{"id":1661,"date":"2024-06-12T14:59:26","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T19:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/?p=1661"},"modified":"2024-06-12T14:59:26","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T19:59:26","slug":"elilzabeth-bathurst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/?p=1661","title":{"rendered":"Elilzabeth Bathurst"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Submitted by Jane Nickodem<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">\u201cThe Seed, or Grace of God,<br>Is small in its first Appearance,<br>even as the Morning Light;<br>but as it is given Heed to,<br>and obeyed, it will increase<br>in Brightness, till it Shine in<br>the Soul, like the Sun in the<br>Firmament at its Noonday<br>Height.\u201d<br>          -Elizabeth Bathurst<br><br><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Elizabeth Bathurst was born in London in 1655 and became a Quaker at the age of twenty-three. She was known for her Inspired preaching and writing.&nbsp; During her short life, Elizabeth published three written works and embarked on several preaching circuits, during which she was imprisoned at least once.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bathurst is best known for her writing, <em>\u201cTruth\u2019s Vindication:&nbsp; Or, A Gentle<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Stroke to Wipe Off the Foul Aspersions, False Accusations, and Misrepresentations, Cast upon the People of God, Call\u2019d Quakers (1679).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Favoring an inclusive stance on salvation, as well as a firm belief in<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>the unfailing availability of the Holy Spirit, Elizabeth Bathurst died in1685 at<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>the age of 30 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Bio Source Wikipedia<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Quote from Northern Yearly Meeting Faith &amp; Practice (page 2)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Profile of Quaker Elilzabeth Bathurst<\/p>\n<p>Photo by M from Pixabay<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1647,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-june-2024"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1662,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661\/revisions\/1662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}