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death_n	body_n	live_v	spirit_n	4,077	5	5.2407	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58213	A real demonstration of the true order in the spirit of God and of the ground of all formality & idolatry, with a few words unto such as are concerned in it.	Smith, William, d. 1673.	1663 (1663)	Wing R456A; ESTC R31776	9,666	13

drawn off from them and entertains hard thoughts of them when their love and good-will is the same to your souls as ever And this I am sure that you have increased the travel of many though some of you do little regard it And Friends the Seed is known in the inward the fruit of it is manifest in the outward and thereby the Father is glorified and they that have taken foot downwards are truly changed into the nature of the Seed through the dislolution and death of the first body they again spring upwards in the resurrection life as the first born of life they shew forth living praise in perfect innocency And Friends I am not ignorant of that spirit which hath ensnared you but certainly knows from whence it comes whither it goes the end of it I know that it is not of God nor never must have any part in his Kingdom therefore I travel in the true Spirit of love which is the Spirit ofGod that such of you as are turned aside may not so turn your backs upon the Lord as to cause him utterly to cast you off but that you may speedily return unto him who in his long-suffering and patience waits that he may be gracious Therefore let your diligence be improved in watchfulness and wait that you may be of understanding hearts publish no more than you perfectly understand in the will of God for that will neither profit your selvs nor others You have given so much life to the fals birth by some of your writings as that the beasts of the field rise up to trample upon the precious truth of God consider of this for it will fall heavy in the latter end for it is an easie matter to get words to make a flourish in them as though som more excellent thing was attained and it is as easie a matter to cry down words as a dispensation below the Life but to declare words in the Life or come to silence in the life perfectly understand that it is so ordered by the Life in both this is such a secret as from the fleshly birth is hid but the true babes can sit read it in the Fathers bosom Oh it is a grief to the good Spirit of God to behold how words fly abroad as if people would prevail with their tongues and host with words som are crying down words endeavoring to lay aside that dispensation as being come to its period not considering that the love life of God hath its passage through the Vessel where he pleaseth and that the words are from the Word which is not to be limited I only justifie the innocent herein who in the Fathers will and time are ordered but such of you as can allow your own liberty in words and through the same hold forth an attainment above them you have your time in your own hand whilst you speak of all the precious vertues of the innocent life which are many yet with the same breath some of you are not afraid to speak rashly if not evil of such as are born of it and are cloathed with it who as noble Plants and Trees of righteousness which the Father hath planted do bear ripe fruit to his endless Glory unto whom you must come again who are gone from them if ever you come to enjoy ●ue peace for there is no whither else to go where true peace rest happiness can be found or attained And herein I have cleared my Conscience in the Fathers will in whose will I speak and in whose will I am silent both lying down rising up in his pleasure desiring that what is here manifested in his wil may not be rejected in your wills but that it may reach the meek lowly in you so be accepted by you as the loving kindness of the Lord be entertain'd in that love from which it doth proceed which is the love that beareth all things thinketh not ill in any thing WILLIAM SMITH IN the movings of pure love I most earnestly beseech intreat you all that in time you be warned and take heed of that spirit which in time past betrayed the innocent with a kiss and in these days doth take to it self a term of general love to all and also pretends a liberty in an inward ground which is not to be limited to any outward thing which spirit from a good understanding I do declare to be in the ground thereof the general very enmity unto the begotten of God in all under which many tender hearts in their simplicity may lie captivated as yet understand it not even as once it was with me until I was so far benighted that as that spirit transformed into light I in the darkness wandred after it but finding that it led to no true rest the innocent cryed unto its God his ear was open unto it by his grace I now am that I am that I now am is the same which in measure I was in the beginning when the begotten of God in me simply breathed after him and I have now true unity in the Faith with the chosen of God and with them do partake of his vertuous life in the sence of which I desire that you may speedily return unto your first love in which is true joy 〈◊〉 everlasting peace which no transformed spirit hath to give nor power to take away I could have spoken more fully in particulars but a clear information is manifested unto you who have an ear to hear and I am at present eased rests in the will of God ELISABETH NEVVTON IN the unity of the love and life of God we do give in our testimony for God having our selves been somtimes in bondage unto that spirit which leads into a liberty out of the order of God and in that state we looked upon our selves to be in an inward ground and looked upon such as with the true Light was guided to be more formal and legal in what they practiced to be no higher than Moses administration and here we had layed an inward g●●●d in a wrong spirit and our belief was placed in it wherein we could allow to our selves the liberty of using or not using such things as stood in outward practice looked upon them all to be far below our liberty but under our liberty the innocent sat in sorrow and such was the love of God unto us as in due time his own Arm reached to the oppressed his right hand hath done valiantly for us and mighty things he hath brought to pass and in his Light we are gathered amongst the Babes of his Kingdome where we have a part portion in his peace and blessing And therefore in faithfulness unto God and in love to your souls we warn you all who with this spirit is taken to submit to the power and spirit of life and fly from this spirit

offer some other thing as more free or unlimited whilst in its very motion it hath an Idol in conception and cryes against that which is true to make way for its production for whatsoever is generated by Imagination in the airy contraction it is nothing but a dead Idol and can neither help it self nor those that trust in it and it is most certain that where the minds of any are carryed about by the motion of this spirit and sets up the thing which is generated and formed by it either inward or outward they set up an Idol and come into captivity under the power of formality though in that very state they may pretend the highest liberty Oh that all who are concerned in this matter would lay it to heart and ponder it seriously for certainly this information is tenderly manifested to you and happy will it be for such as take warning in time come to a due tryal examination in the true spirit of Judgment look not over things sleightly but sink to the witness of God which will distinguish the birth born of God from all Forms and Idols Friends A necessity is laid upon me to speak plainly to you in the counsel of the Lord for the plain simple birth cannot heal any thing but that which is of its own nature it can neither feignedly nor slatteringly please the false birth nor insinuate into the affections of any by an uncertain message of peace it is the alone healer of the bruised indeed but cannot strengthen that spirit by which the Seed is oppressed that which can do so is the man-pleaser and creeps into the affection through a seeming condescention to the poor and weak by which the false birth is more encouraged and the bruised more heavily oppressed and so the self-denial man is strengthned in his selfish conceit under a shew of self-denial This spirit hath not the line of true Judgment it cannot fathom the depths where the poor lies afflicted and the bruised distressed and the weak helpless nor hath no true oyl to pour into the wound of Israel but only helps the Beast to heal his wound which is to be wounded unto death Friends The end of my labour is to restore the lost Sheep of the House of Israel who are led astray by the fair shews of feigned spirits and whether you will hear or forbear I shall have a witness in you for nothing is in my heart but good-will to your souls and if so you can receive it and come to profit by it let God have the glory over all and the mans name be buryed in silence Therefore let your ear be open to that of God in you and consider is it not sad and grievous when the love of God is so much professed and that which is of it denyed and dis-owned and that which is contrary to it received and nourished I shall leave the particulars to be distinguished unto you by the witness of God in you but this is a certain truth concerning you that you are gone from the sure Foundation and are become as waves of the Sea which have their course and motion which way the wind bloweth What a sad captivity are you fallen into who are fallen from serving the living God in his own way to serve a painted Idol of your own making and gives the honour and renown unto it as if it was the only son when indeed it is nothing but an Idol born of the flesh and painted over with the choycest colours of that nature and being of that nature in the ground it is an Idol though it will not be limited to any outward observation But the birth of the Royal Seed is the Glory of the only begotten of the Father and in its order is without limitation though in practice it daily and hourly observes the same thing Well Friends I have great heaviness and sorrow in my heart concerning many of you who in the day of your visitation did begin well but how you are turned aside I believe you do not understand and therefore my compassion is much more towards you who in your simplicity are ensnared for the zeal of your affections ran you out of the stayedness and so you became enamoured with a fair shew and eagerly closed in with it as some higher manifestation and here your eye became darkned with the enamoured part and then the net you could not see and so was simply taken in the heat of your affections and it being so you must submit to the power of God in the silence of all flesh and if so you do the power will deliver you and again restore you into the fellowship of the Gospel So Friends this is the counsel of the Lord God unto you Make nothing to your selves but wait in stillness and quietness not out of words only but out of thoughts and imaginations also for there all flesh comes into silence and in so waiting upon the Lord God he will abolish your Idols with all their glory and root out the ground of their conception and if you so stand submitted to his power he will surely heal you and freely love you And be not so wise in your own eyes for you are below and your intelligence and motions are from that nature and the birth of life sits sorrowing as a Babe without comfort let it give answer and speak for it self and then shall these sayings be found true and faithful And Friends What would you do by the things that you hold forth would you shadow the Sun from shining or keep the showers from falling and the Seed from blossoming and the Vine from yeelding encrease would you so limit the life as the streams of it should not run or so enclose the love of God as that it should not break forth if you say nay these are the things that we would have to be then what means your crying out against the glorious dispensation of God and the order in it and what means all your reflections upon Gods chosen Heritage as if death had swallowed them all up and as if they had lost the compassion and tenderness and vertue which once they had and apprehends that you only have retained it Nay Friends that which was once in the Life of God is still the same amongst his children and in the resurrection of it they have a sweet increase and to that of God in all it is the same as ever and they are not seeking themselves and their own glory but are seeking the good of all and the Glory of God in all but you have lost your strength who are gone from the power of God and so you savour not the things that are of God that when compassion is manifested towards you yet you cannot receive it except it close in with you and so you turn away your ear from the counsel of the Lord as if no compassion or tenderness did remain in his children and thus you are