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A81402 Several letters written to the saints of the Most High, to build them up in the truth, as it is in Jesus. By William Deusbury. James Nayler. George Fox. John Whitehead Dewsbury, William, 1621-1688. 1654 (1654) Wing D1272; ESTC R202145 8,486 22

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SEVERAL LETTERS Written to the Saints of the Most High To build them up in the Truth as it is in JESUS By William Deusbury James Nayler George Fox John Whitehead LUKE 10. 2. The Harvest is great but the Labourers are few pray ye therefore the Lord of the Harvest that he would send forth Labourers c. LONDON Printed in the Year 1654. Dear Friends I Suffer with the imprisoned seed in you to which I was sent to preach unto the everlasting Gospel to the opening of your blind eyes that you might see your lost estates how your immortal Souls lie in the pit wherein there is no water and to bring it forth that it might stand in the liberty of my Fathers love in the free Covenant of Life in the Lord Jesus which Covenant is to the seed which is pure and holy and inlightens your understandings and lets you see every by-path and broad way and cries behind you This is the way walk in it when you turn from the pure light which is in your Consciences and to the light in your consciences I speak which shal eternally witnesse me you have not been faithfull many of you in walking with the Lord since you heard the Gospel of your Salvation I charge you in the presence of the Lord God Almighty and by his Power every one of you examine your Consciences which wil witnesse with me for I am with you though absent in body and see you with the invisible and eternal eye which nothing can be hid from in the measure which the Lord hath opened I suffer amongst you for the immortal and eternal Seed that suffers in you I charge you slight not the examination of your hearts every one of you in particular I see you who you are in whom the Seed suffers in some under one deceit and some in another and to the all seeing Eye that light in your Consciences I direct you which is the Eye with which I see you and every one of you dwel in the pure light which is in your Consciences and you will see your selves and witnesse these lines and from the mouth of the living God before whom all is naked and bare I charge you by the Lord hasten every one of you to meet the Lord in speedy reforming your ways Thou that art slothful harken to the light in thy Conscience and it wil waken thee thou that art flown up into the ayr to speak of that thou livest not in harken to the light in thy Conscience and it wil stop thy mouth and cause thee to lie low before the Lord and thou that art exalted above thy brother harken to the light in thy conscience and it wil pluck thee down and cause thee to serve him in love and thou that art delighting in the earth more then in the Lord thy God harken to the light in thy conscience and it will bring thy earthly mind to Judgement and rend thee from the Earth and thou that art a Self-lover and if thou have thy self and regard not thy Brother harken to the light in thy conscience and it wil bring thee to Self-denial and to love thy brother to watch over him suffer with him in all his sufferings I charge you in the presence of the eternal and ever-living God that every one be faithful according to the measure or light of the Lord hath given to profit withal in the exercises of your conscience towards God and men Let the light guide you all in your ways and it wil purge away all the filth of the flesh so wil the old man be put off with his deeds and the imprisoned seed wil be set at liberty in you and I shal not come to you any more with a rod as I am constrained at this time through your foolishnesse who have departed from the pure Wisdom to look abroad in the counsel of your own hearts for the rod is prepared for the back of a fool but the wise mans eye is in his head which eye is the light in your consciences being guided by it it will lead you to Christ who is your Head the Fountain of Wisdom and knowledg Now al of you that walk in him I have union with every one of you denying your selves freely and be faithful in your measures that you may grow up together in the Lord Jesus a peculiar people a holy Priesthood to offer up your souls and bodies a living sacrifice unto the Lord our God to guide you by his power to his own praise and glory who alone is worthy to be feared and obeyed of all his Saints for ever and ever With bowels of love I salute you all in the Lord into his Power I commit you and the Lord God Aimighty enlighten your understandings and blesse you and guide you in wisdom to watch over one another in love that the God of love may be exalted in all of you December 1653. This was the Copy of a Letter that came from William Deusbury DEar Friends I rejoice in you as you are entred into the love of the truth and have owned the Voice that cals out of the darknesse that is over all the Earth to set your faces towards Sion the City of everlasting Light and now mind your way and the light that is given to guide you in the way to keep your eye to the light that it may lead you through al the visible things of the world and as you passe through you may stand single in the mind unto God not turning to the right or left hand where lies the temptation nor looking back which lays you open to be assaulted afresh by those evils you had once escaped from but keeping the eye towards the mark passe on leaving and forgetting what is behind and treading and trampling under your feet what the enemy shall lay as stumbling blocks in your way which your carnal eyes or ears or hearts would be closing with for the temptation lies in the carnal things and there is the bondage of the creature to things that are corrupt from which bondage from sin corruption the Lord is now appeared that in the light he may redeem and lead out of it all that will own and follow him and this Light and Redemption is in his Son whom he is about to exalt in which exaltation a strange and mighty Work is to be brought to passe whereat al that stand not in his counsel fear and to whom he shal not reveal his secrets shall be offended for all that is exalted shall be laid low and debased the wisdom of the wise shal come to nought and the understanding of the prudent ones shall be hid riches and honors shal fal to dust from whence they came and the worship of the world shal become filthinesse the gods of the Heathens shal be famished with looking for worship but shal get none and the strongest of them shal not be able to deliver himself for the