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death_n	life_n	lord_n	word_n	9,286	5	4.0695	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47171	A salutation of dear and tender love to the seed of God arising in Aberdeen in two epistles : directed unto friends of truth in that place whom the Lord hath called ... to bear their testimony for his glorious truth (against an evil, adulterous, and persecuting generation) ... / writ by George Keith.	Keith, George, 1639?-1716.	1665 (1665)	Wing K202; ESTC R24137	7,780	9

even to all that is of the World and alive to him ceasing from my own works not being able to do nor daring to do any thing without him which is not only my testimony but the testimony of all that are come to live in any measure of truth And dear Friends keep to any measure of testimony ye have attained unto for I can say it the Lord regards the same and it hath a good savour before him and grow up in faithfulness and resignation to the Lord in all things for this is it which makes your testimony strong and valid and acceptable to God that it be universal in every circumstance that the enemy have nothing wherewith to charge you and this is it which will make you able to stand it out in the day of tryal the having your loynes girded about with truth having truth to encompass you round you being found in the truth in all things but who are out of truth in any thing though never so small heere there is an open to let in the enemy and it will be hard for such to stand And Friends let not the terror of your enemies afright you from keeping your Meetings but sanctifie the Lord God in your hearts and let him be your fear and this will put away the fear of man that shall die and become as the dust of the earth and as you assemble together in Gods fear and name and in true love one with another the Lord will be among you and ye shall be made to feel his living presence and he will shew you where he feedeth his flock and makes it rest at noon-day and he will bring you into the banqueting house and display the banner of his love over you and make you a terror to your enemies And I have felt the sweet blessing and presence of God among you and I can assure you his Salvation is near to come and his Righteousness to be revealed to the upright and single hearted And keep your Meetings in the silence of all flesh and the shout of the King the Lord of Hoasts shall be heard among you and he will give in due time the opening of the mo●th in the midst of you And dear Friends my love in the bowels of Jesus Christ is towards you all and with a sweet measure of his blessed presence have I largely written unto you and the Lord is with me by night and by day and makes my Prison very acceptable to me Farewell dear Friends From the Tolbooth of Aberdeen the 9th of the 10th Mont. 1664. Your very dear and loving Friend George Keith As it may conveniently be done I am willing that this be read among Friends met together For Friends in Aberdeen to be read in their Meeting Dear Friends BLessed blessed is the opportunity the Lord is putting in your hands to bear a Testimony for his Name and living glorious Truth in this day O be faithful to him and rich shall be your reward rich unspeakably rich even beyond what eye can see or ear hear or the heart be able to comprehend the love of God which passeth knowledge the peace that passeth understanding the joy unspeakable and full of glory the por●ion of such the joy as in the time of harvest or as when the strong divide the spoile Oh who can declare the blessed lot and inheritance that shall be given them who give up all sparing nothing nothing to a hoof or Pin point which the Lord requires to be delivered and parted with assuredly they shall obtain an hundred fold in this life and life eternal for ever more Dear Friends thus I write who in this day and dayly do witness the hundreth fold do possess it even the love the joy the peace of God which is my strength my portion my crown which none can take from me so that I am made to sing in a Prison even in a Prison the Lines are fallen to me in a pleasant place I have a good heritage And this is the doing of the Lord and it 's wondrous in mine eyes I am even as one that dreames Glory to his Name for ever for his unspeakable gift and rich mercy and free love which hath visited my poor soul shut up in the blackness of darkness the region and shadow of death the Pit wherein is no water the hand of love hath reached me and brought me out of the woful Prison and loosed my bands and delivered my soul and given me to drink of the Cup of Salvation and now hereto do I set my seal worthy worthy is the Lamb to suffer for ignominy reproach hatred even of the dearest relations persecution prisonment killing tortering or what ever the cruelty of Man can be permitted to inflict Worthy is he for his sake to be killed all the day long and counted as Sheep for the slaughter his Love will sweetly recompence all and worthy is he to be waited for to be credited and trusted and believed in and in and through the faith and hope which entreth through the dark and thick vail which may be over for the time so that little or no sensible enjoyment is pe●ceived yet even then in and through the faith the believing when there is not a seeing or possessing to adventure upon the Lord and to follow him car●ying his Cross and his reproach The Lord is neer to such with invisible insensible support and refreshment which though t●e Vessels feel it not yet the seed doth and light is sown which shall spring up and in due time become a Founta●n a Well-spring of endless joy and consolation the glorious Lord a place of broad Rivers this I do declare for the comfort of the single simple upright hearted The Child of Light walking for the present in darkness the Seed having sore and grievous travel through the many impediments and lets in its way to the God of its l●fe O trust in the Lord trust in his name trust though shut up in the Caves of the Earth trust though hedged up as it were with hewen stone trust trust though in the belly of Hell the Whal●s belly poor distressed Ionah shall come to land the Seed shall be redeemed that which mourneth shall obtain joy and gladness and come to Zion with Songs of deliverance and sorrow and sighing shall flee away Yea let the single-hearted trust in the Lord be strong be strong strengthen the weak hands confirm the f●eble knees hath the God of my life said unto me and given a word in season to the weary distressed Soul Even God who hath shewed my self sore and great trouble and new hath raised me up from the gates of death and girded me with gladness and comforted me on every side t●at with the comfort wherewith I am comforted of him I may comfort others that t●ey may therein partake with me And dear Friends as far as in you lies remove every heavy burden that lies upon the seed in your own particulars if ye any of you be found in the least jot or circumstance in any thing which the light of Christ in its manifestation in the heart discovers to be sinful Oh this will be a mountain on the seed yea the being but found in whatsoever ye do not know your app●obation justification of God in the manifestation will lie upon the seed as a talent of lead therefore come into obedience in all things come into forbearance come into the cleanly well ordered conversation come into a final total d●c●sion of all particula●s betwixt God your souls I can assure you his Salvation is neer to such his righteousness and the Kingdom which comes with power and great glory is at hand even at hand to be revealed unto them This from your dear Friend George Keith The 22 of the 11 month 1664. ‖ Or not Know.