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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66858	A general epistle to friends of truth and righteousness in England and Holland or elsewhere with a testimony against that spirit that speaks much of holiness and peace but leads back into the world and its pollutions where the cross of Christ is denyed / by Humphry Wollrich, written in the IIth moneth, anno 1665.	Wollrich, Humphry, 1633?-1707.; Cater, Samuel, d. 1711.	1665 (1665)	Wing W3293; ESTC R26469	6,669	10

A General Epistle TO Friends of Truth and Righteousness in England and Holland or elsewhere WITH A Testimony against that Spirit that speaks much of Holiness and Peace but leads back into the World and its Pollutions where the Cross of Christ is denyed By Humphry Wollrich Written in the 11th Moneth Anno 1665. FRIENDS The pure Spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ all wait to feel live and move in your mortal bodies that so you may by and in it witness acceptance with the Lord the Father and fountain from whom every good and pure gift doth proceed and spring Oh witness him alive in you that was dead that so ye from him may receive life as he doth from the Father that there may be none amongst you all that can be content to sit down in the form without the power or in having a name to live but as ye feel that innocent Lamb of God live through Righteousness that hath been wounded and slain through transgression out of which my souls desire and prayer to the Lord is ye all may be preserved in the holy pure and undefiled life of the Lord Jesus Christ Amen THe Eternal God Lord of Heaven and of Earth put it in my heart to write to all Friends of truth and Righteousness in general that ye all watch and pray continually both in the day and in the night with all your loynes girded up with the Girdle of Righteousness stand stand in faith out of all fainting or weariness thoughts and unbelief keeping the ward of the house of the Lord. O dear Friends ye that have known the Virgins state unto whom nothing in this World hath been so dear and lovely as the savour of his good Oyntment to feel who have rejoyced in nothing so much as to hear the beloved Bridegrooms voice Oh all watch and pray in that the eternal Spirit is the Father of that nothing may enter in to defile the Temple of the living God for he delights to dwell and walk therein Oh that pure spring of goodness all wait to feel living in your own hearts that by the same ye may be made willing as the holy Apostle was to die daily unto all visible and fading things so that ye may be but found in him and be eye Witnesses of the life and power of his rising by which we have the answer of a good Conscience in his sight and whereby the Kingdom and the Glory and the greatness thereof is revealed and brought to light that was with the Father before the World began which fallen man from Gods Image hath lost by trangression which the Lord by his holy Spirit is finishing and puting an end unto and in the place thereof bringing in his Everlasting Righteousness and where sin and iniquity hath abounded grace and mercy by Christ doth much more abound to the glory and renown of his holy Name for evermore Oh dear Friends hide not the Righteousness of the Lord within your hearts but love and follow him that your Lights may shine out in the daily Cross to self untill you come to witness the Baptism into his death a death to all that can work without the Lord or hunt before him as Nimrod did the beginning of whose Kingdom was Babel or live and feed without the Eternal spring of goodness in the World in the broad and wide way that leads to destruction Oh let your Light shine out and have always oyle in your selves to keep your Lamps burning this is to the pure praise of him that hath called us to glory and vertue and all dearly beloved Friends every where keep out of the Worlds spirit and cumbrances in the spirit of truth and then by the living spring in all ye do will ye be guided and those things that to you have seemed hard and impossible by the feeling and guidance of the holy spirit will be made easie and pleasant as it is written the Lord makes my way perfect but the way of transgressours is hard therefore out of thy self live in the Lord and take hold of his strength for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength in whom all the seed of Israel are justified and do glory to whom eternal glory and praises be given for he is good and his mercies endure for ever Oh the power of the Lord Jesus Christ let none go from that after fables and hats and outward things as some have done who have been convinced of the way of Righteousness but are turned into the World from the holy Commandement and are become dry having little or nothing left but swelling words of vanity whose root I am moved of the Lord to judge for this was not their work whom God raised at first amongst us but to turn peoples minds to the eternal light of the Word that shone in their own hearts that by it their souls might be saved in the day of the Lord who hath shewed me these men are not of Paul's spirit but of that which did him much mischief in withstanding his words for he said he would not do those things while the world stood whereby the weak should be offended but these men have said to me some of them what need we care who is offended seeing we have freedom to do the thing these things I do but touch upon for my Righteousness and my peace which makes me glad is of the Lord and the other things not worth the mentioning in comparison thereof but as one seeing the mischief it hath done in City and Country to many simple hearted people beguiled with a shew held forth for the substance I could not well be silent any longer And further more this is my Testimony in this thing as keeping on the Hat in Prayer before the Lord in the Congregation of his people is not lovely it makes not for peace neither is it of good report before all but sprang from that gainsaying root that Corah Dathan and Abiram joyned unto who with a greater out-cry of holiness then Moses and Aaron had rose up against the Lord and his anointed and hidden ones as these men have done whose mouths must be stopped who subvert peoples minds from the simplicity of the cross of Christ whose end is destruction if they repent not And all dear Children of the Light and of the day whom God hath blessed and unto which all the promises are made stand in the strength of the Lord and feed there out of self and out of all unbelief in the feeling of the holy pure Spirit of the Lord in the goodness which will constrain thee to deny thy self so in him thou may be but found say not in thy heart it is unpossible to be holy and perfect in this life that 's the Infidel and the spirit which the worlds life is in David sometime said I shall one day fall by the hand of Saul and doth his promise fail for evermore hath the Lord forgotten to be gracious and will he be favourable

to depart from the Lord then shall you never more be terrified with the fear of man whose breath is in his Nostrils is but as dust before the God of your lives so in the Light dwell and all Friends that make mention of the Lords precious Truth and that names the Name of Christ keep out of iniquity and all bow unto the appearance of Christ in your inward parts that so you may know him to take his Government in your hearts that so you may witness your change wrought and may walk in the Light and know your passage from death to life for Friends this is the one thing most needful for all people upon the face of the Earth But more especially you that have receiv'd the Lords pretious Truth that you all wait upon the Lord with a true purpose of heart for an enterance more abundantly into the Eternal Inheritance that so you may come to know that life to be raised that shall never die that by it your souls may live when this body shall be no more and all Friends I warn and charge you all in the presence of Almighty God to take heed of negligence and carelesness and of being indifferent in those things that doth concern your Everlasting peace and Salvation of your Souls and all strive to lay hold on Eternal Life and none to take up a rest below or short of the enjoyment of the peace of God which passes the understanding of all them that are out of it which the Lord God is revealing making known unto the simple hearted that more desires the knowledge of his ways then any thing this world can afford And all Friends labour to keep your minds within unto Gods pretious truth that so you may feel your bodies prepared and your hearts enlarged to run the ways of Gods Commandements and know the will that sanctifies in soul body and spirit then shall your hearts rejoyce in God your Saviour who is now saving his people and delivering them from the fears of death and the bondage of Corruption So dear Friends mind your way to pass which is Christ Jesus the Light and look not out nor wander nor gaze abroad for they that do will stumble and be taken in the Enemy's snares and none be discouraged at what hath or may befall the Lords own people in this day in which the Lord is revealing his Righteous Judgments in the Earth by the which he is rebukeing the wicked for their rebellion against the Truth the light of Christ in their Consciences and for their despiteful using and persecuting his people which the Lord hath sent in his Name and Power to forewarn them of the evil that is now come upon them but they have been like the deafe Adder which have altogether refused to hear the voice of the Charmer charme he never so wisely but the Lords love is unto his seed and bodily exercise profits little but Godliness is the only gain so that it is certainly so that when the wrath of the Lord is kindled yea but a little blessed are all they that puts their trust in him for they that put their trust in the Lord they are saved by his power so that unto us to live is Christ and to die is gain so that the Righteous and the Godly receives gain by their death but it is not so with them that forgets God and persecutes his People for their reward will be according unto their work and therefore for the wicked it shall go ill with them But I say unto you dear people of the most high God that are come unto the Righteous Principle of God in your own hearts it shall go well with you that feel that life raised that Paul blessed and praised the Lord for in his day when he said Oh Death where is thy sting O Grave where is thy victory the sting of Death is sin and the strength of sin is the Law But thanks be to God which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ in the injoyment of the same life my soul even praises and magnifies the Lord with all the redeemed whom the Lord has saved and delivered from the fears of death and brought to know that love that is stronger then death In the which powerful love and life I dearly salute you all that in truth desires peace with the Lord unto whose power I commit you with my self Given forth in obedience unto the motion of the Lords Spirit in the universal love of God that I feel in my heart unto all that have received the Lords precious Truth through which God is reconciling Man unto himself SAMUEL CATUR The 19th of 8th Moneth 1665. THE END