and the voice of a Stranger And by the Spirit of the living God are we gathered up together up to God to worship him in Spirit and in Truth and are of one Heart and of one Mind and of one Soul and have all one Teachers and peak all one thing And we being all taught of the Lord are far from Oppression though we be Oppressed and for the Truths sake was I moved of the Lord to lay this before thee that our Conditions may be known that the Truth may not suffer under the reproach of the Heathen who live after the Flesh and Persecute them who live after the Spirit A word more to clear thy mistake when we spoke unto thee that the Lord would make thee an Instrument in his Hand to establish the Gospel wherein thou apprehendest us that should be established by an outward Law that was not our desire nor we spoke no such thing but we witness the coming of Christ in his Kingdom is not by Might nor Power nor Pomp nor Glory from without nor by any Law which is in the will of Man but our desires were that there should be no Law upon Religion for it needs no Law to defend it for pure Religion and undefiled is this to loose the bands of Wickedness and set the Oppressed free and take off every Yoke And where pure Religion is exercised this is the Fruits and if thou be guided by the pure Light of God shining in thy Conscience and the righteous Law set up in thy Heart and the Spirit of God thy Teacher then there need none â—â— desire thee to take away those Laws that ensnare tender Consciences and so they who pretend Conscience and are not guided by the pure Law of God will be seen by those who dwell in the Spirit to have erroneous Consciences and so this Law will take hold of them and the righteous Law is upon the Transgressor and limits the carnal Mind and fleshly Will but doth not limit the Spirit but is at Unity with it And therefore Friend to thy Conscience I speak and witness this to be true in the Presence of God that as thou art guided by this pure Light in thy Conscience and this Law of the Spirit set up in thy Heart thou canst not deny us for we are none of those which dispise Government and defile the Flesh who pull down others to set up themselves but all unfruitful works of darkness we deny and seek to advance the Government of Jesus Christ alone and love all and have unity with all who are here and honour all Men in the Lord and have fellowship with those whose Conversation is as becomes the Gospel of Christ and they who Rule and Live here cannot suffer any outward Law to take hold on us who stand in obedience to the Commands of Christ for there is no Condemnation to them who are in Christ Jesus who walk not after the Flesh but after the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord sets free and commands obedience take heed how thou suffer any Law to limit that Spirit for they who are brought into the obedience of the Spirit are dear unto him as the Apple of his Eye and his care is over them and the Lord will free them from their Oppressors And thus were we pressed in Spirit to lay before thee our conditions and the conditions of our Brethren who are gathered into the eternal Unity where there is no Rent nor Schism that thou might not be ignorant of those things and to shew thee that our desire is not for any outward thing or self-advancing for all self we deny for we came contrary to our own will and we declare this unto thee contrary to our own will and if thou stand not in thy own will thou wilt hear us and own us in advancing the Lord Jesus Christ upon the holy-Hill of Sion that the Law might go out of Sion and the Word of the Lord from Jerusalem and this we wait to see accomplished and his promise fulfilled in those who govern the Nations that the Kingdoms of the World may become the Kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ And thus we have laid our selves naked before thee in the Presence of God and cleared our Consciences to thee and leave it to that which is pure in thy Conscience to judge Take heed for he that is in high Places is subject to many Temptations This I was moved of the Lord to Write unto thee who is a Servant of the Lord and a lover of thy Soul called John Camm For E. V. and the rest of the Flock of God in and about Banbury DEarly beloved Friends and Brethren in the eternal everlasting Covenant of Love and Life doth my Soul dearly salute you all who in your Measures keep in the same Love and Life and grows up in your stature which is well pleasing to God Oh my dear Hearts in the Life and Power of God which casts down Sin and slayes the enmity and gives you Victory and Dominion over the World which keeps you and preserves in the hour of Temptation which shall come upon all men upon the Earth to try them but you abiding in the pure Eternal living Measure of God dwelling in his Life and Power which is your Rock and hiding place shall be kept out of the same which the Enemy hath laid to take your Souls and here is your safe dwelling place so the Lord God of Power in his Life and Power keep you all in your dwelling place which is the Lord that with the Measure of him you may be guided which leads up into the Land of Righteousness into the Holy City where the uncircumcised and the careless and disobedient cannot come so with Bowels of dear and tender love unto you all who are Children of my Father and kept in his work I bid you farewel in the Lord and in him I am your dear brother for evermore John Camm My Wife and little Thomas dearly salutes you who are faithful in your places farewel As for my outward health it is much like as it was I grow weaker in the outward man but in the Lord is my strength and my support continually Glory and pure Praises be unto him for evermore Amen J. C. John Camm's Letter the 5th day of the 11th Month 1654. to Friends DEarly beloved in our Head and Saviour the Lord Jesus Christ our dear love in him Salutes you all yea truly the same love runs out unto you all who wait upon the Lord and abide in your Measures that we are loved with all of our Father and we are your Epistles written in your Hearts not with Pen and Ink but with the Spirit of the Living God and then you who are guided by the Light which comes from Christ Jesus may read us daily and truly you are dear and precious unto us as you abide and dwell in your Measures yea truly ye are our very Lines and the Seal of
our Ministry begotten into a lively hope in Christ Jesus by the immortal Seed of the Word of God and ye are our Witnesses that we seek not our selves but you nor our own good but the Glory of our God and the recovery of his own Image and the freedom of the Righteous that the Name of our God may be exalted and that he may reign over all and have Dominion in every one of you that you may witness your Head exalted dwell in the pure eternal Light of Christ Jesus which doth discover and make manifest all the deeds of darkness and lays open all deceit and brings it to the righteous Law of God and so condemns Sin in the Flesh and sets up judgment in the Earth and the Inhabitants thereof learn righteousness and when this is witnessed the Oppressor is cast out and the Vail is rent and the bonds of Iniquity is broken and the Serpents Head is bruised and the Seed of the Woman raised which all the Promises of God are yea and Amen unto yea and he fetches up out of time into the beginning before Sin was and leads up into eternity where time shall be no more and therefore dear Hearts all wait in that which you have received the Light which comes from Christ that by it you may come to injoy the pure Life and have Power over all your Enemies for as many as receive him to them he gives power to become the Sons of God and gives them victory over the World to tread and to trample upon it and therefore all of you dwell low and in the pure fear of the Lord abide and in his Counsel stand and be faithful in what you know and imp ove it to the glory of the immortal God that you may be the good Servants and enter into the Joy of your Lord and as you dwell low in meekness and in the pure Fear there you will find the Lord present teaching you and leading you gently by the Hand and open unto you a door of hope and the fresh springs will be opened and the thirsty Land will be refreshed and so you will come to witness the spring time after the Winter be past and the Roses to bud and the Flowers to cast a sweet smel upon the Earth but this is to you my little Ones who is come and coming through the Sword which cuts down the earthly man of Sin it is to you who witness great Tribulation who knows the Day of the Lord to be a day of darkness and not Light and that it is a day that will and doth burn up all the wicked as Stubble and scatter them as the Wind scatters the Chaff and his is the Figure and they who are wicked may read their Portion for the Childrens Bread must not the Dogs have but unto you that fear the Name of the Lord shall the Son of Righteousness arise with healing under his Wings and the Secrets of the Lord will be revealed unto you and you shall want no manner of thing that is good as you abide in his Fear and stand in his Will in the daily Cross which Crucifies the Earthly man and works out that nature which hath Crucified the Just and Righteous One and so as you dwell and are faithful to the Light you come to injoy the Life and grow up in the Life and the pure Eye will be more opened in you by which the Enemy the Tempter will be seen and now you had need to stand upon your watch for the Devil like a roaring Lyon will seek to devour you and Pharaoh will pursue you as you come from under his kingdom and dominion and therefore what I say unto one I say unto all watch and be sober stand with your armour on the whole Armour of God by which you may be able to drive back all the fiery Darts of the Enemy and have Oyl in your Lamps burning continually and all who have desires after the Lord whose minds is convinced of the Eternal Truth in that which doth convince you dwell and wait for the Power of the Lord to shake the Earth and rent the Rocks and melt the Mountains and remove the Earth out of its place and the Heart to purge and cleanse and make a place of holiness of the Lord of Hosts to dwell in and when the Lord comes this to do in you dwell in and love judgment that so Sion may be set free And so all dear Hearts wait in your Measures which you have received of the Lord and in them be faithful that so you may increase in the increases of God and have dominion over all the Beast of the Field and the Fowles of the Aire and Fishes in the Sea and over all unclean Spirits and be kept pure in your places that so the Lord God may dwell amongst you and delight to do you good So the Eternal Everlasting Love of God keep you all and preserve you pure in your Measures that he alone may be glorified and exalted over all to reign in you and that all that oppress him and his Goverment in you may be destroyed and this is the desire and prayer to God for you of us who dearly loves you who desires nothing but that the Lord may be Glorified in you and by you so fare you all well and the God of Power keep you now and evermore Amen Yours in the Bond of Love which cannot be broken from its own Image This is to all who love the the Lord Jesus Christ in Truth and sincerity at and about Bristol and Aulston to be read amongst you all our dear Ones John Camm John Camm's Letter to Friends in Bristol from Preston Patraick in Westmorland LOving Friends of Bristol and all round about who are faithful in your Measures and with the prosperity of Sion I have writ a Letter to be read amongst you all and that you may read it within your selves and witness it and with that I have union which witnesseth it in Life but with that which is in Knowledge and Comprehension without Life I have no union but by that which I have union with shall it be judged and condemned for it shall try all and condemn all that is not of it self but acted in the earthly Wisdom and it will not stand in the presence of the Lord who is pure and all shadows shall fly before him and therefore in the the substance dwell which comprehends the shadows and so I bid you all farewel J. C. DEarly beloved Friends in our Head the Lord Jesus Christ doth my Soul Salute you all who are faithful in your Measures and obedient to the Light of Christ Jesus which is made manifest in you which being faithful in will lead you up to Christ your Head to exalt him over all in you all that he may reign whose right it is in you and that his Scepter of Righteousness maybe swayed in you and the strong man armed may be bound and spoilled
of all his goods and the Ministration of Condemnation which is Glorious in its time may be witnessed by you all that through it you may see your Enemies destroyed and the powers of darkness spoilled and Captivity led Captive and witness the gift given which is Christ in you the hope of Glory and where he is made manifest and comes to reign he throws down all Principalities and Powers and spiritual wickedness which is set up in high places exalting it self above all that is called God in you and he brings down the lofty from their seat brings into meekness and into the Fear of the Lord and redeems out of the World and makes a separation from it and so leads up to faith the Mystery which is held in a pure Conscience and this gives Victory over the World and without this it is impossible to please God. Now to the Light of Christ Jesus which he hath lightened you withal to that I direct you all that with it you may search and try your own Hearts and see your states and conditions and how you stand and what you can witness of the Life of God made manifest in you for it is the Life that distinguisheth and out of the Book of Life shall all be judged and therefore to the Light of Christ which he hath lightened you withal come that all may be judged by it which is contrary to the Life of God in you that so nothing may grow in your Gardens but the Plant of renown which is of the Fathers planting which Plant is pure and where it grows he delights to water it and dress it that it may bring forth more Fruit to the Praise and Glory of his Name and as this Plant grows up in you the Plants of self and of your own planting is by it made manifest and as it is loved and obeyed all that is of self is rooted up and destroyed and turned from and judged and condemned by that Plant of renown which is not of self but of the Lords right Hand planting and this is a plant of Righteousness and all who witness this Plant grow in their Gardens witnesseth a holy Life and a pure Conversation and Redemption from the filthy pollutions of the World and the heathenish Customs and vain Traditions and untoward Conversation which the heathenish World lives in which knows not God And therefore dear Friends my desire and Prayers to God is for you all yea my Bowels earns for you that you may grow up into the Life of God yea God is my witness I desire nothing more of you then to hear of your Welfare in the Lord and your growing up into the Image of God that you may come to witness the Glory of the first Resurrection that you may know as you are known and that you may know your selves redeemed out of the Curse and to know us and others in that which is Eternal which is not of this World but redeems out of the carnal up into the Eternal out of the World and in that wait to see the corruptible put off and incorruption put on every one of you in particular that the old Man may be put off and the new Man put on which is shapen in Righteousness and true Holiness and where this isl injoyed and fulfilled the Fruits of it will appear and the Life and conversation will witness it and therefore truely my desire and Prayers to the Lord is for you that yon may not be deceived with an outward knowledge comprehension of the Eternal Truth of God without you while you are not come into the pure Life and so rests in the shadow and in the form short of the substance and of the Life and therefore I exhort you all in the Name of the Lord and in the Bowels of tender love unto your Souls that you all of you live up according to your Measures that God over all may reign in you and be Glorified which is the desire of your Friend who is a Servant of God and of his Truth witnessed by you and known unto the World by the name of John Camm My Wife Salutes you all in the Lord Farewel The 20th day of the 2d Month 1655. From Preston Patrick in Westmoreland to Friends in Bristol An Epistle of John Camm's to Friends TO all my dear Friends Brethren and Sisters in the eternal Fellowship begotten again to a lively hope by the immortal Word of God and born of the immortal Seed which is but one in which our Union stands forever unto you all I say whose outward Being and Residence is about Preston Hutton Grayridge Kendal Vnderbarrow Powbanke Swarthmore and the upper-end of Lancashire and to all the reft of the Babes and Lambs and the Plants of my heavenly Fathers planting Grace Mercy and Peace from God the Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ be multiplyed upon you all who abide faithful and walk as becomes the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to your own measures which you have received from him that he may be gloryfied by his own And now dear Brethren and Sisters I Exhort you and Warn you or rather I Beseech or Intreat you that every one of you walk worthy of your Calling whereunto you are called for Holy is he that hath called you and he hath called you unto Holiness without which none shall ever see God and take heed that none turn his Grace into wontonness and trample upon the Blood of his Covenant and so dispise the day of their Visitation but prize the time for it is precious and while you have the Light walk in it and strive to make your Calling and Election sure for many shall strive and shall not be able because they strive amiss and take heed that none of you come short of your Crown in sitting down by the way and getting into the comprehension prehension before the Life and there you build in the Air without a Foundation and is gone away from the corner Stone and you and your building shall perish together and therefore all to take heed to the Measure of Life received that in it you may be found in the day of the Lord which will be a sure hiding place for you in the Day of his fierce Wrath when he comes with ten Thousands of his Saints to take Vengeance upon the wicked and upon all you that hold the Truth of God in unrighteousness but all you who fear the Name of the Lord and walk up unto him in a pure Godly Conversation the Son of righteousness to you is risen with healling under his Wings and the day of glad Tidings is come unto you and the Winter is past and the Storms and the Showers is over and gone and the spring time is come and the Flowers appear upon the tender Grass and the Voice of a Turtle is heard in our Land Glory and Praises be to the Name of the Lord for evermore who hath loved you and washed
and sits like them but do not forsake your Sins nor own the Cross of Christ so as to live in it and so you give occasion to the World to speak evil of the Gospel of Christ now to such I say from the Lord Depart ye Workers of Iniquity terrible and dreadful is the day that shall come upon you wo unto them that cover with a Covering but not of the Spirit of the Lord Fear the Lord and tremble before him and prize your time while it is called to day for the Lord is near and if he find you eating and drinking with the Drunken he will cut you assunder and give you your Portion with Hypocrites But all my dear Friends dwell in the Power of the Lord and let not your minds be stained but keep single and stand uncovered that so you may discern all those that are covered and reign above them in the eternal living Truth of God to his praise for evermore Praises and Honour to our God for ever who is worthy for all is falling before him My dear Friends the Harvest here is great even all the Fields are white and all the dumb Dogs and idle Shepherds Drones and Loiterers runs quakes trembles and flyes before us but the Sword of the Lord is in the hands of the Saints and this Sword divides hews and cuts down Deceit and so way is made for the pure Seed to arise and raign above all which conquers all Praises be to the Lord for evermore Dear Friends the Work of the Lord is great and many are Convinced of the living Truth and I really see the Lord will raise up to himself a pure and a large People to Serve and Worship him in Spirit and in Truth Farewell My dear Brother and fellow Labourer Edward Burrough Salutes you all in the Lord and the everlasting God of Power keep you all pure to his everlasting Praise All ye Saints of the Lord Praise ye the Lord and Magnifie him for ever Your dear Brother in the Truth John Audland John Audland his Epistle to Friends from Chester City the 5th of the 5th Month. DEar Friends and Brethren in the Eternal Truth of God Members of the same Body partakers of the unsearchable Riches of the love of God which love endures for evermore Oh! my dear hearts press on in the strait way forgetting those things that are behind Every one of you in perticular mind to dwell in the pure fear of the Lord which will keep you pure and single to stand in his counsel that so you may reign above the Earth and rejoyce over the heads of all your Enemies walking in the Light of the Lord And dwell in the Light and with it you will see and know all the wiles of Satan who would lay snares Innocent and in the power of the Lord stand that you in his power may have Victory My dear Friends what I declared to you when I was present with you the same do I now write to you and in the Spirit I am present with you and therefore in the Name of the Lord and in his fear put on boldness put on courage put on strength every one in your measure stand and be faithful in the Work of the Lord as his Witnesses against all the World for unto this are you called to cast off every weight and burthen and to run with patience the race before you the way is strait and narrow no unclean thing must enter nothing that defiles must enter unto this are you all called to put off the old Man with his Deeds to die daily to forsake the World to deny all to lay down your lives and to take up the Cross of Christ daily and have no fellowship with unfruitful works of darkness God is pure he calls to purity Oh! my dear Hearts as you abide faithful you are my joy in the Lord my Prayers are for you God is my Witness I make mention of you daily to the Lord my dear and tender Plants of God as you grow and increase in the Increase of God my joy will increase Oh! stand stedfast as faithful Servants every one upon your watch that you may pertake daily of the Joy of the Lord and walk worthy of the Love which the Lord hath manifested unto you watch over one another in Love in Bowels in tenderness in compassion to that which is pure and rule over all deceit tread upon it and reign over it dwell in discerning every one and suffer not that to speak which is not of God but all wait in Love and walk in Love and the Body edifies it self in Love and the God of Peace and Love keep you pure to his eternal Praise to all the honest in heart I speak walking in the pure Light of the Lord that you may have Dominion over all the Earth and earthly minds And so such I say who are convinced by the Light of God but doth not walk in the Light How will you escape The Lord is dreadful his Terrour will surprize all Hypocrites the witness of the Lord is against all such and his Judgments will take hold upon you his hand you cannot escape I say to such as I have often told you yea I have told you Weeping such are Enemies to the Cross of Christ and by him are you to be Slain who refuse him and will not have him to Reign over you and therefore by the Dreadfulness of the Lord I charge you to walk in Obedience to that which is committed to you that every one of you may deny those things which the Light in the Conscience bears witness against And I charge you give no evil Example in your Walkings nor in your Meetings in your Meetings be watchful bear Reproof patiently examine your selves let the Light search you and you will see Reproof is to you who doth not walk in the Light and in your walkings be watchful have no fellowship with the world for that which is of the world and you that have fellowship with the world cannot bear witness against the world And therefore come out be seperate touch no unclean thing and fear the living God who searcheth all Hearts and his reward is with him to give to every one according to his deeds But to all you that are faithful the Joy of the Lord is your strength the Arm of the Lord is with you the Sickle is in your Hand thrust in the Sickle for the Earth is ripe the Press is full the Fat 's overflow the Glory of the Lord is appearing to shake terribly the Earth Glory to him for evermore Farewel All my dear Hearts my Bowels run out freely to you I am with you daily in that which will never Wither The Lord God of Power keep you pure every one in your Measure to his eternal Praise my Love is to you all and remember me dearly to all Friends every where Your dear Brother a servant of the Lord and in him can we never be
Lord is our strength his â—ower is with us all was silent there This is the day of Israels return out of Captivity joy for evermore will be your Portions waiting npon the Lord you will witness the gathering into the Fold so God Almighty keep thee and all of you in singleness up to him that he alone may be Exalted Salute us dearly to thy Wife and to all Friends as if we named them one by one we are bound to you by the Bond which never can be broken Farewel Remember us to Captain Beal and his Wife and to them at the Red-Lodge John Audland John Camm Dear and loving Friends IN that Unchangable Eternal Everlasting Love of our Father we Salute you even that Love with which I am loved of my Father that Love flows out unto that of God in every one of you without respect of Persons for you are all of you dear and near unto us as you abide in that which doth Convince you but turning from that by which your Hearts and Minds are knit together and brought into the Unity your minds being turned from that then the Unity is broken and the Bond of Peace and Love is broken and that doth make a Rent and a Breach and Schism amongst you for turning from the pure Eternal Light of God which leads up to the door into the Sheep-Fold and so would lead you into the Kingdom of God where there is Rest Joy and Peace for evormore but your minds turning form this you turn into the Carnal and into the Visible and so self gets up and from that nature proceeds self Separation and here the haughty nature gets up self-Exaltation and the Just suffers and by that nature the pure is Crucified and Slain and then Carelesness and Sottishness and self Love abounds which is to be Judged and Condemned by the Light and by the Life and from the Life of God do I declare against all that nature in every one that by the Light of God which you have all received a Measure of you may come to see that nature in every one of your selves which disappoints and separates you from your Head that by the Light that nature may be discerned and so judged and condemned by the Light But first every one come to know Judgment set up in your selves and self in the particular judged that Judgment may be set up in the Earth that the Inhabitants thereof may learn Righteousness and so Judgment being passed upon the Rebellious and Uncircumcised in your particulars and you walking and dwelling in the Life according to your Measure then may you boldly reprove others who walk not up according to their Measure for the Beam being cast out of your own Eyes you will see perfectly to pull out the Mote out of your Brothers Eye but it must be first out of your own or else you are Hypocrites And so I charge you all in the Presence of the Lord every one to keep your own Habitations and to be faithful to your Measures which you have received of God and you will come to grow and increase in the increase of God and abiding in the Vine you will become fruitful and you will become Beautiful and Comely Sweet Precious and Lovely in the Eyes of him who hath loved you with exceeding great Love and with loving kindness hath he drawn you in Measure out of the filthy Polutions and Heathenish Ways and Worships of the World and hath opened your Eyes and letten you see all things openly under the Sun and by the pure eternal Light which hath shined into you by it you see the pure Path and holy Way which leads up to God the Father of Light. Oh dear Hearts prize the eternal Love of God unto you and walk answerable to that Love which is manifest in every one of you for it is great and rich Love Oh the abundance of his Love and Free Grace let not his Benefits slip out of your minds Oh what manner of Love is this that we should be called the Sons and Children of the most high therefore doth not the World know us Dear Hearts walk in the pure eternal Love and Light of God that so you may come to the pure Life of God to follow the Captain of your Salvation who was made perfect through Sufferings that you may endure the Cross dispise the Shame and so come to pertake of the Immortal Crown of Glory which never fades away Oh my dear ones you are written in my Heart and I cannot forget you yea truly I am often with you in the pure eternal Love and Life and my Love runs out to you and my Life is with you and our Rejoycing will be to behold your Faces and to find you walking up orderly in your measure that when we see your Faces in the outward we may see you Beatiful Comely Fresh and Green casting a goodly Smell to all that come nigh you that so you may Preach to the Heathens by your Pure Holy and Godly Conversation letting your Light shine forth in your lives that all who see your Conversation who are Enemies to the Truth may have their Mouthes stopped and be ashamed and confounded and be made to confess the Lord is with you So my dear Hearts all as one who abides in that which is one which unites and knits your Hearts together and gathers up into its self in that we are with you present in that dwell and there you will be preserved and kept safe from your Enemies And the Eternal Everlasting Love of God over-shadow you and keep you in the pure Fear and Power of the Lord over all the World to remain and so we cease to Writ but not to Love you and Pray for you and remain your Friends in the unchangable Love of God. John Camm John Audland John Aulland's John Camm's Letter to Friends at Bristol Dearly beloved in the Lord Jesus Christ you whose minds are turned towards the Lord upon him to wait to receive the hidden Treasure which comes from above Grace Love and Peace be unto you in you and among you that you may grow in Grace in Love in Purity and in the Fear of the Lord this Peace is to you who are waiting upon him from whence peace comes to that which is not of the World but is contrary to the World and gives Victory over the World and bears Testimony against the World for wo unto the World no peace unto the Earth but a Sword and all which is contrary to the Light is to be cut down with the Sword and the Sword is drawn and all that must be cut off which is against the raign of the Lord Jesus therefore all wait in the true discerning and in the true judgment that you may know the redemption of the Soul And prize the Love of God to you in visiting you and letting you see the wayes of the World and the worships of the World and his Love hath been and
separated John Audland DEar and well-beloved Friends in the pure Love Life and Unity of the Spirit do I Salute you and Greet you in the Unity of the Spirit am I with you present and our fellowship doth endure forever walking in the Spirit and keeping the Unity of the Spirit then are we present in the Spirit But who walk after the Flesh and live in the Flesh and to the Flesh such are not present in the Spirit who lives not in the Spirit and all such Fruits will dye and wither and fade away Now my dear Friends in love and life wait in your Measure of the Spirit that you may profit and grow up in the Spirit which is pure and purifies and leads up into Purity and Holiness and Righteousness in which stands the Kingdom of God and nothing that is unrighteous can enter into that Kingdom which stands in Righteousness where the Lamb dwells who is the Light of the Holy City which is the Habitation of the Righteous where the Throne of the Lamb is exalted all Crowns cast down and the Lamb alone Reigns and they who follow him whose Garments are washed who have come thorow Tribulation who stands before the Throne singing the Song of Moses and the Lamb who are redeemed from among men Glory Glory for evermore unto him who Reigns over all who is the faithful witness who was dead and is alive and lives for evermore out of whose Mouth proceeds the two edged Sword which cuts and divides which is as a Fire and as a Hammer by which Sword the wicked is slain and none that defiles can escape it for it turns every way to keep the tree of Life and none have right to eat of the Tree of Life but they that enter in at the strait Gate and stands pure before the Throne of the Lamb from his Throne proceeds the River of living Waters where the Hungry Thirsty are refreshed and satisfied and by it the righteous man is planted his fruit shall never wither nor his leaf shall never fade but shall be as a fruitful Branch abiding in the Vine and growing in the Vine Oh my dear Friends abide and continue in that which hath called you and prize the Love of God never let his Benefits go out of your Minds dwell low and single in the Fear of God that you may be kept open and tender in Love and Unity to grow together and there am I with you in Bowels of love and tenderness God is my witness my heart Burns within me to you and my Life reacheth to the Life in you and I have great breathings in my Spirit to the Lord for you Oh let me be refreshed in your growth my well-beloved Ones in whom my Soul delighteth that we may travel on together and feed together on that which lives for evermore and gives Life for ever more be not weary neither faint in your Journey my dear and precious Ones but wait upon the Lord God and your strength shall be renewed daily and your Life refreshed daily be faithful and abide in the daily Cross of Christ endure it and the Enemies of God will be cut down by it and the residue of the Heathen will be Crucified and Christ alone Reign and all those be cut down that would not have him to Reign such are Enemies to the Cross and their end is Destruction have no fellowship with such I exhort and charge you from the Lord who is arisen in his Power to redeem Sion and to take Vengeance upon all his Enemies I am melted to melt you in pure love and tenderness I am even broken to break you the Searcher and Revealer of all Secrets bears me witness that I lve not and I am charged to charge you to abide in the daily Cross of Christ that the Just may reign that the Living God may be exalted amongst you whose name you bear And therefore what manner of Persons ought you to be Oh I even beseech you that you walk worthy of your calling in Bowels of love My dear and well-beloved Ones you bear the Name of the Living God and his Fame thorow you is spread abroad and the Dread of the Lord God takes hold upon the Heathen and now is the Lord making known his Wonders as ever was in any day his strange Act is he bringing to pass and his Work blessed are your Eyes that see and your Ears that hear and who are not offended at his coming but deny all to follow him that you may be found worthy to believe in him and suffer with him that you may Reign with him for evermore Let it not be a light thing to any amongst you that you bear the Name of the holy One but for his glory by whom you are called and whose Name you bear stand single and abide in the Life and follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth that the Heathen may be confounded and scattered who watch against you that they might say where is their God. And now are they gathering together all their Inchanters if so be they might prevail for now the day of their Torment is begun and the Voice of him that hath roared from his holy Place doth pursue them and their can be no hiding place found Terrour Wo and Misery is coming upon all the Inhabitants of the Earth let all Flesh bow and tremble before the Lord his Fire is kindled and his Sword is drawn and his Bow is bent and his Sword shall be made fat with Slain and drunk with the Blood of his Enemies the Sword is doubled that no Flesh may escape from the South to the North Because of the Tidings I am Smitten to Smite the Lion hath roared terrour terrour to all the World the day of Visitation is come the day of Redemption is come the day of Recompence is come the Jealousie of the Lord will burn like Fire and the Word of the Lord is gone forth and by his own Power shall it be fullfiled And the Vials Wrath Judgment Vengeance and the mighty Storm of Hail shall be poured upon the Heathen and who can stand when God doth this And this is his day and by his own Arm shall be performed the Righteous shall shine forever and ever and shall dwell on high their Bread shall be sure their Waters shall not fail the Just God will do Righteously and the Righteous shall not perish with the wicked the Lord hath said it The righteous ones shall be rewarded and shall Inherit the holy Mountain and lie down in the Mountain where the Lion and the Lamb lie down together and the Wrath of the Lamb is as the roaring of the Lion and all who follow the Lamb the Lion goes before them there is your strength my beloved Ones stand stedfast and be faithful and the Lord is with you and no Weapon formed against you shall prevail The mighty Power of the Lord God go along with you to keep you in his pure Power
mighty Power of the Lord will apear amongst you meeting often together and faint not neither be weary the Lord God will appear amongst you and terrour shall smite your Enemies so in the Name of the Lord do we exhort you and charge you to abide in that which you have received from the Lord waiting upon him in meekness and lowliness and the humble shall know his way So keep low and learn and Grace will be given unto the humble my Life reacheth to you my Soul is poured forth to the Lord for you that you may grow and increase in the unsearchable Riches of Christ and the mighty Power of the Lord God be among you and in you to carry you through that you may Inherit all things I Salute you all in the Bowels of love and am your Servant for Jesus sake and am with you in Joy and in Tribulation John Audland John Audlands Letter from Kendal to Friends at Bristol June 1655. DEarly beloved in the Lord Jesus Christ Grace Mercy and Peace be multiplied in you and among you that in it you may all be established and grow as living Plants and be fruitful in him that hath called you to Grace and Vertue that you may live in it and abound in every good work to the praise of the Lord whose love hath been manifested amongst you and you have heard his Voice and been Witnesses of his Power and his eternal Love hath been abundant towards you Therefore all Friends of your high calling walk worthy and press hard after the Mark so runing that ye may obtain every one of you in particular abiding in the strait way and in the Cross daily which is the delight of the Just and peace and refreshment to the Just in you all that in the Just you may all dwell and then the earthly comes to dye and judgment is executed upon the wicked and the Famine comes on all the Gods of the Earth and the day of separation and sorrow upon all the Lovers and the Mortification of the old Man and as that dies the Spirit is quickned and waiting on the Lord every one your strength comes to be renewed and your Life refreshed So to you all Friends Lambs and Babes of God whose minds are staid upon God their Food you will receive from the living God and grow every one in your Measure walking as you have received and prising the love of God unto you which hath been and is large and bountiful who hath searched you out who was scattered in the cloudy dark day and found no rest to your Souls but wandered from Mountain to Hill and laid dissolate and barren in a waste howling Wilderness and no eye pitied but he alone who is mighty to save hath visited you and your time was the time of love and he hath loved you with an everlasting love and drawn you in much tender mercy and given his Son for a Light that you might all walk in it and have fellowship in it And now my dearly beloved ones stand fast in that which brings eternal Freedom and makes free and be faithful every one in your measure to you all I speak as to one that you may grow in love and walk in love and in it be established for it will endure for ever oh let it be your joy to do the will of God in all singleness and to dwell in his fear and abide in the daily Cross reason not nor consult not for the mystery is hid from that eye but dwell low and learn there that subject to the Yoke every one of you may be and wait upon the Lord meeting in his fear watching one over another and abiding in the Light that your fellowship may stand in that which is the Worlds condemnation my Soul is poured out to the Lord for you and my Bowels runeth freely to you in pure love and singleness that you may all be preserved in the pure fear of the Lord out of the snares of the Enemy that in the eternal Counsel of God you may abide and be stedfast in the hour of Temptation Dear Hearts keep every one to your own measure which from the Lord is given unto you that you may witness the presence of the Lord amongst you and find his Power and hear his Voice that your Hearts may be kept open to receive the living Mercies from the living God that in the day of tryal you may stand and in the time of Famine your Soul's may be kept alive and when the Lord takes account of you you may give it with joy and be found faithful and fruithful in him This charge do I lay upon you from the Lord that you dwell and abide low in the Fear of the Lord in love to God there walking every one in the living as examples that the Lord alone may be exalted no Pride no Strife but in the Cross abide which judgeth that and takes away the occasions of Wars and the eternal everlasting powerful Presence of the Lord keep you all and be amongst you and go along with you for evermore I am your dear Friend and Companinon in joy and Tribulation John Audland My dear Brother John Camm doth dearly Salute you all in that which is eternal and never changeth he is pretily recovered and to you his love is exceeding great The School-Master Disciplin'd Or a Reply to a lying Paper Entitul'd the Gadding Tribe reproved Put forth under the Name of George Willington School-Master in the City of Bristol in which he is proved to be the gadder and lyar which with the Light is for condemnation Also an Answer to a Scandalous Paper put forth by William Prynne entituled The Quaker unmasked and clearly detected wherein his Slanders are made to appear and he clearly detected being taken with a lye in his mouth Whereunto is added a Reply to an additional Paper put forth by William Prynne in his lying inlarged Edition of his scandalous Paper aforementioned in which he is more unmasked and proved to be spawned from the father of Lyes whose refuge is sweeping away WHereas there is a Paper lateput forth intitul'd The gadding Tribe reproved by the Light of the Scriptures by one who writes himself George Willington School-Master in the City of Bristol whose Book is very silly and vain but that Fools love to be medling and in it there is much railing lying and false accusing against those people called by the Scorners Quakers I shall say something as to it for the Truths sake that the lyes may rest upon his own head from whence they came Whereas thou sayest A word from the Word to the Serpent generation called Quakers especially to the conniving Seducer John Audland and the rest of his Brethren in iniquity who have of late set forth a malicious Pamphlet against our godly Magistrates and faithful Ministers intituled The innocent delivered out of the snare and the blind guide fallen into the Pit. Reply The innocent delivered out of the snare
their badness for the Scriptures speaks that out of the North an evil shall break forth Reply To prove that we came out of the North and had never been out of the Nation of our birth and Habitations doth sufficiently confute thee who made that thy ground to have proved by the Information that we were Coppingers acquaintance in Rome for sayst thou those two persons which came to Bristol was most likely his two fellow Franciscan Fryers and here thy likeness is another Lye and the Scripture doth not prove thy shrew'd sign neither doth it cover thee nor hide thee but upon thee will evil break forth who the evil hast committed a grievous Storm and Whirl-Wind will fall upon the wicked and sweep away the refuge of Lyes and Lyers into the Lake read thy Portion and put it not from thee Secondly Thou sayst for affirming that the Quakers use inchanted Potions Bracelets Ribbands Sorcery and Witchcraft to intoxicate their Disciples and thou savst this is evidenced in the Premises and apparent in most places where they ramble and thou shalt prove it no farther but close up all with two Scripture exhortations Reply I demanded of thee before to prove any such thing by us or let thy Mouth be stopt and as touching proving any such thing thy Mouth is stopt and thy Premises proves it not by us but is made up of Lyes and Slanders and false Reports which thou hast gathered where thou hast rambled up and down in thy Imaginations sending out a pack of filthy Lyes spawned out from the old Serpent the Devil and Satan out of whose Mouth proceeds the Frogs and there mayst thou read thy self apparently his Disciple intoxicated and thee with all the rest of the spawn of Romish Frogs Jesuites and Franciscan Fryers is denyed and cast out from amongst the People of God scornfully call'd Quakers and if thou canst prove no better then to close up as thou dost the Lyes will rest upon thy own head but wilt thou turn back a little and take one Exhortation where thou art giving two if there be any spark of honesty in thee or any remembrance of thy latter end or any consideration that Lyars must be cast into the Lake repent of the evil of thy doings and cease lying and slandering the Innocent which thou canst not prove to be Offenders and lay thy Mouth in the dust if so be there may be hope so here in plainness thy Lyes is turned upon thy own Head and the former answer is just and stands a witness against thee and thou art more unmasked and clearly detected and till thou canst begin upon better evidence silence best becomes thee Remember again thou art warned cease thy gain-saying lest thou perish in thy rebellion and go down alive into the Pit. By one who is a Witness against the prophaneness of Priests and People called John Audland Luke 11 52. Wo unto you Lawyers for ye have taken away the Key of Knowledge ye entred not in your selves and them that were entring in ye hindred John Audland's Epistle to all who love the Truth Given forth from Oxfordshire the 12th Month 1656. DEarly beloved Friends unto whom the large Love of God hath been made manifest in visiting you from on high with his marvelous Light which hath clearly shined in the midst of you by which you have seen your way to the eternal Rest and Peace and have tasted of the Power of the Lord and been often refreshed with his Love and Life being shed plentiously amongst you so that you have found in some measure Redemption from the bondage of Corruption and the way is plain before you which leads to perfect Freedom in the pure and precious Truth of the living God which as you stand in it and walk in the undefiled way in the pure Fear and Counsel of God you will be kept in the pure Unity in the Love unfeigned to grow together in the Life of Truth in the Power of God in which is your beauty your comliness your strength your order and your peace every one in particular and one with another all glorifying the Lord in your uprightness and obedience in your holy calling in the measure of the Grace of Life in which every one abiding you receive power from the Life which gives Dominion over the World and the powers of Darkness and the wickedness in the high places you dwelling in the Life and Power of God are kept in subjection to the higher Power which is the Ordinance of God which throws down the man of Sin the deceitful works and raiseth up the dead to Life quickning the slain and opening the Prison Doors which brings Joy and Peace and the Oyl of Gladness and the Garments of Praise and the acceptable Year where the meek come to be beautified with Salvation there the Treasures of Life is seen of Wisdom and of Love which reached to the Poor to raise him up and there the weary finds rest and the hungry Soul comes to be satisfied with the unsearchable Riches of the Lords Love of which there is no End unto them who wait upon him in faithfulness Dear Hearts other Foundation can no man lay then that which is laid already which is Christ Jesus the Light of the World the Way to Life and everlasting Rest and those that believe enter into the pure and peaceable Kingdom which is prepared for the little Flock who follow the Voice of the true Shepherd who leads into the fresh and pleasant Pasture where the Lambs feed in peace and lie down in safety in the sure Habitation grounded on the Foundation of God which stands firm and unmoveable forever against which the Winds nor the Storms nor the Floods can never prevail blessed for ever are all you who are on it builded and established for the day will manifest every ones work and he that is not rooted in the Life and stands not in the Power of God will suffer loss but you abiding in the Power of God which is the Cross of Christ you receive a Kingdom which cannot be shaken and a Crown which doth not corrupt and an Inheritance which fades not away and in the Light of God every one walking you read your part in the Resurrection unto Life which is a blessed Condition and to seed upon the Life which makes you grow in the heavenly Image the new man which is after God in Righteousness and true Holiness which is perfected in the Fear of the Lord All being kept watchful and diligent your Garments are kept clean and you are found covered with the Spirit in the day of the Lord which comes suddenly upon the Sloathful and Careless in which day the Hypocrite can never stand nor the foolish Virgin cannot enter but is shut out of Gods Kingdom wanting the Garment which gives an entrance in the Marriage-Chamber where the faithful rejoyce and praises the God of their Salvation And verily Friends it is the Gold tryed in the Fire
amongst you torments all her Lovers Praises Praises Eternal to the Living God who appeareth for us and gives us Victory over our Enemies Dear ones the mighty Power of the Lord is with us and our Bow abides in strength and terror takes hold upon our Enemies here are multitudes Convinced of the Etornal Truth and the Witness of God is raised and judgment is begun to the terror of many this is the Day of Sions deliverance Glory to our God for ever for he spreads my Table and makes my Cup overflow the Mighty God of Power keep you my care is for you and God is my Witness I cease not daily to make mention of you in my Prayers O! prize his Love for evermore you who were sometime afar off but now are made nigh by the Blood of Christ walk in his Fear Holiness becomes the House of the Lord for ever Farwell Your Dear Brother in the Eternal Spirit of God. John Audland John Audlant's Letter to Friends DEarly beloved in the Lord Jesus Christ Grace Mercy Peace be multiplyed in you and among you that in it you may all be Established and grow as living Plants and be fruithful in him who hath called you to Grace and Vertue that you might live in it and abound in every good Work to the praise of the Lord whose Love hath been manifest amogst you and you have heard his Voice and been Witnesses of his Power and his Eternal Love hath been abundant towards you therefore all Friends of your high Calling walk worthy and press hard after the mark so runing that ye may obtain every one of you in perticular abiding in the straight Way and in the Cross daily which is the delight of the Just and Peace and Refreshment to the Just in you all that in the Just you may all dwell and there the Earthly comes to dye and Judgment is executed upon the wicked and the Famine comes upon all the Gods of the Earth and the day of Separation and Sorrow upon all the Lovers and the Mortification of the old man and as that dyes the Spirit is quickned and waiting upon the Lord every one your Strength comes to be renewed and your Life refreshed So to you all Friends Lambs and Babes of God whose Minds are stayed upon God there Food you will receive from the living God and grow every one in your Measure walking as you have received and prising the Love of God to you which hath been and is large and bountiful who hath searched you out who was scattered in the cloudy dark day and found no Rest to your Souls but wandered from Mountain to Hill and laid desolate and barren in a waste howling Wilderness and no Eye pittied but he alone who is mighty to save hath you visited and your time was the time of Love and he hath loved you with an Everlasting Love and drawn you in much tender Mercy and given his Son for a Light that you might all walk in it and have fellowship in it And now my Dearly beloved Ones stand fast in that which brings Eternal Freedom and makes free and be faithful every one in your Measure to you all I speak as to one that you my grow in Love and walk in Love and in it be Established for it will indure for ever Oh let it be your Joy to do the Will of God in all Singleness and to dwell in his Fear and abide in the daily Cross Reason not nor consult not for the mystery is hid from that Eye but dwell low and learn thee that Subject to the Yoke every one of you may be and wait upon the Lord Meeting in his Fear watching one over another and abiding in the Light that your Fellowship may stand in it which is the Worlds Condemnation my Soul is pouned out to the Lord for you and my Bowels run freely to you in pure Love and Singleness that you all may be proserved in the pure Fear of the Lord out of the Snares of the Enemy that in the Eternal Counsel of God you may abide and be stedfast in the time of Temptation Dear Hearts keep every one to your own Measure which from the Lord is given unto you that you may witness the Presence of the Lord amongst you and find his Power and hear his Voyce that your Hearts may be kept open to receive the living Mercies from the living God that in the Day of Tryal you may stand and in the time of Famine your Souls may be kept alive and when the Lord takes account of you you may give it with Joy and be found faithful and fruitful in him this Charge do I lay upon you from the Lord that you dwell and abide low in the Fear of the Lord in Love together walking every one in the Living as examples that the Lord alone may be exalted no Pride nor Strife but in the Cross abide which Judgeth that and takes away the occasion of Wars And the Eternal everlasting Powerful Presence of the Lord keep you all and be amongst you and go along with you for evermore I am your Dear Friend and Companion in Joy and in Tribulation John Andland My Dear Brother John Camm doth Salute you all in that which is Eternal and never changeth he is pretily recovered and to you his love is exceeding great John Audland's Letter to a Priest concerning Tythes INstance if thou canst of one out of the Scriptures that ever came in at the door that did ever sue Men at the Law for Tythes Wages or Easter-Recknings if thou canst not prove it by the Scriptures thou art Antichrist that doth not abide in the Doctrine of Christ and no Minister of Christ but one of Baal's Priests if thou be a Minister of Christ and come to my House what I have I will set before thee and thou shalt freely Eat but to give my Corn and Hay Calves and Foles Wooll and Lambs Geese Hens Piggs Eggs and other things to be carried to thy House Christ gave no such Command that People should bring such things to his Disciples but said Freely you have received freely give Eat and Drink such as they set before you And so if you be sent out by Christ to Preach the Gospel which Gospel thou canst not receive of Man but by the Revelation of Jesus Christ and if thou come to my House and freely minister unto me Spiritual things I will freely minister unto thee Carnal things But the Apostles who were sent into the World to Preach the Gospel which Gospel they received not at Oxford and Cambridge nor by Studying Authors but spoke forth that which they were partakers of which was contrary to the Will of Man they did not enquire out a great Benefice or a Personage and there set themselves but went up and down Preaching the Gospel freely and did not make it Chargable to any but said We have coveted no Mans Silver nor Gold God is our Witness and you your selves
which they ought to have done so are breakers of their Covenants and Vowes made in their Baptism which promised that they would forsake the Devil and all his Works the Pomps and Vanities of this wicked World and all the sinful Lusts of the Flesh c. And that they would keep Gods holy Will and Commandments c. But now they offend grievously Gods holy Laws and leaves that undone which they should do c. And their Teachers tell them they connot forsake the Devil and all his works but their best Actions and their Prayers are Sin while they live and all Sin is of the evil One Therefore we dare not joyn with them to commit Sin But if it be said these are but humble Confession to God laying our selves low and confessing our Sins which we ought to do when we pray to him Answer either your Confessions are true or a lye If true then you are breakers of your Vows and in the Unconverted state yet therefore not the true Church Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not Inherit the Kingdom of God 1 Cor. 6. 4 10 11. Be not deceived neither Idolators nor Thieves nor Covetous nor Drunkards nor Revilars nor Extortioners can Inherit it in that state And said the Apostle to the Saints Such were some of you but you are Washed but you are Sanctified but you are Justified in the Name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God And if your Confession be a lye then you are also manifest to be a Company of Dissembling Hypocrites and to be of him who was a Lyar from the Beginning and not Members of the Church of Christ Thirdly because the People there met together have no health in them therefore we are not perswaded in our Minds that we ought to joyn with them no health in them Christ is the saving Health of all Nations who believe in him therefore Christ is not in them so Reprobates concerning the Faith and not the Church of Christ nor Congregation of the faithful People but are disorderly out of the order of the Gospel and we are commanded to withdraw from all such as walk disorderly So we meet together in the Fear of God according to the Practice of the Saints and come not to these places which were the old Mass-Houses to Worship amongst those People which have no health in them and these are three Principal things upon which many more things will follow wherefore we do not go to these Places aforenamed J. A. The Coppy of a Letter sent unto two or three Persons in a Family Dear Hearts IN the Light of the Lord wait upon the Lord in his Fear to have your Minds stayed in his Will that you may walk in Obedience Uprightness in the Presence of the Lord to see him amongst you and in his Counsel abide every one faithful in the Calling and Measure which you have received and are called unto that orderly and in order you may wait and walk every one in particular and one towards another in Soberness and Wisdom that in Love you may be preserved and Truth adorned which you profess that God alone may be exalted I warn you and charge you that in Faithfuluess every one of you walk and in Diligence and Love that there be no Disorder Sloathfulness nor Carelessness but every one mind the Presence of him whose Eye is over you before whom all is naked and bare that you may walk in the Light and the pure Fear of God which will keep you Watchful and Sober in all diligence as unto the Lord knowing you must give an account to him And none be high minded but fear and be Low and Humble and take up the Yoke of Christ and learn there And take heed of your own wills which would lead you into the by-Parths But stand single in the Will of God waiting upon him continually that you may receive the living Mercies from him that your Souls may be nourished with the Food that is Immortal and this I lay upon you all that you be faithful and Diligent that all may be kept in Order and Love that the Family may be guided in Wisdom So my Dear Hearts in Love do I Salute you all and I remain your Dear Friend in that which endureth forever John Audland These following Epistles were found in Manuscript after the foregoing Books and Epistles were Printed To which is added George Fox's Testimony concerning John Camm and John Audland Dear Friends BRethren and Sisters Babes and Lambs Plants of my heavenly Fathers Planting my dear Love in that infinite unchangable Love of God doth my Soul Salute you all yea truly my Bowels of tender Love and Compassion unto the Seed of God in you all that you may be kept pure and blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and travel in pain until Christ be formed in you until the Babe be born in you which is Heir of the immortal Inheritance which never fades away Dear Hearts in the pure Light of Christ all dwell and abide which leads up into the pure Life where there is no Death where we shall all meet together and feed together at one Table and all Eat of one Bread of Life and Drink of one Fountain of living Water which nourisheth all up to the Everlasting Life where we shall meet together and sit together in heavenly Places in Christ Jesus where all Sorrow and Sighing shall fly away and there no Thief can come to rob us of our Crown Therefore in the Bowels of tender Love as a Brother I beseech you all to walk worthy of your Calling for holy is he that hath called you and holy is your Calling unto an holy Life and godly Conversation are you called and to a Separation from the World and to a daily dying to it and to a forgetting of all things which are behind and to walk up to those things which are made manifest in you by the Light which comes from Christ which being obedient unto it it leadeth up to Christ your Head and Example in all things and he was obedient unto the Death of the Cross and being faithful to the Light which comes from him it will lead you to the Death upon the Cross and Crucifie you unto the World and wordly things and raise you up into the pure Life to follow the Lamb whether soever he goeth and if you suffer with him you shall reign with him for he was perfect through Sufferings and through Sufferings and many Tribulations must you enter And therefore all come to the Cross and love it and rejoyce in it that you are counted worthy for his Name sake and take heed that none suffer as Evil-doers for there is no Joy for that nor no Crown nor Reward for these suffers not on the Cross and these Sufferings do not Crucifie but the Condemnation upon all such is Just by the Light which never changeth which comprehends all such hasty Spirits which run
to the Wisdom of the World so dwell in Wisdom that you may know what speaks and to what you speak that you cast no Pearls before Swine but keep in the Unity and dwell in Patience waiting for the promises to be fulfilled in you When Trouble comes be content wait low in patience when Joy comes be low in the pure Fear and keep low and dwell in the pure Wisdom of God and the Lord God of Life Light and Power be with you and go along with you that you may grow up in him and have Dominion over all the World that you may all dwell within and mind the just to guide your minds continually We are with you written in your Hearts you may read us daily we even travel with you and pant after you that you may all wait to know Christ formed in you that you may rejoyce together for ever over the head of our Enemies Dear hearts in the eternal Love and Life of our God do we reach to you dwelling in the pure Life you will see and feel us present with you and we have Unity with you as many of you as are faithful in your Measure so every one in your Measure wait upon the Lord that you may know Redemption from the World and so be witnesses of the Son of God by the same witness as raised up him by which he bears witness against the World by the same Spirit you being raised will bear witness against the World so every one dwelling in that which judgeth the Earthly and works out the Earthly that you may know the Earth waste and the Earth grow feeble and the Gods of the Earth famished and the ground of Thoughts and Imaginations removed and the Covering taken off and the Vale rent and the Serpents head bruised and the Seed of the Woman brought forth which all the promises are unto yea and Amen in Christ which Seed is but one which Seed is Christ which Seed will not bow and worship the Devil for all the glory of the World that overcome and gets the Victory so all be watchful when Temptations come keep low and still in patience waiting upon the Lord that he may be feared and honoured who will provide a way to escape So dear and tender ones in the pure Light of God wait and there you will grow in Discerning and in Wisdom and in the pure Fear and there Love will be increased in you and among you and the Unity of the Spirit will be known so all walking in the Siprit you will not fulfil the lusts of the Flesh Dear hearts we write to you to stir up your pure minds by way of Remembrance little Children keep your selves from Idols the mighty God of Life keep and preserve you in the pure Life of God Farewel Your Friends in the Everlasting Unchangable bond of Love and Peace Brethren and Companions to all who are in Tribulation in the Kingdom of Patience of Jesus Christ John Audland John Camm Dear and Loving Friends IN that Unchangeable Eternal Everlasting Love of our Father we salute you even with the Love wherewith we are loved of our Father that Love flows out unto that of God in every one of you without respect of Persons for you are all near and dear unto us as you abide in that which doth convince you but turning from that by which your Hearts and Minds are knit together and brought into the Unity then your Unity is broken and the bond of Peace and Love is broken and that doth make a Rent and Breach amongst you for turning from the pure Eternal Light of God which leads up to the Door into the Sheepfold and so would lead you into the Kingdom of God where there is Rest Joy and Peace for evermore but your Minds turning from this you turn into the Carnal and into the Visible and so Self gets up and from that Nature proceeds Self-separation and here the haughty Nature gets up and Self-exaltation and then the just suffer and by that nature the pure is crucified and slain and then Carelesness and Sloathfulness and Self-love abounds which is to be judged and condemned by the Light and by the Life And from the Life of God do I declare against all that nature in every one that by the Light of God which you have all received a measure of you may come to see that nature in every one of your selves which disunites separates you from your head that by the Light that Nature may be discerned and so judged and condemned by the Light but every one come to know Judgment set up in your selves and Self in the particular judged that Judgment may be set up in the Earth that the Inhabitants thereof may learn Righteousness and so Judgment being puffed upon the Rebellious and the Uncircumcised in your particulars and you walking and dwelling in the Life according to your measure then may you boldly Reprove others who walk not according to their measures for the Beam being cast out of your own you will see perfectly to pull the Mote out of your Brother's Eye but it must be first out of your own or else you are Hypocrites And so I charge you all in the presence of the Lord every one to keep your own Habitations and to be faithful to your measure which you received of God you will come to grow and increase in the increase of God and abiding in the Vine you will become fruitful and you will become beautiful and comely sweet precious and lovely in the Eyes of him who hath loved you with exceeding great Love and with Loving-kindness hath he drawn you in measure out of the Filthy Polutions and Heathenish Ways and Worships of the World and hath opened your Eyes and let you see all things openly under the Sun and by the pure eternal Light which hath shined into you by it you will see the pure Path and holy Way which leads up to God the Father of Lights Oh dear Hearts prize the Eternal Love of God unto you and walk answerable to that love which is manifested in every one of you for it is great and rich Love oh the abundance of his Love and free Grace let not his Benefits slip out of your Minds Oh what manner of Love is this that we should be called the Sons and Children of the Most High therefore doth not the World know us Dear Hearts walk in the pure eternal Love and Light of God that so you may come to the pure Life of God to follow the Captain of your Salvation who was made perfect through Sufferings that you may endure the Cross despise the Shame and so come to partake of the Immortal Crown of Glory which never fades away Oh my dear Ones you are written in my Heart we cannot forget you yea truly we are often with you in the pure eternal Love Life our Love runs out unto you and our Life is with you and our rejoycing
will be to behold your Faces and to find you walking up orderly in your measure that when we see your Faces in the outward we may see you beautiful comely fresh and green casting a goodly Smell to all that come nigh you that so you may preach to the Heathen by your pure holy godly Conversation letting your Light so shine forth in your Lives that all who see your Conversation who are Enemies to the Truth may have their Mouthes stopt be ashamed and confounded and be made to confess that the Lord is with you So my dear Hearts all as one who abide in that which is one which unites knits your Hearts together and gathers up into it self in that we are with you present in that dwell and there you will be preserved kept safe from your Enemies and the eternal everlasting Love of God overshadow you and keep you in the pure power of the Lord over all the World to reign And so we cease to write but not to love you and to pray for you but remain your Friends in the unchangeable Love of God John Camm John Audland Dear and loving Friends IN the Eternal Fountain of Love we Salute you all even with the same Love wherewith our Father hath loved us the same flows out to you all to that which is of God in you to that we spake and to that we are made manifest even to that of God in all your Conscinces read in that and it will witness our love unto you all Dear Hearts dear and pretious you are unto us as you abide in the pure Light of Jesus Christ which he hath enlightned you withal in that we have Union with you and in that you will see our dear love to you all even such love as the World knows not for it far exceeds the Love of Women Oh we cannot forget you for you are our Epistles written in our Hearts for we see you daily and our Desires to the Lord are for you that you may stand in his Counsel and in his Will and in the daily Cross which will crucifie you to the world and the world to you and will make a separation in you and separate you from the world and draw yon out of it For your Hearts being in the world you are Enemies to God and Strangers to the Covenant of Grace for the Promise is not to that which flees the Cross but to that which stands in the daily Cross for all the Promises of God are Yea and Amen to the Seed but there is no Promise to that which turns away from the pure into the carnal from the Light by which you may come to witness your Redemption from the world into the Earth where the Curss is and where the Woe is for the Woe is to them that do inhabit the Earth and so all whose hearts are in the Earth and in the Fall and turned away from the pure Light are under the woes and under the curse and in the invention and in the witch craft and sorcery and here are all they who have received the Light which is pure and have turned from it into the carnal here is the Dog and the Swine which was washed which is turned to the Vomit and to wallowing in the mire and they who turn from the pure may which leads to Life turned into Cain's way and Balaam's way and Judas's way but we hope better things of you and such as accompany Salvation for we are perswaded that you will not put your hands to the Plow and look back for then you are not fit for the Kingdom remember Lot's Wife and hold fast that which you have received and walk in that which is made manifest and dwell in that which judges and condemns for sin for that leads out of Sin into the pure Paths of Righteousness and so the man of Sin is destroyed and the powers of Darkness removed the Captive redeemed and the Prisoner set free and the Cords of iniquity cut and the Bonds broken and that which is imprisoned and lead captive is brought into Captivity and judged and condemned by the Light so dwelling in the Light the righteous come to flourish and the pure come to grow and the Dead come to live for the Dead shall hear the Voice of the Son of God and he that hears shall Live and so Life comes to death and so the one lives in the death of the other for there is no reconciling of them for the one lives in the death of the other there is no communion between Light and Darkness betwixt Christ and Belial and therefore read within and see who is Head and who rules and hath Dominion and let the Light of God search and try you that so no Thief nor Enemy to your Souls may lodge within you but by the Light you may be judged and condemned Dear Hearts we are with you in the pure Life and our Bowels are turned within us for you Yesterday we were with you and broken and melted in remembrance of you it was the first Day of the week when we were at the Meeting in Chester our loves run out to you and the remembrance of you melted us and we think we saw it melting and breaking you Oh! the powerful God of Life throw down all his Enemies in you that he himself may rule and reign in you that Righteousness may run down as a stream and Eqnity as a mighty River that that we might see the fruit of our Labours and the disires of our Souls answered which is the Freedom of the Righteous Seed in every one of you that so the Eternal God of Power my be honoured and he alone glorified and your Souls edified and nourished which is the defire of us who truly love you in the Eternal Love of God. Dear Friends we hope we need not exhort you to meet together we think you do meet often in the Fear of the Lord and there to wait upon him in the Light and there you will find the Power of the Lord manifested to you and in you to the throwing down of strong holds of Sin and Iniquity and to Kill and Crucifie the old nature and to raise up the pure Eternal Life in you for by the Power of the Lord the dead are raised to Life and so waiting every one in your Measure in Faithfulness and Patience and in the Godly Fear you will come to seeth e fresh Springs opened and the pure Eternal Life made manifest in you and so you will see the Rocks rent and the Earth removed out of its place and the Mountains melted and the tall Cedars bowed down and all that is exalted laid low and the Lord alone exalted in you in that Day Dear Hearts let us hear from you with what speed you can and the Eternal and everlasting rich Love of our Father overshadow you and keep you in the hour of Temptation that you may stand stedfast and unmoveable in the