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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54225	Tender counsel and advice by way of epistle to all those who are sensible of their day of visitation and who have received the call of the Lord by the light and spirit of His Son in their hearts to partake of the great salvation, wherever scattered throughout the world : faith, hope and charity which overcome the world be multiplied among you / by William Penn.	Penn, William, 1644-1718.	1695 (1695)	Wing P1377; ESTC R28424	17,575	47

prevail to draw out the Mind from its sensible Habitation to embrace his Representations of old Lusts and Pleasures that are wicked in themselves he will present you with lawful Objects your outward Enjoyments Business and Calling and steal in upon your Minds in the Croud of these Lawful things and there lay his Snares hid and covered and at unawares catch you My Dear Friends Blessed are they that see Jesus their Captain going before them and counselling and leading them in all their outward and lawful Concerns that they offend not For my Friends this know you may unlawfully think of lawful things either in thinking on them unseasonably mark that when your Souls should be wholly retired and exercised in the Lord's Light to feel his presence in which is Heavenly Life Or in thinking on lawful things carelesly not with regard to your Guide he that hath bought you throughout with his own precious Blood that he might have the Government of your Bodies Souls and Spirits that is of your Bodily concerns as well as of the things relating to your Souls and Spirits This prevents much harm and mischief in Business and Families and preserveth the Divine Sense that God hath begotten and the Creature in it So that its Fellowship and Peace with the Lord runneth as a River it is not stopt or hindred by the designs of the Enemy Or lastly in thinking on lawful things excessively too much more than is needful without limits thereby gratifying the fleshly Mind which is Enmity with God and that Sense which he begetteth in the Soul O the Mountains that are raised by such vain Thoughts betwixt God and the Soul How doth the Soul come under an Eclipse lose sight and at last all Sense of the Living God like Men drowned in great Waters And thus many have lost their Condition and grown unsensible and then questioned all former Experiences if they were not meer Imaginations till at last they arrived at Atheism denying and deriding God and his Work and those that kept their Integrity For whom is reserved the Blackness of Darkness for ever unless they timely and truly Repent But when this subtle Enemy of Man's Salvation seeth that he cannot make you bow to the Glory of this World that all his Snares that he layeth in the things that are seen which are Temporal are discover'd and broken and that your Eyes are directed to those things that are Eternal then will he turn Accuser He will aggravate your Sins and plead the impossibility of their Remission He will seem to act the Advocate for the Justice of God that he might cast you into Despondency that you may doubt of Deliverance and Salvation Many are the Thoughts with which he perplexeth the Sons and Daughters of Men But this know that he was a Liar from the beginning For the Lord doth not visit the Souls of any to destroy them but to save them For this end hath he sent his Son a Light into the World and they that bring their Deeds to it are not of the Devil who hateth the Light Neither doth the Lord cause People to Hunger and Thirst after him and not fill them with his good things Be assured my Friends where ever the Lord hath begotten Desires after him and where ever Sin is become exceeding sinful yea a burden to the Soul the Devil's Kingdom is shaken the Prince of this World is begun to be Judged and God is at Work for the Redemption of that Soul Hearken not to the Voice of the Serpent for that lost your first Parents their blessed Paradise And with the same Subtle and Lying Spirit he would hinder you from returning into Paradise But when he is herein disappointed he shifteth his temptation and presenteth another temptation viz. that though you have begun well yet ye will never be able to hold out to the end That the Temptations are so many and the Enemys so strong they are not to be overcome by you and that it were better never to profess such high things than to fall short of them this will but bring Reproach to the way and the People of it Again that 't is Curiosity and Spiritual Pride and Conceitedness for you to be thought better then others with the like Suggestions on purpose to stagger your Resolutions and weaken your Faith Ah! he is a Devil still a Liar and a Destroyer Look not to him but to Jesus who hath called you Keep but your Eye to him of whom the Brazen Serpent in the Wilderness was a Figure and he shall Cure you of all Diseases of all Wounds and Stingings of Serpents and Scorpions c. that may attend you in the Wilderness-travail which is the hour of your Temptation God is exalting him in you a Saviour therefore is he manifested viz. to destroy Sin Yea stronger is he that is in you than he that is in the World He is able to bind the strong Man and cast him out do but believe truly in him and cleave to him Remember there were evil Spies of old those that brought false nitelegence that Canaan was a pleasant Land but the Way impassible but the Faithful Enter'd and Inherited Keep therefore in the righteous Life of Jesus and walk in his holy Light and you shall be preserved through all exercises and difficulties unto the Eternal Canaan the Land of rest Neither Wonder at these things that temptations attend you or that the Lord tryeth and proveth you it is the way of all that are gone to God For even Jesus was tempted and tryed and is therefore become our Captain because he overcame Neither be ye cast down because the Lord sometimes seemeth to hide his Face from you that you feel not allways that Joy and Refreshment that you sometimes enjoy I know what work the Enemy maketh of these withdrawings of the Lord. Perhaps he will insinuate that God hath deserted you in his displeasure that you must never expect to see him that he will never come again And by these and the like strategems he will endeavour to shake your Faith and Hope and distract you with Fear and to beget great jealousies and doubts in you and by impatience and infidelity Frustrate your good beginnings But though David said of Old in the distress of his Soul One day shall I fall by the Hand of Saul yet he overcame him and had the Crown Yea the Lord Jesus himself cryed out in the agony of the Cross my God my God why hast thou forsaken me Nevertheless he gloriously Triumph'd over all and lead Captivity Captive for the joy that was set before him Which joy is bebore you it is the mark of the price of your great and holy calling Wherefore faint not neither murmur if your Spiritual Moses seem to withdraw a while from you Do not you make Images in his absence neither wax Wanton but possess your Souls in holy fear and patience waiting with holy Reverence and Diligence for his appearance who is

Man cryed and the Lord heard him and saved him out of all his Troubles Our Souls said the Righteous of old waited for the Lord for he is our Help and our Shield for ever Wherefore my dear Friends be not you discomforted for there is no new thing happeneth unto you 'T is the Antient Path of the Righteous For thy sake says David have I born reproach I am become a stranger to my Brethren and an Alien unto my Mother's Children When I wept and chastned my Soul with fasting that was to my reproach I made Sackcloth also my Garment and I became a proverb to them They that sate in the Gate spake against me and I was the Song of the Drunkards Save me O God for the Waters are come in unto my Soul And the Water Floods are ready to swallow me up They persecute him whom thou hast smitten and they grieve those whom thou hast wounded Do you not know this Dear Friends are not your Tears become a Reproach Your Fasts a Wonder your Paleness a Derision your Plainness a Proverb and your Serious and Retired Conversation a by-word Yea when the Lord hath Wounded have not they also grieved And when the Lord hath smitten you have not they mocked But this was David's joy the Lord is my Shepherd I shall not want He restoreth my Soul he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his Name 's sake he maketh me to lie down in green Pastures He leadeth me beside the Still waters Yea though I walk through the Valley of the Shadow of death I will fear no Evil for thou art with me thy Rod and thy Staff they Comfort me Who was the Comforter preserver of Shadrach Mesach and Abednego that refused to obey the King's Command against the Commandment of God They would not bowe to his Image but rather chose the Fiery Furnace then to comit Idolatry or bowe to another thing then to the Living God Did not we cast Three Men into the midst of the Fire said Nebuchadnezzar Loe I see Four Men loose walking in the midst of the Fire and they have no hurt And the form of the Fourth is like the Son of God O my Friends the Fire obeyeth him as well as the Winds and Seas All Power is given to the Son of God who is given to you for your Salvation Well Shadrach Mesach and Abednego the King calleth out of the Fire and they have no harm though the Mighty Men that cast them into the Fiery Furnace were consumed The God of Shadrach Mesach and Abednego is magnified by the King's decree and Shadrach Mesach and Abednego are by the King highly Preferred Here is the end of faithfulness here is the blessing of perseverance God will bring honour to his Name through the Patience and Integrity of his People And it was this Son of God that preserved Daniel in the Lyons Den it was his Voice that David said divideth the Flames of Fire he rideth upon the Winds he sitteth upon the Floods The Voice of the Lord is Powerful the Voice of the Lord is full of Majesty They that trust in him shall never be confounded Blessed are they whose God is the Lord For he is a present help in the Needful time of trouble The angel of the Lord Encampeth round about them that fear him and he delivereth them O taste and see that the Lord is good Blessed is the Man that trusteth in him O fear the Lord for there is no want to them that fear him The Young Lyons shall lack and the Old Lyons suffer Hunger but they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing Many are the Afflictions of the righteous but the Lord delivereth them out of them all for the Lord redeemeth the Souls of his Servants and none of them that trust in him shall be made desolate For which Cause my dear Friends cast away every Weight and every Burden and the Sin that doth so easily beset you Neither look at the Enemys strength nor at your own weakness but look unto Jesus the blessed Author of your Convincement and Faith The mighty One on whom God hath layd help for all those that believe in his Name receive his Testimony and live in his Doctrine who said to his dear followers of Old Be of good Chear I have overcome the World Fear not little Flock it is the Father's good pleasure to give you a Kingdom And they that endure to the end shall be saved I will not leave you Comfortless said he I will come to you he that is with you shall be in you This was the Hope of their glory the Foundation of their building which standeth sure And though sorrow cometh Over-night yet joy shall come in the Morning Ye shall Weep and Lament said Jesus but the World shall rejoyce and ye shall be sorrowful but your sorrow shall be turned into joy and their rejoycing into howling And Loe I am with you to the end of the World Be ye therefore encouraged in the holy Way of the Lord wait diligently for his daily Manifestations unto your Souls that you may be strengthned in your inward Man with Might and Power to do the Will of God on Earth as it is done in Heaven O watch that you enter not into temptation Yea watch unto Prayer that you enter not into temptation and that you fall not by the temptation Christ said to Peter Canst not thou watch one hour Every one hath an Hour of Temptation to go through and this is the Hour that every one is to watch Jesus the Captain of our Salvation was under great Temptations he was sad unto Death he did sweat drops of Blood but he watch'd he pray'd he groan'd yea he cry'd with strong cries But through Suffering overcame And remember how in the Wilderness he was tempted but the Angels of the Lord ministred to him So they that follow him in the way of the Tribulations and Patience of his Kingdom God's Angel shall minister unto them all Yea he will keep them in the Hour of Temptation He will carry their Heads above the Waves and deliver them from the devouring Floods Wherefore finally my Friends I say unto you in the Name of the Lord Be of good chear Look to Jesus and fear not Man whose Breath is in his Nostrils But be Valiant for the Truth on Earth Love not your Lives unto the Death and you shall receive a Crown of Life and Glory which the God of the Fathers the God of the Prophets the God of the Apostles and the God of the Martyrs and true Confessors of Jesus yea the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ shall give unto all those that keep the pure Testimony of his Son in their Hearts and patiently and faithfully endure to the end Now to him that is able to keep you from falling and to present you faultless before the presence of his Glory with exceeding Joy To the only Wise God our Saviour be Glory and Majesty Dominion and Power both now and ever Amen I am your Friend that sincerely Loves you and earnestly Travails for your Redemption William Penn. FINIS