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A54095	An account of W. Penn's travails in Holland and Germany, anno MDCLXXVII, for the service of the Gospel of Christ, by way of journal containing also divers letters and epistles writ to several great and eminent persons whilst there.	Penn, William, 1644-1718.; Penn, William, 1644-1718. To the churches of Jesus throughout the world.	1694 (1694)	Wing P1244; ESTC R18015	98,942	298

with the Joy of his Salvation giving us to remember and to speak one unto another of his blessed Witnesses in the Days past who wandred up and down like poor Pilgrims and Strangers on the Earth their Eye being to a City in the Heavens whose Builder and Maker is God Betwixt nine and ten we reached the Walls of Duysburgh but the Gates were shut and there being no Houses without the Walls we laid us down together in a Field receiving both natural and spiritual Refreshment blessed be the Lord. About three in the Morning we rose sanctifying God in our hearts that had kept us that Night and walked till five often speaking one to another of the great and notable Day of the Lord dawning upon Germany and of several Places of that Land that were almost ripe unto Harvest Soon after the Clock had struck five they opened the Gates of the City and we had not long got to our Inn but it came upon me with a sweet yet fervent Power to visit this prosecuted Countess with a Salutation from the Love and Life of Jesus and to open unto her more plainly the Way of the Lord which I did in this following Epistle And then followeth a Letter to her Father the Graef of Bruch and Falckensteyn To the Countess of Falckensteyn and Bruch at Mulheim My dear Friend JESUS the Immaculate Lamb of God grieved and crucified by all the Workers of Iniquity illuminate thy Understanding bless and be with thy Spirit for ever Tho unknown yet art thou much beloved for the sake of thy Desires and Breathings of Soul after the living God The Report whereof from some in the same State hath made deep impressions of true Kindness upon my Spirit and raised in me a very singular and fervent inclination to visit thee and the rather because of that Suffering and Tribulation thou hast begun to endure for the sake of thy Zeal towards God my self having from my Childhood been both a Seeker after the Lord and a great Sufferer for that Cause from Parents Relations Companions and the Magistrates of this World the remembrance whereof hath so much the more endeared thy Condition unto me and my Soul hath often in the sweet Sense and Feeling of the holy Presence of God and the precious Life of his dear Son in my Heart with great tenderness implored his Divine Assistance unto thee that thou mayst both be illuminated to do and made willing to suffer for his Name 's sake that the Spirit of God and of Glory may rest upon thy Soul And truly I can say I felt the good Will of God his holy Care and heavenly Visitations of Love to extend unto thee But one thing more especially lay upon my Spirit to have communicated unto thee which made me the more pressing for an Opportunity to speak with thee and that was this That thou shouldest have a true right and distinct Knowledg of thy own State and what that is which hath visited thee and in what thy Faith Patience Hope and Salvation stand where to wait and how to find the Lord and distinguish between that which is born of God and that which is not both with respect to thy self in all the Motions and Conceptions of thy Heart and with respect to others in their Religious Worships and Performances to the end that thou mayest not be deceived about the things relating to God's Kingdom and thy Eternal Peace this is of greatest weight Now know certainly that which hath discovered unto thee the Vanities of this World the Emptiness and the Fading of all earthly Glory the Blessedness of the Righteous and the Joy of the World that is to come is the Light of Christ Jesus wherewith he hath enlightned thy Soul for in him was Life and that Life is the Light of Mankind John 1.4 9. Thus God promiseth by the Prophet Isaiah to give him viz. for a Light to lighten the Gentiles and for his Salvation to the ends of the Earth So that Christ the Light is God's Gift and eternal Life is hid in him yea all the Treasures of Wisdom and Knowledg who is the Light of the Gospel-Temple true Believers Rev. 21. And all that receive this Light into their Hearts and bring their Deed to it to see in what ground they are wrought whether in God or in the evil One and make this Blessed Light the Guide of their Life fearing with a holy Fear to do any thing that this Light manifests to be evil waiting and watching with a godly Care to be preserved blameless before the Lord I say all such become Children of Light and Witnesses of the Life of Jesus O blessed wilt thou be for ever if in the way of this Holy Light thy Mind walks to the end Let this that hath visited thee lead thee this Seed of Light and Life which is the Seed of the Kingdom yea 't is Christ the true and only Seed of God that visited my Soul even in my young Years that spread my Sins in order before me reproved me and brought godly Sorrow upon me making me often to weep in solitary Places saying within my Soul O that I knew the Lord as I ought to know him O that I served him as I ought to serve him yea often was there a great Concern upon my Spirit about my eternal State mournfully desiring that the Lord would give my Soul rest in the great Day of Trouble Now was all the Glory of the World as a Bubble yea nothing was dear to me that I might win Christ for the Love Friendship and Pleasure of this World was a Burden unto my Soul And in this seeking-state I was directed to the Testimony of Jesus in my own Conscience as the true shining Light giving me to discern the Thoughts and Intents of my own Heart and no fooner was I turned unto it but I found it to be that which from my Childhood had visited me though I distinctly knew it not and when I received it in the Love of it it shewed me all that ever I did and reproved all the unfruitful Works of Darkness judging me as a Man in the Flesh and laying Judgment to the Line and Righteousness to the Plummet in me And as by the brightness of his coming into my Soul he discovered the Man of Sin there upon his Throne so by the Breath of his Mouth which is the two-edged Sword of his Spirit he destroyeth his Power and Kingdom and having made me a Witness of that Death of the Cross he hath also made me Witness of his Resurrection So that in good measure my Soul can now say I am justified in the Spirit and though the State of Condemnation unto Death was glorious yet Justification unto Life was and is more glorious In this state of the new Man all is new behold new Heavens and a new Earth old things come to be done away the old Man with his Deeds put off Now new Thoughts new

Meeting six years ago in this City and I remember the power had that operation upon them that I said to B F. and T R. then with me it will not be long before they will publickly own and bear testimony in this place and about three months after he came forth and she about a year after him and from their fidelity and integrity notwithstanding all the sore and bitter tempest of Persecution a fine Meeting sprang but at this day they are scattered being still sent away as fast as they return We visited his Mother's Family where we found three of his Sisters in the love of Truth his fourth Sister being also a Friend and is Wife of John Claus living at Amsterdam We had a little sweet comfortable Meeting with them After it returning to my lodging as I was writing to Doctor Andrews President of the Counsel of State who is reported to have been the Author of this cruelty to our Friends a burden came upon me my writing would not serve turn but I must go my self and in the fear and name of the Lord to plead the innocent and suffering cause of our Friends with him So away we went to his house he was at first astonished to see what manner of Men we were but after a little time he comported himself with more kindness than we expected at his hand I askt him if He and the Senate had not received a Letter in Latine from an English-man about two years since concerning their Severity towards the People called Quakers He told me he had I replyed I was the Man and I was constrained in Conscience to visit him on their behalf and I could not see how he being a Common-wealth's-man and 〈◊〉 Protestant could persecute I pleaded with the Unnaturalness the I●christianity and Imprudence of such proceedings and prest ●ur Reason● earnestly but tenderly upon him he assaulted us with several Objections but blessed be the Lord they were mostly fictitious and therefore easily removed and answered He also promised me That if I would write to the Senate a Remonstrance of the Case of our Friends and express my Request therein and inclose it to him he would both present it and get it to be read and make it appear that he was not so much our enemy as we lookt upon him to be I promised to send him some Books containing a Defence of our Principles which were accordingly put into the hands of Eliza. Haesbert to deliver him in my name Having taken our leave of the Old Woman and her Daughters and a Man-friend residing in that City and left the blessings and peace of our God amongst them We took Ship for Lier where we arrived the next morning thence we took Waggon for Bremen where we came safe through the Lord's goodness the next day where we met our Friends and Companions G. Keith and B. Burly who were come hither some hours before us from Amsterdam In this City there is a work of the Lord begun though yet obscurely We had a travel upon our spirits that the blessed and precious Truth of our dear Lord and Master might find a place to rest its foot upon to that purpose we wrote to two Ministers under some Suffering from their Brethren because of their great zeal against the formality and deadness of the so called reformed Churches This we sent by a Merchant who we formerly met at Herwerden With some difficulty we got to them but the person chiefly struck at was shy to speak with us his reason was this it was known that we were in Town and it was one of the accusations against him that he was a Fosterer of all the strange Religions that came through the Town Also he was then actually under Process and that the People that had heard of the innocency of his cause conceived a prejudice against our Name though it might be without cause he could not at present confer with us and said he was sorry for it with all his heart but what we should say to his Brother should be the same as if it been said to him to whom he referred us however I took hold of his Arm and said I have this Message to deliver to thee that I may disburden my self before the Lord which was this Mind that which hath touched thy heart let that guide thee do not thou order that consult not with Flesh and Blood how to maintain that cause which Flesh and Blood in thy enemies persecuteth thee for He answered rather than I will betray that cause or desert Christ by Gods strength they shall pull my flesh of my bones So he left us in his house and truely we had a good time with his Companion the other Minister about three hours testifying unto him that the day was come and coming in which the Lord would gather out of all Sects that stand in the oldness of the Letter into his own Holy Spirit Life and Power and in this the Unity of Faith and Bond of Peace should stand and therefore that he and all of them should have an eye to the principle of God that being turned to that they might speak from it and that therein they would Glorifie God and be edified So we parted leaving the man in a sensible and savoury frame We visited the Merchant twice and had a very good time with him the man is of a loving and simple Spirit and the Love of God opened our hearts to him often We also visited Doctor Johan Sophrony Cozack an odd Compositum of a man he had great and strange openings he hath writ several hundred tracts some of them are now printed at Amsterdam he is a great enemy to the Priests and in society with none of a merry yet of a rough disposition without any method or decency in his Cloaths Food Furniture and Entertainments he wants but three of fourscore yet of a wonderful Vigor and pregnancy we were twice with him and we have reason to think he was as loving to us as to any body and truly he did show at parting some serious and hearty kindness but we could fasten little upon him as to God's Power or any inward sense of us or our testimony yet we had little to object against what we had said nay some things were very extraordinary From him we went to Doctor Belingham an English Physitian a man of a lowly and tender spirit who received us in much love lamenting when we left him that he had no more time with us At the Inn we had frequent opportunity to declare the way of Truth and we must needs say we were heard with patience and Sobriety particularly of a Doctor of Law who lodged at the house and an ancient Man of Kiel in Holstein we left Books amongst them all and in the Love and Fear of God we took our leave of them on the fifth day after dinner and begun our journey towards Herwerden the Court of the Princess where