Excerpt from Piety Promoted, in a Collection of Dying Sayings of Many of the People Called Quakers, Vol. 1 of 4: With a Brief Account of Some of Their Labours in the Gospel, and Sufferings for the Same The present edition of Piety Promoted is believed to be the only one extant which contains all the parts of this interesting and valuable collection. Its contents extend over a period of more than one hundred and seventy years, and embrace concise accounts of the godly lives and peaceful deaths of above six hundred persons. Among these is to be found a great variety in age, condition in life, station in the Church, and growth in religious knowledge and experience; but they all agree in a concurrent testimony to the blessed effects of a religious life, and to the consolation and support it furnishes on a dying bed. They form but a small portion of the cloud of witnesses who have lived and died in the Christian principles and practices of the religious Society of Friends, and who have proved by happy experience their value and excellence, both as a rule for the government of conduct through life, and as a foundation on which they could safely rest their hopes for eternity, in the hours of sickness and of death. 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.