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A66869	A warning and testimony from the Lord who lives and abides forever that all that have known the Lord get into the name of the Lord therein only to have their confidence ... / by Humphry Woolrick.	Wollrich, Humphry, 1633?-1707.	1680 (1680)	Wing W3306; ESTC R26392	18,663	26

and his Company who cryed Are not all the Lord's People Holy every one of them Wherefore then do ye Moses and Aaron take so much upon you as to lift up your selves above the Congregation of the Lord These were famous men men of Renown in the Congregation and it was themselves that loved to have the Preheminence which they charged upon that Meek man whom God honoured and they were usurping the Priesthood which the Lord had given to Aaron These men I say doubtless had seen great things and were men of Understanding which made them honourable in the Eyes of the People but they being puffed up in the fleshly Mind and having darkned themselves with Belial's Spirit who is a King over all the Children of Pride they said to Moses Wilt thou put out the Eyes of this People and charged him as a Lyar in the face of the Congregation without all fear of God in their Hearts Moreover said they thou hast not brought us into a Land that floweth with Milk and Honey They would fain have been there to satisfie their Lusts with the good things thereof whilst they were unfit to partake of them And as I was considering what would be the End of these men who obey not the Gospel whither will they lead their Followers who have not the Lord to lead them but even into the Pit and Ditch of Darkness and Miery Places out of which the Lord in his manifold Mercies hath plucked our feet for they be not for Justice that they esteem harsh and bitter like Wormwood And these words came fresh into me from the Lord to send amongst you This is a People Robbed and Spoiled they are snared in Holes and shut up in Prison-Houses they are for a Prey and none saith Restore for a Spoile and they themselves do not say Deliver And against such the Testimony of Truth is But as for such who mean well and forbear the doing of things because they see them not and be kept simple in their Minds out of the Emnity the Lord will teach such and guide them in the way he would have them to go and to such God he knows my Heart is tender I judge them not but leave them to the God of Mercy and Judgment And let none be content with Sights or Visions of God only for Judas Saul and Balaam and many others had that whose Hearts and Ears were not Circumcised nor right before the Lord for man may see great things whilst himself is yet afar off from him who is the Root and Giver of all good as Paul saith 1 Cor. 13.1 Though I understood all Mysteries though I have the Gift of Prophecy though I have all Faith so that I could remove Mountains though I spake with the Tongue of men and Angels and have not Charity I am but as a sounding Brass and tinkling Cimbal being out of that more Excellent Way read Ezek. 16. also being not subjected down thereunto in the daily Cross with that that comes there-from Man will soon be puffed up as a Bubble and become as a wandring Star from his own Station and Order for man being not subjected down into the true Love to the Giver he will vaunt himself as if he bore the Root or had something which he had not received and so play the Prodigal until Want and Famine comes upon him And here is the great Idolatry and spiritual Whoredom when People run out with God's Gift to Sacrifice upon the Mountains without the Leadings and Conduct of the great Captain of Salvation whose Leadings are alwayes in the living Path of Self-denyal until down into the Humility Self be humbled and made of no Reputation and so is the Eye kept waking and the living Keeper and Shepherd that never slumbers nor sleeps comes to be seen Eye to Eye and the Eye that sees him is satisfied and its Lise and Clearness of Sight is in his Presence and all that work here and walk here stumble not neither do they labour in vain or spend their Strength for nought for they be Workers together with God and be the Wise Builders as Paul was for the Lord is the Builder of the sure House and City which hath the Everlasting Foundations which John the beloved Disciple gives a Relation of when he was in the Holy Spirit of Self-denyal on the Lord's Day where Christ was his Root and Offspring his First and his Last who bid him Fear not I am he that was dead and am alive and behold I live for evermore and I have the Keys of Hell and Death And I do desire all that be newly convinced that you keep your living Thirst and Pantings after the living God alive in you and be not satisfied with any other thing besides the flowing-forth of the sincere Milk of the Word and the goings-forth of that River which parteth it self into many Streams from the spiritual Eden of God to the watering of the Souls of the weary Followers and Flock of God this is the ancient River even that ancient River the River of God and the Brook in the Way which Enoch and all the weary Travellers drank of and so lifted up their Heads and their Bow was renewed in their Hand and their Arm was strengthned by the Arm of the Mighty God of Jacob thence is the Shepherd the Stone of Israel and the sure Foundation for the Righteous to build upon throughout all Generations for they be not the Foolish Builders raising their Structure with Hay or Stubble Silver or Gold or any such thing for they hear the Word and keep it they know the Word and do it and so be the Wise Builders and so their holy Building and House the Gates of Hell cannot prevail against So go not forth nor journey not whist the Cloud is upon the Spiritual Tabernacle until you see the Cloud removed and it going before you to find you out a Resting-Place and as Joshua said to Israel of old concerning the Shadow of this Spiritual Ark Joshua 3.4 so may I say to you Let there be a space between you and it that you may know the Way you should go for you have not passed this Way heretofore and so the Fire in Sion and the Furnace of the Lord in Jerusalem ye shall know to your Good and not Hurt who love him above all even to take away the Bad which hath seperated the Soul from the chief Good and when he whets his glittering Sword and causes his holy Hand to take hold on Vengeance and when he layes his Ax to the Root of the Evil Tree to cut it down into this Consuming Fire if thou now be patient and bear the Indignation of the Lord for Sin out of the Furnace will he bring thee as Gold and nothing shall be consumed but that which cannot dwell with the Lord nor ascend into his Holy Hill and here to pass through Death will be thy Life thy Poverty Riches and thy Loss thy exceeding Gain and great Reward for thou shalt fear the Lord and his Goodness and thy Heart shall be enlarged greatly and lifted up in his holy Way because the abundance of the Sea shall be converted unto thee the Glory of that goodly Mountain Lebanon even so spiritually wherein dwelt thy Enemy afore-time shall be given to thee with the Excellency of Carmel and Sharon But now run not out with the Flashes that come as Lightning out of the East into the West but keep down in Humility and Simplicity and the Lord will teach the Simple and the living Springs will he guide the Meek in Judgment Oh Friends it is the Humble that give the Glory to the God of Israel for all his Benefits and that render back again to him according as from him they have received and to them will he shew his Wonders in the deep he will beautifie them with Salvation and make them exceeding glad with the Light of his Countenance When David was in the deep Poverty crying unto the Lord then did he hear and help him and shewed him great things to wit How the Angels of the Lord pitched their Tents about the Fearers of the Lord and the Thousands of Angels were his Charriots wherewith he fought and prevails forever against his Enemies who touch and grieve his hidden Ones And how did Jacob see the Host of God's holy Angels and God himself calling and speaking to him out of Heaven in the Day of his great Distress when he wrestled with him and made Supplication to him And when the Prophet's Servant in Dothan had the Eye of his Understanding opened that is shut in the Proud and Haughty then he saw the Mountain full of Horses of Fire and Charriots of Fire round about Elisha And the Apostle who from a good Experience exhorted so much to Self-debasement and a Dying daily he said in that great Danger by Sea that he was in The Angel of the Lord whose he was stood by him to counsel and comfort him And when before Nero he was brought no man stood by him but the Lord only and he strengthned him and he was delivered out of the Mouth of the Lyon And so as thy Ear is open to the living Shepherd's Voice of thy Soul and his Precepts and Statutes with the Judgments by thee being observed and not put away from thee nor slighted thy Eye shall not be dim but it shall be by the Lord held watching and the Commands shall be to thee Life and the Precepts of the Lord will be pure rejoycing thy Heart and opening thy Understanding and him that is true thou shalt see and no Evil shall come nigh thy Dwelling and as Christ said to them that kept his Sayings they should never see Death but they being given up as a whole Burnt-Offering into the holy Will where is the holy Flames of Love that many Waters cannot quench they shall see Life and Immortality brought to light and so come to be clothed upon with their Holy House from Heaven as the Unholy House of the Wicked is broken down and destroyed H. W. THE END

Evil-doer and to condemn the Innocent although it be to their own Destruction and to the darkening the good Understanding till they be past feeling of the holy Spirit to lead them out of Darkness the Land of the Shadow of Death where the First-born of Death rules and reigns without any good order and in this Confusion saying in Word and gain-saying in Deed with your Words as smooth as Oyl but War in the Heart of that Seed and Spirit yea ejoyned to and led by against the very Heart of God and his Light and Life which his People live with him in and yet can cry You have nothing but Love in your Hearts to all when the Poyson is flung out before against the holy Child and against his holy Government and Order in his Church which all the Upright in Heart delight to see and in which the Apostle rejoyced when he wrote to the Church after this manner I am rejoyced greatly to behold your good Order and the Stedfastness of your Faith in Christ Jesus And again he saith in another place Now we live if you stand fast And what must they stand in but even in that holy Liberty which God who is not a God of Confusion but of Order gave them which is but one and of one Mind in all and all that be led by it and stand in its Counsel they be by it made of one Mind Heart and Soul there is no Division nor Rent amongst them for they all be for Christ their Head who purely put on and keep within this holy Vesture and Garment although ten thousand times ten thousand together this Holy Order that is in the Power being observed we have all but one Spirit the Author of our Faith and of our Hope which is but one and stands in one and makes all of one Heart and Mind having all things common where we all speak one and the same thing where we all seek the things that be Jesus Christ's and not our own these shall not hit each other nor break their Ranks nor fall before their Enemy when he shoots sore at them that they might fall and never rise again but they that put on this holy Garment must be girt about with Righteousness also and out of the Armoury of God which is built as the holy Tower of David where be the Shields of thousands of holy Men and Women which they wore and put on in their time of War and Distress but when the War was ended and Peace with God proclaimed over their Enemies the World and the Devil then they laid them down there again giving Glory to God and the Lamb whose Weapons they were crying Thou and the Lamb are worthy to have the Praise and the Honour of all our Salvation and Deliverance now and forever and ever And so I come to re-mind you of those Scriptures which some in their Darkness say I slight that ye may see whether you be in the same Love those holy and true men were in or in that Love that is of the Spirit of this World that 's Enmity with God for they said even Paul and Moses Thou shalt not hate thy Brother in thy Heart nor suffer Sin to lie upon him but thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy Brother and this is the Love which the Lord owneth and which he himself is the Author and Root of which hates the Evil and loves the Good and loves to see it exalted in Righteousness and in Judgment over all Deceit of Men that be Cunning and Crafty inventing Wayes to hold the Truth in Unrighteousness and to press into the Kingdom and holy Inheritance among the Saints in Light but yet have not known the holy equal and just Law of God fulfilled in them which fits and makes meet to inherit it And Paul saith who was a man that dyed daily to the Love the Friendship and Fashions of this Evil World through the Rejoycing he had in Christ Jesus the true Light he had Power to do this and to testifie what manner of Love the Love of God was and said Let Love be without Dissimulation abhor that which is Evil or as Peter saith Hating the Garment spotted of the Flesh And now hear some of the Sayings of David who hearkned to the Lord and to his words which were pure words to his Precepts and Statutes which were Life to his Soul and rejoyced his Heart greatly nay saith he I took the Testimonies of the Lord for my Heritage in the House of my Pilgrimage and all thy Precepts were before me and I did not put away thy Righteous Judgments from me more are they to be desired by me than Gold yea than much fine Gold and at Midnight will I arise to praise the Lord for his Righteous Judgments for Sion 's Children which be God's Children they be saved through Judgment and Righteousness So you may see who be turning Judgment backward with your feigned Love and Pity like old Ely to his Sons whilst they were in the Transgression whilst he that made them would not have Mercy on them and he that formed them from the Womb as it were to be his Servants and to wear an Ephod and a holy Prieft's Garment before him but seeing his Covenant was broken by them and the Sacrifices kicked at which he appointed in his Habitation therefore would he shew them no Favour but judged them and their Father's House forever But how did this good man David love to be judged searched and tryed by the Lord he was afraid of his Wayes like Job lest there should be any Iniquity in him hid in his Heart as a sweet Morsel and lest he had not a true Respect and Regard to all God's Commandments which he said were pure and gave Light as a Lamp Lanthorn to his Vnderstanding to the making Wise of the Simple And I do beseech you all who say You are led by the same Spirit to consider whether the same Fruit be brought forth by you in this respect or whether you love it in its Root and Buddings forth or whether the other thing that 's contrary be not budded even whether Pride be not budded and broken forth into a Rod of Violence to smite the Innocent with who in true Love dare judge nothing in you but the Bad. I will sing of Mercy and Judgment unto thee O Lord will I sing I will behave my self wisely in a perfect Way Psal 101. O when wilt thou come unto me I will walk within my House with a perfect Heart I will set no wicked thing of Belial before mine Eyes I hate the Work of them that turn aside from the path of Vprightness it shall not cleave to me a froward Heart shall depart from me I will not know a wicked Person we all in so doing shall know the Heart of God a coming to us for I am sure if we open to him when he judges he in Bowels of tender Mercy will open to