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.
Author
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 June 17, 2024.

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Margaret Meekings HER TESTIMONY Concerning Ann Whitehead.

IF any, surely I have cause to bring in my Testimony for my dear Friend Ann Whitehead, who was my antient Acquaintance, both before and since she knew the Truth, she being girded before by him she did not know, not to trust in earthly Riches, but did then with prudence, and much tenderness do her duty, far exceeding any I knew in that day, and since she has been con∣vinced of the ever blessed Truth, which thorow many tryals and diffi∣culties, and great exercises she has passed thorow to walk therein, a very

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useful Instrument, in variety of ••••••∣vices, in the work of the Lord she hath been, by his assisting power, who endowed her with much Wisdom and sound Knowledge, to give Counsel and Advice to the Simple, and much freeness to help the Helpless both with inward and outward Comforts, and when in the outward she lived well of her own, in the beginning, she then gave up all to suffer and serve the Truth; Oh her Value and many Vertues, I want words to express what she was to me, & to many more that truly knew her, so that her bles∣sed footsteps I desire to walk in all my appointed time, that as she did, I may lay down my Head in Peace, who I am well satisfied is gathered into that bosom of Love where Joy and Felicity endures for evermore.

Margaret Meekings.

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