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An epistle of love to all the saints scattered in these nations of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the dominions thereunto appertaining exhorting them all to stand fast in the day of tryal that now is come to try all the inhabitants of the earth, and them (chiefly) and in particular / written from the spirit of the Lord in Geo. Bishope, that all may be warned and all may be left without excuse.
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Bishop, George, d. 1668.
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they went to Buy the Bridegroom came and they that were ready went in with him into the Marriage and the Door was shut Afterwards came also the other Virgins Saying Lord Lord open to Us nad he answered and said Verily I know you not Watch ye therefore for ye know not the Day nor the hour wherein the Son of Man cometh For Friends the time is not as heretofore when the Lord was Visiting you and Watering you and refreshing you that ye might grow up and bring forth Fruit unto God that he might be Glorified but now he is come Expecting rhe Fruit that he may be glorified And now Wo be unto that which shall not bring forth Fruit unto God that shall not Glorifie God that shall not shew forth the Vertue of him that hath called it from Darkness to his marvellous Light that he may be Glorified For he hath called you Friends unto Grace and Vertue and what Grace and Vertue Ye have he will call ye to shew forth and he will suffer Men to try you that ye may shew forth his Grace and Vertue That he may be Glorified Now that which starts aside in this Day that Soul that Drawes back that which proves the Degenerate Plant of a strange Vine after all this Digging and Pruning and gathering out of the Stones and fencing and Watering and Refreshing and brings forth Wild Grapes Grapes of Sodom and Clusters of Gomorrah Wo Wo will be to that in this Day of the Lord For the Lord is Come to make himself known in the Earth and the Lord will be known by the Judgement that he Executes The World hath long been without the Knowledge of him He hath brought forth a People by whom he hath made known himself he hath not dealt so by Another Nation Neither hath the Heathen the Knowledge of his Law Friends you are they that must make him known and by whom he will be known in the Earth by what of him shall appear in you before Men when you are tryed which is not in themselves which is his Vertue which shall get to him a Name and a Praise such as Never was nor shall be If any of you shall not answer to this but cause his Name to be Blasphemed through the contrary Now he is Come to shew what a People he hath and how he is in them and how they are as they say and do as they speak Who are not of this World though they are in the World and who do make it So to appear in sticking to the Lord in the loss of this World and in not being overcome by the World nor of Evil but overcoming the World and Evil with Good and Praying for their Enemies and Blessing them that Persecute them and doing good to them that despightfully use them and unmoved in the loss of All and unshaken notwithstanding the shaking of all things and obeying God before Men notwithstanding what Man may be suffered to do unto them and Man will be suffered to do very much and the Devil what he can within and without to try them to the Uttermost I say if any of you now shall be offended and fall off and Dishonour the Lord and cause his Name to be Blasphemed the Lord God will be Avenged of such and his Fury and his Indignation will break forth and burn against such and better it were for such that they had not been born The Lord hath spoken it And he will make such Examples of his Vengeance that Men may Fear the Lord and Tremble before him because his Judgements are made Manifest Who is a God that will be Feared and had in Reverence by those that draw nigh unto him Therefore All my Dear Friends All stand fast Unshaken Unmoveable forasmuch as your Labour shall not be in Vain in the Lord nor your sufferings but the Lord will Reward ye who is near and will be with you and will not suffer ye to fall as ye abide with him whatsoever may be your Tryal For it is his Name and his Glory and his Truth and his Seed that is at Stake and you it is as I have said that he hath formed for himself to shew forth his Praise and ye shall shew forth his Praise And he will stand near you he will hold the Ballance that your sufferings overturn you not Underneath will be his Everlasting Arms he will never suffer you to be moved who keep in him For it is his Great Day and his Great Battel that is to be sought and his Great Work in the World The Greatest that Ever was or shall be as hath been Dâ—â—lared after which there is No more but the Seed of God shall Reign over all for Ever and Ever He will assuredly now mind for his Name and his Glory and his Seed and his Truth and his People and his Kingdoms sake which is an Everlasting Kingdom and his Dominion that which never shall have End which he is come now to set up and you must fight it and in and by you he will overcome by the Power of the Sword which proceedeth out of his Mouth that sits on the white Horse whom the Armies of Heaven follow Riding on white Horses Therefore he will uphold you he will support you who abide Faithful unto him with the Right hand of his Righteousness and he will Crown you with Glory and Honour A Crown such as never was nor shall be because the Day will be such as never was nor will be and by you he will make way for the opening of the Graves of his Seed throughout the whole Earth By you he will make Nations tremble his Power in you and the Isles shall be afraid and stand afar off and will cast by you the Deceiver into the Pit Out of which he shall arise no more And as the things aforesaid are Dear unto him and as his Seed in you is Dear to him as the Apple of his Eye and as ye are willing to Glorifie his Name and Engage all unto that will he Regard you For Who is this that Engageth himself to draw near me saith the Lord. And this let me say unto you and you know it who are in the feeling of the Life Immortal which the Lord hath Delivered your very Life makes to this It Presses on unto the Battel It is as ready to Glorifie the Lord as he hath been to Deliver it and to Redeem it out of the Pit It came into the World to Do his Will It s ready to Do his Will and that his Will may be done in Earth as it is in Heaven It longs to be at his Work It Presses you On. O Death I will be thy Death O Grave I will be thy Destruction Repentance shall be hid from mine Eyes And so you feel that which shaketh all things that that which can be shaken may be removed that that which cannot be shaken may Remain Your Life it is that shakes all things how then can ye be