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A Testimony from the Monthly-Meeting at Hunger-Hill, the Seventh Day of the Fourth Month, 1713. Concerning our Dear and Well-beloved Friend and Brother in the Truth, Thomas Ellwood, Deceaſed.
That the Dead which Die in the Lord, are Bleſſed of him, we have great Aſſurance of, from John the Divine his writing to the Seven Churches, Rev. 14. ver. 13. Where be tells them, that he Heard a Voice from Heaven, ſaying, Write, Bleſſed are the Dead which die in the Lord, from henceforth: Yea, ſaith the Spirit, that they may Reſt from their Labours; and their Works do follow them. Of which Number, we have no Cauſe to doubt, but
this our dear Friend is one; who was eminently Serviceable in the Church of Chriſt. A Man to whom the Lord had given a large Capacity beyond many, and furnished him with an excellent Gift; whereby he was qualified for thoſe Services in the Church, in the performance of which, he did ſhine as a Star, which received its Luſter and Brightneſs from the Glorious Sun of Righteouſneſs. He was Wiſe, but Humble; Condeſcending to the Weak, and ready to Help, where he ſaw and felt Sincerity; but Sharp to that which he apprehended to be Inſincere and Deceitful; for which Cauſe, he was not acceptable to Hypocrites and Disorderly Walkers: Yet he was a Man of a very acceptable and agreeable Converſation, as well as Sober and Religious, both in the Church and in the World, being of a freeand
