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death_n	life_n	soul_n	word_n	8,618	5	4.1828	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25352	A visitation in love to those of the people called Baptists, with whom the Lords Spirit yet ceaseth not to strive, that have not slain the witness by making war, and contending against the light ... by one who travels in the Spirit for their souls good ... J.A.	Anderdon, John, 1624?-1685.	1660 (1660)	Wing A3084; ESTC R35	11,450	16

you be also cut off from the Land of the living and the day of your visitation passe over your heads But come to the light that you may see to work out your salvation with fear and trembling while it is called to day for the night cometh wherein none can work Therefore prize your time for the Lord wil cut short the work in Righteousnesse for the Elects sake and be ye separate and come out from amongst the unfruitfull workers of darknesse that you may learn to walk in the way to ever lasting life in which it is the very desire of my soul to meet you even in the way of Gods salvation which is but one through the Baptisme of one Spirit into one Body whereof Christ is the head and strive no longer about words and formes but come to him who is the word of life that you may be brought from under Satans power into the power of God and in him live dwell and abide for ever that you may no more goe down again into Sodom and Egypt to feed on the flesh-pots thereof which will but make leane your soules and fatten you for the day of slaughter which is hastening upon the wicked And let not the faire and feigned words of some that even make merchandize of your soules any longer deceive you with the enticing words of mans wisdome to keep you in bondage but come to the Light in your own particulars that you may feele the Life without which you are dead and all your services are but abomination in the sight of the Lord who is the living God and the dead praise him not Seeke no longer for the living amongst the dead but to the Light to the Law written in the heart to the Testimony of Jesus the Spirit of prophesie that you may witnesse the true annointing in your selves which will teach you all things that you may not be foolish Virgins without oyle in your Lamps and so shut out of Gods Kingdome in which state the highest professors of the letter are that witnesse not the Life and Power in themselves Therefore redeem the time because the dayes are evill and cleave no longer to lying vanities and forsake your own mercies but repent and return to the Lord God withall your hearts withall your mindes and withall your soules that you may live for ever in the Lambs Light of life in which the Nations of them that are saved shall walk And sit down and consider whereunto have your teachers brought you in so many years but even into trouble and dissatisfaction not knowing whether to goe for rest to your pretious soules which are even languishing under deaths power and shall not find refreshment but in the presence of the Lord unto which the Light onely will bring you See you not how dead and dull your teachers are become striving to keep you in that which profits you not but starves your soules and how nigh they are come to be one with the hirelings who form weapons from the Scriptures to fight against the Lord of life pleading against perfection in this life because they cannot attain thereunto in their way laying hold on the sins of others that they themselves may continue sinners Crying out the word of the Lord and the Lord saith when the Lord hath not sent them nor spoken by them they knowing not his voyce neither have they seen his shape at any time who is full of grace and truth but feed people with imaginations in worshipping a God a far off ignorantly when indeed our God is not onely a God a far off but nigh at hand and that which may be known of him is manifest in man But here is the transgression from the beginning that man is not content with his Lot and gift that God hath given him but through lust covets after and eats of the forbidden fruit which brings death upon his soul and misery and disorder upon the Creation and from thence comes wars and fightings rents and divisions even because men abide not in the measure of Gods Spirit given to every man to profit withal but run out in their vain minds to follow their own hearts lusts and so strengthen the hands of the wicked against the just And many are ashamed through the Cross to return by which the enmity comes to be destroyed but go on untill their hearts are hardened unto destruction that they themselves standing not in that wherein God makes people free to serve and worship him but having lost the way and their wisdoms confounded they strive also to keep others with themselves still in bondage and even envy others in whom the power and Spirit of the Lord God is made manifest which commeth not in their way nor by observations but worketh in us freely both to will and to do according to the good pleasure of our Heavenly Father which is contrary to the will and wisdom of the flesh which pleaseth not God And let not the Spirit of bondage so prevaile in you any longer to envy the Spirit of prophesy in Gods people but come up to the help of the Lord against the mighty enemy of your Souls and give up all the materialls of your own buildings unto the fire of the Lord that your work may be tryed that your hearts may be purified and that you may be saved so as by fire for the Spirit of Judgment and burning must passe upon you before ever your bodies become the Temples of the holy Spirit and you become vessels of honour fit for the Masters use I say again and lay it upon you that you expect not Salvation from the Hills nor from the Moutains But wait in the Light for the coming of the Holy One in Gods own-way and the Resurrection of the Just out of the grave where he lyes buried in Sodom and Egypt spiritually so called under your lusts and corruptions which war against your Soules that you may know him the word nigh in the heart and in the mouth who is ready to helpe and mighty to save and that you may come to feel the Seed of Gods Kingdom in your own hearts working out the seed of corruption and all that worketh abomination and whatsoever loveth and maketh a lye which is for the lake of fire into which the Beast and false prophet is to be taken and cast a live That you may know the children of the Kingdom begotten of the seed of the bond-woman cast out that the right Heir and Seed may take his Possession and Inherit the Kingdom whose right it is to reign in the kingdoms of men and blessed are they that are become joynt heirs with him of that Inheritance which is everlasting and never shall fade away And thus Friends as from the Lord well knowing that you are not as you stand in the way of Gods Salvation have I written in the uprightnesse of my heart and in tender love to your souls and to that pure seed which yet breaths in

some of you after the living God that you may yet at length be turned from darknesse to the Light that so you may be brought from under Satans power into the power of God that you may no longer lye under that Yoak and spirit of Bondage which by your leaders is begotten amongst you and laid upon your Consciences to keep you from the Covenant of Light and Life but that you might come forth in the freedom of the Lords Spirit out of the house of Bondage into the liberty of the Sons of God in newness of spirit to worship and serve him all the dayes of your life It 's a strange doctrine that you must believe as your Teachers believe and do what they do as infallible whilst they themselves know not but deny the immediate or present teachings of Gods infallible Spirit amongst them and come not to feel and know in your selves the true Teachers the living Hope and the true Faith of Gods Elect which purifyeth the heart which God requires even truth in the inwards parts what are your Teachers more than others of the world that you should be so in bondage to them as to fear their threats of death and destruction or the like of that whilest they themselves are under the power thereof to whomsoever shall separate from them and turn from their pernitious wayes That many poor souls that have entred themselves in Covenant as it were with death under their beggarly and unprofitable Rudiments are affraid of their big-swelling words and excommunications to come our from amongst them and because of the Flood that proceeds out of the Dragons mouth against the woman that travells to bring forth the man Child that shall Rule the Nations you come not up to the war of the Lamb Though you may see and believe in your Consciences that there is a more excellent and living way known and set before you and are not satisfied with that food which perisheth but groan in your spirits for the bread of life And were it not for fear of persecution which follows the righteous Seed and the shame of the Cross on the one hand and the fear of your Teachers on the other hand would you not come out from amongst them Deal faithfully with your own souls and Gods witnesse in you and confesse the truth to Gods Glory and come away out of all that 's dead and carnal unto the living truth of our God For truly Friends this I verily believe as Gods witnesse comes again to be raised in you in whom he is not yet slain as some have done by warring against him that there will not be a time of disputing and halting left you but you must either come away to follow the Lamb the Light of the world or take your portion in that lake that burns with fire and brimstone where you shall know that worm that never dies that fire that never shall be quenched and there shall not be peace again saith my God to the wicked but torment day and night distraction horror and confusion shall be their portion that comes not out of Babylon at Gods Call which hath reached unto you therefore hasten to come away and follow the Lamb whithersoever he goes that with him you may reign in glory on Mount Sion for ever and ever And whether you hear or forbear whether ye believe or not this again I truly say and testify that in bowels of tender love to your pret●ous souls and the seed of God in discharge of my Conscience towards God and you that I may stand clear of your blood have I written knowing that the day of the Lord hastens wherein he will render to every man according to his deeds done in the body whether they be good or evil when many shall cry and call to the Rocks and to the Mountains to fall upon them and cover them But in that day none of your Coverings but the Covering of the Lords Spirit shall hide you from the wrath of the Lamb. And you shall certainly know that I speak the truth in Christ Jesus and lye not Bridgwater the 10th of the 5th month 1660. John Anderdon