Not long after I returned to London, and was almost daily with Friends at meetings. When I had been near two weeks in town, the sense of the great hardships and sore sufferings that Friends had been and were under in Ireland, coming with great weight upon me, I was moved to write an epistle, as a word of consolation unto them.[187]
[The next day he went to Gracechurch Street Meeting, which was large and in which he preached a long and powerful sermon, "opening many deep and weighty things." He then offered prayer, and the meeting closed. When some Friends came to his room in White-Hart-Court, later in the day, he told them he had "felt the cold strike to his heart, as he came out of meeting"; "yet," he added, "I am glad I was here (i. e., in the meeting). Now I am clear, I am fully clear!" Later, when Friends were visiting him, he said: "All is well; the Seed of God reigns over all and over death itself. And though I am weak in body, yet the power of God is over all, and the Seed reigns over all disorderly spirits." "Lying thus in a heavenly frame of mind, his spirit wholly exercised towards the Lord," he fell asleep in peace on the evening of January 13th, 1691. The funeral was attended by a very large concourse of people, and the body was laid in the burying-ground near Bunhill Fields, where the grave is now marked with a modest stone. Few men in the dying hour could say more truly, "I am clear.">[
[INDEX.]
Abrahams, Galenus, [556]
Amsterdam, [551]
Audland, John, [154]
Baltimore Yearly Meeting, see Maryland Yearly Meeting.
Baptists, [18]-20
Barbadoes, [488]-492
Barclay, Robert, [549]
Barnet, [69]
"Battledore, The," [386], [406]
Beavor, Vale of, [94], [98]
Believers, true, [74]
Bennet, Justice, [125], [126]
Beverley, [136]
Bishop, George, [223]
Blood of Christ, [91]
Bradstreet, Simon, [378]
Bristol, [272], [331], [392], [468], [535]
Bunyan, John, [19], [26]
Burnyeat, John, [498], [508], [547]
Burrough, Edward, [157], [374], [402]
Cambridge, [228]
Carlisle, [186]-191
Carlyle, his characterization of Fox, [67]n, [139]n
Carolina, [525]-528
Charles II., Fox's letter to, [354]
Church, The, what it is, [92], [145], [447]
Claypole, Lady (Cromwell's daughter), [320]
Clergy, [40]
Coale, Josiah, [515]n
Colchester, [224]
Commonwealth Period, its importance, [16]
Conventicle Act, [470], [474]
Cork, [465]
Cornwall, [238]
Craddock, Dr. (of Coventry), [72]
Cradock, Dr., an Episcopalian, [445]ff
Cromwell, [212]-215, [267], [275], [276], [319], [324], [325]
Crook, John, [228], [317]
Croslands, Jordan, [454]
Cumberland, [181]
Dales, The, [151]
Dates, given in "old style," [69n]
Delaware River, [501]
Derby, [119]ff;
Fox imprisoned a year, [121]n, [131], [336]
Desborough, General, [243]
Doomsdale in Launceston Jail, [255]
Drayton-in-the-Clay, [65], [203]
Dunbar, [314]
Edinburgh, [302]-306, [313]
Edmundson, William, [232], [494], [499], [510], [532]
Education, views on, [37], [461]
Edwards, Thomas, his "Gangræna," 19, [20], [21]
Elizabeth, the Princess, [551]
Endicott, Governor John, [375]
Eton in Derbyshire, [95]
Exeter, [269], [279]
Falmouth (Smethick), [240]
Farnsworth, Richard, [151], [164]
Fell, Judge, [162]ff, [164]n, [168], [174]ff, [295]
Fell, Leonard, [162]
Fell, Margaret (afterwards Margaret Fox), [160], [162], [351], [352]n, [353], [368], [404], [405], [409];
a prisoner, [417], [421]ff, [433];
marries George Fox, [468]ff, [482];
her children, [536]n
Fenny-Drayton, [65]n, [203]
Fifth-monarchy men, [23], [364], [367], [384]
Flushing, [502]
Foreign mission work, early, [385]
Fox, Christopher, [65], [208]
Fox, George, his creative power, [24];
the prophet of English Reformation, [24];
his "despair," [26];
turning point in his life, [27];
views of the Bible, [29];
his mysticism, [31];
enthusiasm, [32];
Divine Guidance, [33];
his view of man, [34];
a reformer, [35];
views of Education, [37];
on Predestination, [40];
his cures, [41];
his "Society," [42];
his fellow-workers, [43];
parentage, birth, early life, [65]-67;
"leather suit," [67], [139];
leaves home, [68];
"despair," [69];
his experiences, [72]-82;
his financial means, [74];
conversion, [82]-85;
his sense of conditions, [87];
psychical change, [87];
the "flaming sword," [97];
new view of creation, [97];
his central teaching, [101];
his message, [101]-105, [140], [155], [162];
first imprisonment, [110];
cures an hysteric woman, [112];
in Derby jail, [121]ff;
at Lichfield, [132]-134;
value of his preaching, [141];
his iron constitution, [144]n;
beaten and stoned, [146];
Swarthmore, [159];
beaten at Ulverstone, [169]ff;
beaten at Walney, [172]ff;
how he bore persecution, [174];
his cures, [180]n;
his discerning, [184];
sings in prison, [191];
visits Cromwell, [212]-215 (see also Cromwell);
in Launceston jail and his trial, [244]-268;
moved to travel over the nation, [277];
preaches three hours, [284] (see also 155, [184], [274]);
long hair, [293];
his brave spirit, [311];
use of the Bible, [327];
his eyes, [344] (see also 187, [557]);
imprisoned at Lancaster, [430]ff;
in Scarborough, [439];
set free, [453];
power of organizing, [459];
marries Margaret Fell, [468]ff;
ill at Stratford (Essex), [477];
sails for America, [484];
sails for England, [531];
last imprisonment, [540]ff;
death, [578]
Fox, Mary, [66], [539]
Friends, beginning of the, [70]n;
name, [77]n
Friends set at liberty, [574]
Furly, Benj., [550]
Glasgow, [306]
Glynne, Justice, [245]
Goldsmith, Ralph, [374]
Gospel, what is the, [403]
Hacker, Colonel, [209], [369]
Hale, Edward Everett, on "prophets," [24]n
"Hat honor," [105]ff, [197], [245], [248], [410]
Holder, Christopher, [511], [512]
Holiness, a life of (see Perfection, Christian), [85], [120]ff
Holland, [548]-553, [571]
Hooton, Elizabeth, [79]n, [494], [495]
Hotham, Justice, [22], [135]-137, [141], [146]
Howgill, Francis, [154], [168]
Huntingdon, Robert, at Carlisle, [371]
Imprisonments of Friends, [277]
Independency, [17]
Indians, [499], [501], [510], [515], [519]
Inward Light (see Light, the).
Ireland, [463]-467
Jails, condition of, [192], [193], [256], [372], [430]
Jamaica, [494]
James, William, on the "Quaker Religion," [25]n
Jersey, East, [512]
Jersey, West, [501]
John ap-John, [199], [280], [283], [285], [287]ff, [293]
Keith, George, [549], [556]-558
Kendal, [156], [166]
"King's Missive" (mandamus sent to Boston), [374]-377
Kirby, Colonel, [403], [409], [412]
Lampitt, "a priest," [159]-161, [169]
Lancaster, [164]ff, [344]-356, [410]
Lancaster, James, [172]ff, [183]ff;
sings, [399], [499], [504]
Launceston, [244]-268
"Leathern breeches," [139]
Leicester, a dispute at, [92], [396]
Lichfield, [132]-134
Light, the, [29], [100]-104, [162], [196], [238], [283], [310], [315]
"Little Ease," [372]n
London, [70], [275], [277] et seq., [319]-325, [471]-476, [559], [564], [568], [575]-578
Lower, Thomas, [265], [536], [538]
Mancetter, [72]
Manchester, [293]
Mansfield, [95]
Marriage, Friends' ceremony upheld by the courts, [387]
Maryland, [498]-501, [531]-533
Maryland (Baltimore) Yearly Meeting begun, [98], [499], [520]
"Meeting for Sufferings," [340]
Meetings, setting up of Monthly, [459], [461]
Ministers (Friends that speak in public), advice to, [203]n
Ministry, [38]
Monk, General, his order, [355]
Nancemond, [524]
Narragansett, [508]
Nayler, James, [147], [164], [168], [172]-174, [234], [269]-271
New Castle, [501], [517]
New England, Quakers in, [373]
New England Yearly Meeting, [504]
New York Half-Year's Meeting, [502]
Nottingham, [109]
Oaths, Act in regard to refusing to take oaths, [395]
"Opened," meaning of the term, [74]n
Ordinances, [39]
Owen, Dr. John, [276]
Oxford and Cambridge education not enough to qualify men to be ministers, [75]
Oyster Bay, [511]
Packer, Colonel, [216]ff
Parker, Alexander, [309], [310]ff, [571]
Parnell, James, [191], [192], [224]
Patrington, [142]-144
Pendle Hill, [150]
Penington, Isaac, [317]n, [325]
Penn, William, on Fox, [44], [516]n, [536], [547], [540], [556]-558, [565]
Perfection, Christian (see Holiness), [97], [101], [120]ff, [333]
Persecution of Friends in New England, [373], [379]
Poland, letter to King of, [560]
Presbyterianism, [17]
"Priest," meaning of the word, [67]n
Prison, number of Friends in, [389]
"Professor," meaning of the word, [68]n
Pronouns, use of plural, [197], [380]ff
Providence, [507]
Quaker, origin of the name, [125], [125]n
Quaker honesty, [198]
Ranters, [22], [78]n, [116]-117
Ranters in New England, [506]
Reading, [223]ff
Reckless, John, [110]
Religious states, various, [318]
Rhode Island, [504]-09
Rotterdam, [550]
Sale, Richard, [371]
Sawrey, Justice, [161], [163], [169], [175]
Scarborough, [439]ff
Schools, establishing, [37], [461]
Scotland, [298]-316
Scriptures, the, [103], [109], [176]
Sect, Quakers not a, [349]n
"Seekers, The," [20]-22
"Shake the country ten miles round," who could, [149]
Shattuck, Samuel, [374]
Shelter Island, [509]
Shrewsbury, N. J., [513]
Sixty ministers sent out, [201]
Smethick (Falmouth), [240]
Smith, William, [397]
Sommerton, [525], [528]
Speaking in a house of worship, [161]n, [182]n
Stephens, Nathaniel, a "priest," , [76], [203]-206, [211]
Stoddard, Amor, [90]
Sufferings of Friends, [369]; in New England, [373]-379, [389];
petition to the king, [389]
Swannington, [394]
Swarthmore, [159], [166]ff, [179], [295], [297], [342], [403]
Swarthmore Meeting House, [164]
Taylor, Thomas, [168], [200], [284]
"Thou and Thee," [380]-382
"Truth," meaning of, [407]n
Ulverstone, [166], [169]ff
Vane, Sir Henry, [328]
Virginia, [524], [529]
Wales, [199], [280], [282]-293
Walney, [172]
War, Fox's view of, [128], [130]
Warwick, [230]
Wensleydale, [151]
West, Justice, [176]ff, [295]
Westmoreland, [154]
Widders, Robert, [298], [307], [309], [311], [313], [341], [494], [499]
Wilkinson and Story, [537]n, [555]
Williams, Roger, [547]
Women, their position in the church, [19], [537]
Women preachers, [19]
Worcester, [539]
Worship, [38]
Yearly Meetings, at Luton (1658), [317];
Balby, [337];
Skipton (1659), [340], [483]
York, [138]
FOOTNOTES:
[A] "But of 'prophets' there are very few. The good God does not seem to need many. Centuries pass, as He orders history, in which there are none. So we call them Dark Ages. Then comes some John in the desert, and the world is wakened; some Wesley in the Church of England, and there is a revival of religion.