Fashions, 132, 136, 181, 226–235, 265.
Feasts, 135.

Fifth-monarchy-men, 11, 49.

Fire in London, 67.
Fletcher, Mary, 446.

Hat, George Fox appears in court with it on, 37,
42; suffering on account of, 53, 231; William
Savery and David Sands ordered to take off
theirs, 406.

Hireling ministers, 133, 136.

Holy

Scriptures; doctrines proved by them; preach-
ing from them, 16; not put in place of
Christ, 17, 21, 23, 24, 29, 34; the words
of God, but Christ is the Word, 35, 37,
107; proposals for printing, 121; read-
ing, 145; rejected by some in Ireland,
450.

Spirit, the teacher of men, 15, 17; offices

of, 18, 23, 29, 34, 37, 39, 44; universally
given, 60, 146. Christopher Story's tes-
timony to the gift of the Spirit, 163;
William Savery's testimony, 378.

Honour, 216, 218.
Hookes, Ellis, 66.
Hooton, Elizabeth, 30.
Hoskens, Jane, life of, 460.
Hotham, justice, 34.
Howgill, Francis, 48.
Hubberthorn, Richard, 37, 49, 54.

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Fox, George, memoir of, 27; integrity and simpli-
city, 28; directed to Christ as his Saviour,
30; first imprisoned, 31; cruelly beaten, 31;
cries against injustice and sports, 32; asked
whether any of the Quakers were Christ, 33;
called Quaker, 33; imprisoned at Derby, 33;
cruelly used and charged with blasphemy, 34,
35; sent up to Cromwell, 36; hue and cry
after him, 37; is arrested; writes against
oaths, 37; imprisoned, 38; at Bristol, 39; de-
scribes the spreading of Truth, 39; ministry,
&c., 42; Wales and Scotland, 44; ordered Holy
before the magistrates at Edinburgh, 45; ar-
gues against college education for the minis-
try, 45; writes against fasts, 45; writes to
parliament, 47; to wreckers, 47; Yearly
Meeting at Balby, 47; General Meeting at
Skipton, 48; imprisoned at Lancaster, 48;
addresses the king, 49; at the bar of king's
bench, 49; recites the sufferings of Friends,
53; writes against J. Perrot, 55, 61; against
swearing, 56; arrested again and liberated,
57; a reward offered for, 59; visits colonel
Kirby, 59; arrested; oath tendered to him at
Lancaster assize; conversation with judge
Trisden, 59, 62; writes against fighting, 60;
acts as a Christian under persecution, 63;
suffers greatly in prison, 63; removed to
Scarborough, 64; discourse on the universal-
ity of the light of Christ and the efficacy of
his death, 64; on plain language, oaths, the
church, tithes, marriage, &c., 65; liberated,
66; foretells the end of the Turkish war, 67;
at Skipton meeting, 68; sets up Meetings for
Discipline, and recommends them to Friends
in other parts, 69; conversation with a Pa-
pist, 70; visits Ireland, 72; marries, 74; writes
to justices, 75; embarks for America, 78;
writes respecting the Indians, &c., 79; an ad-
dress to the governor of Barbadoes, 80; re-
turns to England, and is arrested in Worces-
tershire, 85; released, 86; visits Holland,
87, 95; gift of Swarthmore, 96; last post-
script he wrote to Yearly Meeting's epistle, Kirby, colonel, his persecution of George Fox, 59,
100; death, 103.
Friends, take no part in revolutions of the state,
10, 19; pretexts for persecuting them, 10;
laws passed against them, 11; many reduced
to destitution, 12; opposition to tithes and a
forced maintenance, &c., 15; acknowledge
the authority of Holy Scripture; offices of
the Holy Spirit, 17; character, 19; effects of

Independents, rise and character, 6; put an end to
the commonwealth and parliament, 9.
Indians, 21, 79, 331; pacific Indians, 339; prison-
ers, 338, 341; treaty, 349.
Infidelity in Ireland, 437, 440, 441, 450.
Informers, 151, 152, 186.
Introduction, 3. Ceremonies introduced as the

substance of religion decayed. Reformers'
first duty was to draw from these rites. The
Light leads back to simplicity. Successive
reformations aimed at greater spirituality,
Reformation under Edward VI., 4.

J

Jesus Christ, character and doctrine, 298, &c.
John the Baptist, 300.
Justification, 17, 18.

72.

K

L

Language, plain, 32, 64, 132.
Latey, Gilbert, life of, 167.
Laud, archbishop, 8.

Laws enacted or enforced against Friends, 10, 11,

12.

Learning, useful, recommended by George Fox, 23. Pickering, Timothy, speech to the Indians, 362,
Leicestershire, 29.

Marriages, legality questioned, 55, 65; order in it, Prison discipline, 20.

Meetings for Discipline, establishment of, 116, Puritans, 4, 5, 7, 8.

Superfluities, Gilbert Latey refuses to deal in, Waldenses, 304.

Toleration, opposed, 7; Act, under William and Worship, houses of; practice of visiting different

FRIENDS' LIBRARY.

PROSPECTUS.

their faithfulness, the way has been opened for their successors to enjoy unmolested that AMONG the means of promoting the cause liberty of conscience, for the exercise of which of religion and disseminating a correct know- they endured long and severe persecution. ledge of the principles which distinguish the They have transmitted to us, as a precious religious Society of Friends, the general cir- inheritance, the profession of those Christian culation of the approved Writings of those doctrines and testimonies, in support of which members whose lives were devoted to the they nobly contended. A solemn and imperacause of Christ, and distinguished by con- tive obligation rests on us to maintain them formity to his sacred precepts, is calculated to inviolate. It is both our duty and our interest be peculiarly useful. Those eminent men who to be intimately conversant with their wriwere instrumental, in the Divine Hand, in tings; to imitate their piety and devotedness, gathering us to be a distinct people, were re-and to strive to be imbued with that fervour markable for the depth of their religious expe- and heavenly mindedness which so conspirience, and for the clearness of their percep-cuously marked their example. tions of the truths of Christianity. Their sin- The press is teeming in the present day with gleness of heart, their separation from the light and trivial publications, as well as with policy and friendships of the world, their inti-those, which, though ostensibly of a religious mate and practical acquaintance with the Holy character, contain sentiments repugnant to our Scriptures, and their attention to the unfold- views of Scripture truth. The perusal of the ings of the Spirit of Truth, eminently quali- former has a decided tendency to dissipate the fied them to distinguish the purity and spiritu- mind, to unfit it for serious meditation, and to ality of the Gospel dispensation, from the errors destroy the relish for works of a more solid with which human wisdom had obscured it. and practical kind; while the latter are calcuThey did not profess to have made any new lated to weaken the attachment to our Chrisdiscoveries in religion, nor had they a new tian testimonies, and to instil opinions adverse Gospel to preach. Their work was to pro-to their support. To counteract these evils; mulgate, in their original simplicity, the doc- to imbue the minds of the youth with the trines set forth by our blessed Lord and his knowledge and the love of our principles, and apostles; and hence they always declared their willingness, that both their principles and practices should be tried by the Holy Scriptures, and that whatsoever was repugnant to their testimony, should be rejected as false. They were "bold in asserting the truth; patient in suffering for it, and unwearied in their labours for its advancement," unmoved alike by the frowns or favours of the world. Through VOL. 1.--No. 1.

of their honourable predecessors, the study of the selected writings of Friends could not fail to be a valuable auxiliary. Many of their journals are replete with interest and instruction, and can scarcely be read but with profit and pleasure. It is true, that owing to the peculiar style of the times in which they were written, some of them are prolix and redundant; and the frequent disputes with its oppo

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solicitations of their friends, the subscribers have been induced to undertake the labour of editing and publishing the proposed periodical, under the title of "Friends' Library," provided a sufficient subscription shall be obtained to defray the expenses.

nents, in which the Society was engaged, oc-ings for Sufferings; and within the past year, casion many of them to be of a controversial increased anxiety has been expressed that it character. Some of them too, were tempora- might be carried into effect, by the publication ry, adapted only to the circumstances which of them periodically, and in a connected sethey were designed to meet, and of course ries. Influenced by the desire to promote this have lost much of their interest. By a judi- important object, and in compliance with the cious selection and abridgment, the bulk, and consequently the expense of their works, would be much lessened, their excellent contents presented to the reader in a more attractive form, and their intrinsic value enhanced. These writings have become extremely scarce and costly. Many of them are not to Their aim will be, to give the work as be bought at all, and from various causes there much interest and value, as a careful research is no probability they will be reprinted in sin-into the literature of the Society will furnish; gle volumes; while those of modern date are to embrace the standard doctrinal treatises; becoming more difficult of access. While the stock of Friends' books is thus decreasing, the number of our members, who ought to be conversant with them, is augmenting; and unless some more effectual mode of supplying the wants of the Society is adopted, the access to its approved writings must soon be limited to comparatively few. When we consider the rapid increase, and the wide spread of our members in new settlements, where books, and the means to procure them, are alike difficult to obtain, that many of the youth are growing up to maturity with scarcely any opportunity of reading Friends' books; the obligation which rests on those more favourably situated, to make an effort for relieving them from these disadvantages, assumes a serious aspect. Impressed with these considerations, Friends in various parts of the United States, have repeatedly expressed the desire, that a new edition of the writings of the Society, judiciously abridged, should be issued. The subject has engaged the attention of several of the Meet

the journals of Friends; the history of the Society, and biographical notices of some distinguished individuals who have left no printed memoirs; with such other original or selected matter as may comport with the design. In the prosecution of this plan they anticipate assistance from some of their friends, and design to submit the whole to the inspection of a committee of the Meeting for Sufferings.

Nearly all the Yearly Meetings having approved the proposed plan, and recommended it to Friends, it is respectfully suggested, that Monthly and Preparative Meetings take measures to promote subscriptions among their members. Friends who may feel an interest in the undertaking, will confer a favour by forwarding to the editors the names of subscribers, stating the Post-Offices to which their copies shall be sent.

WILLIAM EVANS,
THOMAS EVANS.

Philadelphia, Second mo. 8, 1836.