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George Fox ' s journal make no mention A " weighty" friend , I suppose , of his day , was concerned to go to George Fox under some ailment ^ an d
George put forth his hand and touched him , .. arid he became whole . I do not recollect much more of the particulars of the case of this trial and proof of faith . I believe the Friends would
be very shy , were I to request access to any of their extensive libraries for ascertaining them , in order to endeavour to accputit for the miracle . The miracle , I suppose , would be found explainable as miracles are generally to be accounted for , i . e . more by the simple credulity , the overweening
imagination or animal magnetism , fanatical furor , &c . of the patient and . the agent , than by charlatanry or imposture . The concernments of becoming signs and wonders to the people , by going about naked , putting on sackcloth , &c , among ( Juaker enthusiasts , like unto Isaiah and other enthusiast
prophets of old , Honest George used to record , 1 believe very sincerely , as triumphs pf truth . Indeed , he figured himself a little , in his day , in this manner . Th ^ pilgrim prophet once took off his shoes and stockings , and walkfed barefooted through the market and streets of the city of Lichfield , crying aloud , 4 c woe to the bloody town of Lichfield . " I think the accounts of
these signs and wonders , in their day , ought not to be suppressed . They form a remarkable part of the history of the first gatheriugs of a people , who hold the most excellent system of religion that has ever yet appeared on the earlh . It \ s a system more
refined , even than that of the primitive Christians , ere the gospel dove ( Judean ) was crushed rather than cherished in the embrace of the imperial eagle ( Roman ) . Modern Quakers , however , shew no great inclination to emblazon such heroic deeds of their
devoted brethren . The latest instances I recollect of devotedness In this way , were those of the late John Fothergill going naked through the streets at Edinburgh , when a student
ofmedicinein the University there , and of the late John Pemb ^ rtoh , of Philadelphia , going in sackcloth through the streets of Londonderry , when on a religious visit to the churches or
meetings of the Friends in Europe ; in which service , I think , he diea in Germany . JOHN WALKER ,
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Wetsleiris Neia Testament . fe ^ JJ '
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Sir , THE reign of our venerable King , extended as it has been to such an extraordinary length , wilt form , in many respects , a curious subject for contemplation , as constituting what may be called a connecting link between two widely different ages .
In thinking of such a than as Wetstein , one contemplates him an ornament of a distant and distinguished period in the annals of biblical learning , who devoted the early part of
the eighteenth centuty to labours which a long posterity has admired and valued . Even previous to the year 1720 , he had been engaged in the arduous task of preparing materials for his editions of the New
Testament . A century has rolled over , and yet the Monarch is now living * to whom the result of those labours was dedicated in the last and noble edition of 1751 . I have copied the passage for the perusal of your readers ,
as curious not only on account of its bringing " , as it were , the critic of the last age , the contemporary and friend of Bengelius and Bentley into our own period , but on account of the peculiar appropriateness with which , as it has turned out , such a work was
unconsciously dedicated to a man who has always patronized the study and diffusion of the Holy Scriptures , and who has fully received the blessing * which the worthy critic invoked of prosperity and length of days . " Georgio , Regio Principi de Wales Frederick , Reg . Princ , de Wales Filio
pnmogenito , Georgii II . Magni Brit . Regis Nepoti , &c . Gestiebat animus Regio P ^ rentituo hoc opus inscribere , consilio , ut op in or , nee vano nee temerario , et mihi valde honorifico ; sedcum omnia prelo essent parata , ( O spes hominis
fa 1 laces !) ecce affertur atrox de prematura optimi Principis morte fluncius , qui non me solum , verutn etiam omnes bonos , ultra quam dici potest , perculit atque afflixit . CJt vero paiijatim aniimim rccepi , non potui invenire doloris acerbissimi
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1818, page 623, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2481/page/23/
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