A collection of the several writings and faithful testimonies of that suffering servant of God, and patient follower of the Lamb, Humphry Smith who dyed a prisoner for the testimony of Jesus, in Winchester common-goal the 4th day of the 3d moneth in the year 1663.

A TESTIMONY Concerning the Servant of Christ, Humphry Smith DECEASED; With Respect to his Life, Testimony and Service for the Lord in his day.

ALthough I have not read all the Books and Writings given forth in Truths behalf by our dear Friend and Brother Humphry Smith, and therefore cannot knowingly give particular account thereof, as to all his Writings, though many sound and weighty Experimental things I am sure he has written, yet from the knowledge which I had of him, his Conversation and Testimony, and the living Society I had with him for some time before his Course was finished, I have this Testimony nakedly and in the sight of the Lord to bear, That he was a man fearing God and hating Iniquity, fervent and zealous against Deceit and Hypocrisie, and endued with a hea∣venly Gift and Gospel Testimony, which he faithfully bore in his day, according to his Ability, and the Lord was with him, and he was well beloved among his People. He endured the Cross, and bore Afflictions patiently; and he was a great Sufferer in divers Goals and Persecu∣tions for the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and his

Testimony which he declin'd not. And he was (in the Name of the Lord) instrumental and helpful with other faithful Brethren and Servants of Christ, to break through rough Oppositions, perverse Gain-sayings and Persecu∣tions of many Adversaries to the Life of Christianity, even in those days of great Hardships and deep Sufferings, not long after the first breaking forth of the Gospel Day to many in this Age; and in divers parts of our profes∣sing Nation, the Exercises, deep Sufferings and Tryals of that day and time, many now have not known the sharpness of, since which the Lord has been with his faith∣ful Servants all along, and prospered his Work among the sincere Receivers of his Truth in the love thereof; and the Lord our God hath crowned the Labours of his faithful Witnesses, whose Dayes are ended in Peace, among whom this Honest and Upright hearted man Humphry Smith had his Share and Portion, and hath his Crown that fades not, and his Inheritance Everlasting, in the Kingdom of his and our Heavenly Father, among the Spirits of Just Men in Glory, I am really satisfied, as knowing the End of the Upright Man to be Peace, and that in the sight of the Lord the Death of his Saints are Precious, as their Life is Acceptible: And I pray God that all Friends, and all those that yet remain with a Testimony for him and his holy Truth, may be pre∣served in (and with tender Regard unto) the same Footsteps of the faithful and blessed Flock to the end of their Dayes, as those that truly have respect to the Re∣compence of Reward and Kingdom that's set before, which will remain and stand us in stead when our Dayes, Times and Years here are expired and gone.

George Whitehead.

London, the 4th of the 8th Moneth, 1682.