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A true and reall manifestation of endeared and unfeigned loue flowing through a brother from the endless life, unto the scattered (yet united) flock who are of the seed royall
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Batt, Jasper, d. 1702.
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1661
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A TRVE AND REALL MANIFESTATION Of endeared and Vnfeigned loue Flowing through a Brother From the Endless Life Unto the Scattered Yet United flock Who are of the SEED ROYALL Printed in the yeare 1661. A true and reall Manifestation of endeared and unfeigned Love flowing through a Brother from the endless Life Unto the Scattered yet United flock who are of the SEED ROYALL OH Yee living Branches of the trve Vine yee Children of the day whose light is come on whom the glory of the Lord is risen yee hungering Lambes and little ones and thirsting soules after righteousness and all yee in whom true desires are begotten after the knowledge of the Lord and whose faces are turned towards Sion more especially to all yee amongst whom I sometimes have had my Conversation in the Gospel of Christ Iesus the light of life unto you all without respect of persons endeared everlasting love from melting bowells from me freely flowes and reaches and in which receive the dear Salutation of me your Brother fellow Traveller and Companion towards in the promised Inheritance and now a Prisoner for the Testimony of that Truth and Gospel which in the fulness of time hath been in the demonstration of the Spirit and Power of God revealed and declared in and amongst you yea in fulness of love and life am I even constrained hereby to salute and imbrace you and let you know that I am yet alive that that life power lives in me which shall subdue Death it selfe him that hath the power of it in which life power and love I earnestly desire and wish that grace mercy love life and peace eternal may be abundantly shed abroad and multiplied in and amongst you all Oh! my dear and evrlastingly beloved Brethren and Sisters what shall I say or what words shall I use to express my love vnion and nearness to and with you yee bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh love of my life surely I am full yea I am full of Love towards you and have even as it were travelled in pain for some time waiting to bring forth a manifestation of it And now truly rejoyce that the time is come for me to ease my self unto you and the gates being set open let my love swiftly run forth towards you as a mighty Stream that runs down a steep Hill and beares down all opposition before it When I looke back and call to minde the day when the Lord uttered his Voice amongst us and when his call reached to his own in us when he bowed our hearts to answer his call and when I with many of you turned my face toward Sion and began to advance out of Egipt and took our Journey together through the wilderness in a path unknown unto us yea my dear hearts when I remember now in this time of my restraint Captivity what freedom and liberty once I had amongst you when I went with joy gladness with them that kept holy-day when I assembled amongst the little ones of my Fathers family to wait upon him and when somtimes as the least of his little ones I Ministred before him amongst you out of that euerlasting Treasury from whence I received a portion to distribute when he uttered his Voice through me and when his witness in many of you answered and testified it was not the voice of a Stranger When his glory even filled his house and his presence appeared in the midst of us to the shaking of the earth removing the mountaines and rending the rocks when his living streams swiftly run through the little vallies and watered and refresh't his pleasant heritage when the broken in heart were bound up and comfort and glad tidings Proclaimed to Sions mourners when the Lambes skipt upon the mountaines and the morning Stars rejoyced together when with one accord from the life Eternal in its dominion we breathed forth prayses unto Sions King yea when these things are set before me in this my captive yet contented state verily my bowells are even turned within me and in remembrance thereof mine heart affects mine eyes and mine eyes answers my heart and oft teares plentifully runs down upon my Bed in the night season Oh my deare and pretious ones feele yee my melting panting yearning bowells over and towards you Let not my teares be spilt in vaine in remembrance of you what though I am here shut up and numbred amongst transgressors and seperated from your sosciety yee know it is only for bearing record to the living hope begotten in you even the hope of Israel Oh! how can I forget the Lords pleasant Heritage whose beauty whose love hath even overcome me yee excellent ones surely my delight is in you my vnion my fellowship my life is with you nay if I forget you in whom my soule rejoyces and in whose love I am foulded then let the pittifull tender mother forget her innocent tender Infant of a span long the fruite of her wombe which shee hath brought forth through sore pangs and sorrow yea then let mine eyes forget to guide or direct my feete and let my right hand forget his service for its fellow members for if I forsake or turne my back from the little ones of the Campe of Israel when in the wilderness in the day of tryal when Amalecks forces approaches near them yea or at the Lyons mouth or Dragons Den then let my right hand be dryed up and my peirceing sword which the Captaine of Israells hoste hath girt about me returne into mine own bowells and let the sharp Arrows of my Bow which abode in its strength when the Archers shott at me swiftly pass through my own Breast yea then let the enemy persecute my soule and take it and lay mine honour in the dust and tread my life down to the ground and let me be as them that goe down to the grave and shall never see light nay yee are written and sealed in my hearts love with indeligable Characters even as with the poynt of a Diamond in the bright pollished Marble what instrument or power shall ever be able to raze you out or make a separation between us yea though my outward man be here in bondage my love my life my spirit is at liberty and on a rock am I set above mine Enemies my Tryalls and Sufferings wherein my spirit I oft behold the Innocent Lambs feeding in the pleasant pastures under the good Shepherds conduct and drinking at the living Fountaine where I see the harmless little ones feeding in the Banqueting house in the Fathers presence the Banner of love displayed over them where I truly feed drink am refreshed with and among them to my unexpressable joy great delight yea the Innocency of the Lambes and simplicity of the Babes oft times even overcomes my heart with love unto them and the spirit of Courage and Valour which my God hath raised up in them in this day of
peace an Unity rule in your hearts forevermore Then shall your hearts be filled with joy and gladness and your mouthes with joyfull praises Oh praise the Lord forever and exalt his Name in the Congregation of the righteous for he hath done marvelous things he hath regarded the low estate of the poor and needy he hath heard the cryes of the Oppressed and sighing of his Prisoners and with his Arme hath he brought Salvation and with his own right hand hath he gotten himselfe the Victory Oh! yee Innocent and upright in Heart lift up your heads and be glad in the Lord for his Councel concerning us shall stand that he will never leave us untill he hath set us in full Possession of the promised Inheritance Settle it in your hearts that he hath not raised us out of the dust and brought us hitherto now to let us fall in the wilderness and give us over as a Prey to our Enemies What then shall become of his great Name which he hath exalted and is exalting in the sight of the Nations and for which it is that he hath done these great things for us not for your sakes nor worthiness Oh Seed of Israel hath he remembred his Covenant with you but for his own name sake hath he wrought deliverance for you yet know this for your consolation for your sakes will he reprove Kings in the day of his wrath and poure contempt upon Princes yea and rather then his worke of deliverance shall saile will overthrow Kingdomes Nations if they stand in his way praise him forever and give thankes in remembrance of his hollyness for it becomes the just to be thankfull and praise is comely for the upright And when you draw near unto him make mention of your Brother before him that his loving kindness may be continued towards me and I preserved in faithfulness to him and Vnity with you all yea let all my true hearted Brethren and Sisters know that he hath dealt very bountifully with me and all his waies have I found to be Mercie and Truth unto me for when by his grace he first called me I obtained Mercie to be found faithfull and when through my Labours and Travells in his Vineyard wherein he set me my Testimony for him there was finished and my outward strength near exhausted he gathered me to my expected rest in peace and though mine Enemies in eager pursuite of their malice and envy causelessly cast me into this Iayle amongst theeues and evill doers yet my God had a designe of Love towards me in it who hath made it a very pleasant Habitation and is himselfe become a little Sanctuary unto me where in his presence I am preserved in perfect joy and peace having the Testimony of his spirit in many of you of my faihtfull service for him towards you and the same Testimony also in my selfe that I never consulted with flesh and blood or disputed his Commands when and where ever he sent me and that I this day stand clear of the Blood of all men And now my dear and pretious Ones in veiw of your goodly Tents pleasant Habitation I leave you and with plenty of teares I kiss and imbrace You my heart being as ful of love towards you as when I began to write for while the streames thereof swiftly runs unto you such is my simpathy with and nearness to you that I am filled with the Returnes of Yours to me it being as natural to my heart to receive it as the parched ground the drops of raine Oh bless yee the Lord for me and let us magnifie his Name together Well then dear hearts in your love am I even rouled as in a Garment and bound with everlasting cords and sealed in a perpetuall Covenant which out lasts the day and night in this love let me live yea in it let me dye yet in the same I shall out live death it selfe where in his everlasting Armes who is love and who never slumbers nor sleeps I rest and solace my selfe with and in you And so receive yee this as a token of that indeared love flowing forth from me which shall abide when I shall be no more but yet a hope lives in me that he shall once againe see the faces of many of you Who is Your dear Brother a Prisoner for the hope of Israel JASPER BATT Evilehester Goale the 18th of the 10th Month 1661.