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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62696	To all dear Friends & brethren in the everlasting truth & covenant of the Almighty Jehovah, blessed for evermore	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.; J. C.; J. P.; Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669.; Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.	1662 (1662)	Wing T1320; ESTC R20636	7,450	8

TO ALL DEAR FRIENDS BRETHREN In the Everlasting TRUTH COVENANT OF THE Almighty Jehovah Blessed for evermore WE the Prisoners of the Lord and for the Testimony of Christ Jesus do bear in our remembrance with dearest Salutations of perfect love all our suffering Brethren every where and also the whole Flock of our Fathers tender Love whom he hath elected and chosen in his own secret Counsel before the world began Dearly and well beloved our very Souls this day are deeply affected with the Cause of God and our persons at this time are engaged in these Bonds for the Testimony of the same and truly in Soul Body and Spirit are we offered up to the perpetual loss of all that the Name of the Lord and his saving Truth may be testified unto in faithfulness unto all the world and in the Lord our hearts are resolved in the confidence of his Spirit to suffer the greatest of Afflictions and Persecutions rather than forfeit or loose one grain of this so blessed a Testimony now trusted with us and for whic● we now suffer these Bonds And unto faithfulness herein We find that the Lord our God daily increaseth our strength and boldness our patience and long suffering and doubleth his Spirit of Power and Wisdom upon us that we may never faint in Trial and we labour to be armed in our inward man with whatsoever may uphold us and defend us in this day of our Afflic●ions even that our faith and patience our holiness and meekness our long suffering and love to enemies and all Heavenly Vertues may be compleated in us and possessed of us till our God take Vengeance upon the wrath of our Adversaries and deliver his now poor despised and oppressed people for these Vertues are the armour with which we delight to be cloathed these are our weapons with which we chuse to be defended and this must be our final Vic●ory when the faith and patience the meekness and long suffering and heavenly Vertues of Christ Jesus in us have exceeded in measure and superabounded in effect all the unbelief and impatiency the enmity and ungodliness in all that hate us Love shall overcome wrath and envy Patience shall subdue rigorous Persecutors and hatefull workers the very God that dwells with us shall condemn and confound the wicked one with all his might and power and malice and Persecution cruel Imposition on tender Consciences and Oppression and Injustice shall be no more And this is that Victory for which we spiritually War and these and no other are the weapons with which we do contend and the Cause is God's in which we are ingaged and for which we suffer this present day Brethren we hope ye are all like-minded with us and that this same Cause of God his Truth and Righteousness is fixed before you and is your aime and mark and that it is alike dear and precious in your eye and that ye are Armed with the same Armour of God's heavenly Vertues It 's the breathings of our life to the Father that the whole Church of Chri●t and every Member thereof may be kept faithful to hold forth the holy Testimony of Jesus by suffering in this great day of Trial. The Testimony of which we have heard and learned believed and received from God the Father into all our hearts is so precious to us in it's evidence of Peace and Comfort and Justification and Salvation in Eternal life in our inward man that we compare no afflictions nor present sufferings of our outward man to the price and vertue thereof For we can say in the verity of our Souls how ever it shall go with our outward man in respect of Tribulations and Persecutions yet in our inward man we possess the Peace and Comfort and Salvation of the everlasting God and to bear forth the Testimony of this in our age to the world even of that Love and Life Mercy Justification and Salvation which we have received we can forgo Liberty Life and all For this is our duty to which we are called and the end for which we were born to bear witness to the Truth and for the holding forth of this witness we are given up in Soul Body and Spirit to suffer the loss of all rather than to loose this Testimony-bearing to the view of the world Wherefore we beseech and exhort all of you that have tasted of the loving kindness of our God That ye be faithful and valiant this day in the Cause of God not fearing the fury of the ungodly nor the threats of enemies nor the terrors of this world nor seeking to save your own lives but in the faith and patience pressing forward in the race of Righteousness till Mercy Peace Justice and true Judgment run down as a stream willing to suffer the loss of all that Truth and Righteousness may live upon earth and the worship of the true God be exalted and all the contrary overturned and this is the reward of all the Saints Afflictions Be faithful in your Trials let E●tates Relations Life and all go rather than the cause of Truth and Righteousness be diminished of it's Glory by the unfaithfulness of any this day Surely our hearts are zealous for this matter and we are pressed in Spirit to encourage all the Lords people to put on all holy confidence in this day and to cast away all unbelief doubtings and fears of this world and to maintain the Truth of God's worship in the assemblings of his people together in the strength and power of the Lord Jesus Chri●t even to live in it and to dye for it to enjoy God's pure Worship and to suffer the losse of all if called thereunto We know you are not ignorant concerning this Cause of God which we thus affect and exhort you to be faithful in It 's no other than the Testimony of a pure Conscience towards our Creator and that every person should follow Christ and obey him and walk in the light and life of his Spirit which he hath revealed in the heart that God should be feared and worshiped in a clean Conscience and that the Salvation of God may be testified of This and no other is the Cause of God in which our Souls and Bodies are ingaged we know no Ca●se upon earth worth our Afflictions and Sufferings nor for which we will contend with any save for the Salvation of God and that his Justice and Mercy his Truth and Righteousness his Way and Worship may be Exalted upon earth and all the contrary subdued by his mighty Power This is the very cause compared to which our mortality is not to be accounted even that we may behold God's Salvation going forth in the Testimony of it to all Nations and that Nations and Peoples may injoy Justice and Truth Liberty and Freedom in the pure worship of the living God This is the Cause that must live the Lord hath spoken it though for it we may die for our All

is adventured upon the same But whilest our hearts are pouring forth daily Prayers towards God and Exhortations towards you that you may be faithful to give publick Testimony to the Name Truth and Salvation of God our Souls also desire that you all may eat and drink of that spiritual food which will cause your inward man to grow and that your own hearts may be kept pure and undefiled in his Presence and that the Seed of Life with the fruits and blessings thereof may fill your own Souls that while you are striving by patience and long suffering against your outward enemies no inward enemy of evil lusts or affections strife or divisions or any thing of this world may enter into your bosoms to defile you Dearly Beloved alwaye● h●ve a special regard unto your standing as to God-ward and what increa●e of Life Love Peace and Comfort ye daily receive in your spiritual man knowing that by the inward vertue of the Fathers presence the Peace and Joy of God in your inward man dayly receive● from him by that must you stand in strength and dominion against all enemies within and without Therefore feel the Seed of God and it's growth and incre●se in your own hea●ts that you may have perfect Peace and Vnion with God in Spirit while ye are hearing publick Testimony by doing or suffering for his Truth and Name J. C. And Brethren our hearts and Souls reach unto and dearly Salute you all for while we remember the Lord and his goodness unto us we cannot forget you no not the least babe and little one amongst you all for what are we or you or all of us together joyntly or apart but what we are in his life love and peace that endureth for ever whose Mercies Glory Riches and Goodness as so many sparkling Diamonds and Jems of Value adorn our Crown and make it Glorious and every one doth shine with Lustre and Beauty in the eyes of all that behold us and whilest we are so Adorned may we not say our cloathings are white and fine such as are in Kings Houses and our attire no other than what becometh Princes and what ever we have been it matters not except to set forth the favour and goodness of him that hath so raised us from the dunghil amongst the Beggars to sit upon Thrones in Glory with Princes and to shew how the Angel of Gods presence hath saved and taken us from our begging state at the Rich man's ga●e like so many Lazaruses bruised and wounded from head to foot and carried us into Abrahams bosom where we are at Rest praising our God and our King of Riches and Mercy for ever Dear Friends we write unto you all that you may partake with us of the same life glory rest and peace and not only drops and sprinklings of the same but full measure heaped up and running over For you are our witnesses that we with the rest of our Faithful brethren have not withheld from you the whole Counsel of God revealed to us and in us according to the good pleasure of our Lord and Master neither have we kept back from declaring to you his Mind and the mysteries of his Kingdom yea his hidden mysteries which have been hid in God since the world began and that in season and out of season at all times and places as he hath given us opportunities and required us so to do and that not in words which man's wisdom teacheth lest thereby we should make void the Cross of Christ but in plainness and simplicity that God's Witness in every Conscience might answer us and we unto every Conscience might be made manifest in God's fight as we know we are this day and we have our reward from the Lord of the Harvest that sent us forth and this adds to our comfort in this day that we were faithful unto our God in what he committed to our charge And now what is o●rs and our Brethrens reward and Crown of rejoycing but this That you stand faithful in this time of Trial for you know we have not been like unto those who have begotten into the airy Spirit that so you might be alwayes kept in the uncertainty ever learning but never get ability to learn and perform what you have been taught for what we have received from Christ by vertue of his Resurrection and Assention is perfect and hath been Ministred unto you for the perfecting of you all with the rest of the Sanctified ones in Christ Jesus until you all come to a perfect man in Christ even unto the fulness of the measure of the stature of Christ. For which we pray and desire of our God and Father for you all Let your Meetings be in God's fear and Counsel as at other times never heeding what man can do unto you but still be you all followers of that which is good and then who can or shall harm you Keep in the Love to and unity with that of God in all Let the witness of God in all answer your words and actions rendering to none evil for evil but overcoming the evil with the good so shall you be known to be the servants of the Living God and followers of the Lamb as dear children And be terrified in nothing as from any of the sons of men that can befall you for all your hairs are numbred and not one shall fall without Gods Providence neither shall the wrath of the wicked be unbounded but what ever turns not to his praise that he will restrain and the Day of your Deliverance hastneth only look not you out but keep close unto the Lord with your eyes only towards him and not upon or unto any temporal or visible thing but alone unto the Lord God of Life and unto the measure of himself made manifest in your own hearts for unto That you were directed at the beginning and in It is your safety and preservation unto the end J. P. And Dear Brethren the Lord God Almighty who is our alone Salvation having laid the thoughts of the Cause of our sufferings near unto the Secrets of his own Soul uttereth his Voice out of Sion to you his Children in his City Jerusalem saying S●and up ye babes of my blessings and you sons and daughters of my love Gird Gird on Strength in this day of my battel for loe My Banner is over you My Standerd is with you My Ensigne is displaid amongst you and My everlasting Power and Omnipotency attends you And it shall not fail you I will not leave you in the day of Adversity nor forsake you in the time of Captivity for I have Chosen you I have Called you I have Purchased you after the travail of my Soul for you And Blood even the everlasting blood of the Covenant of my life was paid as a Ransome for you and now you are no more your Own but Mine and I cannot be Hid nor Separated from you but as I am faithful I will