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A41347 A salutation of true love to all faithful friends, brethren and sisters in the fellowship of the blessed truth with an addition of tender love to all younger convinced friends in and about London &c. : also a few words of advice to the children of believing and faithful parents. Fisher, A. (Abigail) 1690 (1690) Wing F986; ESTC R37815 9,677 21

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sweetly comforted in the sense of which my Soul doth bless the Lord that he hath opened mine Eyes to behold the appearance of this day in which the glorious Splendour and Beams of the Sun of Righteousness hath so greatly shined and shall yet to many who yet set under the Region and shadow of Death notwithstanding the secret and open workings of the Enemy of man's Soul whose work is to darken the Mind and bring a Cloud as a Veil over the Understandings of People that they may not see the Light of the glorious Gospel that hath and shall shine through them who faithfully walk in the Light of this everlasting day in which the Sun shall never set for as the Lord hath been at work so he will work and none shall be able to hinder his determined Will which is to exalt his Son who said of himself I am the Way the Truth the Life and the Light he also said he that believeth in me shall not abide in darkness but shall have the Light of Life and you are they that do witness the Truth of that saying whom the Lord hath made partaker of such like precious Faith which he hath bestowed upon you and it is not in vain must my Soul with yours acknowledge being made a partaker in some degree of the saving Vertue that is in it to the Praise of the Lord 's worthy Name be it spoken who hath bestowed it on us for my heart is filled and with the abounding thereof doth my Cup overflow and run as a Salutation to you my well beloved Friends faithful Brethren and Sisters in that relation which the Spirit of God hath brought us into through the indwelling Power thereof even all you that were born of that Royal Seed which is the Off spring of David to you the Root of Jesse is sprung up in this our day High praises to the Honourable worthy Name of the great God I know is given by all you who do know the branches of it overspreading the Earth in your hearts you are of that Number of whom it was spoken they that touch the Elect touch the Apple of God's Eye what can be nearer or sooner felt O the Love of God as the Bowels of a tender Father you have known to succour and relieve to save and deliver he is the same this day as ever and changes not I know you have had large Experience even you that have walked the heavenly Progress and run in the Race with Patience which was set before you and are coming towards an End of your Travels which hath been through many Difficulties for many Troubles have been the Portion of of the Righteous may I not say as on your behalf whom the Lord did call in the breaking forth of this glorious Day the Light of which now shines in the hearts of many to whom you have been publishers to proclaim the sound of the Everlasting Gospel to which the Ears of many have been opened and their hearts ready to receive the glad Tidings of Peace for which my Soul is greatly ingaged to bless the Lord that I was one of that Number to which the sound hath reached Therefore dear Friends for a farther Confirmation believing you have had many that your faithful Labours and Travels in the Work of the Gospel of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ hath not been in vain for I am obliged to acknowledge to the benefit that I with many more whom I know have with me been made partakers of the same consolating refreshing strengthening Vertue which the Lord hath through you communicated unto us who as good Stewards of the manifold Grace of God have distributed to the poor in Spirit who through believing and receiving the Grace of God are made rich in Faith and Heirs of that Kingdom that shall never have an End O the Joy of God's Salvation the Comfort and Consolation you know who have travelled through and are gone before by the Assistance of the heavenly Power and blessed Spirit of the living God which is one in all the faithful who truly come to know their Minds and Wills rightly subjected to it and that come to be led and guided by it such know the Efficacy and Vertue of it to lead and guide them into Truth and from all Untruth and such are they that adorn the Gospel and these alone are Preachers of Truth and Righteousness who are taught and learned of him who never guile was found in his Mouth O the Righteous holy Principle of Life what a Beauty doth mine Eyes behold in it how comely are you who have kept your first Love to it and have not made shipwrack of Faith but have this day the Answer of a good Conscience towards God and all Men Friends the sense of your everlasting Joy and endless Felicity when the Lord shall remove you out of these earthly Tabernacles and Houses of Clay begets a fervent desire in me that we who are as the younger begotten but brought forth by the same Arm and mighty Power of God and have hitherto been brought up and nourished by the same Milk of the Word may grow thereby from strength to strength till we come to the Stature and fulness of a Man in Christ and that the hindermost of the Flock may come up and follow in the Foot-steps of you that are gone before in that straight and narrow Way which leads to Life that hereby we may come to be enriched with the same heavenly Treasure and though younger begotten yet as right Heirs may come to have a part and share in that Joy which is unspeakable and full of Glory Now my honourable esteemed Fathers and Elders faithful Brethren and Sisters in that Life that shall out-live Death and the Power of it and in true Love do I salute you all whom the Lord hath called and made choice of to promote Truth and Righteousness in the Earth though many are your Gainsayers the Truth is that which the Lord will secretly make way for through all Opposition Blessed and magnified over and through all be his Almighty Power which is at work this day for the furtherance of it for which Cause the faithful have great Cause to be incouraged to go on in the strength of the Lord who will turn and overturn till he come to Reign whose Right it is in the Hearts of the Children of Men From a younger Sister but one that desires to be a faithful Follower of the Flock of God A. F. A Visitation of Tender Love as I felt it Running in a fresh Stream of Life to you my Friends who are younger convinced in and about London DEar Friends Brethren and Sisters whom I love in the Lord and desire well for as for my own Soul that you may all grow in Grace and in the Knowledge of God whom to rightly know is Life Eternal the Testimony of which hath been often sounded in your Ears through many worthy Antients whom the Lord by