FRIENDS' LIBRARY, CONSISTING PRINCIPALLY OF JOURNALS AND Extracts from Journals and other Writings OF MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS. VOL. XIV. LINDFIELD: PRINTED AT THE SCHOOLS OF INDUSTRY, AND SOLD BY LONGMAN AND CO. PATERNOSTER-ROW, LONDON; HARVEY AND DARTON, GRACECHURCH STREET; J. AND A. ARCH, CORNHILL; W. DARTON, HOLBORN; EDMUND FRY, BISHOPSGATE STREET, AND BY ALL THE BOOKSELLERS. 1836. AN ACCOUNT OF HIS BIRTH, EDUCATION, &c. WITH SEVERAL REMARKABLE PASSAGES AND OCCURRENCES. WRITTEN BY HIMSELF. LINDFIELD: PRINTED AT THE SCHOOLS OF INDUSTRY, Longman and Co. Paternoster Kow, London; Harvey the Booksellers. 1836. THE PREFACE. "Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost," (John vi. 12.) was the direction of our Saviour to his disciples, after he had fed the multitude; which may well and usefully be applied, to the collecting and preserving the accounts of the lives of good men: men, who in their day have been eminently useful in those stations of life, wherein God, by his good Providence, has placed them. And this preserving, by publication, is the rather to be done, when themselves do ve behind them, in writing, an account o lives, and of the signal mercies of God to therein for from such accounts may b gathered, by the reader, the man's part state, exercise and growth in the work of toration out of the fall and degeneracy; and, in the reading thereof, be not only excited to bless the name of the Lord, on his behalf, but also gain some direction from the path so fairly tracked out, and ground of hope; that by being faithful, he may likewise attain to the same good experience. r 1 ar |