NE Ny Yo ea a — th ttt ttl ttt el, tes Ra Mi On te, | —_ a a “a om em = wit eicbant Ser erts a De aye 8 hn oe Pet te Aree rte mem arn nem om = eg ie ee ana pd iatnge ee eects news 2 see Sv ich nent ap main ober ene canaaeenetn: eemsennambearen rine” mate stpast tet meng Orgs a a bcs ine Le essmseaten em nanan tat meena ore = Sa a cele Poet tad ret rps a elf ethos : . cos ae ngeanene are weet Pat eteayee stale yom wroeeatat ae a uta he aoe =< ree : aa Sree peg Se ee ep at ary ees a iieet rans gee — Soarteng reted -aw~Aeva han = peere® Seta emeet eet He Tete ar a a gen pinery vem welcomes Syomee = Lane tn ea or ger ne ak omen ag ee ae = ee ny te des wat eiemaas ney owt eee IN ee ee ong at 4 SS Poet ee NE Bg , re THAT. Ty ; isi Miniter of Chit ein, J se Char lés Mar Sal} ee bey | $o.will I comfort you and ye foall be,comforted in 4 ae Jerufalem,. Ya. 66.113. ie Ye f. Leven warnthem that they. relvals not again|t the Lord.and fo Wrath come upaw vou,2Chr.g.io. leffed are the Peace-makers, fe they pall be called ‘the Children of God, Matth.5.9. | ——aaiee te ae PREFACE — TO THE READER: Muft needs a it is with fome Sad- nefs that I remember the Departure fo many of the Lord's Worthies, as 4 i time hath deprived us of : But Ir ave we fomnetimes comforted my felf in this, the Lord intends to take his Church ore immediately under the Care and Mi- ifiry of his own bleffed Spirit, whereby ats, and a upon them fuch o oe Ne Ge Mm 284397 2 rm + wi 7 " 7 1 4? C 4\ sy Hi E vy 77 ey ig Lofs would be more than repaired; vd alfa yet raife up more of his Ser» ae fates _e the teat Pinsee fro on high, as to be pats ee qualife to rather bome the refidue 0 the dif e otk Ifrael tho 9 ‘Wo the Hill and: iy 9 they Should nor roi Rank 0 ofthe L. (as Worchits hat» th nif tha Davitt tet ‘reckon’ 2 ahhome- y the tha ferved God, and David eben K py? Hiantly. ? Deg Perfon, ollie fe eft. pert a ki Vorks: and: ‘Lenbours: vH bee Pt ” mach more. fp kane ne Minftn than Writing, was brought’ up in th Nariure of Religion, among the moft. Seek ing, and Enlightened People of his. Time iz the Ci rdty. of Briftol 5 | prepared Veffel to re ceive with”) Glad. Tidings, brosyght out. gj - by thofe Evtnent: Serg ag Jin f Vifits of | er g ue 4 seein 2 e ey ens Tothe READER. j n to Gods People. Bat in fome time ter, mot contented to eat his Bread alone, ing filled with Lcve and a religious Con- ern for the good of others, he found him= elf engaged in the Name and: Power of | God to vifit the Meetings of his People throughout this Nation, the Land of his atiity ; in which capacity he continued 4 faithful Labourer avd Minifter ia the Vineyard. of Chrift to bis End: By whofe Travels and Labours, 2s many were turned 1p Righteoufnels, fo divers were quickued in their Gifts to the Miniftry: For he was wot one that affected Words or laboured at légancy of Speech, or leaved upon Me- nory or former Openings; bat one that baited for the feeling of Gods living and heaz, ly Power, to carry him forth in bis Minifterial Exercifes, whereby, like a right f a : ; Gofpel-Minifter, he often refrefhéd the Fa- inily, and “Witage. of God: ‘As for reg ar ded himjelf'in amore particulars r, 1 can indeed fy he was a great Com- ition of Love and Zeal, of Meeknefs and Affability, finewlar Uprightiels and Simplicit: +¥Compaffionate and Help ful; his Converfe, and Tnoffen= A fiye 4% Phe-PREFA 4 awa five in his Freedoms : Fervent again th Troublers of Sions Peace, yee a er te the Miftaking and Relenting. “He wd naturally of aLively but Kind and Friend. Temper, and where he profeft a Friend ( ip, very, Faithful as wed eCtionate And as the Lord had se with him from the beginning, and ak an honour able place in the Hearts of b did ae le, that. are Kfraelites indeed; fo did he waa his Strengthning and Comferting Prefence with him, to his End. For vifiting of him with divers Friends but a day or two before his Departure, as one filled with the Love, Life and Power of Chrift, he praye ed after a very earneft manner, That the Lord would preferve his People, 2 and carry on is Work among them, and exalt his Truth ; jp andeven as in an ‘Ago ony of Spi- vit faying, The Eternal and iverlafting God blefs and profper “ hee and all his People, and ftand by You and carr You God sed all Oppofition ; The &E le ey: d Majelty on High be wit You ; much more in the [ame | fervent. man- ids; ; vemembring bis ‘Love t Friends as opportunity Fiat ap _ Tothe READER. . Thus the Lord carried him thorow the . abours of his Life, as well as Weaknets a his Body, when he took leave of us and Tt, to receive a more during and eternat Manfion in the Kingdom of Glory. And Reader, in this I write my Kpowledge of the Author of the following Book, upon an ancient, 2s well as very intimate, Acquain- tance: For I muft fay, bis Friend{hip and Society were always grateful to me, for the fake of that Love, Peace and Piety that did adorn his Comverfation; and I befeech Almighty God, lis following Labours may be 4 Seafonable and an EfieCtual Memo- tial of thofe many former Perfonal Ones, that were fo Beneficial 4d Acceptable a- mong the Lord’s People. UE. Indeed bis Writings that were made pub- lick, are not many, but however they were ‘too many and fenfible to be loft; and if the Reader perufes ‘them in Serioufnefs, they will demonflrate from what Fountain they Sprang , even that of heavenly Love and Zeal, for the ftirring up of thofe that read them, to the Fear, Love and Service of the everlafting God, and that Truth, — Unity, Peace and Concord may encreafe : and : a q Be # and be multiplied AMONG. “a The: PREFAC: " where they come, _ And I would add what I Pate ie viz. That the Friends of God would be dili gent in flirring upsheir Children and Fami- ‘ly frequently to read the Holy Scriptures, and the Writings of our Antient Departed _ Friends, which are .an Eminent Vindication of the Divine Authority of that bleffed Baa upon the Experience of ; ole Fach . nifters ana Servants of Chrift. eo that Mf who make Profeffion of the boly and bleffed Truth in theinward Parts, wouldmake the Lives and Labouts of thofe: Worthies of Lord their Lively and Conftant their Known Serioufnels, Retirement, Si lence, Self-denial, Temperance, Humili- ty, Mecknefs, Tendernefs,. Brotherly Kindnefs and Sincerity to God and» bis People ; that fo there may be 2 Succeffion in Sobriety, Righteoufnefs and Godline/;, which is the very Sum. and Subft an eof Religion; and that one Gene ation may become ‘Heirs, in Holinefs to ‘anosley We Days be no aia and Time be wallowec tn Eternity. 2) Ea ee agi ail if CONTENTS: ‘ar ‘ Short and Brief J larnanie of my Piri mage in this World. l Te Picton, tothe Love of ‘God. mncerning the precions Unity of the Spirit. in Epiftle ro the Flock of Chrift Fefus. “Paget. inother Epiftle to rhe Flock of Chrsft Fefus. p.33- he Way of I veges. ti the Way of Death Difcovered. ae poly © Sis to Oppofers, &e. p. 122. ie of he, Lord Sounded out of Sjon. vi ® pet 33. in E viftle Oo Fitndsi in Penfilvania. % 50. xhortarion 10 the Quarterly, eg and 7 Meetings. 153. pe tothe 5 ed Mectings P 158. X . A AVifion of Charles / aoe eb, T AS porn hee! iE an nens Meeting An Epifile rede ts EN 4 - An Epiftle to the Captives. ope An Epijfile to Friends of Charlesot in Wate a § A - RT A Coy of 4 ‘Letter to Friends in’ SP alsontt ya of An Epifite co Fens shoring ther i on thelWLord.. i 4 fi 3 y pifile ta’ Frienc : gs ning of a Teftimony And of i Snares of ti Enemy. p- 19% Ai Copy of an Epiftle I ide to by A sec Hal ©: Year-Mecting; 16 vere, * & _ ACa an Epifile fe Sahar 9 Sey _ A Gengral Epiftie to Friends and ee Feather “Pp. 205 An Epi jfile to the Mens and Womens i 2 and about the City of London.» ))- w Copy of Charles Marfhall in and about Briftol. = AT ender Vi ifitation of Love t | euery- wheres’ » Cae An Epiftle in the Love. f where. ae van Epiftleto the Women: Me i ing An Epifile to Friends. \. 2e Charles Marfhall’s Epiftle nds hiefi) ».Briftol. > ae rs cr. Pi guld Nee is a sei os Epifile to Fr nd, ee : | pate fon pic ree jener end Dave. - ; = S Sig! < . ae. Ae és ‘ ip. 25- I. 21, | « Foote i angeeves; 27. ire. # - fetiene C Bimbngbam, P: feral, p-62.1. 5. £.God?s, r. Book, ie I. 15. f. may Ts dy Pe le 10. £ Ca} IAT dhe Lord our God pros” ‘\ mifed by holy Prophets, Of sah | the Pou Out of his: Sine > And of when an _ become the ae. and a . confitming — Siferrinn ee Everlafting Gofpe Chrift, wherein” u * Brother, Charles. Marfball and Bffe€tual Service in Time, through great _ ‘ and Exercifés. ‘Fows : many Other. faithful Jefus (who are at owe fuch tender a nd c ly to commemorat and Teftimon for t of the Lord Our oe Jefus Chrift, and to re to Pofterity ; for tt be had’ in Everle I Knew this Our D in his Young Years was Pleafed Religio Heart and Mind, 4 Knowledge and’ Truth; asit is In Life and Power, edethe Love of vered. unto him, an ‘Eove ‘was fincere to and Servanits, nifter ea tlle ag Seat i Lt be a Witnefs and Partaker of the ne y and Teftimony of Chrift — A and thar he might have a Share the Work of the fame Bleffed Spiri- itt y of the Gofpel of the Grace God, which wrought in his Heart for > fame End, and which accordingly >Lord was ‘pleafed to make him Ia- umental in, as a Minifter of the Spi- ,and not of the Letter; toturn F People _ im the Flefh to the Spirit, and. 1m Darknefs, Sin and Satan, to Chrift etrue Light, and from the Barrenand npty Forms of Religion, tothe Power Godlinefs. And as he was a Loving nl a Man; he was truly ad Zealous for the Glory of the H fonour of his Holy Name T 3 and retain’d unfeign’d Love : Brethren in Chrift, and Regard to ¢ lively and “comfortable. Fellowship -) a good and neceflary Preparation, for )the Holy Spirit, pao we were, © | often One of them th: often comforted the Flocks of the whom Chrift Eftgem thren. He Ze: againft the Spirit tion, and againit Sowers of Difco ed to Alarm an People out rfhly Security, Flefhly in ; rig which and took Great — to Spend and b Work and Service. for Love’s fake € tween us) and | Faith, and retain’ of the Brethren, the Faithful in € Heritage. And make hiny truly ful ( by. his {pirituad - Souls under Amictt alfo ,becaufe of fsa tofuch aswerg Affict ways indifpofed as t pau baa fe oe ae ae to fympathize with them, te help them in his Phyfical Pra€tice. fame for the Help, Eafe and Relief many (who had Labour’d under a Weaknefs, and. Diftempers ) as ave confeffed. : A as an Ancient Pied in Great" ndernefs, true Love and _Affetion, clared at his Funeral his Being then Paradice, T really Believe he is writ- ‘ a Heaven, and Recorded: in the ’s Book of Life, with all the Faich- as " Chrift, the Redeemed from the rth 5 who ‘Keep their Integrity in x ‘Troth to God, and their Faith in rift, and Love to all his Saints, even ¢ who are Faithful unto Death, for. the Crown of Righteonf{nefs, + 1¢ own of Life and Glory, is prepar’da and erv’ ?d in Heaven. . And tho” I have not had the donor: ; ty to perufe allthe Writings, Books d Papers (relating to Our Holy Pro- fion ) of This Good Man, Our De- afed Brother, —I hope nothing will ; found in them Offenfive, to the Un- b 3 prejudiced the Lord did the more Blefs - oO es ee ks Poftfcript. — | prejudic’d Readers, or Enquirers af the Way to Life Eternal ; Confide the Validity and Weight of his Kn Evangelical Miniftry, and Spiritual | . ftimony. e, London, the 15th of the gth Month, $703. 4” Poftlcripe + HE fore-going Teftimony conce ing our Dear Brother, Charles 3 foal, Deceafed, his great ee Service in* the Gofpel of Chrift, < his Zeal for God, and the {preading the Truth, and his unfeigned Love his Brethren, ‘with his great Reg for the Prefervation of Gods Peo in the Unity of the Spirit and Be of Peace, we have true Unity. ** A : ; abt A f d having known him many ea nd been Witneffes of his Labours, and Be gesbourea with him in the fame Work, in Chriftian a aa to hisMe- nory,, and in Real Efteem and Value or his” Faithful Teftimony; do Tefti- y, he was an Evangelical Minifter, nd Faithful Servant of Chrift, and ath left many Seals of his Miniftry 5 5 3 the Lord” greatly Bleffed his La- ours, and filled him with his Divine ower, and attended him with his lorious Prefence, even unto the End ; ¢ he Hnabled him ‘through all his xerciles, to finifh his Courfe in Peace ; nd we are fully fatisfied, the Lord ath given him the, Crown of /Bigh- fs. 4 ee we doubt not ‘bat all wit fhall id impartially his following Writings, il & find that he was what we Teltify cerning him, viz. a fincere Man, of tender Spirit, full of Love and Zeal r ¢ God and his Truth; and Laboured his Day and Time for the Good of uls, i in othe ope of our Landes Re b4 Chrilt; ‘ : a + ue a aca Concerning . Charles Marfhall a ‘Ltho® ane feveral Teltimonies , }, relating to our Deceafed Pfiend, OG arles Marfhall, may fufficiently Teftify | con ming him, yet, I having hadthe - Benef of his Converfation for many Y ater think my {clf engaged to fay domething of him, in true Love and Refpett that I bear to his Memory; he entertained a particular Kindnefs ito me from a Child, and contioued his Friendfhip ftedfaftly to the end, af- - fording me much of his Company for. the laft ten Year of his Time, ae Zeame to have a particular Koni of him. _ And T can truly fay, That be was Faithful and True Priend, having ofte obferved, where he profeffed Friend dhip, it was fo in Reality, and Shew only; being ready mere | fuc to the utmoft of h yer, not forfa king them in a time of Adverfity. — He was a faithful Laboure Minifter of the Golpel, : and h nent Service in that refpett, a made an happy Tnftrument for tk vincement of many. 9 1) 7 He was a zealous Reprover of fuc whowmade Profeflion of the Tr ath, anc walked contrary thereto in Life and Converfation ; but very Tender to thof under Exercife of Spirit 5» liniftry being {uch as effeCtually reach’d the di- vers States and Conditions of People, being - skilful in dividing the Word a right ; fo that he was both a Planter, as well asa Waterer, in God’s Vineyard ; And there are many can fay they hay fat under his Doétrine with great es Hight ; | f MADE dle 81 iP gee ss ale Ae eee ei es dis Te Pe Sr, Mi: ee ~ ‘Sie . eft 4 y 4 it; by which they have been Com. ot Alem Refrefhed. ‘oe was alfo Eminent for an Innocent Life and Exemplary Converfation ; which being attended with good Na- ture, and a kind Difpofition, rendred his Acquaintance and Converfation both Edi- fying and Acceptable. = ~ He was of a peaceable Spirit, making it his Concern to keep up Love, Unity and Concord ; and, as aba offered, frequently Exhorting thereto ; And his sa ia was fuch, both in this and other Refpetts, as made him an Elder, an the Church, that deferved double Honour: And it may be truly faid of fm, That he was a Peace-maker, he being often performing that Office of true Friendfhip, in endeavouring to re- concile thofe that were at Difference ; and as he was no Favourer of that Spi- fit that endeavoured to fow Difcord amongft Brethren, fo he was no Incou- tager of fuch that would be fecretly leffening the Efteem one of another, al- ways looking upoa fuch Things to be of a pernicious Con{equence. 2 ee Ae 4 ot! oa _ the Church, and Goodlor eit rasa “pears by the follows ng By ’ efiic 7s. | fed Frame of Spirit ae to the Will of God: 4 ae his latter Ead he grew ve be had fill a ) ne Pots | Fevreidee Min tea Ere at came ‘Vil him; and I beig pi efent. nc per ‘ceiving an carreft Defire in him, that th -_feme fhould be communicated to Fri ends) com: mi itted 44 nitted “lay to Wein prefenely BeG, viz. ~° | was to this fought the Unity and Peace of the Charch for thefe Forty Tears ; and, to my great lomfort, never did any Thing tending to the Breach thereof. . Dhave Two Things that he upon me 10 Friends, which I defire may be commu- ” cated to ‘them. The firft iz, That they Ci ed i in it before t the Lord ; and duly prize, ai nd fet a right value upon, the many out- m1 nd inward Mercies, and | Bleffings, end yenly Vifitations, that the Lord bas thy | beflowed apow them, fince the ning of the Day of bis Bleffed Vifita- tion ; then {ball they grow, and be prefer- Vee i a living Frefbnefs to him; andthe Bord wil continue his Mercies to them, they fball not want his divine refrefb- ing Prefence in their Meetings tozether be- fore him, The fecond Thing 4s, That rhofe Friends that the Lord hath given great Effates ua- t0,ought to caf t og Toato apon the Waters, hewid “7 yrs lod the Brotherhood; I ee lows into the Immortal Seed and = d of Life in _themfelves, and beexers —— ae “and Weaker, and D Stilnefs and Quietnefs Mind, Kes and - Exercifes, to poffefs and enjoy an incor- john F Fri 3) and do sets therewith in pie ” or thofe that are Enjoyers of fuch Things, fal fee that they pl sh Stewards Mie Oh! the many poor Families that fuch Bea: might be a ar to! How eafily might they with a little, affift many a Fa- mily to live in the World @) And fot “ Comfort would it be for fuch to fee the Fruits of their Charity in thei iy We i After which he’ grew daily Weaker, taken away from divers T roubl ruptible. Inheritance that will fade away. . London, the 25th of the 8th Month, 1703. « | ” 2 = W, biting Pee eae Hs F) TESTIMONY : a ~ Concerning © ate barles Mari. a @ Khew: — from’ his fir coming “BL into the County of Somerfet (1 be- ine then buc a Youth) foon after his coming forth ina publick Teftimony to the Everlafting Truth, of which he was an Eminent Minifter. and Labourer in the Gofpel, of Chrift; and that tit was in great Dread and” Power he came ‘among us, and had many Great Mect- ‘ings in our Country, as at Portfhead, Nalfey, Backwell and | Clareham, at which laft place he was, in the roth Month, 507K pulled down, as he was at Pray- er, by fome, Juftices ‘of the Peace. ( fo ‘called, ‘but were fome of oe in thofe | -e ‘ eo | ott hg ae . did fhew anutter He re Me Che Side, ys cauted 9 i, one aie} te * bie ae of bis Fa my and Name, lent. Hands on diflike unto this. Ni gains Aion. hs “and | haled him ‘out Meetin whi ich Burt: he felt and com tained. Tong after: Several of 4 “ting. Juftices: foon after of Tedcheefe ( alias. Mafbro _ drunken Frolick, calling tc Manna: not one of ‘them, that I know.o i been remaining thefe many Yeats. the Meetings he hath had there and the Dread and Power of that hath been manifeft in~ the. Tremblings, ‘Meltings | and Brokennefs I have | eens 1s | ‘my Remembrance, and can fe | forgotten by me, And tho” he in his: _ Teftimony was Dreadful to the Rebel- “lious, and as.a Son of ‘Thunder to the Difobedient, yet to the Faithful he was: a Son of Confolation, and his T ‘eftimony (as ea aS 3 NS My i 2 é aie 1 ' ys , ; * rn | Bie Quarter, inftead of feeking the loft Sheep: Nor could fuch for Confcience-fake com- | ply to pay for the fupport of fuch a Mi- -niftry. For which Teftimony my His- ; band peeel with Chearfulnefs, and va- Brecdy ie Lofs and Spoil of Goods, flanding, over the Power of the Oppref- — e as in the Authority of Chrift, where- ‘by others were affeGed and frrengthned to be Faithful, in keeping up their Te- , funopy. as Tithes, I pray God the . example Pe cig a: eiatutiys bore the Imprifonment of his ~~ ) ~ inftead of High-living : Nor ane 1S . Advicey often vificing and i d_infp pet i .. with chem’ in tender Compaffion, 2 ce kept Faithful’ unto’ oo hs vi _a motive to all co follow the Lord ful- Ws then will God. have | i » Honour, and. Mipe ‘Souls the Everle fit g Com- AfOTE. siege he be hey ah aE as ate And as re was ais give p for the fpiritual Welfare of all ; fo was he made Inftrumental of much. ‘temporal , Good to many : He wasa Lover of the - | Poor, and a Friend to the Rig Often _ putting the latter, at their well -furnifh _ ed: Tables, in mind of the former, r commending Self denial snd Hop, 4 wating in Example, no. -more't poor Families, | always sy mpathizi Zi true Chriftian Cha rity, w! feparable Companions in hun ; ing the Sick, with Advice ig ne the FAOUE ti with Bread ked 1 ith re Bri: lity ; fo.that'with Lakes who wasbott Evangeli and Phyficiant hs ne. ee made ie a Schwan ‘ * 1 9 . 4 ae - Pe ee ee He Tefimony,. id serviceable ip his Generation, in both s, tothe Relief and Comfort of phe ahd Bodies. . was a Man of a Self-denying Life: he would not be moved by Abu- fes or Injuries when offered, imputing them to Ill Nature or Ignerance, which he did not think worthy of poffeffing the Mind : He'approved himfelfa Long-”— faffering, Patient, Meek and Humble Man, as. became a Minilter of Chrift; always trufting in the Gooduefsof God, - to whom he delighted: to pour out his Supplications, in full Aflurance of Faith, | hat he would have régard to the Op: refed, to the Affified and Bowed in | oul and Spirit, and that he would bring them into the Divine Bofom, . where their Souls fhould be filled with . aed Joy, to Praife, . Magne and let hisholy Name. What fhall I fay? He was a loving | asband to me, and atender Father to his Children, for whofe Wellfare. he travelled i in Spirit Night and Day, in a ereat, fenfe of the Defign of the Ene: my vpon “ and the tude ing of © : B, Friends, s x Se he ee, x 2 icicle: . Friends, to ob hegre the, o Proietity af - Truth, often being forth the Apoftle Paw/, in fee NE for | his Kiasfolks after the, Fle fh, that the me might be made Fares of the Go Ly p; ) me s that fell from ae the Vitis: nefs and Mercy of God. He was a kind Matfter,to his Servants, an affeCtionate Friend, and well nipetied j, andot Beet Report i in his Neighbourhood. _ It pleafed the Lord, after his. return from vifiting Friends’ of Briftol, and the Weftern Parts, to Afflict him with along ‘Sicknefs ; and notwithftanding his Phy- ficians had hopes of his Recovery, yet he declared his Diftemper, would’ prove: Mortal ; which indeed ended in his Death, oS he had often declared. Thus was his Life finifhed, : fer a ; bout four Months Sicknefs, in Sweet- ~ nefs and the Injoyment of vsti in which long Sicknefs, altho” attende with extreme Pain, he had his _ continued to the lat; in which time. accompanied him Night and Day, hard- Jy allowing time for neceflary Refrefh- ment, and “heard the wei a ae , As his laft Moments drew ‘to an end, heclofed his Eyes with his own hand, | and with Chearfulnefs and Compofure iof Mind, as one that, had the Sting of © Death taken away, refigned his Soul to God, the 15th of the 9¢4 Month, 1698. in the Sixty Second Year of his Age. Well! he is gone to his Reft, which he often defired he might, before me; and ‘may fay, he was taken from the Evil that was to come ; however ‘it will be but a little (if we continue Faithful - in our meafures ) cre we. fhall arrive ae AMR oa ok.) ans ake «the jon fe cy Somforred, be. : ‘ ak - Short ‘as Brief Narrative a mi my Pilgrunuge an this World. Was. Born in the City of Briftol itt ‘the 4th Month, 2637. My Educa- a bringing up was after the ftri&t. anner of Religion; my | Parents 6th Years of my Life to read the stures of Truth, in. which oacte | aring and vite and fach like Sins. ‘fot only 4 but many times I had oa inward * ; "fa! as feared the Lord. I was “much from the Company of other ~ dren, and attained about the sth — _ which. fenfe liv . the true and fpirit ry ‘Cait and E - ath God 3. fo that Ligne he Yearsiof m know, the . alfo. fought a ri éfteemed fobet honeft. Pec : the Lord, and, vei q the Indepenilents Meetings, thofe Peoples ‘Vendernel and fometimes I i eeting, and/ in Publ Men efteemed - ae » And amon ig ie peg ings waar ne firivings of the ings were’ in many! ee whois a Spirit 5 but € from that into: a F of t Words, Works, E Enjoyr this pure. ge of Lig Truth behind, demonftrated itt of Life Revealed: ™ ~ oe a petal : va saisiesis in Years, Iprew tore ( rere with: poe empty sand: Profeffors, feeling the bur- } of the Nature of Sin, which 135 lys Soab and "Spirit's in ‘the fenfe of I.becarie like the folitary De: one imdtirned “Hike a Dove without a And feeing T*could not find Living among the Dead Profeffions, pent much time in Retirements alotie the Fields and Woods, and by Springs Water; which I delighted to lie by; I ‘drink Of © Ated in thofe Days of — ftrong; great and many y Cries “unto the Lord, fo that petin 1g peg into places free. - a Paffengers, to eafe my H t cry yo, eon of Dita sisi Spirit nd I had Openings o erable Fall and “aneapreibie Dege- tion of Mankind, and the Captivity | Bonda ‘which’ my Sod! lay in: In fee which State, Bondage and ~ ‘aldom, I cried out, OF! that my Sout bt be eafed from, thofe heavy Burthéas | per Death and Darknefs; that py this State of eee Egyptian a Fs ‘a é ‘ q bate Fall! faid my ein Wall of Partinom. and, Separation! Galf catverable 1 For the: Fall ; an he Sons” mt aif all Words to aa i ay Days, as I wale an tel 4 ‘the Day and the te; he Se, and. Stars; yea, the: Water-Courfes ; ies the Af his: Mafter's. Crib, but ' Gin this State) és ignorant of C “Maker, and become a Stran ie | = = _ their refpe@ive: places ;* Springs of ‘the great Dee » Keepir : Grafs ‘Flowers of the a ; he Fith of Sea. and’ Fowls of t ‘keeping ord but Man. alone, the: Chie the Work of God’s hand, degener Behe cried I out bitterly, Aden’s.. “in the Fall is wor an the: Beaft perifbeth ; For pn oie, it 0 : walking in Enmity ma Difo Poa: eee. is 3 The Fourie, g and obejing the Devil, who Hieither sde nor created: any thing, ‘neither can “any living thing: And from the jethis appearance againft God hath meer Evmty, altogether Evil; aDe yer and a Martherer. ‘And fuch is thé unex steffible chiek atknefs that Over Mankind is come d fpread, that he gives up himfelf in » Body and Spirit, tobe led by him; ifthick Darknefs! that thus is come er the Families of the Earth; here ald Pfet to my Seat to the Truth of at Scripture, Darknefs covers the Earth, Rgvofs Darknefs the People. 50, ina deep fenfe of Man’s mifera- State, and particularly the fenfe of expreffible ftate of. Darknefs, Death, indage, Mifery, Sorrow and Amaze- mt, 1 fell on the Ground, and cried to God for Deliverance and Redemp- n out of this State: And in thofe times, 50 ? the Witnefs of.God thus ftirred, 1 was the Dé/coverer of this miferable neither 7 own Captivity, and fhare in this te before mentioned, yet I faw not, eae ee % “the Byer-living God, fhe, Yeas, 654. there — avgie fecking, after the Lord 5 were a few of us. chive: dee a , the ‘Week i in ,Bafti ; eo 3 e carry, Jatt 1g fe ot py cany thing 5: salar in iilence 5a any found: ; payghein Spiritsy and, Mf ‘lewis, they kneeled down; thd a \ the: Lord ; fotba ,efore ee ended, he mh Tt ms Year 1654 -came clear + Badlend and ‘pean Ga erga “ spony is. recorded, in an Pie wr. n r 2 Soveiant of the Lord, 4 Banke es ee Hib Cay rks: i yere compiled together ( ofab’s’ ‘Death. | itry). gi ted to” ‘him by nc Lord, owas I reached Yandturaed'un- , the e Spirit of God, which had difco- r a my State unto-me before menti- neds and prefently the Teftimony that yas born’ by the: ‘aforefaid Meflengers, pas'readily received,’ and then as I kept doa iik Lach unto which I was'turn- dyeI se ifaw a feparation ‘made between # and’ Darknefs, the Day and the t,. the Precious and. the Vile and y' Mind loved the Light, Judgment e f up in my Heart, even laid unto Jine, and Righteoufnefs unto the - met 3/40 was I brought into great »Rearvand Awe. of God Eternal, vhade great éfteem and regard to of God’s Meffengers, who broaghr cceptable Tidings of Life-and Sal- of; end thro’ them, Doéfrine dropt lew, and was réceived ;. and as le yords were gracious. words, fo. yas there a great Eftimation in my Soué | eer wens ‘and a fear of rebelling d 4 ean of e. sinft. any,pact of tha ! Ee xg aired rom sey either by WV riting; and”. aa sae; I ‘fon through the ac ation of Conden pation, which inde was Gloriousea its time ; and as. ‘Lond down to th Judgment of ees in, my Heart the Operation whereof “was as. a Swo Fire, and Hammer, aie these blayn in fome meafure came, to. be:¢ and then fomething-of divine B of ment. fireamed iny and. ‘Love. fc which refrefhed. mein amy Tre vel But now began the old fubtil.Enem to lay Suares, and hunt .after aye which was in. fome meafure’ no ot EN Jaws. of Denali sion tne had:precious refrefhing Opening “Way Of Truth, va veh \ Hope .and Joy fprang, t me, out frota imking-d 1 Enjoyment, ih treafur ‘up to. fper my own Bread in Pi gon for“ againft Oppofers ; and.to declare o Bee that i fome oe fo ~ But fo ic was, that when I had give and spre my, own ie whichowe ; give , a we , The' Journal, ven me.only to ftrengthen my own sul, that’ when I came Home and Com- mned with my: own Heart, and came y Stilinefs, then I faw my felf quite mpty, having leaked out that which as given for my Refreflment and Con- ation; and my Beloved was ‘with- rawn; then diftrefs took held on me; eyond ‘all Expreflion ; asd'I was great satan down 5 and having an under- ing of the Caufe, 1 was ready to fomife and Covenant, that if I came- ymy former Peace apd Refrefhment, ad Heeding again, I wouldnotrunout * radigally again, nor. fpend my Portion, arough which that inward Troubleand atrennefs came, over my? Spirit. - And ere the Enemy, that.in his transformiag _ rorkings had thus led me out,. would nbtilly work alfo.in the day of «my rouble, to-bring great Difcouragments vermy.Spmit, and Unbelief.; 93 1 “And heres my Soul hath, in: great xiety “of »Spivit, and im a fenfe' of ne with:drawings and hidings of :his ace, and the Vail that-came over 5.1 Bik 8" es Ap With : a” hed was be 4 aa J 4 ss - ple than to. wrong, < . to Grieve ithe Spirit A dom’s: dire&tings, a fecret ‘Eafe:: .But when Tocame sto iow ate and felt Life: gnd . pect Tal nacle, > | The: ara! hos was thus led out in az Lem ing” to Knowledges» - gives in its re te Md 3a hi it had. promifed and. — covenantt and then: brake Covenant, | ‘then Taw _ purfued fora C ! in time the Loi ‘and overy this: qomeeet reakerit). Ui mec. throu; ereife 3,and,I came | ther:to ftahd«as. a: Fool, } fit. Silence before the ‘Lord ‘among his Pe of God: =A T. thtis | peer aa fpring, and’ .pure «Peace: and vir nd Jo oh iL ME pe ord 4 low it» Humili here thegrow the Truth is,: The He emy wrought fi tilly again, to perfwade that there w N06 : that. need of. fuch a oe vere V ati - andinward Exercife, as formerly ; ‘ he i he. prevailed fame a9 5. st | a a ant og an hes ae voi 4 The oltre! side? inward. Bondage > and T, "a *Refrefhings, ° Openings, sies and Promifes, ‘was ready to eoricludé ‘as’ if my" “Mountain: ‘was im- midveable’;::but’ foon [T’found a’with- fevtesg again of the “Lord; “then I - ew a Winter again, and the Storths of the Enemy: ; and having not yet’ learn- td the State of being contented in Want, as well as in Aboundings, I not only fell into’ a poor wanting murmuring” State, but-alfo into great ‘Trouble, in a fenfe of this Change’; andthe Fears ‘and Doubts eo weedy’ td enter,’ and trou- ble’ Of Spirit: I toiled: inthis Night, ‘but ‘coul eae nothing which admini- fired any Comfort, that “was- lafting’; ‘ and here I was willing, and running, jand ftriving, “being ig great Fear and Sorrow ; and the more’ I toiled’ and la- ‘Boured, kindling Sparks of my own, the smote: my Sorrow was increafed 5: for aseyet T had oe learned eer Site of Refignation: And now, being bro very low, and “having here te daysin the fenfe of the with-drawings tof the Prefence, Love and Power of my ae ie $ : God, a ait Te Vicks eae | | The faurnals God, being now in deep Diftref® ani Seediiert Ifraels Reni the Wi dernefs were opened unto:me, how: th Lord tried them with want of Bread an . Waters and ‘that their Happ: : gn their being. content and 9 she Will. of God. (and in rhe belief Lord's Faithfulnefs ) to bave enddared th _ vial but they murmured and’ repined / and thereby . Grieved the! Spirit of God fo did I: But through the loving kind > nels of God, ‘the State of Refioati *_-Ryas opened. unto me, «im: which: Mai { {tood before he fell through: Fr : fions, into -his own Workings & nid) Wil ling. Now, when my Underfandi -was'thus-opened, then my Soul éryeé | ‘unto the Lord my God; Ob¢ preferu we in pure Patience and Pafaveness, ar j ja living acceptable Obedience, andel w. ys . -Eraft intbee, - Dey as ee .cAnd,as. I believed in the Light of thi Lord, ‘and thereby and therein was com prehended and refigned, God’s: pi Hower; Love ,and Life’ broke in. a formerly, which greatly - refrefhed ; then the Sun fhined upon my Taberna fing and Praifing his Holy Glorious Name; then the Lord inftructed me, and bis pure Spirit and Power opened in — me the way of Prefervation,; and that was to center down into true Humility ; fo then my Soul began to be as the Dove that found a place for the fole | of her Feet; yet did the Enemy com tinue to.tempt by his Temptations and Alluremients, and fo laid his Baits and Mt Snates, that if atany time I wasdrawn _ to look abroad, and went out toview, — as Dinab did, 1 was in great dangerof ~ being defiled; for I, found, if at any time I went ont from this pure preferv- in my Soul, through unexpreffible Tra- vail, and Jetin the Spirie of the World, and reafoned, and thereby beheld a Beauty in any Fruit, bute what was brought forth by the Tree of Life, then came over me a Wound, .a Stain, and. Defilement: And if at.any time the Enemy, prevailed in the inward Ground, .to caufe any cleaving to his Temptations, through the Lufts of the Ys ead Flefh, andl bowed before the Lord, Blef. ing, Powet of God, that had wrought + i ‘ ti ih Aly Wily EA) eR eee tre d ie At em ie. ‘ } ;f t i " : a * Vefcife I paffed ee A es ' ‘ er ae -Se ~ Dafraid, t ssi of Horror, ” er of the Lord,’ in love to my difcerned’ by any, J walking ap fal ie i" vik 5 a. Ld Vics’? The < re | Fefh, the € Lis oeanhe Eye, sie £ inward Wrath ; ahd) t then the © Pc ws Wrought mightilyy to fan&tifie “at cleanfe it again. “ae thi bis inward or intimate Acquair Oh! I remember the Nights» Sorrow that 1 paffed’ through” fevera times, when no Dehlement, ‘could be among Men. For-this wag:the grea love of God to ‘my Soul all along, ir thofe Days of inward Travail ane JEX ercife, that Judgment 'followed»prefene- ly upon the outgoing of my "Mind ; f then, as I kept fingle to the Lord, 2 an Upright in Heart, not joyning ante Tniquity ; I found the Lord’ near a hand in thany Exercifes that’ happenec in our City and Elfewheres And alfe through the working of the Power of Darknefs in James Naylor, and the run hings forth of ‘Joh Perrot, and Others; let me, a young Lad, fee through 55, thofe fabtil Workings: — ns a ig Journ > : mit ng re by a fecret Hand | eae ‘tendency to rob hae i hi , le delights in the Humble; and:dwells vith the. roken-hearted and Contrite 1 Spirit ; and in this State is Safety and ferasion to us in this Age, and this: ill be their Safety in fucceeding Ages.» Which I have hinted, in fhort I have parned, from the beginning of the work f Reftoration and Redemption, that very one’s Prefervation is in pure in- vatd Retirednefs into the Lord, and p his pure Fear, Awe and ‘Drea 1; to keep low, feeling after his Soul-redee ) Sang Things de pd a ind now, through thefe “Exercifes of 7" « Vey ing, ‘Soul-P ferving ste ower quickens, in iis sf and, as with and in, Pai plith his end, viz. That ng r th God Almighty hath appeared. Age,“ in the - ee _of his unto Mankind nd the | bre of his Power, tis: the 1 bare ¢ his Arm, ‘in order to reftore Man - Covenant with God ; then hath the B my, I fay, appeared with all hi mightily, fabtilly, cunningly, hiddenly, to undermine an the Work of God; and hi “great Ent hath been by different and manifo. Snares to draw firft into a feffenis the eftimation ( in the’ Vifit ted People of the Power, Appeardnce and Manif ftation of God, in this Day, A € an Generation, in which it is manifelted and ely to draw out. the Mind D nh Oe. aaa ek , is The Fournal. is VT ransformings, into an ef " nifeftation that hath be to appear 5 earns the Mind out of due regard. mina | refent. nifex. ation, Which ue works the Eter- ‘wel fare of the C creature. + This was), i eles to whom i - faid, Oh! It iat of fac tld: more’ y hereof in’ my General and Parti- ilar Epiftles to Friends, and in the do -call’d, The W ay of Life Revealeds «, ‘After’ ‘many Years Travel in Spirit, efore in “{héte is: hinted, “in the Yeat’’ 570. aa the Thirty-Third ‘Year ‘OF y A ge, “God Almighty raifed mé ‘up. b “his howe that had been working | | “my. Heart many Years, to Preach the ° af lafting Golpel of ‘Life and Salva-. | yn; and then a frefh Bxercife began, 9% bn the 4h enparees to igs =, Po an ah ee nai g The pe the Lord, to loc He nefs of Body and Spi fg inf ency for fuch a great 7 Work ; ae fu was thé prevalency of the 1 ofr Soul, that had not the Lord his unexpreffible Love ft bore with me, and he perithed, after all, throug for when the Power “God fell u i me, and a few words ‘were me to {peak in the , Lord’s People in N were a wile - ad ! ‘afoned el how could aps aed look upon mie asa was my Burthen : Oh! then F was. dy, to Engage and Covenant with Lord, that if I felt the requiring his Power again, f would faith ‘ inc e: 2 unto him 5 ‘then, when d again, the fame" bellious bd ‘Rirred by the power.of Mg Then hath the Lord wich- | 1¢ Motions and. the Feelings of all Refrethment with ir,, is Face; then have I been in ding on the, B of Life in ove drawing the Water of my, Soul was without, and wo under Darknefs: And 1 beheld Difpleafure of cbaLaed > Then was wed down and. was in great An- if] ‘* en my Soul cried to the Lord try me again . with t breakings in q iS Ower,. and to givélme a clear nonfttative Knowledge of” his s jut- es, and I would obcy hig: Ther F Lord "God* of Life hearc my cry lin, and opened my Heart that was Pfhut. And when I began to feel > warming Power of God begin to “in my inward Man, I was glad on Fone hand, but very forrowful on the bellions si Bars On| and as it were a fealing’™ jer hand, d, fearing ies 1 fhould be Res» fenfe of others’ y " ns Pe ay ff bellious agaib's , my E cart, as New Those went,” ‘and’ cibly many ti 8 ed’: But ‘State, and k whom I was brought . forth — through. spi and Power of. through, the’ Eni aE Lord God of my Life and am oite bioken ne fenfe o: ae rat ne |, nat a Worm And. ip theft fe thereof this time, even ni ie frefh” brance of his Love, fy, and Extol thy N who art God, and d : . worthy of all Fear, be . verence, and hake #04 SORE SNe he jave hcl er’d 5 fo. God, un t a4 the Ne- ms breathing bruifed Birth s ie in the Del; penance to. my. sig o nad my Day of Vi ened, ce to came | chat es bruiled it 5” either amon ple, or in the World. Then crie he Lord, How foal I vifit it . 2a is upon eheir Backs; and al- ke, 5 fetter ia ris of thy Peo- ‘’ | « ple? thefe tines, when the Roa of ere endeavoured, ‘through Vi= =. at in: Obed palin, pis 1670, to} the’Z Month, eed.) v ie Meet dbout cae rife ae Oa the 1 the ‘the z ath Montt 1590. “tr Mon, The Journal gah 1930 Twoat Charlecot : a1 “Nailesworth’ ele "GCirencifter, o> , Then came I to Briftol, out ar Wile ive: Went out again the sth of the’ = Month, 1670. At the General eeting at dee ae gle ee ‘hea Mon » Oldftone a | Pagglechu ch - 14 “Abington ONS gees . 16 Giocefter | 46 Cheltenham % {Geta} oe Conbien ie LWarwitk : ag Dies eS 4 22 Waifbaw. ; i 3 Bramingham ee 24 | Lig: 26 Trole ‘ rr 8. Lancafter, ; Mon. 2 Kewdall 8 Swarthmore ee are Fey mt x bi y \ are t =! . the — | ‘v Med ‘ ADS SE ee We $ fe i Ls pula o thd nt De [> 4 " I , ~ ~ ; ec oes , 2 Nisa | Woodbury J The Faethal, a ais WM cig hee Z a 4 The a Fs : ‘ r mmning tO 44 a ’ Ry » | Haverhill Y i | LP 29 5 Brickboufe : , 30 Tg te Wome 4 —S refer es One bert in 1 fol Bucklefonie if he ‘Ipfwith mean 2 Io, Mendlefoam : 5 ea 1 Zz Mendletbans Quarterly. 13 Meeting : 14 Twoat Bary 15 Swarehill — “ON: A 16. Ramplinghams eu Tae "Coofolk 1 Sohn Barbers a ie 20° Ya a - aad a > tirade Bali, ¢ Comibclenn Ae a. Prefion, a pee > Moreland © i * . i, 14 Fray Fs Gb: ‘Near Stafford : ef, 8 Coventry ce : p> 9 Warwick | ee Bo, 10 > \ Lament Houfe and: 3331) eee 3) er a | Aut, sa ae Cirenci er x ea ee 3 i ; nota 9 © Beep rte Ve oe Then I we to Lend, and went ar thofe Meetings, from the 26th | the ath. Month, to the 8th of the th Month, 1671. and from thence to P Effex, 4 Effex, where Th fo to Suffolk, ih 1 ' 0 London, in ON _ Tf went again. the 21th Month, 11tbMop. 4 ) ie 22 Ses Deanington j ” Leite. . Be i ie ; e erfbire. . 23 Nottingham 24 Seatly, Nottinghamfbire | 26 Little Normington, near Chee field, ‘at: Thomas Broke avs, 28——Near Derbybire 29 Near Dery 30° Selloby © 31 Quarterly Meeting in ‘Le:- , ceflerfbire, Kerby Moy x Leicefter, Stmuel Wilfons 4 2 BlackAhhy | \ 2, Harthill, Nathaniel _ Nat- we Ons 4 William Wells, near ‘Leicefter 5 Long Clanfon, in the Vale Of Bever, at Edward © Hallam’s » 5 bid. te great Meeting-ac | ight... 6 Hackam in Ratland. - a \. lente c # ys { ¥ : ¢ : x j rey bls t I » w hy ) Tee tie eel ae De crn iti jn Blpopin, in Safi, at sd ta . Ann D aylg?s eh) i ci bg ust). ie oa yf At dum Dol Uns Her 6 Whitham ar - Maningtree * x 9 Cole hele ms i Hingingham babe) 12. Teltfted og 14) Plaiflon, neat 405 | Bondon ‘ Ki f Went Soni London into Mi. 3h Baar Wee: 3 Croydon ie 19° Barmeg. . 20. Near: se 21. Near Grinfed * > a4 At Warbleton 26 Lewis: y 28). Ther great Houte i in Stine 1 -fo through Surry and Hint{hire €, where { remained I!l about two nths,and was in appearance at the nk of the reahed but was raifed by ‘ Power of God. & fg .. After q Thea I Bese au. Week : q te actous-fireet e 4 wi 15 oo ie | ve ed was I oved to Vitic the - Came out of Tondo the 6th | sin Be 1 19 bRedding ae a f Newbury, Evening” “vg Icameh ome, and flay’d un- he Ea of seis y with my Child : I had three MEE and en went to Briftal, : : i hs ES ye ae ae RO ee 4 fell ‘on F dhivehi t rat have ‘now a eftimony. to bear f for his Name. In 4 uae ne I was many times: brought se yf low in my. Bidy,. -even to the « ink.of the. Grave} yet God Almighty, ae: pres. Kindne(s, raifed me up again; rticularly twice, in. oe man- great were Tia rf ee i And eva and. Jeoparc : : ardly and outwardly, that Iwent ~~ sh in this Travel, which God Al- iy ly knows 5 and great were lis. i a esmany ways; one. particular 4 " re followeth, to Wit, in going over the Sands Iwas fully preferved, with fourm being come down to the Seatfh order to crofs be Ps $, two tempted. to 20; ni as ftopr | and waiting a icafon on the Lord, was forbid to 30's, eke was fhov mies Phat if an fet Al time; they ‘would perish 5 which’ cat me to hinder? ngers ‘from: goir - and in about ‘an. Hour thee, ove ic éd 3 fo thacif’ we had all: lihood’ we had peri eh vi fome. that were ‘there faw, ae greatly tendered, end 4 Nafne of the Lotd. ale af --In my vifiting g the City y jeft a Paper) a ‘Cay wher loweth, Let it oe | Eth of the Sth Month, 1672. eek Y in-ny Name and Authority, to foan A. determined Counfel dm the Ears ‘of my E ple in the. City of London, : meee mits Jor will appear to be fo,» gE 6 on f ing ‘0, the People that have’ efit their Ear’ to the Declaration of the ac to dele Heed ae of ad ‘Truth, ‘and have pot fubjeCted oA Warning to all that have began in cit coatghe and fet thew Faces ... <'by his dear Wifesva | sie. eels: Son, and his Wife,'to which : y,. “, > Fis Memory’ is. bleffe “and ace ‘is among the HAE Ancient! erupelems, ee ‘; i ab Audland was a younger Man 3 3 neg ane Pt sk oul ren 1 * : : Te . ' if Sie = . P _ The Love of God. ad of achearful Spirit ; one of the wife yHeart, filled with the excellent bright arkling glorious Power of the Lord = ] Everlafting ; in which he appeared ; any times fo filled, that Jmmortality ined in his Face, and his Voice was ; Thunder, therein, dreadful, in the freneth of the Lord of Hofts, againft 1¢ Man of Sin, and thofe in Covenant erewith ; térrible in the dreadofGod zainft the Workers of Iniquity; but. = vingly Tender to the fenfible Travel- rs and poor in Spirit. Ah! my Soul th a’ fenfible remembrance, ‘how the ‘ine given him of Chrift Jefus as Dew, and defcended as the re- Raia : He was a Labourer in- a isfied, laid a Foundation for the “his natural Life; which was offered up for the Truth and Work of it: And igdecd he, © ‘dear Honourable John Camm, was © nftrumental in the Hand of the | Pee" gepalenaheg ie * & 4 * $ cae bs #; < Woe mee _— ~ ing, waiting for, \and: AFefimony to Almighty God, ‘of "our Gatherings 5. 3 {pending their Lives,and § was moft in their Labours and Trav amopeft us, ia the City, 1 Parts,..of which I was an’ being with them frequently,’ Thefetwo Minifters o | came to the City of Briftol; i in the. 4 won Wore ie ah ice i monctt a feekin eC, W r Day im the Week ia ating aa Pai rit after the Morning. and Viltation God, and. Day of: stead epee a amongtt us they {poke 16 Word of Life, inthe dread of. his Nia! that lives\for ever; and we were fei on and finitten, even to the Heart 5, and that: Day, and the: Vifitation. of overtook us, which: we: Zed 2 svaited for; and from B | £0 marvellous Light’ of ‘the v turned.” Some Meetings we. had: be the more gencral Gathering imgan bout the’ City, aon bean t. wile: i en , a , "The ines of God. : ya firft Day i in the Morning: I went ith thefe two Servants of God, about © Mile and half from the City, to a lit- s Spring of Water, where J often had er many folitary Hours in my teader ears, feeking the Lord ; where we fat e time, and* drank ‘of the Spring. fter fome Hours of the Morning were. sent, I faw in them a great travel in irit: Trembling, 7. <4. faid, Let us be t1 eewcall’d Broadmead, to a Houfe where ere feveral People met together, en- ing after thefe two Men of God. ‘ohn - Audland wasunder a reat exercife Spirit, and faid, Is here any one thas any Intere|t in any Field? An@ntient aid, Ihave ix a Field pretty ‘near : » they ‘came ing: into the City ; fo we cameto the . being given an hat in the, or : 3 oe ohn ee A Teftimony to gaint Six and Iniquity ferventl rhich. fome were attentive in t f 5 I perceived a. great exercile on mt pay Friend, and Father in Chrift Jef or Audland, who very. much; tre led. After deat John Camm re dow he ftood up, full of Dread and: dhinie Brightneis on his Co Liited: his Voice.as a Trump Proclaim Spiritual War with tants of the Earth, mbo areca and Separation from God andr oppefe the faur Winds of Po Pai ; and the words dropt amon # the Fst and: went on in the Mighty Power “of. Almighty, openiag the Way of. Lil But, ap ! the {eizings of Souls, and pric ings at Hears, which attended that f for ! dome fell on the Grour crying ont undef the fenfe their States, which i Menta Knowledge ae aie $1 : rd uldren, and on a Mg ration, Hat the worthy- ap it dR, a aN AR Bs es od The'Love of God. Ore qd, ‘leading. his Serva t i0 ath aig Ae this many were effeGuak igh sion abe: which our Moca ew larger'g farger. They vifited them called Independents , teftifying: amongit them, Pawer, the Things give! them Godgiidirecting the poor and needy weSpirit, that faw their want of che d Jetus Chrift, wo longer to feck the @ among the Dead; but look from the sins and Hills, dead Ways andWor- ¢ and Salvation ; and there was add- into the me he and V4 out, and : = that ftood between us and. the ye aie ¢ Arm of God’s Salvation may bere - emb red, which have been the way of - iretgh 5; unto Chrift Sefus the Fountain of | at we Saw then ia our ‘estan ord, ane “ the. Sele and oe y of our — i ll lk alla ‘the Hungrings and T Hearts, and afte , the forfaking of Super a « (Drinks, and in the plain | Mords were fem ana favor}, our Ap —* and Hoiefes plain, being pax’ 5 A Teftimony to * / {piritual Wants and Neceffities +40! that "attended daily, and ; man yi of Spirit to. obtain, “through the wot ing of the Mighty Power of God’s D minion, and {piritual Victory over ¢ Enemy of our Souls, who had lead in the Paths of Death aad Darknel and indeed as the Vifits "fF God’s he and ever-blefled Day was figna! and \ expreffible, as aforefaid; fo : in the Fear, and Dread, - and@Aw= God Almighty, we received the Gof with a ready Mind, and with brok ed Spirits,” and upto follow the Lord fully, cafting: the Weights and Burthens, and the that eafily befets, and. fre and Vanities of this World the. frippings of all nee My led; having ‘the oe AJ 4“ af rk: ur Souls being in an exespreffible wel, to do all Things well-pledfing ‘in ight of God ; for oyr great Concern ht and Day Was to obtain, through fus Chrift, the Great Work of Salva and thereby an Affarance of the | ig Reft ana Sabbath of 0% our God; thof Days, Oh! the ‘unexpref- bor ry Trawels, and faiaiog 2 oth th of thefe reg ts , in great Affemblies in is a id ‘Countries round about ; ’ = ; were fo large,. that we’ on ee to Meet without, Doors, and that ay 7oft and Snow: In which Mectings, — _* the extending of the Voice of thefe " ts of God, to reach over. thefe fs \ lultitudes, when Aeveral Tho) have been. Affembled toperhers:. the Work of the Lord eacromeds ly was at Work"in. Pricfts Be in thofe Days;‘who fied fouth of ¢he City, into a Tu- ie ak mult, 7 48 : i, \ he i L, Oe eee ‘ ae “.., imult, like the Men of epee tiu i 8 ' the ftreets were crowded, an Bi Trials and Exercifes that attended the A Teftishony 10: ae a mule ded, and th two Servants of the.Lord were {eiz upon by the Multitude, and were great Hazard. . gk Ibe eid But the Lord, fignally delivered the as in days paft he had done his Serva; on fuch Occafions, and all came to Quieted, and out Meetings Peaceabl and many grew in Grace, and ‘a Knowledge of God and. Chrift Jef which is Eternal Life: Much more Particulars I might write, but affetti Brevity for feveral Reafons : [f. fay, fhort, fuch. was the effe€tual Worki of the Almighty Power of God, a and making’ bare of his Arm of Sala tion, that attended thofe Servapts” the Moft High, and the great: Work we had a very grea our Gofpel, meeting w and ‘us, that were the Fruits of ¢ Labours in the Lord, that my Tong cannot exprefs what I was an Eye, ro hae of, and Soal-fharer erefore to the God of this bri ‘Orn he: Lamb, So let it be fuith my ; in Fear and Trembling, through ‘ a Generations, for ever and EYEE er now, de Friends evety-where; a ticularly in and about the e iftol, who have {een aes } | Day of God | areal Torehcig; Wee reof, have ee tne: Darknefs ‘overed the People expelled, in Darknefs People have been igs the true and living God, and us ie of Salvation, in which they. have Bevformed theit: thip, even in the fame Nature that. are, ; finning, . -and rebelling, and 44 3 the good Spirit of God,. which m Tabje to: Now i a Being, in his infinite 7 fende Pity and. Lompattion, hie A upon us, Whilft inthe; See Land 4 A ‘ Po as ™ a. » the Enjoyments of oe ae _ Land of Egypt, and. Houle of: “Spiritually ; and. to fend forth bu | and Trath, to give us. a est inw of the deplorable State of the feparation from, at ae ea at fenfeand fight begat ima bus liv ings, and a holy @ty afte k lade of bim we faw our ee ign of; and he in’ the. F nels. of the {penfation of time-vifited us, as’ mentioned ;. of pichouaer fr we were right glad ; altho” whe Lord difcovered our States, he laid ment.to the Line, and Righteow afnels Plummet, and gaveto us the 4 Trembling, wherein was ‘the | W. Aftonifhment, which was in Me our poor Souls “Cafu could not: deemed but b Jpde gment) poured ¢ Nature. that t beim -d us fron and on us, as joyaed thereunto ; an cya Sin revived, we began to, it. © good Day, and precious’ worthy, worthy, both to be réme by. us; and our Off-ipring, throug nerations ; > fof altho’ ir ‘was’ the’ ta Y le pcos. a8 Py beet “Ac ae of Conderaration, - 3 and | in this feafon oy tou > ‘bis rhe tad of Pires Appearance was: ‘tq root ay wafte, | and utterly deftroy the This Si in and Tniguity, thet bad divided . parated us from God, and bindred g00d things from us “ofl bis. heavenfy. ana Kgngdom ;: cand’ we wére per- anc und fits " t for tk the pure es lod; -and— pot we begin inward, as in the f Hee ekiah, » that the Temple might . eq fed throughly in évery’ part ? and fan tifying the Temple, In the td Temple they cleans fe the ee part of the Houfe. ‘Lord, and fo. came: along to the b until. the Temple was.throughily. fed... Indeed if} the Morning of ecious Day of Vifitation, the ax 1 to the Root--of the ‘corrupe. and the Hammer “to the hard - A rt; and the fpiritual Fire kin. ir the Stubble. Now, dear, Friends, — Truth ft fay tinto.you, fy oer a. ae Search ” dthe fer time was ae for. clean- © 4g es; Sos Se - ¥ ‘work of aij te 4 “AE fo, {ce the Caule, which bei A Tapio) oa Search with the a Po ied ~Jefus, how this” Wor a right beginn part,. have come a Temple, from the inward part fide ; fee whetherthe? 0 ot has the Ax, the rocky Heart the and the Chaff the Fire; for if i the Caule is not ‘int ¢ Lord, nc Power, but is your’ Difobediena Negligence, ging, om ym the. mer andFire, and fo fparit as difobedient Sza/ and Tract did *the Root of Bitternels fpr sy ag the Work. of God a igines” of his heavenly ae et “Bo the plain {peaking Witnels: of- God af earneftly defiring” and entreating have a fingle regard to: that whic duely and Re apply thefe T and let all fee ructiee. that Nati alive, that the holy. Power ‘of he . did work againft in che beginning will deeply humble and feize o on ried, Ross what. ee a rw has’ the good Hus- - york in his Vineyard! pitful Hill, with ‘digged, pruned, - ed out the Stones, and Hedg’d WwW alPd about; and, after all, he br good Fruit ; ‘but ‘(where the efable Mefcy and Joving Kindnefs the Lord has not been ‘anfwered ) Old fowre Grapes and wild Fruit was . i ughe 1 forth; and what wasthecon- uence of ir? Was it not the taking A p the Hedge, through which it was sup; and brealcing ‘down the Wall ae cof, ee it pees oa len down : ? Read, | al phy Paint ame in ou Habitations ecret Chambers,with his | holy dread, ith | his fearching Life and piercing d of Power,who in his tender inf ite yeand Mercy, Long-fufferings, great Wels, to his Seed and.-Off{pring, vi- as" in his pure Morning, afore- ntioned, «to give “all the fente of their ard Stares, as they arein his fight ;” nm whom, notbing can be hid. And 'g h 3, “> ROW, ” ¥ > © € > " Tf “by y now, dear rte. indrante of ‘the Profperity of of the Lord, in ‘the Souls. “not been from’ any fe in God. Deficiency . in his “Light; Power." Wifdorn, but from: the Creature’s ing ‘out’ of a ‘apace of aes enjoying the working Power of in on Salvation i ig Worked out, that wait for it; and us n with it, cleave to it, and rfake it; fi have learned ofthe Lord, through oy Exercifes unexpreffible, that afte Vifitgtion of the Almighty to any ' the’ Lord requires en inward we receiving his Loye, and fpiritual | V7 to be. kept in his ‘holy Light, = i all the Workings and Approaches 0 deftroying Adverfary ‘of the Soul is gerned, and the enlightened and of édé Mind is preferved, and throug fpititual fen{e, given in’ a tender ing on the spice in’ the inward | fupplicating pts -ariferh t living eternal Ged*of Love: and | paflion, who beholding: the want @ Soul, ees ia is Loy % and re we ed down Spicit, with the liftings his holy fpiritual Standard ; “fo T Temptations and Affaults of the Ene- ut ranquifhed and. over-come, and ; Power of God is felt in thofe that bend with ‘it in Humility ; to be king onthe Root as an Ax,.and on i Re as.a Hammer, andChaffy as fire 2 how, Friends, when there is tement of the inward and fpiritual ¢, and a gradual leflening of the in- 1 uC a Watchialnets, ¢ then the Mind be- mes both unworthy and uncapable of jy mas ofthe Power of the Lord, ¢Lord ;fo then the Enemy comes as not i, thro’ the Mind’s. being out. of the - y Watch. in the Light, .the Nature at. was wounded comes to be healed n, and eafe “given to that which ould be deftroyed; fo the Enemy per-_ ing where the Weaknels is, and at by what means he has gotten little. entrance, he spteavouns by all hea and malency, y prefenting h # . oo ba A DISD ne Head to the brokes. i contrive-hearted, and lifts up the matters. it beg n and carrieth onthe Work of f “ a out of a wat - £0 every degree of digre over the once enlightened f “portion of Darknels and. deceivable: fa NS Pitas om eS * A Tefininy fo” matters and fubje@ts,’ to lead by deg bya and held of Underftanding, ‘and inet : Spirit, in’ the’ inward feeling p :. the fubtiley of the Eaemy oft who thus works,’ that with t | there may bea proportion of benumb all the inward Senfes, of Seeing, z ing and Peeling ; and then again het ankind in» a: flater fie to. work. Hs by drawing them out by his’ Power, 2& and bring forth that which ths : them moff capable\of and which th is the greateft inclination in their | tures to go, into; hence’ a il Judgment, which the wrathful p Man getting into, he*worksiby’) of a fierce management, ‘with a: fort Zeal, but nor seep to Knowle¢ in which the power of the Enemy wo np at laft into a Schifm, and the Ene is.never wanting #0 -preient,.matren the. Mind, as juft, tor the Creature OF blown ‘up wily wane ends in. ae honour i : hs it Oe EL ieee ‘ruth, and hurting and harming others, — ilthe Enemy has worked his end by ich Inftruments, bringing them into a Alienation from’ the Life’ of God, to a worfe flare than the’ tender day God’s Vifitation found ‘them in ; and if not humbled under the mighty nd of God, and returning, they are pofed to Shame,.and fo dies away un- ar the Wrath of God. a” ‘Now, dear Friends, the Enemy of ton’s Profperity works varioufly, ac- irding as heféees where he may get an itrance, by proportioning his’ Snares ) the Inclinations of every one, as be- re.is hinted, @c. - Where he fees an ficlination in any to be taken with the itthly Things, there he works fubtilly f captivate the Mind, and draw it out the watchful, tender, fpiritual Stare, ito a falfe Liberty, both to the Affetti- is, to the Things ‘acting and ‘poilefed, nd in the Converfation amongft Men ; rs into fuperfluities in Meat, Drinks d Apparel, on themfelves ‘and’ Houfes'; Id fuch, their Comforts ftand moft oa uring the Lord’ and his precious © Ve ge Re ese lH Oe © A Breas te “a in outward Things, and byxdeg fwallowed up of them;, and the /Ple ie Luft and Delights below; ar id they dye to an inward Life of we fulnefs and ree i hich i | byes ‘oes Fear. and ry a oly Watch, and in: is which Crucifies to the ea an “ World to” it. ——Now,’ dear F rieth here is our fpiritual aaa geo 3 viz. The fame that thre gh D Sin made us alive to God, as we abit under, the’ Leadings and “Teachings it, keeps ys alive to him, in a gro ing, increafing,. freth: flourifhing ’ Sea : for as we delight in his Eternal Li of Life, we grow.as Willows by t Water-Courfes of immortal Refrel ings, and Travel faithfully on in ¢ fpiritual Journey, until we come, tom, the City of God, ‘and then A Enjoyers of the end of all our Try and ‘Tribulations, havin ee fee an entrance adeiteatioat, f abundantly, into the eternal Ret Gabbath of ¢ Our God. J 1d Glory 5 Ch | nol - : ple through 1 Ages t the C an OT bf wit a Nt alg =) i he er “Unity ¢ | » the Sprit mn Chapt Ethel * wee s4 oh ; r *The+Uniey of the Sp it is fopn a cious a: Vertue, ri glorious ©. Qualification, in’ allt gases ¥ y Chet Jefus, that whilit the Peopl the Lord did: abide therein, in A. Age, they were in a thriving, flour -.. ing, fweet and glorious Station ; £6 % long as they truly held the Head ake Jefus, and kept in Unity with him Unity and Amity was preferved q mongft them in their feveral St praghe:) Services,.as Members of One OF which Unity, Dail _fpeake precionfly and comprehenfive - oh 1 |. Behold, bow good and how pleafa S ity kot. for ‘Brethren to dwell together in Unit % It?s like the precious Ointment onthe Flee t that ran down upon the Beard, even A ron’s Beard, and.wept down to the’ s of bis garment : he h Dew of Heim me Eo me er ae ‘great "God gar red a People into: For, concerning hem, it is left upon Record, they cout t- co ‘dear arises: we ety faw, ' ‘and underftood, in the, precious Aorning of our. ‘tender Vifitation, that je fame ancient Power of the Lord, ha hat wrought powerfully, firft to dif. ite Us from the Nature which fepa- ted 1 us from God, and then to bring imfelf, in his*dear Love, and therein ine ‘res, another, | ‘here’ (ever was and is) the ‘our if Hasiom of the true Unity, even that Fthe § pirit ; in which Love, the Body. fies z elf, and, is encreafing and i ‘up a holy Habitation for God, ae ture, x Re . eg j 4 re / te | 2 ey. in Fellonfhip, a4, that with ome. Be ag up into Unity and Fellowfhip. with ugh the Spirit; fo then, all abiding: "growing: up in the Love of God; ad Sah with him in the divine Na. ma * by eRe Se ee eG 7 at +, »*, * oa . bn ie Conterming the >: | curg, Unity encreafeth artiongft all th nbers and Branches taken. out of tl Wild Olive, and planted into (and ab ding‘ in) the Vine of Life, Cbriff Fefi our Head and Law-giver; and here th Church of Chrift grew yp, into a fiat of being clothed with the Sun, and t Moon under her Feces: Ah! precious, ble fed, {weet and glorious Station} Bi did it alvays thus continue in the Anes! Days? Ah! No: The'eld Serpent, Enemy .of Mans Welfare, wrougl erfully aud cunningly, firft to dra) forth from the Root of - Life, and out | : the holy Love and {piritual SubjeGic to this glorious Power that had gathe ed them, to a daily itward .walkit with God, and to draw out Of a {pit tual Exercife of the {piritual Crofs ai holy Watch, as before has been deme ftrated, cc. And then Fruit froman ther Root was brought forth, as ¢ the’Lord that had Gathered them, m ved to exhort to pat sway nae’? é , ° eS ‘a POR P Day, of the Spirit, Vrath, Anger: avd Clamour 3 Evil-/peak- ngs and Malice, Ephef. 4: h And now, dear Friends, with your Yamps trimmed: and burning, look in- watd, fearching every corner of your aes, that cltar, unto your own Un- lerftandings, every one of your States fey appeat as itis, inthe fight,of the jure All-fecing God, that fo all the anemy'’s Darknings, and Vailings, and urnings afide, by what way or means joever, may be clearly, with the Light of Bichatth, feen and difcovered. | And, tender Friends, thofe that have een the fweet, lovely, precious State of Jnity and Concord, that the excellent Power of the Lord God Almighty ga- it e bleffed Morning of our Day, and he (piritual Advantages, Comforts, Joys, Refrefhments and divine Satisfaction, ‘oid Jefus Chrift, and one with ano- her; and on the other hand, heed the anemy’s prevailing to break Unity, and , of ed into, and was gathering into, in - hat attended the Church of Chrift in | « his true and {piritual Unity, with our, i wnxious exercifing conlequences of the - .. from the Dog, and. his dear Ones from of the'lamentable Effects thereof ;~ that all the true-hearted and. fincer {pirited to God, cannot. but on’ the oi hand admire, prize, and_ unexpreffib efteem the precious Unity. Andw the other hand,» greatly dread the gur ings afide, and going out of it. Fi thofe who have kept their “Habitatioy and lived to God as they have tafte and enjoyed the fweetnefs, and behe the amiablenefs of this Unity and’‘Am rt fo. they have felt:the Sorrows. ar nguifh of the Effeéts of the contraty which have caufed them to»go man Days and Months,,with mouraful Soul crying to the Almighty God of tenc Compaffion Night and Day, under tl unexpreflible weight thereof; and th tender God of Love bowed his Har 't the cry of the Poor, and fighing of th Needy ; and has arifen in the Mightio which ‘he’ hath tedeemed: ‘his Darla the Devourer ; and ftill continues work 4 Pie ye 2° SO ae _ 2 Onity, of. ree Sper Sa; a3 | sy the holy Light ‘of Lite, with God Chrift. Jefus, and one with anothers 0 you, -and te the Generation, com- gafger, 1 have'this: Warning andten- » Advice to leave behind me, imthe sin. my Travels, in his Power, Work d Labour of the Gofpel of Life and ey ‘to a prejudicing Spirit, which s into. fecret Whiiperings, Back-bi-« s, and fuch like Evil and pernicious its, the working of which Spirit is e a Moth.in 2 Garment, dividing, de- joying, fpoiling and eating up ;,:for Heed, as Sion is a City at Unity, with | elf, under the feamlefs Garment ; of @, growing, increafing and, Hourifh- 5 fo when the Spirit abovglaid’ pre- nls, to draw out ofSicr’s Gates, and pm within hee Walls of Salvation: iat a oe " “"Progrefs 5 }béing: into. thisiprecious. Unity, - nC snow, ‘dear Friends .every-where, _ ame of my God, .that.hath been with - ation, Keep the Usity. of the ‘Spin - bin theBond of Peact ;* and Jet\ mone nft. Jefus, and, there allare welland - b! what deplorable Work and. Has ick will it make .in its Growth and - 4 . é ry OL : : t ar Concerning ghee . Proprefs ; working, as I faid before, the Moth, gradually and fecretly but as it prevaileth and ‘encreafeth its Growth and Strength, it ‘will app as a roaring devouting Lyon, . feek whétn it may devour and fwallow Here comes in Pride and Haughtir of Spirit, puffed up with the ak dance of injoyment of outward Thin Emulations, Heart-rifings, evil Jez fies, Bitter-{peakings, DetraCtings, ¢ abundance of evil Fruit arifeth fr this Root of Bitterhefs, which Root: Fruit is to bé brought under, and fi . down under the ternal Judgment the holy, glorious, fweet Power of: Lord. And therefore, Friends, 1 unto you, in the Name of the, i God eternal, let none give ftrength, _ ahy incouragement or nourifhment, ¢ way, to this Spirit in any of its t thering workings, in any Heart, b it be looked on asa Vagabond and) itive in the Earths and fo, as it isk out of the Camp of God, and from . rael’s Dwellings, by the fweet li - bright’ Power of the Great God of F > ‘ @ a "Unity of the Spivit. y and Earth, it will perifh under ie uth’s Judgment fet up in every Soul, | fo the Nature thereof, as well as evil rending and dividing Fruits, will worn out and deftroyed’ for ever’: d then all keeping in the firft Love, s Fear, living Awe, and holy Dread, fing to offend our God and tender ther, perfevering in an inward keep- the holy Watch, and abiding in éCtion and. Obedience to the cided | o ofs; in’ftaidnefs of Mind, foundnefs - Judgment, and clearftefs: in Under- nding; you"{e¢, comprehend and"fa- mm all the Enemy’s Devices, “Tempta- us and Snares 3*and the ‘Lord God be- 'd in edience and {piritual Tendernefs be- € lim, his Power will defcend won- fully in an éncreafing mannet, and Glory will fhine, ‘his River of Life joyea, the Spring of the great Deep ll be broken up, and the Windows Heaven will” be -opened,’ that “you y be abundantly filled with Joy and lank(givitigs, holy Renown, and Songs 2 Pralfes you in a ftedfaft Habitation of | ‘Deliverancey with ‘fpiritual high. his FS bg ° i 2 ; ‘ eri 5 ieee ee ee AN * Py \ | Pie ile he ad mM indians VAR Praifes 2 eg one whi be as {weet In ao ll pon Say pend t ur Da Dominion over sea Enemy, attendin ty, Adverfity. fev tior 15 fi e over.sall Thixgs that b 7 ae | Mortality avd Time 5: bvallowed up of. ee real, a gathered tothe saneniaebetien 4 Chanstt af, tie, fir Bytiyultaikhe 9 Eat and Laft, 50 oka whom, be. ane i | Praitesy hely;Renown,, forever: ane for | mores ic But af the wonderful Bl ef teri déy:.Merci¢s,! and: a! Sn thatalte:Lord God Ai extends unto.us ig) thiswAge,y, | ; reverently:2ad @bedi¢atly taken’ n of ¥ but inftead ehentofy any {hall fe and'bs ‘vnmindfub of the, Le rat! Mercies, and thereby. esa ae initiess! going bulk uot pe age gence into a fpiritual cue Deity of the Spirit... set : al Watch and Crofs, flighted, a onenly regarded, but the Eartleand thly Things take up the exetcife of the ind and Affettions:. Then, Efay, in- ad. of enjoying what is above exprefs’d, ioulation and Auguifh: will feize upon fach, and the dreadful Judgment of ¢ eternal God_ that, lives for ever and erswill overtake all fuch unfaithfylneds. dreadful Cup ye fhall drink) of, from ¢ Hand of God, and. diftrefs from the ee be inwardly negle&ted, iritua *% ™ you fhall fe numbered amongft the . aukes of the. Lord thal! diftrels you ; ple of his Indignation, in his dreadful ‘Flefh that have. corrupted its way be- ehim; and therefore hear, fear, and vated for ever from his refrefhing Pre- pce {in which is Life) and fromthe pry: of his divine Power. E where, Ho: ing day of fignal Pleadings with pad the holy Name.of the;Lord ;,and © aulit its called today; bow. before him, d {peedily return.unto him, Jeft your | y.pals over, and.ye fleep the Sleep of | 6oal Death and Deftruction, and be fe- — erefore, all dear»Friends every. Neigh eS ea Nd ran ae oR ee ae ae . Concerping the \ a of ie Spirits where, retire inwardly, fee, feel and derftand the Counfel of the Lord wl ou {prings} all retire inward (t _ arenot there) in great Humility b the Lord, that you ma feel the blef Knowledge of a pat om cle the Nations, you may approve your a in the fight of God, following its I ae ‘fn all things, and go not with 3 leait upon the Lord, gndery to 5 to guide you with ‘his E e, ‘arid lead :” by is Arm, and fo gui in the'y everlatting ; and this'is his Promife wl you keep with him; he willpe with you ver leaving nor bet sins Jou, if you do heave and forfake him; his Prefence Glorious Arm of Salvation "y . © you, to the Renown of his Name, ; Seat Confolation of his i ‘Amen, A Pte 7 “Charles Mar ANS his ss printed by way of Teftimony tothe] and Epiftles of Fohn og and foba Audiand 5 at more general Service, Now Le Proper to | 05. a ho s a Bie, e Peis ThE. “OCK of Chrift Jefus ve ee) wd Profeffors of Truth in general among ft us) iB tothem a Tender Vifitation from ” the True and Living God. © chiefly intended for fuch as profels ) ©) the True Light. bea rly Bélpoed Friends; bo 7 Hen we fate in Darknefs, and in: Wy. the Region of the Shadow of fl, when Darknefs had covered the fell in this profefling Nation, as in- ts, in this long and tedious Night of itacy, wherein even all Flefh had B + ih, and grofs Darknefs the People; — 7, by ENS as a hat ey An Epiftle to Pet corrupted its Way, and we were | ing the a among the Dead; sing our Bread in defolate Places, were caft out into the open Field, lay polluted in our Bloc de Sin and Iniquity, and ¢ . for want of the Know , Way to be caft up i ' even in the Difpentat f the holy God of Heaven and Barth us, a People in this Northern If with his Everlafting Day {pringing| on High ; and this Da was a L _ Love beyond all Expreffions, wh _ am from day to day moved of the to call into Remembrance in the of his People; it’s a Day never t forgotten: For if the Day of out Ifrael’s Vifitation, in outward ; was to be kept in a cont brance ; how much more ought th _ of the Vifitation of {pirical I/rae {fpiritual Egypr, in fpiritdal Thre hs - under the {piritual Task-mafters, _ .... kept in a perpetual Remembrance ‘ae a Pe # 5S ts J . es - wy * " ” ler Vifitation ; how it regarded not mpon us, pricking us to Grave of Sin, and the Nature of nigreffion exalted above all that was God in us; and we had not only ht of this our deplorable Stare, but: ‘a fight of him whom we had ed, and whofe Countenance we faw €d more than any. Man’s, and his, jam and paffiag through” a Vail ‘of 6, and a drinking of a Cup of tir awakened Souls cryed unto the and Load of Iniquity ; and the li-, B 2 t- Appearance, in the Day of our fitft. ‘empty Profeffion of any, "sy broke the Hearr, ging us to a true Senfe of our in. d States and Conditions before the” d; whiere, notwithftanding all the: . Shews of Profeffions, we faw our. mortal Souls in Death, and buried in’ ge more than the Sons of Men ;' here many knew a Day of Mourn-- nbling from the Hand of the Lords. » Lobe eaied from under the Bur-- }Lord God bowed down his Far, te he: MG _ re And, my dear Friends, | _ Lord being in the Earth, many le - Righteoufnefs: And as this Ime ’ Power was bowed unto, Laat li ee eat an effectual Wotk, by ‘h one Oy perc Living , Glorious Power, { “dv Epife to to oer ae ‘to the Cry of his I/rael, and mat his mighty Out-ftretched Are oS er, which wrought in us m the killing and making alive, fe ~cafting down and raifing up ; an -caufe of »the working at ee the glorious Power o God, out’ very Bodies “that we became as Sigr to People; yea, to our very Acc tance and Relations: For we were People feparated from, all Comfort “was thus with many, yet it | good Day ; for the Judgments o brought forth the Soul out of ible | Pit, which was. Ang | Cries of the panting * Soul. And fo, dear ste the he by the fame been, catrying it o1 Sey Years among us, not wel ie. ee os the ‘great Oppofitions it hath met ‘every way by the Power of Dark- A is ait oer, y , in them that went out from’ us, from Men without. ih ! How hath Leviathan, that pked Serpent, wrought? Under how ay Difguifes hath he appeared, to. - id and Devour ? How many falfe rits hath he appeared in ? And what - favour hath “the Old Serpent made ~ bring the Heritage of God into Suf — ngs? But Bleffed for ever be the me of the mighty God, who is lay- ‘wafte that Serpentine Spirit’s work- , and will lay it wafte, and tread it m for ever under the Feet of his jinted ; and will make all their Skirts 3; who have called themfelves ews, | were not, but were and are of the lagogue of Satan, who would have werted the right Way of the Lord, i would have rifen np in the Enmity the Old Crooked Serpent againft the ants and Meflengers of the Hver- ng God, whom they have caufed go with bowed Souls before the 3 its i i oe ia om, "Flock of Chri. = ! u Friends, againft that Spirit, in. ih ae B i “op amigas 3 7 ae ea » a +p * yes ‘a “49 L dos ia that. Spirit. 6 ee “dy Epil. to, the its Root and Branches, “a, L ( ‘Teftimony from the Eternal G lives for ever) to bear: And \ God to the Veffels that ar And, Heir Friends, N | Metey Tabe wel received of the Lord, to wi ‘down of the —— {ndeed I cannot /but etd: | the leaft of the Mercies ai _of our God ; but as the Lord mere wonderful in‘ Power! in _ ward Deliverances, fo hath h ‘ed wonderful in Power for | ‘Deliverances, and Preferv Time to ‘Time, who ha Seas with Swadling-bands faid to the ‘proud foals thou come, and 270 | 3 he nified be the Name | of the for ever. x oo, . i And fo, my ica sil n et hand we are-an ingaged oblig ed Pe ‘unto the Lord, who hath been diba Retiro. pruning and watering us i iy fromedigy to > Diy, po ; or il ad lila v Siecle 1 ase Pe 4 aa we (a ; , ie | Bah os ys mA. ’ | loth of Chrift Fefas. Week, from Affembly to Affembly ; and vos that begun this ‘good ork amongft us, in the Day of our | t Tender Vification, hath been carry- ithe fame on to this Dzy. eg eRe ry place, this to you is the Meflage the Lord of Hofts, the Almighty, — id, that I have received from his guth, and ‘am neceffitated, both by s of the People of the Lord God, this Nation peculiarly, which was ‘ Le of the Nations that was vifited this his Everlafting Glorious Dzy in t Age, That The Lord our Righteouf- § doth require his People in every x, To keep frayed ia that Immortal i an the Day of their fit Tender Vifi- iow ; in that to feel the Vertue, Pow- land Efficacy of the Girdle of Truth, gird up. the Loyns of every one’s nd in the Light of Righteoufnefs, t Power, and Righe Arm of God’s ation, its Manifeftation, Operation, = Bie tba’ . And. now, dearly beloved Friends, In’ | “3 and Writing, to found in the. ht of Life, unto whickthey were dires ily there to wait to feel the Everlaft- B 4 and ae al all ‘the Day of our firft Tender Vi z . perfeted; and the refidue : ‘terly be deftroyed, the Everlafting God, this is the | the loving-Kindnefs- off ; People ia this. Days . “to be the Lot of h 2 this is the Voicgagale S a 1r0 Baier An pif eee and effectual Working ;_ that fi by that Good and Holy Work, the Lord God began amongft 1 (and hath been carrying on. % very Day) may now be fini ture Casaintt which. the Lord hath been furbifh And, dear Friends, In the, Nam Work of this Day, in and amongtt People of the Lord, and for this doth the Lord {pare many, and len ens out the Day of the Tran uil t this Nation ¢ with which he hasa Controverfie, whom he will a fur vifit tor its Iniquities}) and. there Friends, let all prize the ing his Hand of Love upon th is Inheritance them « out of (pict ais ful 2 RS > Dac ph 00 LO Bite Bet eRe 4d) Vibro Be Aa Ss PR a eterna toe ents | nace, dat rar ty -8)) i] BL ty 4 4 aha aie RM . eae _ Plock of Chrift. 9 ito the Unfaithful, and Difobedient nongft us ( as it was of Old, Come out “Babylon, come out ‘of Babylon my bominations, touch no unclean thing; and not Partakers with ber in her Sin, that me may partake with her of her Plagues. Dear Friends, Nothing will now. zafe the Lord, but athrough Work, and il Cleanfing, San&tification through- t, in Soa/, Body and Spirit, really tran- ted out of the Kingdom of Satan, into’ i Kingdom of the dear Son of God. ‘And now, Dear Friends, This perfect vation is no way attained, but as there a abiding inthe Way of it,clofing with id being comprehended into that Light Rightcoufnefs, given to us to profit ” ithal ; for, init is the Power received, fit is the Vertue of Life known, which i Mind is made worthy of the enjoy- nat of, but that which can fit at Jefus i Feet, but that Mind which can ftoop pte loweft Appearance of Chrift Jefus, ere the Mind is made low and little ; te is the Entrance into the Power of © je that gives dominion; for many mifs \ 1 piglet “bere, | Yea ri ople, fo now) Come out of all Babylon's 10. Ad ihe to an nothing in the Love of this World, ) _. ‘imany created obje@; to be nothing _ Thoughts or Imaginations that are E : and kind foever ; for the Door of Heart and Thoughts come to be a thing in their own Eyes, before the Le Ahere the Spirit of Life hath its free i _ Ieavened into the Lump of Life, brou "every one muft come to be as a CI here the Work of the Lord in t 4 aot Soul goes forward tae x . Lord is weary of the Out- fide P ons, and they are before hi fiere, who come not down, fo ia | to have no Dalilab no beloved Luf be as the right Hand, or as the rij Eye; for where the ’ Mind i is in th things entangled, it finds not perfe the Way of Life, the place of Pox and Ability to ftand over every Def ment and « Temptation, of what Nat is found in the Valley, where the Mi here the Power hath its. paffage,’ perfe& operation, to work the Work God effe&tually, until Man through« 0 up. into the Image of God: Sot yea, and as 2 weaned Child too INR me git) aS ne oi, AS Sia ae ac ; Pon” i ;* Waa, Ve > Flock of Chrift Fofus. ‘a ree, that was covered with Leaves, but - d noFruit, concerning which Chrift Je- faid, Never Man gather Fruit of thee,and vithered;fo will it be with the Falfe and /pocritical Profeffors ; for none fhall be. le to ftand in the day of the Lord, that ftens, but fuch ascometo ftand in the fleffion of Life it felf. ; he And {o, Dear Friends, That every one iy know the Blood of Sprinkling, that inkles the Confcience from dead Works erve theLiving God in newnefs of Life; where the Blood of Jefus is defpifed T trodden under Foot, there will the de- pying Angel enter, in the Day of his aang through; for the whirle-wind of (Wrath will be revealed, to fweepaway iW icked, and the Sword of the Lord is hed in Heaven againft the Ungodly; therefore’ Friends, Prize your time, ze your time, waiting daily onthe Lord dy that {othe Nature of Tranfereffion . y be wholly taken away in us, for lich the Mighty God hath a Contro- Hie with the Nations; for there will tno Hiding-place for any, but the lan in Heart, in the Day Cad ais Bs oy aaa FS Pee > of © tes i Ps) Ra my Pt oe Uae 6. 4 We mi i. lg ae a. Sag _ Hearers; that fo when the People o of “the dreadful Pleadings sid Rebu "fr the Lord God of Heaven and Ea | _ And Dear Friends, it is upon me » leave this, as the Counfel of the Le _ upon all the Families of the Lord’s Ped through this Nation (as may’ bee cerned ) That all Heads of Families, any that have the ‘Tuition of You That always in their Families'to feel daily arifing of God’s immortal Pov in that to labour ( according to th Power ) to keep down all Sin and Tnie ty in their Families, and in that to | Ability to reach the Witnefs of Goe their Children, and Servants, ir Fa Ties ; that fo no Sin nor Iniquity may in the the Families of the Lord’s Pe but that all be keept fweet and cf pure and favory before the Lord, a his Fear, Dread and Awe, out of: Needlefs Difcourfes, Vain Words, F { ith Jeftings ; but let your ‘words be! and théy admininftring Grace tay “World come to your Houfes, t nett or: ae cag with ' y NY. SADHOTOD Re Wr ete eee ny gy: eh I ee eee ay Ve aN ey es uy , am * s ee | Flock of Chri. © yo ord God, in the Sweet, Savoury Chafte ife, the Witnefs of God willarife, and fe lake them acknowledge, You are the eople of the Lord, and that he is with ou; and here every one in their refpe- ive places will be Preachers of Righte- uinefs, and here in’ this pure harmlefs ife we muft overcome: And this doth he Lord God (in whofe Hand is the reath of all Living ) require of all the lamilies of his People. And whereany 0, oF fhall walk in a contrary life, the jord God of Eternal Might and Strength vill vifit with the Rod of Affliction. And Dear Friends, it is likeyife upon 1¢ to warnall, in all lades Pate careful jat neither you nor your Families run in )Superfluities in Meats, or in Drinks, or a Apparrel; ( or into the proud offenfive jarbs of theW orld) but in all thefe things it us all keep in our firft Fear, Dread lrovifion may be made for the Flefh, to Gill theLufts thereof. - And Dear Friends, it isalfo upon me Ftrufting, or having a life in Uncertain Shy Riches, nd Awe, that in none of thefe things warn all in all places, To beware © 4 . that Mind that is out of the Dread t m4 An Epiftle tothe. Riches, or in an ternal Thi si that at all Tie an in bing “all keep out of th many and need words; bothin de Mae} inall your C “verfe and Commerce with the Wo let your Words be few: For Frier there is a great Hurt fultained ina Mt tude of words; for by it is the drawn forth, and the Spirit of the We let in, ‘through, which the contin fenfe of the Prefence of the Lord is and alfo our Teftimony weakened. gainft the World therein; and alfot he by the Opportunity is loft of reach / the hy of God in their Hearts, all Occafions of having to.do with the And therefore, Dearly beloved Frier I befeech all in the Bowels of the Lov God, in the moving of God’s Etef Spirit and Power, ‘Thatin Ul Dealin you ufe but few words; and be Eq jut and Upright; and do not be dra forth in many ‘words, in ahfwer Fer of the Lord; bue after y puta Price on your ‘Com mo.ditiés, 3s Equal, and as you can fell the | \ ee car’, ill anfwer the Witnefs of God in them mu are dealing with ;. and if this fhould tt pleafe People at firft, yet you will ¢ it will quickly Overcome; fo that win your Dealings therein keep out ‘the Spirit of the World, out of all ovetouinefs, Over-reaching, and Craf- me as Additions: So all being diligent ithe pure Fear of the Lord, out of Kingdom that is not of this World, (7 will fee great Opportunity in your iteby Thoufands my. be reached, con- iced, and brought to the Truth. nd fat Own Hearts, in the Fear and Dread (the Lord, in the firft moving Caufe iMarriage, that none that, profefs to. Tene Undefiled Way of the Lord, ‘ae jand. hy | Flock of Chrift Jef. a -Perfons “you are Dealing with, tiply words, ftand you filent in the © art, Dread and Awe of God, and this - tefs, inthe harmlefs Life, feeking the. ingdom daily, and let other Things - e love of thefe worldly T hings, abi- . ‘ tg in the Love of God, and feeking: . jalings of reaching unto People, and , 4 Friends, Be watchtul over . | run into the Lufts of the Flefh, a ee Des, Seo ee eee a ee vai 16, Ankpifile tothe - but all to try, the very Ground of # Love and Affe&tion, .whether it ftaj in the Covenant of God, in the cl Life of Rightéoufnefs ; for, altho? i ‘moving Caufe of every ones Defire; Perfon, and that when it firft {pri in their Hearts, when it isin the B “in the Spirit of this World, it is ¢ cut off, and broken ; but if it ftill ‘tinue, and way is given to it, then i and of the Eye ( in which, Ground fta all the polluted Marriages of the Wo the very Truth, That Marriage is | nourable, the Bed muft be Undefil which is a near word, and judgeth | polluted Marriages in the World, t are begun, carried on, and finifhed) of the Fear and Dread of the liv And, Friends, I am moved of Lord God to warn all, to. try the Willingnefs to Marry this or the.ot a for then, if by bringing it to the Lig it be found not wrought in God, © pid Pi iy it. is comes a Mountain, and the perfeve therein draws the Mind fo far ouch the ‘AffeCtionate Part, as chat it fe # ™ ee Wh, s | yr > we a Se Nip ak pt 87 Ble See aa Mae (ae ne re i . * Ky * ee A 7 " ae Floth of Chri Sofi a“ 4 : i darkens the Heart, that the Thing ms right in the Confidetation, altho? gether the working of the deftroy- Enemy : And here ftandsthe Ground. he running out of the Affeétions of nds (or {uch as profefs the’ Truth) Marry Men and Women of the rid; which, for want of the keep. of the firft Motion out, to that’ abo- able Thing, lofeth the Senfe of the th, fo perfevereth therein, to the ing their Condition in the Truth, to the difpleafing of the Holy Lord , and caufing his dear Name to be dhemed, and to the eafing and gras I warn all in the Fear and Dread, God, to beware; and all fuch igs will be avoided, as heed js ta- in the firft Thought to any fuch ig- And let all know, that who- have been, or fhall be, guilty in Thing, notwithftanding they may ‘Lord God, that is in the mid" d tithe dip? ‘ pet 7 ‘ g of the World; of which Pra- by the Power and Spirit of the tk’ned and lofe their Senfe, yetit © ; it Wickednefs in the fight of the . Of : Me tS Po a Ot Bay's io tf a aca ae i A Nal a : hee # Y Paget se Fe)” 18 AnEpiffle to the 4 of us; and. with all fuch will the | plead ; and a Cup of oe the Hand ren cf muft al ‘drink, and know his Judgments t -, them down, before perfect Peace ae: - the Lord they know, and befor can recover their former Splendor ADrcithy 30 ea j And, «2 dear Friends everj Whole Hearts are engaged in th cern of God’s Truth and People, Sharp Sword of the Lord be tt ‘Hearts, Hands and Mouths, agais _ Thing. ‘head a _ And, dear Friends, If any fee . fingle Condition is not beft for _. then let all wait to be guided hd aS yb ioee v4 Truth, in the changing their C ie, . Se a _ F Me ons, and not to run asthe Worl | ple do many times, from place ¢ Ba and from Perfon to Perfon, havif 4 _ Affections. refiding one while .. Obje&, and anorher time on ; “y.\ and it may be fo on to’ many. - #s a wrong ching, and Deftruét ory way attendsiit ; but all ind Fear of the Lord (that Kees x lai » ogg Ue a ERR Seema mes ik ire eae EE OE Rl hee AG ‘ art clean | Ploth of Chriff Joti ag ) proceed, feeing their way 3 fr and plain in the Senfe of Truth, - of all the World’s Bargainings and ly, that attends the management of ithings. Aa | ind all Mafters and Miftreffes, and ids of Families, all to ftand in their _ es, in the Exercife of a pure, meek it, to their Servants and Children; — in the mercilefs Spirit of the World, > would require of their Servants e than they have Ability to perform fortably ; but out of that let.all keep, he’ Love of God, waiting on him for dom, that every one may know their Ss. \ < nd all Servants to ftand in the fub- low in the Fear and Dread of the fe, and out of all Eye-fervice, wait« | the Lord to know your Places itt Chings ; and herein you will adorn Profeflion of Truth. ; ¥ HM; out of High-mindednefs and diligent State, in Mecknefs: AndE gall Servants, profeffing Truth, To Re RE And ae ee - fuch cannot reft or be contente - to the left Appearance of that 3 “Dread of the Lord of Hofts, as: _ fuming Fire, will break out aga “fuch that fhall continue in am and a Brother or Sifter, if they cerned therein ; fuch a one : at ae nr “4 pile to the Mi Andallo, itis upon me, in the gt and Counfel of the Lord, to all, in all Places, of that thing warned his Brethren, viz. Of fal li ‘by the way; that there be no wa would make any Rent, Schifm « vifion ; for every Perfon that fh up that Spirit that thirfteth to that Spirit that hurries into Pa that Spirit that will Back-biteand per in fecret,. through which Bp come ; the Hand of God-Almi againft every fuch Inftrument Spirit; for the Spirit of Truth, - ture is, To bring forth the very ry Fruits in all fuch where it and Reigns, and Rules ; all fue ‘Life is Peace, and fuch are Peace. there ftands any thing betwi dbvigags © in his Brother or th ‘2 apg - ie TRE Pee Pity Mores iene hE ARE EU SOREN, Flock of Chrift. PY 1¢ tender breaking Bowels of ten- Love, go to his Brother or his Sifter, fay, My Brother, or My Sifter, Do. fend or grieve our tender Father, who dealt fo tenderly with ws ; and fo in Heart-breaking Love he will labour yhis Brother, or with his Sifer; . if not received, will Jet novPreju- nor oe arife, nor will not fhut lis Brother; but if there willbe no ption, there will be a fingle ftand- a the Loveand Simplicity of Truth ; ie or fhe, that thal not fo receive, ; themfelves out. ia ad if there be a Controverfie be- any, where the Life of Truth iown, if there be but the leaft fly- | yet the moft Innocent will be rea- } acknowledge, firft, that with the of God he ‘may break down and . me the Mountain in his Brother ; his Spirit ruling, which is the Spi- Mf the Saviour of the World, no , Schifm or Divifion can live, or . tan Exiftence among the People of Lord ; againft which Spirit, that s Diyifion, the Hand of the Lord Her: eH a U5 MEN ll tee” 1 ‘a _away, and flee from it, as from t -wourer of God’s Heritage, left thé nal Spirit of Life and Peace, in| ~ their Dia keep fo “thing of divifion or diftance ret - “froverfie is gone out agai _ Pf this nature, and ‘che’ te ba Bstoae A ‘Hearts and Spirits do not fubjt that which feeks Peace, and delig ‘no other thing ; the living God re _ fpeedily an end. to it; for God as An Epifileto the $; and ‘Wo from God, to all's = this of all his People ; and if the the leaft of the contrary in any T befeech all fuch, in the Bov Love, that they would prefently overtake, wherein there would be nefs, were there an Opportunity: do; fothat, dear Friends, all may together in the Unity of the ont to feel your Hearts united ;° for fhe that loveth not their Brothe dwelleth the Love of God in And fo, as the Apoftle well faid them that caufe mit nt 3 and: And, dear Friends, Whete- any Heart, I earneftly befeech } matt u na eh is é “a ot’ 3 ae ly, J is and will be revealed againft all Bon: and therefore, O Ifrael! away this accurfed Thing where it und, and let every Soul defire and s in the practice thereof, into the y State of Brethren, dwelling to- . er in Unity , and here pe Bie | 1S. he Life and Vertue of the Endle ntain of Goodnefs will flow over and here all will be knit together ~ y Joynts and Bands, all holding the d, and knowing their places in the y; here one Member will not fay — mother, I have vo need of thee; but yill feé need one of another; here | op will be put to the Current of , but through all it will run, even 1 Veffel to Veffel; in which State L Almighty preferve us all for ever | ever. j sy ithe Spirit of the Lord in your felves, lin one another ; nor let any refift dge the Power of the Lord God, oin a tender Babe, that cannot yet pe lain for. suflere any do thus t Flock of Chrift Fofus. | 23 : Il Friends every where, Quench ~ the tender Lambs of Chrift’s Fold, EAS wae 4 ee ! and ftop. the bublings up of Life Souls, and- over fuch “Aflemblies 1 * ft N s “Tae ia! a . ee + 6 ae} We days ) ings (as aforefaid ) and loo cor belong unto. ae. | And fo, dear Friends, As there 1 be, and hath been, a falfe forward B {perity of Truth in rhe General ; grief of the falfe untimely Bir 2 Exaltation of the falfe, and the fug © fing of the true Birth; fo as that Thee Eee ae Tee ON Te Sages An Bpiftle to > we Ke i ‘ Cy PE i “a a that hath, or may, run before, tc burthening and grieving God’s Her ( which Birth the Lord hath, and’ deftroy ) fo there hath been a ftopg and quenching, and refifting the’ quirings of the Power, to the hu many, and to the hindring of the Gre of many, and to the hindring the’ fome being in the fight, and under fome, have refifted the Motion of Holy Spirit in themfelves, whereby Evils have proceeded at once, vz," € Bye feeth fome Men, unto whom hath given Gifts, and upon. whof tits the Requirings, of God’s Power Taxe felt ; and through their Re ee ade * | Flock of Chrift. es 25 ve even hurt the Birth of God’s be. tting, to the bringing Darknefs and avinefs over themfelves, and to the idring of their Growth; and there- tele the one hand the falfe-for- rd Birth is to be kept down for ever, jofe end is always fomething, either be great, or looked at, or to have fe or Profperity in the Flefh; and — 0, that it may have its way in the {ts thereof ; for all fuch Births cen ‘in thofe Things, notwithftanding alt rand fine Appearances at Times and ifons, or for a Time or Seafon: So, the other hand, the true Birth is to née up. And therefore, in the Name, ength and Power of the God of Hea-. i, Arife, Arife, thou Child of the Co- lant, and come forth, and fhew thy 5 and work in thy Father’s Vine- fd; break through, ah! thou breath- | panting Birth, and in thy Father’s ength break every Bond and Chain, t hath held thee under : Arife Sion, | Shine, for thy Light is come, and pee } Glory of the Lord is Arifen upon ina i me A Atife a i y fi i 26. An ri to reek if Pe Sion; and threfh oF “po co Inftrument, At at _ Friends, in this ching let every one Eternal; in which Path every Eye ; ea : ¥ a - nour God alone, and be: vas \ Worms: Careful, to walk in the even Path of be fin ngle, and the whole body wi full of Light; here every one willy and know the time when to fpeak, 2 when to be filent ; for the true Bir _ Life isin the Will and Power of | Lord, and at his Time and Requiril Brings forth {uch Sacrifice, not to th own Nets, nor will ever feek an Ir “reft of their own amongft any, but] fore the Lord : Butiit is not fo y the falfe Birth, its Life is not inM ure but it is in the contrary : Sol all may know the Motions of the - from the other : Where the true Mo of Life &, there lives : : the ind is.brought into Stilnefs, ee re and there the Will of to fe feated to the Ong fon é a “ — Flick of Chrift Jefus, 27 And, all Friends every-where, Keep di- gent your Meetings; for our Meetings ere fet up by the Lord God of Abrae am, Vfaac and “facob, and in his Coun- al they now ftand ; and the Lord re- uires his People now to meet as bold- as conftantly, as diligently as ever, yithout any regard to what Man can lo unto you, becaufe we know we meet jot in RefraGtorinefs to any Man on darth, but purely in Obedience to the Jiving God, that doth require’ it of lis People; and whatever draws from Viectings, in part, or wholly, draws rom God, and isan Antichriftian Spi- it, let it appear when, and where, ‘nd in what Veffel foever ; and God’s finite Power and Dread will tread that pirit down for ever: Therefore, dear "Yiends, let none forfake the Affembling if themfelves together, as the manner of ome was in the Apoftles Days, and alfo Be ili ai Bo kn Epifile teh a Snare to as many as go into, and ke ia it ; for this is a way to bring aC on themfelves, and all they : tm where any depart from Niecti : to fave an outward Eftate, and do ps he up to the Power of the Immor . God, to divide them from that Spir ~ the Outward (for which they have le the Lord) may be rent from them, they from it; and then, when fuch one fhall lofe that, and his Peace wi Be God alfo, what a miferable horrid Sta will that be? Which will be ‘the St: of all them that fell. their Birth-right | a Mefs of Pottage. And, Friends, this “know, and therefore in the Name A. the Lord declare it, God doth and will u pear mightily ia the Affemblies of his ple, amd arifein them, in the Magnifice Of his Eternal Powers ta the Aftonifhm | oe of the Heathen that know not God, an if the gathering many loft Sheep. as Wa aS - And Friends, thefe are the E Ends: en our. Meetings, to wit, Our daily Ee dif «tion, through the Manifeftarion eg: Ve Ua ings of bis Eternal Power in our Heart. oS ae Afferablies,” and bergen and al a N RS ers J Fuck of Grif. ag iod we give a Teftimony againft all the — alle Profeffions, and falfe Worfbips in the © hole World; and ftand as a City [et upon Hill, to gather tothe Lord the Out-cafts f Ifrael, and the Difperfed of Jacob; and # the Report of the Holy Ghojt Defcend- yg in our Affemblies, as in Ages paft, fall many gather to them, and be pricked to the Heart, and be turn’d from the Evil of their ways, and be brought to the Moun- ain of God?s Holines, now to be exalted a and over the tops of all Mountains. _ And, Friends, Where any have been ifited with God’s Everlafting Day Prtinging from on High, and have made »pen Profeffion and Confeffion of God’s — averlafting Truth, and have erred from the Holy Commandment, thro’ which jhey have made Shipwrack of Faith and bf a good Confcience, and thereby have one into the Evil Spirit, ‘or. into any | iniquity in their Dealings and Com- | nerce with the Sons and Daughters, of eos cs & i N Vv or into any Evil whatfoever, that he way of the Weak, or have caufed he dear, and precious, and honourable a . Name we ee lave ¢ _do caft a Stumbling-block in iy me ‘eo is ple to be refleéted up fay, in the Name of | nto. the holy Light of A on f whith -all fach have reds there tom |. for the arifing of the living Power of living God, toheal your Backing, ye may know the free Love of God to ¢ over all again, and to feel a Teftimon | AG rife in you againft any dr § you have & 4 mitted, that hath caufed hi is dear Nam : be blafphemed, and his Truth and Peopl be reproached, and th | Hearts of any t6 hardened ;, which Teftimony you are to i ae publickly as the Tranfgreffion has b . agcording ‘to the Nature of the Of, .— againft God, bis Trath and ‘People, t : fo muaft the Teftimony go out againft it, Fe the Fear and Dread of the Lord Goa, nthe brokennefs of Heart Soe rit) fore bim: And where the Back ’, Heart and Converfation doth | © teturn, in the Name of the L 9 elare, That the Day baflens, whe Hand of the Lord God will find all ne and they foal be made fi fa ‘ 4 } Say 4 ste ah ES te 3 FiO of Chrift Jefe. 31 ent to them elves, and to others > for be living God hath determined to clear p the Tnnocency of his Truth and Peo- fe: And where any fuch do not re- im into a fenfe of what they have one, in their Backflidings from the ord, and not declare againft them- Ives, to the clearing of Truth, then ; it the Duty of the People of the ord, who keep their Garments un- potted, after they have dealt. with all ich tenderly, according to the Order f the Gofpel of Peace, to give a Te- limony againft all fuch Perfons and *ractices, that are out of, and againft ¢ Truth ; and this Teftimony is to ‘0 forth according to the Nature of he Offence, that the Houfe may be Ieanfed, and all kept pure and fweet, nd all may be clear of the Iniquity, nd of the Blood of all Men. And 0, dear Friends, in the Light of Righ- coufmefs let us all keep our Habitati- mS in a continual watchful State, in Which we fhall all grow, as the Wil- preferved cout of all the Snares and ad ue Wiles the Water-Courfes, and be .- end of our Days ‘that c yery Day ae perfect Het ia bi is Fear, w’ ~ will be Wy the Gey, ‘of z= 8 a God, and Co er 3 8 eat lower of the er Given forth in ‘obese s any R , rings of the Lordy. Erogh hai a Traveller for Sion’s Redempt Another Ne ‘PISTLE LL tender Friends, whofe Faces _ \ are turned from the World Siez- d, love the Dawning of the Day of it in your Souls, and take heed to dure Word, let ic be as a Lamp our Feet; then will it}Guide you; ig you, and Tranflate You out of Nature of Sin and Darknefs, into divine Nature, whichis Light, and ‘dwell ih it, as to go no more forth; (0 be as Pillars in the Houfe of the: for ever: Now this Work is care fon and accomplifhed no other way, Arough a daily perfevering and | oD _heark’ning ory > up before him: Give up out of the - ingto, and clofing with the Heat » by him, and you for ever united y . . . ¥ re a 34 Another Bpifile tothe hark’ning to, and obeying the L in all its Leadings, which Expels Darknefs, and leads the Soul. up t comprehended into its felf, =) And you that are not only tu Ziox-wards, but have been and are’ vellers in the Way, who have ar Defires after that one thing Dav. much defired, namely, To dwell a Houfe of the Lord, that ye might his Celeftial Glory, who hath” tality, and dwells in the Light; 1 this——Meflage of Glad Tidings to in your Ears, The Lord God of Stre} and: Might hath heard your Cries, your Breathings and Pantings are r. hood, deny. your Wills, take up th ly precious Eros of Chrift Jefus, | out of your own Thoughts,’ Will and Running, Afcending and Dek Light of the Lamb 5; give ye thaf ture that hath flain the Lamb, ¢ flain by the Lamb; fo fhall you vation be wrought and accompl bee: bearing his Image, who is the ex- $ Image of his Father's Subftance; and ¢ all Souls can again, without Re- €, approach to the Father by him, sg the, Celeftial Fountain of Light, a Profeffion of the Father, and Son, of Light and Truth, and King- 1of it, without the Knowledge of Work ‘( began and carried on by Alpha and Omega} will wither and lafted ; and God-Almighty accounts s Stubble for his Fire of Vengeance : | under the Condu& of this Light ‘Truth, ye will bring forth the its of it in all your Converfations; this brings a Care one over ano« » and a univerfal Care in all your mblies of Sons and Daughters, to ax that all may be kept {weet, and | nothing may be wanting, but all }be as one Family. And this the erfal Life in its increafing Manife- pn hath drawn, and doth draw y in this Nation and others, to meet ! and one another, to Counfel and pgthen, to Relieve the Poor, Im- v Da potent Flock of Chri Fefuss 3, ther for that end, only to fervethe _ rere Sn = ‘ Se x a : = i + Pe ed = = a } \ 4 NN) Re ae ? , ; Re ee a ay 38 | Another Epiftle tothe ple, from the rifing of the Sun tt going down of the fame, amongit w the Name of the Lord fhall bec Great. Se A Te But, Wo, Wo, Wo! from the T nacle of the Glory of the Infinite unto all that have long made and 4 a Profeffion of the holy fpiritual L ofthe Lamb of God, whilft in theL nefs you are ; the dreadful Day of Almighty’s pleading with all fuch, ¢ ly hattens——~And therefore you, € Nhat hold the: Truth in Un teoufnefs, Be ye warned in the J and Authority of the God of the w Earth, that none offend nor difpleal of profeffing his pure immortal LE and walking in Darknefs, left his i break forth like devouring Fire, Heavens, and appoint you your P into everlafting Burning, under che geance of eternal Fire. if ci aes (oe And therefore, let a {earch pafs.thro’ families, that where any have con- unto this Day, thus difpleafing Lord Almighty, and working the iruction of their own Souls; I fay p all fuch, inthe Name of the Lord, te, Flock of Chrift Yofus. ee hafte, hafte, out of the Darknefs; | e Har, the Trumpet of the Lord eth a certain Sound ; therefore obey. m the Heart, that ye may yet, be- > your Day go over, be tranflated of the Kingdom of Satan, which Darknefs, into the Kingdom of Light the dear Son of God, Chrift Jeius, And all Friends every where, that e the fealing of God’s Eternal Spirit, to this Habitation and dwelling- © of Light are come, in the fenfe he unutterable loving Kindnefs of ‘Lord Almighty, and the Work of glorious gathering Arm, : continue /Lkeep your Habitations ] for the gelsthat kept not their Habitations, ‘referved under the very chainings of rknefs, to the Judgment of the great y> * D4 And they have obeyed fromthe Heart, — +e {oak ‘a > Ai art 7 + "% Fall . - -of Men and Nations, look ye not’ - but dwell*in the, Habitation afore ' and in Times of Diftreffes and Am ‘ments, in the fulfilling of the Wo -out of my Counfel in any thing ‘fpiritual Oracle of Wifdom, and fhall have Counfel from the Lo - ¢hem that fall. . unto, to fit before the Lord in if | fenfe of the great Work of th And all Friends, in all’ che hur the Lord, this to you all is an unt Word of Counfel from the Lord ftill, be ftill, be ftill, and know. am God, faith the Lord: and fti take Counfel of your own Heart 3. the Eye of your Minds to the hea' your fatisfaGtion; but if ye look ye will be dark’ned, and may a And all Affemblies and ) the Lord’s People every where, : unto Prayer, that ye may feel th tit of Prayer and Supplication £ ‘forth upon you; and as drawn” ftroyer, who is ftirring up the Nz to. Deftroy and Devour one an and is ecking an Eapeniee as a _iyaeter Me yon, to deftroy fome of the Lord’s ople, “called in- the Morning of the ay of his Love: Oh! cry, cry, cry, ightily unto the Lord, for your Selves, ur Friends, and your Enemies, and RS poor Land of our Nativity, h is heavy -loaden with the Int- ities of the Inhabitants thereof, over hom the piercing Eye of the Almigh- looks in great Difpleafure; Oh! let ur Supplications be,.that the Lord mighty would Arife in his great rength, and fo Judge amongft the Na- yns, that their Swords may be beaten to Plow-fhares, and their Spears into ‘uning-hooks, that the Nations may arn War no more one with another: nd that this Expedient for Univerfal ce may be to fet him upon the Hearts People might leave off Warring with, fer Own Hearts, with the Spiritual Mankind, the Devil, that fo they all ight Experience the End of Chrift ie , 4 J : Jefus Flock of Chrift Jofus. - ga ‘Princes and People; namely, That: id Deftroying one another; and all~ . ime into the Spiritual Warfare in’ eapons, againft the common Enemy "ie Ese 4 pone F ms apa ¥ BN 42 Another Epifleto the Jefus his Coming ; namely, Tode the Works in every Man, of the Abaddon, Apollion the Deftro er 374 * that the living God -would be plea to ‘haften his great Work, of puttin; ' mighty River of fweet Refrefhm _ the Hearts and Souls of Princes and | _ the Princes and People of all Lands t all Rulers and People Happy, both in ‘an End the Sin of this Age, and Ini ty of this Generation, and fo bring Everlafting Righteoufnels, to flow : that this poor Land, with others, mi enjoy its Sabbaths; that he who is K of Salem, Prince of Peace, may Rul ple; fo that the Great Uniyerfal On potent samy God “have his Honour, ¢ Comfort, in the fweet unexpreffible | joyments of his Omniprefence, and | ane he all fitting under their own — and Fig-tree: So fhall all Fear be reme out of the Nations, but the Fear of ‘Lord God Almighty, which woulda ‘World, and that which is tocome: 4m Amen, Amen, faith the tribulated tr ling Sou/ of your Friend and Brother, Titherton, the 13th of . TT ae ~ the rath Month,1678. = THE lay ‘of Life REVEALED, AND THE NV ay of Deak: DISCOVERED: ‘herein i is declared, Man’s Happy Eftate before the Fall, "hig Miferable Eftate inthe Fall, and ‘the Way of Reftaura-: tion out of the Fall, into the Image of | God again, in which Man was before the Fall. fo, the By-Paths, Crooked Ways, Wiles, Snares and Temptations of the Enemy of Man’s Soul difcovered, who hath and doth Bo about as a Roaring Lyon, feeking how | 1c may Enfnare and Devour thofe who are nm any meafure efcaping out of his Ways of ‘iD eath and Deftruction: — i Bid ees g' be they a Oe a - me TO THE: READER: »* Serious when thou takeft in Bewd to read this following Treatife, and e 4 jingle regard unto the inward Eftate thy Immortal Soul; and let thy Spirit ‘down to the Meafure of the Spirit of given thee to profit withal, that by it Eye of thy Under flanding may be open- fo wilt thou fee the things herein con- med, which concern thy own Eternal Wfare: And let not thy own Thoughts _ al Imaginations, in the Wifdom from m (which ss fenfual and earthly ) be therein ; but ftand fiill out of thy % Comprehindings, Afcendings and De= dings; and let atrue and diligent Rea a be had to the Word in thy Heart yd Mouth, there placed, that thou may’ y it and do it; fo will thy Heart be f ee anal 1: i pr ly 5 ga to yead w Blind, and unftopping of the Ears of Deaf) will be anfwered, and the Lorag perfect Deliverance, = — a Ce y : sale y rt pr a Bes ah ae 8: the R Things herein opened by the Spirit of Tre which fearches all Things, yea, the de Things of God, and the! Travel in § vit (which is for opening. the Eyes of t Aln.ighty will have bis Honour from own Workmanfbip, and thou the Bene which is the Defire, Travail and Brea ings of im, who is a Traveller for Sit Briftol, the 2d of the . 7th Month, in the PRRs Year, 1673. 4a : Par HE’ Way of Life - REVEALED, AND THE Vay of Death ' DISCOVERED, &c. N the Beginning God Created the Heaven and the Earth ; and after he Made all Things on the Earth, he de Man in his own Image, ‘Formed ie a pO Ne Oe ee see Se Re a o Vamp a hes Ba Ry “ ¢ DS? * . wy ¢ 48: The Wayof Life Revealed, ~ the Lord God made every Tree f fant to the Sight, and good fo to grow; the Treeof Life alfo int midft of the Garden, and the Tree Knowledge of Good and Evil‘ Ant _ that made Man in this Hftate, *; him a Law. to preferve hitn thereis the Scripture of Truth witneffeth, ing, Azd theLord God commanded the 1 faying, Of every Tree in the Garden | may ft freely Eat ; bat of the Tree of K - ledge of Good and Evil, thou may’ ft not for in the Day thou eateft thereof, thou, furely dye. Now God faw every that he had made, and behold it very Good; the Tree of Knowledg Good and Evil was good, but not _Food: And Man was endued witl divine Wifdom, that wh God brought of every E Field, and Fowl of the Air, t Ad he gave Names unto them; and w | | foever Adam called. every living G ture, ‘that was the Name thereof #) here’ was Man’s Station in the Ime Of God, a living Soul, a noble F wholly aright Seed, filled with div (a 1) S| ay ay en) ia {dom and Vertue, cloathed with In- ency, covered with Glory, adorned hi celeftial Beauty, in the continual joyment of the Love and Favour of Eternal Being of all Beings, having ‘daily Converfation with him that de him ; no Death, no, Darknefs, Sorrow, no Occafion of Tears, no - infgreffion, no Knowledge of Evil, elling in the Innocent Life it felf, ed in the Gurden, into which came River out of Eden that watered it. ‘Dleffed State! Oh happy Conditi- Oh unexpreffible Enjoyment, un- arable Beauty and Glory.! Tis be- d the Tongue of Man to declate that bleffed, happy Eftate of Joy, 1. if Ul bi ifnefs and Bruition of Life, which | was in before he tranfgreffed the jal Law of God, cc. bo Vee | ay ast een E ~. .Man’s Bs , ‘ Rept as és if ae re ag a NR he: 4 And the Wey of Death difcovered. 4g , Vertue, Purity, Holinefs, Righ- | * . Qatinte oo be "truth, envied Man’s: Happinef e eat, neither hall ye touch ¢ ity, ve e “ulna gael an Hibs. Qe The Wey of Lif R ‘ Ae he em A “ by Man’ Ss Miferable Efatei int he F >) UT now te whe kept ot | Habitation, neither abode’ Truth, and: therefore (as a & more fubtil then any Beaft of thi which.the Lord God had made} to the Woman (who out of th was ve et and opt hath G Fruits of the Ti vees of the Gatien the Fruit of the Tree which is in t of the Garden ; God hath faid, Ye the Woman { mark ] faw tha f was good for Food, and thi pleafant to the Eyes,jand a Ti *defired to make one Wile c a ss eae ee) ae oe A Je . ck ; o id WIS t Husband with her, and he did eat, d the Eyes [mark] of them beth were ned Here the God of the World vailed, fo as to open an Eye that faw il pleafant, and to blind the Eye in f€ Children of Difobedience, ° that y fhould no longer behold the Glory God, cc. And here they became 2 ked, having loft the Robe of Righten we Aprons of Fig-leaves to cover their kednefs;"and they heard the Voice {; and the Lord God called unto 7 » fayin , Where art thou? And the Hed thee that show fbould yor ear? ‘began to excufe himfelf, ‘faying, “ : ha é ae aes 54 ‘k : — 2 And theWay of Death difcovered. Sr rr it, and did eat, and gave alfo to © ve[s. and Garment of Innocenc sand then he Lord God: walking in the Cool .. he Day, and Adam and his Wife hid nfelves from the Prefence of the Lord. = i eee. Oe eet Voman thou gaveft ta be with Ne | e of the Tree, and I did eats And ‘ ~ Ea oa aa Z at Me ip > see . 52 The Way of Life Revea ey she Lord God faid to the Wom | as. this that thou haft done? Ff ‘Woman faid, The Serpent beguilec ~ and I did eat: And the Lord God unto the Serpent, Becaufe thou haf his, Curfed art thou above all Cartel t above every Beaft of the Field; on th sae foalt thou go, and Duf.fhalt thou eat, And I will put Enmity between thee ai Woman, and between thy Seed and her ae it (ball bruife thy Head, and thor bruife his Heel, Sothe Lord fent hin from the Garden to Till the Grour . And placed at the Eaft of the Gar “Eden Cherubitns, anda Flaming § which turned every way to kee (Way of the Tree of Life. = - -Ohmiferable Change! Oh dep Alteration ! Oh lamentable State, clarable undone Condition, unexp . Fall! What! He that was in the; of the Incorruptible Being, a | Soul, inhabiting in the Garden Lord, where the Tree of Life w: the Splendor of the Glory of the ere was known and enjoyed, from. all into the Earth, and not 0 e em: * * “joy ue f Death ae , ‘oO ’ the ‘Cherubims. and Flaming Sword it turneth every way) placed to keep: lay of the Tree of Life! Beaftonifh- 1 Heavens at this, and be horribly a oh Earth! The Lord Ged brought children, anid they Rchefled againft ow, what v was the Cait and Ground, Sons and Daughters of Adam, that ght this horrible Change, that ght Man into this deplorable State to the Righteous Law of God? bedience, and Death by Sin? And it Sin continued inthe World through bedience? Is there any other Way which fin enters now, than it did aed over all, and reigns over all who 9 the fimilirude of Adams Tranf- fion? For all have not finned accord- 0 his fimilitude, who was deceived | that in which the Lord God had i tg ae Condition ?: Was it not Difobedi- not Sin enter into the World thro’® ~ . » and Death by Sin, which has nm the fallen Eftate from God, even : -them that have not finned 8 Ms ; “an Expectation of an higher Eftate F §. y wo him: But all Center ! - fimilitude foever, is one in the ; and becomes a Separater of Mae his God;. So the Ground of all Ini and. Tranfgreffion that ever owas, | fhall be, is Man's difobeying the 1 teous Law of God, dilobedience W unto bringeth Death. Ta: OEP - — But what was tha which in 4 ‘\ ol ? and what was hel | t the “hen fre Dye; and yet, though he d ‘ 4 “ thereof, he ciency i Th. 1¢ a Children? r ae i a It was the Taward! Manethat: which was fo made by the Living E of the Almighty ; for Man going’ . the Counfel of the Lord, by his D _ dience came to be aliené rol » Life of God, and fo became: infenf that primary Life in which’ he wholly a Right | Seed, and. a: Plant: In his Degeneration he beg “inwardly dead; the inward Senie | the inward Man were loft; the iny Ear ‘wee er ROpDeay the cas Eye | .-o—_— ON ey ata: ly se ” Ast Difcoverd. §5 yer, Life, Love and Joy ) the inward € of Smelling his Garment ( that fof Myrrh, and of the Spikenard tually ) were all lofi; and inftead eof, an Har opened, that hearkned ae Voice of the Siranger ; and an Eye ant and defirable; the Heavenly t ion, loft; and thus he came to be tout God in the World ; and here, his Eftate Man was altogether out {Capacity of abiding in the Garden, _ that was in the midft thereof; jin this Hftate are all the unconvert- onsand Daughters of Men, notwith- ng all Fig-leaf Coverings of Pro- rT so + Pk n } : = at as the Law of the Spirit of Life pketh forth in its Manifeftation, and eSons and Daughters of Men come fm it to be awakened, they will have. Ba *: ward iny ned; that faw the forbidden Fruit. thing of Iznocency, Meekuve/s and Re- attaking of the Heavenly Tree of © pSight and True Senfe of their in-_ - ‘< The We of Life revealed, ward Eftate and Condition, wi indeed Caufea Cry to. arife in the: Ob Wretched Eftate!, Oh Mi erable | tion! And here the Entrance: 0 comes to be feen, which hath bro Death ; for the Wages of fin is q which was the ae that came beyed the Righteous ee 1 God, which is Juft, Holy and Googe was ‘before Tranigreffion, which bringeth to Chrift, RA Yee eC Gift of God, ‘which is Eternal Life. Now, Man being thus departec of that Nature, Image a : which Man had his Being before I greflion, is become the pee nerate. ofa ftrange Vine before the Lort that made. bim: And from | the son Daughters of Men (as they ftand j -tothis Nature and Seed of the Sei which hath defiled Man in Soul,” and Spirit ) proceed thefe Branche Fruits of Iniquity, to wit, Pride, | ‘Em. ation, Strife, Variance, D ‘Hati:d, Wrath, Anger, Murder 2 -dingie Affection, Concuinicoca wane ‘And the Way of Death difcowred, 67. wfhefs, Wantonnefs, Vanity, Un- annefs, Fornication, Adulteries, Love this World, Drunkennefs, Revelling, lenefs, Swearing, Curfings, Cheating, frauding, Double-dealing, Evil-fpeak- i Back-biting, Covetoufnefs, Idolatry, itchcraft. Man being thus fallen from God into is Miferable Deplorable State, the In- ing in his Endlefs, Boundlefs, Fathom- s Loving-kindnefs hath opened a Way which Mankind might be reftored to himfelf again;) which Way is the d to the Serpent, I will put Enmity ween thee and the Woman, and between Seed and her Seed; it {ball bruife thy sad, andthou {halt bruife his Heel. So rein was the tender Mercy of the ever- ting God extended unto Mankind, in € all would have been as Sodom, and je unto Gomorrah, which God deftroy- = Seed, on which he hath laid Help, 20 1s Mighty to fave, who is the Image every omifed Seed, concerning whom he ; ying the Seed, to wit Chrift Jefus; . with Fire in his Wrath ; Sothisisthae the Invifible God, the Firft-born of — ‘ Glorified with the Fark _the Name of the Great _all:, This. is the Emmanuel, oat ‘i . Fe us, the Saviour ; ‘Chrifts the Anot otsat 2 natiol is and Appellations, throug gh ; any ; 58 ThkWy of. fe R every Creature i in which Tma was before the Tranfgref ion) who er b fore Zi of whor lchovah, Ig Teftimony, That he is’ the Way of I and Salvation ; and that there is 70 ot Name by. deve any Man can be fai than by him who was, and is, ana come ; who was from Everlafting to E i lafting, the Rock of Ages, which. ho Tract, and was in the Church in the V derne/s,’ as Stephen teftified before was ‘ftoned to Death : This gs 48 without Beginning of Das or E We ‘Life; who in the Fulnefs manifest, taking on him not the Natar Angels, but the Seed of Abcabatng whom there mas a Body p prepa ed to do. Will of his Father, who, after te, A complifbed it, afcended where far above all Heavens, that ie oe World began : This i is | mi 10 hath been called by fevetal {poken ‘of under. feveral a " 4 i - saaleies ylation teresa le \ PA, Pe) ‘And theWay of Death difeovered. 59° juiths of his Servants the Prophets ands = oftles in Agesand Generations by-paft : pate only Beloved of the Ranfom- ae this is our Friend. i And now he is“Arifen and Arifing tho is the Ancient of Days) in the ghe of his Power, and is revealing. nfelf the good Old Way, and Path Life, whofe Out-goings have been. m Everlafting; in which Way 4ée/, hb, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Ifaac, Fae’ , and all the Servants, Prophets, Apo= s and Saints of the Moft High God iked, through all Ages and Genera- ns; Which Way was before all the Shiites and Worfhips were, ich have been fet up in the Will and me of Man; for all the holy Men of* id, «and Saints of the Moft High,* itfhipped God in the Spirie of Holi-' is, in*which they were accepted of: hn, who is the God of the Spirits of’ | Blefh; And no outward Perfor- qnce whatever, performed by any, _- rough Ages and Generations, wasany’ pther Acceptable unto the Lord, but _ rey in this Spirit. a: ‘cil a i The oe a Pa. 60 The Way of Le Revd Ae —— _ _ Life, and brought from under ‘the Por of Life and Salyation to my Co nt -tmen, through this Ifland of Engla ‘and now a Neceffity is alfo upon 1 on Record, The Way of Reflorotion out OFe Fall, into the Image of. God a: agai fe. hath Man hi. te t Fall, &c: f UT how Salvation comes to. wrought by him, and how Mi kind may be brought again into hi who is the Way, the Trath, and and ‘Dominion of the Seed of the § pent (in which by Nature all h been the Children o Wrath ) is inde the Thing that lieth on my Sp weightily to demonftrate, having” tained Mercy to fee this Way of | and Salvation revealed and opened < not only fo, but a Neceffity hath be and is upon me to. Preach the Goi of Chrift Jefus, and declare the \ Spirit, to leavea ¥e PY, of the fa ee ee eee Re. OWE ees Vir ty Stee mee i | “And the Wey of Death Difeovered, 6 ai Hh This is generally confeffed, That in i firlt Adam all dyed, and in the fe- md Man Adam ( Chrift the Lord ) all me to be made alive again: But how fankind comes out of this ftate of eath, in the firft Man Adam, into this ate of Life in the fecond Man Adam, that which the Wifdom of this World — ever knew, never faw, never under- ood, nor comprehended truly or right- +; Man by that Ws/dom hath only ima- ined and conceived fornething in the arnal Mind concerning this great My- ery, and therein hath fet up many aventions of the Way of Life and Sale ation: And into thefe many Ways of ere; but the Day is dawned, and ap- ating, and now breaking forth more md more (Magnified and Praifed be he Name of the Infinite, Almighty pod) wherein all invented Ways, fet p in the Wil and Wi/dom of Man, that F Earthly, Senfual and Devilifo, {hall lome toan End. wit hain And. \ 4 il }! f. = an’s Inventions and Imaginations. (fer _ p in the fallen Wifdom of Man) there~ -— ave been the ieveral Calls, Lo here, lo’ 62: The Wey of Li fe Re ie | WE cree in the Name of the God, all the graven Images, the “of Men’s Hands, ay hly Wik Shall be broken to | = ae i Hofts hath fake} it, W ho willepe it by the Might of his ie Strength of his Power.» a And therefore, Tremble, Tre been aaa and enef the Way of Life and eg fallen PVifdoms and corrupt Wills, have made Gods thereof, ve Icn, bowed down to, 7 them; io that it may be faid oft frendom ( fo called ) as it was ong of Yet, As are thy Cities, fo are thy O Ifrael! But now’ is the Fulnefg of come and coming, wherein the Ant Wa of Holinefs (in which the Righ ous walked through all Ages and inerattons ) is caft up, manifeft and nifelting; which Way is Chrift J (the Gift of the Fathers Love unt Sonsand Daughters of Men) whe f ae | Se ee es 4 oh ‘And the Way of Death Difcovered. 63 ngers, Prophets and Apoftles, under veral Denominations and Appellations, cording as he was pleafed to manifeft mfelf in and to them, and as his Spi- pote Appellations, he hath been de- ured a Prieft for ever, after the Order ! Melchizedeck ; the. Rock that followed frael, who was in the’Church in the . Vildernefs ; 2 King, 4 Law-giver ; Won- ful, Counfelor ; Prince of Peace; 4 ranch, a Light, to lighten the Gentiles ; ve Arm of God?s Salvation; a Covenant ; wa; the Hora of Gods Anointed; a tone of Stumbling ; a Foundation laid in ion; the Corzer-ftone ; the Word of God; Wrue Light, that lighteth every Man that ymeth into the World; the Trath; the i ya and the Life; King of Kings ; Lord fords; Chrift; Emmanuel, Fefus; the | nefs 5 , iF | } - : before-mentioned, been preached up. - ‘declared of by his Servants, Mef-’ ’ eave them Utterance: Amongft ma- ~ Teffiah ; a Leader; a Commander; aCap-» . rete Oe, WEA: i he Word that was in the Beginning 3° BE Segénning of the @reation of God;. the Vorfi-born of every Creature; the Firfis gotten from the Dead; the Faithful Wi- a : 64. th Waef “ ble God, the Off-Ipring of David ¢ T R thefe,, rh fay, and o set Names : _. declared of, and by, who ra a aa and wrote. she Holy Everlafting God, is he pre mA Servant, to raife up the Tribes of T and to preferve the Reftored of Urael . , Hien unto che Ends e he Earth ; nefs; Alpha and’ Omega ; a: Morning-Star ; the Image oft nominations, hath he been {po Name that no Man knoweth but felf, who is that One Eternal Fout of Bleffednefs, and the One preciou: viour ; and there is no other be him, altho’ diverfly. denominated, cording as his Spiric gave Utte to demonftrate him fo thofe + whom his Servants fpake, ' prop he And now, by the Ancient Powe ed up, under the Denominatior LIGHT, in this Iland of the Ger according as was prophefied of Ol Ifaiah, chap. 49. veri. 6. who faid, it a light Thing that thou foouldft b o ‘will alfo give thee for a Light to - Gentiles, that thou may t be my § e ee wo PN ” ; wens Paes e's ie Rak Ind the Way of Death Difcoverd. 63 1e wit hthe Teftimony of John, chap. — ing, In the Beginning was the Word, theWord waswith God; and theWord God ; the = was! in the Beginning God; all things were made by himy and iat him was not any thing made that was 05 In himwas Life, and the Life [mark] the Light of Men; and the Light {bineth Darkine|s, and the Darkuefs comprehens ‘it not. There was a Man fet from , whofe Name was John; she fame for a Witnefs, to bear Witnefs of the * it, that all thro” bim might believe: He not thar Light, but was feat to bear nefs of that Light that was the trae ! : ery aiener very: Mage tlh 5 into the World, &c. And to this es the Teftimony of Juft Simeon, ) came by the Spirit into the Tem: }and took the Child Jefus into his. is, and faid, Lord, now lettef? thou ‘Servant depart in Peace, according to Word; for my Eyes have_feen thy Salm jon, which thou haft prepared before the | of all People, a Light to lighten the piles, and theGlory of thy People Ifrael. sis he¢of whom we Teftifie, whofe oe a »< Lighee ¥ > f- tia) ANS Bee” ae ‘eh ‘ wish 66» The Way of Li . Light is the Way t the Condemnation, that the World, and. than Light, becaufe their Deeds ar - . every’ one [mark] that doth Evi Light, neither cometh to the Lig Deeds fhould-be reproved; but h Trath cometh to the Light, may be made manifest that ; inGod. > 1. Now this Light, which the Ser of the Moft High teftified of, . is _ which hath been fpoken of and de nated under feveral Names; For Maniteftation of God in Man is times called the- Word, the Spiri Law, the Grace of God; noy Word, Light, Grace, Law, Spit , all one in Nature, although di _ Named: Mofes called it the Wore directed to this Word in the Heat in the Mouth; which Pau (thati mated Man ) rehearfing, faith, Say thy Heart (mark] Who fhall afce _ Heaven (that is tobring Chrift down] bove ) or who fhall defcend into the De ¥ _ 48, to bring Chrift up from the : Ded & ° , ‘ i “Aad the Wey of Death Difcovrred gg bat faith it? The Word is nigh thee, even thy Month, andin thy Heart; that is, the rd of Faith that we preach. This is + at fhineth ina dark place, until the Day wn, and the Day-ftar arifein the Heart. This Light is the Law of the Spirit of fe, wherewith Pzu/ was acquainted, at warred in his Mind againft the Law Sin and Death (which was in his Mem- ts) This Light is the Law inthe cart, and the Spirit in the inward ter diretts to take heed, as unto a Light rts, the New Covenant of God Al.’ _ ; hty ; This is that which converts the 1; which Law Pzal delighted in ac- ‘ding to th@inward Man; This Law -ight, of which the Scriptures of Truth | ntifully wisi This is that Grace t Paal declared, brings Salvation, mich hath appeared to all Men; which Ww, Light, Spirit, Grace, Gift, hath meafutes, as Goa’s Talents, appeared to all Men, which teacheth all that led, taught and guided by it, to deny. Ungodline/s and Worldly Lufs; and only fo, but alfo, F } 2 i » tee es ideas Word of Prophecy unto which . -e to live Soberly, he 7 which the fame Apoftle faid unto 68 The Wey of Life Re hy ly'and Righteoufly in this prefent We This is that Grace which the Lord) Giver thereof ) faid to Paal, was fa ent for him to deliver him from the T: tation (the Thorn in the Flefh) Ephefians, By Grace ye are faved, Cc. this is the Manifeftation of the St ({poken of by Paul ) which is give every Man to profit withal. And th that good Spirit of theLord given tol} -who rebelled againft it, asthe old W did, unto whom the Lord faid, My {hall not alwayes ftrive with Man; of w Word, Law, Light, Grace and § given to be the Leader and Guide Mankind out of Sin, c Darknefs ( into which whichis ready to arife, isan Obje fome (whofe Underftandings art Opened, whofe fearchings to cc hend, and Inquiries after the W Man’s Salvation ftand in that Wiig ee 2 = * dnd theWay of Death Difcovered 6g at isfrom below, and in the Willand safon of Man degenerated from the fe of God ) which is, Whether the eaching up this Word, Light, Lan, init and Grace of God maniteft within, hnot a Tendency to make Chrift Je- ; his Appearance in the Fiefh, his fferings, Death, Refurreétion and Af- afion to be Invalid ? Unto which I fwer, Nay ; Forafmuch as no Perfons er did,.do, or fhalt truly fee, difcern, yw, underftand’ or injoy the Benefit it Jefus his manifeftation in the eth, but as their Hearts. were, are or ull be opened, and Underftanding ~ uminated by the Light, which is a eafure of theDivine Fulnefs that dwelt yhim, and iS ‘communicated to, and iced invallImmortal Souls, as the Uni- Hal Love of God, extended in the ma of his Love tovall the Families ofthe Irth, as the Revealer and Difcoverer the Will of him from whofe Divine Mnefs it comes, and iffueth forth it H univerfally, for the Scripture thus tnefleth, that No Max kuoweth the patel adem fave the fpirit of « Mag > H er 3 4 ‘ea rf ‘ ¥ ee ay: Me W tate 70 The Way of Life Re Jeal which is in him even fo the tl khows tio Mad but the Spirit of God. a) ‘The Hearts of the Sews’ not b feafoned with-this Grace of God, : ais 1 norant of the Git of God, whiel Exernal Life, they neither difcerned, Ic nor received Chrift Jefus, when mani ed in that outward bodily Appeara but reje€ted him ; ‘notwithftanding | profefied Love, Honour and Regare the Prophets, and were in expeCtatie the Fulfilling their Prophecies of Coming of the Meffiah,. who in due { came, and yet.they did not receive! but inftead thereof Jet chemfelves ag, him, taking Counfel from time to: how they might flay him, shoug Words they profeft an’ earneft We for him: So in this Day, Age and neration, there are many, who by’ words do profefs they believe his Com in the Flefh and his Sufferings, De _ Refurrection. and Afcenfion 5 but having their Faith confifting in out Notions, and having no inward By _ ence of the End of his Coming, n the Virtue of his facia “3 Death, heWayof Death Difceovered 74 eGtion, @c. They are Enemies in ir Minds to his fecond Appearance, ‘coming without Sin unto Salvation: here is a Neceflity for all the Sons | Daughters of Men to come to, and y this Divine Spiritual Principle, sh is placed in their Confciences by ‘Living Eternal God, that thereby Eye which hath been blinded through ‘obedience ( by the God of the World) y be opened ; for, until thissin fome. afure be effcCted, the Myftery of inefs ( which is great ) can neither n nor underftood; and therefore ift faid, finding the Woman of ia Ignorant of him{elf ( who was aoe | great Mpftery, and the Gift xe Father’s Love ) If thou kneweft the of God, and who it 4s that faith apto Give me to drink, thou wouldft have of him, and he would bave given thee ing Water. TheT ravail in Spirit of the Meflengers ‘Servants of the moft High in Ages, t, was the fame as nowit is, viz.) To ee People from Darkne{s unto Light, p from the Power of Satan to the Power Te ae : i: 72 The nae Afcenfion; but rota all Peopl ) Truth it felf, and ftumble at the C A hath been to many Men a Sttae of ; . 1 g the Living God; "dioreb ‘con fh che Chrift ‘Jefus his Mar that bolle on Sufferings, Deat fur thereby, unto that w the Eyes of their « whereby they all come Condition and fpiricual ing, as to fee and know their Bi by that Appearance of the Sai of the World; for this we | te All are perfected yy that One Oferta Ib are fanttified, But here arifeth : a Objection by fome, who may c far as to own and confels, Tha is a Principle or Light in br : difcovereth Sin, and teacheth . Fuftly and Equally ( which fome ca rality) but, That this Light or Pr in Man is of a Saving Property, an Ana Nature and Quality of the Dein many for want of Underftandin deny, and fo are found Oppel ftone, which indeed. i in all ‘Way of Death difcovered. 73 of Offence, which Thou- ving themfelves up to be guided wn Wifdoms and. Prudence) yea, thofe accounted the Wife ailders, Profeffors of God and being ignorant of the Root and ring of David, have and yet do re- t this Corner-ftone. ce Now, for the fake of all who do or iy defire after the true and faving jowledge of Chrift Jefus, it-ison my irit yet further to open and manifeft = Nature and Property of this Principle d Light; whofe Fountain is the Eter- | Being, and Everlafting Ocean of ivine Fulnefs, and its Nature and Qua- y is one with this Fountain from which comes: ‘fobn teftified, In the Begin- ag was the Word, and the Word was with ,&c. Inhimwas Life, and the Life was Light of Men. Heallo teftified, That he snot thas Light, but came for aWitne/s,to witnels, that that was the True Light, ich lighteth every Man that cometh into a Chrift Jefus, the Word. 4 Vorld : fo the Original of this Light _ But MA iG 74 The Way of Life revealed, and the Light \which comes from Cli appears and’ other times we fay, th But fome may query thus, < E the Light ineveryMan? - Towhich I anfwer; Chrift dc pear by his Light in every N isin every Man; asis clearly demon ted from the Scriptures of Truth: a tho’ I account it unneceflary to An the Curious Inquiries of fuch, (1 fecking to know much, do nor Walk fwerable to what they know; ) yet for fake of fuch, whofe Underftanding: not opened, and yet.are inquiring Way to Sion, Ladd this Similitude ¢ Natural Sun is placed by the Creat lighten the Outward World, and doth tend from its Body a meafare of its L awd Natural Property, fbining om the and the Unjufty and fo doth daily give of that Vertue which is inherent tn tt When the Sunfbineth on aay Objett m foever, we fometimes fay, the Sun) the Sun; the Propriety of either of % manner of Expreffions, I fappofe, mon Queftion, for Light in that Appeavant feem, and Vertue is felt, penetratin a a lh ee ee ee ie ‘ : the Way of DeathDifcoverd. 75. é is Light and Heat is infeparable | the Falnefs ,; and notwithftanding it ) foineth ‘and difplays its Vertuous to, and over all the Earth and its ftants, yet its Body is not any way tions. And fo, I fay, that Chrift, Univerfal Fountain of Life, the Sun Righteoufnefs, the Ocean and Fulnefs piritual Light, Life and Vertue, ym whence is communicated a Mea- of his Nature, Property and Qua- ) ‘is given of the Father, to enligh- all the Sons and Daughters -of Men, 9 accordingly are all enlightened h his fpiritual Appearance , and tho’ - Appearance cannot be called the nefs, yet being a meafure of that nefs, it is one in Nature and Pro- ‘y with, and infeparable from the inefs; And tho’ through its Vertue, pis daily communicated unto the js of Men ( who waiting for the Ap- prance thereof, as for the Morning- ht, cannot live unto God without it) p dott he admit of no Diminution, i | Alteration our Natural Bodies sa ed or altered through Ages and Ge-" 76 The Way of Life divine Light, Life and tion, remain with him: And albe - Vail of Darknefs hath over-fhad Glory and Honour which belongs unto: _ Right Hand of the Father; infer | ance of : the Suz, There’ is the: Sut ; _ tural Bodies, every one having in Alteration or Change ; but a yao bh fhall, through every Age and | ef f the Hearts of fome, fo as wher give Teftimony unto the Univerla pearance of the San of Righteoufm the Hearts of all the Sons and ters of Men, they are ready to fay, aTeftimony leads to the diminifbing o as he is the Fuluefs, and fitting « from fuch our Teftimony, as if, w we teftifie to his Appearance in our A we exclude his Prefence ‘elfe-where: W Inference, I -fay,’ is as irrational § would be for any to conclude, “ becaufe we fay of the Shining and Aj The Sun there appears 5 therefore w clude the Being of the Sun elfe-where s its Vertue is communicated to our fute fome Enjoyment of the Vert Light of the Natural Sun, whic ive did cae ee. S24 ee ¥ oe ne 2 Way of Death Difcovered. 77. 1¢ Hye, even as the outward: Light to, or of the Natural Bo- and whofoever they are, whofe in- le Senfes are quickned by the influ- ag Vertue which proceeds from the nal Sun of Righteoufne/s, do there- fee and difcern, that thefe Things. according to the clear Manifeftation Fruth in their inward -Parts ; and n a true Senfe thereof, can of atruth , thiscertain Teftimony, That Chriff, - Lord, by bis holy quick’ning Spirit, y appeared in them, to the quick’ning’ heir Immortal Souls ; and that thro’ ieving in the Light, and Obedience to — Appearance, being come out of that re which is reprobated by the Lord, ‘of certain experimental Knowledge , Chrift is in us the Hope of Glory. And fo, when we dire€t People to 5 Word, Light, Law, Grace and Spirit, (do not thereby intend, that Chrift ius, the Light of the World, and Gift tod, is not the true Saviour, Redeemer | Reconciler.of Mankind unto God. Jow this Word, Light, Law, Grace H Spirit (which is One in Names . ot ig ie doth lead and guide the Soaftan -rits of all fuch as obey it, up te - Light of the Lord alone Mancom True. ~ unto Mankind ) they are led tk _ out of Darknefs, wherein they ‘been, while yet the Light fhone ink 18 | TheWayaf Life the Fountain, from whom 1 and no Man comes to fee its . but fuch who are led by it; fort fee Light, and to have an Underfta from whence it fprings : Before t fully feen or underftood, the Mind: mult be brought down, ‘out of ; own Willings and Runnings, Coj hendings and Searchings, into the ciple of Light, therein to fee a | to his own Will, and be compreh into this Light ; and fo Man co have an Underftanding to knovy that is True, and to be in himt Now, as any are convinced of, converted by this Heavenly Pen (which is placed. in the Confe a there given to be a Guide an me(s, in which Darknefs no comprehended this Light or H f 19 , which fometimes moves through irknefs, on the depth of Man’s of Death difeovered. Darknefs, caufing Man to hear its | ftill Voice, moving in Man God- ds; and fo daily continues without ange, reproving Man whil’ft he re-_ ins in Rebellion and Difobedience, all time of his Vifitation, and approving © | giving Peace unto Man, whenhe is | ' sdient. é his Principle of Light remains intire its own Purity; and altho’ Man may nge, anid alter, and go from it, and el againft it, and thereby becomeone them of whom Sod fpeaks, thatRe- againft the Light, and thereby know ‘the way of it ; but give way to the king of the God of the World, to be we out into the fading perifbing things’: t this Principle remains Immutable it felf, being of and fromthe Immu- le Unchangeable Being, and remains th Man until it be taken from ~ mM, and he be caft into utter Dark- } 1 The 80 The Wo of Lif R vealed, The firft Operation of this Heave Light amongft thofe who COI by, and turn’d to it, the ¢ Fathey ¢ which Chit J le us rable to the Jews, comp: to.aG of Muaftard-eed; and toa Ute Le which a Woman took and hid im, Meafures of Meal, anil the whole | rs ” be leavened } is, to ‘thew Man, his ward State and Condition 5. and the: Step in the Way of Life is, to bet ed to this Holy Principle, that teac the Obedient to. know God faving and when by this Principle Man e¢ to have a true Sight and Senfe of fallef” Eftate, and fees how he~ tranfereffed againft that Eternal E that gave him Life and Breath (; notwithftanding his Long-Suffering,* eth long to be Gracious, and knoe! el the Door of the Heart, and hath fl by his divine Light ) the true Sighi Senfe hereof will break the Heart, tender the Spirit before the. ‘h, under the weighty Senfe of th J Burthen of Sin and Iniquity, there be a crying out, My Sins Oh rep tnd the Wa) of Death Difcovered $y for me to bear, and mine Iniquities ome over mine Head; as Paul did, _ Oh wretched Man that I am! who deliver me from the Body of this /? And here comes the Eye to ened that feeth him, whom Man, Difobedience, hath pierced afrefh, ut to open Shame; and then there e Days of Mourning and Wailing, fe of him; and this is truly the of Facob’s Trouble. And in the of this deplorable fallen Eftate, 1¢ Long-fuffering of the Lord, and mng-ftriving of his Spirit, thou wilt hat in the Juftice of God, Erernai might be thy Portion ; but that 1 brings into this Senfe, begets a Cry in the Immortal Soul, after verer and Saviour, and will alfo itrue Senfe and Sight, That ‘there ay for thy Soul to be ranfomed, but through the tender Mercies of the efus Chrift; which thou wilt fee other way be effectually begun =, but in the Way of the! Judg- of the Lord; For ’tis through - mt that Zion is Redeemed, and “a G her te -ceafeth any further from Sin, br - and is, That all Men might be 3 Su | Power, whic all in this afinder of thy Inamortal So £0 felf with the famieepeeene | i fuffer inthe Flefh the Crucifyi Affe€tions and Lufts thereof 54 the End of the Gofpel’s s Preack to be known and witneffed, wi “Men in the Flefh, that fo they» “according +o God inthe Spirit : Au {piritual inward Senfe and Exe r Lord God: Almighty will bow Ear, and anfwer the Cryes of th kened Soul, and manifeft his ] age will know to be Shs | two-edged Sword, piercing, t Spit and Nature a ‘Prat Aud the Wy of Death difeovered. 8 orking daily (as Subje&tion' and tence is yielded unto it) dividing mak Marrow, giving thee daily a difcern- of the Thoughts and Incents of thy nd as the Soul, Mind and Heart 3 up in Love to God, freely to fol- him in the Way of his Judgments, gives up to the Sword of the Lord, which 15 for the Sword ; and that is for Deftruttion, to be Deftroyed 3 will the precious Work of the Lord ger. And altho’ this be a Time of m, and a Time of Trouble, Travail Anguif; yet, notwithftanding, it a Day: Therefore ftrive not to be true Godly Sorrow worketh the true uance, which is ever to be repented And after the zrue Repentance, fole ithe trae Kzowleage of Remiffion and wenefs; and fo thy Iniquities, by udgments of the Lord God Al- ree ithe Times of Refrefhment come Perper et - Ge from mg &@ Separation between Foynts ° rom under it, neither to make hafte 5 ty, come to be blotted our; and ae < = : fom the Pe i of his Powe Reign over all. _ And as there is a ay al é which the Tesi aE the \ God. was known, tl ere will e ing on from Step to Step in the fteps of the Flock of Chrift Jel a growing from Strength to St ( over Sin and the Nature a o! and. as there is a faithful Per aI in this divine Principle, the Eye Underftanding will be fingle ; 4 every Thing which hath or de will be feen, and the Soul nev afide from an inward Travail, u which hindreth be taken out of t and until thou feeft all” fie. R Authority of the Ene be under the Feet gf the Lord and the Government in the Sc ‘his Shoulders, whofe Rig M Ane ‘iil y y Death Difeovered 8s 3 id here Salvation, Redemption and ratio 1 is effeGtually injoyed, thro? , and the effectwal Working and Ope- of the Almighty Power and Arm a Almighty, unto whom ‘be the. y of his own Work for ever 3 and re will be a growing and increafing, there isa coming into that precious ad Tass, in which Man was.be- e fell, | il AP a * By- “paths, Grooked-Ways, Wiles d Snares Bi: the Enemy Dif- yered. Ow when the Mind is turned to a this Divine Heavenly Principle, hat therein the Work of the Lord ‘un ( which before i is faid, 1s the ing Man into a real fenfi ible Know- a State and Condition) then the fame Deffroyer, that brought into. Bondage at firft, and hath nim in dau begin to work Ws G3 - cunningly, Entrance, aid will a sya {uitable to OEY or ia iD of the Creature. ‘ad down under the mse aa quity, the Sins committed com order, and the many Tranfgreffi fight, through which the Sorro Bitternefs is great, here the Enen work in his Transforg ines anc in Appearance like the’ igh i Nature contrary thereto: For, the Light and Appearance of Ge the certain Underltanding of the State, and brings Sortow becaufe - and fhews. the Mountain of Im and the exalted Hills of Tranf _ yet its Workingstinwardly bege ee Hope of Overcoming by the Strength; but then the Enemy “he feeth the Soul bowed down, faid, oftentimes AffliGteth, a and | down the Mia into Unbelief 0 MEME care Se OM And the Way of Deathrevealed 89 j on Rng rueroby endeavouring to~ — 3 ¢ Soa! down into Defpair 5 know- he Overcomes, he {till keeps un- is Power, altho’ in another Ap- ncé ; ‘but all that are exercifed in kind, waiting on the Lord fingly, the Mind ftay’d in the Light, Snare will be difcovered ; forj'as I Altho? the true Appearance of Goa’s venly Light and Grace brings a Day rouble, Sorrow and Anguifh; yet that ow is mot a Sorrow without Hope; the Enemy’s Working is, to bring a Sorrow, Trouble and Anguifo with- Hope, and to draw down the Spirit “the Chambers of Darknefs, where e is no Order. © ut now, when the Enemy of the Ps Peace is difcovered in this his tking, and the Heart and Soul, thro’ [Love and Power of God, iscom- , ,incouraged and refrefhed, andrai- _ lp into ameafure of theliving Hope, = |sfa€tion and ‘Content ; then theold, = pked, fubtil Serpent, endeavours to 1 from off the. inward daily Travail, it fo Judgment may not be brought bi G4 3 s * forth _ forth into Vidtory y3 ; and fo.dr Mind into a Falfe Perfwafion ence and Diligence, whenas t t an abiding in that which g “Sight and Senfe of the State ; D dition: And_as before he wor d deftroyed the Hope that-is an At fure and ftedfaft, fo now on the hand, he would beget a Falfe 1 Hop Confidence, and fo bring out O} daily Crofs, through which the N which hath alienated Cy God, f be deftroyed. F And if the Workings of the Enet feen and overcome in both thefe ’ q and Snares, on the Right hand ai the Left, and that the Work profp _ even until much be fubjeCted, and (through the daily | meer tc Heavenly Power) much is flain; that the Heart and Mind comes . a meafure to be cleanfed, and that in Obedience and conftant Faithfulne _ this Light of Righteoufnefs, a good grefs is made through the Admunifte of Condemnation ( that is Gloriox us, time ) and that pac off ‘pu re } Sed ‘ igre: PP + ~~.) * . me: And the Way of DeathDifcoverd. 89 | Heavenly Joy fprings and arifes in — Heart and Soul; here again the smy will be fubtilly at work, to be- y and lead afide, in perf{wading to fit vn now, asif all were donz; and fo 1 out from thé feeding on the Tree of ¢, to feed on the Tree of Knowledge Good and Evil: And fo lead ont into siberty to break the Commandment the Lord; and here at firft fubtilly | cunningly draws the Mind out far as to take a little Liberty, and ws the Mind fomewhat from that. gent Watchfulnefs, Dread, Fear and fe it was in before in the Inward Tra- l of Spirit: And here, if the deftroy- fubtil Enemy can but prevail a little will lead out of the Innocent Harmlefs ¢, and fo gradually lead a little forth, | fo by degrees opencth an Bye that y, fee fomething in the outward vifible ngs, that may fomewhat affeét the id; and as here he prevails, and feth his Work to profper ( which }doth fubtilly, gradually and hidden- ) the Hye that was open’d comes a- im, through difobedience, to be in | fome . 90 The wa of Life Rev: re meafure blinded ; na ‘and. here Lot | fuftained, even before the Unwate is aware. And fo iy 2 of Enemy firft is, to caufe fuch to make § wrack of Faith in a little meafare ; Sy the not to have the daily Belief to: fant _ the Power; the daily Injoyment of wh coming to be left by degrees, there then be a Turning from the Power Godlinefs, into the Form thereof: 4 although at fometimes the Eternal Po of the Lord God may be felt in Eftate, yet there being not a daily. ing after it, the Injoyment thereof to true Refrefhment and Confolati comes to be loft, and an Image com« in its place; and the Enem prox and prefents fome Object or Objects. take up the Mind, as that by deg he may enter in, and defile the and draw it out from its true Guid d as alfo to make Sa: of a 4 Confcience. we r, And now, if the Enemy be di cov in. thefe’ his Workings ( before h fo. effe&. his Work, as to bring De and: darknefs over again ) and that ) Tare Se het Ae TN fore. OD Sa * ae ee 0) fy ya bin LI RE al aan ea " eh x “And theWay of Death difcovred, gt wer of the ‘Lord breaks his Snares, d gives a true weighty Senfe thereof _ hrough which Trouble and Anguifh Spirit comes ) here he will again tranf- mn, and begin to work, .as in the ‘bee ining of the Work, like the Condemn- 1 Power of the Lord, endeavouring te ead the Mind down into Defpair of er Recovering again into the Former ondition; and hereby endeavour to ~ aw the Mind tolook at him that hath ing, that fo the Remedy pure, te Tee eg contrite upright- ed Eftate, which he hath and doth fae H effect oe at) ‘* tilty, and that gradually ; h 5M _ the Sight, and. fo alluring i 98 The Wayf Lif Reveal yx effect through his Working gS an ftep hereunto is, to bri ftant, daily, fure Watchf ef caufing alittle Liberty to be taker carnal Mind and to the Flefh, al gradually, and (as it were uperce caufing fuch to take down (asi a Tafte, a certain Enjoyment of nefs therein, and thereby a litle dé more Liberty :_ fometimes his Beg are to draw out of Obedience i things that were required in’ ¢l of Small things; fometimes in Words out of Watchfulnefi, nu tobe as a Door-keeper in the Hou Lord, and fo the Enemy works | fuch-like things. to feem {mall different. things, thereby to {ca Offence of the Crofs in thofe t ceafe; and them. the Heart and WV forth to make -rovifion for the fulfil the Fedo ie either j Driaks, /, or fuch es w Trathi in 66 paft hath difcoy made manifeft, and bie 3 jo And theWay of Death difeovered. 9g eCrofs of Chriff ) hath croft, and in fure lead out of, into Watchfulnefs, ure Fear and holy Awe, not making ifion for the Flefh, in any refpect, to the Lufts thereof; but drawing reature in Practice, as wellas in s . ; | ple, into Plainnefs, and out of all tfluities, admitting of the Creature efrefh Nature, and not feed the ut'yet the Enemy works by degrees, lly and covertly to lead out of the pty of the Crofs of Chrift Fefus (the ¥ of God unto Salvation ) into the tty of the Flefh again, and hereby a little farther Entrance; and gh the Enemy be working to draw ithe Mind into a wrong Liberty (as - many Words in Dealings, in Commerce, — oeverfé, afd into the Love of the , and the Exemy may be contented fwith, yea, and many times the ir of God may be felt in fome meafure, h indeed works not in the Approve- > but to draw out of the Snare; but rod of the World having by this time n blinded the Eye, ‘and darkned the Ly ae Sle a Heart, «| 100 = The Way of Life Re veA led, ‘ Heart, and deceiv’d the Underftan days of tender Vifitations was bege and fo here, now there will be a gr high, fat and thick; and fuch w: the Operation of God's dividing * Extreams and Imaginations, and_ run-like) will kick, and turn agat ‘dividing Power of the mighty Gos fuch are beft contented with a Li and Image; for it. loves the 1 things in the Wifdom of the giftec that has loft his Way, through) from the Power, aot waiting con on all Occafions to be guided theret here is the étching Ear, and bt > ge 3d +7 ie (ee ™ -? , . . > a -- « Vr Fe ‘aes | - 2 the Way of Death Dilepwered ol hers to plea/? elf, to pleafe that, and old that, and here fezebelis fuffer’d ty ph eld; which Error crept into the rch of Thyatira and in all Ages they v Be nt fromthe broken, tender Eftate, ‘the Conditions before difcover’d, ‘and do both fuffer and nurture this ble, who muft be caft on the Bed “orments; and all her Childrén muft ‘illed with Death: And all the Work- ofthe Enemy (under every Difguife) flay that which was quickned, and in a Cont entednefs with an Out- wofelfion of the Way of Truth, Light Life of Chrift Fefus (the Power of per, Salvation ) whilf the Heart is erated and gone from the Lord, and mbraced other Lovers; and {fo in pro- bf time, where the Enemy thus pre- yhe leads again into.the World, from ace the Arm ofthe Lord oather’d ; be Latter-end of [uch ¢s indeed worfe the Beginning: For the Enemy having O make Shipwrack of Faith and of 1Confcience, the fecond Death comes | and fuch become twice dead, and nes as Salt mich has loftits Savour, bZu- and 102 and are good fort nothis forth, and tro als n a The Prefervation Oe f: sian.” Ways, iles, S ons of the Enemy, is ing ph Sincere tia and Grace of Go ich the daily tions and Mani ations if Gods Power, and Right Arm o " Salvati Prefervation, is hela the dailyA ance and Experience hereof, which Minds truly low, and Hearts fincerely wherein arifeth an inward Travail, ing, Breathing ana Panting after. and continual Injoyment as ‘be ife and bleffed rebng which alone venews “at mighty preferve al the Tat e wards to the End- . utto End, and final DeftrutTion rophefied, of all falfe Profeffions, pho have had their Rife in the Wight of Apoftacy. i ter the Glorious Breakings forth , of the Day of God amongft the againft that Appearance, both in his ruments ( by and through. which he td up Perfecution ) and alfo in thofe iftates, in whom he got an Entrance, meft the Churches, and has fo pre- ed, that Great has been that horrzble tht of Darknefs and Apoftacy, that hath a fome Hundreds of Years, in and ms the old fubtil Serpent, in his ma= yTransformings and Appearances, has ijbtily wrought, to alienate Man from kGod : Oh! the Ways and Inventions - have been by him fet up ( through ‘Workings in the Wifdom which is 0 below, which is earthly, fenfual n devilifh ) | J}. PSA) Wy x q he De id 4 OM, ftles, ec. the Enemy wrought migh- : + the Nations of the Earth ; in which under pretence of Religé- 104 »The Wajof Life R ous ledienees and 1 Worfbip 0 ip of Goa! V Rendin Tearing, Devouring, | ing, a Deftroying, has there be thefe many Hundred of Years abou ligion ?* Firft, the great red Dra Perfecution appeared to Devour the Child, and Deftroy the Woman, but were preferved ; then he made _ with the Remnant of her Seed, al ter came in another Appearance, | W Fohn {aw rife as a Beaft out of th who bad Seven Heads, and Ten F ‘and on his Horns, Cride= + and | De Heads, the Name “of Blafphemy 5 a of bis Heads. ada deadlyWound Sword, but this deadly Wound w i$ bealed « ; and all the World wondred ‘ the Beaft, faying, Who is like te And whois able to “make War wit And all on the Earth have and do: fhip the Beaft, whofe Names _ at written in the Book of the I ei Lamb, Slain from the Foundati on World : Ard after this, a fecond © appeared, that came out of the Earth this Beaft had two Horas like a Lam Spake like: a i And ee J | Dragon, like unto which this second 1 # fpake ; 3 and this Beaft that had Horas id ‘Lamb, caufed the Earth, “ana them » dwelt therein, to worfbip t the firft Beaft, @ deadly Wound was healed; and he fed all, both Small and Great, Rich 4 Poor, Free and Bond, to. receive 4 rk in their right Hed, or in their reheads. And here has been the’ uni- fal Working of the Power and Spirit Darknefs, that hath exalted himfelf, ing in the Temple of God, as God 1 Ruler. But ( bleffed Yorvever’ be > Name of the Almighty God) the. at red Dragon, and the Beaft that arofe tof the Sea, and the Beaf that arofe and fhall be manifeft : The Wifdom t is Pure and Peaceable, «numbers : Appearances: And the Judgment the great Whore is come and coming, lo rides upon the firft Beaft.; for now » Angel of God’s Prefence is come wn from Heaven, having'great Power, i10 a be a werk his Glory, I and nea sy Poi “hm 3 i ee =i > ea. | of Diath Mfeoved. 105 jess Power of the firj? Beaff, — d bis Power and Authority from t of the Earth, and My/tery Babylon, Va eee : 106) The te Wy ogo -the mighty. Cop is € Eat, utter’d y cations, and the Ki Egetd Earth committed Fornication with her, — the Merchants of the Earth are we Rich, ‘through the abundance ¢ Delicacies ; and the Voice i a rom. Heaven, Come out 4 ple, that ye be not Partakers of her > amd. that ye partake not of her Plag i for her Sins have reached unto. Hea er and God has remembred her Iniqui and now is the one Day dawning | the Earth, wherein her Plagues, Mc ing and Famine come, and fhe fha ‘ utterly burn’d with the Fire of ¢ , Jealoufie ; for frrong is the Lord G OME ii der, And now, in the Nan n Pek... epeekernal, ever-living, bleffed God, ~ -. Creator of all Things, I prophefie c perpetual Deftruction, and utter Deig . tion, of the Religions, Inventions, V 7 ae Preferi i ‘ions, J the Way of Death difcovered, 107 ss and Imitations, that have been _ ing up this many Hundreds of Years, | not by the eternal living Power of living God, nor Direétions, Lead- sand Guidings of his quickning Spi- of Life, that led and guided the Apo- sin their Day, Age and Generation 5 ot and Branch, Head and Tail, and, ‘whole Fabrick ofthe Babjlonifh — ilding fhall be utterly confumed, ra- 1 down and confounded for ever ; 1 all the Worfhippers of the Beaft d his Image, fhall drink of the Wine the Wrath of God, which is pour’d th, without Mixture, into the Cup of ;Indignation ; and thefe Worfhippers | all be Tormented, and have no Reft | ht nor Day, who Worfhip the Beaft d his Image, and whofoever receive the fey ark of his Name, ¢c. & PL ote i, pe: ~ Day, | and Barker and vive E Ones, upon the ot Profeffion, “who hav ving Senfe that was on Spirits Years ago, and are m0 the Living amongft the deac | Profefli and your Bread in defolate Places ; member the Days, Months and Y paft; call to mind the Days of ¥ Tendernefs, when the Light of Go ined on your, Tabernacle, that f “you faw your felves in Darknefs, 2 in Separation from the ‘njoymen your Creator; which Senfe broug _ Day of Mourning and bitter Lame tion on you, which was the Caulk _ Your Fafting, Praying, and earneft § after the Lord, with multitude ‘Sig , Groans and Tears, ' | Ws: to. pee at maa ois Ind the Wa of Death Difeovered. 109° meet together to pour forth your” Is in feeking the living God, for his - searance and Breaking forth by his nal Power, and for the Revealings sis Ancient Arm and Horn of Salva- |; And in that Day how did many you retire your felves into your Clo- , and fecret Places, to Mourn before ‘Lord? And how did your Cries, athings and Pantings after the Lord, vent the Morning- Watches? And in. t Day, was it not Subftance it felf t you fought after, even the Reveal- : ‘to feck after the Lord? ‘What was that gave you the Senfe of yourown vatd Conditions ? What was it that ide Sin appear exceeding finful? What. Kis it that you felt in your Minds that urd again the Law of Sin and Death | 2 Ss Oee -s i a, 110. . The Way of Life Re ) in your Members? What w in fome meafure et the Eye of Underftanding to fee Idolatry and _ perftition? What was it that wasd ing your Hearts out of the World, even made thofe Things of light eff in comparifon of that which your’ kened Souls fought after? What w that inwardly upheld you’ in Sufferi What was it that you retir’d your M unto, when the wicked raged as Waves of the Sea, when you were 1 ked for the Plainne/s of your Apparel, for your Strittne/s in your Families? member your many fignal Deliverar How did the Lord anfwer you in Day of your Tendernefs? What ¥ that exercifed you inwardly, movin every one of your particular Souls Spirits fot a Reformation? Was i the free Grace of God ? Wasit not Light which fhin’d on your Tabi cle? Did not this fhinein your Hi and move on your Spirits God-w _and began the inward Work of th in you? Why did you ftart afide f following on toward the Lord it tc be SS Rak Bel ae a | x ec , ar AndtheV gt © aye ag ended you? Why did you feek set from under the Judgment, before was brought forth into Vidtory? Be aken’d, and come back, you Profef- sof all forts, that have thus turned le for a thing of Nought, which has sd you to wander from one Moun- 1 of Profeffion to another, and from > exhalted Hill of Imaginations and . e . He wie he ’ rt | 7 ty of Death Difcovered. try is Fadgments, when alittleProw nceivings to another, until youhave nt all your Portion, and are in Na-- ¢ return’d to Babylon, the City of Con- jon, out of which the Lord God Al-— ghty thus calls you, Hajlen, hajten to ne furs and partake no longer with her her Sins, left ye partake with her of her agues, which are now haftening to come aher, and upon all that hall be found - f ber Borders. Open now your res, and behold where you mifs’d and ~ md afide, through which your foolifh sarts have been’and.are darkened ; for . e Enemy that goes about as a roaring yon, feeking. whom he may Devour, ought in you to turn you from this — 1c ummortal, Principle of the divine — ie Etror of the Scribes and Phari- was, when they were fecking and ing Juftification by the Works of aw, without the Righteoufnefs of d thus hias it been, that many have ‘the Grace of God into Wanton- r turn’d from the Grace of God, antonnefs ; fo that in a little how did many Profeflors grow vain, and ran with the very ane into the fame excefS of Riot, ted up inf the Flefh, and fo came uch in Shew, but little and light Ballance? And here, you Profe PS Mts La ° 16 | The Way of Li AK of all forts, that have. gon ditions and Performances, witho _Profeflion ; and when the Manifei _. the Mind out of the Ways, Spit _near to betray and deceive, by pc .. Ordinances of God aud Chrift : BR Br Vad fpiritual Appearance of Chrift.Jefus in, into 2 Profeflion of the Saint: Leadings and Guidings of the fam rit and Power, loft your Way, anc out from yourGuide, which woul Ted you up to the Subftance, Chi fus :* And Thoufands of ignoran ple have been’ led here, throug cunning Slights of Men, into an‘ of the Spirit of God (which is unto every Man to profit withal } ftirred in the Heart and Soul to Nature of the World, then the forming Enemy of Mankind ha and dire€ting People to run int Profeffion or the other, or take 1 outward Performance, or the oth dow, under the fpecious Pretence by the fubtil Enemy (that w of the Peoples being in the o * fhe pe ek r ( lndtheWayof Death Difcovéred 117 = ) ae atv yard Things, whilft that 1 ge his Place, Scat and Throne of Mankind ) has led Thou- Yafide out of the ftrait Way of a ‘lifbingh his drawing them — he true inward Guide ( the Grace A that brings Salvation, that has ap= | unto all Men) into the outward, ‘vations : And here the Fear of. ifands, towards God, is\ taught by Precepts of Men, who know not \eadings and Guidings of the Spirit ower of God; and fo haveheal’d furt of the Daughter of 47oz deceit- and have daubed with the untem- ~ |Mortar." id now, all you fcatter’d Ones upon parren’ Mountains of Profeffions, © fear, hear the Counfel and Call of ford: Turn you, ’Prodigals, who {pent your Portions, and loft much for Sincerity and ‘Tendernefs, and [ecret Enjoyment you had of the finwardly (Years ago) and who ~ Jong Seafon have endeavoured to fill - Bellies with Husks (and the Pro- eer te T's feflion ; 2.2 Kgs. aya hd 118 The Way of Life revealed: _ feffion of the Saints Enjo _ Heart earns on you, and for j Bowels turn’d; my Soulis down in the Senfe of » often my Heart is | with when I behold your Wanderings! down from Mountain to Mountain ing Reft, and finding none ( bul is polluted) and your Souls are | want of the fatnefs of God’s Hout you have\not the Enjoyment of 4 Sou! is even many times diftre’ you; God that made Heaven and bears me Record, whom. my Sou unto even Night and Day, to vi with an out-ftretched Arm:. Ret turn, unto that which will fhew that ever you have done, andt haften you to the Father’s Houfe, the Bread of Life is; and no longe your Money, precious Time, 4a bour, for that which is not th of Life, but a Profeffion, a ~ Bread, which cannot truly fatis rae Sis, haw yo | . Souls, leila pat ee eee nd the Way of Death Difcovered 119 | jd row, in the Name and Autho- and by the Motion of the Spirit e Eternal God, Behold! I found Trumpet of the Lord God Almigh- a your Ears; Prepare, prepare, to the Lord ebovah in the Valley ecifion; and all you who have any jernefs in your Hearts, and Breath- inwardly after the “Lord, amongit rofeffions (of what Name or De- imation foever) Come out, come out abylon, 2nd be you feparate ; touch ny longer the Unclean, that the "may receive you, who ftands rea- o receive all that come in Truth Righteoufnefs unto him; who now matk all that Mourn becaufe of \Sins of the People, which are t, and the Meafure thereof filling apace ; and the Day and Time ening, of the pouring out of Vials of the unmixt Fury and In- ation of God, who lives for ever ever: And therefore flee, flee for - if Lives, out of Sodom’s Nature, fick not in the Profeffion of he; et. Things ¥ aT — en, Things, neither the , ~ whilft the Ground « ‘thee in the narrow Way of I -Tendernefs ‘before {poken of ; lob fhall be the ” athering of } fands through the Nations, ‘ Ton 120. Tela UE did not, or doth not { g fror immediate Work of fod, and Operation of his Eternal Fower i Heart; but come down’: into the Spirit, and Gift of God in own Heart and Soul, which wil thy inward Fars are attentive ) | nal, in which thou fhould’ft x So coming here, you come to which moved in the Hearts of - ¢ Years fince ) God-wards, whic that which wrought many int walk, and be Faithful, and it lead to ‘the Fountain of Bleffe from which it came, and unto Horn of God’s Anointed ; and t Languages. and People ; and Mountain of the Lord’s Hou be exalted nae this. And the Way of Death Difeoverd. 125. Tryal, Tribulation and Anguifh) — ct Top of all the ‘Mote es. Se ; $0 the Lord God Almighty. (by the Arm of Strength } reach all Hearts _ that have any breathing, panting De- fires after him ( among ft all Profef- \ fions ) and pull many as Brands out of the, Fire. So breathes my Soul, who am a Traveller for the univerfal - Vifitation and Deliverance of the Seed _ of Jacob, aud raifed up to Prophefie of the Things which are come to pafs, and {ball be fulfilled in. their Time and ‘Seafon,. : Charles Marfhall. Ox _ the everlafting, everliving, Glorious Lt = - a yeJ vl : 122 *, a" reas a y x — On the 24thof the 5th Month, 16 as I lay in my Bed, waiting on Lord in the Morning Watch, univerfal Love of God I felt; abroad in my Heart, in which fpr the Counfel of God unto me write and fend [peedily a Wart unto all the Oppofers, Difpaa Mifreprefenters, Vilifiers, Wr. and Printers againft the fpir Appearance of the Son ip Gi Love, Chrift Fefus our Lord, | O35 Ear you. that are found in Pra@tices above mentioned, 1 the Counfel and Warning, which fi God Almichty is founded forth unto? Your cnccavours (in the above-rm tioned Practices) arg an Abominal ee i rx), : a Ai i ~ is re en ee ‘faa A fa ban: wae | A Warning to Oppofers, &c. 123 ‘tothe Lord God eternal ; and his:holy irit is grieved by you: And heis great- offended with you, for laying ftumbl- g Blocks in the way of the People, ading them into Prejudice againft chat _ hich neither you, nor they who are ejudic’d, have prov’d, namely the Géft his Grace, which he hath and doth ufe to appear unto all)Men; and his aly end therein, is, to bring Salvation their Immortal Souls: And it doth- et that bleffed Work in all that receive and are taught by it, as it did for i Ephefians, unto whom, Paul faid, By race are ye (aved, againft which Spirit of race ye have done defpightfully in your ifreprefenting of it unto the People, for which God Almighty is angry with pu. .And now, in-his Name, and in ad by the Authority of his Living, florious, Heavenly Divine Power, in tnder’ Love to your Immortal Souls, I yarn you, that you proceed no further in (poufing the Enemies Caufe againft the piritual Appearance, Coming, and in- ard Manileftation of God’s Heavenly ift, Light, Law, Grace and Spirit, i, | = A which | oe sa Se ae 2 ard ‘ , , perverfe Things you have written} al AP ay a si ee 124 AW earning toOppofer. . Hearts, his profitable Talents for th _ his Spirit for them to profit witha ‘will fuffer others. . 4 Pe | ae which untothe Univerfality of Mankit as his univerfal Love through and_ Chrift fefus our Lord, is given, © Heavenly Light to lighten their d to improve, his Grace to feafon the which in and by your dark Concepti and Imaginations, you have withite and have endeavoured (as much as you lyes) totake away this Key of Kno ledge; and neither will prove, nor h it-your felves, nor enter into the Obé ence of it: neither, as much as in you The Lord God hath beheld your W and Works herein, from the Habitati ofhis Glory; and warns you to bow u the Meafure of his Light and Gift Grace in yourown Confciences, throu which you will then have an inwa Senfe of what you have done, and of t hard Speeches you have fpoken, 4 fo come into unfeigned Repentance, ai declare, you are afhamed of youre fing his Work through your Tsuda le eae . } ‘AW earning to Oppofers, &c. = 125 it, in this latter Age of the World, ich he will carry on by the Might of own Arm, and Strength of his own wer; and in this Senfe give forth a ftimony againft your felves, and for {piritual Appearance of Chrift Jefus, 1 {piritual Worfhip of God Almighty: id this Ifay unto you, in the Love of d, is the Way for you tofind Mercy. it if you fhall continue endeavouring to: kk againft the Pricks, and fo perfift in — s evil Way before mentioned, and go ftubbornly and rebellioufly, as you ye done, know affuredly, that the erlafting Arm and Strength of the. dof Facob fhall break your Bow; and r Strength God will take away, and your Glory into fhame, and you into {curity and Tribulation: Anguifh, “row and. Amazement {hall take hold ou, and you fhall dry up and wither, your Name fhall Rot, and be abomi- le to the fucceeding Generations : God, if youreturn not from this the il of your Ways: And in the Day of fulilling hereof, you fhall confefs | there 7 is thall you have from the Hand of ~ | ie e. ey re (nats but by Men, you fhall want a hid Place; in which Day you fhall y -Bitternefs of Spirit remember what | ~ have done in thistime of the Ceafing o _ forbear; Tam clear of your Blood, ¥ 126. “A Waynig t0 Oppofe you would return from the Evil of y oi . 4 : an veer ma there is a God, in J/rael, who d thefe Things before they came t And in the Day of the fcattering Affemblies, gathered not by the Loy Meafure of Coertion. But, Oh! ¢ Waryesand Doings; that you might: Mercy ; for there isMercy with our G that he may be feared. And fo you are warned in the ten Love of God, whether you'will heat am a Lover of your Souls, and a Mour under the fenfe of your great Iniquity, . aes 2 é 125 ale Saree hse 4 Warning unto the Rulers and People of England, &c... N the tender Love of God, unto © whofe Ears the Mifreprefentations, ~ ifications or Afperfions underwritten, 7é or may come. Give Ear, and hear, you Rulers and Inhabitants of thefe rthern. Iflands: God Almighty, even God of Abraham Ifaac and Facob, in slatter Age of the World is rifen and fing, and caufing his Ancient Horn of vation to be revealed; of whom all’ : holy Men,. Prophets and Servants of ~ d gave Teftimony, through Ages and nerations, to be that Holy One, on 10m he hath laid Help, who is mighty fave, Chrift Jefus the Lord; of whofe ritual Appearance and Coming, we 2 Witneffes this Day; and by the m of his Eternal Power are raifed. up declare him unto thefe Northern-Iflands the Gentiles, as their Light to lighten em, according’ to the Prophets Tefti- _ ony of foha, Old Simeon, Chrilt Jelus, the oor c » CN ae ae 128 A Warning. o Oppfers, &c. the’ > yg and — a born, both by» Word and Writi: we again{ft which holy, certain Teftimor -. Menof the Spirit of ‘fannes and Fam Men of corrupt Minds, have rifen uy withftand, and by Lyes,-Slanders J reprefentings, @c. Have endeavou _ their utmoft to vail and cloud this Te ti to blaft, becaufe in their right Hand h been found a Lye, and the Poifor Afps is under their Tongues, to repro; vilifie, and mifreprefent the Servantsé - People of God, under hideous and odi _ -Difguifes, that they might thereby bs much. asin them lies ) effeé&t fuch a wi * asthe old Heathens did onthe Chrifti "4 hamely, by putting Lyons Skins 4 Bears Skins on them, that thereby ¢ might caufe the Dogs to take hold | them: So hath there been an endeavoul ogee se > A Warning to Oppofers, &c. 129 Day, to mifreprefent the Servants People of the Lord, as Denyers of | tion by Jefus Chrift ;\ making Birth in Bethlehem of Fudea, . his ails, Sufferings, Blood, Death, rection and Afcenfion of no value ; ers of the Scriptures of Truth ; and id thereof, preaching up Salvation critorious Works of our own; and ort, reprefenting us as Enemies to ftianity: Concerning which ‘char- and every particular of them, full, and. demonftrative Anfwers have and are given, unto which I refer. Matified Perfons. That which lies’ y Spirit at this time, is, to declare > Prefence, Name and Powerof the lafting God, that thefe things {poken written of us, are as falfe as the lations -of the Pharifees concerning t Jefus, and as falfeas the Accufati- fthe ews, concerning the Apoftles. For, firft, We declare to all Nations, ues and Languages, that we believe in me, Holy, Everlafting God. : We believe concerning him, that he Spirit 5 and concerning his Worfbip, | K that - honourable Recor 1394 WarningtoOrp that it is in Sp rit, “and, Spirit 3 We eli eve, preach, and ton in, o¥ by no oF sf | by an through him, of phets gave Feftimony, the “Apope p the primitive Saints asia ms namely, malt us Chrift. % declare we are Hod or peut any ig flee ae , viz. the Script _ Trath, that we are often greatly b } tended in Spirit, in the Senfe of 1 cy and Love of our God ; that ) et icked have been fu uffered. to | De vevile and evilly.to reprefent the Wa and Salvation believed and pres them, and “i have. proceeded to, Bodies of the, Prophets of God, Ae ¢ fas our Lord, his A a 5 and “wants ; that yet fuc 1 be ‘unexpreffible Love, to pre Teftimontes unto our Age and. mn And now, ye Ri pen i“ thefe othe aa the - fal Love of the God of the Flefh, I warm you, fal : comes unto your i, of Us meee, our Faith and Belief in God, that and Equal for you to do, viz: to one Har for the Accufed, to he. Behgence and without Partialiggh let none be like thofe Ignoble People beffalonica, Who being moved with , refufed to bear the Apoftles Doctrine: elike thofe worthy Bereazs, whofe lity is recorded, becaufe they re- d the Word with all Readinefs of - 1, and fearched the Scriptures daily, > whether thofe things were fo or this is that, Oh ye Rulers and le, that may and will hinder you having groundlefs Prejudices a- t an Innocent People; and from ing on to perfecute them, having heard nor known their Principles. t from the Miéfeprefentation of 'S) This thing hath brought ‘an in- ortable Burthen on fome: Azd I am that the Uxfruitfulne/s of Coertiori any Meafure feen ; but forry that fome | Should make fo ill an Ufe of their Li- 5 43 t0 Hpprove it to calummuiate thofé | 2 ke 8 who _ = ble, as to do that which is ‘are come up before him ; and f fper, let none endeavour to hi 132 4 Warning to Oppofe who in Spirit are travailing after the J And this know, Oh England, a thy Rulers, for their Good and I underftand ;. There are Thoufa she Land of our Nativity, and \ thefe Dominions, that are the vi the Lord: For Godalmighty, is bowed down his Ear to the Cr {piritual- oppreffed I/rael, and fee Oppreffions thereof under the Thre of Sin and Iniquity, and their C 4 and Cryings for Deliverance (- of the Houfe of Bondage and Da: fake of the Poor, and Cry of the } that have no Helper onthe Barth God Almighty rifen, and isarifin making bear his Arm in the f fi the Nations, to carry s grea of deftroying Sin, and finifhing gteffion, and bringing in E yet Righteoufnefs. And therefore, as you defte Work of the Lord; forall ¢ ~ prefume fo to do, God's tery Rc. be aree them, and & ‘ ‘ A << ¢ io be oe a ae 4 y £.% ‘ 2 Rit ; he A Warning t0 Oppofers.8c. 133 be wonderful and-aftonifhing: .And t all the Prejudices and ill Refent- ‘s that have been received into the isofany People, through the Enmi- ad Ignorance of Men, be difpoffef- and hear for your felves; and try all , and hold faft that which is good ; orrgw comes on many daily, who received falfe Reports of an inao- People, and thereby have.been pre- d, fo as to {peak Evil of that Way have not known nor proved; for - Apoftle faid in that Age, fo can y, in the way accounted Herefie ome in our Age, as inthe Ages by- we worfhip God, believing what tren in the Law and the Prophets, f Chrift Jefus, by the Apoftles. — the Lord God Almighty in his cnfinite open the Underftandings of all that weathing Defires in their Souls after powledge of the Lord, rightly to ‘the flumbling Blocks; and to -fee removed, that the fubtil Enemy of nia, through his Inftruments, bath theWay: And God Almighty reach 4s Hand of Love, to gather thofe K 3 ai who es Ss ge ias gt: 334 AWarm ‘pho have ome D yet re led by the Gr the Living among the De on the barren Mountains 0 Lord apen their Under ta and bring them t Chrift eles, is th aTravailer in Body 4 cafts of Mirael, and Scatter they goay be gathered, rts a) ‘toe ,*% waded at of SION; , To Awaken England's Inhabitants , ane Into a Senfe of the Jerciesand J Lee ie OFTHE © a. OR D: . _Charles Marfball. et eee” Printed by T. co) me tus. RUMPET OF THE LORD sounded out of Sion, &e.~ Nive Ear, O you Inhabitants of this Ei Northern-Ifland of the Gentiles, o fate in Darknefs, and under the zion Of the Shadow of Death, in if and among{t whom is arifen a it. 30d Eternal, the Ancient of Days, 0 was from Everlafting, and is to lafting, hath in thefe latter Ages the World, firetched out the Anci- ‘Arm of his great Power, to gather 1¢ Inhabitants out of the broad Ways | | : a . 133. The Thubelh of tl he of Life Eternal ; and in lng! . Thoufands and Ten Thoufands j : lafting hath begun within thie of Deftru&tion, into the nat row | Accomplifhment of ind ‘rious Work, he at na ict ate. his ‘tual Trumpet to be founded, to aw ‘thine Inhabitants to ftand up and his Determination, which was af to overturn, lay wafte, confound, deftroy the Kingdom of Antichriff, to fet up and eftablifh the Kingde his Son Chrift Jefus, and to tra the Kingdom of Satan, into they | dom of his dear Son. This. Work, O England! ( God. whofe glorious, bright, {plendoriou is dawned over thee; magnified Name of the mighty God, thi hath overtook fome Thoatands | Inhabitants, through which they feen that grievous dark Night of ftacy, in which they wandered Mountain unto Hill of lifelefs Pr ons, {eeking the Living among the # and Food for their immortal Sot defolate Places ; but ‘found i It pdt : ‘ 3 fay ci \ Sounded out of Sion. 139 , glorious Lord God, of eternal ioht, cauled his Day ( which is ht ) to dawn, through which they e feen the Difpleafure of the Lord Hott againft Sin and Jniquity, and ‘out-fide Profeffions of Chriftianity, hich are void and remote from the ature thereof. — But, O England, England! inftead of ‘izing this unutterable Loving-Kind- fs of the Lord, in vifiting thine In- Wbitants with his Day-fpringing from a High ; Multitudes, both Profeffors id Profane, did reje&t, withftand and spofe the very firft Breakings forth d Dawnings of this Day of Love, ad wickedly and defpitefully treated je Lord’s Ambaffadors, that were fene . > publifh and proclaim the Glad-Ti- . ings of Life and Salvation; and both — tu ers, Priefts and People withftood, ls much as in them lay, the Lord a bis fpiricual Appearance, and put | hes. and Thorns (as fome did in ss by-paft) in Battle againft the Lord ; but after he had given’ them a Day of tender Vifitation, ftretching . : iS sh gh RE ial ae. ¥ ot: Ve _. . his Hand all the es} long, whi = - hath caufed it to profper, and his! _the Righteous God requireth of th _ you are now in, How did the I vv é eae ae .f een ee) eee ane eS rays ~ we % ny i) te i 4 7 140 The Trampet of the yr on ‘God kin Fire in his Wrath, at vt Difpl the Power of its working ; thro whofe Overthrow and Abafing, he alted his Truth over their Power, renowned it over their Oppofition, | to dawn and appear more and mao through which, Light and Underfta ing have fo appeared and encrea that Thoufands have a Difcovery of w And now, O Inhabitants of Engl after your Settlement in this C ape itrive with you, ye Rulers and Peor Requiring you to do Juftly, love M cy, bring forth Juftice and Judgmel Truth and Righteouinets, eafe the € prefled, judge the Caufe of the I - lela iiat ca OO P=) SO a er cage. May Sounded out of Sion. t4r ¢; and in all Things bow before ‘Seafons before your Eyes, ‘pulling yn, and fetting up, which: was not ymplifhed by any Man or Men’s rht, Sword or Spear, that no Men ht have whereof to Glory; but ad before his Greatnefs, Almighti- 5, Wifdom and Juftice. ut, O ye Rulers, Prieftsand People! w foon were ye turned afide by the rit of Error, from taking notice of Goings of the Almighty, or soaker! gard to the Operation of his Hand : joyned hand in hand to do wicked- ‘to oppofe, gainfay and refift the unfel of the Lord, which abundantly s declared unto you, but ye rejected ck Evil, and commit Unrighteouf- $; and to many great Abominations ed this, namely, Cruelly in many ces to Perfecute and Imprifon. an in- sent People that feared the Lord, ading and trembling before him, ha- _ g a Regard to the Operation of his igh, who changed Times _ and with Greedinefs made hafte to. } ee HY yer + 14g the Teanga es r e. ~ arofe early, and fent unto you 5 and in his Mercy ftayed the Swor - fwered. the ardent Cries of h thofe your great Evils greatly difpl 3 Tt Gods yet in tender ‘many Warnings you Rul which Day the God of Mercy, an expreflible Compaffions, bowed ¢ his Ear to your Sighings, and hag gard to your Cries, which were } and great, whilft thofe dreadful St were upon you; and he was entre the Hand of the deftroying Angel, v was and is feen drawn over the City of Lozdon, and Inhabitants 6 land ! And the Lord God Almigh and People, which were in S unto him, To give you, O Inhabi a Day of Tryal, in Mercy, to fee: ther you would amend and. turn) the Evil of your Doings, and i Me Sere. eR) eee Feat Seen Be aie Sounded out of Siot. 143 fe of his Judgments and Mercies, be abled, through all your Families, in Duft before him: And in his Grace unfpeakable Mercies, hz hath given _a Time and’ Seafon, ye Rulers, fs and People, and a {mall Rem- t hath taken notice of the Hand of Almighty, and bowed before him the Senfe of his Judgments and Mer- , and have turned from the Evil of ir Doings unto the Lord; and by m the blefled End of the Lord is wered : But thefe are but a little mnant, to the many Thoufands of + Inhabitants: For thy Multitudes, England! in thy Cities, Towns and ages, Rulers, Pricfts and- People, . ve not had a true Regard, neither to » Judgments nor Mercies of the Lord, | t have proceeded from great Evils, : worfe, rufhing into Uncleannefs, De- uchery, and all Iniquity, as the Horfe ‘0 Battle, and drinking it up, as an « drinks Water. And now, O Inha- fants of Exgland ! lift up your Eyes, awakened into a Senfe, how in this hy of the Long-fuffering of the Lord, i re _and ° j — a es a. = a Judgments, ye have declared _ before him, and he is come down, ~ before ‘him like Sodom, ‘and — man _ Earth may arife to meet me in the _ of the sdie dy my Power and hes fom Shere confu like Sodom and Gomor: ee Almighty is greatly offend : and his Spirit that hath ‘ftrove: you long, is exceedingly grie ved ; Cries of your Tranfgreffions are hath viewed thy Cities, Towns and lages, O England! and behold they thy Inhabitants like Gomorrah, v etek ore God overthrew ; and = ‘Reve T ‘And: he’ Hath iaids 7 ‘o's / near to Fudgment, and haften my L mination, and accompli{D my Purpofe, the Earth may be moved at the ut of my Thunders, and the Inhabitan like a Cottage, that the Mi lighty by of my Fudgments 5 fo fon rom the rif the Sun, to the going dow fhall my Name be song Be f ss we ) land, England ! Awake, awake, of that Sleep of Death and Deftru- n, which the Deftroyer of Mankind ett Multitudes of thine Inha- mts into; and confider now thine ite, in this'Evening of the Day of ly thine Inhabitants for the ‘Snu tting over many, and Night com- on. apace, wherein no Man can TK. . am diftrefled.for thee, O dear Land my Nativity ! in the Senfe of the | ¢ Regard many of thine Inhabitants e of the Mercies and Judgments of Lord ; but yet be awakened at the ain Sound of the Trumpet of, the d, to confider the Things apper- g to your Everlafting Peace, and. ferious Confideration of the Times 3¢ afons that are over you, and where- yuare. . nd Tam moved. of the eternal holy 1 God to put you in Mind, that it not long fince a great Pear and d was on many, that the Lord Id fwittly, have brought that grie- s and fore Judgment of removing ) as is the ve ie se a a a at “Souncled out of Sion. 145 a ee _ Threatning Places (a fore manner of ‘wafting ple ) through which Multitudes o} tle died before your Eyes ; which fo far as to give feveral a tafte of dreadful Juid ment of Famine; v rought a Dread upo Minds of many: But the God of Mercies, who 1s full of Compaffior Long-fuffering, that he might try O Inhabitants of England ! immed and fignally appeared, in great unexpreflible Mercy; and infteac dreadful Famine, caufed the Ear bring forth by Handfuls AB’ DAN TLY. 3 7 Now, O rebellious Nation, ftif ed and. hard-hearted People! Be be inftructed, lift up your Eyes, 1 this Trial of Plenty; for fo it i clare it unto you in the Name: Lord God of Hofts, to prove % try you, whether the dreadful T nings of Judgment, and the {peed Extention of his Mercies, willimo to a ferious Examination Of your Souned out of Sion. 147 kings before the Lord ; Then i our great and conti- - $ On < one Hand, and the — Mercies of the ys | on the othes bear down, and bring you very 4 Std fhe Daft, ee rie Lord, ough which a repenting frame of Spirit dd come om you. . But now, O England, England! if nei- r the Mercies nor Judgments of the rd, which have been, and ate upon é, will prevail, fo as to work a Re- mation in thee; then, O People! rthefe words; Bein Expectation of reaaful Day, [ach as you have not known his Generation, to come on yous for Lord God, ftrong and mighty, will te through the Land, in great Dread Fury, bringing Terror, and the very Be- lings of Sorrows upon every County there~ and 4 general Calamity, wafting, con{ue ig, deftroying, and depopulating, andovere ming will go over: And therefore inthe me of themighty God,when this Mef- e comes to your Ears, lay afide all your pruments and Obje€ts of Joy and Mirth, La come. ents » 148 ‘The rie f fhe : dreadful God, all both High a 11 - and Debate, and all Thiquity, then ae Meafures, which greatly haftens, aed 2 unto your felves, and unto the Ni MG ‘which Day you foal know, That a come down in the Duft, | Rich and Poor, Bond and Free, } and Female, from him that fits | the Throne, to the a oa 1 Dunghil, and fpeedily Humble y felves before the Lord, Faft from Si proach and come neat, Cry mighti the Lord God of Sabbaths, shat i Spare you and your Land, from the a A ful Spoiler and Wafter; and Cove with the Lord to walk bi before hi Righteoufhefs, putting away all” Abominations from before his Eyes, ftumbling-block of your Iniquities ; may be the Lord may be yet entr otherwife remember this ‘fealed Co and Determination of the moft glorious, dreadful Lord God of He and Earth, When you have filled up jour Fudgments {ball be aftonifbing, of Old rejected and rebelled ag gain good Spirit of the Lord Shi i i ; s dal a ay; Sounded ont of Sion. = 14g nft the Counfel of the Lord given by Prophets and Servants, for Ain ing and dreadful con{uming Judgment on them, fo have ye : So be inftrud- jw down and kifs the Son, left his th break forth without Remedy, and sands perifh out of the Way ; ,and ye have a little time, prize it,\é ng the utmoft Ufe of it, is the breath= Cryes, and travelling in Spirit for jou, m who hath been, aud am often affli- and bowed in Spirit for you, who am want of the Lord, raifed upto declare rtain Counfel unto you. nat Charles Marfhal. ‘ton, in the ; nty of Wilts, 6th Month, L3 AN * r = a i ; . : ay \ se =, a Dear Friends, 5 ‘e . f , "FN the Heavenly Covenant c Be ‘Life, is the Salutation of - jn the Lord Jefus; unto yo - Love and Fear him in thefe | Being fenfible that God ik good feed amongft you, careful to receive it rightly 4 j iat 3 a “ > ee eae An Epifile to Friends, 163 i Fruit may appear, for tho’ tee i as of the Rich and I Vifitation of the Heavenly sr among you; if there be not a and right receiving the Seed; and der waiting for the watering | and Dew of Life, and its taking. in the honeft Heart, the Ceood ind) Thorns may grow up initead of, Therefore in the Fear and id of the great God, keep low, out of the Snares of the Enemy, € cates of this Life and the Deceit- fs of Riches; and I warn you in Nameof him who is the Dread of ons, let none defile that Land shich ye are Strangers. But Walk he way of Abraham, Ifaac and ,&c. And the Lord God will out Wonderful Bileflings upon | but if ye will not cleave unto with your whole Heart, and ‘him in Fear and Trembling, a good Savour may goe forth } you; Then will he bring his eous Judgments over you, ac- g to the Swittnefs of his goings Lae | F 4 in PA ae ‘before th Heathen, ‘fhall —* In whofe Love wal Fear Ey ‘Few lines unto you; Hop . be Watchful and Dilige * to Glorifie his Name, _ - God bleffed for ever. : oy) Your Tete Frien d, a %, ney idly sity P | 5 4 * hed y Bie). 4 f . gi ’ “ 7 f 2 i A. * Ne > a ; Oh ae ¥. ‘ ; ae Mee a a ge a Se af A N XHORTATION TO THE ue Quarterly, Monthly, And all other 3 a AEETINGS Set apart for the ae | ranfacting the Affairs of Trath. ‘Dearly Beloved Friends, q HIS Exhortation arifeth in my Heart, in the Motion of God’s nmortal Power and Spirit, unto all mcerned in the Meetings above-men- oned, That before you begin to fpeak to pe ' 154) An Eshort ation tot to the Matters that: fhall lie in all fuch Meetings, you all takea tle time to wait om the Lord, to” your Minds gathered and inwardly” tired into the heavenly Light of R teoufnefs, there to wait to feel the Spring of Wifdom, which is from abt that is Pure and Peaceable, in which ry one may fee and know their Pk in the Body ; and as every one is: h centred, all waiting in Brokennef Heart, and Contritenefs of Spirit, _ the Lord, the fenfual Wifdom be _ under Foot, and Self made of no R tation, but humbled to the very D of the Crofs, all feeking the Profpei and Welfare of the Body, in the Univerfal Spirit of Lifeand Love : T when’ a Matter is fpoken of, all ponderoufly weigh the Thing, in weighty heavenly peaceable Wifdom God; and as any Things therein ar pened, in the Underftanding, there be a pertinent {peaking to the) Mat and fuch {peaking will be Savoury § ‘one by one, as any Thing ig in Underftanding that may be helpf a , ~~ la J f i, dear Friends, _ yee ronal fuch Meetings are managed in meek Spirit of Chrift Jefus, ches chal ac of the World, you will all be re- and go away from all fuch orted, being leavened and by the Grace of God amongft 5 and here, as you return to your » Give Places again, . your = and Sifters, the Savour that come from the Meetings in, will ~ Strengthen, Comfort and Ea- your Brethren and Sifters of Me ings you belong unto. ae Friends, A as is not ae us to be led a ed, fg a to know their Places in the y (for every Member is not ani Bye, dand, or a Foot) there will béCon- ion: Andif the earthly fenfual Wit- aim the Rents, the 156. An Exhort tation to the contentious Paffio if this Bets up to ost 2 tee will follow ; and th ‘ sth the Lord is grieved, burthened, bowed down, and “dicontented » Leaven will work to rs And fo, dear . Friends, as the rig well-management ~ “of ‘thefe lee would unexpreflibly be potiableg Body in the general, fo the wron nagement cannot but caufe great f to the Body. The Lord God of F er, Wifdom and Strength, caule Matter pond’roufly to weigh on all He concerned herein, that fo the Lord | might have his Honour, and we all Comfort thereof. a ~ And, dear Friends, God is af M4 be Jealous for his Name, Glory Honour, : and will not give it toi ther; and nothing muft Rule in amongft the Lord’s People, but — Spirit of God, and thofe who- are § ded by that Spirie. oe, 4 And fo, Friends, having in fome m fure cleared my felf, in the Counfel the Lord, in this matter, det : fear dear Brother, iw the mcsfare of | the Grace of God recetved, "eat sgrh Ly SY am! that in its Beauty, Splendor, — Vv and unfpeakable Life, you may { c pee ‘ Bini Beginning i in one ie 1678, P 3 oo - Ah, or Dear Friends and Helene N the Habitation of Safety d the {weet Power of the 1 every Day more than other, partal and under the Conduct of ‘this, “ tp. your Generation, according tc Will, and let not the Enemy’s Power of Confufi ion hyp nor i es tt ee Fo: Ble to the Mostly Deering. 159 id - over it Live and Walk, and . Oe d upon the High-places of the ‘in the meck Spirit of the Lamb, Jefus, who will break the Horns, Power of the firft Beaft, and gives 'fweet Dominion over the, Power tks and Workings; in this keep “Meeting, -and the Lord God Al- ea with you, and go along n one of you to your'refpe- e Habitations ; in whofe Love this ae fprang, to fend amongft you, Who am your tender Brother in the * ogclacs of Life ane Salvation, Charles Marfhall. 4 _is like a Lamb, that exercifeth . Datknefs, and all its Unrighteous — being diftrefled in the Sight and’ _ I was drawn to retire into a Lo Se ee a . vee : ; P ~** A VISIO! a ORS Charles Marfha Seen in thé 6th Month, 1 ie h Eing greatly bowed down rit, in the Fellowfhip of the ing of the feed of Facob, and my of its diftrefs, and Languifhing Field, where I fpent fome pat ‘ Day in great Sorrow and Dif efs Mourning before the Lord, uni Spirit funk into a depth I eyond words to €, ih thi ed “ . 4 a arGo ‘fon yf C. Marfhals, &c. 164 held inan Invifible manner a great ‘efel like unto a greatShip; 1 it, and there was many People , fome of which I knew well. It of the Veffel that it never prof- in any Age; and J beheld ‘the Veffel with Sailes came againft sat Invifible Rock, and {mote at it, with its Surging againtt it,the Veflel fhaken and feveral were afraid, faw their Danger, and leaped our, hich I was glad ; after this I faw the uinder of the People, more refolute, came with great force with their € up to {mite at the Rock, and I in great forrow, in the fight there- on a fudden I faw it furge or {mite, i and again, until at laft it gave a ty Crack and {fplit, and dreadful zing Surprifing Fear came on the ple therein, and many Cryed out adfully, at which I cryed alfo, and ; Joynts were as unloofed, and I put that were on the Rock which the ae {mote againft; and fome got out he baa a with much a doe : ws - 7 coe lag led exceedingly, alfo feveral cry- — 162 AVifion of Ci Marthals, &e - crept up to the Rock, and I: aie pafsalong with Palenefs of Face, 1 company on the Rock and'tak og the hindmoft ofall, and when they there, a Hymn of Praifes in great ednefs down, and breakings of in thofe that ftood on the Rock, to the Rock, of Salvation and LE rance. »And there followed an oj what the Veffel was, the Peop. Sayles, the Water, the Rock: A Lord faid the Travails of my Trai Ones is pretious in my fight, co into my Bofome of fweetnefs, — there and be refrefhed; for the nefs, and Glory of my Power fh over all; my Travailing Servant {ee it and bow before me, in the fillings of my Life; then I arof off the Ground, and was moved into my Houfe to write the Vifion I could fcarcely doe legibly, bee the Trembling that remained of > and thus the Lord fhewed me, anc unto my Spirit, that he would ‘the feafon in which the Vifion fpeak. And now Tam to publi , Vs 8 To ge - yas te .* - a “A Vifion of C Marihals, &c. 963 ad that many may Hear and Fear, Heart: and whilft there e May get out of the Veffel, which _be confounded and brought to it aaa I warn all convinced of rut in this Age, and inthe Ages ome, to keep in the Simplicity of th, and for ever to fhun the Wif- = that is from below, and take up layly Crofs to their wills, that {o that comes to know the Admi- ition of Condemnation may take ‘Flight in the Winter, nor none ig to the Prophets may be drawn ® by the Falfe Prophet, nor to $ohn’s tration, may fit down there ; but ail on, to know a perfect joyning 2 Seed of Life, the beginning and from everlafting to everlafting, fin is an Everlaiting Habition. Charles Marfbal. 154. SALUTATI Men and Wome MEETIN Ciyof BRIGG Dear Frie N the fae Truth of which indures for ever, I Salute you at this time, defi for your Profperity and Gr QW in, to ferveup your Genera O! ing to the Will of God ; Ls will have Peace for ever > wis ia ad Pie = he bat ~ hl we mh ia eis ici of Heaven hath not only called you Watch and take Care of your own ts and Fatnilies, but alfo over the k and Family of God where you . therefore be Careful and Diligent our Meetings together, and in a ful Difcharge, as before the Lord, fwer the Service of your Meetings tually ; and to that end I exhort in the dread of I/raci’s God, to diligently upon the Lord, to feel weet opening Power and Spring of F wildori, that you may fee your tal places inthe Body, and Service in place faithfully performed. nd, dear Friends, for forme time it Jain before me, in the Name of the |, to ftir you up to an increafe of ; and youthat have Families, Sons ten to come to Meetings, ahd into Service. with you, in anfwering to WLord’s requiring——that they may in with you, ferving the Lord ; Ithen, when you are taken away, ‘may be ready to ferve the Lord, it thereby trained up in his Way; M32 in Sa a i Naa” A Salutation. - 16§ (Daughters in the World, ftirthem ? all young Men and ’ _ ‘of him who {fhall Judge | - who hath put you in fome a Capacity to ferve the Lord, | Men and Womens Meetings, th negle& not your Care herein- the Lord God exercife you with} Trials, unthought of by the ¢ Mind ; for if ye do love, and gj to ferve the Lord, and bring oi Subftance to ferve the Poor, as the hath commanded, you will find ward in your Bofoms, and a Sai on by being in your Duty and Se And, dear Friends, Lif. up your in the Light of the Lord, to | Eternal Arm to gather you into; ing State, in the holy Root of ‘that therein you may be able « in the dreadful Day of his Veng Fury and Fire, that breaks over ful People, for the humbling of 7 fandsto the Duft.——Arife, fhak felves in’the Strength of the Lord fi the Duft of the Earth; put on Str and heavenly Zeal, for his Nam Y 7 4 ry 4 ey eat hy Qi A Salutation, 167 | fweet Counfel, with your Minds’ . ered to fland and fee the fulfilling Words of the Lord that have drop- over this Land.——T he God of our er Mercies incline youall his Coun- . oa that fo you may ferve him | Faithfulnefs; that, now as living yellers, ye.may Journey on to come ‘Gon, the City of the heavenly King, re his Glory Shines, his Love Flows, Mercy Extends, and the Joy of the 1 Springs up, to furnifh Man with g high Praifes to him that fits up- the Throne, and to the Lamb for smore ; and that youmay have your ‘and Portionin that City, hath been Travail of Soul, and Ardent Defires Tender Friend and Brother, Cc. M. atl i Dear Friends and Brethren, : _ © Hat are Suffering for you Mi a db: ‘together, in anfwer to tl quirings of the Power and Spirit dus; my Love in the Fellowfhip . Sufferings of Chrift falutes you, _ thing to the God of the Spirits” , Flefh for you; that the Grae -.. . brings Salvation, the Mercy 7" forts, the Peace that is as a r _ River, may be multiplyed. in ‘ amongft you, to your great Satis Joy and Rejoycing in the Lor your Heads in the Light of the ae lie call 4 whee ‘Lord, the Jealous God, hath done ‘you this many Years; who hath in ittetable kindnefs vifited you with _Day-fpring from on High, and h his Excellent, Honourable Power- Arm hath faved, delivered and ought for us, time after time; and fond all expreffion hath wonder- ly turned back the-Enterprize of Enemy of our Souls, .who~hath in- ad bound the Seas as with Swadling nds, and faid to the proud Waves Perfecution, Hitherto fhall you come 1 no further; whofe Arm hath ught out of Bonds and fet at Liberty, 1. hath rebuked, as in the midft of a wm, and hath brought many 2 eet Calm; we have feen what his m, Power and Wifdom hath done, A have been deeply engaged unto im, and bowed tender and broken in e Senfe of his unfpeakable Love. And now, Dear Friends and Brethren, m moved of Lord thus to write: Keep lur Meetings in the Name, Power, and hority of the Living God, and there- ag An Epifile to Friends. 169 am old and livingly Remembet what Ai} - - hy i, bt ae ; ; hy 3 : oa F “_: = ‘ J - ‘ i 7” Friends, Be ditigae in keeping hg Week-days-Meetings; it lies or ae ines to lay it on you-—at t Ca 7] Coy, : ty o c ‘ r a, a ets i = . a> f —— 4 . 4 + —* o~ -~ 2 . en y Vo Pe ve ae, ” a a. J - i wee? x me Pac’ » ‘ = : Fx A * Jf ’ x TO \ Friends of Falmouth, | @ Y Love in the living quick’ning §. Truth of God, Saluteth you all are Faithful to the Lord, in the h is of a Letter 4 'LMOUTH. a | Loh ; aay | lt ia ‘5d . v ove 178) A Cop of tare bie of Life, which the valtrous Eye ever nor ravenous Beaft ever trod in; mi ] breathes to the God of Heaven you | be preferved therein, be And, dear Friends, many knows Truth, but it is Obedience to it. gives the Entrance into the pure Poffeffion, purchafed by the Captz our Salvation, who through § and doing ‘the Will of his Father, i tred to, within the Vail: So; _ Friends, we muft follow him in ‘the ly Dying and Baptifm; for te = Tic Myftery of the Entrance into the dom, even. in the daily Dying =) being, through a daily Dying, at baptized into his Death, and thep is a fifing in his Life: So, dear ¥ here it is that many miffin at, or may have fome fight of Trutl * Enjoyment thereof; yet not ke down to the daily Cro s, thereby daily, thac Lives which is for D and -fuch will hold the Truth im righteous Ground ; and here lies € ry Ground why many, being con and ‘knowing the Truth, do not | = 4 eh: mere Wenge FRY ili 10 he ia é) s in by » Friends, God Eternal hath de- ined £2, 9m an End to all Profeffions, of, by bringing forth the Subftance ' Profeffion, even the perfect Work jlinefs, in the Hearts of Thoufandg s fubjected obedient People, and iscternal Power, and by his dread- rm of Strength, will he dafh in: every thing that is not waity and And that Day will certainly come, afPneth, that will deeply try all away goes: the Chaff, the Drofs, in, yea, reprobate Silver. : ‘dear and tender Friends, wait dili- 7 in the invifible Power, to be to the Nature of him that is: fi-born of. every Creature; and J] be your unexpreffible Comfore ermore: And God Almighty pre. you diligent, with the Loyns of Minds girt up unto him from the i. N 2 * Morning to Friends, in Falmouth. = ag hrive inthe innocent vertuous Life > duinefs; not giving up all to . the daily Appearances. of the ing of the Power of God Almigh. ¢ Pofleffion of Life is not the ground — we not Born of God; and in this ss Mis. 480 ACopy of aLettes Morning to the Evening, t vail you may know in thet the bringing forth, in which is th ing and true Joy that will f ever. ra ok) Ireceiv’d your tender Lines, and before have you lain in my remem in Dearnefs, and tender’d the Breathings and fpringing Defires ward, that I faw and felt among which oft have refrefhed me. - G large the Borders of his Sanctuary away, and preferve you as a City” a Hill, to be a. good Savour in th teous holy Life before the World, My dear Love faluteth dear: about you; fo inthe earning Be true Love, after your Profpe Growth, I reft your travellin and Brother, bs mh Dear Friends, as to my coming into the| Parts, I know nothing of it, at the pre: fent, inGod’s Counfel and Name 1 vi=™ fited you, and if be require it ofme in bis Will I defire to live to the end of my Day. * R IENDS. _ Exhorting them to 4 it i iv F upon me to fay unto ait upon the Lord in the Gift m Spirit; made manifeft in us, Revelation and Operation of rnal and Unlimitted Power, in oh al ceive ) ai on the Lord. eed dithe Al. eth to arife, that by the pow- - ~! Hands to the work of reforma' 182 Ap Pe to . | erful. operation thereof, all 1 off, rooted out, and urned I hindred or broken our un “Lord, or one with ano! its working we may a ; unity of one Eternal the everlafting © t caciethe able Le God will be fhed “btodd in our in which being all vnited as sp the. Government being on his fhe who have been as a oe vari forr acquainted with G thal with one ‘confent. put: “our hed . And Friends I cannot but fa in the Name and Power of th God, this’ ought to be the fi defireable amongft us: Andit me to mind you of the tender v that reached unto us fome Mont which was in order guna hi fpoken; and Friend ye through the Operation of thisiti Power of God into the unity of Exernal Spirit of Life, all thofe ¢ exercifes to haverun into astheC Fafhions, Ways and Words of he ere — = - “4 a An Epifile to Friends, 182 pare Evil, will all be cz off, there ‘be a great T eat iP the very of needful things, that the Heart ; > kept outof them. And Friends Jon me to fay unto you, Let none of gench'the Spirit nor defpife Prophecy ur felves, or in any of our Brethren ifters ; for if we do, we hurt our own sre the Lord God requires any in motion of his Eternal Power, to Pa Teftimony for his Name, be- hful unto it; andon the other Hand, ‘us@all be careful not to {pend our 1 Bread, for that will burthen others ead of refrefhing them, for the Heart p be ‘refrefhed and the Power felt ‘may be loft again, through going h, but this is certain the motion of ’s Power liveth and abideth in the fs of all Flefh, and as the Mind oft retired into-the true inward the motion of Life doth the s fhew it felf, and the Heart and ind comes to be fatisfied of God’s juirings, and then in its due time A feafon being brought forth, is a Sa- 3 N 4 your s, and bringa Famine thereon: But 184 An Epi vour of Life u unto the li fo with the falfe : abortive. rage Sp eee And, dearly belo ed ] furthermore on my Spirit you, It wes the immortal Pow Lord God that firft touched us at the Heart in the Da | vifitation, which immort: he God brought down ae loft and cut down many - RY. that Day and brought | man 7 of us deep Humility of Spirit, an ‘into a tendernefs of Hea ete r ‘its and it fo wrot ght i in many"th made the Earthly ‘Tabernacles to t ble and Shake, and wrought thro the Members, where the Law of and Death had ruled, and Brienc that Day: it Figees up the Fal Ground of our Hearts, and difcoy the root of Iniquity, and the Ax laid to the root of the corrupt I And that immortal Power and Att Strength muft finifh that, g Holy work that it began in . Day of our firft 7, vilit tation ce. % : “Fs An Epiftle to Friends. 185 refore Friends wait diligently, being — vardly turned to feel the arifing and ectual operation of this living Eternal wer and Arm of the Lord God, that 3 Old Heaven and Old Earth may h pafs away, that all may know | New Heavens and the New Earth. erein dwells Righteoufnefs; and as S immortal Power of the Lord God th, it will break every bond of Ini- ty and {nap in Pieces every chain of . fknefs, it will rend the Rocks, and sak in pieces the Mountains, it will mup the Stubble and drive away the aif, and here we fhall know the 9 in the Hand of his Power that sughly purgeth his Floor and that ily makes the feparation, gathering ; Wheat, and burning up the Chaff unquenchable Fire, which is the wer of the Lord. And Friends I am eed in Spirit to intreat all in the fre Bowels of tender Love, to make tue and a thorough fearch with the . aht of the Lord, that nothing of the — murfed thing may be ia any of the mts of Irae/, which fhould caufe them — tO *” i i : * x it a wight ae cn 186 ‘An Epifile to Friends, with his Glory, becaufe of the v to ‘fall before their Enemies, a h fore this runs thro me in much | and Trembli one your { therefore, and ¢ ‘you Hi that in Day at Hand of the brea ot - fort the Glory of the Lord as a devo fire, all of us being fanttifed throughly cleanfed, we may ba a abide and to ftand; "for a Day of Cal ty, even a Day of Diftrefs, is atk and the Lord in his everlafting | kindnefs, which is unfpeakable is ing his Hand on many to draw tl out of Sodom and Gomorrah Spiritu Oh! that all. Hearts might be bri and all Spirits tendred, and all diffe down into a tendet ‘broken fram Spirit before the Lord, that all. Tremble at the Word of his Hol and Dread and Fear his Holy Gk Name, who is coming out of his to vifit the Earth in his everla dread, and all the Earth fhall bef which he will work amongft his Pe am alfo ie the Heathen ce Te er nd mnot: And Friends, as all are brought _ wa here into this melting, diffolving — ie of Spirit; fupplication will a- y if ih) = od, and he will bow down his Ear ‘the Cry of his Diftreffed and deliver sm with a great Deliverance, and fe them with a mighty Salvation: 1 his Ferufalem {hall be made the aife of the whole Earth: The Lord d of Heaven and Earth bring all his jople into this City and every where. | to this frame of Spirit, fo fhall Friends _ | this City be as the Garden of the d, which fhall give a pleafant {mell all the tender People of the Lord mind about. And you may be raifed up to ftand } the gapin the Day of the fierce Anger f the Lord God that comes on this - jon, the Land of our Nativity: Friends that are Mafters and Mi- ffes of Families, and have the Tuition hildren and Servants, this to you the Counfel of the Lord God of ayen and Harth, wait daily on the ai } Lord ~ ise snd from prevailing ‘facob to the Lord Rss = 62 tf foes the sigs ot te Holy t in that you _ Evil in your Families ‘ing Power you will . Teach to the Confciences’ of : dren, and to’ the Confcic nees o} if Servants, that all the Families of People of the Lord may be fweet - clean before the Lord; for the I will pafs through his whole ‘Camp, where Sin and Iniquity anid hare nt is cleaved to and lived in, ther ( break forth as a confuming Fire: A Friends, where any that have profe ef the Truth who have been vifited y the Day of God, ipringing from high and have made confeffion and P feffion of the pure way of the Lord, a have or do err from the pure p through the receiving and bowing dc to the Spirit of this World, byw they order not their Converfation ni . right, but through carelefs walking oy: their dealing and in their converfe v the World, caufes the Truth to bea . a of, and the Name of bie = ‘An Epiftle to Friends: ——¥89 be Blafphemed, 1 declare in the fuch do not fpeedily return to that ure Princple unto which all were di- ted in the Day of their firft tender fitation, in that to wait to know Gods nmortal power to heal their back- idgings, and his free Love to come yer all again, in which a Teftimony ay arife in them to teftifie againft all hat ever they have acted in their deal- es or otherwife, that hath caufed the rad yorthy dear Name of the Lord to be evil turn, the day haftens, God will make hem an aftonifhment to themfelves and 0 all round about them, and will Ho- jour his great Name over them in their Deftruftions. And dear Friends, it. was he Arm of the Lord that gathered us lo be a People, and it was and is in hbedience to him that we meet and do ‘ ee ey .. the b es z » % iehty Lord God of Heaven and Earth a poken of: I fay that if fuch do not thus | 190 An Epiftle to Friends, fhip him, but all that rifeth gainft them {hall fall and come te thing ; and therefore doth the I ree his _ to meet toge _as boldly, as diligently, as faithful ever, a Ps = Men; — the requirings 0 i ‘ow and wineda makes she ag in co ing to Meetings, or draws from N _ ings, it is the Antichriftian Spirit, what veffel foever it fhall appear. all that meet faithfully, and ¢g: into. the Name of the Lord, int Meetings, and wait diligently on f the Lord God in his everlafting wer will appear to thei unexprefiz comfort, and to the Honour of great Name which fhall over all renowned inthis Nation. ~ * ena AN -_ Opens he Comiiié forth in che ) " Lae | Ty as Dearly beloved ea ‘ic ae HO in your ‘Meetings et femblies fometimes thing of a Teftimony, for t ‘pring and move in your Heartig k eae | an oe . eee - . ». | AnEpifile to Friends, &c. 193, | Watch i Light, that fo none behind, neither. run_ before, .but let that opens their Mouths in the Af- blies of the Lord’s People, do it as. Oracle of God, in the arifing of the fal pure Power; for nothing can. to God, but what comes from immortal Word of Life, that lives jabides for ever; and nothing can efh, Strengthen or Comfort that th is begotten by the immortal td of Life, but what fprings from fame : And therefore, dear Friends, gm this concerns, wait diligently, only to know and favour every Mo- , but alfo to know the appointed ae and Seafon when the fame Mo- fhould be brought forth; fo fhali at is miniftred, if it be but few mds, reach, and witnefs, and do its fice; for this I have learned, That Mthere smay be a true Motion of PPower of the Lord, and a true bration thereof, yet where there is Pa true waiting for the perfecting What is t0 be brought forth ; bur ead thereof, it coming forth before a 0 the che time, there that which ns 0 _ forth feems an pees ert ait 5.4 is hurt, both to ™ thr which it comes, an of are burthened; an firft moved “comes to™ Bet here is the Ground of un r Birth that never faw the Sun, t hat doth, ot fhall come forth; and as as any one are found walkin in By: path, altho” they may find tt Power of God moving | in nem, _they never come t6 be skilful, ni divide the Word ‘of God aight fuch do not truly grow, but fome bringing forth a mixture, fowin Field with two forts of in wearing a linnen - and woollen ment. a So, Friends; this lieth wpon t rit to all that feel the beginning Teftimony {pring in your carts, diligently in that Light, low, 1 pure ftilnefs and ‘paffivenefs of” ie Spirits ; and as you here wait, "y come to feck fe Counted of 6 | fealed unto your Underftandings,| ape ‘An Epifile t0 Friendsy &c. tg5 sie when to {peak, and when - filet; and here will be aright je increafe of your Teftimonies ; that which is fealed to the dings is offered forth, tetire — _ and fink down into the pure — , and keep in the Valley ; and know, that no Miniftration, fave hich comes from Life it felf, from h arifings of the pure Power of ~ fd, availeth any thing; and al} zs out of this will come to an fade, and vanifh in the ap-— ng Day of Trial. ) dear Friends, as the Mind and: ‘the Lordis made manifeft, yield Obedience thereunto, if the re- be but a few words ; for | it a dangerous thing to refift vagainft the Motions of God’s | have known many Hours: - bw for fo Rebelling; and in the a beginning*of a‘Leftimony for even in the’ upright Hearts be the Oppofition of the Ene- ewer where he cannot lead $, forto bring for them an Oa untiniely ” ‘in the ftill Habitation, anc Knowledge, and be. ‘more an 196 AwEpifile to Friends, 8c: untimely Birth, there he wi ! vour to fhut up the Heart in” dience, or Rebellion, or-raife up ny Fears, Doubts and Amazen poffible to bewilder the: I had. perifhed, if it had the dear Love and tender Mercy Lord: And fo, dear’ Friends, ‘Ol fake Tam moved thus to write Motion is felt, and Openings ar Heart, and the Power of ‘hel obeying, then fink down in which no vain Thought can and ftand fingle and paffive; ¢ more ftill, ne ae a L nin aid the Rota will arife’ oa xe Underftanding ; and then, in th which warmeth thy Heart, an on thy Spirit, enter into thy and when that’s done, add not, and Paffivenefs thou waft and then the Reward of e( wilt feel and grow in E ee ‘Aa Epiffle to Friends, &e. 197 ed to every good Word and ] in this na gla fe ve ve all gel a’ being ftrengthened, with in the inward ila, and fur- to ferve the Lord God Almighty, eall'that are thus exercifed. Friends, when any thro” want erience Err, in running before the be very tender; and although jay be a Savour and Judgment t felves, and you may ‘be bur- yet beware how you fpeak to ur felves, but wait on the Lord , to be guided by his Counfel ; ie having fuch a fenfe, as afore- id not having a difcerning where- mifcarriage lay, have*run forth Iement, and {fo have fometimes and even deftroyed, or at leaft ome a ftumbling-block to fuch Hed Friend, and havealfo much smfelves ; fo that they not ha- true difcerning, between the firft = Caufe, which is the Power, and ich led forth before the Power, ged both, and fa have brought on”, a o O 3.3 a hurt over ‘had OV judging the’ Power o this fometimes may, €x ee ee , = s0d 4 ty preferve fo one. ma) ftrength to another, es ont ae by the hand, faying one to anoth us go up to’ the Mountain of + the Houfe of the God Ff 43 will teach us more’ re ways; and here, ina od’sh ly tain, is neither hurting ‘n¢ or deftre Given forth im the qwoving Eternal SP Hf through ye OE at A a iP ISTL E I fent to the ii "WOMENS ig il yor Mein, 1677. ) Dear Friends, ; y, Eep your Meetings in the Name A of the Lord -Jetus Chrift, and lwait for the Arifing of his Power a- Monet you, your Hearts to open; {0 git you, y O 4 vil > 200 eA 9 of te ~ will Wifdom fpr Pi ee a ~ and here none wi * your Words and Deportments, and 1 : them favoury.' ‘3 “the heavenly Oracle, but flow ‘to fp broke in upon you, in your laft A nament ta a ning, fus, in which the Male: st zi one, being Members of one holy Bae Chrift Jefus, the Head, from Vertue floweth, Life Bat fi Love aboundeth,. which ill feafc _ And, dear Friends, be {wift to h without its” ‘Teaching, Leading © Helping ; fo, fhall’ Order in the fy harmonious Dove. and Life \be am you. — And let no difeouragen nent upon .any of your Spirits, the Lord owned your Meetings with a Teftis from Heaven; and I am‘now’ conft ed to remember ‘you, how the 1 together on this Occafion-=——whe xed were refiefhed and ftirred upto y . . - 2 te -- Fee oe tl RIT LE en yeral Services in your refpettive -—— sbitations-and Families; fo ~~ . no Guilt may be on any, when they ie Beds : But allin — ings: She hathlan : - | .———Farewel in the Lord. d "your tender Friend, in the Labour ) Bo the Gofelofi Peat; Charles Marfhall. : THE ~ ig Dear Prien + andsBrethees } N the Love of my Father is | lutation unto you; greatly, ‘the powerful. Prefence of the M Everlafting God} be fignally. ou inthis your Meeting, 2 and ina Ju. tings, and thac Wifdom:, f high«may defcend ages Sar. oP ; : The Rough Copy,&c. 203 the Ree * that wad Eterna Life. ne 24 } oe a aS dg i. Ob! Prierfiss every. bowels of. yee 9 Tet ns n 7 -thél earnings of the Ba ieee I befeech’ you feel and read o, “what do “‘you know of this Blefled work, i “which the happinefs of* the Immorta coming out 0 Eg t, and to th ~ which was a saute of Tranfgrete fion, until the bod fhould come; yea,” to the Prophets, who faw and prophe- fied of his coming, in which | ftates there may be openings, ‘and’ Heavenly big but the Be oe welfare of t , is inwardly to experience t working. of the Hise Hand of him w: i tie gout Husband-man a cutting off e Te Priendé, i, 207 m the wild. Olive, aid planting into © Vine of Life, Tranflating out of the | Nature and Kingdom, into the divine t ure and ‘Kingdom. All comes here snow a being bornof the quickning tit of the fecond Man Adam, the Lord n Heaven; here is the ftate truly yles, even a new Creature, which in rift Jefus have right to injoy the . sur and: prefence. of God the Father tver and for evermore. » Pherefore Friends, all Profeffion of igion under Heaven, under what - me or degomination foever; without Y¥ work: ‘experienced in fome meafure , h the Souls i nian asks Women no : ruth every: ci in the fear; and awe of the moft high God, Now before him, that fo where this un- ff ble pretious work is not experien- there might be a true waiting and failing in “Spirit, in which @ living ba fapplication will arife to the mo to nina if: P And ' and Power of the 208 A Gonineab pile ; b And pen unto all fuch that feel | longings, living breathings and ai defires in their Souls,. this bleffled to know, I fay unto yo in. the N nefs of Spirit and fincerity of H Hear this feed of the Ki pega if but ; grain of Muftard ri and Love that which doth difcover feed of the Serpent, and love its work and bringings forth in the Heart, f with it, Sorrow and Mourn wit give up not only to the difcoveries o} feed of the Kingdom, but alfo ¢ Judgement, that the natureand wo the feed of the Serpent may tre for the Soul can never come to be with the feed Incorruptible, nor be of it, .in which the Promifes are a and Amen, but through the vi working under, and. z ¢ nature and work of the feed of thy pent, whicn hath been as,a fepar or pattition-wall between the | Chrift soley fo throu gh yo > To ‘Friends, ec. a. 209 ¥ eaft and loweft Appearance, it will. orking of this Incorriiptible feed, in ig every one (that is acquainted there- h} very low and tender in Spirit; effing the Heare, and Soul with the 7 ' and dread’ and awe of the moft - h; and truly careful,diligent to attend, tender of neglefting its terider fecret ions, and {weet powerful workings in Soul : Now tender People that comes 2, diligently and conftantly cleave h your Souls unto it, and you {hall and fee as your Faith ftands in it; working of it as leaven, to leaven into the Divine Nature: fo be not ry of bearing the Crofs of Chrift; urning here in thofe deep Exercifes of it, but perfevere daily in the love of Immortal feed; fo then coming to be h again and brought forth by the fe Of itseworkings in the Soul; ye I be tenderly nurfed up by that of fame nature; namely, the fincere Milk the Word, which lives and abides ever, of which you were begotten; ito grow, thereby up to the day of oufal in the Marriage-Chamber “of ¢ 3 Diving oes ta > ae General eed x ' Divine ‘Love and Life, where the { _ is fafe in the enjoyment of the rnb able Joy of the Bale ei God 2 mb forever. | reiowning:' and exal forever, which is the kalceap d “vail of your tribulated Brecher, » 4 : POSTSCRIPT. Dear Friends every where, divine Hand and mighty Arm t thered you. out of the rowing ings of the Nations and Pe {weet fafe habitation may dwell alone out of the aeélem me the Nations, where the hiding pk ac be known until the word of ¢1 fulfilled and his todieratiah al pats. bo accomplifh his own determigation in Earth? "e a Vy A ae as : ro Tin . Mens and W omens y Friceds, Brethren and Sifters, God, through Jefus a in the ss of his Love, in this his Gofpel- Bedechercae su einey asl cheno : F : wherein he hath made bare his ho- - faving, and thereby bringing « \Artakers of the heavenly Calling of a %. gi2 An Epiftle to Friends, bringing many Sons and Daughter GIF 7 > "anna B ~ Grace, Mercy and Peace, with alli Fruits of the Eternal Spirit, from” fountain of Mercies and Bleffings, — multiplied’ in and amongft you, and the Flock and Family of | every-where: Dear Friends, b cing inSpirit, into a deep fenfe of the Mercies of the Lord, extended you in unexpreffible Vifits, in the . er of the Moft High, living Water holy Dewings, daily: InftruGtings, | wonderful Prefervations that you hax dé enjoy,and what God hath wrought would work amongft you, and tox you are called; I fay, in the unexpt ble fenfe and fight hereof, my § deeply affe@ed and. bowed before Lord our God; in which frame of my Spirit is ,ftirred in the dear Lov Bowels of Chrift Jefus, to exhort; fiand faft in chat’ Liberty unto w youvare all called, which is the Li of the Sons ‘and Daughters of God mighty ; a glorious’ Liberty from imbondaging Power of Helhand BD > Sy was ’ , * J is _ er which we were Captives. Now, jou that are witneffes of this Liber- ‘I fay unto you, in my Father’s Love, d Will and Counfel, Watch diligent- n living fubjeftion to the holy Power an endiefs Life, that in nothing ye be intangled again with any pare he Yoak of Bondage, under whicit could not ferve, pleafe, nor worfhip Jaright. : | sa nd now, forafmuch as the Lord God not only called and gathered you 1 of the barren Mountains and de- e Hills, but alfo to his holy Moun- fo that you may walk where there hurting nor deftroying, rending dividing, and here are preferved, ere you fee every barren Mountain Hill, unto which they go that go n the holy Mountain of God, where hurting dividing Rentsand Schifims ‘againft which, Judgment of Truth ~ Dear Friends, Brethren and Sifters, who ertain unto the Flock and Fold of "Dlefled Shepherd, walk ye, as he ked, in the harmlets Life of Inno- is P. gency ; ef An Epiftle to Friends, 213 oO ee ae ee 214 An Epifileto Friends. goiky : Oh! eeateaitae ee ca Yoke, nor caft away his fpiritual Buttk nor get above his Crucifying Crofs, it any flefhly Liberty, nor felf-Exaltatic but Iet the dread of I/rael’s God .be your Spirits, eying yourexcellent high Calling, not only out of the We ItsWays, and impure Religions,and fal Worthips, and into:a Teftimony aga fach, but further into the f{piritual W {hip, therein tobe Exercifed Night Day in the Temple of che Lord; | not only fo, but into an unexpref areand Concern forothers. Oh let deep fenfé-of this Heavenly Call and) quiring of our Heavenly.Father, upon all your Spirits, agcording to unexprefhble weightinefs of it. A I am to put you. in Mind that yous above many of the called of God; % as a City ‘upon a Hill, in the views only of your Friends. but Enemié therefore as you tender the-Honour| God, and your own Souls weillfare, Zions Profperity, walk-in the felf-det ing path; and thofethat God hath % way: honoured with 4 fervice ing yee sty f and amongft his People, This punfel is given me to fend unto you, t in my own Name, but inthe Name %, ‘An Epiftle to Friends, = 315 ‘the Almighty God, Seek the Honour _ at comes from God only, and walk fore his People, his tender Lambs, and abes, and little Ones, in the felf-abafe- ent: Oh! humble Se/f to the Death, en tothe Death of the Crofs of Chrift Mus’; for any getting out from this ath, they will Hurt inftead of Healing, ae inftead of Feeding, make Naked ftead of Cloathing, dc. Oh ! the blef- — d Words and Praftice of Chrift Jefus, ho knew what there was, even in his {ciples, that would feek who fhould : Greateft : He taught them, by fetting ‘Child amongft them ; he girded him- If with a Towel, he wafhed their fect ; fhewing thereby, nor only that Fhe wafhed them not, they could not Clean ; but alfo fhewed them, how her-: Who alfo faid to Peter, Loveft hou ‘me more than thefe® Feed my Lambs; which he repeated again and again,in uni- et Carey and unexpreflible Bowels, 9 me sik 1s ad hey fhould walk and do for one ano- — — ae \ #5 Fee * : iva 7 . we 5 _ inthe Seed Immortal, and keeping it = ot’ x] ~ will the intereft and weighty ‘Con cet _ forming that fervice in the Church’ Ea . Minds, to wait on every occafion, fi _ the frefh defcendings, fittings, capacit “9x6 Aw Epiftle t0 Friends, his Lambs and little ones, and that’ might perform his Duty well. Frien let us all walk as'we have'him for % Example and a Captain; andthis opel © 25 . 5 > in my Soul, that the greater't * a a fpiritual, and cleaving to it, the-more Se will be abafed and denyed, and the mo of Truth be in every ones Hye, feel the Glory of God, the good of Souls, of the wellfare of his People is concern in the careand diligence, and in the per Chrift, which every one is called unto, ¢ And Friends, be very, diligent in thofe your Meetings, and all oth Meetings, and when met be as dilig to wait upon the Lord, with tend breathings in the girding up, with t girdle of Truth, the loynes of yo tings thereby of the pure Heavenly Wij dom which is pure and Peaceful. And fet not about the affairs of Truth with out fome feeling and helping of it,for this eS i» wees 4 > >] ima i ; CM | Aa Epiftle to Friends, 219) of feen, No parts nor acquirements atever without this guiding, coun- ling, inftru@ting Wifdom of the Lord, Il carry on truly, or effect rightly _affairs of Truth, although it be in br things. And my Heavenly ther whom I have Loved and Feared ym very tender Years, hath fhewn me at in the fenfual wifdom ftands the fe, and out of that Ground arifes the Itednefs, hafte, rafhnefs; Schifms, ents and Sects, ce. prs kd ‘And therefore in the Meeknefs and entlenefs of Jefus, treat one another ; id if any feel their Spirits warmed, and ature of the Lambs Wifdom and meek- eis comes up to leaven and rule the icart, and guide the Tongue; ita ard, you are charged of the Lord itain Riches, nor to be puffed up out . | 9 mae. hie 4 ntil that is brought under, andthe . to truft nor have confidence in une . f | And you that are Rich and Full in the ae 218 An Epifte to Friends of your. places in the Body by rea: thereof, but rather be the ‘more hur in the Senfe of the Mercy and Bounty the Lord, and fupplicate - the ete give you Wifdom to be fuch Stewa s may be well nie in his fight fhall a blefling in a ‘Basket Store. 4 And Friends, te in felf-denial. a felf-abafement’ in Meats, Drinks — Apparel, letting nothing of fulnefs | you beyond felf-denial, and fo to for, ee AffliGtions of Jolt ph, ‘many Diftref Straitned, Impri ifoned, Impoverifl Membets of the fame Body. . And thofe that are Antient and ni in Truths fervice, in all H wmility i and Delight to bring upthe young | thofe Services; and when any ‘Son Daugh terin Simplicity and as Enjot of che new Wine in fome little meaf {peak as Children, h ee ftrenge them, Sipe, forth nee We ea w te ke ie pe... ‘Gee k ' ‘ : ait An Epifile to Friends. 319 ier bublings up of Life be ftifled,. ‘the tender Grapes bruifed, but all ~~ Ear and the Lord thereby ho- ured, For I teftifie; in the Power the moft High,. as it is given me, iow, He will Abafe all that Exale smfelves, and they fhall be brought w; and all that feek themfelves, and cit o honour, the Lord will difco- en ee ewe Mer Rod, dear Friends, and Brethren, — d Sifters, Watch over the Flock of od, over which he hath made you verfeers, that the rending ‘and divi- ag Spirst of Oppofition may not en- rfecretly ; Vifit, Exhort, Seck, Warn, eprove; and fet Judgment in the ord’s Power and Counfel, over all : gat which would hure or harm the mdet Flock of God, the Way and Works of which deftroying Spirit the lord God will blaft, and the bring- ngs forth and produa of it Confume, ith the brightnefs of his Arifing and Foming, and blow away with the Breath f his Mouth. , a Finally, 220 ‘An Epil to. a Friem - Finally, Friends, Brethren a fers, Be of one Mind, an dwell | live ate and.in Life i t felf, deny y felves; be in. the daily bearing. of 1 Crofs of Chrift Jefus, that Crucifies to the World, and the World to” j live above the World’s Heights Depths, . Joys and Sorr eae a and dreadful: Day” will oe Al ig . God bring upon the dt in Wickednets; ani ax pa Ip a many of the Inhabitants of this Na and that City drink of = But if ye walk with God, od: ot to him; you fhall. know ‘the’ ie place of his Love, wherein fafety and Bread and Water. fhall ‘be fu re certain to your Souls : And ‘the L God Almighty caufe his Power ing Glory and Brightnefs, more and @ ‘to Arife amon you, ae fend pl ful Showers of divine Ra ain, an G his fweet Evangelical Dews to def Morning ; after Morning, on your Sc in your Meetings and families, thre which ye may be kept Green and Fr like the growing Innocent Eilh Mies, ee . . Aa Epiftle to Friends. 221 ely as a Rofe of Sharon. The Lord d of our Life warm all your Hearts 1 Souls, with his warming Sun-fhi- g Beams of Glory, and caufe you ‘the inward Man to partake of the flings »of the fecond Covenant. So, having done the Will of my God, d eafed my Spirit before him, I com-— : you to the word of God’s Grace, at is able to build you up in God's oft holy Faith, and give you aneternal eritance with his Saints in Light, Nich is the earneft Breathings of your ravailing Brother, in the Labour, Tri- lation and Faith of the Go/pe/, : Charles Marfball: Glory and Honour, Might, Majefty, with holy Renown, and Immortal Domini- on, be afcribed, with living breathing », forth high Praifes, to the Lord God | andthe Lamb, who Reigns in Riow,and. . before his broken-hearted bowed-/pirited Ones Glorioufly: | : en GENERAL EPIS: Every Where! “4 .. Dear Friends and Breshrew. | y wre with a high and heave Calling havebeen called out | Darknefs, and Pall the Ways and Wor thereof, to walk in the marvellous Ligh of the Glorious day of God Almigh that hath precioufly dawned in t Day. Grace, Mercy and Peaéé God, with the Vertues of his Spirit, be Vea o in and aa y Ou. «aie alle a a ad * io ae Py igh es Epifile to Friends ooh ’ y asa Rofe of Sharom. The Lord ‘of our Life warm all your Hearts Souls, With his warming Sun-fhi- Beams of Glory, and caufe you e inward Man to_partake of the» pgs of she fecond Covenant. | 5). shaving done the Will of my God, aled my Spirit "before him, Icom. Ou to the Word of God’s Grace, is able to build you tp in God’ holy Faith, and give you an eternal itance with his Saints in. Lizdr, h is the earneft Breathings of your ailing Brother, in the Labour, Tri- pe and Faith of the Go/pel; ; Charles Marfhall, ] 4 and Honour, Might, Maje/ty, with Wily Renown, and Immortal Dominiq Ma, be afctibed, with living breathing wd the Lamb, who Reigns in Zion, and before his broken-hearted bowede , rited Ones; Glorioufly, Bt ta orth high*Praifes, to the Lord God, — Se a b: \ j ie -¥ gee C hari Maras I's ‘ - Epil toF ries -In and about BRISTO, and about Briftol, His to you is my Mei 23 Rot Lic filen tc i es e 1 a icin is ee the Word, which was in the me ' ) and ceafe from thofe. Di aa and Profeffors f she Te Nae of the King of | * eek a mu - words, tlie i is not iy the ¢ draw the Mind out. fiom: iy the Lord God Aimighry, thar work iio tin toute and_caft the Defiler of the Temple of the _ was, B fay again, Inthe Name oad, ity of the King of Heaven and r e Embaflace this unto 5: rein amt and inward Sie come over all your Familics and_ blics before the Lord; and let thé arife in all your Hearts, Fatnilies, ifemblics, and wait upon him in cat Dread, to feci more, and mere; Word of his Holinefs. And Trem- remble, Tremble, at it; I warn bis Power, that is upon me at this thus to Write. J ict ail Pride, Soperfuity, and ftincis in the Enjoyment of pe- B Things, be fearched all + fe way hidden thing of + inthe Dread of [fr sis God, Let’ their lateer end, chat the Grave and W inding- heer, become their ing-bands, and you not in 2 pre- Q ‘:,- pared ftate for ity my” souk haften-hi _ Work amongft you, which =. the Hearts of Thoufands, wit folve like Snow ; and a low t - aré before the Lord this day, be req aay with the Love ' ‘of t my God, al 7 rit is overcome with > Dread 0 Lord’s Power, who will hi . and Dread, and Love to God. © And oh, Flock of God in riftoly {halt be as a Garden of Rofes an lies, thy fcent and favour fhall r many ‘Thoufands ; thy beloved I to thee as a Fountain of Gardens as an endlefs over-flowing Spring! ving Water ; the Deftroyer fhall ftroyed out of thy Habitations, at Walter from thy Dwellings. The Almighty will touch the Mountai they fhall melt, and the Hills fh hearted People fhall you be; the the Travails, and deep Baerci (em bred with great breakings of Heart So Dear Friends, that are ter Spirit, keep inward with the Lo move not out of his Power, If you, but let the Fear of his: grea coe er * An Dpiftle.to Friends. | 225 n younight and day ; and be not mn forth by any occafion, out of the , itation of Light, in which is the Ar- r of Righteoufnels ; keep to the O- , live in the Covenant of God Al — aty ;' go not before, nor ftay behind, the Lord will be with you, you fhall t, in whofe Name I fend this a- f{ you, : ; you,‘ bis ot il 5 Who am your Friend and ten inthe = Brother inthe Labour, ar 1677. ‘Tribulation, and Pat ie ence of the Gofpel of 4 . Peace, and a Servant of the Living God. Charles Marthall, | R30 ge De * Ric — a fa Bg 3 Called ‘of God; oe We Teftimony ‘to: th ‘ed ie 7 - awd ler all diligenth attend d its W . Dear Friends, en 3 4 Ather you every where 1 ‘a. Ei feeling of, aud continuing | Otty that by it a fe , Hearts, all Families, ai ; f ive iz the pure Eye of the ue: | ts and te ks? vier tious, Ancient, 5; Power of i Ee ng ries een i jetting unt, the Glorious ma cient, Living and Mi ghty Bower g Ae Teachings, Leadings, 0 jenings, 4 all that Grieves his holy Spirit, an v ered and pulled up: For, Friends, un-) ‘the weighty Dread of the Lord God nighty is my Soul exercifed at this e' to fay unto you, the Lord pita 3 Prove, to Try, to Fan, to Purge, an fine; for the Day grows on that will ras an Oven, but what fhall Abide,’ . | i who may Abide. Let this be the amination; For the Lead, the Tinn ; a, alfo the Reprobate Silver, will pafs ay in this refining Fire. “And that hich may have the likenefs of Gold, is not of 4 pure enduring Nature, will imifh and leave all poor that poffels not i G ito you, inthe Dread, Awe, Fear, and ame of the Lord, hafte, hafte out of Ithat is not weighty, out of thé Na- te that keeps the Soul in any Bon- pe and Diftance from the Lord. ~ Yea, ften out of théMtate of Profefling the futh, in a mature and fpirit contrary Ato it, which grieves the Spirit of the So Dear Friends, every where, I fay . eee ender Vifition. a 287 Pe ‘ ys there, that every Plant that is not of Lord's right band planting, may be dif- God. And all, Dear Freinds,every ~ a O24 UNE ye “hs 228 A Tender, Vifit t ce eons where, the pure Ceeleftial Eye Of | ... Lord that runs to ne fro, beboldir g _ Evil agd the vall ftates ; conditions, all . fall ‘ays, and} i Births, all tliat run from the daily Cr and all that tofe the {weet lovely Im of God, and are growing up in anot Image in the Houle of Imagery, % walks in the Land of Graven Images, all that depart out of the fweet | dring Heavenly Wifdom into that yw) is Harthly and Sentual,wherein t there | priding in the opemings opened in Day of Tendernefs, who are. increg me We. that Knowledge which will b -. ypcreafes of Sorrow: growing into: 4 ate of being Faft and Strong, that g be fed with Judgment, and fees all | knows the Truth, its Way and W and comes not jnto Obedience. inte T fay, the pur Immortal Eye of th ternal Ever-living God fees all. ‘States and Conditions, and all. the paths: and Crooked theSouls. z leads into, and his ‘holt Power] is a to bring. them all to Jndgments ll fore haiten, haften, ae are cone e oo e m St Cac ee 5 ‘ * . i sin, to mect the Lord God Almigh- re there is matter that Hurts the al, that Bondageth the Soul, and arkneth the Underftanding, that fo all yy be Comprehended down under the pminion and Reign of this Glorious ywer, through its Confumings and ut- Deftroyings and Burnings up all at is contrary tnto the Divine Nature ereof. In which Power Immortal sace is known with the Lord, through blefled Work of Spiritually flaying > Enemy, and thereby is the, Recon- o God through Chrift Jefus our lord. And, all Dear and Tender Ancient Power of the Lord, and have. Teavenly Taftes thereof,and {weet Pre- ous Openings thereby: Oh Dear- Mriends, dwell with it, and in it, and Srowning you with Dominion over the- n of Sin, his Root-and Fruit, and in ? a_i A Tender Vifitation. 229-—~C cf a*. a Swill give you your Souls Defire, © will your Inward Man, in Spirit, walk. - eee with” 7" a gain that which Eyoch obtained, ¢ _ pleafe God: And. the - this Teftimony you may have, Life ¢ _ Immortality is brought to Light, 4 ble and full of Glory; becaufé this I . Enjoyments of. its Spiritual Fillings, | “in the fweet Spiritual Melody of E . God, unto Salvation, that fo all th * ia 230 A Tener Vifitation 5 with God who is a Spirit, and to. ; J . ) that confolating Teftimony that yi efore all Prien ‘every where, wait for the frefh Spriny ing and Glorious arifing of this | mighty Power of the Lord, that it m: ‘thew it felf fignally every where, Re ding all Vails, Sreaking all Bonds, pening all Graves; Raifing up all Soi into Life it‘ felf, that in all your / femblies and Meetings every whe in it may Rejoyce with Joy unfpea ‘mortal Power Reigns overall, Fle over all, Waters over all,» Melts do all, Fills all, Sweetens all; that’ in dy high Praifes, Spiritual Thankfgivir nal Life, may rife, fpring, and be of ed up in the {weet overcoming of Love, who is the mighty Power falfe and wrong, that’ grieves the { Pe EN Tie < BPRS - ae + by alt ae. * 19 iy © ° vi Cal Rie yg g ‘A Tender V: ifftation. frit of the Tord, may all be driven id carried. away before the: mighty cam, anid ftrong Flowing of this Im- jortal Power of the Being of. Beings. © "And now, all you Lambs, and Babes, fid weak Oncs, and all you Suffering, incere Ones, under the Buffettings and Femptations of your Souls Enemies, and I ou Prifoners every: where for the imony of Jefus, in all your various oO ind ‘Temptations ; and you Mourning Tribulated Servants of God for Szon’s ba the Crufhing, Bruifing, and ‘Treacherous work of S/ou’s Enemics. Look up to t who hath, and is bowing his Ear to fhe Cries, Groans, and Supplications of s Oppreffed, in every fiate, whofe << ; Streight Ways, and Pure Paths of If denial : Feel, feel, the arifing of this help over all Weaknefs and Tnfuf » Temptas So a ixercifes, Tryals, Streights, Neceffities, . ake, whofe Souls have been Oppreffed, € Tord God of Tender Compaffion, ° suls Love the Lord, and have Chofen . ortal’ Power of the Lord, which» mcy, over-all Streights, Sorrows, and ® 3 * Grieved, and Bruifed under the fenfeot 7 rts Py. ee \ ee ee oe a tite ee w be a, eos ’ MOA | 32, A Tender Firat. : Temptations: Arife, arife,inthe 4 Arifin and Immortal Pow is 3 for the. Lord} arifing in the Land, and his Work fh profper, and his determined. Counted which he hath caufed to be Proclaim ed therein, he is: bringing to pafs. We oe to the Wicked ; lec their I rc feffion be what it will, it {hall ; g0 i with them: But to the Righteous, fa fait the Lord, It fhall go well. Be ther fore incouraged, for the Lord ftroa _ and Mighty is on his Way; ye tende People of the. Lord every. where, tha diligently wait upon him with Broker nefs of Heart, and Contritenefs ba 3p rit, Heavens Windows over you fha be opened, and Showers of plentifu bleflings thall fhowerdownon your Soul: You Hungsy Ones, you fhall be fed with the Bread of God ; and ye Pane ting Ones, you fhalt be Nourifhed with the Vertue of Immortal Life; and ye " Thirfty Ones, ye fhall be abundantly Refiethed ‘with the New Wine’ of the Kingdo “of God, handed to you. by che Hand of Poweryin the Cup of his Balvation,, But the High, the Haught} c dp ie Sg ii lll ale tay 1% _. \A Tender Viftation. 233 4 the Rebellious, the Stiff-necked, tral ourn; and the Tongues that have * lifted up againft the Work of the ord, and the bringing forth of his Power, fhall be Gnawed for Pain; and he Lord wi!l mite the Proud, and con- ound the Enterprizes of the Senfual ; and his Power fhall go over all, and mead down all thine Enemies, Oh Sion, that gather to this Immortal Power, d with it continues, and to it fub- sts, it’s BrighenefS and Glory fhall be thy Covering, which is the.Teftimony, for the Glorious Lord Omnipotent and Omniprefent,. “Of your Dear Travelling Friend ind Brother, in the Labouts and Travel of the Gofpel of Peace. 2 Charles Marfhall |Tetherton the 16th of the 8th Month, re 1679: Dew Friends,» aunt me Ho have. been vifited v wi : Morning of the oe gend D of Gods everlafting Lome 8 ay ‘feen the clear Infhining of t al Light. thereof, through — me jecious. way of Beernal [ . An Epiffle to Friends. 235 nded, your Hearts have been tender’ sfore the Lord: Dear Lambs and ~ abes of my. Father’s Fold, inthe Bow- sof unexpreffible Dearnefs is the Sa- tation of my Love and Life unto you, nd in the pure ftream of Love and» ife, and precious Power of the Lord; fay unto you, Walk on in the Hea- enly Path of Life, and Way of Peace, e Mark is before, the Glorious Prize, | we fhall obtain that run well. Pherefore in the Name and Power of he Everlafting God, caft off every re and Burthen that hath hindred, r would tinder you, and now walk. towards Sion’s City, the Palace of Great King, where he Reigns be- e his "Ancients Glorioufly : Shut, out weakning and difcouraging Thoughts d Reafonings, and come away in this’ ‘day of thé Arifings of the Glorious werful God of Heaven and Earth, ho in this his day is frefhly Vifiting his Inheritance, caufing his latter plen- ous fweet Rain of Love, Life and . 4 * thereon. And therefore all every venly Vertue, to defcend abundant- :. where, Snake Atal tari i where, who are. cOnviI good of t venly Truth, in the | pure Awe of the Alp ig capacitated to enjoy what th naar plentifully yt ng 7 .creafes of his Goodnefs. leffing: And the way to be fo capacitated fe this precious Spiritual Enjoyment, i diligently to wait Upon the Lé ‘d inward, {weet, retirednefs of the and Spirit, in the feeling of, and ft éting to that Heavenly Leaven that Lé vens the whole three Nee - fo tha every one come to receive the holy } D vine difpenfings of Love, Life an " Nourifhing Vertue, whereby the inwa Man grows up in ftrength and and {o comes to have an Heavenly Pi: of Joy in the Manfion-Houfe of the Lot So to the Heavenly {weer ae to his Teachings, Leadings, and F ings, I commit you all every whe and reft in the fatisfa€tory Keowled di of the soa of eK Lord’s Work a es i iy dn Epler Prien. 3h altho aes age et ar ¥ ; “dh iach fuffered fevetal Me R al ‘to arife, fince we have been ee Pare gh which’ there hath din is, a°Sifting and Winnowing bye | fou. grow in the Knowle “aca him at is True, and Abide jo him Yi is ue you fhall receive a ceftain Under- ding to know Aim that is Falfe, fo, are ppeietves in the Word of — patience, from centring into thé hour pt tion, that all thofe fall into 50 from. the Heavenly into the * y, in which grows the heady, born, and murmuring. Sat Ss (hit y which jis born aft | Wifdom, and therein makes War h the Birth that is after the Spirit, ch the Lord Almighty hath. aad W Debafe ‘and Confume, by the tnefs of his Appearing, Arifing, aN ming, and by the Breath of his). . R Mouth J > ~ vercome in the Po is Arifing, ah Mo fort thee, chrovs | Spiritual Warfare, Enemies of thy Profp and more thy Light | forth as Brightnefs and the Lord to Arife on faith my Soul and Spirit. 6 Mane 16 i ps 4) Y Dear Hite . ie iB: HofeSouls love Mount § ‘ferufalem that is the Beautiful Bi daa Place i ee es ae ee oe ra < ry i) rYS % Pe nk = > ik » a . Tj e Wile Mecring. 2fh the Glory of the Lord ee of Life grows, and Life-runs.. Meet you to- in the Adorni ; of the Ancient nous: Holy Women, and wait to the Spirits gathered ‘down into the a where. the Wonders of God is | here. Lift Ae and Power, and from above, {pring into the Im- Soul, by which you will be o- | to. the Lord, and one unto ano= ; _ And Dear ae You here fi t- a i Mouths, ee ‘eiihin pais of the Motion thereof, fo mu minifter Reftefhment, and come Lofs, nor-hurt in your felvés. ic Friends, flay not behind the of the Power, nor go not be- id it ; begin, continue, and end, j : ‘which the Kingdom of a inc “now, forafmuch | as there is a of Contention rifén, that would. Re divide Righule ; _ none, have ani | Telelees a Sea ) up to ‘ihe Enem by Neglect to fer ond according t | lox you to hehiee of vie : $s, that you. that fta ent. Care,» and walk Inocency, that day after da E re and more ye hi el of Meck. fs, Patience and Temperance, and the » ar of the. Lord, may appear in: you ; Juft, Careful, Watchful, Aw- r, Living, Pure, and Unrebuka- alkings inall your re(pe€tive Places, Preach forth the Life of Jefus. And - the Lord will blefs you with Do- jion, over his and your Enemies. Dear Friends, Endeavour not to fon down; but as I faid, Inthe Name the Lord "Telus Chrift, we down all tion and Contention. nd the Lord will kaften his Work, at an end to that which this day dif. urs his Worthy, Glorious, Renown- ‘Dear Name. So-keep your Meetings the Name of the Lord Jefus, our = Leader, Commander, Saviour, ep herd, and Bifhop of our Souls, whofe Love I am your Friend and =~ her, in the Tribulation and Patiense | shrift our Lord. ~ or 3a “2 A oy . Apa ry See See 4 ae? ee % eee my A ‘zs 3 , ae IN. THE 2 cK ove of. God, 7 UNTO. em 1 People every ree Bae a “% Particularly Unto se ‘e ta ‘ 7 ‘Inhabitants of Wiltfbire, lo peeare’s and Brifiol, = ~~ a AN'D** & . bbours: in and about Tether- ee is A). ' firudlion are As | Proy. 4.13: , Tak ber not £0, ae 2 Cor: §: 10, the Fudgment Se receive the thing that be hath ya. &nowin therefore # Te Pre e men, i es ee Rom: 2: 9, td : aoe pi a. every Soul of Mant | Es firft, and dp the Gentile ; G and Peace to every. aa th “to the Jew frft, and 4 there % 80 7 rp ‘ kt ~ % eS ? R é ’ a! i ee a ae tt 12 St Seg : y 1 Ee Re A Me tN ae u 4 a! * ‘ “r ype " ‘Tender Vifiration, de. ese Tile Ree oth et Pas orn aa BY fl Friends, Neighbours and Count 1Y-heia, 7 A. Mongft whomThavehadmyCon- - > \ veriation (intimes paft) inthe fear ~ "the Lord God of Heaven and Harth, d now being a Sufferer in this Pri- for Jefus Chrift’s fake) I am con-. fained in his tender Love to Vifit you y. thefe. Lines, ftirring you up toa © ous and tender Examination and Con- |. deration, What Way you are walking in? ing, there is but Twa Ways, as Chrift plus faith, Mat.7.13, 14. Enter ye ia the trait Gate, for wide ts the Gate, and ad is the Way that leadeth to Deftrum ion, and many there be that go in thereat ; eoaufe fivait i tile Gate, and narrow is Way, that leadeth unto Life, aud few there that find it. Now commune witl r own Hearts, and be truly fill i eat Sai o. 2 ’ A fi i, f Ei oy ] hb — : Pro. 27.7. . i Matt. 1 as 620, 21. 4 269 A Tender Vifitation. - your.Minds, and fay unto. your» oy Job 22.15 Souls, What Way, ave we walking in? Chrift Jefus here took: no notice oF many Ways.and Profeflions of Relig if.45.17-both among, Femsand Gepralés, but pla ly concludes all people’ walking in | of rhefe Ways, namely, the wide Gate Prov, 14. broad Way, or the firait Gate and war #2, Wy, , Iv’s true, there are now im Ways and Profeffions of Religion int Age of the World ; but now, as th they are all coneluded under thefe ¢ Rom8.c.0he Wayof Life, and the Way of Sim Death, And,as thele Two Ways contrary one toanother, fo are the Fri Mat, 3.3, Uiflerent that are brought forth by '.” ‘and’ Women walking in thefe. Way Joh- 15-2. All that are walking in the broad Wi are bringing forth the Fruits of the br Way, which are, Wrath, Marther, 18,19,20, L voughts, Adulteries, Thefts, falleWits Gal.s.19, fes, Blafphemies, which the, Apoftle a fumming up together, faith, are cht Adulteries, For nications, Uncleannels, 1 civioune|s,’ Idolatry, We chara: Hats Variance, Emalation, Wrath, Stri AG § dition, Here fiés, Envyings, ern Dr ‘A Tender Vifition. 261 os, mefs, Revelling, * and {uch like, and. *Mark, — th, thas they which do fuch things, fall Neighvors, inherit the Kingdom of God: Now Syn) efeare the ae the broad Way,and 2. i _ thofe aif ing therein. And this His ay is called Broad, becaufe here men is y walk-in their Sias and Iniguities, Prov. 4. in “the Pleafure and Vanities “ot their *% 16; 5m inds ; and the Gate is wide to receive that fpend their precious Times, . ‘ th Morning and Evening of their Day, PC86.11, d not in the Fear, Awe and Dread the holy God: And here the Multi- v8 de, as aforefaid, walk in this Way ; Prov. 15. ; the Enemy of Mankind, the Devil, * ** mee ks not what men may profe(s, in iat ords, of God, of Chrift, the Kingdom Heaven, Religion an® W orfhip, while ey continue walking in the broad Way, « hich leads to his Kingdom of Dark: Pro. 4.19. ys fs. Hence it was that the great Gad Ce ‘ this Servants, the Prophets and Apo- ° es, teflified againft their Worfhips and + formances, and that of feveral things, hich were once commanded: And _ hy ? Ye may fee it was, they hadfor- en the,Right Way of the Lord, and. an 7 bias ak EA ey were ee ae ey ee * Pal 146. were performing. their’ 9 anc were corrupt, and Confeienc And he complains by Haiah (chap 2.) I have {pread out myo Hand day uato a Rebellious and \Gaia-fajing Pe ple, which walk in a may that was a Prov. 12. good, after their own Hearts: This Wa 1s. that was. not good, was the broad W } in which they were,as now many at walking in, notwithftanding all the out-fide profeffion of Religion: andj faith the Lord by his Prophet Jjaia chap. 1. Vv. 12, 12, 13,14, 04, 06, £7.04 what parpofe is the maltitad: of your Sac fices unto me, faitlythe Lord? 1 am fall Burnt-offerings of Rams, andthe fat of Beafts, and I delightmot tm: the blood Bullocks, or of Lambs, or of the He-Goa When ye come to appear before me, hath required this at your hand, to tre my Courts ? Bring no vain Oblations, ] ‘ cenfe is an Abomination to me;. the N | Moons and Sabbaths, the calling of Affe blies I cannot away with 3). % « IN QVITT, even the folemn Meeting 5 yc <3 4 sage epap 963 Mb Appointed Feafts ateth, they are 4 trouble unto oe ary to car them, And when ye roid bands, I will bide mine 4, \ “rhe: ; your Hands are Bioad. Wo x, make ye clean, put way fe ee ‘your Doings from before o Eyes, ceafe to do Evil, learn te do ¥ Sit Judgment, relieve the Oppreffed lead for the Widow, Cre. So you may nan : that no’ performances of Worthip, ~: 27- 7 fi *2 E oi went into, ies, they , ditobey'd God, ind tranigreffed his Righteous Law and 22° i essen inelinients This is the fe seaileoh that Czin’ ‘walked inj when he flew his * qnnocer ‘Brotlier Abel Fo This is the Way Gon. 5, a the Old World walked ic, when a | 264° A Tender Viltation: ee Pcen:6.;.had, through difobedience, turned afide; fo as that the Lord faid, My /pirit (hal a... not always ftrive with WM 3 and it re ent eg i the Lord that he bad git ies Ay hy, and it grieved him at his Heart. This iS p Jer-17-13-the broad Way in which Ifrael walkec ) . when they had forfaken the Lord, Fountain of their livin ‘Mercies,and_ ro: voked him to Aner Bolles in the Wik Fy dernefs, and through feveral Generation ns, | as you may read in the Prophets, whon - the Lord fent to teftify againit them t Cor1c. This is the broad Way the Scribes and 9 Pharifees were walking in, notwith tans ' ding all their great Profeffions of Re- Pi 4. ligion, who killed the Lord of ae apa ‘ Glory, Chrift Jefus, I his broad Way i: G."77 that in which the apoftatizing Chal as | . walked, and are walking, which Fade | ure .. pronounced Wo againft, becaufe they walked in the Wa ay “of mee ve raleiiy. 4 ence, v and walking into Ait: ies Way of ie Difobedience,that brought the Yudgments, Pamen.2. Plagues and Calamities, Miferies and Dew populations of Nations and ns from Adam?s day to this day; ee "A Tender Vifitation. 265 roing out of the marrow Way of Obedi- Gen-3.1 7 nce into the broad Way of Difobedience,’” hat brought Mifery on Adam, the Car{e Gen, aie yn Cain,. Deftruttion by a Flood on thes2 Wd Word, Sfudgment on the Children ,,.., ¢ ye of Trael in the Wildernefs, and fore 6,7. ae Plagues and Calamities through feveral Generations, as you may read even all | long in the Prophets ; and: then what sgt 3 a if befel ferufalem and that People, and” fince through the Ages and Generati- aa onstothisday? an - Now having in fhort faid fomething of the broad Way and wide Gate, and of the Walkers therein ; Lam to fay fome- ing of the narrow Way and firait.Gate, ie which Chrift Jefus ‘faith, fem find : This 4:69 is the Way called in Scripture the. As- tient Way of Holine/s, and is called sar- Jer.6. 16. ‘, row, and the Gate ffrait, becaufe no double- 4 minded Man can walk therein. For all Jam. 1.87 Viankind, that come to walk in thisway, | muft leave their Iniguities behind; for oe ae there is no coming out of the broadine ~~ ‘to the sarrow, but by putting off (as the Jer. x0.” Apoftle faith) the Old Man with bis™ ~ ‘Deeds; and this is effeted by adhering, Friet + | Be sahil joyn- 22; a x i. * “Ae tga Wa t i ; Provig.18 3 fining Light, that {bineth more and mo Avid on it Jeads to, and leads out of it’ nt I Math. 19. Lambs of God, ‘Chrift Jefus, ie ‘ ? «12,28. lation by the way, and fay »66 A Tender Vifitation. . joyning to, ando the. Grace th came. by ‘Chrift. pie head Ape file faith, bringerh Salvation, teaching | deny Uniodlinels and. worldly ‘Laftss: an not only fo, but leads into’ a livin Godly, Righteoufly, and Soberly, in th prefent World: This makes manifeft. tf ifi4o.20, Broad Way, givesa fenfe of the D t Bit 2611; the Narrow Way.. And albeit this Way" Narrow, and. the Gate frait*o Mankin in the Fall and Alienation” from Got walking in the Broad Way, laden wit “Sins, as before: mentioned, - oo oat | and Women come out of the Bro and from delighting in Unright act and come ‘to delight in: Jer.22.36. 33. rit, who leads the Obedier th bleffed Work of Regeneration, he's Vi fee that the Way: of the Lord is a ple; ha.42.16. fone wey, and the Faft Mans ath. ‘unto the perfedd Day, and fo fhall drini in of the Brook: of Comfort a Co nfe Sol mon, Ina the Way of Righreof eft as oF “ ATenderVifcaion. 26% | inthe Path-way thereof there. is-no~-33-15+ ath: { Mark} Life to the Soul, is. i. sath to Sin ; here the Ranfomed by the ecious Blood of Chrift Jefus return to on, with everlafting joy upon their heads. ‘But now, all thar come to walk’ in pa ce firait Way, and enter in.at the frrait yep, 10: Ty) ate, mutt take up the Crofs of *Chriff 20. at efas daily, anddeny themfelves, and yi. , e ftrength received by «the Heavenly 23, 24,25. ‘ ace of God, refift and withftand all the Bs emptations of the Devil, who Tempts Ng oft to that Sin afd Iniquity, he knows Aan is moft prone to; But when he pmes to. J empt,and thy Mind isexercifed a the Light of Chrift Jefus, thou feeft Prov. 2-75 iis, Temptations, and thy Soul’s Defires ypeoos ind breathing Supplications afcend to - «© |) he Lord God of Strength, for the lift- Bg up of his fpiritual Standard in thy al againft the Temptations and Power the Enemy, in every evil Thought and laclination, in which the Enemy work- 1 Cor. 10,99) eth firft.. And therefore in Marth. 15.°3 | ay vert. 18. thou. may’ft read, Chriftfefus | put Evil Thoughts firft, before Wrath, urtber and Adultery, &c. for there is a time i & ee , » + E Rom.6. brings forth Death: For k — ons 268 A Yender fey . time % Sp $ Socrates | ames1, Parts, Defore 45 ae the Apojile obfe ita ions ig, f finifhed,it brings forth Death; for.t. of Sin is Death, but the. Gif ft of God: wal Life through Fefas Ci brif Now the holy Li of God gives the fi ight, covery of Sin in is “a ne when the power of the Enemy v to Tempt and Allure Man, and draw a afide: but now while it. is only in| James 1 Temptation, and Manin m1 EY mind not joyned to the ; 12, 13. Notcharged as Siz ; but w up and clofeth with the Te as to obey it, then is Siz John x. = are < faith the Apottle } wh om ye 1 whether it is of {im anto Death, , or of R teoufnels unto Life, 1 ara Now tfead heres eae Country. ‘CR, How far, | PG 16.11. Expertemce in this mec, a cr + Men and Women with t walk? For this is the WV ay and | ‘vine Path,that mail ing World, and a the finfal Laff. * is s Fle : 3 a : R . i Saree and B tated rink. th : ws alicia tc ‘sha ae re owe. PY, 2h. Ile 6 bates ¢ fig, a Phis. 8.19. a é what Nature big ee. Pro. Risa ies 20. ‘Co ‘ :? Pro.4 19s oa “meet Wit PL 139 turnip walk int walk in, ' Pal.1319, 80 be /dife icq...» Seripture;icbae themfelves Pl.69. 1%: ri Lord 1 Pet.4. ae i thi ; 25394) §¢ rae fo r Evil of you ATeddeh Vipeition, | 291 Dead. So took over all the “Re- es you. “meet with for’ Righteout- ake : For ye may remember. how F Jefus the Lord was: ‘Repros ache Mowing whom ye ‘may be ‘Re. ed. But’ after ye°ate exetcifed in pat. 7:7, arrow Way, taking up the Crofs of *. Jefus (delpifing the Shame) you _ hy that Sout-/atisfattion, saward Mark3.34 nd" devine Confolation, that will Luk9.23- ft that’ heavenly Content, that rom3.18 ut-ballanice all Exercifes and Trials is Nature; ‘fo that you will have taufe to Magnify herroat and . 4“ "He ‘is good, oe Panay in his Pal. 7 and tender Mercies over the Work-*» ie Nip of his own Hand, who hath vi- four Souls when we were pofting ithe Broad Way of Deftruction, and - nly a Profeffion ( by the hearing ae Har) of God, Chrift and his K7zg- » Scriptures, ’Reli igiom, and once a ‘confeffin Sa. We were miferable Sin-> er: frrayiag from the right Ss nce} which i 1S always accom pa- ¥ tha truc forfaking Sin and Ini-" ‘4 T 2 gs ina but knew not the True Ads 3:19. | ar 7 | A And then when any and thou wilt will be concern Relations and through his'Grace, -—. and fhewed thee’ 4 do for thy Neig ' \into the® Mage Li | not to 'regder: E: Me x Petz. AMBeF, Seofing a BG | Tyee ss pena but ¢ | “So following thi i the Saviour of: Man ie an encreafed’ fight: of th | tween a Chriftian in Name, {liam in Nature: Al is fuch that hax ie 0 feffion of Chrif Scriptures and | pee a, 29.83.the Lord wiat ] | Makz “him with the N A Tender V ifitation. . 275 ing after Sin and Vanity, and is om Righteonfnels. A Chriftian in - Profeffion of Chriftianity only, | of the warrow VV ay and frase, butis a VValker in the broad Vay; a Name to Live, but is.Dead in Trefpalles. Buta Trae Chriftian | d, and isa jew inward, one, that is jagain, without which Chrift Jefus 4 there cannot be an Eatring into Kingdom of Heaven ;: fo is really jon. ;.>. yged in Nature, and cut off from wild Olive, and planted into the true » the Divine Nature, from whence John 15$ its of Chriftianity are brought forth: a e the Circumcifion is not that of the hy but that-of the Spirit : A Chri- y followed, the Lamb in the Regene- jo, and hath put off the evil cor- t Nature, and now appears amonpgft in: Simplicity, bring) forth. the its of the Spirit, Love, Joy, Peace, Divine Nature is Circumcifed ee iI, 33,25. |. sin the Divine Nature, is one that yon. 5.4. _ ct Olzve, and brought thee o in the» Way of | ‘the: sthy: cit He a sme ae in ‘the knoy ‘8 ofthe Foot: Block _ Jefus 3 feeing irk t bo nig Me t of God's’ y Day, withy 18. chy Heart was. feats "and § came exceeding Sinful, and unexpr Burthenfom. = antigehea thy ‘ out in Diftrefs unto the Lord Ge Deliverance, who: hath heard: the of the Poor in Spirit, and Sighi the ‘Needy, and made. ing Arm, and in’ due time miffion of Sin, anda: bloteing 19) Franfgreffion. _ And then, Temes! ” frelbment came from the pr Lord; and from the Glo vine Power, that hath wror ally forthe cutting offi fron Pl. 12. §¢ VV ay, and planted tk venly. Vine .of: Lif and’ made thee a: ly Vine} dailf receivin divine; Virtue from | Roor: And: then lets A Fender Vifeation. 277 jtval “ineumbent Duty, which is, to le in the! Vine, Chrift Jefus. . For he Natural Branch cannot bring forth ee 15 it, exceptit abide in the natural Vine, nore can any bring forth Frais, to God septable): except they abide in the hea- Vine, Chrift Jefus.. E Neichbours and Country-Men, thus sing out of the broad Way of Sin Mniquity, and walking in the mat-Meth.7, |) Way of Righteoufnels and Holt following the Lamb of God, Chrift sj in the Regeneration, ye are fitted his Glorious Kingdom ; and they sindeed bleffed that are come to that “(who can in truth) fay, For them live is Chrift, and to dye, gain. Sur thefe’ have put off the fins of the fh, the old Man with his Deeds, and after Godin Righteoufnefs and Holi- |. For our Life here isevery uncer- and momentary, fo that when we in the Evening, we are un- put onithe new Man, who is Crea or 4, 24s of rifing in the Morning ; and . ¢ Tife in the Morning, we are” ertain we fhall live until the Hvening? — ¢- Phil. le 2. Job 26. [a eee ee eT a ; ‘ 3 * a ‘eh “Jeb 18,14. Death comes, the King of 1 Joh. 14.6-ing in the Way of. Mea 278 ifitation, So as the Servants of God fai is like Vater {pile on the Ground not be gathered. ap: again ise a) Weavers’ fbuttle, cut off ; and liketle tr | the Air. ia: Ce a Well therefore, Pi iets uncertain, and Death foxcertai Country.men and Neighbour, in der Bowels of Chrift Jelus,, De you, for your own poor SouPsiake, w you have: time (a ime) ‘number your days, ani pt pe dt latter End, as to. apply” ye that Heavenly Wi , which te and inftru@teth to’ walk in the’. Way of felf-denial, which 1 Eternal: That ; when the. Evil Doers) it may mect with, ever; which will) be the & Xs and Satisfaction of @ll Men ar that have prized’ their ‘prec that God: Almi hey rat the — of ‘a je King 1 of God’s Favour is upon thy Soul, » the Joy of his Salvation on thy . : + And calleft thy Neighbours that e ignorant of this precious Worley Oh, Neighbours ! do not content yo 4 Pet.1.8. & to the Kingdom , Cant.s. O Friends, of the Br Rev.2.10. 82 - : war Mat. 5.11, Hes of, Wicked Me 20. A. Tender’ ‘ felves with the F ‘are but for-a ‘fe ‘ fon.indeed) an »fand be fhut out of “Oh! but redeem yor ‘more of it in Sinan ‘hour, walking i ‘ye may enter in” “Glory, where the ‘ lefs Bleflings of ‘ Confolations, in ‘miable, Cosleftial) ‘fits at the Immortal ‘Love, faying, Eat, 0. your Souls be. fatisped . the Hone of God, “Oh! Kingdom).4s an end rows, Burthens, Tears, Inhuman Ungodly It here the Redeemed o of the reach of all | Men ; yea, here the Wea ig an Immortal Sabbath, t - = ae ms Sis. anh at oe hail = Lem: — re -. | ATenilee Vifitation. . Bt ae a Fountain of Gardens, and VVelt Cant-13s iving WVaters and divine Streams: — 4 “ae the” New. Song is fung before s Throne of God in the Mpringing/™ * of endlefs encreafing Joy, and divine frefhments, in which arifeth Blef- 95 and “Glory, Wif@om and Thankf- Angs ; Honour, Power and Might he 872: to our’ God for ever and evermore, Retard 838 . Friends, Neighbours and Country-men, ho may: have any doubt ‘which dre ge Prophets, Minifters or Teachers of nrift Jefus, and which are falfe Pro- lets, Minifters and’ Teachers of Anti- ift, fince there have been both through any Agesof the World ; unto all fuch make this Friendly, Reafonable and riftian Propofition,aamely,To do like je. Noble: Bereans, (who-were defirous F Truth) fearch the Scriptures from Ge- bis the firlt, to Revelations the laft, and fark in what Way they walked, and hat Fruits they brought forth, chat id Here. ‘True Prophets, Minifters or Teas) hers, both under the Law and Prophets nd. on’ the’ other hand, what Way they | - walked” 283 walked uaa ‘forth, that mi: be the falfe™ _WTeachersy by efus,and his’ ; conclude, tho’ of the: true, ar of true Minif er now true; an walk in the Wa falle Prophets chrift. | $6: fear Spirit of Froch th and receive Chi 47.13, 94, ab warvow Way, Love treated befor following’, he: fait phets, &c. (v. 16. their Fruits, Wt si sii cies dal Pe EM eD vot. aR Me es A Tender Vifeesion, == PB . Falfe Minifters: a, em Thwsfairhthe Lord e concerning: the Prom — of 3 putterh not into ikem, hat Months, they sii of judge tid per Priefts there- sa- of teach for Hire, and arry. the Prophets thereof Ht por divine for MoneyMi- cah.?. 5. Wobetothe Be) Shepherds of Urael, 6 that feed themfelves3 flould not the Shep- ge. a if Bice herds. feed the flock ¢ here, your Peace Yeeat the fat, and ye reff upon its of. clothe you with the it {ball vetarnto Wooll; ye kill them ou : agsins Luke. 2, that are fed, bat jem “3 b,10.2, 334. The feed not the flock, ers which are a- Ezek. 34. 2, 345. : i Alio’ among True Minifters.. ‘* mong you, Lexhort- to feed the: flock o God which is ame you, not by confirai but willingly, nol filthy Lucre, Los ready mind 5 as being ening over God's Heritage, being Evfamples t the flock, 1 Pet. 2, 3- Read 40,.7.45. Luke 3. 45 5+ Ch. Fo. LO; Acts 2.17; nay SQ=15 3 9):-Sere 12. 7,8. to 17. uCor. 2. 13,14. 0h. 4s'9, 10,11, 12, ch. 9. 18, 19.2 Cor.3. x 5,6. Color. 25. Bs Thefi'2, 9.2 Tel. 3.8. ¥ Tim, 6 10," spy. 2:4 i) 2) OAc b.4. 2°01 Petsqi peau 30) 22. jer.7.25. A Dende Viftiarion = BB . OSTSCRIPT. Memoriihs ‘the Tender Mage ey 5. of thes Lord unto Briftol’s as | i habitants, with an Invitati- | in 10, and Lamentation ovee - 7 hem. prey” ok, HH, Brill Byiftol aCity fivouiee J ofthe Lord, and tenderly dealt with him! How good hath the Merciful ipaffionate God:been unto thy Inhabi- s,,and to ‘the Countrigs round about s! Ik’s now many years fince ye were. rei fed withthe Sword and Pejlilence ; @ which, how many Favours hait F received and enjoyed in am abun- £ manner, from the haad of a tender reiful God? Thou haff beer in thy’ . ae dings much enlargedj-and thy In-99 9” litants much ingreated; Corn, Winey Xe my with i and abundance i . @ead: hath the Lord God. Alm igi Inhabitants. And “in )the- feaier . ftretched. out: his handyover the j politan of. this Nation, ands witl dreadful Stroke of; the: “Peflilence, away . Multitudes (even many ‘T fands) he fhaked ‘his’ Hand! ; ; thee, taking-away a fewtof thy. Pee 3 bitants, as a Fatherly -Threatning, eye then giving thy Inhabitants: (and 1 places in this Land) an opportunity ieafon of wonderful’ Kindnefs and, cy, to Fear and aah 5 Great, Pp rious and Terrible Name,and wond aes Power, and by that Te eecibte dg + = * provoke thy Inhabitants with the ” kes {ands of this Land, every one ton ae and turn from the Evil of his Do it and remove the Stumbling: kc ote Iniquities, dc. And not only thefe cies and Favours hath the Lorde : ¢ to thy . Inhabitants, O City of Bri which furely .ye’ cannot-bute con ‘els Pigto ; but he hath fhewn thy Inhab Mercy exceeding hath vifited you “oa 4 ae 7é 7 - ae Ste Vipitation. 28h he mOtaing’of his holy Day fpring- - High, aad by his Cccleftial at Hath fhined in the Hearts of many, scan Underftanding of their itates the Separation and Alienation from Ge to beget tender Breathings and. afitings after the knowledge of ft Jefus, the Saviour and‘Redeemer © Mankind ; for without the Know- 4% re of God, and @hrift Jefus, whom 12 th cos Eternal Life cannot be ob- == and this Day of unexpreffible tender tation from’God Almighty, reached 2 many of thy Inhabitants, and a- fened them inwardly to feek after Knowledge of Salvation, and to walk ie. zcrrow Way, and experience the tk of God: (-before-mentioned ia this 7 © Treatife, ce.) Oh! how hath ia dom uttered ber Voice tn the Street ! 20,2% wrjech inthe chief places of Contourfe;”*§ ie opening the Gates in theCity, [be © eth fons wards, fajing, Flow long, ye a le Ones, will-je love Simplicity, and ee ees deligh? ip cornigg, and Fools e PKyavledge? Turn ye at my Repeaey 5 288 °* .A Tend behold, T will pot ot I will make yes deed the Lord God ¢ hath, through h | ed unto,’ and™ : Hand of Love, and unto you; and thus ¢h preffible loviig Kindiné thee, O Brefol! ‘fparit and lengthening “@ub Love, ftretching"out his all the Day lone, dc he did by his *Prophe will ye a 0 Hoafe. Tenderne!s of a How aes he waite ‘ Long-{uffering might: Buele ind pote ted ‘iin andeForfaking your Sim @ that have grieved his have vrevailed: with ‘tt you'sOh! whar dhall tf Fové and wonderful B Lord,” anid his bat ait A Lender Vifitation. > » 289 h’s ana” Wonderful, in Wifdom and ty! Well might the Servant of the, - icty out, and fay, 04! the Height, ™ th, Breath and Depth of the Love of God, ‘vift Fefas, to tbe Sons and Daugh- 7 of Men! of the extending of which e, you, the Inhabitants of that Ci- = have ‘been large Partakers. But 25, 200 yy Q Inhabicants.of that great Cry! w: have ye an{wered the Lord: for all a ptender Mercics, and undeclarable lo- 7 io Kindnefs ?, Have you fo hearkened the Voice of Wildom, as to break ‘our Sins by trye Repentance ? Have mheard her cry, and turned to the wd ? Have you loved Judgment, Mer- , Truth and Righteoufnels? Are ye that Number that fhall obtain Mercy, paufe ye are, Merciful ? Ina Word, ave ye Anfwered the Requirings of imighty God, and ptized the Day of ur Vification, and all the mercies mul- lied unto you, honouring the great” —% eator of Heaven and Earth, in bring= . ae le-forth the, Fruits of the Spirit, Love, "aay iy Peace, Lang-fuffering ,Gentlene/s, Goole es, Faith, on Temperance, © ce buts a ¢ Ese Gai j l ey 3 how 290 @ A O Briftoh, Briffol 1° requited’the Lord ?- éd the tender: nefs ’ Are not yt ur Sins of and yous Ini aed eS Sie: Cryir like unto th sine “Sode rab, great and griev se not "bringing chin tne Fre trary to thote of | tioned, which aie : . cation, ‘UncleannefyE , a. 5-193 Wireh-cr aj, Hatred, &. Weath, Strife, Sediti Martber, Drunkent Apoftle faith, chev. foal’ not paheree ‘the’. Read, and confider whet thy Inhabitants are I ral of thefe ‘grievous S by the Apoftle :Is not 4 hands, as.it was in Neaeve cruelly Perfecating and In whofe Cryes afcendite tted into’ the ears ofthe py MGod of Sabbaths’? Are’ Mets Profeffions and Prophas ed. a. Oh ! confider thefe ' A Tender Vifitation | 29% debe invited, in the Bowels of Chrift ius, to break off all thefe Sins by Re- tance, and turn to the Lord God. th all your Hearts, and Repent as tne habitants of Nineveh, did, who cried ightily to. the Lord, and faid, Tea, let em turn every man {rom the vil of bw | yy and from the violence that is tm their aan nds ; Who can tell if the Lord will turn hack pay from his fierce, Anger, that we pert oe. ot ? But if ye {hall ftill go on, and pers ae ft in your Iniquities, and refift the Coun- oe il of God againft yout felves, then hear : x he Voice of that Wifdom that invited, nd invites : Because 1 have called, andye ave refused ; of have firetched out my Hand, pp nd no man regarded >, but ye have Jet at” ought all my Counjel, apd would none of py Reproof ; Emil alfo laugh at your Cata- mities ; 1 will mock when yout Kear cometh as Defolation,your De/truttion as aW birlyina ; when Diftre/s ana Anguilp cometh on you,then pall ghey call upon me, but Lwill got anfiver 5 Re they fall, feek. me early, but they {ball not x “tia find me 5 for that they bated Knowledge, ands did not chafe thefear of the Lord ; they would” pone of my Counfel, therefore fall they eat ees he U4 ae e of 292 A Tenaer Visfitations A of the-Fruit of their ownW ay, a and be fi with therxown Devices. Alt poor Brif What Lamentation fhall T take Up Or thee ? Firft, in the Cor ipa 7 oF unexpreffible Lov , Merc} ie ander De ings and Long-fuffering o nder | ther; Secondly, OF thy Inhabitar 5 er vous:Sins, Tograticude and hs eas j cation, whichis a very unfu to the Lord for ‘all. his, Mer Thirdly, OF thy* deplorable Eftate ( ee Condens D cs thee, inthe Compaffion of the Spirit Chrift Jefus, oe when he det near jerhfalem, he eens Ey, a wept over it, fayiney If thom hadi kat éeven thou) at leaf tm this thy Day. things whith belang wnto ua vn but got they ane bid from thine,Eyes,e : is concerned. for you deeply; of the Lord’s being ed ae caule you Rave and. do 2 again at Meriee pet ie unto Sr Oh! be: en nchy t Mygo on no. further in the broad Vi ob, DefiraGion, before»/.demonttr: te (oly ae et ae Lord mate i By _ ee A Tender Vifitionn © "2Q3 0 ate, and he pour forth his Pury like f thy Inhabitants Day, before it be too te: Returs, return, and ferve the Lord P02 1% nd Trembling, kifs the Sonleft ,, and ye perifo from the Way, + ah God ight ee on your Ss ) give you'that fenfe che Inhabitants thy ey 3 1 HES 294 Vender Vi Diftrefs that will overta ona Woman, wherein yc gather Palenefs, your with Anguifh Fleet-Prifmm, the wits rm Month, W834 ‘Oy thou boly SE tender Compaffion, loo of Vity-on the Inhabitants forth thy Light and Truth | the People out of the bj to thy narrow Way of Holy Mountain, where Proying : 0.2 that rhroagh frretched Arm of tdy Be nifbed, and Iniquity bre Righieon|e/s of Chri E Lowe) may cougr the phe Sea:: 4 i thy sr of the Poor, and Sighing oj forth thy Arm and deliv Diftreffgs, that thy Crtati and thy great Name, and phinighty Arm and fF powned glorioully hie ay Amin's fe * * a, ie as FROM THES: : - Lord God: of Haye. to ail Peatiey Inhabiting in Tpper and Nether Germany, a - ‘who are Worfhipping an’1 ee ' pone sod 5 ‘being through, - iencemnfentible of of the she te rue > God * ae With a few Ww. Cen a all the Giuincred alt “Sheep, who being pee fenfible of = their Captivity in. Babylon, haye fome Pprcachaugs towards | wa his Holy fie Hill, which hei ‘is now eh above ye s wa Hill, pln A ma he Lord. A Metis fg if Kings an Lord of Lords, to all” ae q High and Low, Rich and Poor, - Bond and Free, “Male and Fe * male, Inhabitants of ear Se ‘oe ae ™ Nethe AS gf Reo re ., Sed or Sort en foever ban x “they. be, abo oe Difobedn- cee 4 ence are ignorant of the ‘feline: i ¥ of Hin, awho is not far off. from every one,’ and are i ee b ‘an ohontgad God. % Cute: Profeffion and ie ied ( fe of the Everlaftin I » God, and of ) fetus Chrift whom he hath fent, that flands notyin, nor “fprings not from thé” Knowledge Ge his faving Power, righte- c- ous Arm, and Peay divine: Vertue, > sawardly Rt Cee 298 A Meffage fromthe Lord, | inwardly .revealed and received i in ane through. Obedience, is in the-fight of the Lord.: oe i - Therefore, ° wae : shes i Kee anc Determination o Bie y Tr lafting,, Everlivin ng, Righ teous I. ‘Almighty, is tothrow down, "ay and bruife under the Babylopib | which you have eretted as < reach'to Heaven. sept Notwithftanding 5 fo } . expreflible Love o the: : my Eord and Mafter, tha ‘to Peace and Reconeilia {piritual Terms and Conditions ; ly, ° That you Univerfally, High ‘Low, Great and Small, fumble. yor . © felvésyand fpecdily come of frome ¢ barren’ Mountains of Sh orige cha ‘have “been fet up, eftablifhed ant : “brought forth, through’ the foree 0 ¢‘ your. own Imaginati is, and: in “t ‘ Wifdom that. is. from bel ow, that ‘is’ ‘ “ garthily, flefhly and devilifh : «you bow down and fabmiry yc | ‘to the {piritual’ Appearance and Com-: * ing of, Chrift Jetus; who is now come: ‘again: » sce Dr ighty Goo yards God, eae And » %; \ with 6 $60 A Meffigey om the Eorl: ture,* wherein Manswas eplacec Tranfgreffion ; for eae - ture alone is the Bord p Children of Men’ takes no delight n Children of Men, hoi ed their Profeflion may And therefogg, feeing ith God, the Liord of Hofts, i : ‘ rifing to rend the € pretended Chriftian R: , fotten up in Chriftenidon “root proceeds got’ fre was the Root and Of Awake, awake, andi the’ Dead, that Chrift n Lifes The? Trumpet - 0 founded ott ‘of Sion,” rible Controverfy is pro all Flefh who have pollut mong all Nations, 1 People. « ‘The Axis lif all the fruitlefs Trecdeas of the mighty God break down the oe nef$ through the Nations : The fol Fire ine of the Lord, ~ Gd To the ita of Gtiay. = | eatance of Chrift. The , who is ftrong atid i ‘ ‘gone forth to call all Chrifemgeo an Account, for the Mech aye ee b they haye:fo long Mocke hiseDi- ‘ Majety, with a ee Profeffion that: bh not. brought. forth the. Fruits, of hteoutncls, ut all manner of Fruits: Unrighteoufnels, Hypocrify, 1 Hatred; cc yand all manner: of. inatiobs abundance ; whereby the very Nae C site hath been Blafphemed among : aplaacial y me is — to break forth, A fo ca Jefus in 1 this day of his ritual Appearance, hath behel ld and mi notice ofthe ‘Fig-leaves of Pro- ion, and. becaufe of the FruitleinefS ., the Curfeof the Lord is. gone aad | Xx going: :, nti ye the Lord, 4 384 wirile it “yet nage ae © ‘ofeflion of pi in ia of _ Pride, ace weg ie it, Hy poct -mindednefs, 1, Cove ites. Lat, Unclean- ke and the like; and yet reft, under 4 Ofeffion of his Name ; ; eel find ¢ Almighty yets i jel ie re efus in es as a otters | [bones — together a- Io ; 3 yea, the este my God fhall fear- ki fully i s i] ys *VS i A Eg a , A Meffage from the Lord, 305 ame fhall be feared round about you, “among the Heathens that fhall ‘Oh? that there might be found among ju Penitene Hearts, that would fj peedily ro from the Evil of your Ways, that uu might efcape the Wrath of the ever- ing God. But if you fhall proceed £0 on in your hardnefs of Heart, and the way of Sin, wherein thoufands of yi are at this day walking ; the Righ- us. {hall mourn over . you, for your efpifing and rejeCting the Mercies of od, as my Soul mourns oyer you this ay, and is bowed dowa in unexpreffible orrow, under the fenfe of your Unrigh- oufnefs, and of the Judgments that are lang ing over your Heads. WA jow your felves before the Lord, lye in he Duft before the Almighty God, re- membring that Obedience is better than jacrifice, and to hearken to the Voice if the Lord, than the fat of Rams: So all the everlafting God ‘be intreated it a of Se Se aes ser (il: Pinon, We wh Sheep ‘ 210, in the fi er é i ne apteurty a Bak ee C Baby fe VAWINE S. NGS, and eacines ie bev <> towards the a and bis ha- ly El, ‘which he % now Exal- “ting on othe top of all Hills. A HE everlafting God: hath beheld au Cis and your Suffering State, and Ti eyou Sighs, and your Groans, eup before the Lord God of Sabe mins hath looked down upon defo- rom his honourable Dwelling lace, ‘his Bowels are moyed to return he Captivity and Bondage of Worm ‘cob, who is fmall and as one helplefs ; mong the People, God hath beheld chy Wounds and taken ‘notice of thy Brut- ings, and he is waxed Angry with the . x 4 a People, I" Li ra hh [a | : ‘eo cared ie bos. Rue - Hibeaton 5 aon, ae and Heavenly Everlafting Pow ? A f you, nto, the Death, into the Land ‘of the Living. Remaia no longer ih the outward Court, 0 de i to the Gentiles to ‘be podden ‘under foot, but come to’ within the ‘Vail, and to the Holieft of Moliett, where the ‘Mercy’ Seat’ is to be ‘found bf every one ‘of you’ Remain ‘no longer in the images, Shadows,‘ Likeneffes, and Bicures, but come to fle thing T'ypified bf to the thing ‘it felf, to the Circum- fifion that is without Hands® of which. the Circumcifion with Hands was a Fi- are ke gure SS “a therefore; Awake, Awake, the er the long Night of Apoftacy wherein Antichrift hatt ti tarry not, de- about to reafon with Amend ‘Blood, but come to the Obe- — dience of the Light and Spirit of God, which gives a true Sight and Senfe of Sin and Unrighteoufnefs, and the Na- ure of it; and, being come to this true Besing and Sight, you will come to the Sorrow, and the forfaking that accompanies it ; and fo, through the udgment of the Lord upon the tranf- erefling Nature, you will find Mercy for your Souls; for Sion 4s redeemed through. Judgment): Here then the blot- . wha of Sin,. and the times of Re- frefhment from the Prefence of the Lord ‘will be. wituefled ; and Jaftly, by the Truth in the inward’ Parts ( that make lfree indeed) and is beyond all outward \Profeffion, an inward . {piritual Work Iwill comesobe wrought, Tothis are-you.now Called, through ‘the found of his powerful, Voice signs pei? s ote Des : f 1S ie ERT SAN. 0 Redeem out of the Nature of Sin, into Friends, Te hath preffed on my Spirit “ itha few Lines:imTender bowels risa ea your own Hearts, in open- nefs have Anfwered his Heavenly Call; whe- ‘Hearkening thereunto ; and whether you fog and Clofing in Spirit with that Hee- ofthe dear Son of God. grows, and Fruit they bring forth,..for An Epiftletn Friends; Ga. 343 the Divine Natare ; your Mercies herein have'been unexpreflible.. and Night, for fome: sime,to Vifit of Love, to Call unto you, in .theName of the Lord to come in a Spiritual Com- nefs of Soul, as before the Lord, with his Heavenly Light, enquiring how. far you ther you have made’ your, Calling fure, — by an inward perfevering in.an inward have made your Election fure, “by coming ut of the Reprobating Nature, and Obey- venly Power, that tranflates our of the ‘Kingdom of Satan, into the, Kingdom ») Now, Dear: Friends, ‘The. Lord God Almighty isdrawing, near. to Judgment, and will Judge in ighteou{nefs, accor- ding to’ the Roos in which: every one all the Worfbippers in, the Outward ; Court — An Epiftle to Priends,.G cs: 325) og will falltogether.. “Therefore, the Name, Strength, and. Power of Al- nighty God, and in the fenfe of the vst 0 his Divine Glorious Prefence$ Cry to ie Tothe Rock, Lothe Rock, [o the Rock, {o will the Lord Favour you, und Incompafs you, and make you Sing of his Praife; here is Safety, Food: a Water, Heavenly and’ Never-failing.: And unto you, Young Men, ad Wonen, a and Children of the.People of the Lord, fay unto you, Fear and Dread the Liv- ing God of Truth and Love, and bear the Yoke of the Lord Jefus im Youth, and Love his Heavenly Crofs, that Croffeth all your Inclinations to Vanity. and Vain Pleafures ; abftain from all Hurtful Company, beware of your Defires, that goes out to Pleafures, Meats, Drinks, and Apparel, out of che Fear of God ; let your Words be few and favory, and your Converfation in all places be in folidity and gravity, in the Heavenly Awe of the Omniprefent God, feeling after the Enjoyment of his Heavenly Joys and Divine Confolations ; ead the Scriptures of. Truth in aor ) nefs it _ AY Gao f <- an ere A ow ds ee ¥ aa | é uf ia on pies | _ you neat the Breaft ote fone ay in ithe Light, pote seit snares ding: in’ a‘ living! inward diligence, ; Slumber, to therlofing the Oyl, anid he Lamp: goes out; but abiding: iff e becoine frrong, arid the Word. of Zod abides in yor ; and you abiding ‘in overcome the wicked one 5. and--ye yy Ground ; and fo the encreafe. of tiches; or any Terreftrial, Enjoyment, vil not ‘harm you, for you feed ‘on inothe Life, arc clearly ano- he | ‘ther i Baad tha are Milk gt Word laf fcape the. High-way, Stony and Thor- nd ‘Temptations of the Enemyjy ind it Of the ‘foolifh’ Virgins State, swhere, , jorow fpiritual Idiénéfs, comes fpivitu- daily “fubje&ion to “the Heavenly rofs, tint the holy “Watch, growing ” p to > eheapOuNE: in’s: State, wherein — a ~~ ther Glory ; even that which’ “Fe 32 An Epifile'to Friendse nal and Geleftial, and fo grows up in the ftates of Fathers, ——= t _ Tree of Life; for you. fee him th was from-the beginning, and in who Almighty Power 4s Pele mmeacot Fefuran’s ftate, walking in Wifdor and in the Valley of Humility, wher Shileés Brook runs and flows, by who Water ye are wafhed, and by the he Blood and Life of the Lamb fprinkl inwardly, and with his holy Oy] anoir ed, and fo come within the Vail, in the Holy of Holies, where the Glor - of the Ancient of Days is beheld oi * the Mercy-Seat. of infinite Lovir _ Kindnefs, and in the Enjoyment of hi fweet Smiles and divine Favours, ing overcome with the Majefty of I Prefence, Render, and Return, and Q fers up, in the Strength of -his Love _ Might, Majefty and Dominion, to th Lord God and the Lamb, with hea venly Praifes .which afcend to hi Throne, whe is over all, Heaven an Ax Epiftle to Friends, &c. 219 wth, God bleffed. for Ever and Ever. mon, Amen. From your Tender Friend ah Brother in the Labour and Tra- ap of the Gofpel,, ‘| ‘ yi rn 4 Charles Marfhall he sth Month, 1689. ' " - i : ra | 4 | -} m fie. i # ee a + . é! . x 7 (9. SR " wih ca ef ee , - : ¥u ‘ff as of nest egy siete ive aod bus sah mh ‘bop ae jee | cog enV) bun eu I" a We i: re) a eS yo ; * mrt PI pate Rai ry ‘ee Desi Bicwilss cig Mbit SHE Hi h and- One; “habits fae in hi Love to dwell with thofe that are of Broken Heart and contrite ar Trembles: at his Word ;/ thet th QUalifications of the-People heswill " hold, refrefh and be with, ‘inthe dre: ful’ aflonifhing Day Of his fierce At “and terrible eee Therefore, Home, s : walk in that ye have mad Profeffion ol id whe fight of the Mations; named ‘ the en Light of the Lamb; in whi yd ak. a Mia ae te Be’ er): * will 7 w you ft tithe Lord God’ Almighty will extend — swonderful loving ‘Kindnefs unto all Obedient that, walk Uprightly be- re him, in his’ pure Fear, Awe’ and read, fanétifying his. great and glori-’ 4 98 Name before the People, ida Chri- — ian Converfation, as becomes the Go- gel of Chrift Jefus, dnd inwardly in - pirit walking with God, he’ will ap- ear more and more for their fafety in’ ‘artadful ftormy Day, and give them iedefire of theif’ Souls; in perfe@ing ‘Work ‘begun in ‘you, tothe Honour f his own Namé,'and Confolation. of eitown Souls; your Habitation {hall yfirevand® pleafant in’ the Munition of — Yoéks!” where Bread fhall bé'given you, uk Waters fhall wee fail, the‘everlaft- fo’ Atri’ of Facol?s'God will furround on, Avhiere ye'may behold thé: magni- yires'ithereof before the Nations.” ie Bae teal ‘gle difobédient, cuifaithful; aleify-minded, ” that @rieves ad “vexes he ‘Spirit! of thé Lord, difhonours’ the: Re) ¢ i ae pera) ie ple, fecal your States andConditiors, a ftand before the LordthisDay; Hapieand hardehs the Heartsof Mis Peo: | as An Epiftle to Friends. | 2) hy a h , ' q ~ Bie er om ; | 329 An Epi shieeitiinie ple,caufing them to fj k Evil ofthe w: of Truth; ; [have a Tidings to ne the etrim unto all fuch in the pet of, the Lord, feen a dreadful Da | he rapace all fuch, wherein rat h they been delighted § in, in their departing ot of the pure Fear and Awe of the Al mighty, will be day Ss and a Fire no tobe quenched will be kindled in thei Bofoms, ,Confuming dreadfully and afte nifhingly. , Therefore, Awake, Awake Arife, trim your Lamps; {ee to your Oy before the Lamp. goes:.out never-.to b lighted any. more, and the Day of fe ting out, forever: overtake. |. So, dear Friends every where,, be i ir ward, inward, in great bowings: dow! of Spirit,and hurnilicy of Soul, Wait t feel ‘the. invifible, Power of the. Mi ht God to fanctify, thatye may be ab F ftand..in the Day ca nis Fangeng.f th Nations,,.and Treading. of ‘his Indignation, amongit the Peaple and.as ye. ftand here, divine Rain m heavenly .Dew will defcend u voaPi ' caufing: you to grow as a Garda wn Bip to F ‘dina hae den, even like Eden, before: ha Re ) Pah he may take great delight. ib aay So, dear Friends every-where, double. * our Diligence, redeem yout Time, feel nd love the Girdle of Truth to gird up _oyns of your Minds; and where ye been unwatchful, carelefs, or ae let the time paft be. vt and now in ae patie the ms an of: hod in the Powet f whofe Love this comes unto you, through a Servant jof the ‘Lord, and ravellet for Rion" s Welfare, | ‘Charles sal , a ¥ * J Jind he : S ve iit am! ach eo i” Pr pees CA ie nie pe a) Every Pe ere. ' HED “4 eu Ray od vs : Dear Fri@eds. and Brethren, ~ XH THO with a high and heavenl Calling have been called oe : Vork Darknefs, and all the Ways and thereof, to walk inthe marvellous Ligh of the Glorious Day of God Almight that hath precionily daw ied aghis ou Day. Grace, Mercy and -Peace fron God, with the Vertues of his Hterna Spirit, be multiplied in and » YOU. . Oe bas A General Epifile to Friends. 223 Friends, |The great Husbandmanof . € whole Barth, having, in the Riches his Love,: planted a Vineyard with e.choiceft Vine, in a fruitful Hill, in is Age of the World, which he hath | uned, dreffed, and plentifully watered, coming to take a view thereof, to fee. hat Fruit it bringeth forth-; and there- re it weightily concerns you to fee. - ith the Light of the Lord, how you ~ ive anfwered his great and inexpreffible ove, which for many years hath been yundantly extended unto you, and prize our time whilft you haveit, and it is . illed a Day of Mercy; and Oh have ~ care that you give no room to the fpi- it of the World, that blinds the eye Ethe Mind, and fubje@s the Affections things below, and raifeth up the old jove to the World again; beware of the — ding out of the Simplicity of the Gofpel md Jet there be a tender inward care > watch againft all thoughts, that dark- as you, and gricves the Spirit of the lord, and let your words be few and tafoned with Heavenly grace, go not ut of the exercife of the pretious ne | f - 4 Chrift Jefus, into any excefs in Mi Drinks, or Apparel, which is: uper! ous, and make no provifion for the Fl to fullfill the lufts thereof; let not y Gold and Silver, Lands ‘and Liv Furniture or Apparel, any wayes € fnare you, or entangle, furfeit, or a charge you. For Oh Friends, the Enemy oP ‘Sio profperity hath laid deep fares in t Spirit of the World in thofe things, draw out the Mind from the pure - _nocent Life obtained and enjoyed thro the Spiritual exercife of the Crofs Chrift Jefus, which crucifies us to World and the World unto us; but if _ Mind goes out of the Awe,and Dr ae Fear of the Lord, and Holy Chote: _ Heavenly Watch, into a falfe Libert then you will live to the World and d| World to you; and here is the way th ‘Death comes over again, % . Therefore Dear Friends, ‘this is ' Word of Truth to all the Profeffa thereof every where, Home, home, j ward, inward, and in the Spirit saphica Tower a and abide; he AGeneral Epifileto Friends. 225 ou -will receive manifold fpiritual ad- antages, and will fee the approaches f your Souls Enemy, when, where, ow, and in what he works, and here ou fee clearly how Sin is conceived in ne Thoughts, and when it is finifhed brings forth Death, and fo you receive n underftanding how Sin is ftrength- ned and how overcome, and how ‘it is nifhed and brought to an end, and the verlafting Righteoufnels of Jefushrift rought im, and how the knewledge f God encreafes and come cover he Earth, asthe Waters cov the Sea, nd fo fhall your Peace flow asa River; And, dear Friends, keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of Peace, and grow — Ip in it, for whilft the Churches kept. nthe purity, they were in the greatelt . mnity, here they were with one accord, ind great Grace was upon them under the dominion and Beauty of the Glorious Power of the Lord, for Sion is a City at unity with it felf, and the Body bdifies it {elf with Love, but when the an revailed to draw out of the Chrift Jefus, ( where all the Q 2 Members 226