name publish his eternall truth which shall stand for ever Eternall life is come glory to him for ever Silence all Disputers and Diviners for ever trample upon all the chaff and dung and mire for ever which all the wisedome of the World feeds upon Greater is he that is in us then he that is in the world Oh my beloved ones although I am the lowest and weakest among many of my brethren yet the eternall power of God is my shield for ever the Lord of hosts is with us There is a Crown which none can take away to all who have denyed all yea it is on your heads the dread of God is with us and truly dear brethren we cannot say that we fished and catched nothing for many vessels are full nor we have not travailed and laboured and brought forth wind as the false Prophets doe for we have the seales of our Ministry which shall be Witnesses for the Lord in Generations to come Not unto us O Lord but to thy name be glory for ever who hath done and doth all for us and in us who is our strength our glory our Crown of rejoycing all the day long for his hidden treasure is brought forth and made manifest in earthen vessels unto him be eternall living praises for ever And so all dear brethren members of the same body of Christ Jesus by which we are set free from sin in the liberty life and power in which you are made free stand as vvitnesses for the Lamb and for the holy Nation for the Royall seed of the true Israel of God that it may be brought out of Captivitâ— to serve the Lord in the Land of the living and the eternall God of povver and life of endlesse rich love and mercy be vvith you all and prosper his ovvne vvork in your hands that he alone may be glorified unto vvhom be eternall infinite praises vvho is our life our King God blessed for ever and ever And to you all my dear brethren and sisters vvho suffers in bonds and prisons and dens and holes and suffers the Enemy to plovv long furrovves upon your backs in patience and suffers stocking vvhipping buffetting beating and cruell mocking and stripes and chaines and fetters vvhom the World is not vvorthy of even as they did unto our Master of vvhom vve bear witnesse of and hath the witnesse in our selves even so doe they unto us But the servant is not greater then his Lord and therefore we that are baptized for the dead and stand in jeopardy of our lives often we have a cloud of Witnesses which endured the same and therefore the same baptism and the same cup must be drunk by all that follow him Well my dear brethren your sufferings I know and I know he of whom you bear witnesse bears up your heads who hath called you thereunto above all that which is done unto you as you stand in his will and councel well as dear brethren and companions in the same tribulation and Kingdome and patience of the Saints as witnesses of the same faith as they were which are gone before you you are made partakers of the same it is made manifest and revealed in you by the same God in which faith they had power and you have power and indures as they did and as he did even the contradiction of sinners Well our God is on our side and takes our part and therefore my own bowels in patience endure God will bring forth your righteousnesse as the Sun and your enemies shall be ashamed and I know and you also know it is for the advantage and the furtherance of the Gospel of Christ and endure in patience and long-suffering and look not out and the Lord in due time will enlarge your border and the eternall God of power be with you chosen ones for the Lords work you shall have your reward nay he is come and his reward is with him I know you have it and witnesse his power and his presence with you so my dear ones in that which limits all and chaines all and keeps under all deceit dwell and abide for ever in the living power which makes the strong man bow downe and the Devils tremble and the unclean spirits roare and the power you know where is your life that all the powers of death cannot reach and therefore doth the potsheards of the earth strive in vaine to set briars and thorns in battel against him in vaine doe they rage for notwithstanding all that God hath set and will set his owne Son upon the holy hill of Sion glory unto him for ever shout out for joy Oh yee sufferers for him who are set free by him and your freedome can none take away for he is greater then all even him in whom yee have believed standing in his power wisedome and councel who is neer you that none is able to pluck you out of his hand for he hath the keyes of David who opens and none shuts and binds and none can loose even he who rebukes the winds and seas and they obey him and causes a great calme and causes the waters to abate nay to stand of a heap and dryes up the tongue of the Aegyptian sea that his ransomed ones may goe over into the rest and he that hath and doth believe in him is entred into the rest where we all meet in one in him who is the Judge of all the world the light of the world and our life who believe in his name but the condemnation of all the world who walk in unrighteousnesse for ever and ever For with the pure and upright he dwells and his Throne is established in righteousnesse for ever and ever and unto our God who lives for ever shall all the powers of the Earth bow to whom be glory and eternall praise of all his redeemed ones for ever and ever F. H. O All yee Sons of Sion and yee daughters of the King who is glorious within who is glorious within who have waited for the Bridegroom Oh my beloved ones you who have long sitten in a solitary place and have been as a silly Dove without a heart and hath been as a widow desolate and as a parched Heath you that hath wandred up and downe in the long night of darknesse and knew no rest but were as one cast off by all and all that passed by you laughed at your sorrow you have been as a hissing and as a Proverb to all and as a mark to shoot at by all your faces have been as the Tents of Kedar parched and your skin withered for want of refreshment and as a dead Tree that bears no fruit Oh yee who have come through great tribulation and have suffered the losse of all the spoyling of all even the greatest riches the chiefest Jewels who have lost all your knowledge and wisedome and become fooles for Christs sake and hath parted with all and hath suffered the indignation of the Lord to passe over
all and hath drunk of the cup of fury at the hand of the Lord who have suffered hunger famine pestilence and earthquakes and the darkening of the Sun and the Moon lost her light and the Stars have fallen and the pillars of heaven hath been shaken the Earth hath been removed out of its place as a Cottage and you have cryed out in the midst of all this he hath forgotten to be gracious and is his mercy come to an end The womb hath been shut up desolation and sorrow losse of Children and widowhood in a day came upon you Oh yee tossed afflicted and not comforted that have been as Eunuchs dry and barren as in the drought of summer that have been as Pelicanes and as Doves who have sorrowed for the losse of her Mate and as one in sorrow for the losse of her first born who have been in bitternesse and none could comfort you I am one with you your state I know I love you eternally yea yee are my brethren and sisters for ever sealed in my heart and engraven to be read for ever I see you I behold you I kisse you and embrace you with an holy kisse of everlasting love which overcomes death and hell which love thinks no ill yee that are made partakers of this love knowes what I say Yee that have waited for him and wait and suffer the spoyling of all I am married unto you I came forth of the same womb which is eternity free for ever free borne not in bondage because the Prince of this world is judged and cast out and the glory of the Lord revealed Come forth yee Sonnes and Daughters of Jerusalem which is free from above utter forth your voyce sing aloud the Bridegroome is come and is coming and yee that have suffered the spoyling of all rejoyce for evermore lift up your voyces as Trumpets He is come he is covered with Righteousnesse as with a Robe his countenance is as the morning his eyes is brighter then the Sun his voyce is life eternall salvation is round about him he dwells in eternall life life is in his right hand and joy is in his presence and peace for evermore he is a tryed stone he is a Rock which the righteous flyes to he hides his under his wings and covers them with his feathers Beauty beauty glory glory eternity eternity Almightiness Almightiness power riches honour dignity and dominion strength wisedome and goodnesse fullnesse satisfaction eternall treasure durable riches infinitnesse is his name for ever unexpressible I am filled with his love and power he opens the windowes of Heaven he raines his showres as silver drops and as fine Myrrhe as sweet odours he nourishes the young he carries the Lambs in his arms of love he drives gently them that are with young he is true and faithfull for ever he keeps Covenant he is long-suffering and kind who can declare his power I am lost in the incomprehensible being of eternall love Oh my dear ones come up hither fellow Citizens of Jerusalem which is from above who is our Mother which few know but you who are written in the Lambs book of life found forth his praise trumpet forth his power declare his name among the people that it may sound into the eares of Generations to come this is he we have waited for this is he who hath begotten us to himself to raign with him the Lamb upon Mount Sion as Kings and Priests and Judges of the Prince of darknesse death and hell for ever salvation honour and glory be to him for ever eternall infinite praises praises to him for ever who was dead and is alive and lives for evermore King of Kings for ever Majesty glory and power and eternall renown is in his right hand for ever his redeemed ones lives for ever dwells followes lives in him for ever no Beast can touch the mountaine where he dwells but he dyes for ever Come away my beloved ones drink abundantly and be refreshed and praise his name for ever eternally I am shed and spilt among you never so as now never to be separated out of the eternall onenesse sound forth his praise declare his word let it to goe forth as thunder let the Heathen bow let the Princes of this world fall and the Kings worship at his feet for ever let the disputers tongue cleave to the roof of his mouth for ever let all flesh keep silence for ever Babylon is fallen and become the habitation of Devills for ever the Judge of all the world hath confounded and cursed her language for ever God is risen and sits upon his Throne eternall wisedome is come and the Ancient of dayes all carnall shall be confounded stop all mouths in the dust for ever Eternity shall speak and judge for ever whom he binds is bound for ever whom he looseth he looseth for ever whom he remits are remitted the Devil is chained the grave gives up her dead and the sea and hell all is judged by him that lives for ever O beloved ones who are the children of my eternall father who have eaten at his Table and drunken of the new wine in the Kingdome of God who are nourished and dandled upon the lap of everlasting love who suck at the breasts of everlasting consolation your beauty is comely I am ravished I am filled I am filled with love to you all I am sick of love your beauty hath ravished my heart come sit down my dear Lambs together in the fold where no Wolf can come and let us rejoyce together and sound forth his praise who hath washed us and cleansed us and covered us and made us worthy to enter into the fold the Bride-chamber to eat with him of the bread of life for ever at the eternall Table of life the Bridegroom is come friends of him I know you rejoyce greatly because of his voyce And now my dearly beloved ones follow him for evermore in the eternall light and life where we were bred brought forth and nourished and are unknown to all the world but me you know and I know you in one who is the condemnation of the world and in him I meet you and leave you in his arms I lye down with you in the bosome of eternall love life peace joy and rest for ever where none can make us afraid Bandon in Irela the 7 Month 55. My name yee know my voyce yee know this is to all my beloved brethren who are redeemed from the Earth Francis Howgill TO THE CAMP OF THE LORD IN ENGLAND TO all you called chosen elected and beloved of the Lord who are of the true circumcision made without hands of the seed of Abraham who are Jewes indeed not after the flesh but in the spirit unto whom belongs the everlasting promise and Covenant whom God hath and is fulfilling in you so establishing with you We your fellow-Citieens of the heavenly Jerusalem which is the mother of us all and of the same body
THIS IS ONELY TO GOE amongst FRIENDS TO all the seed of Abraham who are Jewes indeed and Israelites in whom is no guile who are of the true Circumcission made without hands Who are of the off-spring of David and of the Church of the first born who are the first fruits unto God yee Royall off-spring of the Rocke of Ages who have come out of the everlasting washing my deare Brethren called Quakers who have eaten your bread with feare and trembling whom your brethren hath cast out Oh how I love you my soule is knitt unto you my heart and life breathes after you I am one with you in suffering and in joy ye are the choycest of the flock yee are the fairest of all the children which is brought forth Oh my beloved ones though I be among the Tents of Kedar as without where the Voyce of the Lord hath neither been heard nor known it you I forgett not if I doe let the tongue cleave to the Roofe of my mouth and lett me never speake more in the name of the Lord who is my life and the portion of my Cup for ever Oh what shall I say unto you none knows your beauty nor innocency nor glory but them who are redeemed out of Kindreds and Nations and tongues and People and Countries Who follow the Lambe whithersoever he goes For the name of my God and your God who is liing and lives for evermore is in your foreheads you are his off-spring and the fruit that came out of the eternall womb begotten by the eternal word of life which lives for ever and are norished at the eternall table in the everlasting mansion-house of my father which is in heaven none so faire none so beautifull none so glorious none so Rich you are Crowned with love for ever you are cloathed with righteousnesse for ever you eat of the tree of life which heales the Nations and of the bread of life that nourishes you up for ever and drinks of the living waters which runs fresh beautifull and coole in it you are bathed and suppled and made white you are builded upon a Rock storms cannot move you tempests cannot make you afraid in this you have been and are like to be tryed your Armour is righteousnesse on the right hand and on the left your City is free the Gates stand open day and night and a Wolf nor Lyon nor any Beast can enter no not so much as a flying Fowle Oh how goodly is thy Tents O thou seed of Jacob the Elect whom he hath chosen O how pleasant is your scituation the Tower of David Mount Sion stands sure and cannot be moved Oh who is a people like unto you saved by our God that lives for ever His love is large he is kind he is long-suffering he is faithfull and keeps Covenant and his Promises are Yea Yea He is the Amen the first and the last Come forth my dear brethren set forth his praise declare his name among the Heathen publish his name among the Congregations let the Earth be filled with his love and power that his Judgements may be declared and his Statutes that they sound in the eares of Generations to come O yee that are convinced of the truth of our God wait in that which doth convince and keep your minds to it and love it and follow it whether it leads you and it will lead you to know the gift of God which leads to repentance from dead works to serve the living God who dwells in the immortall light and take heed of looking back at the pleasures of sin you have formerly lived in but wait upon the pure light of Christ Jesus in patience that so you may see the enmity which is against God and it slain in you daily that so you may see him that is the Saviour of the soule and take heed of rebelling against the Lord who hath given you a measure of his true light to lead you from sin if you love it unto righteousnesse from whence it comes even from the righteous Judge of all the world who judgeeth every man out of the Book of his conscience and so prize the everlasting love of God to your soules that you may see him who lives for ever And all Babes who are born again who have suffered the pangs of death and know the indignation of the Lord against sin and the terrour of the Lord against the man of sin who have roared for the disquietnesse of your hearts who have born the indignation of the Lord and are come to the giving forth of the Law where there is thundring and earthquakes and terrour and great haile and fire and smoke even such as was not since the beginning in so much that you could not hear his voyce and live nor see his face and live Stand still in patience and let it have its perfect work in you and bear the indignation ye that are in it if you endure the tribulation with patience hope you will see and a time of refreshment will come endure the Crosse that the mortall and earthly and carnall may be judged and the ground shaken and taken away and that you may see the living hope to stay your minds upon And yee who are enlivened and doth witnesse the Law of righteousnesse set up in you which is a Schoolmaster and keeps in the fear stand in it and keep in the fear low in sobernesse and calmnesse and then you will see your hearts purified daily and the cursed nature judged which is out of its course and it bridled and subjected and the Law which is pure and holy and eternall which stands for ever in power and force against the transgressour to judge all unrighteousnesse and so wait that you may see the Lyon tamed and the wild Heifer yoked and the yoke of Christ born and the wild Colt tamed by him upon which never man sate before then and not till then is Hosanna sung And all wait in your measures dear Babes that the milk of the word you may see and be nourished by it and grow up as living branches about the Table of the Lord And all you Young men and Virgins that know virginity keep your virgin-you in whom the Prince of this world is judged and cast out and the righteous Law of God revealed and given forth in which you stand and walk and hath peace from him who is the Law-giver and Judge who hath saved you from your iniquities and blotted out your sins for his owne name sake You who knowes the living water and Spirit of which you are born again and witnesses the birth which enters into the Kingdome of God where no mortall or unclean Beast can come Keep in the life and power of God which limits all and chaines all under that the life of the Son of God may live and speak in you and be bould in the dread of God stand and that which leads into slavery keep out And now being made