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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54444	To all simple, honest-intending, and innocent people without respect to sects, opinions, or distinguishing names, who desire to walk with God in the pure spirit of life and true understanding : I send greeting in the harmless love of God.	J. P. (John Perrot), d. 1671?	1664 (1664)	Wing P1632; ESTC R28431	6,598	9

To all Simple Honest-intending and Innocent people without respect to Sects Opinions or distinguishing Names who desire to walk with God ●n the pure Spirit of Life and true Understanding I send Greeting in the harmless love of God BRethren and Sisters a spring is open in me of that life and nature which shall out-live all prejudices contentions persecutions and enmity even the charity of the Eternal and Incomprehensible power which gusheth forth streameth yea and freely floweth towards you all In this spirit I cannot be withholden from visiting you for the yearning and melting of my tender bowels do reach forth unto you all In and by which I am constrained to shed abroad these things to the end that God may be glorified in many and that some may know I yet live to love all I have a deep consideration of sundry things which I have seen come to pass to the sorrow and grief of my heart and bowing down of my soul before the Lord God which cries to him that lives for ever and ever The cause of my plaint for whom and for what it is I shall be silent in to man because I know it is the Lord alone that works the salvation of Israel and that returns the Captivity of Jacob whose day hastens it will come yea it is swiftly coming to pass of which these following words are true and certain effects of its dawing God is that spirit life light vertue and power appearing in and unto his poor creature man which through charity in judgment for the manifestation of mercy and remission appeareth in the secret of mans soul to the end that in his mind he may be like his God that in that likeness and heavenly similitude he may faithfully serve his God Now God in himself is incomprehensibly holy and immeasurably wise who makes man both in intention and inclination and many vertues like himself But makes not man either in holiness or wisdom absolutely God himself because he will have mans fear and reverence in his eye to the end of time and dayes He comes into mans heart to work a work and through the work to shew to man who and what he is that works it how and what manner of spirit the time when he began the subject upon what and the end for what he operates it that as man shall see and behold him in all these respects as he walketh towards man so man may walk in the spirit of his God towards all men this being of his Image and Likeness but what is not of this degenerates from his similitude Now this I hope you may all know or may yet be given to know that God never came to any void of Charity in rash but alwayes in righteous tender judgment who hath approved his grace in the eyes of man by long-forbearance and at last forgiveness who delights not in the death of a sinner who while some were in their bloud when none pitied them he said to them live and while others were backsliden he healed their backslidings and loved them freely By this spirit I am taught that if any Lamb be bitten wounded or torn by the Wolf in his own house if I seek any thing it must be to heal him if any Childs garments be spotted it must be to wash them if any Babe be fallen asleep to wait in hope and breathing till he be awakened if any is not of the fold to gather him in the same Charity by which I was gathered and leave the Righteousness of Equity to him who shewed me mercy Ah what a rare thing it is to find a mans judgment composed of and standing in the mercies of God Though who shall inspire the heavenly glory and not find the fulness of just judgment to be the immence over flowing fountain of mercy yet he comes in 10000 of his Saints to judge the earth in them that nothing but mercy in an understanding of his glory may dwell there what wise-man then shall go out of his own land into another Sea where the Lord is travelling in the deep thereof in judgment that his streams may flow forth in Righteousness and his Ocean overwhelm in holiness and that the knowledge of his glorious brightness may cover the earth as the waters cover the Sea Let my soul therefore keep to the secrets of his judgments within me that when I go forth it may be with the effect of his judgment which is mercy tenderness love and charity to all which I desire may not prove offensive to any and let not my soul go forth in its own conceivings to take from God his Prerogative of judgment in any yet if at any time my foot should slide and I do so let him that sees me not therefore slay me but save me for that is of mercy and not of severity and cruelty This spirit speaketh truth in all and admiteth not any to speak otherwise then truth of and unto all yet if any speak not truth of him in whom it lives and rules it forgives the wrong not seeking revenge on any and he that is in it knows the experimental work of it both in life and practice and this never dying but ever living spirit is the perfect Oneness and Unity and there is no holy Unity or Oneness beside it or beside what it is not it self but of it or in it And no visible appearance of what man is in feature or gesture or what mans corporal form bear about it or upon it or what mans acts as things in natural view done or effected is it self that is to say is this very spirit life or unity But many things may be of its dictates or motions and therefore because the dictates are not the dictator nor the motions the real mover therefore the motions dictates or appearances cannot be the eternal Oneness or Unity he therefore whose unity stands in an external appearance may miss of the true mark But he whose unity stands only in the eternal unity or one spirit of life and holiness whether in appearance or not appearance outward keeps his solid peace and infallible fellowship with God Christ and all his Saints which never dies And understanding of the nature of this spirit hath taught me to bear withall persons though according to the true knowledge are zealously affected with appearances where the appearance is of good intention and simply in it self no trangreson and also to suffer in a sense under the evils of many who in appearance are absolutely transgressours for a seeds sake who hath wrestled and striven with all men in their sins and transgressions and for their souls sake which are captivated and bound in darkness through their transgressions that through bearing and suffering the aboundance of love charity temperance mercy forgiveness of our Lord Jesus Christ may appear in the fulness of the day which is hoped for and believed shall be most gloriously revealed he that sees most of it this day

sees but in part and he that sees least also sees a part but he that sees most sees more then he that sees least so he that sees most sees not as much as he that hath given to the least his little part and for this cause let all flesh be abased before the Lord God for ever and let the wisest know his duty to wait and also his end of waiting which is to know more of Gods wisdom and righteousness to fill him then yet he is so compleated in whilst I notwithstanding say that the least proportion is altogether sufficient for the profoundest knowing person yea passing his comprehension either as it is in himself or as it is in the lowest of the Lords babes and little Lambs Ah let flesh therefore put no limit to God His spirit which in it self is perfect unity is also perfect and everlasting amity and as I hold no other unity so I esteem of no other amity which neither unites nor gives liberty to any part of flesh or spirit but what is of its own nature of purity separation is of the inward spirits in a mans self even the true separation of the just from the vile and him which fears the Lord from him which fears him not the right separation consists not of any thing which God simply created or instituted in man that one man should be intentionally separated or divided from another wherefore I say I have love to every mans person to every mans soul and to the seed of God in every mans soul and hold not enmity with any thing except that in my own soul and all souls which often seeks to sink it in the deep Sea of sin and transgression Man that boasts over man the Lord will humble for all flesh is grass and the best of men is as a Bryer and all men are lyers and God only is true This I have experienced as for as I have had knowledge of poor changeable man and therefore in the spirit that made man I find and feel pity for him and not passion and extream persecution pursuing him I have seen a great evil in the earth which the Lord hath shewed unto me which is this there are many people speaking of one spirit which deem themselves even each people of themselves to be wiser and holier then other people in respect of method and form which is the ground of separations divisions and prejudices and the like enormities which produce the effects of cruelty and persecution By Paper Expression and real Action which the Spirit of God I am sure allows not of in any man but the day cometh that every mans just intending shall be most gloriously transformed into true knowledge the which will produce the most heavenly fruits of holiness and this will be seen when every man shall see himself a fool and altogether imperfect in holiness before the Lord when no man shall say I have been wise in all things and thou a fool I have been righteous and thou wicked but I have been implacably wicked as well as you and in my implacability have been unrighteous as well as you when every mans soul shall be bowed down in mourning when no hand shall be lifted up to wipe its lips saying to another I am holier then thee stand therfore aloof from me this day will bring forth righteousness and the glory of the Lord in the earth In this knowledge I am taught to stay my hand from giving way to warring with any for I have seen a glimpse of the Lambs life who in love through suffering overcomes all things and therefore if for this love sake I am or must become an outcast by all a forsaken of all a persecuted by all and a killed crucified and slain of all yet let the Lord bear me up to bear and suffer all that hereby in the Kingdom of the Lambs tribulation I may lastly overcome in by and with the same love and bowels of mercy that overcame me Notwithstanding I am willing that all men should be so prudent and wise that wherein according to their method forms or perswasions of Law or Gospel they have killed or crucified any that when that which they have slain is cast into the grave and rotten that they dig not up the earth again to bring the dry bones or ashes of the creature to life again that they may kill it and slay it afresh For such actions preach implacableness and an unsatiated thirst for blood whilst the Lord works not this way yet I have experimented the truth of this yea I finde it certain that it is better to be in a little of the innocent life whilst a man is accounted dead then to be dead from the life whilst a man is accounted living and all that live in the least measure of vertue walking with God truly know it One great cause of distances and contention is a mans own affection wedded to his own perswasion but when the byas is taken out of his heart and the Lord found the swayer of every affection The common distances will soon determine Man shall be spoken unto and conversed with as a vessel which God hath formed and then if an enemy shall be seen to be risen in any vessel love to the vessel to the soul to the seed in the vessel will wrestle in its heavenly nature to overcome the enemy and this makes no separation through thee to common and unrighteous enmity but ingages a pure unity through the exercise of life in its own pure amity Remember this amity and unity shall out-live all cruelty and enmity for the one in its being and nature is God the other the Devil the one brings peace the other trouble the one good will to all men the other ill will to all men I esteem of every labourer for the Lord and masters sake I hold none such in contempt but my self the most contemptable of all yet the Lord in me more worthy of audience and obedience then the voyce of any messenger to me and therefore till I hear the voice of God in me though I have heard the voice of a trumpet without me I am to stand still and wait for a certain knowledge of the ecchoings through the valley of my soul as sound answering sound of Gods minde in me for the Lord alone must be exalted in Israel in a greater glory then he was among Israel in the Thunderings Lightnings and very dreadful Earthquakes and we must all cease from man and be all taught of God from the greatest to the least The teacher is not the signe nor the figure nay neither is it visible appearance the ordinance nor mans performance but the teacher sent the signes and instituted the rest which man cannot see but as he stands in the life of the teacher where all the signes are understood and the end of all figures and all other institution known that nothing at last may stand but God in man and man