Piety promoted by faithfulness manifested by several testimonies concerning that true servant of God Ann Whitehead.
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Piety promoted by faithfulness manifested by several testimonies concerning that true servant of God Ann Whitehead.
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Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.
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[London? :: s.n.],
1686.
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Whitehead, Ann, 1624-1686.
Society of Friends.
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"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 May 6, 2024.
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A TESTIMONY concerning Ann Whitehead.
Dear Friends,
THere was a concern upon me in a short Testimony to give in amongst you, with whom my Soul hath Unity, concerning our dear and tender Friend Ann White∣head; that she was a Woman whom the Lord greatly honoured with a large measure of his heavenly Wis∣dom and Power, and in that she was made able to speak aword in sea∣son to the strengthening of the Weak and the bowed down one, and many living Testimonies she bore amongst us in brokenness of Spirit, and in that heart melting love of God, in which I can truly say, my Soul hath often been livingly refreshed, with the Souls of many more. Friends my Heart is
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overcome, and my Spirit bowed down at this time, in a living sence of our loss, which indeed is very great, the Lord make it up unto us, in continu∣ing his presence amongst us, and in a sence thereof strength will be admi∣nistred to do the VVork of the Lord acceptably, fot this was the Labour and Travel of our dear and wel-be∣loved Friend, whilst she was amongst us, That all be done in Love, in the blessed order of Truth, and where any thing hapned contrary, it became her Burden, for she delighted in the pro∣sperity of Truth, and in them that lived in it; this is my Testimony (from a certain knowledg of her) in my measure, though one of the least amongst you; yet as one whom the Lord had reached unto in visiting my Soul in his everlasting Love and Power, in the day of my Affliction, and hour of Temptation which my Soul was under, then did the Lord appear in his unlimitted power for my
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preservation, and limitted the power of Sathan, so that deliverance was witnessed to my Soul. And this Ser∣vant and Handmaid of the Lord tra∣velled amongst us, whom he hath removed from amongst us, but to her great advantage, for she rests from her Labours and her Works follow her, the memorial of whom will Live forever in the Hearts of all the Faithful; O Lord that it may be thus with me, and with all thy whole Heritage is the cry of my Soul: This lay as a weight upon me being eased, I desire to rest fully satisfied in the will of the Lord,
London, 25th of October 1686.
Elizabeth Haynes
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