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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30546	A tender salutation of perfect love unto the elect of God the royal seed, the saints of the most high, who have believed the testimony of Our Lord Jesus Christ, and walks in the light that hath enlightened every man that comes into the world.	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.	1661 (1661)	Wing B6031; ESTC R37521	8,863	17

A Tender Salutation OF Perfect Love UNTO THE ELECT OF GOD The Royal Seed the Saints of the Most High who have believed the Testimony of our Lord Jesus Christ and walks in the Light that hath enlightened every man that comes into the World LONDON Printed for the Author 1661. FRIENDS THis following Epistle being committed to me I have found it convenient to disperse it on this wise to the Churches of Christ for whose service chiefly it hath been written as I perceive and this being a time wherein each Friend in God ought to serve another and to be a strength and encouragement one towards another in the Wayes of God and therefore according to my duty wherein I stand bound to the lord and his Servants I have diligently endeavoured your benefit and edification in sending this unto you who accounts it my greatest honour to serve the Lord and his Servants Ellis Hookes To the Beloved Church of God that have believed and received the Testimony of our Lord Iesus Christ The true Light that Lighteth every man that cometh into the World IN the Name and Power of our Lord Jesus Christ blessed for ever that tender Salutations of my immortal Life is daily abounding towards you who are the true Flock of the Fathers Love and Care who hath begotten you to himself by his Word that lives for ever in us and with us that ye should be a People Chosen and Elected of him unto eternal blessings and to be a Praise and an Honour to him throughout the World by and through the virtue of his Life and Power and in the fruits of his Spirit brought forth by you all who are the only Children of that birth which is only the Lords Well dearly Beloved my heart at this time is filled in the Fathers Love with the dear Remembrance of you whom the Lord hath gathered with his Arm of power and in his Spirit do I desire the encrease of all mercies and peace and blessings unto you that you may be rich and strong and wise and mighty through the Lord Jesus Christ and receiving daily of his grace may ever be preserved constant and faithful in the heavenly calling unto the end And forasmuch as the Lord hath began his glorious work in the midst of you and gathered you out of the darknesse and ignorance and unbelief of this World where sometime your converse hath been while ye knew not the Lord and raised you up into the Light and Power and Wisdome of the Lord Jesus Christ having largely tasted of the same in the experience of his leadings through diverse Operations and Manifestations of his Spirit so that many of you have attained to a good measure to peace and rest with the Lord in your inward man Dearly Beloved seeing it is thus these things the Spirit of the Father in me traveleth to bring forth unto you for the end to comfort you and to confirm you and to edifie you in the saving Truths of the Gospel of peace 1. Consider what your former estate hath been an estate scattered like sheep without a Shepherd some of you dispersed into one false kind of Profession of Religion and some into another walking in such wayes as the Lord led you not in but ye were driven from God into the paths of Death and Darknesse and were led by blind Watch-men in the Hypocrisie and false pretences towards God honouring him with the lips while the heart was far away this was the condition of some of you and others of you were wallowing in the open prophanenesse of the sinful World and such was your estate wherein you were all strangers to God and were without him in the World and served the Spirit which leads Captive to Destruction and in that way you were strayed even in the separation from Gods being in the state of enmity against him till the Lord Jesus Christ the good Shepherd of Israel found you out in the estate of darknesse and brought you home from your strayed condition even unto the sence and feeling of his power and spirit in you which called you out of the wayes of sin and death and also changed you and regenerated you into the Inheritance of a better Kingdome and glory then that which is of this World and ye now know Christ Jesus to be your Shepherd his Spirit to teach you his Wisdome and Righteousnesse and Sanctification to dwell in you being partakers of the same through the eternal light which once shined in darknesse and the darknesse could not comprehend it but now it is risen in much glory and power and death and darknesse is swallowed up of life and light and the fruits thereof subdued these things are true and faithful unto many let all such rejoyce and be glad in the Lord who have thus seen his day and tasted of his power and are witnesses that the Kingdome is come which never fades away 2. Consider what the tender dealings of God towards you and his gentle leadings have been since he hath called you out of your former strayed estate hath not his light shined upon your Tabernacle with much clearnesse perswading your hearts fully of his way and truth hath not your hearts often been refreshed and your souls truly comforted by the refreshing presence of the Lord Hath not the way of life been made so clear unto you and the way of your peace so perfectly discovered that no occasion hath been left of unbelief or stumbling unto the upright in heart Surely the Lord hath not been wanting to you in any of these things but he hath so reached home by his Word and Spirit to your Hearts and Consciences with such full convictions and perswasions in the wayes of Salvation that no sincere heart can doubt or waver concerning the things pertaining to his Souls peace and comfort for so large and evident hath Gods Testimony been unto you ever since he first called you by his Grace that no man having sense and experience thereof but must bear witness that the Lord hath been good long-suffering full of Mercy and Righteousness towards all that fear him I am perswaded ye know these things and that the tast and virtue of the Lords Mercies and Power remains stedfast in your remembrance and enjoyment even his Mercies and loving Kindness that have been made manifest to you since ye have known the Lord who hath led you by the hand as a Father doth his Children and carried you in his Arms of Preservation and born you on his shoulders in all your afflictions insomuch that through his Power and Wisdom onely we are yet alive and the Adversary hath not prevailed against us though his attempts hath often been great to destroy us 3. Consider what is now your present state and standing How is it with your inward man In what life and strength and dominion is he Is he strong over all the corruptible or is he weak under corruption Is he in the growth of a perfect man

of the stature of Christ Jesus Is he so begotten and born in you that life hath swallowed up death Hath he victory over the grave and doth he reign in you even the new man the spiritual man the immortal man Christ in you is he come in power and dominion to dwell with you Dearly Beloved mind each Particular in what state you are and what is your present standing to God-wards Have ye had faith in God and love to God and boldness for God and are ye firmly continued therein or is any such weakened and decreased in these things Is your love grown cold and your zeal lost and your confidence decayed if it be thus with any their present state is not aright before the Lord but they must repent return to their first love and return again to the witness of the Spirit of Christ within them that their strength may be renewed for they onely that dwell with the Lord in faithfulness and abides in Covenant with him must see his Glory and be fed daily with the Bread that comes down from Heaven and refreshed with the Fountain of endless Mercies if so be ye be perfect with the lord after your inward man strong and lively and zealous faithful and constant having a clean heart and a pure conscience guiltless and underfiled before God this is to be perfect with the Lord and if ye are thus blessed are you if ye be encreased daily in the Love and Life of the Father if your inward man grow in the Wisdom and Power and Knowledge of the Creator if ye receive the assurance of Eternal Life in your selves If this be your present state Oh happy people who is like unto you because ye are saved of the Lord. 4. What is the present work of God in your own hearts Ye must alwayes feel the Word of God abiding in you even the Word in the heart hear that Word and do it always and your souls shall live by the Word of God that Word beats down whatsoever tempts and draws from God which would defile you and load you Consciences and vex the Spirit for if any obey the Temptations they become darkned unbelief enters and the fruites of it grows and then there is a falling from the Lord and a departing from his way of Salvation therefore mind the Power and Spirit of Christ in you and be constant and faithful therein that you may be preserved unto the finishing of the Work of the Lord in you that at last ye may sit down in the Heavenly places in Christ Jesus in places of Peace and Comfort and Assurance for ever where the Lord is enjoyed all in all which you must wait for to be accomplished in you according to the Promise and you must witness the Work of Christ in you he must work in you by his Spirit Regeneration Reconciliation Sanctification Justification and all good things for it is not sufficient to profess that Christ in his Person hath wrought the works of God but every one in particular must witness at this day the work of the Spirit of Christ in his own heart even the Work of Reconciliation and Salvation that ye may in each mans particular receive the Knowledge and Experience of the Lords Work of his Love and Life and Salvation and Redemption in particular for though never so large Testimonies in general should be given to you or received by you concerning Christ Jesus and his Salvation yet the particular feeling of the Love and Power of God in your own hearts must you stand by in the Day of Tryal for that alone can uphold in the day of Troubles even the Testimony of the Spirit of Christ unto Salvation felt in each particular heart And seeing the Lord hath brought you to the knowledge of his truth so in conversion and rageneration that many can say 〈…〉 the Way of the Lord is so made manifest that we look not for another nor are doubtful of the Way of Eternal Life therefore be established stedfast and constant in that way not easily moved nor tossed too and fro with men nor new Doctrines nor changeable things but approve your hearts in uprightness before the Lord by being faithful to the end faithful I say to be and do according to the measure of Light and Grace and Knowledge that God hath already committed to you that ye may not offend against the Grace of God but may glorifie the Lord in your Souls and Spirits being joyned in your hearts and married to the Living God and the Lord becomes Your Husband according to the Promise but if any be of a changeable Spirit such will receive Temptations and go out of the Covenant of God and abuse the gift of God if their heart be not meek and lowly and humble and perfect in the sight of God though there may be a tast of the Love of God yet there can be no assureance of it if the heart be not aright before the Lord and faithful and constant in his Truth and therefore all must wait to receive the assurance of Eternal Life in themselves even such an assurance of Life and Peace and Joy and Comfort that there can be no departing away being established in the Heir-ship never to loose the Crown Heirs of the power of God of his Wisdom of his Righteousnesse Inheriters and Possessors of the Eternal Life that ye may dwell in the house for ever not onely as Servants but as Sons not onely as such that have tasted of the Love of God but as such as are born Heirs thereof and must inherit the same for ever now dear Friends if this were my last unto You more then this the Lord hath not to say by me and last of all in the Spirit of the Lord Jesus I charge all the Saints to he faithful to the Principles and Doctrines which Ye have heard and received and been taught of Christ through his Gospel Oh be not inconstant of unfaithful in those Principles and Doctrines which the Spirit of God hath perswaded your Consciences of the truth of for if any are unfaithful they deny the Lord of Life before men and must be denyed of him before the Father therefore let us put on strength and courage to be faithful and constant in life or death to follow the Lamb wheresoever he goes and if we must suffer for our profession and practice of those truths which God hath perswaded our Consciences of the verity of we shall never be ashamed nor confounded before the Adversary though we gain Tribulations Persecutions yea death it self for the Name of the Lord and his Truth yet we shall obtain the Crown of Glory which never fades away and verily all the Sufferings and Afflictions of this present time are not worthy to be compared to that weight of Peace and Comfort which is and shall be revealed amongst us And as concerning our Obedience to Government ever since we were a people Ye know what our Principle