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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

Righteousness we have a Bread you know not of For this Manna wait daily that thou mayst be strengthened in thy wilderness-travel to the Land of Eternal Rest Wherefore labour not for the Bread that perisheth that is the Bread of Man's inventing and making which cometh from below and profiteth not because it giveth not life eternal But labour thou my dear Friend for the Bread that never perisheth that endureth for ever and that giveth life eternal to all that feed upon it O cast thy care upon this Word love it and dwell with it wait daily upon it hear its Voice only and follow it for it bringeth the Soul to the eternal Habitation of rest and glory Yea when all Flesh wither and the beauty thereof fade away this Word and they that are grafted in shall abide for ever O that this may be thy choice and it shall be thy Diadem and thy Eternal Crown and Glory These are the fervent desires and these the daily prayers of my Soul to the God of my Salvation for thee not only that nothing in thee may be lost besides the Son of Perdition But that thou mayst cast off every weight and burden and that Sin that doth so easily be-set thee that grieveth boweth and oppresseth thee Under the heavy weight of which thou groanest and sighest that the Redeemer would come from Zion to deliver thee O give not heed to the Enemy the false accuser that seeketh to devour that which is begotten of God in thee neither look upon thy own Sins Burdens or Weaknesses but lift up thy head and look to Jesus the Author of thy blessed Visitation and wholly hunger and thirst after him the spiritual brazen Serpent that healeth and relieveth all that in Faith and full Assurance look to him Want of looking to him hearing and obeying him and having true faith in him is the cause both of all the Presumption and Despair that are at this day He did no mighty things of old in those places where they believed not O faint not look not back remember the holy Ancients the holy Pilgrims of Faith the Royal Generation of Heaven Heb. 11. Thou believest in God believe also in him for the Work 's sake that he has already wrought in thee He will minister to thee as he was ministred unto by his Father's Angel in the Hour of his Abasement and great Temptation O watch and be faithful and thou shalt be a noble Witness for the Lord. Once more let me expostulate with thee would thou overcome the Enemies of thy Soul's peace and enjoy the delightful presence of the Lord with thee then keep nothing back let nothing be withheld that he calleth for remember that Saul of old lost his Kingdom for keeping that alive which he should have slain Thou knowest what be●el Ananias and Saphira outwardly But be thou like the poor Widow of old that therefore gave more into the Treasury than all the rest because they reserved the greatest part to themselves but she gave all she had O blessed are they that make no Bargains for themselves that have no reserves for Self neither consult with Flesh and Blood nor in any Sense conform to the least Ceremony which is born of them But that submit their Wills in all things to the Lord's that they may be made perfect through Sufferings as Christ was Read me in the mystery of Life I speak not of deserting or flinging away all outward Substance but that thy Heart may reign above all Visibles and make God its Treasure and never rest in any thing of this lower World or short of Christ the Eternal Rest of all the Seed of Faith Here beginneth the Narrative THE Lord brought us well to Wesel on the fift day after we left Herwerden having some Service by the way At Wesel we had a good time with Dr. Schuler and Rosendale and the Woman we mentioned to thee but the Taylor was shy and fearful of coming to us at the Doctor 's The next day we went towards Duysburgh we visited the Schult or Chief Governour that Night whom we found at home he received us with much Kindness His Wife and Sister we fear have been shaken in their good belief of our Testimony since we were last there some Fowls of the Air have devoured the Seed that was sown O that sweet and tender frame in which we left them the time before however the entrance we had upon the Spirit of the Schult a little consolated us Hence we sent Maria Martha's Friend a Letter desiring him to let us have his Answer the next Night at Dusseldorp inclosed to Neander when and w●ere we might see him either at Dusseldorp Mulheim or Duysburgh and if it were possible we would gladly visit the Countess of Bruch We got early to Dusseldorp next day being the last day of the Week but Neander was gone to Mulheim in order to Preach on the Morrow so that we were disappointed of our Intelligence Next Morning we went towards Ceulen and there arrived that Evening The next day we had a good opportunity with van Durando and Docemius at the House of the latter and that Afternoon took Boat for Dusseldorp Where arriving next Morning we presently sent for Neander who came to us and three more in company we had a blessed meeting with them and one of the three that came with him our Souls were exceedingly affected with The Meeting done they went away but Neander returned and first of our Letter to Mulheim we found by him as also at our return to Duysburgh that Kuper was so far from endeavouring ou● visit to the Countess that he would not meet us himself neither at Dusseldorp Mullheim nor Duysburgh nay it did not please him to send us an Answer much less any the least Salutation I confess it grieved us Now for Neander the Young man hath a Zeal for God and there is a Visitation upon him my Soul desireth that it may not be ineffectual but I have a great fear upon me for this I know certainly from the Lord God that liveth for ever and I have a Cloud of Witnesses to my Brethren that Retirement and Silence before God is the alone way for him to feel the heavenly gift to arise and come forth pure and unmixt this only can preach for God pray to God and beget People to God and nothing else But alas his office in that Family is quite another thing namely to perform Set Duties of fixt times Pray Preach and Sing and that in the way of the World's Appointments His very office is Babylonish namely a Chaplain for 't is a Popish Invention In the good old times Godly Abraham that was a Prince and Joshua a great General and David a King with many more instructed their Families in the knowledge and fear of God But now People are too Idle or too Great to pray for themselves and so they worship God by Proxy How can a

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