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A36890 A few vvords of truth from the spirit of truth to all who are convinced of the truth, and stand in opposition to the cross ... also a few words to all the litteral professors, who can own the ministration of Christ without them but deny him within them and to those that have their dependance upon the teaching of men, in oppostion to the ministration of the spirit within : together with a short discovery of the Presbyterian government, and some reasons of dissenting from it / William Dundas. Dundas, William, fl. 1665-1673. 1673 (1673) Wing D2612; ESTC R17235 15,054 23

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A Few VVords of Truth FROM THE Spirit of Truth To all who are Convinced of the Truth and stand in Opposition to the Cross By one who remained in that Estate above Seven years before he was brought to the True Obedience of Truth and was whipped to it by the Merciful Rod of the Lord for no less could do it Also a few words to all the Litteral Professors who can Own the Ministration of Christ Without them but Deny him Within them And to those that have their Dependance upon the Teachings of Men in Opposition to the Ministration of the Spirit Within Together with a short Discovery of the Presbyterian Government and some Reasons of Dissenting from it William Dundas Before I was affl●cted I went astray but now I have kept thy Word Psal 119. 67. Peri-issem nisi peri-issem Peri-issem I called upon the Lord in Distress the Lord answered me and set me in a large place The Lord is on my side I 〈◊〉 not fear What can Man do unto me Psal 118. 5. 6. Vnless the Lord had been my Help my Soul had almost dwelt in Silence Psal 94. 17. Printed in the Year 1673. A Few VVords of Truth FROM THE Spirit of Truth To all who are Convinced of the Truth and stand in Opposition to the Cross FRIENDS IT is from a deep Sense of a clear and through Exerience that I am moved to lay before you having fresh in my Thoughts your Conditions for upon that Ground did I set up my Tent for many years and was most unwilling to remove it till the Lord by Fire and Sword did pursue me and did turuble me out of all my False Rests and whilst I was settling upon my Lees he poured me from Vessel to Vessel where I never had a settled Peace nor Comfort till the Lord settled the Ark of my Soul upon the Mountains of Ararat then I did see all the World I mean those of that spirit lying as so many Dead Corps swimming upon the Waters and then my Soul was refreshed with the Sense of God's Love who had pulled me like a Brand out of the Fire who was walking from Hill to Mountain and running after the Lo here and Lo there and seeking the Living amongst the Dead and the Pearl abroad that was lying hid within my own Breast I was feeding upon Husks and the Inventions of Man seeking the Law from his Mouth and treading upon the Light which was within which shined in Darkness but Darkness could no comprehend it and thus did I live in the Night of Darkness but that it was a Day of Love that the Lord visited me from on high when I was wallowing in my Blood with my Navil-string uncut nor salted and notwithstanding the setting of my Feet in Opposition to the Light after so many years Conviction and that I had gone near to sin out my Day and that before the Candle of the Lord was put out in my spirit he did of Mercy shine upon me and though late I coming to the Vineyard to work he gave me the Wages of those that came first O the Unexpressible Love of a Merciful Loving Tender and Long-Suffering God which did not cut the Thread of my Life betwixt the Conviction and being brought to the Obedience of the Truth it was only the Free Love and Mercy of the Lord that preserved me and the more that I ponder it the deeper sense I have of it even to the bowing of me down so that I had no Peace till that I should make my Condition known to those who are where I was and that I may be set up as a Beac●n to those who are travelling Sion-ward lest that they split upon the same Rocks Shelves and Sands from which the Lord hath very narrowly delivered and brought me into the s●fe Harbour where my Anchor is cast within the Vail and now being come to my Rest it is the more with me to shew to others the Pilgrimage of my Warfare which is thus It was the Lord's Free Grace That brought me to this Port For else-where I found no Place My Soul for to Support Whilst I was in my young and tender years I was brought up in a Family and Families where the Lord was Worshipped according to the Worship of that Nation of Scotland but as I grew more in years the Lord was pleased to give me more and more the Light of his Presence and did offer me more plenty of his Grace then I was willing to receive and if I hàd gone any further then the Form of the National Church so called did allow I was counted a Sectary and so disowned and my looking one Step further then their publick Faith did allow should become a Brand of Schism and Heresie notwithstanding as to their Law I was as strict a Pharisee as many of my Equals and brought up at the Feet of Gamaliel For since I entered into the Covenant with that People I came to see a little clearer and that the Covenant did tye so my Conscience to their Form of Presbytery my spirit did begin to fail me in the thing and when there was an Order from the General Assembly For all the Nation to take the Covenant the second time in that Interim the Lord had cleared the Fogs and Mists partly by opening the Eyes of my Understanding so that I Refused to take the Covenant the second time upon the Day appointed for that End which was to be done upon a first-First-day called Sunday A dear Friend of mine whose Name I will omit because now removed by Death one whom I believe laid down the Body Convinced of the Truth for a little before his Death he said to an eminent Friend of Truth at his own House when some were slighting the Quakers he said That he wisht all the Nation were Quakers This Friend I say and I went from the place where we were expected to take the Covenant that day to hear a Country-man preach by Orders publickly at the Town of Linlithg●w one who was never at Schools nor Colledges nor knew no Language● but his Mother Tongue and as himself said to me he was brought up a Herdsman with keeping of Sheep at home which was a rare thing in the Nation of Scotland in these times and they were come one step nearer to the Quakers Principles especially having discharged the wearing of Ribbands and if they had continued Faithful to the Measure they had received then and not run retrograde they had not so much stood in opposition to them now But as I have said We going to eschew the Covenant-taking to hear the Preacher who was called from his Sheep-keeping to Preach we escaped the taking of the Covenant the second time This was like the Covenant of old That could not all perform So neither could we live as we would In Things that are enorm Yet not so but that I was taken notice of and when I came to receive the Sacrament so called at the