A Brief Narrative of the Life of Gilbert Latey: Comprising Some Account of the First Settlement of Friends' Meetings in London |
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Page 76 - Friends. George Whitehead and William Penn having spoken what they had to say, the King was pleased to ask Gilbert, whether he had not something to say ; upon which he in a great deal of humility spake in the manner following; ' The mercy, favour, and kindness, which the King hath extended to us as a people in the time of our exercise and sore distress, we humbly acknowledge ; and I truly desire that God may show him mercy and favour in the time of his trouble and sore distress?