| › Foreward - THE
LABORS, TRAVELS, AND SUFFERINGS
OF
THAT
FAITHFUL MINISTER OF JESUS CHRIST
JOHN BANKS
COMPILED FOR THE FRIENDS' LIBRARY
1838
REVISED AND PRI ...read |
| › Preface - Friendly Reader,
The labors of the servants of God ought always to be precious in the eyes of his people and for that reason the very fragments of th ...read |
| › Chapter 1 - John Whiting's Testimony Concerning John Banks - Since it pleased the Lord in his infinite love to cause his day to dawn and his truth to break forth in this nation of England, even in an acceptable ...read |
| › Chapter 2 - A Testimony From Friends - A TESTIMONY FROM FRIENDS OF PARDSHAW MONTHLY MEETING IN CUMBERLAND
He was one upon whom the Lord poured forth of his Holy Spirit and gave a large g ...read |
| › Chapter 3 - John Bousted's Testimony - He was a faithful minister of Christ in this his glorious Gospel day after that long and dark night of apostasy which had spread itself over the natio ...read |
| › Chapter 4 - Christopher Story's Testimony - As the labors, travels, and exercises of our dear friend John Banks were great, both in doing and in suffering for the name of the Lord, I shall here ...read |
| › Chapter 5 - Journal of John Banks, Part 1 - I came of honest parents. My father's name was William and my mother's name Emma. I was their only child, born in Sunderland, in the parish of Issell ...read |
| › Chapter 6 - Journal of John Banks, Part 2 - My wife's letter to me.
Dear Husband,
After long expectation to hear from thee, I have, before the writing hereof, received two letters whereby I wa ...read |
| › Chapter 7 - Journal of John Banks, Part 3 - In my return after ten weeks it came upon me that I must go to Wicklow again. And when I came to Dublin, there was a letter from Wicklow, informing th ...read |
| › Chapter 8 - Journal of John Banks, Part 4 - When my friend John Watson and I had traveled through the nation of Ireland, visiting Friends therein, and had been much comforted and refreshed toget ...read |
| › Chapter 9 - Journal of John Banks, Part 5 - This year I went to Ireland again, from whence I wrote the following letter to my wife:
Dear Wife,
In that which openeth my heart to the Lord and ma ...read |
| › Chapter 10 - Journal of John Banks, Part 6 - On the 15th of the same month, in the evening, came the jailer and ordered Thomas Hall and myself to the common jail because we could not answer his u ...read |
| › Chapter 11 - A Supplement to His Journal - WITH AN ACCOUNT OF HIS LATTER END AND DYING WORDS.
After settling in Somersetshire as aforesaid and his marriage with his second wife, Hannah Champ ...read |
| › Chapter 12 - Epistles and Papers - Unto You With Whom I Once Had My Conversation
The truth in soundness held forth and declared unto those with whom I formerly had my conversation, who ...read |
| › Chapter 13 - Unto You Who Once Knew the Truth - UNTO YOU WHO ONCE KNEW THE TRUTH, THE LIGHT, TO YOUR JUSTIFICATION; BUT BEING TURNED FROM IT INTO THE UNCLEAN WORLD, IT IS NOW YOUR CONDEMNATION
Th ...read |
| › Chapter 14 - For Friends of Pardsay Meeting - FOR FRIENDS OF PARDSAY MEETING, OR ELSEWHERE IN CUMBERLAND; TO BE READ AMONG THEM IN THE FEAR OF THE LORD.
Dear Friends,
The foundation of God sta ...read |
| › Chapter 15 - The Testimony of Truth - THE TESTIMONY OF TRUTH AGAINST ALL THE CUSTOMS, FASHIONS, WAYS, WORDS, WORSHIPS, CARRIAGES, AND BEHAVIORS THAT BE IN THE WORLD, WHICH ARE OUT OF THE ...read |
| › Chapter 16 - An Epistle on Good Order - Dear Friends and Brethren, unto whom the salutation of my love reacheth.
In all your meetings together to do service for the Lord, his truth, and peo ...read |
| › Chapter 17 - The Blessed Effects of True and Saving Faith - With encouragement to all Friends everywhere that suffer for the sake of truth and righteousness.
Dear Friends,
The great work of God in the sons ...read |
| › Chapter 18 - An Exhortation to Friends - Dear Friends,
Many have been the mercies, privileges and deliverances of which the Lord your God hath made you rich partakers as you have stood faith ...read |
| › Chapter 19 - A General Epistle - A GENERAL EPISTLE TO THE FLOCK OF GOD, BUT MORE PARTICULARLY, IN CUMBERLAND
Dear Friends and Brethren,
Look to the rock from whence ye were hewn a ...read |
| › Chapter 20 - A True Testimony Concerning My Faith in Christ - I believe in that same Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, for remission of sins and the salvation of my soul, who was conceived of the Holy Ghost, bor ...read |
| › Chapter 21 - A Testimony from the Quarterly Meeting - in the county of Somerset, concerning John Banks, of Street, in the same county, deceased; who departed this life the 6th day of the Eighth month, 171 ...read |
| › Chapter 22 - A Testimony Concerning John Banks - A TESTIMONY CONCERNING OUR DEAR AND WORTHY FRIEND JOHN BANKS
Whom the Lord was pleased to place in this part of the country, as he himself hath sig ...read |
| › Chapter 23 - Hannah Banks' Account and Testimony - I was married to John Banks the 28th of the eighth month, 1696, being a widow. I was convinced of God's truth in the time of my widowhood and we were ...read |
