Truly many of you have mightily provoked the Lord unto anger and grieved his Spirit in this particular Mark in your applying Promises as you have termed it for many of you have stollen the words which declare of the Promises which are to the Seed of Life and you have applyed them unto the wrong Seed or Birth yea you have gathered the good words out of the Scriptures that were written unto them who were born again of the incorruptible Seed and you have applyed them unto your selves in the corruptible unregenerate state and when you have done thus the Witness of God in your own Consciences hath oft arose and condemned you and broke the false peace joy which you had created to your selves by stealing the Saints conditions and experiences and applying them to your selves calling them yours and saying it was so with you when it was not yea many of you have said your sins were washed away in the Blood of Christ and that you were freely justified in the sight of God by his Grace and your Teachers also have told you it was so yea they have Preached peace unto you because you put into their mouths even while you lived in your sins But the pure Grace of God hath appeared in your hearts and condemned you And when you have been thus judged by the Witness of God your false peace hath been broken and then some of you have run to your Teachers who had cryed peace unto you and daubed you up with untempered Morter and told them your conditions how you were condemned in your selves and how you had lost the peace and joy that you formerly had and how judgement was felt in the room of it Then some of your blind Guides have told you that that was the Devil that condemned you and brake your Peace and thus they have brought themselves under the Wo Putting Darkness for Light and Light for Darkness and then they have told you you must apply the Promises and act Faith as they call it upon the Promises in the Scriptures and keep unto them And thus they have sought to daub you up again and to draw you from the pure Spirit of Judgement and some of you who have received their words have then strove against the pure Witness which condemned you and counted it the Tempter and have laboured in your wills to get from under its pure Judgement and to force your selves into a belief and perswasion again that those things to wit the Promises belonged unto you And thus have you fought against the Witness of God and denied its Testimony and strangled it and so got into a false peace again but others of you have been kept more sensible of its judgement and have not dared to deny it because you have seen that ye were not fit for the Promises for you have seen with the Light that you were out of the condition which is required of such as come to be partakers of the Promises Now it hath been a great saying among many of you That you must act Faith upon a bare Promise in the Scriptures as your Teachers have taught you and they have told you That Abraham believed God upon a bare Promise and so must you Oh consider this well The Word of the Lord came unto Abraham saying unto him Fear not Abraham I am thy shield and thy exceeding great reward And again the Lord spake unto him saying I will bless thee and make thy name great and thou shalt be a blessing and Abraham believed God in these Promises and others and he obeyed him So Abraham's Faith was reckoned unto him for Righteousness and he was called the Friend of God because he believed and obeyed him Now if you were come to hear the Lord speak unto you as Abraham did then you ought to believe whatever the Lord promised unto you that he would perform the same But if you only get these Promises or others out of the Scriptures and then apply them unto your selves and say you believe it is or shall be so with you as it is expressed in those Promises and yet you never heard the Lord say any such thing unto you Mark you do but deceive your selves for such a belief or acting of Faith upon the Promises as you call it will never be accounted unto you for Righteousness Neither will you come to find such Promises so gotten fulfilled unto you by the Lord. And you are also to consider this That many of the Promises in the Scriptures were given forth upon Conditions and except you come to witness the conditions fulfilled in you by the Power you are not like to witness such Promises made good unto you And also there are some Promises spoken of in the Scriptures which naturally belong to the Immortal Seed that were by the Lord given forth unto it without expressing any conditions because the Seed is free and doth the Will of God naturally Now all that come to have right to such Promises and to witness them fulfilled unto them by the Lord they first must be converted into the nature of the Seed by the working of the Immortal Word in them Therefore you that have true desires after the Lord wait to feel the work of the Word of Life in your own hearts that so by it you may be made meet as I said before to be partakers of the Promises Verily Friends Many of you have much to pass through before you can come to feel and witness the Lord ministring his precious Promises of Life and Peace freely unto you Oh! He waiteth to be gracious unto you yea he hath long waited Oh! That you would now turn unto him in the drawings of his Power and Life and cease willing and running and striving in your own wills and wayes and wait to be guided and led by his Spirit into those things which he requireth at your hands Oh Friends It is the inside it is the inside that must be cleansed for whilst that is polluted and unclean the Lord regardeth not the Worship It is he that searcheth the heart and tryeth the inward parts you cannot hide any thing from him For he beholdeth all your goings and actings and thoughts Now I know many of you will oft make large confessions of your sins but Friends there is a further thing to be minded Mark you must also come to forsake them or else you cannot find the mercy Therefore hearken diligently unto the call of the Lord and believe and wait in that which makes manifest sin and calleth you out of the same for this is holy and consenteth not unto sin it hath no fellowship with darkness nor concord with the Devil Now this is the living Truth by this you may know it mark it is contrary to whatsoever is not of the Truth and it opposeth evil in the very appearance thereof Oh that you would hearken unto this and receive this in the love of it when it appeareth in you that so by the
emptiness of the water outward and let them see that it is the Baptism inward with the holy Spirit and with Fire which saves and brings to the answer of a good Conscience And that no Form is to be minded any further then the Power is felt to lead into it or then the presence of the Lord is witnessed in it And thus the Lord by his pure Life hath gathered Thousands out of the Forms before mentioned and I do believe that he will yet dayly gather more and more into the Power which is endless Therefore all you who are yet left in any of those forms before mentioned or any other or out of Forms who have retained any thing of the former Tenderness and Smiplicity which was begotten in you by the appearance of the Lord And all you who are brought to see your backslidings and are now brought to feel any true desires and thirsting after God renewed in you my tender love reacheth forth unto you all in the Life Power and love of God wherewith I am loved and in which I am preserved Oh! that I could feel you bound up and established with me in the unchangable Truth of God where satisfaction and Peace is received and where nothing can make afraid Oh! that ye would freely yield your selves obedient servants unto the Righteousness of God which is revealed from Heaven against all unrighteousness of men Mark that is the thing which you must become obedient unto God's Righteousness which appeareth in you against all unrighteousness And all wait in that which moves against Sin for that is the Power of God which you must be turned unto and receive before you can receive the remission of Sins and an inheritance among them that are sanctified by the Faith which Christ Jesus the Righteousness of God is the Author and finisher of And Friends you must all mind the present manifestation of the Power of God and what it now draweth and leadeth unto For if you should now run into those things wherein you have formerly enjoyed something of the presence and Life of God yet if you feel not the pure Power of the Lord God now drawing you into them deadness will come upon you more and more and the tender desires that are renewed in you towards the Lord will be destroyed Oh! consider this the day of the Lord is far broke forth in Light and Knowledge and he is yet making it brighter and brighter unto them that truly wait upon him yea he is leading them by the hand of his love from one degree of Grace and Faith and Knowledge unto another and changing them from glory to glory And he is powring from vessel to vessel that the dregs may be left by themselves Yea he is sifting and winowing that the Chaff and the dross may be taken away and so the Seed which standeth approved may be made manifest And he is bringing thorow the fire and thorow the fire because the day hasteneth and draweth nigh in which he will make up his Jewels and consume the chaff and the dross Therefore look not back neither be afraid of the rage of man seek not to save your selves by bowing to his Will but look to the Lord who declareth unto you what your thoughts are and gird up the loins oF your minds and watch and be sober and hope to the end all you who through patience and experience are come to know any thing of the true hope which maketh not ashamed And Friends concerning Faith and the Promises of God there hath been much Profession and talk of those things amongst you But now the day is appearing which will try all Professions and every one's work must come to Tryal Therefore consider your Faith and the Ground Author and effects of it For there is a dead Faith and a living Faith and a ground for both Now the living Faith hath Jesus for its Author and the power of God for its Ground and its effects declare it to be the living Faith for it works in them that have it by love unto the purifying of their hearts and it is their victory over the world These were the effects of the living Faith in the Saints of old and it hath the same now as they can witness who have received it Now there is a Faith which stands but in Words not in the Power and this is a dead Faith it cannot work it purifies not the heart it gives not victory over the world nor access to God as the living Faith doth Oh Friends Labour not to content your selves with a dead Faith but wait that you may hear the leaving Word by which the living Faith comes Now a man may declare of the Word of Life as the Scriptures do and many may believe the words to be true and profess the same and yet if they receive not the living Word or VVitness in their own hearts their Faith will prove but a dead Faith and they will have but words for its ground but they that hear the VVords of Truth declared or read them and then feel the living VVord arising in themselves witnessing to the words that they have read or heard that they are true over-powering them to believe the same or if the VVord of Life speaketh to any ones understanding when words outwardly are not spoken and they be over-powered by the Word to believe the same such come indeed to feel and know how the living Faith cometh and is wrought And they come also to see that this Faith stands in the Power of God and not in words and that Jesus who saveth from sin is the Author of it And all that come into this state if they wilfully turn not from the Power they will feel their Faith increased in and by the Power and the effects of it will daily come to be manifest which will be an evidence unto them to prove that it is the living Faith for they will feel it giving them access to God Oh ye Professors I speak what I know and witness and without this Faith you cannot please God And concerning the Promises of God this know The Promises are unto the Seed Not unto Seeds as of many but unto the Seed which is One which is Christ So all that come to have right unto the Promises of God they must come to be of the Seed unto which the Promises are Now it is the Word of Life which begetteth unto God and brings to be of the Seed which is the Heir of the Promises of God Therefore wait in the appearance of the Word of Life that by it you may be begotten into the nature of the incorruptible Seed and become born of it that so you may be made meet to be partakers of the precious Promises Oh that ye would hearken diligently and obey and your Souls should live The Lord's hand of tender love and pitty is stretched forth towards you Oh! be not rebellious any longer lest he cease striving with you
Immortal So dear hearts let the living Measure of the Eternal Father of Life and Power and Wisdom be your continual Stay and Habitation that so if any shall come among you that are out of the true savour and feeling of the Life in themselves and shall act or speak any thing among you that is out of the Life that ye then may not be drawn out of the savour and feeling thereby but wait ye singly in the innocent patient long-suffering Spirit of Christ and that will preserve you out of the fretting and murmuring and thoughts and reasoning and out of the enmity and it will keep you settled and quiet and in Unity with God and with all who abide in his Life and this will reach the Witness in them who are turned from it into the rambling unsettled state and if ye feel the Seed burdened then wait in the true Patience in the fervent Love to the Truth and then the Lord's Counsel you will know and his Wisdom you will receive and his Power you will feel whereby as you are obedient thereto the burden will be removed and the evil will be judged that caused the burden and the Seed will be refreshed and the Unity of the Faith will be known and the weak there will be preserved and so the Peace will be Witnessed and the Truth will be adorned and its Enemies shall be ashamed Oh my Friends dear is the everlasting unchangeable Truth of God unto me which he hath made known in and among us in this his Day and dear and precious are all ye unto me who abide in it for therein is no Schisms nor Parties nor Rents nor Envy for who goe into those first goes from the simplicity of the naked Truth in which they that abide in it the Patience and Forbearance and Unity is felt by them and such as go out of it must feel the Judgement but all who abides in the Faith shall not come into Condemnation So the LORD GOD Almighty of Heaven and Earth preserve and keep you all in Patience in Innocency in Uprightness and in Obedience unto the living measure of his Power manifested in you Amen Now Friends that which ministreth unto the Seed Immortal know that Ministration in your selves for that is profitable and that is durable and fadeth not away and let the exercise of your minds be in that which is living of God when you are met together and at other times that so ye may be kept out of that which comes to an end in the feeling of the Power of an endless Life that so the Seed of Life may be raised up in you all and ye established in it to live in it for ever in which Seed the end of words is witnessed Oh Friends there cannot be another Truth or Power or Saviour Preached unto you that you are to mind than that ye have already heard and felt but the same you are to wait to feel an enlargement in Therefore be valiant for the Lord and prize the worth of his unchangeable Truth and watch and be diligent that his Spirit of Life and Power may quicken you and that his Virtue and Nourishment may be felt and lived in whereby Fruits of Eternal Righteousness and Praises over all may be given unto him and that ye may be preserved fervent unto your first Love in him whose Eternal Day is dawned and broke forth of Salvation of Life of Power of Immortality Glory Eternal Praises everlastingly be rendred unto Him from the meek lowly quiet peaceable Spirit which is risen and arising in his Babes and tender Plants whereby he stayes and settles and satisfies them even in the day of Tryal and in the day of Prosperity I am your Dear and tender Friend and Brother in the Power of God in which I labour for the gathering of the Seed for the bringing into and keeping in the Unity of the Spirit which is the bond of Peace George Fox the younger TO THE Called of God Who Believe in the Light of the LAMB To be read in their Assemblies in the Pure Dread of the Lord. DEar Children and People of the Eternal God who have known the working of his Mighty Power and have been exercised in the Operations of his Eternal Spirit whereby he hath begotten your minds out of the world in a great measure and hath brought you into a feeling of his Eternal Presence which filleth Heaven and Earth wherein is the Joy unspeakable unto them that are reconciled to God by the Lord Jesus Christ the Immortal Word Friends you unto me are exceeding precious and my Desires and Breathings to the Lord for you are exceeding strong that ye may be preserved in the sence and feeling of the Power of an endless life and that you may be all kept in the true Faith and obedience of the truth which lives for ever all minding to answer its requirings in every particular and waiting to feel its Springings arising in you whereby you may feel it quickning you up to God that so your Faith and trust and Confidence may onely stand in him who is able to deliver For Friends this know the Lord will assuredly try you to the uttermost and you must come through the fire which will consume your enemies Therefore dear Babes be stedfast in the Lord according as he hath made manifest himself unto you and wait and watch in that measure of his Life in you which onely is able to keep your minds and hearts out of the Earth and the things thereof and as ye singly wait upon the Lord you will feel the growth of that Birth in you which is not of this world which can endure the fire Oh my Friends wait to feel your growth and Translation into this Birth which doth the will of the Father naturally this is the Seed unto which the Promises are this is the Elect which obtains and cannot be deceivid this is the Heir of the Kingdom without end this will God Crown with Victory when the measure of it's Sufferings is fulfilled this Seed must work through all it's Enemies and work them under it's feet Oh! wait in the Eternal Power to feel and witness it in the particular and be patient till God bring forth his Work outwardly Look not out neither be dismayed at the strange transactions of the times but look to the Lord who onely can save by what means he pleaseth and let the Lord alone to appear as he pleaseth onely be you watchful that when he appears you may be ready for his appearance and watch in the Light which will give you clearly to see his appearance and what he requires of you that so living obedience unto him may be yielded Oh Friends Take heed that the things of this World draw not away any of your hearts Remember it is them that are redeemed from the Earth that must Reign in and with the Lamb upon the Earth Take heed that your love stands not in any thing or
of his Glorious Truth and Gospel which is the Power of God and you have abode in his fear and singly given up to his will you have mightily been preserved and you have felt the hand of a tender Father upholding you and giving you Peace and content when you have lost much of this world and the honour and pleasures thereof for his Name sake Oh Friends He hath not been wanting unto you he hath seen your sufferings and hath looked upon your afflictions and hath ministred strength proportionable thereunto that you might not faint nor be weary Oh! let not his Mercies and Fatherly care and loving kindness be forgotten by any of you but let them for ever be had in remembrance so shall the reward be witnessed Now Friends the Lord hath suffered a Cloud and a Mist as it were to spread it self in these Nations whereby an evil savour is gone forth which by fire must be taken away in which he will yet further try his People that they may be as gold separated clearly from the dross and that they may indeed be truly gathered and redeemed from the Earth and all earthly things and that they may wholly look unto him for deliverance and know that he indeed is the alone refuge and hiding-place in the day of distress Therefore let all who know the Power of God retire inward and watch in the Light of the Lamb that you may feel the movings of the Life in your own Vessels and be kept in obedience to its drawings and leadings in this day of Tryal Temptation and Darkness which is spreading it self for a Moment mark that lest any of you be scattered for the Enemies work is anâ— will be to seek to draw you from your strength and true guide which where he attains it great will be the sorrow and loss of such Therefore my dearly beloved Friends who have tasted how good the Lord is in the tender bowels of Christ I beseech you be fervent in love to God and one towards another and be watchful in the Light and therein watch one over another and strengthen and comfort and encourage and build up one another in the work and service of the Lord And if any through the temptation of the Enemy hath at any time spoken or done any wrong to another even as God in Christ forgave you so freely forgive ye one another and be ye plain-hearted one to another and â—e ye reconcilâ—d in that which destroys all prejudice and purges out all hard thoughts that so the Unity may be witnessed in that Love which thinks no evil and the one Head and Master over all submitted unto and let the gathering be unto him alone that so the blessing may be multiplyed in and amongst you unto the Glory and Praise of him that gives the encrease And be diligent in Meeting together whilst you may in the Name and Power of the Lord and be watchful in the measure of the Life of God that you may feel your strength renewed and encreased in the inward man For Friends this is a day which will try every one's strength therefore dwell in the Power in which the true gathering is that ye may not scatter abroad for he that gathers not scatters abroad and he that goes from the drawings of the Power gathers not Now Friends as ye keep in the drawings and springings of the Invisible Life ye will be knit together in one Life and there will be no striving who shall be greatest but every one will be serving the Lord in their several places and measures and one another in Love and as this is abode in the weak in somethings and at sometimes may help the strong and the stronger in other things may help the weak Oh Friends be as Children of one Father dwelling in Innocency and Love together helping one another Be ye indeed as Members of one Body knowing that the nourishment to the several Members thereof comes frome one Head and considering that every Member hath not the same Office yet of exceeding Service as each moves and acts in true Love to the Body and therefore ought to be born and owned in their respective places and if any Member would act any thing that might hurt the Body or any part of it either through being out of the sence what is of Service to the Body or otherwise then if another Member or Members be made sensible of the same it or they are bound in Love to the Body to seek to hinder the same and in tender love to restore the erring Member that so the Body may be kept in true Order and every Member seeking the good one of another Oh Friends consider how the Members even of the true natural Body serve one another in Love how does one cover another how does one bear and strain and labour for the good of each other to help one another and how much more ought these things to abound in the Spiritual Body of which Christ is the Head And now that which chiefly lyes upon me at present to you is this That ye all in the feeling of the pure Life and Power of God may keep and that where there hath been any watching for advantage by any among you against one another or strife of words or prejudice or striving to Lord it one over another or strangeness one towards each other that these things be utterly laid aside and resisted for where these things or any of them take place they eat as doth a canker and devour the Babe which should inherit the Promises and receive the Blessing and that in tender Bowels of Love ye receive and embrace one another and that all whatsoever hath tended to the contrary in any may dye and be forgotten as if it had never been that so the Birth Immortal which hath been quenched in some may spring and grow in the Vertue of the Father that its strong cryes both in the Male and in the Female may pierce through the Clouds and reach unto the Father of Life and Power and wrestle with him until the Blessing be given abundantly yea until he make bare his Arm in the sight of his Enemies that the Oppressor may cease and the Land may be swept of evil doers that so a way may be made for the further spreading of his everlasting Name and Truth and for the exalting of the Kingdom of the Lord Jesus over all the Kingdoms of the World Ah Friends the Unity the Unity in the Spirit the Love the Love from a pure heart is exceeding precious the yearning of Bowels one toward each other in the Lord the Faith the Patience the Watching and Breathing and Groaning and Sighing and Praying and Crying in the Spirit and Power of Emanuel is able to astonish the Heathen and to confound Armies and Powers that withstand the Kingdom of the Lord Christ and to cause Vengeance to come upon such as will not Repent and turn to the Lord in the day of
their Visitation even in the day of God's long Patience and Forbearance but set and bend themselves against the Lord and his Anointed Now Friends here is our strength and these are the Weapons which we must war withal against all this ungodliness that is come and coming up Therefore every particular hearken diligently unto the Call of God in the inward parts and wait in the meek Principle of Life that each may know and feel their own proper Gift or Gifts Weapon or Weapons and that every one may be kept sensible of the Teachings of the Captain of our Salvation that so ye may be expert in handling and using of it or them to the glory of him who hath called you to War against Babylon And dear Friends if any who love the Truth be yet further oppressed and their Goods spoyled by the false Prophet or Beast as many will be Oh! be ye tender-hearted towards such and know that the Earth is the Lord's and the Fulness thereof and they that follow the Lamb are redeemed from the Earth Therefore ye who know the Life dwell in it that your Redemption from all earthly things may be witnessed and that your Bodies and Estates may freely be given up to serve the Lord and one another whilst you are suffered to enjoy them Friends I know many of your Bodies and Estates have been and yet are so given up but these things I speak by way of remembrance to stir up the pure mind in all who breath after the Truth that love unfeigned may be maintained and encreased among you that ye may be all as Children of one Family dwelling together in Unity and Peace contented with the Will of the Father and be not at all discouraged or daunted because of the strength and malice and cruelty that is in the Adversary but be still and Patient in the Faith and stand out of all mortals in the sence of the Invisible Immortal Power of God and in that Meet oft together and visit one another whilst you may and be as Lambs amongst Wolves and the LORD our God shall appear for us and fight against our Enemies as he fought in the dayes of old against the Enemies of his Seed yea he shall confound our Enemies and bring them to naught and bring Liberty to his People when he hath tryed them to the full be Patient and doubt not though the Day must be hot yet it shall be but short for the Elects sake Watch and look not out He that will save his Life shall lose it but he that is willing to part with it shall find it eternally So the endless eternal Father of Life of Power of Wisdom of Peace of Love of Salvation gather and knit and unite you together and preserve and keep you in the melting Power and Love of the Lamb that ye may be as a Garden of Spices that your savour may be pleasant unto the Lord and unto all that breath after him in this the day of Tryal Amen Ah my dear Friends you have had a large and glorious day allowed you for the begetting and gathering of you into the precious Faith and the Unity thereof and many precious opportunities have you had for the assembling your selves together in the Name of the Lord and plenteously hath his eternal sweet Power and Life been manifested in and among you and as you have waited therein Oh! how have you felt the Blood of the everlasting Covenant the Life of Jesus purging and purifying your Consciences that therein you might hold the Mystery of that Faith which is your Victory over the World And now my Friends the Lord our God hath seen it good that ye may yet be tryed yea you must further be tryed your Faith your Strength your Patience must all be tryed and that by fire as I said before that a pure People you may be who stand and endure the Tryal unto the Lord yea a glorious People shall ye be whose beauty and splendor shall fill the Earth Therefore my dearly beloved in the Lord be watchful I beseech you and turn in and keep low in the feeling of the eternal Power in your own Vessels and know that every particulars strength lyeth there and ever particular will be tryed Therefore keep to your particular strength and be obedient to the Power in all its movings that so by it your minds may be drawn off all things that can or may change and come to an end and become wholly centered in the unchangeable endless Life of God Then my Friends nothing can harm you But verily if any of your affections be centered in Husbands Wives Children or any earthen Vessel or visible thing whatsoever so as that you cannot be willing to part with all if it be required at your hands then may your sufferings be great and dangerous unto you Therefore I beseech you be followers of the invisible Life of Jesus in all its appearances anddrawings that so by it you may be taught how to use all visible changeable things unto the Glory of the Lord whilst you are permitted to enjoy them And that you may be made willing to give up and to part with all yeâ— even with your lives also if you be called thereunto for the Tryal of your Faith or that your Enemies thereby may fill up the measure of their Iniquity and that Judgement may come upon them to the full And whilst you have outward liberty for the keeping your Meetings together be diligent therein as I said before and when any of you come to be hindred from such opportunities as you have enjoyed Oh! then be patient and wait upon the Lord for strength and if in any place it should come to pass that but two or three of you could come together neglect not that for if in the pure fear and love of God you be kept it will be profitable comfortable unto you And dear Friends you who are but weak in the Truth to you I now speak Take heed of looking out at any of us whom the Lord God hath drawn forth by his own Power and Love to declare his living eternal Truth unto you I say look not out at us as for strength or teaching but look to the endless Life in your selves which we have directed you unto in which your strength and satisfactory Teaching is for we may be removed far from you as to the outward but the Life and Power by which you and we stand abideth with and in you and we as to the outward may be bruised broken and slain for the Testimony of Jesus and the Word of God which we hold But the Life and Spirit of God and the Lamb dwelleth for ever with you that believe in it and if ye crucifie it not to your selves there is none that can slay it And while you have Us or any of Us among you I exhort and warn you all and that in the Name and Authority of the Lord that ye look not
upon or think of any of Us above what we are lest thereby you should hurt your selves or any of us but according as God hath distributed unto us of his Heavenly Treasure even so know us and feel us and receive us in the Lord and know no man after the flesh neither admire any thing but the pure Life of God and the Birth born of him and know that what of God's treasure we have in our earthen Vessels we have received it from the Lord that none might glory or boast in what they have over another And what we have received it is partly for your sakes that we might impart of the same unto you as good Stewards of the manifold Grace of God and although we are become the Lord's Free-men through the work of his eternal Power and Spirit yet are we your Servants in Christ and so let us be accounted among you for that is our place and duty even to serve you in the Lord and to stand given up to spend and be spent for you and if we should not so walk among you in all humility of mind I know the Lord would soon withdraw his glorious Power and Presence from us and then what should we be more than others nay how much less and weaker So dear Friends keep in the pure Fear and live in the true favour that ye may have a true sensible feeling one of another in your present conditions and that ye may be able to strengthen one another in the Lord. And if at any time any be felt not to be in so clear and living a condition as they formerly have been in Oh! take heed how you judge of those things and beware of prejudice or of a Spirit that would rejoyce because advantages at such a time may easily be taken for that is accursed in the sight of God But keep ye in the dread and Wisdom of the Lord And they that reprove or exhort such as are come to loss in their conditions let it be in that Spirit which can bear and suffer all things that are to be born for the Seeds sake in the true patience and meekness Oh Friends this is the restoring healing strengthening consolating Spirit which is of great price with the Lord and in this live and you will feel the Blessing the Peace and Mercy upon the Israel of God and you will be meet helps one to another And now dear Friends and Babes you who watch for Peace and Unity in Righteousness and can bear and endure all things that may be born for the Elects sake my Life is bound up with you in the overcomings of God's Love and I am refreshed in you and I partake of your Peace and Joy and meet and kiss you in the meek Spirit and rejoyce with you in the work of the Lord my Friends go on in the power of God and build up one another in the living Faith and wait therein together that in the eternal Power ye may feel Dominion over all the cruelty of the Enemy for it 's the Faith in the power that must break through all this wickedness and bring down all this ungodliness that is spreading it self as if there were no end of it But Friends as in the dread of the Lord ye keep you will see the power of Darkness vanish away and they that act in it shall be chained under though for a moment they have liberty for the Tryal of our Faith But verily in the Power of the Lord God I can truly rejoyce over all these things because I see the Lord's presence and loving kindness in a wonderful manner amongst those that truly wait upon him and trust alone in him for deliverance even in the time of their Tryals and because he hath given me stedfastly to believe That he will bring deliverance for his People and set them over all the Powers of the Earth by his own arm Therefore let none murmur not think that the Lord is slack concerning his appearing for his People but let every one that knows the Truth in that patiently wait and endure whatsoever the Lord suffers the wicked to do unto you in the day of his long Patience and Forbearance which he in compassion grants unto them that they might come to repentance and amendment of Life which if they wholly slight and will not be gathered in their day he hath power enough and will execute it to destroy them and to deliver his People that trust in him So in the pure Life and Power and Vertue of the Father be ye stayed and quiet in your minds and wait to receive your daily Bread and Water of Life from him that ye may grow up in the eternal and be established for ever in the Power of an endless Life Oh Friends if any look out in this day they will let in weakness and whosoever feels weakness let them abide and believe in that which makes them sensible of their weakness and they will gather strength and be able to stand And as for you my dearly beloved Friends who are come to witness your Redemption from the earth by the Blood of the Covenant and are now following of the Lamb whithersoever he goeth leads draws or commands you I know you are come to the Anointing and have received it and that abides in you and you into it are comprehended so that you need not any man to teach you but as the same anointing that abideth in you doth teach you for that is true and there is no lye of it and that teacheth you of all things which are suitable to your conditions and it sheweth you things to come and with it you are able to try Spirits and Doctrines and even as it hath taught you ye shall abide in him the Lord that Spirit And where this is felt and witnessed there is liberty and sitting and waiting in this you are fed with the Bread from above which giveth life and refreshed with the springs from beneath which makes its way through the Rocks and Mountains to the pleasant Valleys and you that are come to this seat you are able to judge of things within and without and although you have not need to be taught by letters yet I know you that are come to this state can bear the Word of Exhortation to be sounded among you that so it may reach unto them to whom it is of service for the stirring up of their pure minds that so the Life and Power immortal may in the freshness and purity of it be felt in and amongst all the Flock and that in the sweetness and vertue thereof you all may be kept and preserved in pure Unity and Peace with God and one with another So the Blessing and Mercy of the Almighty rest and abide for ever upon you all who delight in the Truth which is eternal And Friends take heed how you receive reports and report them again for there is a great danger in those things and there