exceeding and
eternal weight of glory. They have taken all from me; and now
instead of keeping a prison, I am waiting rather when I shall
become a prisoner myself. Pray for me that my faith fail not,
and that I may hold out to the death, that I may receive a crown
of life. I earnestly desire to hear from thee and of thy
condition, which would very much rejoice me. Not having else at
present, but my kind love to thee and all friends, in haste, I
rest thine in Christ Jesus.

'THOMAS SHARMAN.

'Derby, the 22nd of the fourth month, 1662.'

This Gaoler was one of the first people whose Tiger spirits were tamed
by George Fox. But he certainly was not the last. Fox himself had told
the soldiers in Derby market-place that he could not fight, because he
'lived in the virtue of that life and power that took away the
occasion of all wars.' As a friend of his wrote, after his death many
years later: 'George Fox was a discerner of other men's spirits, AND
VERY MUCH A MASTER OF HIS OWN.'

FOOTNOTES:

[2] Two men who were executed for small offences he could not save,
but 'a little time after they had suffered their spirits appeared to
me as I was walking, and I saw the men was well.'

V. 'THE MAN IN LEATHER BREECHES'

_'As I was walking I heard old
people and work people to say: "he
is such a man as never was, he
knows people's thoughts" for I
turned them to the divine light of
Christ and His spirit let them see
... that there was the first step
to peace to stand still in the
light that showed them their sin
and transgression.'--G. FOX._

_'Do not look at but keep over all
unnaturalness, if any such thing
should appear, but keep in that
which was and is and will be.'--G.
FOX._

_'Wait patiently upon the Lord;
let every man that loves God,
endeavour by the spirit of wisdom,
meekness, and love to dry up
Euphrates, even this spirit of
bitterness that like a great river
hath overflowed the earth of
mankind.'--GERRARD WINSTANLEY.
1648._

_'Blessed is he who loves Thee,