Milldam in am in the Forrest of OR Historical Account OF THE Menit LIFE, TRAVELS, and OF THAT Antient, Faithful Servant of JESUS CHRIST, I will fend those that escape of them unto the Nations, to Tarthish, Pull, The THIRD EDITION. LONDON: Printed and Sold by LUKE HINDE, at the BIBLE. THE TESTIMONY OF THE Monthly-Meeting of FRIENDS IN PHILADELPHIA, Concerning our Antient, Worthy FRIEND, T HE Chriftian Experiences of the Faithful [iv] These Confiderations engage us to preface the Writings of this our esteemed Friend and Elder in the Truth, with this Teftimony concerning him. He was a Member of our Monthly-Meeting above *Forty Years, fo that fome of us had Opportunities of being intimately acquainted with him, and of knowing his Fidelity and Diligence in promoting the Caufe of Truth, and the Edification of the Church of Chrift; this having been the principal Engagement and Concern of his Mind, and which he preferred to any other Confideration; as will evidently appear to those, who, with an honest and unprejudiced Intention, perufe his Journal of his Life and Travels. By this it will appear, that he was, in the early Part of his Life, fenfibly affected with the Vifitation of divine Life and Grace, and, by adhering thereunto, was preferved from the Vanities and Follies, which often divert and alienate the Minds of Youth from the due Remembrance and awful Regard of their Creator; fo that he was enabled to bear a Teftimony of Chriftian Patience and Self-denial in his youthful Days, and, by keeping under that Exercife, as he advanced in Years, attained to. further Knowledge and Experience in the Work of Religion, in which he had a Sight of the Neceffity of keeping in a State of Humility, and of bearing the Crofs of Chrift, which mortified him to the World; fp that the Lofs many fuftain by the anxious Pur [v] fuit of the lawful Things thereof appearing to him, he was concerned to avoid it, and in Obedience to the Precept of Christ, To feek first the Kingdom of God, and his Righteousness, having Faith in his Promife, That all thefe Things (neceffary for him) should be added. Thus the Love of God influencing his Mind, and opening his Understanding, he became concerned for the general Good of Mankind, and received a Gift of the Miniftry of the Gospel of Chrift, before he had attained the Age of Twenty-one Years; in the publick Exercife of which, he foon after travelled thro' many Parts of England, and into Scotland, and the next Year, being 1697, he came to vifit Friends in this and the adjacent Provinces of America, where his Ministry and Converfation were to the Comfort and Edification of the Faithful (as fome of us can with Satisfaction declare, from our Knowledge and Remembrance of him at that Time) and the near Fellowship and Union he then had with Friends here (we believe) contributed to his more fpeedy Determination of fettling among us, which he afterwards thought it his Duty to do, tho' the leaving his Parents and Relations (as he afterwards expreffed) was no fmall Crofs to him, being of a dutiful and affectionate Difpofition. After fixing his Refidence amongst us, he perfever'd in his Concern and Labour for the Edification of the Churches, and gathering People to Faith and Dependance on the inward Teachings |