THEMICAL LIBRARY ZAAKRIDGE MASS,

173.938 Sept 14, 1948

686 Fri

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.

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,
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

I

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.

K

Kirby, colonel, his persecution of George Fox, 59,

72.

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.

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 solicitations of their friends, the subscribers consequently the expense of their works, have been induced to undertake the labour of would be much lessened, their excellent con- editing and publishing the proposed periodical, tents presented to the reader in a more attrac-under the title of "Friends' Library," protive form, and their intrinsic value enhanced. vided a sufficient subscription shall be obThese writings have become extremely tained to defray the expenses. 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.