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A91903	A compassionate invitation of Christian love to all tender-hearted people. Testifying unto [brace] God's free-grace. His spirit's teaching, and good end of man's creation. / By one that has tasted of the goodness of the Lord, William Robinson. London, the 25th of the 2d month, 1692.	Robinson, William, member of the Society of Friends.	1692 (1692)	Wing R1724; ESTC R182826	22,680	31

Worshippers and therefore no true Receivers of the Promises of God made to those that meet in his Name There is therefore now no condemnation to them which Rom. 8. 1. are in Christ Jesus who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit It appears he knew when there was a time and State of Condemnation and it was before this time that he now speaks of this Man Paul knew several States having been a zealous Man and a Persecutor and then the Lord met with him and smote him to the ground and said to him Saul Saul why persecutes thou me Insomuch as he did it to his People he took it as done to him and without question knew great Condemnation for it and went thorow a great Warfare and tells us how it was with him in his Warfare he found a law in his members warring against the law of his mind and led him captive but afterwards he says now there is no Condemnation But to whom to those that are in Christ and who are they Even those that walk not after the flesh but after the spirit For the law of the spirit of Life in Christ Jesus hath made me Rom. 8. 2. free from the law of sin and death Here he tells us of a Freedom how he came to be the Lord's Free-man this was while he was in the Body and a sound Testimony against all that plead for Sin term of Life For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh Rom. 8. 5. but they that are after the SPIRIT the things of the SPIRIT Here he makes a great difference between these two as if they comprehended all Mankind and the one so contrary to the other that which of these we joyn'd to we either please or displease the Lord For they that walk in the flesh cannot please God but they that walk in the spirit shall not fulfil the lusts of the flesh Now if any man have not the spirit of Christ he is none of his Rom. 8. 9. Here is a plain Demonstration that this Apostle reckons the Spirit the main means of our being his and that a Man may so have or not so have the Spirit in his account is as he walks in it or obeys it or not walks in it or obeys it for his Servants we are to whom we obey now if we obey not the Spirit of Christ we loose that Priviledge of having it as our Guide to our comfort and yet may have it as to condemn and judge for Disobedience and then we have not the favour and love of it because of Disobedience But if the spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead Rom. 8. 11. dwell in you he that raised Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his spirit that dwelleth in you There is a Testimony of the Spirit that it raised our Lord Jesus from the Dead and how it was to dwell in his People and how it was to quicken them whom it dwelt in I would all People might know a quickening to God by it Rom. 8. Rom. 8. 13. 13. For if ye live after the flesh ye shall die but if ye through the spirit do mortify the deeds of the body ye shall live Now who are they that live after the Flesh but those that live in Sin for the word Flesh is comprehensive of all the Works of the Flesh and of Iniquity but now the Spirit is to mortifie all these deeds and this is the way to live for People cannot tell us what Sin it is that this cannot mortifie and bring under if any think they can let them shew it us For as many as are led by the spirit of God they are the sons of Rom. 8. 14. God And truly if People were led by the Spirit of God they would not be at such uncertainty nor so unstable in their ways for the end of being thus led is to bring the Sons of Men to be the Sons of God Rom. 8. 15. For ye have not received Rom. 8. 15. the spirit of Bondage again to fear but we have received the spirit of adoption whereby we cry Abba Father Here he makes mention of two Spirits the one is the Spirit of Bondage wherein are its Children and there is a Fear attends it a slavish Fear from inward Guilt a Fear of Punishment the other that the Children of God had received was the Spirit of Adoption whereby they could call God Father and gave them evidence that he was their Father Rom. 8. 16. The spirit it self beareth witness with our spirits that we are the children of God A certain evidence of God's Care to his Children that they need not be tossed hither and thither with every windy Doctrine of Men and by the sleighty ways of Mens Invention but that they may come through the Spirit to a settl'd stay'd Mind from among the Lo here 's and Lo there 's to have this Witness in our selves and this Seal in our selves that the Lord knows who are his Likewise the spirit also helpeth our infirmities for we know not Rom. 8. 26. how to pray as we ought but the spirit it self maketh intercession for us with groanings that cannot be uttered Then we ought to mind the help of the Spirit in drawing near to God least when we ask we ask amiss Howbeit when the spirit is come he will guide you into all truth John 16. 13. for he shall not speak of himself but whatsoever he shall hear that shall he speak They that run and the Lord never sent does not profit the People at all And why because they speak and the Lord speaks not by them This I say then walk in the spirit and ye shall not fulfil the Gal. 5. 16. lusts of the flesh How full the Scriptures are and how many Admonitions left us from time to time to walk in the Spirit and yet many People make a Mock at it But the fruit of the spirit is love joy peace long suffering gentleness Gal. 5. 22. goodness faith meekness temperance against such there is no law Here is the Fruit of the Spirit made mention of and what Fruits is to be brought forth by it in the Sons of Men. Eph. 1. 13. In whom ye also trusted after that ye heard the word Eph. 1. 13. of truth the gospel of your salvation in whom also after that ye believed ye were sealed with the holy spirit of promise This Seal of the Holy Spirit is to be waited for and trusted in to receive the Promises of God which are Yea and Amen for ever in Christ Jesus For the spirit searcheth all things even the deep things of God 1 Cor. 2. 10. It searcheth Mans hearts and Womens hearts and with out it the things of God and of his Kingdom cannot be found out Verse 12. Now we have not received the spirit of the world but the spirit which is

of God that we might know the things freely given us of God Now they that are in the Spirit of the World sees not nor perceives those things but the things of God are made known by his own Spirit Not theives nor drunkards c. shall inherit the kingdom of 1 Cor. 6. 10 11. God and such were some of you but ye are washed but ye are sanctified but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the spirit of our God He tells us here who shall not inherit God's Kingdom and how they had been such but now they were washed and sanctified and justified in the Name of the Lord Jesus and that by the Spirit of God But the manifestation 1 Cor. 12. 17. of the spirit is given to every man to profit withal The great Love of God to us in giving such manifest Tokens I desire we may all consider the intent and end in giving of it to us it is that we might know a Soul 's profiting by it Verse 13. For by one spirit are we all baptized into one body whether Jews or Gentiles bond or free and have been made to drink into one spirit This is the true substantial saving Baptism and 't is of the Spirit they that witness this Baptism has the Witness in themselves even the Spirit of God bearing witness with their Spirits that they are his Children and that they are baptised by this one Spirit for it is not the washing away the filth of the Flesh but the answer of a good Conscience towards God this is that Baptism that burns up the Chaff and subdues the light vain airy Mind in Man and Woman and crucifies them to the World and to the Affections and Lusts of it for it cannot be said that Men are truly baptized by this One SPIRIT while the evil Lusts and Uncleanness remains in their Hearts for said John speaking of Christ's Baptism He shall baptise you with the Holy Ghost and with fire His fan is in his hand he shall throughly purge bis floor that is Peoples hearts that their hearts may be set on heavenly things and he may dwell therein for if ye be risen with Christ seek those things which are above where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God The first man Adam was made a living soul the second man 1 Cor. 15. 45. Adam was made a quickening spirit Oh! that all People would come to be quickened by him who is the Repairer of Breaches and the Restorer of Paths to dwell in Now the 2 Cor. 3. 18. Lord is that Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty He is that quickening Spirit that quickens the Soul to God and proclaims Liberty to the Captives and to those that have been in the Prison-house of Sin to come forth and shew themselves For we through the spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by Gal. 5. 5. faith This was a blessed waiting indeed and they waited in a degree of the Spirit and of Faith and Hope for more thereof and they who feel this Hope need not be ashamed to wait upon God for an increase Gal. 6. 8. But he that soweth Gal. 6. 8. to the spirit shall of the spirit reap life everlasting And many more faithful Testimonies concerning the Holy Spirit and Man's Duty to obey it are in the Holy Scriptures of Truth of the Pourings forth of it and of the Work of it I have set down these few out of the Old and New Testament that all may regard the same Spirit and thereby see learn and believe what God has done and what he will do and also what he is a doing by his Spirit and Power and reap the Benefit of it and the great Advantage that is by it and for no other end have I laboured in this thing but that all might believe in it and come to the knowledge of the Truth by it and be saved In the Beginning God made and created Man for a purpose of his own Glory in a state of Uprightness and Innocency wherein he was capable to serve God but the Enemy being subtile beguiled and betrayed and drew Man and Woman into Disobedience to their Maker and Creator for which the Curse and the Woe came and still remains upon all the Children of Adam to this day that remain in Disobedience against God for by one man's Disobedience Death came upon all men but by the Obedience of one even our Lord Jesus Christ the Free Gift of God is come upon all men and Life is preached to all men for in him there is Life and this Life is the Light of men and all that ever come to Life must come to him Many make great Professions and yet want Life and the Reason is they abide in Death and they will not believe but many will say We do believe yes but it is but historically There is a Belief in the World that is received by hear-say of a Saviour and a Redeemer without receiving him and they not saved by him As if he would save People from Hell and Punishment and not from Sin that is the cause of it Surely the one is as possible as the other For his name shall be called Jesus he shall save his People from their Sins that Man may come to glorifie his Maker and know his Redeemer For Job said I know that my Redeemer liveth And because He lives we live also Now we must not think to live to follow the Devices and Desires of our own Hearts Lusts and do those things we ought not to do This state we have lived in when we knew no Redeemer when we lived without God in the World but surely this was not the way to know our Redeemer because we were not redeemed by him we did not know his Blood to sprinkle our Hearts from an Evil Conscience and him to wash us as with pure Water but the Temple was defiled divers Lusts dwelt and Uncleanness dwelt therein But now to know our Redeemer is so to know him as to be redeemed by him out of the World 's corrupt Ways and Fashions and ill manner of living that is not to live loosely and wantonly for they that live after this manner live to themselves and will have the Reward of their own Doings from the Hand of the Lord. But now the thing that I would have all People to mind is the Redeemer and Restorer of Mankind out of that fallen Nature and Spirit that so much prevails that so they may come to glorifie God and know him to be their Redeemer CHRIST JESUS to redeem them from an evil State and Conversation that he may present them to his Father without Spot or Wrinkle or any such thing And truly Friends we are to glorifie GOD with our Bodies and Spirits they are the LORD's we were created for this end and we are bought with a great Price for this end we are not our