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A34209 The Concurrence & unanimity of the people called Quakers in owning and asserting the principal doctrines of the Christian religion demonstrated in the sermons or declarations of several of their publick preachers ... / exactly taken in shorthand as they were delivered by them at their meeting-houses ... and now faithfully transcribed and published, with the prayer at the end of each sermon. 1694 (1694) Wing C5715; ESTC R29314 126,065 208

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upon Earth that we desire besides thee O Lord extend the Riches of thy grace to every one of us in thy dear Son in whom thou art well pleased and turn us from the evil of our ways Lord our Cry is unto thee and our dependance is upon thee thou hast remembred thy People of old and hast remembred us this day thou hast stretched forth thy Almighty Arm in this day of our Visitation and hast shewed us the way of Salvation by Jesus Christ and gathered many into it Powerful Father of Life increase thy little Flock gather the scattered and bring home the lost Sheep of the House of Israel that so a numberless number may be gathered from the four winds say to the North give up and to the South keep not back and bring in thy Sons and thy Daughters from the utmost ends of the Earth And Lord God of Life that which kinders the prosperity of thy work and the spreading of thy Truth and Gospel of thy Dear Son remove it and take it out of the way and put an end to War and Blood shed in thine own time and in thine own way and create Peace on Earth and in thy Churches and let thy Jerusalem be made the praise of the whole Earth and an Eternal Excellency and as the Beauty of all Generations Bring Mankind into the Kingdom of thy dear Son to whom the gathering of the People is to be that so thy name may be glorified and the hearts of thy People opened to honour thy Name for thou alone art worthy of all glory praise and thanksgiving O Lord God of Israel thou hast manifested thy self among thy People in our day that thy Name and Fame may be great in the World and thou hast made thy Gospel to spread from Isle to Isle and from Sea to Sea that so the Earth may be filled with the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the Sea that the Glory of the Lord and the spreading of his truth may be from the rising of the Sun to the going down of the same Lord God of Life and power bring down the Kingdom of Sin and Satan in this Land and other Lands it is the Sin of this Nation that hath brought misery and calamity upon it and will do more and more the Sins of this Nation have justly provoked thee to send down thy Judgments and to pour out thy displeasure upon the Inhabitants of the Land Let thy mercy be now extended to us and Father of Life be intreated to turn away thy wrath that thy Judgments may not be executed upon the Children of Men Powerful God of Life in this day of our Visitation let thy word go forth and thy Gospel be Preached and let thy light arise and thy Grace be extended that brings Salvation through the dear Son of thy Love unto the Children of Men Lord God of Life when shall the day come that the Kingdoms of this World shall become the Kingdoms of thy dear Son and our Saviour Jesus Christ that he may Reign in Righteousness and Rule in Judgment that the Isles may wait for his Law O Powerful God of Israel arise in thy Glory and let thy Splendor break forth powerfully among all People and let them be thine and enter into an everlasting Covenant with them that shall not be broken let there be a removing Iniquity and a doing away Transgression and Sin Lord bring it down and make the Children of Men weary and heavy laden under it and to groan under the burthen of Sin and cry to thee and seek thee while thou maist be found and call upon thee whiist thou art near give us thy presence at this time we pray thee and draw nigh to us and help us to draw nigh to thee and op●n our hearts that we may serve thee and worship thee and thy dear Son And Glorious and Infinite God thou hast extended in a large measure thy grace to us that we might serve thee acceptably and that we and all thy People whom thou hast chosen and set apart for thy self may glorifie thee in our Age and Generation that when our days and time come to be at an end we may live with thee in thy Everlasting Kingdom and sound forth Praises and Hallelujah's unto thee for thou O Lord art worthy to receive Blessing and Honour Glory and Power that sittest upon the Throne and to the Lamb for ever and ever For all thy Mercies and Blessings in this Day of our Visitation O make us sensible of thy Goodness and Mercy and Loving kindness to our Souls that we may render to thee Thanksgiving and Praise and Honour and Worship for thou alone art worthy who art God over all from Everlasting to Everlasting Blessed for ever and ever Amen A SERMON Preached by Mr. JOHN BUTCHER At Grace-Church street March 11. 1693. My Friends THE end of our Preaching to you the Principle of the Light within is that you might come to the Knowledge of Christ as he doth appear nigh to you he is come nigh to the Children of Men in our Age that is by his Light Grace Spirit and Truth whereby he doth appear in the hearts of Men and Women Thus our Preaching of him doth agree with his own Testimony I am the Light of the World and he doth exhort all that they should so believe in him Believe in the Light says he that you may be the Children of the Light What is a Child of Light He is such a one as by the Operation of the Power of Christ hath know a being turned turned from what From Darkness unto Light and from the Power of Satan unto the Power of the living God And for this we do labour according to our ability which the Lord is pleased to give to us that People may be turned from darkness unto light and the following words are Explanatory from the Power of Satan unto the Power of the Living God so that it doth appear People have been under the Power of Satan the Evil One that is called the Prince of the Power of the Air he hath a Rule and a Government but in whom In the Children of Disobedience Now the Labour of those Ministers that were in the days of old who were the Preachers of the Gospel and Glad Tidings of the Kingdom they being such Ministers as were of Christ's own making their Labour was to turn People from Darkness to Light and from the Power of Satan to the Power of the Living God that they might be turned from that evil Power and Spirit that Rules and Works in the Hearts of the Children of Disobedience who Rebel against the Light that shines in their Hearts and Consciences For the Man of Sin and Worker of Iniquity hath such a power and we all have been in Captivity to him we have all been in Captivity to him we have all been in Bondage to Sin and Satan which God knew and the Apostle takes notice of it saith