England, the power of the Lord suddenly seized my soul, and his love melted me into a flood of tender tears. But hitherto I knew not that the call of the Lord was to me to visit those parts; tho' from henceforth I began to be afraid."

147. "Since this calling of God cannot be answered by any one too much entangled in other affairs, though the employment in itself be very lawful, and to the reason of man seeming needful"-he gives up his legal business.

149. "Here it may be regular to mention my companion Roger Gill, and how we came to be concerned together in this work and service of the Gospel. We being together at a meeting in Southwark, and each of us having had some service there, I found my mind very free and open towards him, and discovered something of my concern to him for America, as we went together into the city, and asked him if he knew of any ministring friend concerned for those parts, for I wanted a companion. To which, being silent for some time, he replied, 'It is now long since I was first concerned that way; the last night in my sleep, was as if making all things ready for my voyage.' To which I replied, 'Is it no more but a dream yet?' And so we left it for that time."

150. Roasting ears and fat boar are the food for good Indians in their Paradise, the former being maize before it is full ripe, "which, roasted in the fire, eats very sweet, like asparagus, or green pease."

165. G. Keith's daughter.

179. At a place in Connecticut, when the constables dispersed their hearers, "then we went into the streets, and through them, my companion crying with a loud voice all along, 'Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabitants of this place, who profess God and Christ, without the knowledge of God, and void of his fear;' with some such other words in that power and dread that amazed many of the people."

182. A minister having preached from Isaiah lv. 1, 2, 3, Story called to the congregation and told them, "they were not from thenceforth to pay any thing to their ministers for preaching, since they had made open proclamation that all was now to be without money or price."

190. Fairfield, Connecticut. "The inhabitants had among them a very large flock of sheep, under one shepherd; and they had, in their turns, the flock folded on their lands, at a certain price for each night, to manure them, by which they raised as much money as paid their minister, and discharged some other public expenses besides. This gave my companion occasion to say to those ministers, that he had read in the Scriptures of some who fed themselves with the fat, and clothed themselves with the wool, and fed not the flock; but the like of them he had never heard of before, who fed both of the flock, and the dung of the flock."

194. At their inn they repeated to the people that "from thenceforth they ought not to pay any more for preaching, since they might have the wine of the kingdom, and the milk of the word, without money or price."

220. "To a meeting on occasion of a

175. "We'll pay you the tobacco,' said some of the people, after this Quaker had abused their priest, 'being obliged thereto by law (that is, 40 lbs. of tobacco for every negro slave); but we will never hear you more.'"

176. Story advised them not to pay.

Bay came, and were pretty still most part of the time, save only an old man, who sometimes hooted like an owl, and made a ridiculous noise, as their manner is."

"Now that which these Ranters would be at, is a liberty to all that profess truth to do what they list, without being reproved, or accountable to any person or people;

for, say they, to be accountable to man is bondage; and for man to judge is vain, | since those actions he may censure may be done in the motion of the Holy Seed and Spirit of Christ; under which pretence they would cover many lewd and vile practices, by reason whereof we had sometimes been upbraided and reproached in Connecticut colony, where some of them in times past had appeared, in their extravagant ravings, under the name of Quakers."

225. Roger Gill, his companion, prayed at the yearly meeting at Philadelphia, "with great zeal and earnestness, that the Lord would be pleased to accept of his life as a sacrifice for his people, that a stop might be put to the contagion.' I thought he would be taken at his word, though no such sacrifices in such cases are required; only therein appeared his great love and concern for friends whom he had come so far to see." A.D. 1699. He took the disease and died.

229. "Held the meeting at Tuccaho, which was pretty large and well, the whip of small cords being well employed to scourge the buyers and sellers out of the Temple; and there was likewise clean water, to wash the tables, and cleanse the steps."

245. Penn prevails upon him to remain in Pennsylvania.

254. At Fairfield (New York ?). "And so, having set holy fire and sword from the Lord in the bowels of the town, we left it in flames, but not to destruction, every man against his neighbour and brother; which, may it never cease, till the Prince of Peace is known to reconcile them unto himself and the Father, and to govern in them."

256. A. D. 1702. Fever at New York. 258-9. G. Keith. They were evidently afraid to hold a disputation with him.

Story says, "returning by way of Virginia for England, he became a parish priest, and died very poor and miserable."

264. A. D. 1704. New England. A law for love of the Quakers-"that such of the inhabitants of that colony as, being qualified, or able to bear arms, and regularly sum

moned, should refuse, they should be fined and refusing to pay the fine, should be imprisoned, and sold, or bound to some of the Queen's subjects within that colony, for so long a time as by their work they might pay their fines and charges."

268. A Judge in New England said to him, "It might be well if they (the Quakers) were all settled in a place by themselves, where they could not be troublesome to others by their contradictious ways." Story replied, "that if they should send us out of all countries where we at present reside, into one by ourselves, if such a one could be found, that would not ease them, for more would spring up unavoidably in our places. For what would the world do, if it should lose its salt and leaven? It would be in great danger of total corruption."

This same Judge, when in the court he ordered "that their hats should be taken off in a civil manner by an officer, said, 'that if he thought there was any religion in a hat, he would have the largest he could purchase for money.'"

268-70. 310-1. Proceedings upon the law for compulsory service.

273. "We had a small, hard, drowsy meeting."

274. A minister whose name was Rollon-God Cotton. See 347.

308. A Presbyterian or Independent told them that " many millions of infants, not a span long, were hanging in hell, because they had sinned in Adam!"

335. His doctrine is, that "God who is omnipresent, is in all mankind, and Christ, the Light of the Father, as inseparable from him in that respect, is in all men."

337. A fast and prayer appointed in one congregation against three great evils, "the cold and backward spring season, which threatened famine; the Indians, who were very troublesome; and for the Quakers, whose spirit of proselytism was the worse plague of the three."

The priest who appointed this was killed by the Indians, in his own house; "at which," says T. S., "I did not rejoice, when

I was informed of it, though I could not but remember his fast and prayers."

347. "That is such an odd name, said I, as I never heard of before, giving occasion to profane the name of God, and take it in vain as often as thou art named."

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466. A meeting at Kendal, “ which was very large, but not so thoroughly seasoned as might have been, by reason of the forwardness of some; which is too often the case of such meetings, where those of least weight and service are often in the way, obstructing the service of such as have the real concern, and are better qualified for the work; a distemper the Church labours too much under in many places at this day, and hath been of great hurt. But in the main we had a good meeting, the Lord being near the faithful; and I, having a little time therein one day, was pretty easy."

474. Oxford. "Went to most of the colleges, and viewed the buildings and gardens, which in their kinds are pleasant and commodious; but that very great load and power of darkness which I felt (not the like in all South Britain) was so much an overbalance to any satisfaction I had therein, that I think I shall never see them any more."

This was in 1715; and while he was there, the mob, with gownsmen enough among them, gutted the Presbyterian and Quaker meeting-houses.

476. "This wicked place!" he calls it. "This is one of the blind eyes of this poor nation! This is one of the filthy fountains of their religion and learning, from whence the whole land is poisoned and undone.— What learning can they have who are destitute of all principles of civil behaviour.”

489. Amsterdam. A. D. 1715. He " expects little but exercise in all these parts, seeing at how low an ebb things are every where. Some of the ancients who were as pillars, are gone into whims, and the young ones to the world and the ways of it without reproof; nay, by encouragement from their parents, whilst they themselves continue to profess the holy truth."

675. Oxford. "Soon after I arrived, my mind became loaden with that power of gross darkness, that may be felt constantly attending and prevailing in that seat of wisdom and subtlety, but not of God."

"Of all places wherever I have been, these scholars of Oxford were the rudest, most giddy, and unruly rabble, and most mischievous."

742. Manchester. "I was at the meetings both forenoon and after; but some unskilful travellers being there at the same time, and but novices in the work, they took up all the time in both meetings, (for some can preach, such as it is, when they will, and what they will,) so that I was exceedingly loaden, and sensible friends grieved, and others were disappointed."

757. "I informed the Duke (Somerset) that many of the petitioners (against the Bill for the relief of the Quakers) were threepenny curates. The Duke asked, what are they? I replied, that I had been informed they were poor clergymen without benefices, and had but few friends, and perhaps some of them Nonjurors, who hang on about the town, looking for preferment, and being very indigent, say prayers for the richer sort for threepence a time, which is paid, twopence in farthings, and a dish of coffee."

HACKET'S Life of Archbishop Williams.
P. 4.

T is Casaubon who first said
“Est Historia nihil aliud, nisi
Philosophia quædam exemplis
utens."

7. His little sleep, only three hours in twenty-four; so that " he lived almost twice as much as any man that lived no longer." 8. The University discipline began to be more remiss in those days than in by-gone ages.

11. He varied his studies once a month. 14. A good remark upon the Greek and Latin canons being imperfectly understood. Salmasius.

16. "O that such as are rigidly addicted to their own fancies would define less, and leave more charitable allowance to their weak, or at least dissenting brethren! O that there were less inclosure and more common pasturage in the church!"

"Até and the Furies of contention came among us out of Belgia with these names." (Remonstrants, &c.)

Calvinistic questions. 17. "By deep inspection it will appear that many such opinions are of as even choice as two shillings, though not of the same stamp, yet of the same weight; it is all one which you receive in pay."

18. Williams's oratory.

34. "He used to say the way to get the credit from the Nonconformists was to outpreach them; who in great part were covetous, cross-grained, half-witted, and distractious; and had nothing but much preaching to make them plausible and popular. No marvel if such had crept into

50. Williams's indignation against those who would have had the King raise money without concurrence of Parliament.

54. The King "preferred him to be great in place, because he knew he was great in courage. The supporters of the steps of Solomon's throne were not sheep, but lions. The way to be just is to be inflexible; the way to be inflexible is to be stout, casting all thoughts of fears and favours under feet."

56. "I never saw any of our ministry more abstracted from their studies, continually progging at the Parliament door and in Westminster Hall for many years together, having no calling but that of an evil spirit to raise sedition, than those that were most offended at a Bishop for bestowing some part of his time in a secular place."

64. James's opinion of Laud.
70. James.

71. Court of Honour.

74. His industry.

76. His answer to a lawyer who sought to puzzle him.