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Two general epistles sent in manuscript to friends of truth by George Fox the younger ; and now printed for their further service.
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Fox, George, d. 1661.
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1663
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Two general Epistles SENT IN MANVSCRIPT TO Friends of truth BY GEORGE FOX the younger And now Printed for their further service LONDON Printed for William Warwick 1663. Two Epistles sent in Manuscript to Friends c. The Servant of Jesus Christ and prisoner for the Word of God sendeth greeting unto the Flock of God who in this day suffer bonds and other tribulations and cruelties for the precious Truth even for obeying the Gospel of salvation which is the Power of God OH ye beloved ones who have valued the eternal Truth above your nearest and dearest Relations Liberties Estates Lives and have hazarded and given up all freely in the Cause of God your reward is with you which is free Oh ye heirs of eternal life ye babes of God born of the Seed Royal ye children of the promise who are counted for the Seed the glory and peace of God resteth upon you and the Arm of my Father is your strength the Lord our righteousness is his Name who is your strong Tower the place of your safety Oh my beloved Friends my bowels are filled with the streams of Eternal life and love which runneth forth freely unto you who are highly favoured of God who are counted worthy to suffer for his living eternal truth blessed be you of the Lord my Saviour happy are you ye children of the Most High filled be your bowels with the springs of eternal life and filled be your hearts and mouths with the high praises of Emanuel Oh Friends through faith in the blood of the Lamb do you stand and in it shall you overcome and obtain the victory over the Beast false Prophet and Dragon whose hour this is in the power of darkness which is given to them for a moment to try your precious Faith Therefore my beloved ones who know the clefts of the Rock and the place where the King is found O retire all thither and solace your selves under the banner of his love remove not away from the springs of his strength virtue which he hath opened unto you but dwel in his patience and wait in his Light in the pure stilness til he arise and make his enemies his footstool Oh Friends you that cannot act contrary to the wil of Emanuel you that cannot bow down to any other image but the Light of the glorious Gospel which is the image of the invisible God you that cannot cease from worshipping him in the spirit and truth you that cannot cease petitioning him and meeting together in his Name notwithstanding the Decree of the Rulers and the raging of the wicked I feel you in Daniels spirit and enjoy you in that power which stoppeth the mouths of the Lyons you whose bodies are cast into Prisons Dungeons and Holes you who are numbred with transgressors and are separated from your outward Relations you who have given up your Estates and Lives and all or are freely willing so to do if you be called to it I know the Lord my God is not wanting to you I know you are filled with his pure peace power and presence I know you have all and enjoy all that the Lord seeth to be good for you even as I your brother do who suffereth with you and thus we receive an hundred fold even in this time with persecution and eternal life in the World to come is ours faint not Oh my Brethren and Sisters in the overcomings of the Power Love Virtue Mercy and Joy of our God which filleth my Vessel do I salute you all and am near unto you in the spirit of love rejoicing to hear of your faithfulness and courage Ah my amiable ones multiplied be your faith and strength in the power of the eternal God for we are not yet come to the depth of our tryals Verily it is but a remnant that wil follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth Oh ye Virgins who defile not your selves with the weaker things but are washed and pure in the chast life of the Lamb and redeemed from the earth by his power his righteousness is your garment yea his spirit is your covering his eye is upon you for good though the Whore may yet a little while prevail against your bodies though she may yet drink some more blood yet be not dismayed seeing you know that by which victory shall be obtained and all these things shall work together for good to you that love the Lord and not your lives unto the death Oh ye Babes of God this day have I long waited and looked for of it have I been made to prophesie and in the Faith Word and Power of God I further testifie that this day must yet be hotter for a little space that no dross may remain among the pure gold of which the Jewels are to be made up but my Friends the Lord our King in whom we have trusted he shall arise and work such wonders In the earth even in this age as shall astonish and amaze the Heathen and cause the ears of many that shall hear thereof to tingle and mens hearts shall fail them because of those things that they shall behold but as for you who know the word of eternal life hold that fast and look ye not out nor back remember Lots Wife neither let in fears but watch and wait in the eternal counsel of my Father and he wil minister strength proportionable to every ones trial and be a safe hiding-place to the meek And all you whom the Lord God hath touched with his living Power and visited with his eternal truth and counted worthy and hath begotten you into the knowledge of his truth in any measure and brought you to believe in the same though you be yet out of bonds know this my Friends that this is a day wherein God wil try your faith and love which you have professed in and to him yea this is a day wherein a mighty storm is arisen which wil shake down the unsound and the untimely fruit that so the sound which partakes of the sap and virtue of the tree may be clearly made manifest yea this is a day in which the good Husbandman wil separate the seed from the chaff which he wil scatter by his searching winds therefore I beseech you all who have any true love unto God and the way of his holiness keep close to the measure of his invisible Life Power in your own vessels that so you may retain strength and he made able to stand witnesses for his Name and I exhort and warn you all that you suffer not your minds to be entangled or encumbered with the cares of this life lest thereby the enemy get advantage against you and so you lose your strength Oh take heed of he Enemies temptations if he come unto you and offer you the things of this life that may seem pleasing to the creature and tell you that you shall enjoy them if you wil bow unto him consent not to him for if you