Excerpt from Six Generations of Friends in Ireland: 1655 to 1890Having obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful, after much suffering he joined in wor ship with Friends, and going to live in Ireland about 1652, he was made the means of ao complishing a spiritual work, very similar to that effected by George Fox in England.Like the founder of the Society, he united clear spiritual apprehension with strong natural character, and though of comparatively humble rank, his consistent godly life, and his impartial view of men and things, gave him a well-merited in¿uence at the seat of Government in Dublin, during both Pro testant and Catholic ascendancy. He felt through all his sufferings for conscience's sake.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.