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day_n	great_a	light_n	rule_v	7,400	5	10.4091	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60628	The everlasting truth exalted being a plain testimony unto the manifestations, growth and prosperity of truth : also some dangers opened and discovered in the not receiving truth, or having received it, departing from it : also a short testimony unto gospel meetings and fellowship ... / William Smith.	Smith, William, d. 1673.	1669 (1669)	Wing S4299; ESTC R3823	20,906	26

THE Everlasting Truth EXALTED BEING A plain Testimony unto the Manifestation Growth and Prosperity of TRUTH ALSO Some Dangers opened and discovered in the not receiving Truth or having received it departing from it ALSO A short Testimony unto Gospel Meetings and Fellowship with a tender Invitation unto all that are afar off to come and unto all that are departed and gone away to return William Smith Printed in the Year 1669. The Everlasting Truth Exalted c. AFter the long Night of Apostacy had overspread the Earth and the gross Darkness of it covered and remained upon the people and that none could be found among the Sons of men to lead and deliver out of it then did the Lord manifest himself from Heaven and the Light began to spring as the morning and to give light to such as sat in darkness and under the shadow of death and though many travelled in pain as being soarly opprdssed by the power of darknes yet when the Lord did manifest his Light and his Love in it there were not many could believe that it was he and so they received him not though he came unto them for their good But to as many as received him to them he gave power to become the Sons of God even to as many as believed in his Name which were born not of Flesh nor of Blood nor of the will of man but of God and so the Love of God is manifested in sending his only begotten Son into the World to be a Light unto the World that all in him might believe and receive Life but that which is born of Flesh and Blood and of the will of man doth not believe that the Light is he whom God sendeth and therefore receives him not in his Light when he makes himself manifest for that nature expecteth some higher or greater appearance of Christ then in his Light but as John bare witness of Christ to be the true Light so his appearance is not to be expected after any other manner or in any other thing for whatsoever is contrary to that which is true is false and there is but one thing true or Truth it self and that John testifies to be the Light with which Christ enlighteneth every one that comes into the World and as the Light is true or Truth it self so the expectation is to be drawn off from all other things as being false and the mind is to turn to the Light as being only true and though it seem as a low or little thing in its manifestation yet there is nothing which in it self is true besides it and therefore most worthy of all things to be loved and obeyed in the least appearance of it for who dispises the day of small things cannot come to the day of glory where the Son ruleth and here many have suffered loss as to the benefit which in the Light they might have received and enjoyed for not loving and obeying the appearance or breaking forth of the Light in a small measure it doth not go on in such unto a perfect day but being despised as a small thing or a thing of no value it draweth into it self again the manifestation and then none can see the way unto God nor walk in the Path of Life for the Light being dispised and so withdrawing it self there is nothing but darkness remains to be the Guide and such as walks in darkness knows not whither they go because darkness hath blinded their minds and this hath been an occasion of stumbling unto many who have not loved the Light but despised it for in darkness they stumble and many times fall but in the Light which is the plain Path there is no stumbling and they that do not walk in that Path but dispises it and stumbles at it they walk in the broad way and in that way they cannot have peace for they that despise the day of small things they dispise that by which Peace cometh and none can have peace whilst they despise that by which it comes for they that would have peace with God must receive and entertain the Light and not dispise it and though it may appear but as a little thing yet peace is found in the least appearance of it as it is loved and obeyed but the high and softy cannot bow unto it the birth of Flesh and Blood and of the will of man expects some higher and greater thing and when the Light manifests it self by reproof in the Conscience there is not submission but rather dispising for the broad way is more delightfull to that birth then the narrow and therefore it is that the broad way is filled with many walkers and so many may see the Morning and not come to see the perfect day for if the Light in its manifestation be not loved and obeyed there is not a going forward in the Truth nor any growth and increase witnessed and so the Light hath manifest it self in many and they have seen the darkness by the manifestation but not loving and obeying the Light that it might become their Teacher and Leader they still abide in darkness and are not redeemed and delivered and that is the thraldom and bondage where many yet remains who have been visited with the day-spring from on high they do not love nor obey the Light when it springs and manifests it self unto them and so they keep themselves in their own sorrow and misery by loving and obeying darkness for if the Light be followed in love as being only true there is not an abiding in darkness but a coming to the Light of Life and so Christ said I am the Light of the World he that followeth me shall not abide in darkness which thing is true in him and in all those that follow him for in the appearance of his Light the darkness passeth away and the power of it groweth weaker and then comes redemption and deliverance out of Darkness unto those that love and obey the Light and so they come out of the pollutions and defilements into that which is pure and holy and righteous and these are only the people which are found to the praise and glory of God for who have been visited and do not obey the Lord they are not found to his praise and glory but are sound in that by which God is dishonoured and who have tasted of the good Word of God and the powers of the World to come and have seen many great and wonderfull things and afterwards go from the Light and lose their stedfastness they are not found to the praise and glory of God but dishonoureth his Name and Truth and People for they that sometimes did own the Light to be true or Truth it self and for a season rejoyced in it and as Disciples took up the Cross to follow it and now are grown weary of walking in the narrow way and so are gone back and follows no further they cannot be found to the praise and glory

so to lead on from that which is below into that which is above and so to lead on from that which is below into that which is above and so to the greatest which is Christ the fulness who in the appearance of his Light and Life doth swallow up all lower Dispensations though as to time they might be of God and so many have seen the goings on of the Lord in his Light and in his Light have followed him from the lower into the higher and so are come to live and walk in that where his Presence remains and to as many as have so followed him and abides with him they know the place of his Rest and also knows their rest in him and so they know the Lord to live in them and walk in them and that he is their God and they are his people and in such a Meeting Way and Worship the Lord is found and he abides and continues there in his Love Mercy and Goodness therefore all below are to come up into it and all gone from it are to return if they would walk with the Lord for there is not another way wherein any doth walk with the Lord or the Lord with them but in his Light Life and Power and in that to meet and worship him according to his own Appointment and Command for as the Lord is gathering into himself all lower Dispensations and gathering in one such as have been scattered in them so all are to mind the Lords gathering that in the Light by which he gathereth they may come to be made perfect in one mark in one is the perfection which is Christ the Light and Life and Power and Wisdom of God in whose Light Life Power and Wisdom is the Gospel unity and Fellowship not in outward Forms and Professions and lower Dispensations but in the Light and Life of Christ Jesus who is above all and greater then all in his Light the Saints had Fellowship as the Scriptures testifie and in his Light the Saints have Fellowship in this day and so by one spirit they are all baptized into one Body and are one Body under the Government of Christ the head and this is the universal fellowship in the universal Light where the Spirits of just men are now known who are gone before and the spirits of just men now will be known by such as are to come and so a perfect unity in perfect Light of Christ by which Light the faithfull are bound in a bundle of Life and so in the unity of the Light and Spirit the Saints now meets and worships God and build up one another in their most holy Faith and edifies and comforts one another according to the practise of the holy men and women in times past and they keep the unity of the Spirit which unto them is the bond of Peace and though some may lose the unity by going from the Spirit and some that may profess the Truth be not in unity as not walking in the Spirit yet neither doth weaken or break the unity of such as lives and abides in the Spirit for the Spirit changes not though some that profess the Truth do not walk in it or some may withdraw and depart from it therefore the unity in the Spirit is certain and everlasting and it is the bond of Peace to all that live in it So all are to come unto this Light and Spirit in which the Saints meet and worship God and in which they have unity and fellowship with God and one another there is nothing below it will endure nor nothing exalted above that will stand for as the Light and Spirit is the beginning so it is the ending unto all that abides in it for all truth is only comprehended in the Light and Spirit of God and from thence received and there is not any other things or things in which true and lasting peace can be found but in a measure of that Light which comes from God as the Fountain they that have fixed themselves below the Light they must be dis-joyned from that unto which they are fixed and stand-loose from all things which they have made and set up in Worship and Religion and mind the Light which is only true to lead them forward into all truth for where any are fixed to things below the Light and will not be dis-joyned and separated from them by the Light they are ●entered in mortallity or the corruptible body which presseth down the Soul and whatsoever any may pretend as to their Meetings Wayes and Worshipps to be of God yet they are all formed and framed in the corruptible part and so are all corruptible offerings which have not the Savour of incorruptible Virtue therefore all Forms and Professions distinct from the Light with all their Meetings Worships and Worshippers they must all forsake their Meetings 〈◊〉 being in the corruptible part and as such where the living God is not to be found and all come to the Light and Spirit of God which openeth the eye and understanding and gives the knowledg of God and of his Way and Truth all to come unto that and follow it and live in it and so come to the Assemblies of the Righteous and to the Meetings of the First-born of God and with them to worship God in his Spirit and Truth and to have unity and fellowship with them in the Light which is their Guide and Way and so come to keep the holy Commandment given of God for until the holy Commandement of the Lord God be kept the mind remains in sin and transgression and there is none in that state which are in the Saints Worship and Fellowship and so they must come to the Light to be redeemed from the vanity of their minds because the Pure and Holy God is not worshipped with such a mind therefore the Light must be followed as a Leader to bring out of vanity into Truth and Purity and so to Serve and Worship the Pure and Holy God with a pure and holy mind and with a sincere and upright heart and unto this all must come before their service and worship be accepted of God or before they can come to have true and lasting peace with him therefore let the wicked forsake their way and the unrighteous their thoughts and turn to the Lord who would not the death of them that dye and so come out of all Forms and Professions below the Light and Life and come to the Light and meet with those that meets in the Light and worships God in Spirit Truth and so come to keep the Ordinance of God and who are willing to come in the drawings and leadings of the Light and Spirit the Lord standeth ready to receive them and will in no wise cast them off as being yet the day of his Visitation Oh therefore let all come whilst the hand of the Lord is stretched forth to gather them and whilst his Arm is open to receive them let them come in the Light and in the Spirit and bow before the Lord and worship in his holy Temple that all who are drinking the cup of Fornication may come to the cup of Salvation and praise the Lord. And all that have been formerly donvinced of the everlasting Truth and for a time assembled with the holy Congregation and kept the holy Commandment given of God and now have lost their Guide and Way and forsaken the Assemblies of Gods chosen and departed from the holy Commandment and from the worship and ordinance of God and are gotten into created likenesses and are bowing and worshipping at there own Altar that they all may feel that again which first convinced them from which they are gone that by its Power it may cause them to return and so in the Light and pure Spirit to come again to the worship and ordinance of God that as they have departed from the ordinance of God and broken the Covenant and gone from the true fellowship so to return unto that again from which they are departed and gone and to return in submission and lowliness of mind and tenderness of heart that the Lord and his people may delight to receive them and may have pleasure in them Oh let all return from the barren Mountains and broken Costerns and return to the Lord whom they have grieved by departing from him and let them return to that which reconcileth and maketh peace that they may not wholly lose the benefit of former mercies nor the benefit of present and future Mercies but return to the Light and live in it where mercies alwayes aboundeth that as there was a beginning in the Truth of the Gospel so to return unto that which in the beginning did lead in the Gospel Way and Practise and so return to the Gospel Meetings and to the Gospel Minnistration and to the Gospel Fellowship and this whilst it to today and whilst the dore is open and whilst the Lord and his people are willing and ready to receive let it bear a weight upon every heart concerned for as much as everlasting peace and happiness consisteth in it Oh wander not longer in desert places nor feed no longer upon corruptiple thing but feel the Seed and Life and Vertue and with the Power of the Lord God judg down that spirit which is gotten up that the first-born which is gone into captivity may shew it self again and the Truth and order of the Gospel may be lived in again and the Ordinance of God kept again and Gospel fellowship come into again that all who are departed may return and find rest for their Soul Notingham 9th Moneth 1668. W. S. THE END