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A41345 A few lines in true love to such that frequent the meetings of the people called Quakers and love to hear the sound of truth but are not yet come to obey the testimony of it, that they may also hear and learn to read at home : with a second addition as a confirmation of what the Lord requires at your hands. Fisher, A. (Abigail) 1694 (1694) Wing F984C; ESTC R32818 6,898 11

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Lord for this the Land of our Nativity and Country in which we dwell for which dear Friends let us increase the number of true Breathings tender and fervent Supplications such as may find acceptance with the Great God who is Lord of Lords and King of Kings and ought to be the only Ruler in every one of our Hearts To whom belongs all Honour Glory Reverence and Godly Fear and to him let it be given at this time and for ever Amen A. F. My Friends THese foregoing Lines were intended you some time since but I was not willing hastily to publish them till now having good Confirmation by the Testimony of the Spirit of God that runs as in a Current or Stream of Life through many of his faithful Servants by which you and I may understand that this is his Will and the present concern of many that are convinced of the blessed Truth and comes amongst us that they may all walk in the Truth and according to the Righteous Testimony of it in their own Hearts that still the Testimony of Truth may be preserved in the purity and sweetness of it by all you who do profess it and have believed in the Spiritual Appearance of Christ Jesus in your Hearts who said I am come a Light into the World he that believeth in me shall not abide in Darkness but shall have the Light of Life And blessed be the Lord many can testify he that hath promised is faithful to perform By which we know the true Light hath not only broken forth but the Sun hath also risen and in its clearness shined that Discoveres unto Man what is good and makes known the Exceptable Will of God which is that Man should do Justly love Mercy and walk Humbly with God whose all-seeing Eye beholds all things both the Evil and the Good And therefore you that have believed in the Light take heed to the Light that you may be the Children of the Light and of that blessed Day that many through the Divine Discovery of it hath and will find themselves concerned to do good and communicate of those Spiritual Blessings that they do receive from the Hand of the Lord who through the Riches of his Love doth communicate to his Children and People that wait upon him such inward Comforts that doth refresh them by which they have been often made to say it is the Lord that opens the Depths and causes the Brooks to run by the way And therefore in a living Sense thereof let us all be of a ready Mind as dear Children to Communicate and also to Receive one from another that which the Lord may see convenient by any Hand to distribute amongst us that may tend to Edification Strength or Confirmation in that measure of the samemost holy Faith which was once delivered to the Saints and which in some degree hath been delivered ●o us in this our Day by which many can bear witness to the truth of ●hat Saying As the Wind bloweth where it listeth even so is every one born of the Spirit into which Spirit the Lord hath gathered many notwithstanding there are many Enemies to Truth through the subtle working of the one Enemy of Mans Happiness and all Righteousness who goes about as he always did seeking whom he may devour having many subtle Devices by which he hath drawn many from that true regard to the Lord their Maker in which their Preservation doth consist for which indeed Dear Friends we have all cause to seek the Lord not only for our selves but also one for another that all those whom God hath called and given Faith to believe in the dispensation of his Grace and Power in our Hearts may be preserved under the safe conducts of it through this the Pilgrimage of our sojourning here towards that everlasting Rest which many People are desirous to enter and of which the Lord hath given some an Earnest in this our Day by which they are incouraged to go forward in that way which leads to Everlasting Life which way is Christ Jesus who appears in us to us and amongst us for that very End that she might restore Man and Woman into a state of Happiness and Felicity again with God their Maker who made Man for a purpose of his own Glory although Man hath sought out many Inventions with pretence to glorify God But we may see that Mans pretended ways have greatly tended to the Dishonour of the Righteous God that made him and hath put his Spirit in him for that very end that Man might be taught by it to deny Ungodliness through his Subjection to it or otherwise what is all Mans saying or doing in pretence to honour God while they do live in Unrighteousness and do unjustly one by another which we do too often see is insident to Man in his fallen Nature And therefore in this consists all Man's Happiness in Believing and Receiving him whom God hath ordained a means for their Recovery by which they may be brought into a state of Union and Communion with him again And therefore all you who have believed in the blessed Appearance of Christ Jesus in your Hearts let it be your Business and chiefest Business to walk according to the Convictions of it that by the measure of the Spirit of God received you may be able to resist that Anti-christian Spirit which is against God and an Enemy to all Righteousness and as you come to be inward and commune with your own Hearts and be still you will find what is most consistent with and agreeable to the nature of Godliness and what is most against the nature of God who is Love and they that dwell in Love are found in that which is good and most agreeable to his Will who is the Author of all good And hear you will come to find the plain path way as you come to receive the Reproofs for that which is against God by which you will also find by good and sound Experience that the Reproofs of Instruction is the way to Life and this is the universal Love of our God to all Mankind that thereby they may come under the peaceable government of his Son our Lord and Saviour Christ Jesus to whom in true love let me recommend you that we may all be partakers of the blessed Benefits Death and Sufferings of our Lord who gave himself a Ransom that he might Redeem Mankind from all Iniquity and Disobedience by which he did violate his Law and incur his Displeasure but through Christ in the Riches of his Love he hath and doth call all Men every where to Repentance and that they may Repent with that Repentance that can never be Repented of And therefore all you to whom the Call of the Lord hath reached and are in some measure made sensible of his good Will therein but have not yet so obeyed as to know the work of Sanctification Salvation and Redemption out of that state of Alienation in