L.
Laity and clergy, 218.
Light and grace teaches to fear and love God, 29;
also, duty to all, 30, 35, 37, 46; necessity of
owning, 47; leads to believe in Christ, 67;
Friends' belief in relation thereto, 279, 280,
357; false pretences to it, 391.
Lightfoot, Susanna; J. Gough's account of, 460.
M.

Marriage, 53, 54, 165, 353.

Mediation of Christ, &c., 67, 78, 85, 413.
Meetings, neglect of, testified against, 28, 48; to
be held in the power of the Lord, 55;
diligence in attending, 58.
Meetings for Discipline, 55, 182; character of
of members, 363.

Ministers, Gospel, their work, 62; qualification,
280, 330; advice to them, 359, 401, 403,
405, 407, 433, 437.
Morality not to be relied on, 360.

Naylor, James, 257.

N.

0.

Oldham, James, remarkably pious man, 419.
Oxley, Joseph, address to his children, 415; life

and travels, 416; convincement, 419; re-
moves to Fakenham, 420; accompanies his
uncle to London, 422; appears as a minister,
424; marriage, 427; travels with Edmund
Peckover, 427; death of his wife, 428; se-
cond marriage, 429; Barbara Everhard, ex-
traordinary instance of the power of divine
grace, 431; advice to ministers, 433; visits
Ireland, 434; great preservation; returns
home, 437; prospect of visiting America,
443; lands at New York, 451; travels
south, 454; returns to Philadelphia; parts
from Samuel Neale and sets out eastward,
462; visits Clement Willis, 463; arrives
again in Philadelphia, and thence visits the
Jerseys, Delaware, &c., 469; embarks for
England, 475.

P.

Parents, advice to, 53, 290, 355, 358, 377, 395.
Peckover, Edmund, 441.
Persecution, dangers of freedom from it, 62, 63;
threats to burn a meeting-house with
Friends in it; by a priest who fell after-
wards as dead, 204.

National Meeting, 390; letters, 397; extract
from his will, 413.
Pike, Richard, 351.

Perrott, John, 264.
Pike, Joseph, his life, 340; advice on marriage,
353; advice to parents, 358; reached by the
ministry of William Edmundson, 358; advice
to ministers, 359; testimony to plainness,
360; invited to become a member of Cork
Monthly Meeting, 363; attends a meeting at
Bristol with Friends and the Separatists, 364;
accompanied William Penn to Holland, 366;
his respect for his elders, 366; exposed to
danger from war, 366; joins in the work of
reformation, 368; remarks on plainness, 369,
372; cleanses his own house of superfluities
before he enters on a family visit, 371; re-
marks on discipline, 372; of the practice of
family visits, 378; epistle to the Half-year's
Dublin Meeting, 385; writes again to the

Plainness, 52, 53, 98, 360; departure from it, 369;
reasons for, 372, 375, 379; degeneracy,
393; anecdote from T. Story's journal, 396.

Prayer, 178, 188, 329.

Q.
Quakers, charges against, 75.
R.

Randall, Francis, account of, 384.
Ranters, 121.

Regeneration, 292, 323.
Revelation, immediate, 216, 323.
Roberts, John, 283.

S.

Samm, Mary, granddaughter of W. Dewsbury, 287.
Separation, 25, 29, 124; of Story and Wilkinson,
194; of E. Nightingale, 308; by Keith,
325; Wilkinson and Story, 364; set-
ting up separate meetings, 392.

Slaves, 463.

Spirit of Truth, false pretences to it, 62; John
Banks' testimony of it, 67.

Steel, John, his testimony against Wilkinson and
Story, 364.

Stirredge, Elizabeth, the life of, 184; testimony to
King Charles, 192; visits justices met to
appraise their distrained goods, 193; trial
from Story and Wilkinson, 194; Miles
Halhead's visit, 196; her testimony to
the mayor of Bristol, 200; extraordinary
service at a grave and examination be-
fore the justice, 202; threatened with
Subordination in the church, 55, 374, 376.
burning, 204; discharge from jail, 208.
Suffering, constancy under it, 58. 60.

Waln, Nicholas, his first appearance in the min-
istry, 474.

War in Ireland, 130, 366.
Watson, John, memoir of, 477.
Watson, William, memoir of, 478.
Willis, Clement, long confined with disease, 463.
Wilson, Thomas, journal, 310, extraordinary vis-

itation at a Friends' meeting, 319; tra-
vels in the ministry in Ireland, 320; the
motion ceased and he went to harvesting;
returns to England, and at Kendal the word
of the Lord came mightily upon him at a
disturbed meeting, 321; converses with an
informer; remarkable meeting, 322; visits
Ireland; and travelled through parts of Eng-
land, 323; embarks for America; divine in-
terposition, 324; meets with George Keith,
325; signal preservation, 327; conspiracy
of the blacks, 327; tornado, 328; second
visit to America, 329; conversation with a
Baptist, 330; death, 333.
Worships of the world, 51, 217.

Friendly Reader,

THE labours of the servants of God ought always to be precious in the eyes of his people; and for that reason the very fragments of their services are to be gathered up for edification. It is this which induces us to exhibit the following pages to public view, as well as the hope that it may please God to make them profitable to such as seriously peruse them. We have always found the Lord ready to second the services of his worthies upon the spirits of their readers; not suffering that which is his own to go without a voucher in every conscience; I mean those divine truths which it has pleased him to reveal by his own blessed Spirit; without which no man can rightly perceive the things of God, or be spiritually-minded, which is life and peace. This indeed is the only saving evidence of heavenly truths; which made that excellent apostle say, "We know that we are of God, and that the whole world lieth in wickedness." In that day, true religion and undefiled before God and the Father, consisted in visiting the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and keeping unspotted from the world: not merely a godly tradition, of what others have enjoyed, but the experimental enjoyment and knowledge thereof, by the operation of the Divine power in their own hearts, which makes the inward Jew and accomplished Christian, whose praise is not of men but of God. Such are Christians of Christ's making, who can say with the apostle, "It is not we that live, but Christ that liveth in us;" dying daily to self, and VOL. II.-No. 1.

rising up, through faith in the Son of God, to newness of life. Here formality bows to reality; memory to feeling, letter to spirit, and form to power; which brings to the regeneration, without which no man can inherit the kingdom of God; and by which he is enabled in every state to cry Abba, Father. Thou wilt see a great deal of this in the following author's writings; and that he rightly began with a just distinction between true wisdom and the fame of wisdom; what was of God, and taught of God, and what was of man and taught by man-which last at best is but a sandy foundation for religion to be built upon, or rather the faith and hope of man in reference to religion, and salvation by it. Oh! that none who make profession of the dispensation of the Spirit, may build beside the work of Jesus Christ in their own souls, in reference to his prophetical, priestly, and kingly offices. For God his Father gave him, as a tried stone, elect and precious, to build by and upon; in which great and glorious truth, we do most humbly beseech the Almighty, who is the God of the spirits of all flesh, the Father of lights and spirits, to ground and establish all his visited and convinced ones, that so they may grow up unto a holy house and building to the Lord. So shall purity, peace, and charity abound in the house and sanctuary which he hath pitched, and not man.

As to this worthy man, the author of the following treatises, I may say, his memorial is blessed, having known him above forty-four years. He was a heavenly minister of experi

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