A TESTIMONY Concerning Our dear Friend and Brother George Watt.

WHo was a tender Man toward the Lord and his Truth, and upright in his Life and Conversation; and had a care of Gods Glory, and shewed forth an Ex­ample and Testimony in plainness, against the Pride and Vanities of this World; and all manner of Lasciviousness and Loosness: A Man of Inte­grity, Fervency and Sincerity, for the Lord's Ho­nour and the Truth, and would have all that profess Truth, to walk in it; where any did not, it was to his Grief: He had a sincere Testimony for the Lord, both in Life and Power these several years, both in Meetings here in England, and in Holland, and in Friezland, who Travelled with me; and I had a sincere Love for him, for his true and honest upright-heartedness to the Lord, who strove to walk inoffensively, both to the Church of Christ and to the World, in his tender Life and Conversation; and the Lord had great­ly [Page 2] blessed him in outward Riches, and he so lived above it, that he did a great deal of good with it, setting many poor Widows, Fatherless and Ser­vants to Work, that they got a good Livelihood under him. And G. Watt said to me, that he paid a Thousand Pounds a year to poor Wi­dows, Fatherless and Servants Wages, which was a great help to poor people, so that he has been the helping and making of many; and he kept very good order in his Family, and amongst his Ser­vants and Work-People. And besides his Christi­an Charity, he was always ready to help other poor Widows, Fatherless and Families of the Church of Christ, that profess the same Truth of Christ with him; and not only so but as the A­postle saith, Do good unto all, but especially those that are of the Houshold of Faith, for such poor Fa­milies or Widows as were not of his Religion, and Faith, he hath sought out, help'd and relie­ved them in the cold Winter season, with Coals and other Necessities.

And this he did not only to the poor Natives a­bout London, but also handed several Sums of Mo­ney to the poor French Protestants, that left their native Country for their Conscience-sake, besides the relief he gave several of the poor French week­ly at his House. Much I could write of such things of the fruits of his Christian Generous Spirit, whose Bowels were not straitned from the good works of Faith, and practice of pure Religion. And I do not know that any one can spot his clean Life; he was a Man compassed about with many Infirmities, but exercised in the Word of Patience, [Page 3] in which Patience he run his Race, to obtain the Life and Crown Immortal.

And also he was many times very much exer­cised in the Lords Power and Spirit, by which he was sometimes moved to go to Steeple-houses, and other places, to declare Gods Truth to the People, which Exercise few knew, but who had gone through the same; and severall times he had been taken, and carried before Justices, and some­times cast into Prison; but the Lord by his eternal Arm and Power carried him over all, and over all gave him Dominion, for his Name and Truths sake, and in it preserved him to the end of his dayes, a harmless Innocent man, a Peace-maker, a true Be­liever in the Light of Christ, and a Child of the same; a living Member of the Church of Christ, who is the holy and heavenly Head of the same: And as Christ saith, He that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live; and he that liveth, and believeth in me shall never die; and in this Belief, and in this Life is our dear Brother George Watt; I do see him and feel him; And so, Blessed are all they that die in the Lord, they Rest from their Labours, as he hath done, and their Works follow them, as his do him.

And this was upon me to write concerning our dear Brother George Watt. Though outwardly Weak, yet Strong in the Lord;

G. F.
THE END.

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