that incorruptible Inheritance which is reserved for the Righteous, when time here fhall be

no more.

He departed this Life the 28th of the Eighth Month 1748, in the Seventy fifth Year of his Age, having been concerned in publick Testimony upwards of Forty Years.

A Testimony from the Monthly-meeting of Settle in Yorkshire, concerning THOMAS CARR.

TH

HIS our dear, worthy and well-esteemed Friend, was defcended of honeft Parents, at Longrig near Settle, in the Third Month 1670; and, when very young, the Lord was pleased to visit him, as he often declared, with the Inbreakings of divine Virtue; under which Vifitations, he was very folicitous to find out a People under the fame Influence he experienced; and after going from one Society to another, he found not, as he thought, any under fuch a Heart - melting Work as the Lord was pleafed to exercise him with ; under which he remained difconfolate, till one time, when alone, the Lord's Power tendered his Heart to that degree, that he was willing to be as paffive Clay in his Hand; and defired to know what he fhould do, or to what People he fhould join himself, as Companions to his tribulated Soul. It then appeared to him, that the

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the People called Quakers were favoured with the fame Truth, Life and Power, that he had a Sense of; though it was more contrary to his own Will to join with them, than to any other Perfwasion.

In the Year 1690 he joined Friends, and foon after came forth in Teftimony for the Truth, being then about Twenty one Years of Age; in which he continued a faithful Labourer till his Death. He travelled in the Work of the Ministry, and vifited the Meetings of Friends in Scotland, Ireland, and most Parts of England, approving himself a found and able Minifter of the Gofpel.

He was a large Experiencer of the Work of God, and the deep Myfteries of the Heavenly Kingdom, having clear Openings in Meetings to declare of and unfold the fame, in the Demonstration of the Spirit, to the comforting and establishing of Friends in their Journey Sion-ward. He was not only an Afferter of the true Faith and Doctrine of our Lord and Saviour Jefus Chrift, in a found and intelligible Teftimony, but also one who, through a long Course of time, was careful to adorn the Doctrine of our holy Profeffion, by a circumfpect Life and godly Converfation; wherein the Fruits of the Spirit, to wit, Love, Joy, Peace, Long-fuffering, Gentleness, Goodness, Faith, Meekness and Temperance, did fhine forth to the Praise and Glory of God. Being thus qualified, and of a meek and peaceable Difpofition,

Difpofition, he was well efteemed by Friends

and others.

He was very exemplary in attending religious Meetings for Worship, and the Discipline of the Church, at the Time appointed; and in our Monthly - meetings eminently ferviceable, being zealous to fupport good Order therein. His Advice was folid and weighty, seasoned with Grace; fo that when any Differences appeared, he was very helpful, by endeavouring to compofe the fame in an amicable Manner; not leaning to any Patry through Favour or Affection, but laboured that the Affairs of the Church might be established, to the Honour of him who hath not only laid the Foundation, but crowned the Labour of the Faithful with Peace.

Our dear Friend, for fome Years before his Departure, was violently afflicted with the Stone and Gravel, which often rendered him incapable of getting to Meetings; but when he had a little Eafe he diligently attended; and, when there, frequently opened in a living and powerful Testimony, being fresh and lively in old Age, to the comforting and refreshing thofe prefent, and earneftly concerned to ftir up Friends to Faithfulness.

In the last Meeting he attended, he was in a fweet Heavenly Frame of Mind, faying,Oh! the Melody that is in Heaven: Then, or at another Time, fervently praying, That the

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fweet

weet Sound of the Gospel might be heard in that Place.

Two Days before his Departure he broke forth in a lively Manner, uttering many comfortable Expreffions in praifing and glorifying his Creator, many times repeating thefe Words, The Goodness of the Lord endures for ever; adding, The Tongue and Pen of Man cannot declare it to the full: Which caused Brokennefs of Heart in the Hearers.

He departed this Life the 17th of the Third Month 1750, we truft, in Peace with the Lord, and in perfect Unity with his Brethren, and was decently interred in Friends Burying Ground at Settle, the 20th of the fame.

Aged Eighty, a Minifter Fifty nine Years.

A Teftimony from the Monthly-meeting of Lancafter, concerning ELIZABETH RAWLINSON.

HE was a Branch fprung from a pious Stock; her Father and Mother, William and Dorothy Beck, gave her a fober careful Education, and lived to fee their Labour and Prayers for her were bleffed with Succefs; for it pleased the merciful Lord to reach her Heart by divine Love, and to lay his gracious Hand upon her, to prepare and qualify her for his Work, when she was very young; and about the Seventeenth Year of her Age, the came

forth

forth in a publick Teftimony for the Truth, which the held, and was fruitful in to the End.

She travelled much, and went many Journeys, in her Youth, before fhe married; vifited Friends Meetings in Scotland, and many Parts of England and Wales; fome Counties divers times over; and after fhe was married to Abraham Rawlinson, he had her Liberty, with fuitable Encouragement from him, to dif charge the Truft her great Mafter reposed in her, and which she preferred above her chiefeft Joy in this World, being made willing to leave an affectionate Hufband, and feveral tender Children, to vifit the Churches both in this Nation and Ireland, several times over ; and feeling her Mind drawn by divine Love to vifit Friends in divers Parts of America, fhe was not disobedient to the Heavenly Vision, but when she believed her Time was fully come, left all and went forth in that Journey, vifited the Meetings fully in New-England, RhodeIfland, Nantucket, Long-Island, New-York, Penfilvania, the Ferfeys, Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina; in all which, notwithstanding the Extreams of the Seafons, her Age, and the Tenderness of her Sex, fhe was enabled to furmount the Difficulties, and perform that Service to the Honour of Truth, the Satisfaction of Friends, and the Peace of her own Soul So that it may be truly faid, the lived and walked in the Faith which made her valiant

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