Testimonies concerning deceased ministers, presented to the yearly meeting of Friends, 1837 |
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2nd month 3rd month 6th month afflicted alarmingly ill became believing it right beloved friend burial-ground Carlisle cation character Christian testimonies Clerk comfort conflict of mind consistent with thy death decease deep baptisms Divine grace Divine mercy Dublin duty ELIZABETH KIDD enabled endeavoured engaged eternity exhort fear feel fervency of spirit followed cunningly devised foregoing testimony friend THOMAS SHILLITOE friend was born GEORGE STACEY gospel held the 28th Holy Holy Spirit interred in Friends Jesus Christ JOSEPH BINNS labours late dear friend living faith London and Middlesex Lord MARY STACEY Meeting by GEORGE mercifully Middlesex Quarterly Meeting miliating minister ministry NICHOLSON outward concerns peace pearl gates peculiarly felt period above alluded praise professing with Friends Redeemer religious visit remarked removal to Tottenham righteousness Saviour Scripture season Signed by direction solemn soul SOUTHWARK testi TESTIMONY From TOTTENHAM testimony on behalf thing TOTTENHAM MONTHLY MEETING unto WHITEHAVEN Yearly Meeting Zion
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Page 20 - ... times tried them, his love and affection were such as to prove the sincerity of his heart and the kindness of his intentions. He was often brought very low, partly arising from nervous feelings, and partly from the religious exercises of mind which he passed through : he was also not unfrequently very cheerful. This was strikingly the case after the performance of any act of duty, to which he had believed himself called. In these acts of dedication, he was faithful and persevering, however humiliating...
Page 8 - О death, where is thy sting? О grave, where is thy victory ? The sting of death is sin ; and the strength of sin is the Law. But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Page 16 - ... eternal life is the wages of any good work of ours. (The wages of sin is death, but eternal life is the gift of God, through Jesus Christ our Lord™...
Page 25 - In the course of the evening of that day he was visited by a friend, who found him in extreme weakness, but in the possession of his mental powers. He observed that it was difficult to maintain patience.
Page 18 - Divine will ; yet he was often sensible that he had strong temptations to follow the vanities, and follies of this world. He had a great fondness for gay apparel, and felt that his peace was concerned in mortifying this disposition ; and he faithfully bore his cross in this as well as in other things. In the course of his services as banker's clerk, he had to purchase lottery tickets for country correspondents, and to do some other things which troubled him.
Page 25 - He further observed, that he had no works or merit of his own to carry with him on that beautiful road, nor any claim to prefer at the pearl gates, but the love and mercy of that Saviour who shed his precious blood for him. On the Friends' taking leave of him, he expressed that he felt love to all his friends without exception, emphatically adding,
Page 26 - He quietly passed away from time to eternity, on the 12th of the 6th month, 1836, and his remains were interred in our burial-ground at Tottenham, on the 17th of the same. He was about eighty-two years old, and had been a minister upwards of fifty years ; and we believe, that to this aged servant of God may be applied the words of Holy Scripture ; " Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth ; yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours, and their works do follow...
Page 19 - ... as in other things. In the course of his services as banker's clerk, he had to purchase lottery tickets for country correspondents, and to do some other things which troubled him. Hence, as he was a man of a tender conscience, he became uneasy in his new situation ; he sought for Divine guidance, and after many conflicts of mind, gave up his place, and thought it his duty to learn the trade of a shoemaker, an employment which he followed as long as he continued in business. The confinement of...
Page 10 - STACEY, who was enabled, through the course of a long life, to show forth the praises of Him who had called her out of darkness into His marvellous light.
Page 25 - A hope was expressed to him, that although the body was brought very low, the mind was anchored on the unfailing Rock; he promptly replied, "O! yes: — -if it were not so, what should I now do, or what would now become of me ? Ah! truly, I am a poor creature every way, wholly dependent on the mercy of my Redeemer ; and if he do but admit the pearl gates to be so far opened, that I may be admitted within them, it will be enough. O ! I see the goodly land before me, and the glorious journey thither;...