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

A TESTIMONY concerning Ann Whitehead.

COncerning our dear and wel-beloved Friend Ann White∣head, whom I truly Loved and Honoured in the Lord for the Truth's sake. This Testimony arises in my Heart: It was her faithfulness to the Truth that made her truly ho∣nourable, that is her Crown, and is now set upon her Head for evermore: She having set her House in order, the Lord hath gathered her, by his gentle hand, into Rest and Peace, where her Reward is sure with him, and through her Faith in Christ Jesus, and her steadfastness in the Truth, she hath obtained a good Report in her Day and Generation: She truly Lo∣ved, Feared and Served the true and living God, being made subject to the Truth through the mighty

Power of God: She was adorned and furnished by the Truth with a good Understanding, true Wisdom and sound Judgment, to discern between things that differ, whereby she was made a very serviceable Member in the Church of Chrst, and a Mother in Israel to many Children, ministring the Word in due season, sutable to every State and Condition; and I can truly say, we have been often Refreshed and Comforted together in the Lord, and one in another in our Women's Meetings, where the Weak and Fee∣ble have been strengthened, and that which was heady & high abased and brought low, and Truth over all ex∣alted, and we as Members, of that one Body, of which Christ Jesus our Lord is the Head, build up together a spiritual Houshhold unto God: And this was the Labour & Travel of our dear Friend and faithful Labourer in the Work & Service of the Lord, who was therein drawn forth to visit us at

our Quarterly-Meeting, at the Bull and Mouth the 5th of 5th Month 86. and it was the last publick Meeting she was at amongst us, for she was then weak in Body, yet she was strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might was she enabled to bear a faithful Testimony for the Truth a∣gainst all such that made a profession of it, and was high and lifted up a∣bove the pure fear of the Lord, and that measure of Truth which many had received and been partakers of in the beginning; also signifying of what little value all the Glory, Pride, vain Fashions, Customes and Friendships of this World are, and how they all pass away, and will not stand any one in stead in the day of account, which will certainly overtake all; therefore she exhorted and laboured in the Word of Truth, that all might be warned against, & awakened out of all those things which grieves the good Spirit of the Lord, & are contrary to

the pure mind & will of God, that so your Souls might live to God through your obedience to the Truth, and the operation of his Power (which works in them that believe) to do those things which are acceptable in his Sight, that God over all may be glorified, for he alone is worthy of all Glory and Praise for evermore. Oh, that we which yet remain, may be found following the footsteps of this our dear Friend, as she followed Christ, leaving us a good example in all manner of god-like Conversation: She was a pattern of Wisdom and Sobriety, and her Integrity to God was manifested through her labour of Love, and faithful Service for the Truth's-sake. In her Life time she sought the good of all, and at her Death manifested her Love the same to all, being sweetly kept in a living Injoyment of true Peace and Rest with the Lord, her Love flowed forth uoto all the whole Flock and

Family of God, desiring that we might all live in Love, And the God of Peace (said she) be with you, pre∣serve you and keep you all in true Love Peaece and Unity with himself and one with another. And in this peaceable frame of Spirit, I am satisfied, that this our dear Friend resigned and gave up to the will of the Lord, as in her Life time, so at her Death, having fought the good Fight, finished her Course, and kept the Faith, and is at Rest with the Lord, and her Memo∣ry is blest forever.

Susanna Dew.

AND I was truely glad I had an oppertunity to visit her in the time of her weakness, for I was Com∣forted and well refreshed with the rest of my Friends then present, in the feeling, and injoyment of that Love & Life, which still lives and will remain with all the upright in Heart. And altho her Body be removed from us; her memory lives in that which is beyond words. So unto that pure everlasting Power (which works in us and for us both to will and to do according to his good pleasure) be all Glory and Honour, with Everlasting pure holy Prayses it ascends and is ascribed and given unto him that lives for ever and for evermore.

S. D.