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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60963	To all the Christian congregations of the peculiar people of God now reproached and persecuted by the name, and under the denomination of Quakers that grace, mercy and peace of God the Father, and the power of his his Christ be abundantly multiplyed and encreased among you all.	Salthouse, Thomas, 1630-1691.; D. B. (Daniel Baker), fl. 1600-1660. aut	1662 (1662)	Wing S475AA; ESTC R214111	8,449	14

To all the Christian Congregations of the peculiar People of God now reproached and persecuted by the Name and under the denomination of Quakers that Grace Mercy and Peace of God the Father and the Power of his Christ be abundantly multiplyed and encreased among you all DEar Brethren and faithful Friends unto whom it hath pleased God to make known the riches of the glory of the great Mysterie that hath been hid from the wise and learned whose faces are turned towards Sion and whose faith stands in the Power of God who are come through great tribulations out of desolation and are turned to the chief Shepherd and Bishop of your souls in singleness of heart in the form of a servant and in the love of a brother do I humbly and heartily salure and send greeting unto you all and as a worker together with you I beseech you all to stand fast in the Liberty where Christ Jesus hath made you free let not so much as an inclination enter into your hearts of being again entangled with the old oppressive Antichristian yoke of Bondage from which you are delivered for what profit hath you in those things whereof ye are now ashamed To what purpose did you worship God when your fear towards him was taught by the Precepts of men Did you not then leave undone the things which you ought to have done and do the things which you ought not to have done And did you not then err in your hearts and go astray like lost sheep How did the false Prophet then lead you whose right eye is utterly darkned And how did the Merchants of the Earth make a prey upon you whilst you were all the day long accounted as sheep for the slaughter in the streets of the great City of Confusion where you have been captives mourning in desolation though you could not with delight participate in her sin And therefore hath the Lord called you forth and separated you from among them and saved you with a mighty salvation and lifted up the light of his countenance upon you and now is the Spirit of Life from God entered into you that laid as slain in the streets of the great City spiritually called Sodom and Aegypt Wherefore arise arise ye faithful and true Witnesses of the Most High over whom the Heathenish Inhabitants of the earth have made merry lift up your voices like Trumpets let the Word of God which is like fire proceed out of your mouths and let the high Praises of God be in your hearts March up to Mount Sion in the sight of your Enemies that you may see the Judgement of the great Whore the Beast and false Prophet taken alive and destroyed together And dear Friends whom God hath sought out and purchased as his peculiar Treasure be faithful to that which is your professed declared known principle and approved practise in the external exercise of your Religion confesse Christ before men and contend earnestly and with confidence in the day of tryal for the Faith once delivered to the Saints that it may appear be manifestly declared to all the world that you have respect to Gods requirings and love to his Law and that you are not in rebellion nor in transgression against the Lord nor unprofitable to the King although you are accused to be divers in your Laws and Customs at this day for godliness is profitable unto all things For this cause we pay tribute and pray for Kings and Rulers that under them we may live peaceably in this present World in all godliness and honesty as becometh Saint● Is the Decree sealed against you and the time prefixed and Posts gone forth because Mordecai cannot bow in obedience to the King's command Well And is there none to help nor to make supplication Stand stil and see the salvation of God the Enemy discomfited and Israels off-spring safely delivered Is there a Decree gone forth that none must meet ●r make prayers and supplication to God but under great penalties And wil not Daniel conform and obey the King's Laws No it 's contrary to the Law of his God and against the King hath he done nothing worthy of punishment And is the way in which you worship the God of Daniel at this day called Heresie And must not five meet together to make intercession and supplication to God for all men according to the practise of the primitive Christians but it must be accounted a transgression of Law Well it 's better to obey God then man in this case and to suffer affliction for non-conformity with the established persecuted people of God then to make shipwrack of Faith and a good Conscience and so to be cast out as abominable branches amongst the workers of iniquity Are you despised by Sanballat because you are but a few in number and feeble in appearance Fear not little Flock for the Lord is with you and no Enchantment nor formed Weapon can prevail against you for your Work is of God and your Building wil stand in the stormy day Are you now hated reproached and persecuted for your Religion and righteousness Rejoice and be exceeding glad for this was the portion of your Predecessors the Prophets and holy Apostles in the dayes of their pilgrimage in this World Doth not the Fig-tree blossome Is there no appearance of fruit in the Vine Rejoice ye in the Lord and trust in the God of your salvation Is Truth fallen in the Streets Can Equity have no entrance Are proud men accounted happy and wickedness winked at You that fear the Lord and tremble at his Word meet often together and speak comfortably one unto another that the Lord may number your names among his Jewels I say neglect not the assembling of your selves together after the manner of some whose day is turned into darkness whose sun is gone down at noon and who are faln among the uncircumcised But dear friends enter all into the Mountain of the Lord's House and hide your selves within the munition of Rocks until the wrath of man be restrained and let every soul be subject to the power of Christ Jesus and you that are strong watch over the weak comfort the feeble-minded bear one anothers burdens say to them that are of a fearful heart Be strong Consider them that are in bonds as bound with them and as being members of the same body build up one another in the most holy faith endure hardships as seeing him that is invisible with respect to the recompence of reward the durable riches which are appointed for the faithful Let not the glory of this Worlds Kingdom external Liberty the pleasures of sin nor the treasures of Aegypt enter into your hearts to alienate your affections from your Head and Husband the Bridegroom and Bishop of your souls let neither flattery nor fair speeches draw you away from your stedfastness fear not mens frowns faint not in your minds cast not away your confidence think it not strange

concerning the fiery tryal as if some strange thing had happened unto you for the tryal of your faith is precious Is the agreement made That whosoever shall confess Christ to be come in the flesh either in practice principle or declaration shall be cast out of the Synagogue and into Dens and Prisons Caves and nasty holes of the Earth Fear not little Flock fear none of the things that you are called to suffer for God that made the World and all things in it dwelleth not in Temples made with hands neither doth he at this day require tythes and offerings nor sacrifices for sin but a broken heart and a contrite spirit is that in which he delighteth obedience to his commands is better than sacrifice and to hear his voice and do his will is more acceptable than the fat of Rams And if you suffer for Christs sake as evil-doers ●hen unto bonds the Lord will comfort you in all your tribulations and bring you forth with joy and gladness of veart when your Testimony for him is faithfully finished Is the times so perilous now that none must buy and sell but such as will receive the mark of the Beast either in their fore-heads or in their right hand Oh let the one hundred fourty and four thousand that are redeemed from the Earth and whose Names are written in Heaven stand with the Lamb upon the Mountain where the house of the Lord is established that they may be abundantly satisfied with the Fatnesse thereof and that they may receive Milk and Wine Bread and Water without money and without price and let the seven thousand Israelites that cannot bow to the likeness of any thing be also assembled together that they may obtain joy and gladness and receive the garments of praife for the Spirit of heaviness and that there may be one Lord his name one one sheepfold and one Shepherd for in every place they that fear God and work righteousness are accepted of him and now is the Lord searching out his Flock that have wandered like lost sheep in the weary Wilderness and upon the barren Mountains that he may feed them with knowledge and understanding and that they may go in and forth by the door and find pasture and may hear the voice of the good shepherd who hath loved them and whom God hath exalted to be a Prince and a Saviour that in all things he as Head of the Church may have the preheminence Have the High-Priests consulted together to charge this Shepherds Flock to go follow him no more nor to speak no more in his Name and why will they not obey Anthority Because its better to obey God and to keep his commandments and to suffer persecution with the people of God when mans commands are contrary to the Law of God than to deny Christ before men for fear of their wrath for man's wrath worketh not God's righteousness And so all you that have been with Jesus be bold to confess him and to meet and speak in his Name for where-ever two or three are gathered together in his Name it 's so far from being an unlawful Meeting in Christs account as that he hath promised to be present and he is not limited to time number or place three four or five thousand for it s his will that men should pray every where lifting up holy hands without wrath or doubting and he that is afflicted let him pray and he that loveth the Lord Jesus must keep his commandments and follow his example for he prayed and spoke among the multitude in the Mountains and in the Deserts in Ships and by the sea-side and the Apostles spoke to the people that resorted to the Rivers side where prayers use to be made Is refusing to swear in any cause accounted a transgression at this day Who then is the Author of this trespass Is Christ the Author of sin Or did he come to destroy the Law Nay he came to fulfil it and he is the end of the Law for righteousness unto all believers and as in old time it was said Thou shalt not forswear thy self so now faith Christ A new Commandment give I unto you Swear not at all which is as obligatory to Christians and as exactly to be observed as Thou shalt not steal Thou shalt not kill Thou shalt not commit Adultery or any other command going before And such as are constrained with love to God must manifest it by their reverent respect to all his commandments and if in this cause you or any of you be called in question let all men know that its for your obedience to Christ and not out of contempt to Government and when you are hated of the Nations for his Name sake and in obedience to his commands Lift up your heads for your salvation is nearer then when you first believed and hitherto hath the Lord been a present help in the time of trouble notwithstanding the great opposition of your adversaries that you being delivered from the hands of your oppressors might serve him in holiness all your life long as a people saved by him for the same purpose Oh how hath the Lord appeared in an acceptable time for your deliverance out of desolation when you wandered in the Wilderness in a dark and solitary way and how hath he lifted up the light of his countenance upon you in the dayes of your infancy He hath supported you and his candle hath shined upon your heads his secret was upon your Tabernacle and his Word a light unto your pathes when you had but a little strength he carryed you in his arms and led you gently by the footsteps of the Flock when you were but young and he hath planted you now as a noble vine that your renown may go forth among the Heathen round about and you are the Salt of the Earth and as a City set on a Hill that cannot be hid and this is the day of your tryal so my dear brethren and sisters be faithful in it and the Lord will make you a Family like a Flock His Name wil be a strong Tower unto you in which you may retire with safety when he pours contempt upon professors and prophane that have started aside like a broken bow in the day of their tryal you are the onely people known unto me among all the Families of the Earth that are fully perswaded in your own minds in matters of Worship and Ordinances Principles and Practises in spiritual things at this day and therefore I love you and honor you and I believe the Lord will crown you with righteousness and make you an eternal excellency even the joy of many generations that the Gentiles may come to your Light and Kings of Nations to the brightness of your rising for the Lord is your everlasting Light and the dayes of your mourning shall shortly have an end These sayings were in my heart and mind which I have now committed to Paper to be