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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60625	An epistle from the spirit of love and peace, unto all the upright Israelites, who are born of the seed that is blessed for evermore with some things opened concerning the two seeds : to be read amongst Friends, when in the fear of God they are met together in the same spirit, that thereby the whole body may be edified, and comforted, and all in one life, perfectly established for ever : this is only to goe amongst Friends, and not otherwise / W.S.	Smith, William, d. 1673.	1663 (1663)	Wing S4296; ESTC R16573	8,735	13

glory say not it is yet to come but sh●ne forth in that which is come let not any thing discourage thee for thy deliverer is come follow him faithfully and enter with him into the Land of Rest and there inherit thy portion in his own fulnesse where all true Israelites rejoice together where praises are sung in unity and no jar nor discord in the harmony but the Lambs Songs in the Lambs life to the Lambs glory over all for ever And now I beseech you suffer the word of Exhortation serve one another in every office of love and let not greatnesse be in your eye but watch over one another in singlenesse of heart and as dear children be at peace one with another and have fervent love amongst your selves that the sweet argument of life may be a sweet favour in all your vessels and the virtue of its precious balm may heal in time whatsoever rises to offend the body for it is the wise part of the old nature that seeks for greatnesse from which nature all prejudice and discord doth arise but the birth of life is willing to serve and in serving no discord can enter and as ye stand submitted to the love and in the love serves one another you will have true rejoicing together even as a body composed and compacted in that wisdome that seeks nothings but the glory of God alone Behold I make all things new saith the Lord my furnace shall separate mixtures my fire shall consume the earthly matter the will of man shall bow and the glory of all flesh shall passe away for the works of my hands are verity and truth who shall plead with me and who shall stand in the mixture and not be consumed for behold I come in power and my Judgement is with me saith the Lord God my love is to my own Seed and my compassion is to my only child my mercies endures for ever and my goodnesse doth not cease my own birth shall rejoice therein let all feel my tender Seed for my Jewels I am making up and binding together my chosen ones and the new Heavens shall be their habitation for it is my purpose to make all things new that which is new shall only remain and the glory thereof shall cover the earth saith the Lord God for behold I bring a famine upon the earth and all shall pine away that feeds not on my bread but my Lambs shall have plenty in my house and rejoice together at my Table and I will be glorified over all flesh for ever and the soul that stands in my Council shall rest in everlasting peace saith the Lord God Almighty Something opened concerning the two Seeds Great is the mystery of Godlinesse Therefore the trumpet is to give a certain sound and the pipe is to make a true distinction for the trumpet is not to sound against the Seed of God neither is the pipe to play to rejoice the Seed of the evil doer but the trumpet and the pipe is to distinguish the two Seeds in their ground and natures and man is to be considered as he is joined to either and is one with their nature for man was created wholly a right Seed and a noble Plant and in that state he stood in the mercy in the grace and in the blessing but he joined to the evil Seed and thereby degenerated into the Plant of a strange Vine so became subject to the will and wisdome of the flesh which was not of man but of the evil Seed for man was created in the will and wisdome of God and in the righteous Seed of God he was a man and bare the image of God in the true manhood but the will and wisdome of the flesh was generated by the evil Seed unto which man yielding himself he entered into the beastly properties of the Serpents nature and so lost his righteous Image in which he was created in the righteous Seed and though man did thus degenerate from his created state and entered into that nature which is under the Curse yet he remains a man in the property of his Creation and the nature of the evil Seed is the mans burden and he groaneth and travelleth in pain under it being separated by it from the blessed Communion of the fulnesse of his Creatour and it is the nature and properties of the evil Seed that God appears against and destroyes for the mans sake that by his own power he might set man free from that nature which is liable to the curse for ever it is the work of God to save man and not to destroy him for if the appearance of God should universally destroy man then there is nothing remains to be restored and therefore God appeares against the evil Seed and also against man as he is one with that nature and yet for man to redeem him out of that nature And he appeares in Judgement to destroy that nature by which man is oppressed and burdened and so to reconcile man to himself by Jesus Christ and thus God appeares in his free love grace and mercy unto man but in judgement wrath and vengeance to cut off and destroy the Seed of the evil doer unto which nature man being joyned and in which nature his mind being lifted up and exolted he also partakes of the Judgement that falls upon that nature for man being entered into the evil Seed he is cloathed and covered with all the bad properties of its nature and in those properties he appeares not as a man but as a beast for the manhood is thereby captivated though the mind of the man be lifted up and exalted yet the propertie of his nature as a man is sorely oppressed and afflicted and the Image of the manhood is buried and lost under the evil properties of the evil seed and there death reigns over man yet not so as that it doth destroy the property of man but onely separates him and alienates him from the center of the life of blessednesse and is in the separated and alienated state The love of God in the light of his life doth reach unto man and his grace or favour appeares unto him and with his grace he visits him and with his light and grace he shewes man the evil into which he is entered and doth convince him of it that man thereby might turn his mind from the evil unto God who is the chiefest good and so come to repentance for all the evil that he hath committed by the instigation of the evil seed and if man doe not here lay hold upon the grace of God and the favour of God and yield himself to the drawings and leadings of it and so forsake the evil of his doings by true repentance he destroyes himself in his gainsaying not laying hold upon the grace which is manifest from God unto him and is mighty to save him he thereby becomes liable to the eternal judgement wrath and woe even as doth the evil seed with all the evil properties of it and yet the grace doth appear unto man to save him and not to destroy him and as man layes hold upon the grace and joyns unto it in its appearance so doth it separate him from the nature of the evil seed with all its evil properties and it helps the man and relieves the man by the power of its own strength and by its power it judges the evil seed with all its motions and temptations and thereby preserveth the man and saveth the man out of temptations and so it is not of works but by grace that man is saved whilest the evil seed in judgement is condemned for grace is not the seed of the evil doer but unto the man and though man be in bondage to the evil properties yet if he lay hold upon the grace and receive it then the grace worketh unto separation from the evil for it doth not appear to save man in the evil but to separate him from it and so to cut off and destroy the evil in judgement and thereby redeems and saves and sanctifies and reconciles justifies the man and all the works in man for man is wrought by the grace freely man is thereby saved not destroyed So the two seeds are to be distinguished in their natures which in themselves can never be united or otherwise the evil Seed may be strengthned and made to rejoyce which is to be judged and the good Seed may be beaten down which is to be strengthned and cherished and as the love of God doth open in its own freeness unto man if the evil Seed draw that to it self it will transform it self into the likenesse or shape and so shew it self in the transformed Image and appear as the highest good yet the true birth sees thorough its likeness to its nature and cannot joyn with it in unity for contrary natures can never be united and so grace is to the man but judgement to the Seed of the evil doer though transformed as an Angel of light and as man receives the grace so by the grace he is restored into the fulnesse of the blessed Seed and thereby set free from the nature and properties of the evil Seed forsaking the body of the adamical flesh and even into the body of the everlasting Seed of God and so becomes united unto God by Jesus Christ who is God and man It is Gods witnesse that makes a true distinction and not any apprehension of the fl●sh●y wisdome for that will speak p●●c● to the oppressing nature whilest the innocent Babe sits mou●ning under it but by the witnesse the two natures are separated and Judgement to whom Judgement and mercy to whom mercy ●●longs and so by the power of God the oppression is judged and the oppressed helped and relieved and there is perfect unity in the perfect life which is the bond of peace I am truly moved in that love which breaketh dissolveth and melteth my heart to salute in all dearnesse and tendernesse the whole Family of my Fathers house and heirs of his Kingdome in every Nation Countrey and Island where this may be ordered to come and the God of all peace give unto you that peace whilest the world cannot give you nor mans power take from you where I lie down and rest with you ye blessed of the Lord. Nottingham County Goale the 24. day of the 4. moneth 1663. W. S. The End