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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65480	The word of God to all the elect number with a few words in a deep lamentation over the seed of life, to its tender father concerning them that have transgressed in Israel.	West, Thomas, of Hertford.	1664 (1664)	Wing W1392; ESTC R217334	5,350	7

for evermore That so great may be your unity in the pure spirit that in unfeigned love and holy fellowship your hears mindes souls and spirits may be lincked Joined and united together in one bond in the band of Peace and in the Covenant of Life never to be seperated from the presence of the living God nor one from another so in patience possess ye your own hearts and dwell together in the meek seed of life where in the deeps you may feel the inocent life of your dear suffering brother A Word to the Transgresser O All Mighty all Powerful God of Power of Heaven and Earth who in the Majesty of thy Power and strength of thine Almightiness art risen by the strength of thine Arm to plead with all that are back-sliding in Israel and in this Cause wherein thou hast been provoked by a backsliding People whom thou by a mighty hand and outstretched arm hast brought out of the Land of Darkness and from the house of Bondage who have again Provoked thee Even in the Wilderness and also in the good Land And now although Moses and Samuel should stand before thee and although thy Righteous Servants should petition to thee never so much yet thou wilt not hear as concerning this thing whereby thou hast been provoked neither wilt thou be intreated by us but certainly thou wilt arise and plead strongly with them all because they have so grieved thy good spirit in so often provoking and sinning against thee Yet O holy righteous father thy own blessed suffering seed is very tender and I know t is very Pretious in thy sight O our Dear Father and is not its inocent tender babelike cry in the meekness of thine own spirit aloud unto thee O spare dear Lord O spare thy People for blessed Abraham thy servants sake and for the sake of the seed of thy Covenant with whom and to whom all thy Promises are as yea and amen for evermore oh remember Dear Lord remember and keep not thine Anger for ever oh let it be but in thy fatherly pitty a tender gentle Chastisement to draw them nearer to thee then ever that so they may have great cause to bless and honour thy great name now and for evermore Amen And as I was thus in my Measure very quiet and very still innocently in peace and in joy with my Maker he shewed me Concerning thee O Israel that some within thy Borders had caused and do yet cause thee to erre the effects of which cause will and shall bring sad tediousnesse to them in thee O Israel who have so highly offended the righteous pure unchangable God in minding poor changable man beyond what he is or ever was or ever shall be while he is here in this bodie I tell thee O Israel that which hath been seen concerning this matter hath so highly provoked God that he will not easily be reconciled to them in thee who have thus offended nay nay but for this offence thou must be Chastized and Greatly afflicted and now in this day have ye not throne down one and set up another and is there not now a very great cause given unto us to bear in remembrance at all times the words of our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ concerning that evill slothfull servant but if that evill slothfull servant shall say in his heart my Lord delaieth his comming and shall begin to smite his fellow servants and to eat and drink with the drunken the Lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him and in an hour that he is not ware of Oh consider this all you that have stolen a side from the deep sence and from feeling of your first love wherein there was no evill neither any Guile that so with speed you may return and receive him as in the beginning that so love unfained may spring up in your hearts and life and vertue abound in you that ye may be Grafted into the true Vine to receive of its pure sap and vertue before you are wholly cut off as drie and fruitless withered branches O Remember this every on that hath forgoten God and with speed return least he arise in his Mighty power and Cut you asunder and appoint you your portion with hypocrites there shall be weeping and wailing Gnashing of teeth and as the daies of Noah was so shall the comming of the son of man be Friends it is sealed in my heart by the Eternal spirit of the Lord. These be the daies he spake of and are not many now to the great Griefe of the pure spirit Marrying and given in Mariage not being moved of the Lord and is not the Arke of God prepared and preparing and is there safty any where else save only in the Arke and should not all make hast thither Namely into the Arke of God before the flood over take you which I can assure you all is very near O let every one that readeth understand and is not the righteous life of Noah now Preaching to all while the Arke of God is preparing that are Making merry Namely eating and drinking Marrying and giving in Marriage bulding Planting and inhabiting as though the day of the Lord should never over take you being out of the fear of the Lord and dread and awe of his holy Name alass alass how many have been sporting themselves against the faithfull Ministers and true messengers of God who have often told you in tears and in deep lamentations such a day would assuredly overtake many and how faithfull have they been in Laying it before you and Charging it upon you to watch always and pray continually least you enter into temptation but oh how have you slighted them and have not many amongst you in your own Immaginations Judged one and Condemned another whom God hath Eternally sealed in the Everlasting Covenant of life and peace for ever more and are you still indeed so blinde to thinke that the Lords eye is not open beholding these things yes verily he taketh true and perfect notice of them all and his blessednesse is vexed there with and his good spirit is grieved and the holy seed is greatly oppressed Even as a cart is pressed with sheaves and now there is heard a deep and Lamentable morunfull cry sounded in the Eares of its tender Father because of these things Oh my burthen my burthen my greife my greife my lamentation my lamentation my sorrow my sorrow my Mourning my Mourning yea my very soul dwells in heavinesse and I am even bowed down down down my tears are many my sighes are very deep my Groans are very heavy my travell is in the depths of sorrow concerning thee O thou beloved City part of whose walls are broken down yea and verily the Enemie shall and will be suffered to pray upon thee because of the great Iniquitie that is found amonst many in thee Oh gird on sackcloath and sit in ashes ye carlesse daughters that are therein and morun and weep yea waile and lament that so the Lord in mercy may yet return and for his own blessed name sake and the seed of his covenant have mercie upon you and show kindnesse to you before the day of your tender visitation be wholly past away THis is given fourth in the pure Life of Virginity and in Love unfeigned that thinketh no evil wherein there is no Guil but is without fault before the Throne of the Lamb for ever more through a broken heart in tender loving Issues streaming from the Fountain of Life through the Deep travels of my wearried soul to the holy crying breathing seed in the Living commandement of the Almighty powerful God of all Wisdome life and vertue that filleth heaven and Earth To be read in the fear of the Lord amongst all the Congregations and Assemblies of the people of God called Quakers By a Servant of the Lord and a Sufferer for the Testimony of Jesus Thomas West Hartford the 17 day of the second Month. 1664.