TO THE RISEN SEED A SALUTATION AND To the BREATHING BABE Of ETERNAL BIRTH AS ALSO TO Brittains Bereans The Noble Islanders who have waited for His Law called Quakers in ENGLAND Together with A MOVING in the Spirit for the SEED to feel By A. ROBESON LONDON Printed in the Year 1662. To the Risen SEED a Salutation O Seed of the Covenant thy Glory hath surrounded me and as passing in the vein of thy Mansions my Soul is ravished Oh my Soul is ravished and with the Glory of thy Tabernacle I am overwhelmed To the Beauty of thy dwelling Place there is no comparison O ye Vessels of the Lord Purity retain for Holiness becomes his House for ever You you Seed of Jacob hath he called and known above all the Families of the Earth to place his Name in you and set you as a Garden in a pleasant Soile he eats of your Fruit and delights in what ye bring forth O Answer Answer his Goodness for ever He hath setled your Shakings and set you on a Rock He hath ended your Wandrings and given you Dwellings at Home when there was none to pity he gathered you up He saved you in Trouble when vain was the help of Man Out of Egypt hath he called his Son He is dividing the Waves and the Seed's passing thorow when Darkness is covering the Earth and gross darkness the People behold it 's clear about you and your Light in your Lanthorn doth shine His Thunder-claps is amazing the Earth yea Terrour and Madness is making men reel The Cups of pure Wrath is the Wicked swallowing up while great is your Peace dear Children O Babes your Union your Order your Peace and Joy shewes ye are all taught of the Lord And lo He is come as from a far Country travelling in his great Strength thorow a long and sable black Night of Apostacy with the Day-spring from on high to visite you And have you not felt Him arise with healing under his Wings Speak Speak to his Glory and let the Heathen hear of his Fame you blessed Ministers of Truth to whom the utterance is given Sound Sound gloriously that the dead may arise to Judgement Let the Wicked hear of his Dread and his Love that hath cut down many when he arose his Seed to redeem and to bring back Zion with Judgement out of Shadows you to lead forth into the Living Substance making you loath the Pots in Fgypt and love the new Wine in the Kingdom What ye have heard declare What ye have seen utter and hide not your blessed Talent that Dread may beset the Nations and Fear the Enemies of his People let your Flourishing lives declare that your Spring is from a Fountain that the parched Land may gape and the Thirsty may yearn for Water that the Coy may be wooed to Love being jealous to see your Beauty and the Peace through War that ye injoy O Zions Camp in England A Work ye are raised up to do mine eye sees it the Seed of Faith alone can perceive it With joy the First-born is come into the World ye are all Witnesses And shall He not stand the last upon the Earth the Day of the Restitution of all things shall prove it Feel me here the Babe can imbrace me the Wise and Prudent is shut out Many hath had a Day but one shall have the last The Dragon the Beast the false Prophet Antichrist that denies Him to be come in the Flesh hath all had a Day the suffering Witness hath felt it And shall not the Prince of the Kings of the Earth have his Day also yea he shall have the last even the Day of Judgment on all Flesh on all that hath gone before him the Theeves and Robbers that shall be his Day the Joy of the Upright shall arise in it and that that Day is already sprung you inlightned Ones are Witnesses and that it shall come to a noon-tyde and never decline again many shall be Witnesses yea a numberless Number shall see it and all counterfeit Lights and false Fiers shall vanish in it Be joyful in Glory and rejoyce in Hope all you that wait for the Appearance of Zions King for his Rising shall be refreshful as the Springs of the Morning the earnest Expectation of the Creature hath waited for his Day wherein shall shine forth the Manifestation of you the Sons of God then shall the groaning Creation be let into the Liberty for the Son shall make it free and you know that 's free indeed the Son who fulfils the Fathers Will which was and is that of all that the Father hath given him He should lose nothing but should raise it up again at the last Day And hath he not given Him the Heathen for his Inheritance and the utmost ends of the Earth for his Possession you who have seen and felt Him a Light unto the Gentiles can witness it And although there hath come before him Theeves and Robbers who have thronged into the high Places of the Earth yea into the holy Place where they ought not for a season yet his Day of Judgement shall be upon them and they shall be cast out Behold his day is come and the Recovery is arising All dear Friends keep your eye to the Cloud by day and to the Pillar of Fire by night and in the Patience abide for the time of glorious Wonders eye Him eye Him who rules the raging of the Sea when the Waves thereof arise he stills them verily the Day approacheth wherein the things that are shall pass away and that shall arise that will refresh the Earth for Peace shall be sown to the Righteous and Joy to the upright in Heart These things I testifie in the Openings of the Spirit of Light who am your dear Friend and Brother in the Patience and Tribulation of Jesus with you is my Name new and to the World known by A. Robeson There is none like unto the God of Jesurun who rideth upon the Heaven in thy help and in his Excellency on the Skie The Eternal God is thy refuge and underneath thee are his Everlasting Armes and He shall thrust out the Enemy from before thee and shall say Destroy them Israel then shall dwell in safety alone The Fountain of Jacob shall be upon a Land of Corn and Wine also His Heavens shall drop down Dew Happy art thou O Israel who is like unto thee O People saved by the Lord the Shield of thy Help and who is the Sword of thy Excellency and thine Enemies shall be found Lyars before thee and thou shalt tread down their High Places To the Breathing Babe of Eternal Birth Saith my Life in the Love of God DEAR HEART AS thou fallest into the bosom of thy Father thou wilt feel thy Rest the Spring and Fountain of Life which ariseth not in that part within thee is according to this world But O how it flowes from above from the Father of Light unto that which is
born anew and prepared for the Kingdom Oh the Kingdom that is to come The Lord God of my mercy and life preserve thee from every evil Word and Work and fit thee yet more for that Heavenly Kingdom for it cometh for it cometh in ten thousand of his Saints O my Lamb feel more and more the Innocence overshadow thee and the Vesture that is beautiful and the Armour of Light O the Day is come walk while thou hast the Day for The night cometh wherein no man can work The Springs of the morning hath been thy Visitation yea the day Spring from on high hath visited thee and the righteous Son with the healing wing hath fluttered over thee as a Hen for the Bird. Be gathered O be gathered in this Day of great Mercy lest the Day of Lamentation come and it thus be taken up How oft would I have gathered thee c. Fulfil my joy in thy joyning to the Lord and hear thou the Angel of the Covenant who is come to gather crying to the Seed Arise and shine for thy Light is come and the Glory of the Lord is arisen upon thee even upon the Seed through whom the Nations are and are to be blest O the beautiful despised Seed let this out-cast dwell with thee and thou shalt entertain an Angel O my Breathings for that Babe in thy Bosom I know him to be of a noble descent begotten of the Father full of Grace and Truth he leads in the hidden way of Peace from the World yea the wayfaring-man that follows him though a Fool he shall not err His is the Voice of the Turtle and Oh! it is heard in thy Land Then rejoyce since the time of the Singing of Birds is come and into the now recovered Eternal Paradise enter thou again taking a seat among the Branches to chaunt among the Birds on the pleasant Mirtle Trees for so to many the Winter is over and gone and the Flowers of the Eternal Spring appears O the Songs of Zion are full of Harmony in whose Remembrance my Life is as the Fume of burning Incense ascending from the Altar of Holiness to God and to the Lamb for ever O come to feel the Song from the Fountain of Joy of Life Light and Love for evermore Amen Nor can I hear hold God's Love overflowing my Life as a River swells over her Banks whereby the pure Streams of Everlasting Love runs thorow me towards the rising Seed of Immortal Life in thy long oppressed darkned travelling Soul Cherish it Cherish it O my lovely Babe that in thee it may grow to the Everlasting Joy and Peace of thy Soul and safety of thy Immortal Part for ever This is a matter of weight enter into the Feeling of it O that I may see the Day wherein the glorious Power of the Living God may come up and be over and a-top of all the Powers of Darkness in thee that would be the Day of the Answer of the Desires of my Life and the Petitions of my purest Breath which hath ascended from me even of old in the Dayes of my great Darkness when I had no witness of the withdrawing of vaile nor entrance into the holy Place but as one having been far off and brought nearer by the Blood of Jesus I feel the Issues of Life begetting in me the Sounding of Bowels to the breathing Seed that into the Unity it may come into the Fold to Feed where the Flock rests at noon and hath a Shadow from the heat And this is the Message of my Life in the Love and Power of God unto thee O Traveller toward Zion if thy Face be thitherwards and that be raised in thee which cannot live but in God's Life nor cannot rejoyce but in the Light of his Countenance nor feed but on the Bread from Heaven I say from Him who lives for ever Holy Faithful and True the dayes of thy Refreshing shall come for I feel the Yearning of his Bowels to enter into an Everlasting Covenant with thee that shall never be forgotten Wherefore let the Faint grow Strong and the Weary walk Uprightly for a time shall come that Tears shall be wiped from their Eyes A. R. To Brittains Bereans the noble Islanders who have waited for His Law called Quakers in England SOns of Righteousness you arise so oft before me that my pure Remembrance doth continually stir Whereto shall I compare you Or by what similitude can I desine your Beauty How short's the Earthly to find you out since in the Heavenly was your Plantation and in and from the Holy Land of Light and Life I send you forth a most endeared Salutation It 's alone your Innocence that gives you Splendor and your unspotted Life that makes you shine The pure Law of Righteousness you have received else your Stedfastness had been in vain To what you have been faithful is from the Lord else your Faith had never been accounted for if not for the single Truth for what should serve your loss of All And when to you the Testimony rifes clear in the Lord give freely up and your Reward shall be Abundance Dear Lambs our God great and terrible the Intents of his Heart is bringing to pass to establish his mighty Work of Wonders he is swift in his Goings his Arm is stretched out Scattering that which is to be Scattered and gathering the Remnant of his Seed from the winds of the Earth You know that of all Trees in the world he hath chosen one only Vine of all Flowers one Lilly above all Fowls hath he loved one Dove amongst all Cattle chosen one Sheep above all builded Cities hath he hallowed Zion for himself amongst all the Multitudes of People hath he gotten One unto this People whom he loves hath he given a Law approved in them whereby a way of returning to that which was erred from in the wandering Minds of fallen Mankind is opened up and this Law must be published to the ends of the Earth for a tye to bridle the Nations Wherefore O Friends a weight lyes upon you you are the Objects of the eyes of many yea a jealousie concerning you is spreading over the Earth and secret questions arising in the hearts of many saying VVhat doth this Appearance mean Friends you know it is the earnest of good things to come and I 'l tell you in that which cannot fail the Generations to come shall bless the day and spring in and by which you have been and are visited Therefore staidness staidness O Flock of Israel in the pure Opening measure of Life in your holy cleansed Vessels is that which shall cloath you with Authority and give you dominion and make you to feel and support you under the weight of the work ye are called unto O holy Children in the pure Silence in the weighty VVisdom in the blessed Openings of the unchangeable Light and endless Life stay your Minds keep keep under that that you may be a weighty People
in the approaching Day wherein your Enemies will seek to raze your Foundation VVhich O Babes of blessing I feel to be the Rock of Ages and the Foundation of many Generations who on it stood firm against all the thundering decrees for Israels utter Destruction of Haman Ahasuerus Nebuchadnezzar Darius and all other combined Kings against the Lord and his Anointed in the dayes of old This your munition of Rocks O Doves in the Cleft shewes before your Enemies but as a little Stone to be tumbled at their pleasure by their Ingines and Machinations of darkness But O ye Inhabitants in the Mount on the top of all you know it came out of the Mountain without hands and cursed are all they who lift up a Tool upon it for no Weapon formed against it shall prosper yea this is the Altar built without a Tool which no man can deface and whereof no man must have the Glory So my Friends fear not though the Heathen cry Aha as though there were no God and though the Proud and they that are at ease cry lo although he trusted in God yet is he fallen For the Lord God of Hosts will thunder down amongst them that he may redeem Jacob his beloved and Israel his chosen It goes on the day draws near even of Multitudes Multitudes for the Valley of Decision Let nothing not a hurtful thought enter think not time long in God stand still keep your Minds out of all things in the Light of the Lord wherewith you are visited Woe will be your Portions if ye depart from it and in this day nothing will be able to keep you to it but the Power of it self Therefore watch to feel it that you may stand that the Glory of the present and approaching Day of God you may be made Partakers of for the Light that is sprung up by the Power whereof you are raised to bear Testimony to it self is the Law that shall bind all Nations and plant them in their longed-for Rest A. R. A Moving in the Spirit for the Seed to Feel O Zion weeps our Mother dear Jerusalem doth cry For Babes brought up to Marriage-bed who then fall down and die And for the Beauty of her Babes which shin'd in Vnity Her smitten Life doth pant and groan because of some decay Yet her Redeemer sounds aloud and sayes his Name he 'l raise And make the Beauty of her Babes of all the Earth the Praise I 've heard his Voice which rends the Clouds he said I 'le rise in Zeal And I 'le break thorow the dark shrouds which doth Our Glory vaile O Zion my redeemed Land I 've bought thee with my Blood Jerusalem my chosen Spouse my Life doth seek thy Good And tho thy Enemy doth rage and seek thee to devour Yet I will stop his crafty Course and smite Him with my Power And thou shalt be redeem'd from Grief and that which did divide Shall come al 's ' short in Policy As 't hath in Power and Pride All Violence and deep deceit for ever from thy Land I 'le Banish quite In my pure Power and Wisdom thou shalt stand For I have Sworn and will perform my Life in pledge I give That from all Molestation thy Life I shall relieve All Tears and Sorrows Cryes and Paine shall pass from thee away And thy pure Consolation shall rise like Springs of day All by-past things wherein thou wast acquaint with grief and Tears Shall come no more into thy mind Love shall cast out thy Fears And in that State I will create Jerusalem a Joy And nought unclean from hencoforth shall her Blessedness annoy For I have seal'd a blest Decree for her eternal Good And my pure living Bread shall be her everlasting Food A. Robeson THE END