feature in the Christian character.
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