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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85176	The new non-conformist; who having obtained help of God, doth persist unto this very day; witnessing, both to small and great, some of those glorious things which the Apostles, the prophets, & Moses, did say should come to pass. Or, the voice of a careful shepherd, crying from his watch-tower at W.C. unto his little flock at W.L. with a loud voice.	Feake, Christopher, fl. 1645-1660.	1654 (1654)	Wing F571; Thomason E737_1; ESTC R202090	39,800	63

Brethren in the Lord my Joy and my Crown INdeed and in truth The high and glorious mysteries of the New Testament and the most sweet ministrations thereof are little understood by any of the Saints in this day Therefore we are so exceeding low in our Spirits in our Experiences in our Affections and Resolutions for our dear Lord Jesus But in the appointed season the return of our King from a far Country will amaze all those that would not have him to reign over them This salutation now is sent unto you to signifie to you that you are in my heart through rich grace to live and to die with you in this most noble and most honourable Cause of the Lord Jesus Christ both yours and mine Blessed be the Father of our Lord Jesus that ever he revealed his Son in such a poor silly inconsiderable worm as I am Oh the riches of his grace to intrust me with the preaching of the glorious Gospel of the blessed God I would not exchange mine imployment so sweet so comfortable for all the riches glory authority and pompous excellencies which the fourth kingdom can tempt the sons of the earth withal God is gloriously gracious in these dispensations of sufferings What a sweet night have I had Why should the Lord condescend to refresh the Spirit of a poor sinful very sinful creature in so transcendent a manner Be of good cheer wait on the Lord believe more pray more praise more do more love more abound in every good work more and more The God of Peace of Grace of Truth shall be with you Undoubtedly as I lately told you the Spirit of the Lord is rising he cannot be kept down by the Princes Powers Souldiers Politicians of the Earth Oh what confusions in Counsels What concussions in Kingdomes and Common-wealths what contestations among the professors in this City are at hand Great is Gospel-truth and shall and must prevail How can we forbear triumphing in the expectations of the downfal of mystical Babylon If the Lord crucifie us unto the world and the world unto us as I know he will and pour out his Spirit richly What may we not attempt for the interest of our dear Lord Remember The Lord is our Judge the Lord is our Law-giver in the Hebrew Statute-maker the Lord is our King He will save us Your eminent growth in Grace and in the Knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ is that rich blessing which living and dying I bequeath unto you and request for you A rise and shine O ye precious sons and daughters of Sion in the midst of this dark world as the stars in the firmament each of you in the families neighbourhood and companies where the Lord hath or shall dispose of you Believe it my dear hearts the Lord is coming keep close together love as brethren above all be exceeding careful to maintain on your part holy heavenly spiritual intimate communion with the Father with the Lord Jesus and with the Saints of the most High the fruits whereof will be joy in the Holy Ghost unspeakeable and most full of glory Amer and Amen Hallelujah Letter the first from White-Hal written while I was waiting on the Councel before I was called in Yours in the most sweet fellowship of the Gospel and at liberty whilst in bonds for they are easie ones hitherto CHRISTOPHER FEAKE POSTSCRIPT My Fellow-prisoner for Christ Mr. Powel saluteth the Congregation with dear affection For the well-beloved CHURCH of Christ meeting in Colemanstreet Swan-Ally My very dear hearts ●he sons and daughters of despised Sion THe most spiritual blessings in heavenly things in Christ be your portion yea the Lord Jesus himself with all his fulness and glory be still the lot of your inheritance and when the streams are at any time cut off the Lord shew you the Fountain which is Himself God blessed for ever Although my heavenly Father hath given me a Writ of ease for the present yet I am with you in Spirit and signifie to you my love in the Lord my time is not yet come it may be it must be the fruit of your fervent prayers I am cleerly convinced from a power invisible and invincible that this imprisonment is not unto death But for the glory of God that the Son of God might be glorified thereby See John 11.4 I allude to that saying of Christ concerning Lazarus his sickness saith Christ This sickness is not unto death and yet afterward Jesus said plainly vers 14. Lazarus is dead did Christ speak untruth before when he said This sickness is not unto death No in no wise So although this imprisonment should be unto death which blessed be my Lord my God my Father I do nothing fear in the vulgar sence yet in a spiritual sence it is not but for the glory of God yea undoubtedly if I should be gathered to my Fathers by the Souldiers the Priests means in an unusual way I rejoyce in Spirit in the apprehensions of faith which the Lord vouchsafeth to me that out of my blood shall spring forth such a notable Spirit as will be the utter ruine of that cursed whore with all the powers on earth new and old that take her part paint her face and do her work Wherefore rouze up my dearest hearts in the might of your God and go on in the Name of your Captain-General and by your secret inward in●isible weapons wound this base upstart ●rivate interest under the fifth rib But in the midst of all your h●●y ●eal for the service of your dear Lord forget no● I charge you and every of you before him that quickneth all things and witnessed a good confession before Pont●us Pilate that you do principally constantly zealously minde the inward work the intimate communion which the Saints use to have with the Father and the Son as being their present paradise on this side heaven Oh for the Lords sake every one of you Parents Children Masters Servants Young men Old Disciples Weak Strong Rich Poor Married Unmarried Oh! I say Be holy be humble be spiritual live in love walk in sweet peace Blessed be God I have such satisfaction of you generally that you are a holy people wholly separate to God and if there should be any close hypocrite among you pray the maske and vizard off that it may he known who hath not loved the Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity but their own lusts secretly traded in A godly jealousie over you causeth me thus in true Gospel-affection to write unto you watching over you at this distance with thoughtfulness and carefulness in some small measure night and day that I might present you to Christ and He to his Father as beautiful and glorious a part of his spiritual kingdom as any other in this generation Oh! that it might be so Oh! that it might be so The Lord Jesus Christ be with your Spirit especially in your holy Assemblies Brethren all of you pray

earthly things do indeavour so industriously to heap upon us The truth is The world knoweth us not because it knew not him it hateth us because it hated him And the news of his second coming is as troublesome to the Kings of the earth now in being whether they are the sons of ancient Kings as the Prophet speaks or late Usurpers and Tyrants as ever Herod was troubled at his first coming Mat. 2.3 and all Jerusalem with him Oh Beloved those appearances which are acceptable to the Saints are no waies welcome to the earthly powers those truths which are milk and honey to the children of Sion are gall and wormwood to the inhabitants of Babylon It 's no marvel nor urange at all that it is but a little little flock which will be found to remain faithful to that inward invisible pure spiritual interest of our dearest Lord which is now breaking forth through all these thick and tempestuous clouds Verily my Spirit is more and more heightned and quickned to look for most glorious and admirable vicissitudes Methinks my heart rejoyceth as if a cordial from heaven were conveyed to it to incourage me now in prison for this good old Cause Oh! what a pleasant sight to see the Whore of Babylon with the Kings of the earth with all her drunken Princes and her Wise men and her Captains and her Rulers and her Mighty men wearying themselves in new Counsels tiring out their Spirits in obviating the feared and suspected designes of the praying awakened Saints both in Cities and Countries Come dear Brethren this is not a season for you to be wearied and to faint in your mindes but let us look unto our Jesus the Author and the Finisher of our faith who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross and despised the shame and is now set down at the right hand of the throne of God Brethren now it is a fit time for us to consider I say to consider the Apostle and high-Priest of our profession and to hold fast our profession let no man or devil get our Crown our very confidence hath great recompence of reward What shall I render to the Lord for all his benefits unto me especially those blessings of the New-Testament-Ministration And what thanks can you render unto him who hath hitherto kept you by his mighty power from the present abominable apostacie Have you every one on a garment of fine linen white and clean which is the righteousness of the Saints And doth the Lord help you to keep your garments about you that no man see your nakedness then you shall walk with Christ in white when he comes for you are worthy But if on the contrary there should be a declining and departing from the living God in any degree through unbelief if there be a decay of love to the Father and a warm affection to the world and the great and the sweet things thereof in any of you in any among you what a sad consequence were that after all the open and professed declarations which have been observed by Angels and Men. But I hope better things though I thus write from that principle of Pastoral-love and care which the Lord hath put into me What shall I say methinks I am present with you in the midst of you observing what love peace gentleness sweetness of brotherly communion there is among you from the greatest to the least What inward spiritual joy manifest zeal what beauty of holiness what mutual edifying what praying in the holy Spirit what warm exhortations what gracious admonitions are stirring among you Yea but Brethren what if the Lord himself should suddenly come and stand in the midst where you are assembled together and view the posture of that little flock from which I am violently removed for a season for their tryal should he finde all things managed after his own heart would you be glad to see the Lord as the Disciples were John 20.19 20. read the place Might he not upbraid you with unbelief and hardness of heart should he finde nothing in you and among you worthy of admonition or reproof Tell me at this distance how could you behold him if you should see him in his glory and in his Fathers glory are you able to abide the day of his coming I fear there are very few Congregations of Saints in all the world that are tolerably prepared for the Bridegrooms coming Finally Beloved remember what I have spoken to you while I was among you from the word of the Lord the searcher of hearts knoweth I did and endeavoured to do all things for your edifying for the best advantage of your precious souls I was alwaies willing to bring forth out of my poor treasury things both new and old even such Truthes and Principles and Rules as I received of the Lord by the teachings of that holy unction and delivered unto you I kept back nothing that I could judge by the light of the Word and Spirit that it was profitable unto you and it was and is your part to search the Scriptures daily whether those things were and are so or not If I should see your faces no more if I were to be offered up I should not repent of what I have taught you and the poor sinful children of men whatever the Rulers of the darkness of this world do judge or say my heart doth not condemn me in the least all this time of banishments from the courts of the Lords house And blessed for ever be my Shield and Buckler I have great and sweet confidence towards him and the Lord being my Helper and Protector I do not for I have no cause to fear what man can do unto me The Lord make you and me faithful unto the death and fill us that are his in good earnest with joy and peace in believing onely let your conversation be as becometh the Gospel of Christ that whether I come and see you or else be absent I may hear of your affairs that ye stand fast in one Spirit with one minde striving together for the faith of the Gospel My fellow-prisoner saluteth you Brethren pray for us strive in prayer for us that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men in the time appointed of the Father Salute most the most holy lively heavenly active Saints in this crooked generation The Lord be with you Yours as and because your are Christs Christopher Feake Brethren Beloved and longed for in the Lord THe High and Mighty One whose name is Jehovah our righteousness be your Protector for ever O! that he would look down from the Habitation of his Holiness and of his Glory and smile and shine upon every one of you in the Beloved The Lord Jesus who loved us and gave himself for us when we were yet sinners and ungodly when we were yet enemies in our mindes by wicked works to whom be glory for ever Amen Verily it is good to be