his senses and understanding were preserved to him clear and sound to the last, under the pure influence of heavenly support, and the consolatory enjoyments of Divine life.

"During his illness, several friends came to see him, and he would be frequently giving them seasonable counsel and advice, in many heavenly expressions; and would often exhort them to keep in love and unity, and to the living, divine power of Truth, that thereby they might be kept a people fresh and green, and living to God; that so formality might not prevail over them. And he pressed, that a great regard might be had of the poor, and that some way might be found out for their employment; often saying to this effect, that in an inexpressible manner he felt their sufferings, by reason of their poverty. Indeed he was a man that greatly sympathised with those who were afflicted, either in body or mind, being of a very tender spirit.

"A little before his departure, he sent for John Padley and his wife into his chamber, and said to him, 'Dear John, do what thou canst for the honour of Truth, and the Lord bless thee and thine for generations to come.' And to his wife he said, that he desired the Lord might be with her when she came to such a time as that he was then in, and make her passage easy; and his desire was granted, for she died in less than a year after, and said on her dying bed, that the Lord had answered dear Charles Marshall's request, for she lay very easy, and freely given up.

"When our friend George Whitehead came to see him, with much tenderness of spirit, he signified his great peace and satisfaction, and that he always, from the first, had an honourable esteem of the unity of his brethren. And a little before his departure, when our friend William Penn and divers others visited him, he lay as a man gathered up in his spirit unto God; and though he was almost spent, his voice being very low, hardly to be heard, yet by what was under

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stood, it might be perceived that he had in possession the earnest of that blessed peace, which he was going to receive the fulness of: the observation of his peace and happy condition, much affected those present. And so he departed like a child, in a quiet frame of spirit, the 15th of the Ninth Month, in the year, 1698, aged 61 years, and was buried from Gracechurchstreet Meeting-house, in Friends' burial ground, near Bunhill-fields, London."]

CHAPTER IV.

A Testimony to the glorious morning of the day of visitation of the love of God, (in particular to the city of Bristol, and adjacent parts;) and to the great and mighty power of the Lord, which appeared in and with his two precious servants John Camm and John Audland, who came to that city in the year 1654.

AFTER the long and tedious night of apostacy spread over nations, and dismal darkness over people, it pleased the Lord God of heaven and earth to visit with the morning of his ever-blessed day, this northern island, and first the northern part thereof; from whence came the aforesaid blessed servants of the Lord Jesus; having received the everlasting gospel from the angel of God's presence, to preach in the demonstration of his mighty power; with which, indeed, they were filled.

John Camm was a man full of zeal and fervency in the gospel, endued with the precious gift of discerning and sound judgment; terrible to the man of sin, and full of tenderness to travailing souls; sharp and terrible to the evil, but sweet and friendly to the tender and well-inclined unto the way of righteousness. He spared not his weak body, but offered it up even unto death, to serve the Lord God, in his blessed work of gathering, which he saw in a plentiful manner, to his great satisfaction. A further testimony of him, as to his country, life, travels and death, is

given by his dear wife, and his son Thomas Camm and his wife, to which I refer. His memory is blessed, and his place is among the living ancients in Jerusalem.

John Audland was a younger man, of a ruddy, sweet and amiable countenance, and of a cheerful spirit; one of the wise in heart, filled with the excellent, bright, glorious power of the Lord God. His voice was as thunder, dreadful in the strength of the Lord of Hosts, against the man of sin, and those in covenant therewith; terrible in the dread of God, against the workers of iniquity; but livingly tender to the sensible travailers and poor in spirit. Ah! my soul hath a sensible remembrance how the doctrine given him of Christ Jesus, dropt as dew and descended as the refreshing rain. He was a labourer indeed, night and day, in the work of the gospel, and therein he extremely spent himself; and his frequent and inexpressible travails in and about Bristol, I am well satisfied, laid the foundation for the wasting of his natural life, which was spent and offered up for the Truth, and in the work of it. And indeed he, with dear, honourable John Camm, were instrumental in the hand of Almighty God to our gathering; and the spending their lives and strength was most in their labours and travails amongst us in the city, and adjacent parts, of which I was an eye-witness, being frequently with them.

These two ministers of Christ Jesus came to the city of Bristol, in the Fifth Month, 1654. And first they came amongst a seeking people, who kept one day in the week in fasting and praying; waiting for and breathing in spirit after the morning and visitation of God, and day of redemption. Amongst us they spake the powerful word of life, in the dread of

his name who lives for ever; and we were seized on and smitten even to the heart; and that day, and the visitation of it, overtook us, which we had longed and waited for; and from darkness to the marvellous light of the Lord we were turned. Some meetings we had, before the more general gathering in and about the city, which began on this wise. On a First day in the morning, I went with these two servants of God, about a mile and half from the city, to a little spring of water, where I often had spent many solitary hours in my tender years, seeking the Lord. Here we sat some time, and drank of the spring.After some hours of the morning were spent, I saw in them a great travail of spirit. J. A. trembling, said, "Let us be going into the city." So we came to the street called Broadmead, to a house where several people were met together, inquiring after these two men of God. John Audland was under a great exercise of spirit, and said: "Is here any one that has an interest in any field?" An ancient man said, "I have, in a field pretty near." Notice being given to the people in the house, they came forth; and as we went along, people in the streets went also to the field, (called Earl's-mead ;) so that we came a pretty number, and some seats were brought. Dear John Camm began to speak tenderly, and in great zeal, directing to the heavenly grace of God, and testifying fervently against sin and iniquity: to [his testimony] some were attentive in this season. I perceived a great exercise on my dear friend and father in Christ Jesus, John Audland, who trembled very much. After dear John Camm stood down, he stood up, and full of dread, and with brightness on his countenance, lifted up his voice as a trumpet, and said, "I proclaim spiritual war with the inhabitants of the earth, who