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pressed a general satisfaction, wishing for more such opportunities. An elderly woman, of good appearance, said "She had the Gospel in her very soul, and she believed many hearts were pierced."

16th. In the morning she went through Long-alley, calling to repentance, and then passed into the upper part of Moorfields, where she preached to a large concourse of people, and afterwards had something particular to the children, several of whom stood dropping their tears before her. Then coming to the bottom of the Middle-field, finding a renewal of her concern, she appeared, a second time, to a great number. Many expressed much satisfaction, and prayed success might attend her labors.

Returning into the city, soon after twelve o'clock, she appeared by Wood Street end, in Cheapside; afterwards at two different places in Paul's church-yard, and again at Fleet-ditch; scarce less than half an hour at each of the six times, and at some of them more. At every place she was, generally, well received. The strength and distinction she was furnished with, in this great day's work, was matter of admiration to us who accompanied her.

Many of the people, who had followed from place to place, observed with astonishment that she had not only held out, but seemed to grow in strength to the last, and concluded it must be owing to an immediate support from the Divine Power. Some audibly confessed they had a feeling sense of it.

In bringing to a close his narrative of this remarkable visit, Joseph Phipps says:

In the prosecution of it she was generally attended with about half a dozen friends, who were pretty constant, and occasionally, by above fifty others; all of their own voluntary motion. She was cautious of giving offence, and therefore excused herself from accepting the attendance of such, when offered, as, from their particular conduct or general character, might give any occasion of umbrage. Though, in such a public way of appearing, a mixture of such could not be always avoided.

Her practice was, not to set out by the persuasion of others,

nor merely at a venture; but as she found her mind drawn to any part, then and there she went. And though frequently in great weakness, and, as she sometimes said, with so small a portion of faith it was but just perceivable; yet, through the goodness of God, whose cause was her inducement, it arose upon every engagement and increased to such a degree of sufficiency there was no want of anything; it constantly ended in a never-failing supply, fully answerable to every exercise.

CHAPTER X.

DOCTRINAL.

William Penn says of the ministry of Friends in the beginning: "The bent and stress of their ministry was conversion to God, regeneration, and holiness; not schemes of doctrine and verbal creeds, or mere forms of worship." But although their ministry was eminently practical in its character, yet it rested on a substratum of doctrine to which they firmly held, as many of their early records clearly show.

John Burnyeat, of Cumberland, England, was convinced of the Gospel truths which George Fox preached in 1653. His travels in the ministry were extensive, embracing a service of many years. He endured much hardship, suffering, and imprisonment, in England and in Ireland. He also went over much of the settled districts of the United States, and had meetings with the Indians and in Barbadoes. In his autobiography he informs us, he

Had made a high profession of imputative righteousness; that though I lived in the act of sin, the guilt of it should not be charged upon me, but imputed to Christ, and his righteousness imputed to me. I found it otherwise when I was turned unto the Light, which did manifest all reproved things. Then

I came to see that the guilt remained while the body of death remained, and through its power was led into the act of sin. Then I saw there was a need of a Saviour to save from sin, as well as the blood of a sacrificed Christ to blot out sin, and of faith in his name for the remission of sins past. Then began the warfare of true striving to enter the kingdom. Paul's state was seen; the will was present, but power was wanting many times to do. Then was the cry: "O, wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death," and free me from the prevailing power of the law which remained in my members, warring against the law of my mind, which brought me into captivity to the law of sin? All my conceit in my notional faith, and my pretence and hopes of justification thereby, were overthrown. All that I had builded for several years, after acquaintance with the Lord, and the knowledge of Him, and peace with Him, was seen to be but a Babel tower, which God brought confusion upon, and that which never could be perfected to reach to heaven, being out of the faith of his covenant. All my works were confounded by the visitations of God, in his love, and by the springing of the day from on high which discovered things as they were. The Lord brought confusion upon them. I was amazed, and fear beset me on every side, and I began sometimes to fear I was undone for ever, for that had entered into my heart that had turned the fruitful field into a wilderness. The day of God discovered all to be desolation and dryness. My soul was brought into deep lamentation-sorrow such as had never before been my experience. My notion and talk of my imputation of the righteousness of Christ being but my own, which by his spirit I had no seal for, I saw clearly was but like Adam's fig-leaf apron, in which he could not abide the coming of his God. O, the horror that overtook me! O, the poverty and want that my soul saw itself in by Divine light, to which my eye was now turned! The spring of this light manifested all things. The load and burden of many, with myself, became grievous in that day. We began to mourn after a Saviour. We looked for a deliverer. We cried for a helper and a healer. The day of the Lord had overtaken us. The fire and sword which Christ brings upon the earth, through burning and judgment, was begun, by which the filth of our defilement was to be taken away.

A SERMON PREACHED BY FRANCIS CAMFIELD, AT GRACECHURCH-STREET, FIFTH MONTH 14TH, 1693.

My Friends: You have often heard by the servants of the Lord, that have given testimony to Jesus, the only and alone Saviour, you have often heard the report, and the report is true, that there is no name under heaven by which any man can be saved, but the name of Jesus; and you have oftentimes read also in the Holy Scripture, of this Jesus the only and alone Saviour. All the holy prophets gave testimony that He should come; and when He was come, all the holy apostles and ministers of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, gave testimony that He was come, and they were made able ministers of the New Testament, and their great business was (as instruments in the hand of the great God) to turn men from darkness to light, and from the power of satan to the power of God, that they might receive forgiveness of sins, and an inheritance among them that are sanctified; you know the Scripture speaks plentifully after this manner. I hope there are none here, but have believed the testimonies that have been given, but the great thing is, for every one to come to a consideration of this; since you have believed the report that which is every one's concern now, is to examine themselves, whether or no, they are really turned from darkness to the heavenly light. None come to be turned from darkness to light, but they come to know repentance from dead works, and faith towards our Lord Jesus Christ. And as every one comes to know this, they come to know what it is to lay a good foundation. This was the foundation the primitive Christians laid, as you may remember the exhortation of the Apostle in the Epistle to the Hebrews, Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith towards God.

Thus you see he presseth them to go on to perfection, that is the business of every one of you that believe in the name of Jesus, that you keep walking on in the holy way. We that are come to know this holy way, through the riches of the love and grace of the great God to us, it is our main business to walk in this holy way; they that know any thing of true

Christianity, know this to be their great concern, to walk in this holy way that leads to everlasting life. Christ is the way, the truth, and the life; and every one that comes into this way, and walketh in it, they are going on towards perfection. And they are putting off the old man; they feel in themselves a power at work, that crucifies the old man with his deeds, then they go on in the name of the Lord. This power doth work, till every one in their own particular comes to be crucified with Christ. It was the primitive Christian's experience, what the apostle saith of himself: "I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me, and the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me."

Great is the mystery of godliness; you that are engaged in the Christian warfare, and that live the Christian life, and are making war in righteousness against the devil the enemy of your souls, you know that great is this mystery of godliness. This mystery is opened among the disciples of Jesus, among the holy offspring of God, who are begotten again through the Word of eternal life; who, as the holy apostle saith, are begotten of his own will through the word of Truth, that they should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures. We to whom God hath graciously manifested himself, in the blessed Son of his love, our Lord and Saviour Christ Jesus, how ought we to walk as becomes the Gospel? O that the serious and weighty consideration of this, might rest upon every one of us; that we ought to have our conversation as becomes the Gospel of Christ, and be going on to perfection. You know what the apostle speaks: "Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect, but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Jesus Christ." This I am sure every true Christian man and woman will do, as the same apostle did, who saith: "I press towards the mark of the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." And as every one comes to grow up in the life of righteousness, they will come to know an increase of faith, they will grow up in faith, and in that hope which hath been as an anchor to their souls, in the day of their deep exercise, and they will remain steadfast and unmovable, as they walk in the holy way.

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