Excerpt from Brief Memoir Concerning Abel Thomas, a Minister of the Gospel of Christ in the Society of Friends: Compiled From Authentic Documents For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our con versation in the world. This may be fitly applied to the subject of this memoir; who, having very little knowledge of literature, and being naturally of a shy, difident disposition, associating in his youthful days but little with those from whose experience and judgment he could have acquired such an understanding of men and things as is common, he was there by deprived of those advantages which in more advanced life might have been really beneficial to him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.