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

Grace Bathurst HER TESTIMONY Concerning Ann Whitehead.

SInce it hath pleased the Lord, who is only Wise, by his di∣vine Providence, to remove from us his faithful Servant Ann Whitehead, my Spirit hath been in Heaviness, and Sorrow hath filled my Heart many a time, upon the consi∣deration of the great loss that I with many more shall have of her, as par∣ticulars, unto whom she hath been as a Mother in tender Advice and Counsel, and also the Church in gene∣ral, whose Service she never decli∣ned, but in readiness of mind she gave up her self to serve the Lord and his

People in uprightness, as I can bear my Testimony in Righteousness for her, having been Conversant with her ever since I knew the way of the Lord, as it is now revealed, in and through the Light and Spirit of Christ Jesus in the Heart, which discovers the works of Darkness, and all secret Iniquity; I say, ever since it pleased the Lord in the freeness of his Love and tender Mercy to make known his Truth unto me, it hath been my pri∣viledg to be acquainted with this faithful Servant of the Lord, and I have been exercised with her in many Services relating to the Poor, where I have seen her great Care, Love and Charity extend to many poor helpless Families, as also her Wisdom and Justice in making a difference betwixt the Worthy and the Unworthy, and the honest hearted amongst them blessed the Lord for her; and as there was a care in her to supply their out∣ward wants, she was always fur∣nished

with a word of Exhortation, according as their States required, that they should have their dependen∣cy upon the Lord; so that from my own knowledg, her Exercises were many, and her Travels great for the prosperity of Truth; and I pray God that we who knew her, and are left behind, may follow her steps, as she followed Christ to the end of her days; and some of her last Words that she spoke to me, being near her end, was, That she was satisfied with the will of the Lord, and did not de∣sire any thing to be otherways then it was as to her, for she felt a Re∣ward from the Lord; being filled with Joy, she prayed fervenrly for Friends Children, That the Lord would bless them, and that they might fear the Lord, and grow and walk in the Truth, and be preserved from the Spirit of Pride; which was the Substance of her last pub∣lick Testimony, as many may re∣member.

Much more I could say, but this being only to ease my Spirit and discharge my duty to her whom I loved in the Truth.

The 4th of the 6th Month, 1686.

Grace Bathurst.