Piety promoted by faithfulness manifested by several testimonies concerning that true servant of God Ann Whitehead.

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Title: Piety promoted by faithfulness manifested by several testimonies concerning that true servant of God Ann Whitehead.
Author: Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.
Publication: [London? :: s.n.],; 1686.
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Subject terms: Whitehead, Ann, 1624-1686.; Society of Friends.
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Cite this Item: "Piety promoted by faithfulness manifested by several testimonies concerning that true servant of God Ann Whitehead." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A65831.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2024.

DEar Ann is gone! her Glass is Run,
She's entred into Rest,
She lived here in Gods pure Fear,
Dy'd in him, and is Blest.

She serv'd the Lord in Faithfulness,
And when her end drew nigh
Told me her Work was finished,
She'd nought to do but Dye.

She did desire her Love to Friends
Remembred it might be,
In that which universal is,
The Truth (which maketh free.)

Great was her Zeal, great was her Cars,
And Labour in her Day,
To serve and helpful be, to those
Were turn'd into Gods Way.

She was a Vessel fitted and
Prepared by the Lord
To honour him, and lov'd all those
Who serv'd him with accord.

Oneness of Heart, oneness of Mind,
Amongst Gods Children dear,
She valued high, Exhorting all
To dwell in Gods pure Fear.

With Wisdom and Discerning great
The Lord did her endue,
Quickness of Sight and Sence she had
With Judgment Sound and True.

To me she was a trusty Friend
And good advice did give,
Her Memory to me is Sweet
In that where she did Live.

And certainly our loss is great
May many Children say,
A Mother that in Israel was
Is from us t'ane away.

But yet the Lord the Living God
Her Husband, will remain
To us a Father dear, and will
His Childrens Cause maintain.

'Gainst those that do his Work oppose,
In Males or Females: All
Are one in Christ, and those oppose
His Work, shall surely fall.

God will raise up and furnish more
For to supply her Place,
Vessels of honour sanctifi'd
And season'd by his Grace.

To carry on that blessed Work
Of Righteousness, which He
Will cause to spread and prosper still,
To all Eternitie.

Benjamin Antrobus.