A journal or historical account of the life, travels, sufferings, Christian experiences, and labour of love in the work of the ministry, of that ancient, eminent, and faithful servant of Jesus Christ, George Fox. In two volumes. Vol. I [-II]. : [One line from Daniel]

DEATH AND BURIAL.

THUS, reader, thou hast had some account of the life and travels, labours, sufferings, and manifold trials and exercises of this holy man of God, from his youth to al∣most the time of his death: Of which himself kept a jour∣nal; whence the foregoing sheets were transcribed. It re∣mains, that an account be added of the time, place, and manner of his death and burial; which was thus: The next day, after he had written the foregoing epistle to friends in Ireland, he went to the meeting at Grace-church-street, which was large (it being on the first-day of the week): and the Lord enabled him to preach the truth fully and effectually, opening many deep and weighty things with great power and clearness. After which hav∣ing prayed, and the meeting being ended, he went to Hen∣ry Gouldney's (a friend's house in White-hart Court, near the meeting-house): and some friends going with him, he told them,

He thought he felt the cold strike to his heart, as he came out of the meeting;

yet added,

I am glad I was here; now I am clear, I am fully clear.

As soon as those friends were withdrawn, he laid down upon a bed sas he sometimes used to do, through weariness after a meet∣ing) but soon rose again; and in a little time laid down again, complaining still of cold. And his strength sensibly decaying, he was fain soon after to go into the bed; where he lay in much contentment and peace, and very sensible to the last. And as, in the whole course of his life, his spirit, in the universal love of God, was set and bent for the

exalting of truth and righteousness, and the making known the way thereof to the nations and people afar off; so now, in the time of his outward weakness, his mind was intent upon, and wholly taken up with that: and he sent for some particular friends, to whom he expressed his mind, and de∣sire for the spreading friends books, and truth thereby in the world. Divers friends came to visit him in his illness, unto some of whom he said,

All is well: the Seed of God reigns over all, and over death itself. And though,

said he,

I am weak in body: yet the power of God is over all, and the Seed reigns over all disorderly spirits.

Thus lying in an heavenly frame of mind, his spirit wholly exer∣cised towards the Lord, he grew weaker and weaker in his natural strength; and on the third day of that week, be∣tween the hours of nine and ten in the evening, he quietly departed this life in peace, and sweetly fell asleep in the Lord, whose blessed truth he had livingly and powerfully preached in the meeting but two days before. Thus ended he his day in his faithful testimony, in perfect love and unity with his brethren, and in peace and good-will to all men, on the 13th of the 11th month 1690, being then in the 67th year of his age.

Upon the 16th of the same month (being the sixth of the week, and the day appointed for his funeral) a very great concourse of friends, and other people of divers sorts, assem∣bled together at the meeting-house in White-hart Court near Gracechurch-street, about the middle time of the day, in order to attend his body to the grave. The meeting was held about two hours with great and heavenly solemnity, mani∣festly attended with the Lord's blessed presence and glorious power; in which divers living testimonies were delivered, from a lively remembrance and sense of the blessed ministry of this dear and ancient servant of the Lord, his early en∣tering into the Lord's work at the breaking forth of this gos∣pel day, his innocent life, long and great travels, and un∣wearied labours of love in the everlasting gospel, for the turning and gathering many thousands from darkness to the light of Christ Jesus, the foundation of true faith; the mani∣fold sufferings, afflictions, and oppositions, which he met withal for his faithful testimony, both from his open adver∣saries and from false brethren; and his preservations, deli∣verances, and dominion in, out of, and over them all, by the power of God: to whom the glory and honour always was by him, and is and always ought to be by all ascribed.

After the meeting was ended, his body was borne by friends, and accompanied by very great numbers, to friends burying-ground near Bunhill fields: where, after a solemn waiting upon the Lord, and several living testimonies borne, recommending the company to the guidance and protection of that divine Spirit and power, by which this holy man of God had been raised up, furnished, supported and preserv∣ed to the end of his day, his body was decently committed to the earth; but his memorial shall remain, and be ever∣lastingly blessed among the righteous.