Works of John Woolman Author:John Woolman Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: saw that meekness under suffering was shewed to us in the most affecting example of thy son, and thou wast teaching me to follow him, and I said, thy Will, O Fat... more »her, be done." Many more of his weighty expressions might be inserted here, but it was deemed unnecessary, they being already in print. He was a man endued with a large natural capacity, and being obedient to the manifestations of Divine Grace, having in patience and humility endured many deep baptisms, he became thereby sanctified and fitted for the Lord's work, and was truly serviceable in his church ; dwelling in awful fear and watchfulness, he was careful in his public appearances to feel the putting forth of the Divine Hand, so that the spring of the gospel ministry often flowed through him with great sweetness and purity, as a refreshing stream to the weary travellers towards the city of God: skilful in dividing the word, he was furnished by Him in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge, to communicate freely to the several states of the people where his lot was cast. His conduct at other times was seasoned with the like watchful circumspection and attention to the guidance of Divine Wisdom, which rendered his whole conversation uniformly edifying. He was fully persuaded that as the life of Christ comes to reign in the earth, all abuse and unnecessary oppression, both of the human and brute creation will come to an end; but under the sense of a deep revolt, and an overflowing stream of unrighteousness, his life has often been a life of mourning. He was deeply concerned on account of that inhuman and iniquitous practice of making slaves of the people of Africa, or holding them in that state ; and on that account we understand he hath not only wrote some books, but travelled much on the con...« less