Jesus Christ, but their own Bellies, that has such fruits in the Streets: But such as seek for their Gain from their Quarter, and the Price, never lead People to the Lord, but lead them into the Earth, and to be like themselves, and they live like Beasts and Swine, as you may read, Jer. 5. Mic. 3. Ezek. 34. Esai 56. Jer. 23. Rom. 13. Matthew 23. whose fruit declare it.

And away with the profession of God with your lips, while your Hearts are afar off; and away with your making a Trade of the Scriptures, Christs and the Apostles words, for which many suffered Death in giving them forth; and away with your Lukewarmness, and away with your Carnal formality; and away with your Doctrines and Traditions of Men, which perish in the using of them; and away with your singing of Davids Quakings and Tremblings, and Fastings in Meeter, and come to sing in the Spirit; and away with your Hour-glass-preaching, and Hypocritical Praying, and your old Mass-house-worship, which is called Steeple-house or Church, and come to the Church in God, 1. Thes. I. and to worship God in Spirit, John 4. and the Lord is come to teach his people himself, by his Spirit, and to bring them off from the worlds Teachers, and Churches, and Ways, to Christ, the Way to himself, and he doth enlighten every one that cometh into the World, that all through the light might believe; and every one believing in the Light, which hath enlightened them, they shall become the Children of the Light; But they that hate the Light that doth enlighten them, they hate Christ, and that condemns them; and thats the Light that lets the Drunkard see that he should not be drunk, and the Curser he should not curse, nor swear, and the Thief that he should not steal, and that

the Cozener should not cozen, nor cheat, nor wrong, nor defraud; and lets the Profane see that he should not profane; and lets the Envious man see he should not envy, nor fight, nor quarrel, nor lie, nor commit Adultery; that's the Light which discovers that: not to look after a woman to lust after her, that's the light that saith so, and if ye love the Light it will let you see all your evil Thoughts, Words, and Actions, which be wrought out of God, and turn you from them; and coming into the Light, your works will be wrought in God, and your words will be from him, and so good, that is in every one of your Bosomes that will judge you, and condemn you acting contrary to it, and reprove you; but if you consider it, and hearken to it, it will turn your Mind to the Lord God; and if you hate it, it will be your condemnation. Therefore now while you have time, consider and prize it, for this is the Day of your Visitation, and Salvation proffered to you: And with the Light, with which you see your sin, which Christ Jesus hath enlightened you withal, with the same you may see your salvation, Christ Jesus from whence it comes, to save you from your sin. And People, that which may be known of God is made manifest within you, which God hath shewed unto you, that when you do the thing which is not convenient, not righteous, but worthy of Death, by that of God in you ye can tell; and while your Minds are reprobate from that, ye are all Strangers from the Life of God, and the Covenant of Promise. And Friends, the Light ye must feel in your own Hearts, to give you the Light of the Knowledge of the Glory of God in the face of Christ, 2 Cor. 4. and all the children of the Lord shall be taught of the Lord, Isaiah 54. and ye must come to know the Anointing in you to teach you, 1 John 2. And

the Kingdom of Heaven ye must know within you, Luke 17. and that's it which never consents to sin. And ye must come to know the New Covenant, the Law in your Minds, and in your Hearts, by which ye need not say to one-another, Know the Lord, but that all might come to know him, from the greatest to the least, that Witness the Law of God put and written in your Minds and Hearts, that you may come to witness the Lord is your God, and ye his People. Repent lest you come to say you had time, when it is past; so from a Lover of your Souls, and your eternal good.

G. F.

Come, away with your Self-righteousness, and your feigned Humility, and your Will-worship, and your Carnal Security, and take heed of Drunkenness, and Filthiness, and Profaneness, and Scoffing, Mocking, Scorning, and Derision for such who live in such things, and act such things, shall not inherit the Kingdom of God; and away with that you call your Sacraments, and your Sprinkling of Infants, and come to Christ the Substance, and come to the Spirit, that you may be baptized into one Body, that you may come to possess the things the Scripture speaks of.

The very Mist of the Air is among you, and so are so light, and vain, which are the Prince of the Air's fruits, and the Priest who has long preacht for his Mouth; But if ye put not into his mouth, see if he turn not against you, and you shall not keep him long; so look unto Christ Jesus to teach you, who said Learn of me, Who is the Way to the Father, who hath en

lightened you, that with the Light you may see him, who is the Bread to feed upon; but if you hate it, then you feed upon Husks.

This is to be read among the People of Uxbridge." See "A Collection of the Doctrinal Books of GEORGE Fox. Ed. 1706.

SECTION 8.

THE PRESBYTERIANS.

THE earliest accounts of the origin of this denomination in Uxbridge, are dated previous to the year 1675. Though the first nonconformist preacher, who raised a congregation was an Independent, yet a few years after the conclusion of his labours, we find a considerable and respectable body who have generally been called Presbyterians.

The Reverend Thomas Woodward*, an independent, who was ejected for nonconformity from Bray, in Berkshire, retired to Uxbridge, and preached here privately after the restoration. He died in March 1675. In 1692, or about that time, the Rev. James Waters †

* Palmer's Nonconformists Memorial, Vol. 1. p. 287.

+ See Latin Inscription at page 185.

became the pastor of the congregation, and continued his labours till the year 1725. We conclude that during his residence the cause of nonconformity greatly prospered, as we find a new Chapel was erected for him in the year 1717. He was succeeded by the Reverend Mr. Mole, who was the author of a Treatise on Repentance, a Vindication of Dissenters, and other pieces. He removed from Uxbridge to Rotherhithe, and from thence to the Gravel-Pit Meeting-house, at Hackney. In the latter part of his life he retired to Uxbridge, where he died. The pastors since Mr. Mole have been the following;

Rev. Mr. Hancox,

Rev. Mr. Mills, (1745)

Rev. Mr. Gibbons, (1764)

Rev. Doctor Rutherford, (1769 to 1789)

Mr. Hancox removed to Tenterden, in Kent, where some of his descendants are now living.

Mr. Mills was author of some single sermons; one on the Fast observed on Account of the Rebellion, in the year 1745, and another on the Nature of Religious Liberty.

supposed he died at Uxbridge.

It is

Mr. Gibbons was the brother of Dr. Gibbons of Haberdashers' Hall. He lived and died

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