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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65889	This is an epistle for the remnant of Friends, and chosen of God whom he hath yet preserved to bear their testimony in and about the city of London, to whom, this is a testimony of the dear love, and tender care which flowes forth, and is extended towards them, and all tender hearts who are concerned in the like sufferings, temptaons [sic], and tryals / from their faithful friend and servant in the Lord, G. Whithead.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1665 (1665)	Wing W1963; ESTC R20330	8,939	18

being opprest under their wickedness and the Earth defiled under the Inhabitants which causeth the Heavens to frown upon the World and the curse to go forth and Blessings to be withheld from them and the taking away of good and merciful men and many innocent persons though it be in love to themselves yet it is in judgment against the other who have brought innocent blood upon their own heads by their cruelties and persecution and whose hearts are hardened and become cruel and implacable against Truth and Righteousness and all them that walk therein whose souls have been daily vexed and oppressed through the ungodly and unchristian coversation of the wicked And God who spared not his own Son but delivered him to suffer and to be numbered among Transgressors both in life and death and his soul to be an Offering for the Offences of many he also hath given many of his dear Children not only to believe but also to suffer with his own Son who hath borne our griefs and sorrows and with him he has suffered them to be reckoned and numbered among Transgressors both in their life and death that his Followers might bear his reproaches and partake of his sufferings who made his Grave with the wicked and with the rich in his deaths and was esteemed as smitten or plagued of God though as to their own conditions it is and will be well with the Righteous for ever having obtained witness thereof and for their justification from the Lord God by whose Righteous Witness it 's known and manifest in secret in Mens Consciences where he visits in wrath or distributes sorrows in his anger and where he visits tries or chastises in love favour and tender mercy and this Witness discovers where the guilt of sin and disobedience is where deceit treachery and revolting from truth is which occasions terrors and fear of Death and which incurs the anger and wrath of God upon the guilty therein and also brings sufferings upon the tender innocent who knowing the guilt taken away and removed every affliction and trial that such meet withal is sanctified to them through the tender love and favour of God wherewith their cup is mixed which their implacable enemies and persecuters shall drink the dregs of without mixture now the difference herein of the two states and conditions of men is felt and discerned in the Invisible by that which judgeth not by the sight of the eye or hearing of the ear nor barely from the outward appearance of common afflictions which sometimes come alike upon all but in Righteousness and Truth that judgeth and as it hath been said of old concerning the Righteous whose souls are in the hand of God that in the sight of the unwise they seemed to die and their departure is taken for misery and their going from us to be utter destruction but they are in peace for though they be punisht in the sight of Men yet is their hope full of Immortality and having been a little chastized they shall be greatly rewarded for God proved them and found them worthy for himself as Gold in the Furnace hath he tryed them and received them as a Burnt-offering c. Yea such are they who shall judge the Nations and have dominion over the people whose Lord that takes care for his Elect shall reign for ever Now my dear Friends and tender hearts commit your way to the Lord and cast your burthen upon him and he will bear you up and sustain you by his own right hand of power and live in the Immortal Seed and spiritual Communion where life and peace is daily received and your mutual Refreshment and Consolation stands and wherein the Spirits of just Men are seen and felt and the life of Gods faithful Servants and Martyrs and such as have finisht their Testimony with joy and peace is enjoyed even in this Spiritual Communion which reaches beyond all Visibles and is above all mortal and faiding Objects or things So in the dear and tender Love of God which dwells and lives in my heart towards you and all the faithful every where I commit you to him in whom our help and deliverance is and in the Kingdom of Christ's Patience am Your Dear and Faithful Friend and Brother G. W. Let This be read distinctly in the Life and Authority of God from whence it came among Friends in and about the City of London and elsewhere as any Friend are moved in the same Life THE END Wisd. 3.

Remnant to bear his mark and name upon Earth and to hold forth a living Testimony for his glory and praise amongst the sons of Men for which many have not loved their lives unto death but have offered up their lives as divers manifestly did in that City the last Summer when such a sore Visi●ation and Calamity was upon that place wherein divers offered up life and all for the truth and their afflicted Brethren and Sisters for whose sakes my soul has often been greatly bowed down and afflicted and my bowels have earned for them and my Inwards were so moved with compassion and brokenness of spirit that neither life it self nor any outward privilege did seem too dear to me to resign or offer up for their sakes And though when the Sickness was so hot in that City and Prisons some of the Persecutors at that time appeared cruel wicked and abominable against the Innocent to destroy them in these Pestilential places of Confinement where both there and also on Shipboard wherein so many were confined for Banishment many innocent Lambs laid down their lives for the witness of a good Conscience And though the wicked may for a time in their wickedness and mischievous minds be lifted up against us to insult over us because of these our deep trials and the death of so many innocent persons either in the Prisons on Shipboard or out of Prisons yet their being so elevated and hardened against us who are the People of the Lord does but the more make for and further their own destruction ruine and misery as often I have said and been sensible and their Plague torment and calamity which slumbers not is greater and more sad then many's that have died under that common Calamity of the Pestilence by which many have been removed both of good and bad which thing those that are yet alive and remain in their sins without taking warning thereby it will prove the greatest Plague and Judgment against such who are the least considerate sensible of the hand of the Lord in it or of their states and conditions for as to this particular calamity or sickness 't is in it self not the worst of Judgments which God hath in store for a sinful provoking rebellious people or Nation and Gods controversie is not yet ended in this Nation nor the viols of his displeasure emptied upon his enemies and persecutors of his Seed And oh to consider what a sore heavy Judgment is it what misery does it presage to many in this Nation that so many innocent or Righteous persons in it should be taken away as those whom the world are not worthy of but such are taken away from the evil to come both from future calamities and set in safety for ever from them that have puffed at them and made a prey upon them in their life time And as for us that yet remain who fear the Lord and stick close to him always eyeing and seting him before us in the greatest of our perils and sufferings we know his goodness endures for ever though the mighty and exalted of the Earth boast and insult for a time over us and the more the suffering is the greater is the consolation and glory to them that continue faithful to the end And what ever conclusions are brought forth against us either by wicked men or any who in prejudice turn against us and take occasion from this Mortality which has come upon so many Friends in the time of this great Calamity as if it were in Gods wrath indignation or fury against the body of Friends or any of us who are come to the Communion of the body of Christ which we are Members of or if any that profess the name of the Lord be so clouded byassed and prejudiced in their minds as to conclude this a fulfilling of some such Prophecies of wrath and indignation against Friends such spirits and evil tidings are plainly seen and they to be presumptuous and no Prophets sent of the Lord and therefore cannot make us afraid who confide in the name of our God and in that living faith wherein our unity and victory stands our innocent life stands over them in true Judgment against all that which among some has crept in at unawares to create devisions enmity against the faithful servants or people of God where 't is received in any unstable or brickle spirits And therefore my soul saith the Lord rebuke thee oh Satan who enviest the heritage of God why doest thou subtlely present thy self amongst the sons of God to trouble the innocent endeavouring with thy fiery darts and temptations of this nature to turn them against their Maker and why doest thou subtlely make use of Instruments in this thy wicked work to effect thy treacherous designs The Lord will rebuke thee by his mighty power for we are sure that where Gods faithful Witness in the Conscience is owned which ought to be judge in the case and must deside the Controversie We know that does bear witness with us and for us and to the justification of all the Faithful amongst us who are really of Us and belong to the seed of Election and therefore will not go out from us who abide in the truth of God which changes not being of the seed of Jacob and off-spring of Israel after the Spirit which is beyond revolting Israel after the flesh for herein are we heirs of promise and then who shall condemn conclude or prophesie wrath where God justifies and not bring condemnation upon themselves for that Gods love was felt by many under that trial and Visitation which many died in about that City and many were sensible of Gods love and favour till the very last And the life peace satisfaction and comfort that many innocent Friends felt and that some express and signified on their Deathbeds I am a living Witness of for them Having at some times as the Lord hath drawn me in his Love been present with many of them when they were very low in the outward Man and with divers when upon their Deathbeds both in that destructive place of Newgate and some other places Yea when sorrow and sadness has seized upon my spirit and my heart and soul has been pierc'd and wounded when I have seen the sad sufferings of so many harmless Lambes when they were on their sick beds in these noysome holes and Prisons Yet at the same time having had a deep sence and knowledge of the Lords love and care to them in that condition and having truly felt his life and power stirring amongst them This on the other hand has refresht and revived my spirit knowing that Christ their Salvation and Redemption was manifest to and in them though in that suffering state as they have followed and obeyed him through sufferings and tribulations and so with such to live was Christ in that state and to die was gain it being through death that the Lord had appointed