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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67230	The antiquity of the Quakers proved out of the Scriptures of truth published in love to the papists, Protestants, Presbyterians, Independents, & Anabaptists : with a salutation of pure love to all the tender hearted Welsh-men but more especially to Flint-shire, Denbigh-shire, Carenarvon-shire, and Anglesea / by Thomas Wynne.	Wynne, Thomas.	1677 (1677)	Wing W3782; ESTC R26413	13,761	24

Love my Dove my Vndefiled for my Head is filled with Dew and my Locks with the Drops of the Night And I may say unto you my dear Country-men in England and my Native Country North-Wales That a long Night of Apostacy hath been since the Apostles the ancient Quakers dayes the true Church fled into the Wilderness for a time and times and half a time Rev. 12. but now she is coming out of the Wilderness leaning upon her Beloved whose Head is wet with the Dew and his Locks with the Drops of this long Night and this is he whom John speaks ' of who said Behold I stand at the Door and knock if any man open I will come in and sup with him and he with me Lo how universal is his Voice and his Knocking and how willing to be entertained by all men And I appeal to all your Experiences you my Friends and beloved Welsh men Have not you heard the Voice of our Beloved Christ Jesus the Anointing in you calling you one day after another from all the Evil of your Wayes and doth he not stand at the Door of your Hearts knocking that he may come in and sup with you and you with him And which of you in England or Wales for which I mourn can tell me of any one Sin that you have practised and although no Eye hath seen you but you have heard the Voice of our Beloved Christ Jesus in you calling you away from it Oh! what wonderful Love is this that he should thus continue to speak to and wo the Children of Men And is it not great Ingratitude for you thus to disregard this blessed Voice in you Oh! I beseech you consider Would it not be counted great Ingratitude in you if some Prince or great Man of the Earth who had been your great Friend should stand at your Door without and knock and you refuse to open unto him Nay I am perswaded that if but a Lord or Earl or Knight of your acquaintance should but knock at your Door oh what a Passionate Haste would you be in to open to him and what Apologies would you be ready to make that you could not accommodate him with Entertainment fit for him and how great Care would you have of sleighting him but if you should be so unkind as not to open to him nor entertain him how soon would he take Offence at you and it may be never be reconcilied to you more although you never did it but once and how ready would most of your Neighbour be to fall out with you on his account telling you of your ill Behaviour to so worthy a Person But behold how oft have you sleighted our Beloved who stands knocking and whose Voice calls you to open to him and notwithstanding that you have sleighted him a thousand times and let him stand and call and knock some twenty some thirty some forty some sixty years yet is he willing to be reconciled to you Therefore I beseech you be perswaded to open unto him and let him the anointing in you be your Teacher for you need not any man to teach you but as this Anointing in you doth teach you freely without Money and without Price Now I beseech you my Friends and Country-men both Papists Protestants Presbyterians Independents and Anabaptists Priest and People of all sorts That you no longer sleight the Voice of our Beloved that calls thus in you and that so long hath waited to be gracious to you as your own Experience will tell you yea I earnestly beg and entreat of you that you proceed no further as many of each of your Priests have done in their Books to abuse our Beloved the Anointing in you some saying It s a Natural Light or Natural Conscience some calling it Witchcraft and some Ignis Fatuus and some the Quakers Idol with many more ill Names too tedious to name and like the Jews great Schollars and Priests of old that Crucified him so have they done now afresh and put him to open Shame and it was the God of this World that blinded those great Schollars Eyes then that blinds these now And as the Mysteries of his Kingdom were hid from all those men then so it 's at this day and it 's my Testimony for God that there is no way to come to the Knowledge of the Heavenly Mystery but by giving heed to the Light the Voice the Knocking of the Anointing in you Therefore strive no longer with your Invented Various Meanings your Various Commentaries on the ancient Quakers Writings your Tongues and Languages strive no more with your Logick Rhetorick Studied Sermons Philosophy and great Books for there 's none neither Learned nor Unlearned found worthy to open the Mystery of the Book but the Lamb whose voice in you only can make it known unto you For as the Apostle Paul said If I give all my Goods to the Poor and my Body to be Burnt and have not Charity I am but as a Sounding Brass or Tinkling Cymbal so I say unto you study pray preach read Books hear Sermons yea do all the uttermost your Arts and Sciences can teach you and it will signifie nothing unto you without Charity and where is your Charity or Pity either to let the Beloved of our Souls Christ Jesus stand at the Door of your Hearts and call unto you for Entrance and take no Pity of him but many of you call him ill Names as before Well my Friends my Soul's Love desires you to open unto him for he will not alwayes strive with you and if you persist in slighting of him although his Voice be but low and his Appearance but like a Grain of Mustard-seed sown in your Hearts you will find that this Light the Anointing in you will be more against you then a thousand Witnesses and then you shall know that this is the Truth written in Love to your Souls by me who am Your Real Friend Thomas Wynne Y Llythyr i annerch fy anwyl wladwyry Cymru FY anwyl Frodyr a Chwuorydd o wlad fyngenedigaeth I mae yn amser i chwi ddeffro oblegid dydd mawr yr Arglwydd a wawriodd a chododd Haul y cyfiawnder ac i mae yn discleirio oddifewn yngalonau meibion dynion yn twymno ac yn cyssuro y rhai a'i carant ef Ac fell y bu Duw yn drugarog trwy roi Howl oddiallan i gyssuro ac i gynal holl ddynol ryw yn eu gorchwylion oddiallan ac hebddo ni fyddei ond nos yn fuan o farfolaeth i holl ddynol ryw Felly i mae ef gwedi rhoi haul y cyfiawnder Christ Jesu mewn mesur i ddiscleirio oddifewn i holl blant dynion i ddangos iddynt hwy y ffordd i fywyd tragwyddol A'r goleuni yr haul yma sydd yn datcuddio i blant dynion eu holl hanwireddau a phan fachludo yr haul yma mewn enaid mae yn rhywyr ir enaid weithio Am hynny fy anwyl Frodyr y Cymbru tirion ystyriwch mewn pryd a rhoddwch ufydd-dod