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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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 And that all such who have truly known him who is the great High Priest wait upon the Lord out of Self in the true Light that sheweth every Thought and Reasoning for the buddings and bringings forth of the Spiritual Rod of his Strength out of Sion in his holy Tabernacle and Temple whose Fruits being brought forth praise him in the midst of the Church World without End By Humphry Woolrick Printed in the Year 1680. A Warning and Testimony from the Lord who Liveth and Abideth forever c. FRIENDS WHo is that happy Man or People that are in such a happy State and Condition to whom the Lord's Power is a Hedge and Walls of Salvation as it was to the Just and Upright Man Job who put on Righteousnes as a Garment and whose Crown was true Judgment who feared the Lord and eschewed Evil Was not his Root by the great Waters and did not the Dew lie upon his Branch Did not the Lord give him according to that good man's Blessing the Fatness of the Earth and the Dew of Heaven Was not the Secret of God with him and his Glory fresh in him who did not set before his Eye any Evil Thing but put it all away from his Tabernacle with his holy Eye which had brought Death and filled the Temple of God with Darkness for whilst Solomon saw with that Eye he drove away the Evil from his House then he saw it was the Slothful's Vineyard that was over-grown with Weeds he saw also the Place of Judgment and Transgression was there the Place of Righteousness and Iniquity was there read Isaiah 5. to the 8th verse see what the Lord would do to his Vineyard I will take away the Hedge thereof saith he and it shall be eaten up and break down the Wall thereof and it shall be trodden down for the Vineyard of the Lord of Hosts is the House of Israel and the Men of Judah his Pleasant Plants from whom after all his Labour upon them he looked for Judgment but behold Oppression for Righteousness but behold a Cry and for this Cause have many great and fair Houses and Buildings been left desolate without Inhabitants even for want of the Judgment of Truth being executed within their Gates But consider could the Devil or them that are Co-workers with him get over this Hedge which the Lord made about Job to touch him or any thing he had until the Lord gave them leave that so his Patience and Faith might be tryed and proved as Gold is tryed in a Furnace of Earth and he come out more pure as he himself said on this wise I know when I am tryed I shall come forth as Gold and his most holy Faith and Patience which the most holy and living Word was the Author and Finisher of might be found to the Glory and Praise of God whose Kingdom and Dominion rules over all and he himself our First and our Last before and above all in the Hearts and Souls of his People might be God blessed admired and praised in the midst of that House whose Walls are Salvation World without end as Solomon saith To do Justice and Judgment is more acceptable to the Lord than Sacrifice Such that neglect it I know may force themselves to Sacrifice like Saul in the Trangression but Samuel told him It was a Foolish Sacrifice Behold saith he to Obey is better than Sacrifice and to do his Will and Commandment than the Fat of Rams or all these which thou sayest the People have brought to sacrifice to the Lord my God in Gilgal For who keep not their own Hearts clean all they do is unclean as to them and therefore unto Cain's Offering nor the Hypocrites long Prayers and Praises which are out of the living Spirit out of the clean thing the Lord hath no regard and this is one with the Apostle's words which saith To the Pure all things are Pure and why so because it never leads into any Sin or Impure Thing all that is an Effect of Man's departing from the Living God his going out from His holy Will and Counsel which ever purifies and keeps the Heart clean and sanctifies throughout But saith the Apostle To the Impure all things are impure nay further Whatever is not of Faith is Sin the Prayer and the Ploughing of the Wicked is Sin because their Hand is not to God's Plow which should plough up the Fallow and Thorny Ground of their Hearts that so the Plant and Lilly of God might grow and the Man-child whose Name is the Branch might grow and spring up upon the holy Hill of Sion to Reign before the Ancients gloriously which is his right and place the Father who is greater then all hath allotted him and into whose Hand he must deliver his Kingdom that he may be seen and known to be all in all and that all the various Ministrations and diversities of Gifts he hath given to men be effects of his goodness for the perfecting of the Saints untill we come to this holy fulness which is all in all in his holy People who by him for his great Mercy sake wherewith and wherein he loved us when we were Enemies hath and doth wash from all Sin and so in that that is without Spot or Putrefaction comes the Church to be cleansed and presented to God without Spot or Wrinkle or any such thing in and through that which is all fair and altogether lovely and hath no spot in it and you that know this you know the Golden Altar the hidden Manna ye eat of and the holy Incense in which the Lord smells a sweet Savour and the holy and pure Hand of the holy and pure Angel through which it ascends to the holy Lord God as did the holy Apostle Offerings which the Unholy and Sinners in Heart have no right unto and this Altar must be known in the Heart of his Kings and Priests and they do know that this holy Altar is raised through the true Fear Awe and in the Name of the Lord For they that Fear as saith the Prophet which Fear is to depart from Evil their Heart shall be enlarged and their Vnderstandings shall be opened their Ear and their Eye that was shut and closed up as within a Cloud of Darkness shall be opened because the Abundance of the Sea shall be converted to them for they be come to that one in which God reconciles all things to himself whether they be things in Heaven or things in Earth and blessed are they of the Lord God that made Heaven and Earth that read and understand wait to witness in a daily Cross to self these things for they are the Redeemed and the Blessed of the Lord and their holy Off-spring with them And my Heart is overcome with the

Goodness and tender Mercies of the Lord in which I send this Epistle abroad but more chiefly to all you who be found in the Spirit of Opposition and Gain-saying the Order of the Power and those things which be no other but Effects and Branches thereof and the good Order which is in the God of Order and the things which be Lovely and of a good Report and which have Praise and Virture in them and be good before the Lord and before his Saints yea and before all sober People My Desires to you all in the Love of our Lord Jesus Christ even you who be not Violently Willful resolving to go on because you have begun to refrain your selves from this evil Work and turn to the Lord from whom indeed you have swarved aside and turned your back as did the men of Ephraim in Battel who kept not the Covenant of God but dealt falsly with that which should have made them stronge and wise and given them counfel how to order the Battle for the Trumpet alwayes gives an uncertain Sound where the Covenant of God is not kept I do desire you to come down out of your own Wisdom Thoughts and Reasonings out of the House of your Imaginary wherein ye by searching can never find out God nor the things of God as in him and his People they are Oh! come into a perfect stillness of Mind and be not as the Horse and Mule without the good Understanding and humble your selves under the mighty Hand of God who would not the Death of any that dye in their Sin but rather they would turn and that Iniquity might not be their Ruin and wait upon him in the Singleness of Heart which cannot be done by you but as ye take up a Cross daily which will Humble Self and make it of no Reputation as did Christ Jesus and then will the living Father hear you and in things you know not he will teach you and as he shews you that ye have done foolishly do so no more your own Souls good is concerned in it I speak as one that seeks your good and will not do nor take that Evil Way which some of you have done to me whose Tongues have devised Evil like a sharp Rasour speaking deceitfully for I say Wo to me and all that can rejoyce to see their Enemy fall or tread upon him when he is down that vaunteth himself and is puffed up at the Sin of others and mourneth not rather for such that have sinned that God may give them Repentance to the acknowledging of the Truth and that doth not in the midst of Judgment remember Mercy and that rather Loving-kindness from the Lord may over-shadow such And several of you being Aged men having done and suffered much on the Lord's Account I would not have you to lofe that full Reward that is in God or have your good Deeds blotted out before him for you know in the Day we Sin Death will enter and Darkness will darken the Understanding and who can see the Lord when our own Sins hide his face from us But that you may come to dye the Death of the Righteous and that your Last End may be like unto his that when you come to receive the Sentence of Death as did Hezekiah from the Spirit of God in the Prophet you may then say with him and not Lye Lord thou knowest how I have walked before thee with a Perfect Heart and have done that which is right in thy Sight This is my earnest Desire and fervent Prayer to the Lord for you for my Heart Lamenteth and a breaking Pity there is in the Bowels of my God towards such that have once tasted how good the Lord is that they should turn out of the Way of Peace into By-pathes and Crooked-wayes where the Serpent is Leader and Teacher who is a Teacher of Lyes of Slandering false Accusing and Back-biting such as love the Lord and hold their Integrity as if they were the worst of men and greatest Apostates whereby the Way of God and his Truth which is a perfect Guide and a Shield and Buckler comes to be blasphemed by your means who are glad to take hold of loose men to help you to run them down whom God will build up and to despise those things as Idols which are no other but effects as Branches and Leaves of the good Spirit of God but alas will not this Covering be too narrow to hide you Can you stretch your selves upon this Bed long where ye lie at ease above the Witness of God not regarding the Afflictions of Joseph nor the Sighing of the Poor nor the Cry of the Needy but are become one with that Spirit which makes it to Cry and Sigh in secret for your Pride and High-mindedness who are become Full Rich and Wise and say you see too like those fat and full Cattle whom the Prophet speaks of whom the Lord would feed with Judgment who had indeed drunk of deep Waters as many of you have done but now are fouling them with your feet and have eat of the fat Pastures but be treading down the Residue thereof with your feet but Wo be to you that be filled after this Manner to kick against him that fed you that have any thing in your Heavens but the living and true God or in the Earth that ye have desired or set up in your Hearts in comparison with him Ye have played the Prodigals part with your Portion and be gone out from that living Root and Spring that first divided to you goodly Talents that for the Lord and not for Self ye should have improved I say out of Humility and that living Fear and Dread of God that was at first in the Heart be many gone who be wise and honourable but not in the true Wisdom nor Honour to whom the Apostle spoke in his day Ye are Honourable but we are Contemptible and Despised ye reign as Kings even above the true King without us I would to God ye did reign that we might reign with you and to whom Christ spoke when he wept over Jerusalem where great and mighty Works had been done by him and in whom great Salvation was wrought for the poor of the Flock and for the weak and diseased who saw a true need of a Physician and saw their Sicknes and Sore their Bruises and putrified Wounds which could not be bound up nor healed by another hand than the Lord's which is not shortned this day Glory Glory Praises and Thanksgiving to him be given in the midst of the Church for his Mercies which endure forever who made bare his holy Arm that brought Salvation and caused his Day of Salvation in which Abraham rejoyced and was glad to spring forth in this our Age and Generation for his Mercies sake that endureth forever that we might tell to our Children and they might tell to another Generation what the Lord hath done for the poor of the Flock that