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A60851	Some breathings of life, from a naked heart presented in love to the honest, vpright, and single-hearted, that they, with me may wait to feel the imediate drawings, and leadings of the Holy Spirit in all things ... so that they need not any man to teach them, 1 Joh. 2. 27., with an epistle for peace and unity.	Salt, William.; Fox, George, 1624-1691.	1663 (1663)	Wing S460; ESTC R17566	16,219	20

which somthing was answered Therefore let none proceed in a forward zeal or a hasty rash Spirit to Judge lest the Lord rebuke it nor to be high-minded but fear Remember Vzza who put forth his hand as he thought to stay the Ark and yet was smitten And with whom was he grieved was it not with them whose Carcasses fell in the Wildernesse who strived against his good Spirit temped and provoked him and so fell short of the promised Land and that is not a Serving or worshiping for God is a Spirit and will be worshiped in Spirit and truth to resist and grieve his Spirit or provoke it or is not he to have the sole or absolute Authority and Preheminency over his own handy-worke and is not every Creature to bow unto him if he say unto him go is not he to do it and if he say ●●th the same come is not he to obey and so to be Subjected to his ●●●●enly will in all things whether it be to go or come or stand 〈◊〉 therefore good it will be for all the tender-hearted to eye the ●●●ings of the Lords good spirit in all things to look over all forms or 〈◊〉 appeareances though sometimes the spirit of the Lord 〈◊〉 have appeared in them yet he is not limited unto that therefore 〈◊〉 is not to be sticked in but to be pressing forward looking unto 〈◊〉 that was in the beginning Christ the Alpha and Omega the be●●●ing and the end whose name is called the word of God which 〈◊〉 before Shadows Formes or Visible things were So that if the Creature be not by him led into those let him let them alone as things below the life that there may not be a striveing in any or provoking for that is not a serving but the Will subjected unto his pure and holy undefiled Spirit whereby man may come into life no live in God and not to have a life in any outward Visible thing which may pass away and perish with the useing and so the outward thing is to be used as if men used it not and so will the heart be kept single and dis-intangled to Follow the Lamb wheresoever he ●●●●deth which all the Lambs of Christ are needfully to mind wherein stands their safty in this day My Dear Friends somthing hath been upon me to write unto you which in the Spirit of Love let me be felt and received FOllow Peace with all Men and have peace one with another This hath been the Language of the Spirit of Truth in dayes past and he that hath an ear to hear let him hear what the Spirit ●ith unto the Churches And this is the Language of the same Spirit this day unto you his People to follow peace with all men and Holiness without which no man can see the Lord. Mark without Peace be followed with all men no man can see God Least there spring up any Root of bitternesse and trouble you and many thereby be defiled and so they were to follow peace the Blessed Thing whereunto they were called and God is the Author of Peace and not of Confusion therefore the Lord keep us all out of that that runs into Strife for that goes into Confusion I have found something in severall putting it self forth unto peace and I say Blessed are the peace-makers for they shall be called the Children of God And doubtlesse as we abide in the Power we abide in the Peace for it is the Gospel of Peace and if we abide in the Covenant we abide in the Peace for t is the Covenant of Peace and Christ saith In me ye 〈◊〉 have Peace but out of him in the Worlds Spirit is the Tribulation and the Sorrow and our fellowship is in the Peace and in the Power the Gospel-Fellowship where the Saints were Follows together and of the Houshold of Faith all walking in the same Spirit and here was not any Mastering or Lording it over one another in the Gospel-fellowship where they were as a Family So did they Prophesie one by one and as the Lord did give forth his Gifts so did they Minister every one according to what they had received and being come to the Living Thing in themselves the Principle of Life in that they did go forth and one had a Doctrine another a Psalm another an Exhortation another a Revelation c. 1 Cor. 14. And this was done with Acceptation and mutual Consolation in the Church for the edifying of the whole where every member was kept in its place in the body and all members one of another and so in the Gospel of Christ which is the Power of God as the Saints had so they have their Fellowship together the Saints or Sanctified ones Holy Men and Women in the Power of God and this is according to the true Church Order wherein all might speak one by one and having all Fellowship in the body Living in the Power which crusheth down the Enmity wherein all comes to be Learned Consolated and Edified this is that Fellowship that stands over the World in which the Lambs and Tender-hearted ones can skip and rejoyce wherein they feel strength in the Power which is the Gospel Fellowship and keeps Lively And Youth being turned from the Darkness to the Light and trayned up in the Living Way and kept to the Life Praises will be felt to arise in Families and Places through which the Praise is given to the Lord and then all Foolish Laughter Idle Talking and Jesting will be avoided as the Pure Innocent Life comes up and the Power is harkened unto wherein is the Fellowship and in this will you have Fellowship one with another and every one be refreshed and praise the Lord. So Young Men and Maids Old Men and Children all Praise the Name of the Lord for his Name alone is Excellent in all the Earth the Living it is that praiseth him and till this be come unto all i● not well that whether we eat or drink or whatsoever we do al● may be done to the Praise and Glory of his Name then all must 〈◊〉 done from the Life and in it and this one thing here mentioned I 〈◊〉 not omit for the Childrens sake that all might become the People of his Praise And this further as to your selves tending to the Peace and Furtherance therein I have to say In the Worship or Service unto God mind not Jestures Postures or Outward things but the Spirit in which it is to be performed that all may be Spiritual if it be in Humility Contritenesse of Spirit and Brokennesse of heart that sacrifice God will not despise and he will keep the Creature low that he him self may be exalted and the Saints exhorted to passe the time of their Sojourning here in fear and to work out their Salvation with Fear and Trembling and this is in my heart to mind you that you following the thing that makes for Peace and whereby to edifie one another you will flourish and

grow green and the Renown will go forth as a wise and an understanding People that stand in the Councel of God and the God of Peace will dwell among you and bruise Sathan under your feet And so to live in the True Unity of the Spirit and not to quench it nor grieve it For if the Spirit be quenched then the Unity is quenched for in that it stands for the bond of Peace is strengthend the more the Spirit and Power is united to wherein is the Fellowship which I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ which is the Power of God unto Salvation out of which is not safety And this Fellowship and Unity in the Spirit and Power of the Lord is Strong and Unalterable and unlesse there be a going from the Power and Spirit it cannot be broken for as not any outward thing can or doth make it so neither can it break it which keeps down the mans part in all or that that would exalt self that the Lord alone may be exalted And it is a nearer Unity the Lord is bringing his People into then any outward thing can break it W. S. Let this Passe through all Friends of God Written by his Servant Prisoner in Rome DEar Sisters and Brethren and Holy Building of God we must be like Lambs Suffering all things that we may be like our Father the Shepheard For God Almighty suffereth all things and easeth his burthened and grieved Spirit of his Adversaries when he will I well know it And therefore as Dear Children take occasion to speak to each other in the pure bowels and to cherish one another that you may be prepared and trimmed with the mighty strength to bear every Tryal and comfort your hearts in the Lord who will do great things which your patient hearts shall see in his time Therefore wait and pray and believe and go to one anothers Houses and visit one another and especially the Prisoners and the Afflicted and the Tribulated that you may be Consolation to them in the Name of the Lord and kisse one another in the Immortal and so be joyned as one in the Wedlock of the Lamb For so am I exceeding dearly bound to you all and in the simplicity dwell which saith yea and it is yea and nay and it is nay and thee and thou for the Crosse is there And all must come to the first day and second day and third day and to all the six dayes for the Kingdome of Heaven is in you which stands not in words but in Power which is the seventh day of Rest to which all must come And so in the truth you stand in the Power of God which brings forth all your words in Subjection to the Power and thus they are spoken in the Kingdome in the Pureness and Plain-heartednesse And here they are not a tradition but the fruits of the Power and so are all the actions of the same nature by which God is Gloryfied in you and the whole world confounded before you And as concerning Tythes all Friends must stand in the Power of God to Saluation which is the Cross of Christ for Christ is the everlasting High-priest of freedom from the first Priest-hood and all the tythes and carnall Ordinances which appertained thereunto who by the Purchace of his Blood hath he ransomed you from them all No man therfore ought for the love of the things of the world by paying Tythes to deny the Blood of Christ and the Lord which bought them least in so doing they draw fire on their own heads And as touching the observation of dayes all must come into him which Created all dayes and then they are over them all for God is the Lord of the whole Creation and we know that God ceaseth not his labour every day who dwells in his everlasting Sabbath of rest whose Soul is grieved with such as are in the observation of days which know not him that created them for God feedeth the Sheep and the Wormes and the Fishes and the Fowls and Children and men and all quick things in the Wombe and maketh the Vines and the plants and Corn and Flowers grow without respect of dayes and maketh the Rivers run and the Seas to Ebb and Flow and the Rain falls and the Sun shines and the Winds blow and it Lightens and Thunders and Hailes and the Sun and the Moon and the Stars go their course without respect of dayes And we know that all these are the continual works of God who also causeth the Bryers and Thorns to be plucked up and the unfruitful and dry Trees to be cut down and maketh them rot as they stand in the ground and killeth the Creatures in the Sea and in the Earth by death and slays men by Sword Fire Plagues Famine and by Death without respect of dayes and still God is in his Rest and we in him do like him Labour all dayes without respect of dayes which is the true Godlinesse to be like God and are in Gods Sanctified Sabbath Day of Everlasting Rest and the whole World sees us not but is Confounded And in Order to Prayer many of the World take off their Hats and pray standing in the Synagogues with their heads covered and rest in that Service But Christ kneeled down and so did the Apostles and Daniel besides others of the Holy men of God fell down with their faces to the ground prayed with their Heads uncovered and we read not that in a Custom they took off their Hats or Caps Stand you therefore in the Power of God to Salvation which is the Crosse of Christ to all that stand in the Customs and Traditions and ask the World what is the difference between the fleshly Head of a Carnal Man and a Carnal Woman and which of them two God doth most respect That one stands in such an exercise with Hoods and fine Dressings or Hat on and the other with Hat or Cap of And the Answer of the Seed in them will confound them and hereby God Almighty is glorified in you And therefore as you stand over the Worlds Head in like manner stand over all their Hats and Caps also And if any Friends are moved of the Lord God to Pray in the Congregation of God falling down with their faces to the ground without taking off the Hat or the Shooes let them so do in the Name and Fear of the Lord and if the World be contentious ask them why take you off your Hats without precept and not your Shooes seeing it was a precept which God Commanded Moses saying Take off thy Shooes from off thy Feet and the Seed will Answer you in secret and so God is Glorified and the World Confounded J. P. THe first time that any thing hath been touched concerning the Ceremony of taking off the Hat was when J. P. was Prisoner in ROME in the Solid and weighty Seed of the Kingdom not in a Light or Contentious Spirit as may be seen by the foregoing Paper of His And though several hath seen and felt the thing as it was in themselves yet it may be hath not publickly declared it or it might not be laid upon them to Publish it What is it therefore to be dispised because it came from a Suffering Servant of the lord Though in this Case I desire to know no man after the flesh For if I see and feel it be of the Lord it is sufficient for Christ is my Alpha and Omega he who is the Beginning and the End the First and the Last And who is it shall lay any thing to the Charge of Gods Elect It is God that Justifieth who shall Condemn For when I saw it or it came to my hand to write it I had this Testimony for it in Spirit That it was in the Dominion and Authority of the Lords own Spirit And this I have to say farther if any thing be revealed to another is not the first to hold his Peace For the Spirit of the Prophets is to be subject to the Prophets and God is not the Author of Contention and Strife but of Peace as in all the Churches of the Saints And this is according to the True Church Order Subjection to the Spirit of the Lord in one another and the Prophesying one by one that all may be Comforted and all may be Edified Therefore have Salt in your selves and Savour and Love whereby you may Edifie one another for that which hurteth or destroyeth is out of Gods Holy Mountain These Books may be Enquired for of Thomas Simmons OH Day of Tryal come thou art For to Discover every heart And manifest things as they be That all the Innocent may see The Man that doth the Life possesse From him that onely it Professe Yea thou wilt shew them who they are That Soar'd up above the Spheare In words in Carriage or in Action Which gave the Seed no Satisfaction And such before that thou art over Their Nakednesse thou wilt Discover Whereby some that deceiv'd have been And catcht by them as in a Gin Will be Ashamed and sit down And wait within to feel their own Eternall Gift to guide again And Life to breath upon the slain And as these things they come to feel It will afresh revive their Zeal To stand against every thing That would to God dishonour bring And patiently the Crosse to bear Whoever flee it they will not dare Because they 'l see it would offend And bring them sorrow in the End The Living God who is so just That all that will him follow must Deny themselves in every thing And wait on him who is their King GEORGE FOX The Younger THE END