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Excerpt from A History of the People Called Quakers, Vol. 4 of 4: From Their First Rise to the Present Time; Compiled From Authentic Records, and From the Writings of That People
In the difcipline of the fociety he was emin ently ferviceable, being endowed with clear dif cernment, found judgment and a good under flanding in fpiritual fubjefis, as well as in temporal affairs, whereby he was well qualified to give his fentiments with pertinence to matters under deliberation; he was remarkably zealous for the promotion and maintaining of good order in the church, firm and fieadfaft in op pofing and bearing tef'timony againf't contentious, diforderly and licentious fpirits, againft fuch as occarned difrepute to the character of the fo ciety. It was at his houfe at Draw-well, that the memorable meeting was held for the reco very of John Wilkinfon, John Story and their adherents, as before recited.
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