Select Anecdotes and Instructive Incidents
by John Barclay
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217046183
Paperback|9780217046183
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SELECT ANECDOTES, GEORGE FOX AND fllE GAOLER. I the year 1650, G. Fox was imprisoned at Derby. where he continued in confinement about a year. The keeper of the prison, a high professor of religion, was greatly enraged against him, speaking very wickedly of him, and often endeavouring to draw some unguard cd language from him, wherewith lo accuse him. But CJeorge was kept in such innocence- and circumspection of conduct, that though his words and actions were watched, no fault could' be laid to his charge. It pleased the Lord, as George Fox expresses it, one day to strike the gaoler, so that he was in great trouble. and under much terror of mind. As I was walking in my chamber, I heard a doleful noise, and standing still, I heard him say to his wife, ' Wife. I have seen the day ' of judgment; and I saw George there, and I was ( afraid of him, bacausel had done him so much wrong, ' and spoken so mucha'gainst him to the ministers and ' professors, and to the justices, and in taverns and ale houses.' After this, towards the evening, he came into my chamber and said to me, ' I have been as a hort ' against you; hut now I come like a lamb, and like ' the gaoler that came to Paul and Silas trembling' He acknowledged also, that he had been plagued and? his house too for my sake. Afterwards he told me all his heart, and said, he believed what I had said of the true faith and hope was true, and confessed, that at those times when I had asked him to let me go forth and speak the word of the Lord to the people, and he had refused, and I had laid the weigh of it upon him, he used to be under great trouble, amazed, and almost distracted for some time after, and in such a condition that he had little strength left him. When the morning came, he rose and went to the justices, a...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217046183 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217046185 |
| Weight | 0.58 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.40 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 172 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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