Remember that GOD hath hedged in your tongue with the teeth and lips, that it might speak under correction. Be ready at all times to look to your brothers eye, but especially in your own eye: for he that warneth other in that he himself is faulty, doth give his neighbour the clear wine and keepeth the dregs to himself. Beware of riches and worldly honour: for without understanding, prayer, and fasting, it is a snare, and also poverty, all which are like to consuming fire, of which if a man take a little, it will warm him, but if he take too much, it will consume him. For it is hard for a man to carry fire in his bosom, and not to be burnt. Shew mercy unto the saints for Christs sake, and Christ shall reward you for the saints sake. Among all other prisoners visit your own soul: for it is inclosed in a perillous prison. If you will love God, hate evil, and ye shall obtain the reward of well doing. Thus fare you well good Anne. Have me heartily commended to all that love the lord unfeignedly. I beseech you have me in your prayer while I am living, and I am assured the lord will accept it. Bring up your chilldren and yours in the fear of God, and then shall I not fail but receive you together in the everlasting kingdom of God, which I go unto, Your husband, Robert Smith. If ye will meet with me again, "The foresaid Robert Smith, the valiant and constant Martyr of Christ, thus replenished, as ye have heard, with the fortitude of Gods spirit; was condemned at London by Boner their bishop, the 12 day of July, and suffered at Uxbridge the 8th day of August, who as he had been a comfortable instrument of God before to all them that were in prison with him : so now also being at the stake, he did no less comfort the people, there standing about him, willing them to think well of his cause, and not to doubt that his body dying in that quarrel, should rise again to life. And said he, I doubt not but that God will shew you some token thereof. At length he being wellnigh half burnt, and all black with fire, clustered together as in a lump like a black coal, all even thinking him for dead, suddenly rose upright before the people, lifting up the stumps of his arms, and clapping the same together, declaring a rejoycing, heart unto them; and so bending down again, and hanging over the fire, slept in the lord, and ended this mortal life." Fox's Acts, &c. vol. iii. SECTION 7. THE QUAKERS. THE denomination of dissenters known by the name of Friends, or Quakers, is in this. town numerous and highly respectable. They are mostly engaged in the corn and flour trade, are the occupiers of several mills, and the pos sessors of considerable landed property in the town and neighbourhood. There was formerly in this town a celebrated school for the education of Quakers; but we have not been able to collect particulars relating to it. When the grandfather of the celebrated Benjamin West emigrated to America in 1699, he left his son John (Benjamin's father) at this seminary: John joined his parents in America about 1714. The Friends have had a Meeting-house capable of containing between two and three hundred persons, and a burial ground adjoining, for upwards of a century. In old deeds dated April 1693, this meeting-house is mentioned as "lately built." The Meeting-house was rebuilt, and the burial ground enlarged in 1817. The town of Uxbridge in particular, and the neighbourhood in general, are greatly indebted to the whole body of the Quakers in this town, for their uniform liberality and beneficence. Their society has produced here one individual of distinguished excellence, whose loss is deeply deplored. The name of John Hull will not soon be forgotten by the inhabitants of Uxbridge. But we refer for further particulars |