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A66605	The memorial of the just shall not rot, or, A collection of some of the letters of that faithful servant of the Lord, William Wilson who departed this life the tenth day of the fifth month 1682 ... together with several testimonies concerning his faithfulness in his day : unto which is added a brief accompt of some of the buffetings, imprisonments, and spoiling of goods he patiently suffered for his testimonies sake.	Wilson, William, d. 1682.	1685 (1685)	Wing W2955; ESTC R30210	52,995	72

information made by John Tomson Priest of Grasmire in Westmerland for speaking some words to the people in Gods fear and bidding them mind their teacher so at the next Sessions I was fined by Justice Fleeming and the rest of the Justices in one hundred Marks and committed into the Goal at Kindal until payment was made as the tenure of the Mittimus did run and so remaining in prison a while until the first Sessions next after At which time the same Justices sent for me who tendered me the Oath of Allegiance and because for Conscience sake I could not swear was sent to prison again there to remain till I took the Oath and paid the fine of an hundred Marks as aforesaid although in the year 1648. I had suffered the loss of all I had saving my life for the King as I made it appear yet I remained in prison above half a year and then was set free by the Kings act of indulgence In the year 1662. in the 10th month I was committed to prison at Lancaster with many more of my Friends by Warrant from Justice Fleeming and William Kirby for meeting together to worship God in Spirit and in Truth where at the next following Sessions I had the Oath tendered me again by these said Justices and others and because I durst not swear was committed to prison where I remained Twenty weeks In the year 1665. I was arrested by warrant from Justice Fleeming and Justice Braithwait for meeting with my Friends the 5th of the 9th Month at the house of Reignal Holme for which I was imprisoned one Month in Kendal in the year 1670. I was fined in twenty pounds by vertue of an act made to prevent Seditious Conventicles by Justice Fleeming and Justice Phillipson for speaking a few words of Truth in soberness in our peaceable meeting to Justice Phillipsons man who was turned informer for which I had taken from me two Cows worth five pound one Horse worth forty Shillings and Oate meal worth ten Shillings And again for speaking in a meeting at Fieldhead near Hanks-head I was fined in twenty pounds for which my goods was spoiled by William Satterthwait Constable James Harrison Warden and William Groves overseer all of Landal In the year 1673. for not paying six pence or seven pence in the year to Parson Ambross Priest of Grasmire for tythe I was arrested with an Exchequer process called a commission of Rebellion and cast into Prison at Kendal where I continued sixteen weeks and then set free by the Goaler being three weeks after the writ was not of date But these are small matters in consideration of what the God of my Life hath led one through since I knew his glorious Truth before the King came in for many a time have I suffered cruel Mockings Stackings Stoneing Buffitings Beatings and Knocking 's by the hirelings Priests and rude People and all for desiring the good of their Souls and that they might turn to the God of Light in whom there is no darkness at all and so come out of darkness that they might have the light of life William Wolson An Epistle General or a token of my Love and care in my measure of the Heavenly Father of Glory of Peace and of Love to all friends in their meetings as it is Judged meet and Convenient to be read IN the grace of God and love of the heavenly Father which hath visited us in this acceptable day of his abounding mercy I greet you all in the Virgine love and state of the pure Church of God which he hath called and gathered together in our day and age glory to his Name for ever who hath found us worthy to be members of the same and his eternal love and tender merties it even unto us day by day and time after time in our heavenly Meetings which he hath gathered us into that we may wait upon him in and think upon his Holy Name Blessed for ever be his name he hath set us in a holy state and brought us into a deep sence of his pure love which runs freely among us from day to day and keeps all the careful and upright in heart unto himself and they glorifie his holy name and all the careless and disordered persons doth dishonour his most holy and blessed Name and this will be their shame and great condemnation But the glory of the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ shall be revealed in the upright hearted and carefully minded Men and Women Sons and Daughters of the preclous life and seed of God which is risen amongst us in this our day and time of Gods love and heavenly visitations unto us who keeps the good order and state of the pure Church but unto them who rebelle against the spirit and regards not the good order and state of the pure Church unto such will the Lord appear and be angry with them if they do not amond and have a greater regard unto his most Holy Name and Place and Spirit which would cause them not to err not depart from the good order and Spirit of God unto the which they are called therefore my Friends Brethren and Sisters in the name of the Lord of Hosts I charge and warn you all that you keep to that of God in you all and that will keep you all in the remembrance of the beginning and let you all see the good order and state of the true Church in God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ the Son of God the light of the World in whom we are all to walk to move and have our being So remember my Friends how careful you all were at the first and tender at the beginning and troubled at that which was out of order and your Spirits grieved and could not well bear the things that some will now allow and be ready in defence thereof to say Alas Friends were weak at the first but we are more able to hear or to bear things now which were a great offence or trouble then Alas my friends the Lord was near unto us then and did uphold us in our weakness and was with us in all out undergoings and did uphold us on every hand and none could open their Mouths against his harmless Lambs but the Lord was sufficient in them to shut it again But now my Friends they have many things to lay to the charge of some Friends who frequently comes to our Meetings and yet they find them in the Customs of the World and not after Christ yea in very blameable and most reproveable fashions of the world which the Apostle forbids and saith Fashion not your selves like unto this world for the Fashions thereof passeth away and some in being too conformable in drinking too much at Ale-Houses and taking of Tobacco amongst them which is an evil savour unto the Lord and that which your Spirits could not bear at the first Alas Friends have you lost your first love or is your

it be a hard Exercise to me many a time now in my old age to part with so Dear a Husband but all is but a reasonable sacrifice for the Lord who is the preserver of our Souls that live in obedience unto his Will And this I can truely say and that to my great Comfort that when the Lord was pleased to call him from me upon the Truths Account whether in England or Scotland I never was his hindrance but was freely willing to give him up to the service that the Lord had called him unto for I have often bidden him take no care for any thing he left behind but have said perform thy journey as thou sees the Lord makes thy way which I know he did and that with faithfulness and that is his everlasting joy and my great comfort though I be left behind him in this World but my desire and ●●eathing is to the Lord to preserve me and my two Daughters in his heavenly way to our lives end as he did my dear Husband who laid down his body as an innocent Lamb Saying often times I have not served the Lord unfruitfully and also said I have no trouble upon me and I am very sensible that all is well with him for he was a peaceable man to the very latter end of his daies Blessed and praised be the name of the Lord for evermore who hath received him unto his everlasting joy and felicity for evermore The 17th of the 11th Month 1682. Dorothy Wilson His Daughter Rebecca's Testimony concerning her Father THis is my Testimony concerning my dear and well beloved Father William Wilson he was a dear and tender Father towards me and that is the cause of my Shedding of tears many times but it is not without hope for I am Satisfied with many more who knew his Life and Conversation that he is entred into everlasting joy and felicity for evermore with his Maker And this I can truly say to my daily comfort he was a true director of Me and my Sister on the Spiritual Journey even Sion wards which he himself did travel on dayly and did bear a faithful Testimony for to the end of his daies both in England and other Nations where the Lord was pleased to call him tho through tryals and hardships but he thought all little enough for the Lord and his holy truths sake Oh blessed and praised be the name of the Lord for evermore for I can truly say my Father was raised up in a spiritual sence towards us his Family when he took his journey towards London and in much tenderness exhorted us with tears to keep in the true fear of the Lord that his name might be glorified by us with many more good and heavenly Exortations to us on this manner which was his last Testimony to us for he lived but two nights and one day after he came home from London and his outward body was much Spent but he was in a Sweet and heavenly frame of Spirit to his last breath and often said his peace was far above his pain And so lay down his head in peace where none can make him afraid Oh Lord God of Infinite love which hath broken my heart unto tenderness before thee thou hast been a Husband to my Mother and Father to Me and my Sister Oh Lord carry us on in thy heavenly way as thou didst my Father that thy name may be glorified by us in our little measures for it is the desire of my heart above all things to live in thy true fear that I may inherit the Crown of life as my Father doth Blessed and praised be thy holy name for evermore saith my Soul The 17th of the 11th Month 82. Rebecca Wilson Ruth Wilsons Testimony concerning her Father THis is my Testimony concerning my dear and faithful Father William Wilson who was a dear and tender Father over me which is the cause of my great lamentation when I heard of his decease for I was gone to Kendal to live and did never see him alive after he took his Journey towards London which was very hard for me to bear and went near my very life but in the Consideration of his holy and pure life that he lived in I am satisfied with many that did know him that he is in everlasting Joy and Eternity Blessed and praised be the name of the Lord for ever for he was ever instructing me on in that heavenly way that he himself travelled into his latter end and encouraging men in the way of the Lord often saying to my Sister and Me it would be the best portion that ever we could enjoy which we know now to be very true Blessed and praised be the name of the Lord for ever who hath made us sensible witnesses of it in our little measures and I desire at the Lords hand that I with many more may be preserved in the true fear of the Lord to my lacter end for I know my dear Father did often travel in Spirit for us his family when he was far separated from us outwardly sometimes in his Journey upon truths account and sometimes in his imprisonment for conscence sake and the Lord was with him in every needfull time and now he was pleased to take him out of this troublesome world into his everlasting joy where he hath laid down his head in peace where none can make him afraid and the desire of my heart is that I with my Mother and Sister may truely wait upon the Lord that we may know him to be as a Father unto the Fatherless and as a husband unto the desolate Widow for he is a strong Tower unto the upright in heart and a sure hiding place unto all his little ones O blessed and praised be his Holy Name for ever and evermore saith my Spirit Ruth Wilson William Rawes his Testimony concerning Will. Wilson COncerning our dear friend and brother William Wilson I have this Testimony to bear for him in true remembrance of him he was a man of a Meek and quiet Spirit which with the Lord is of great price he had also a good gift to declare the truth and was full of zeal and heavenly courage in the which he perform'd the same Also he was a good example and patern in his life and Conversation unto us by the which he preached truth unto us as well as by his words for he himself lived according to what he taught us for he was adorned with gravity and walked before us in humility yea he had a blamless conversation and was unspotted from the World so that his presence as well as his words was a strengthening and a comfort to the upright and honest-hearted he was a man that did suffer much for truth's sake both imprisonment often and spoil of goods which he took joyfully knowing that in Heaven he had a better and more enduring substance he patiently endured all saying he had counted the cost before he began to build

not forget his Servants whom he hath chosen to place his name among who stands faithful unto him them will he deliver one way or other we need not look how the Lord knows what way makes most for his Glory as I remember the death of Oliver Atherton that sweet Martyr for the Lord in bearing the same Testimony who the same night before he dyed sang praises to the Lord in a most heavenly manner as many Witnesses can testifie because he suffered this lingering Marterdom for the Lord of Glory who ended the tenth and redeemed him out of the ninth as it is written in the declaration of his death that was set upon his Corps as he was carryed home to his family to be buryed as the Countess of Darby could witness who was his great Aversary and Prosecuter into Prison who dyed her self about six weeks after and then all the rest were released as by the providence of the Lord whom they suffered for And then they who we made as Widdows and fatherless for a time were eased of their sufferings as these who are now as poor Widows fatherless Children may die in due Season as the Lord sees good whom thou hast made through thy Jewish custom of taking tenths though in that day it was lawful for the Jews yet I never read in Scriptures that they sued at Law for them as thou doest nor received them for that end as thou doest nor made Widdows nor fatherless Children as thou dost nor lay'd men in Prison for them as thou doth nor when one Law would not serve went to another as thou hast done nor never gave Goalers strict charge over them as some of you have done but the Lord will revenge for these things to whom we leave it for I will repay it saith the Lord and this was I moved to write by the God of my life unto thee or whom it may concern in the behalf of my brethren and their wives and little Children who cannot do as much for themselves that thou may consider their cases who suffers for the Lord and dare not pay Tyths for pleasing man and thereby offend God who hath brought them to make a good Confession of his name before men and is not ashamed of their Christian duty to God who hath redeemed them out of the ninths and left them Witnesses against the tenths for his names sake Glory to the Lord for ever VV. W. A short Letter to the Priests and their hearers FRiends Christ Jesus who said he is the way of truth and the life John 1. saith also he is Light of the world and whosoever believes in him shall not abide in darkeness but shall have the Light of life John 8.12 So truely friends this is the Light of Christ Jesus which sheweth you sin and what is evil in you and this is that which is not of the world neither can the world receive it for the whole world lyeth in wickedness but this of God to which we speak doth never consent unto wickedness but reproveth all manner of evil whatsoever and sheweth you that you should not wrong one another but do to all men as ye would they should do to you friends this is the way of truth and to speak the truth one to another this will stand in the Light which is the truth and truly if you love God you will love the Light for God is Light and of Purer Eyes then to behold iniquity and a measure of the Spirit is given to every one of you by manifestation to profit withall so every one search honestly your own hearts and see how you have profited with it for truly an acount must you give of your deeds done in your bodies whether they be good or evil now all evil is manifest to be of the Devil as lying swearing theft drunkenness desembling deceiving with the rest of all ungodly actions therefore repent and forsake your sins and return from the evil of your doings for the Lord wills not the death of a sinner but rather that you would return from your wickedness and live to serve him alone in that which is holy and just and good for to live in sin and lusts of uncleaness is death and destruction and dear people strive to enter in at the staite gate which leadeth to life and few there be that find it but wide is the way and broad is the gate that leadeth to destruction and many there be that find it so I dearly exhort you all to read your conditions honestly and see how you stand justified in the Light of the Son of God and your time all to prize and turn to the Light while you have the Light reproving you for sin in Secret when as no mortal Eye doth behold and by believing and obeying it it will lead you out of darkness and this is the true Teacher and near unto every one of you all and cannot be removed into a corner but is present with us and you at all times and in all places and sees the very thoughts and intents of the heart and no other way is to the Father but by the Son who is the true Light that lighteth every man that comes into the world and this is in love to all your Souls let him that readeth understand and you that teacheth others whether you are taught your selves of him who is the true teacher Christ Jesus Secondly and whether they that are taught of him are taught to settle themselves at one certain place for so much a year as can agreed betwixt partys Thirdly whether they that be so are not of that sort that Esaiah saith seeks their gain from their Quarter and the hireling that Christ saith flyeth Fourthly whether they be not of that sort that stands praying in the Sinagogue hath upermost places in the Assemblys and is called of men Master Fifthly whether they have not mens Persons in admiration because of advantage and reverenceth honour one of anothor and calleth men Masters Sixly whether these be not of the same generation that Jermiah saith steal the words from their neightbour and saith the Lord saith when the Lord hath not spoken to them Sevenly whether these be not in the way of Canan envy and Balaum seeing after gifts and rewards W. W. Letter from Scotland to friends about Kendal in Westmoreland DEAR friends in and about Kendal these may signifie to you all who is desirous to heare of me that I am well blessed be the Lord for the same and my heart affcted with the deaar love of God unto you my true friends with whom I have fellowship in the heavenly Union and Comfortable Spirit of our eternal God who is present with us at all times and places who cannot be seperated from his own from his own life in his people who hath chosen him for their way and for their life cannot live without him who is life the Lord of hosts is his name he is my life my