PREACHED AT THE MEETING HOUSE OF THE PEOPLE CALLED QUAKERS, IN GRACE CHURCH STREET, LONDON, BY THOMAS STORY, (SOME TIME RECORDER OF PHILADELPHIA,) SEPTEMBER THE TWENTY-FIFTH, 1737, TOGETHER WITH CORRESPONDING EXTRACTS FROM THOSE OF ELIAS HICKS, THAT WERE DELIVERED, IN AND NEAR THIS CITY, IN 1824. The same being arranged in a method, which exhibits, at one view, by juxtaposition, the spirit and tenor of both. WITH AN APPENDIX, Containing an Original Sermon of George Fox. PHILADELPHIA: PUBLISHED BY S. POTTER AND CO. CHESNUT STREET, BLISS AND WHITE, NEW-YORK, AND E. J. COALE, BALTIMORE. ADVERTISEMENT. THE following Sermon, and the accompanying Abstracts, are referred, without note or commentary, to the unbiassed judgment of the Reader; who will be able to form his own opinion of the consistency, or inconsistency of the respective Speakers, with the received tenets of the People called Quakers, and the acknowledged doctrines of the Gospel. It is scarcely necessary to add, that the Sermon of Thomas Story was taken in short hand, without his knowledge, and afterward published, without his as sent. The Abstracts from Elias Hicks are selected from the volume of "Extemporaneous Discourses," which was printed at Philadelphia in the current year. The present Editor having examined two other publications, at New York, from the same Speaker, without finding any thing in them sufficiently material, to induce him to break the unity of his design, by multiplying, from their pages, quotations of similar import. The Sermon of George Fox, which is given in the Appendix, is supposed to be now first printed, from a manuscript in the Collection of an eminent Minister of the Society, long since deceased, who had travelled much among Friends in England, and who is suppos ed to have acquired it while abroad. LOOK UNTO ME AND BE SAVED. (Isaiah, xlv, 22.) A SERMON PREACHED BY THOMAS STORY, At the Meeting House, in Grace-Church street, London, As I was waiting upon God, this evening, with you, my friends, I observed the most kind, the most merciful and beneficent invitation of the Most High unto all mankind, to return from the evil of their ways to himself, and be saved. And as I have considered the invitation, and the universal extent of it, I have reasoned in myself from hence, and I think with very great clearness, that God hath not precluded any soul from everlasting life by any act or decree of his, since all mortals upon the face of the earth are included in this invitation, which I have occasionally read in the Holy Scriptures not long ago; and it is after this manner, "There is no God else beside Me, a just God "and a Saviour; there is none beside Me." Look unto Me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is none else. The ends of the earth here are put for the whole inhabitants of it, and not restricted to any age or time; and where all are invited, there is not one excepted. If therefore there be any soul here under distress with regard to salvation, or any manner of doubt or B |