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A Select Series, Biographical, Narrative, Epistolary, and Miscellaneous
A Select Series Biographical Narrative Epistolary and Miscellaneous Author:John Barclay Title: A Select Series, Biographical, Narrative, Epistolary, and Miscellaneous: Journals of W. Caton and J.burnyeat, Also a Brief Memoir Concerning J. Croker General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1839 Original Publisher: Darton and Harvey Subjects: Religion / Christianity / Quaker Religion / Christianity / Denomi... more »nations Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER X. 1657. -- Jfis service in several cities in Holland -- The love of God to him and Friends there -- He returns again to England -- Attends a general meeting in Bedfordshire -- Proceeds northward, and reaches Swarthmore. In this year (1657) I was at the Hague, the place at which the head court is kept for the Seven Provinces : but little entrance there was for the truth, though some good service I had with some in that city. I was also at the city of Dort (when the plague was pretty much there,) where I found some two or three that were somewhat loving ; howbeit, there was also little entertainment for the truth in the place, and therefore was my suffering the greater. I went also sometime to the city of Utretcht to visit them that were convinced, where I had now and then good service, and pretty fine meetings; but in those days I spoke mostly by an interpreter. And when the magistrates and priests came to understand how that the truth seemed to get some entrance in that place, their enmity began to increase against it; and they gave forth an order, that those that entertained us, and had meetings at their houses, should from thenceforth neither entertain us, nor have any more meetings in their houses, in pain of being turned out of the city, or ot being arbitrarily punished; which threatenings did terrifysome, and ca...« less