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CJirist into the worid to die fos man , as a propitiation for ain .-9 through whom also he bath sent forth his divine li # bt , spirit and ffraee upon all mankind , in order for the completingof that cure ^ which nothing less can do and to which all mankind are directed by the servants of Christ ; and as many as have believed , and Iiiade trial of this excellent means , have found the blessed effects thereof ; they have been healed , cured and cleansed . " _ ¦ _ _
«* Now / said he , * if thou wert the greatest king , emperor or potentate upon earth , thou art not too great to make use of the means offered by the Almighty for thy healing and restoration , if ever thou expect to enter his kingdom , into which no unclean thing can come /
" The Czar and his interpreter were often whispering together , though Robert Haddock knew nothing of his being in the meeting ; and thus he staid very sociably , till observing the people crowd up before him to gaze , ( which he could not endure , ) ha
retired on a sudden , along witk his company , before the meeting was quite over . Some people in the streets had seen him as he came , and , discovering who he was , crowded after him to see
him more perfectly . " After this he went incognito to Deptford , to improve himself ii * the art of ship-building , and there wrought at it with his own haixda . Gilbert Mollyson and I acquainting some
Friends how we happened tfli see him ,, and had giveti him some books , ancl that lie understood High Dutch , William Penn , George Wkitehead and some other Friends went to Deptford , and waited on him privately , and presented him with more of the same booka in
that language , which he accepted ; and , afterwards , was sometimes at our meeting there , behaving as a private person , and very social ; changing seats , standing or sitting as occasion might be , to aceainAmoda ^ e others as well as himself .
" When this great prince had , in a pood degree , furjushsd , him ^ lf with usetul knowledge hi najtu * al things , n ecessary for tke civifi ^ ng aifcd V p romg the barbarous people of Mfr *«* gaona and nation , he tetornad thk iner > accompUshed ttrith Ixpirfence la v xvii . ¦ + ¦ m
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many particulars , to the great advancement thereof m general . e Ih tke year if ] 2 , the Czar oi Muscovy , being in the city of Prederickstadt , with 5000 soldiers to assist the
Danes against the Swedes , after he had quartered Ms men , inquired of one of the Burgomasters , whether there were any of the people called Quakers there . The officer told him there were
a few . The Czar asked him if they had a meeting in the place . The officer told him they had . Then the Czar bid the officer let the Friends know thai ; if they would appoint their
meeting that forenoon , being first day , he would be at it . The officer replied , that there were thirty of his soldiers in , the meeting place , so that there could not be any meeting in it .
" Whea the Czar heard this , he was angry that they had put soldiers there , and sent an order by one of his own captains , that they should all be put out forthwith , and that notice should be given to the Friends by the captain , that if they would appoint the
meeting , he would come to it ; and accordingly the officer gave notice to Jacob Hagen , then at Frederick stadt , and Phili p Defair , a public Friend [ or minister ] who lived there ; and not
onl y ordered the soldiers out of the room , but made them take away all that they had brought thither . And the place being made ready , they had their meeting . at the second hour afternoon : to which the Czar came ,
and brought with him Prince Menzicoff , of Mu 9 Covy , the General Dolgoruchea , and several others of his dukes , generals , and secretaries of state , and other great men . A great crowd following , he ordered the door
to be shut , as soon as a competent number were in to sit comfortably , and many more came to the windows and all about . ' After some time of silence , Philip Defeir preached the doctrine of trutfh among them , and all sat v « ry qui $ t ,
trot especially the ( Jzar ; whd > sat very gvaively all the time of silence , ahd all the others , being awed by his example and presence , did so likewise . But
the Muscovite lwrds awt g-euerals not understanding the JaBgttage , and the Czar himself understanding it pretty well ; , ihterpretecF lo them what was declai ^ d , with iiragh gravity and seri-
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Conference vf ' Pxter the Great with tw 6 English Quakers . 81
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1822, page 81, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2509/page/17/
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