fear before Him," and "them that honour him, he will honour.

Extract from R. B.'s testimony respecting A. J.— "This was particularly observed concerning him,that in the streets of the same city, where he had often been reproachfully pointed at, for the Truth's sake and his testimony to it, he, in his latter years, was wishfully looked upon, with affection and veneration, and blessed, as he passed along; of which I have often been both an eye and an ear witness."

Through the summer and autumn of this year, 1677, the Friends continued to be molested in their peaceable assemblies; and, upon their refusal to obey the command of those who required them to separate, were from time to time seized, and even with violence dragged away to prison. The list of names, of those committed from their Monthly Meeting on the 15th of the 4th month, stands as follows: David Barclay, Robert Burnett of Lethinty, Patrick Livingston, George Gray, John Glennie, Robert Gordon, James Birneise, George Melvill, Andrew Fisher, John Mercer, and Alexander Seaton: these were all "thronged up" into the usual place of confinement. On the 2nd of the 8th month, John Watson, an Englishman, and James Findlay, a Friend from the western part of the country, who had come to visit their Friends, received the like treatment, together with Alexander Skene and two others. Among such instances as these, Robert Gerard, having been absent from home, was intercepted on his return to Aberdeen, and led away to gaol;and this appears to have been the occasion. A child of his, removed by death, had been interred during his absence, in the Friends' burial-ground; a fine was imposed upon him, for the alleged avoidance thereby of certain burial-fees usually demanded in such cases;

his goods were seized to satisfy the fees, and he torn from his family aud home under circumstances of affliction, which rendered his case a peculiarly aggra vated one.

But, this people, fervently seeking of the Lord, in like manner as the Apostle for his fellow-believers, Col. i. 11, that they might be "strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness," were abundantly favoured with ability to sustain what was permitted to befall them at the hands of unreasonable men. It was by "looking unto Jesus," and considering "him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself," that they, through his grace, were kept from being weary and faint in their minds. Indeed, their very enemies were induced to marvel at their meekness and patience-so cheerfully did they take the spoiling of their goods; even “rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer" any kind of shame for His sake, who had taught and engaged them by his presence and goodness, not to forsakė the assembling of themselves together. Yet, in order to take off from the weight and effect of such conduct, these opponents would tauntingly disparage their motives, by affirming, that the Quakers liked well to go to prison, they had such good fare there. In order to meet as well as to manifest such malicious aspersions, "the Lord stirred in them a resolution," (as the account states,) for the space of two or three months together, merely to give up their bodies passively to the operation of the law, or rather, of the wills of those who hated them; and by no means actively, in any wise, even to appear to procure or promote their own bondage. So long as this exercise continued with them, they were, in consequence, actually "hauled down as beasts for the

slaughter," and " clasped together by the workmen" employed to carry them away.

It was during the continuance of this state of things, that the succeeding comfortable and enlivening lines from the hand of George Fox, reached the company at Aberdeen.

"4th of 5th month, 1677.

"To whom is my love, in the everlasting Seed, that reigns over all, and will grind to powder' all your persecutors, and the devil that is the cause of them, who fighteth against the light, which is the life in Christ, as he did against Him in the flesh, above sixteen hundred years ago.

"And now, my Friends, suffer as lambs in the time of your sufferings: let all your wills be subjected with patience, which hath the victory, and runneth the race, and obtaineth the crown of life and be as willing to go to suffer for Christ's sake,-as the Apostle said: And it is not only given you to believe, but to suffer for His name's sake, in whom you have salvation; for they that suffer for righteousness' sake are blessed, and theirs is the kingdom of God. And, by faith the holy men of God had the victory, as you may see at large in Hebrews 11th ch. So, nothing is overcome by any man's will, but by faith that giveth access to God, in which they please God. And [thus] I do believe, that all your sufferings will be for good; both to the stablishing yourselves upon the holy Rock of life, (who was the foundation of the sufferers, the prophets and the apostles, who is the Anointed and the Saviour,) and to the answering that of God in all people:-For the Lord hath a great work and seed in that nation.

"So, live in the Spirit, that mortifieth all, and circumciseth all, and baptizeth all, that, in the Spirit, you may sow to the Spirit, and of the Spirit reap life eternal. For there are seedsmen enough in your nation, and makers of seedsmen in the form and the letter, which soweth to the flesh, and in their field they may reap abundance of corruption.

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So, my desires are, that you may be all alive to God, and live in the living unity of the Spirit, which is the bond of the heavenly peace, which passeth the knowledge of the world; so that the eternal joys may transcend all your sufferings, and carry you above them; and thus, in love to God and in love to your persecutors, you can pray for them, in that you suffer for their good. And this suffering is above all the sufferings in the world without love and charity, which maketh one another to suffer for getting the upper hand. But such are not the sufferers of the true Lord Jesus, who suffered, though he was a-top of all, yet he made none to suffer; and when he was reviled, he reviled not again, but said, Father, forgive them,' and committed himself to him that judgeth righteously. So, let the same mind be in you, as was in Christ Jesus; for the apostle said, that they had the mind of Christ; and He, the Lamb, overcame, and the Lamb hath the victory, and his sanctified ones follow him: glory to his name for ever, amen! Holy! worthy of praises!

"So, remember me to all Friends in Scotland, both north, and west, and south; and let them have copies of this.

Some few further statements, in addition to those given at page 311, are now to be laid before the reader,

relating to the situation of the Friends at Montrose, who, it will be recollected, were but few in number.The true worship of the Almighty, which is "in spirit," whether divested of or clothed in words, continued to be so great an occasion of offence, and so repugnant to the persecutors, that they went on in increasing malice and fury, shamefully to entreat these "poor innocents," as if they even thirsted for their blood. No sooner did any meet together to perform this reasonable service, than they were cast into prison; and at length, from one of them, James Nuccoll, a tailor by trade, they took away his work, alleging, he was not a freeman of the town; whereas, he had long before obtained from them a promise of his freedom, and had sought, but in vain, to pay for and enter it. In this course, they were mightily incited by the same David Lyall, their stated preacher, who had been so active in the like wicked work at Aberdeen. The magistrates, having sent to prison several of these individuals in the midst of the winter of 1677, were so cruel, as to deprive those of work, who could labour at their outward callings for a livelihood, at the same time threatening all those who should in any wise pity or relieve them. And when Alexander Seaton, a Friend among the prisoners at Aberdeen, had got liberty to visit his imprisoned friends at Montrose, he was himself detained with them. On one occasion, because he exhorted the people that passed by the window in the street, to fear the Lord, and mind his light and Spirit in themselves that strove with them, these oppressors were much incensed, and had all the windows and passages for light or air, wholly closed up for several days.

About this time also, Andrew Jaffray, having set out on some occasion from the prison in Aberdeen, felt