guide them forth of it in the Light to have union and fellowship with the Father of Light in Christ to whom you are come to be your Wisdom and he will establish your Souls in righteousness and peace that give up your selves to be guided by him Dear Friends Let the love of God that hath pluckt you as Brands out of the Fire and hath counted you worthy to be as the first Fruits of the Lamb constrain you to be faithful upon your watch to wait in the Light of Christ to dwell in his power that in it you may grow up in his Life and pure discerning to know the Deceit in all appearances and the Beast in his lying Wonders who keeps all in a Form of Truth that lends an Ear to him but out of the Life but in the Light of Christ you may know him he leads into a Form of words when the Life speaks not so the Soul doth not enjoy what the Mouth speaks and the Beast which is the Will is at Liberty from under the Yoke and out of the Cross painted with the Saints words and with you sits deckt a painted Beast above the Cross of Christ working lying Wonders in â—â—rming Sights and Groans when the pure Seed of God is not regarded which is in Prison the sighing and groaning of that the Lord hears and he will deliver that which Sighs and Groans to him for deliverance with groans that cannot be uttered and the Deceit also will work violently in you whose minds are turned from the pure Light to form and immitate the true Power that did pass through you from the Life but being faithful in your watch in the Light of Christ you may know him in his deceitful working in the mind he leads out of the Fear of God into a formality to appear before men so into Pride and Emulation which is to be thrown down and condemned with the Light of Christ. This is the word of the living God to you his dear and chosen Children in the Light all meet often together and take heed of lending an Ear to the Adversary the Devil who goes about like a roaring Lyon to tear you from the Light and to Sow the Seed of Enmity to watch over one another with an evil Eye to spie out one anothers weakness and to declare it to others behind their backs and to lay open their infirmities and discover their shame and uncover their nakedness thou who practises this art turned from the pure Light into Hams cursed nature which the wrath of God is to and is to be condemned with the Light of Christ in which thou must wait and own the condemnation upon that nature and to blind and pluck out that evil Eye and to open the pure single Eye to judge the deceit and guide thee in Obedience to the Light least thou perish in thy disobedience Dear Friends in the pure Light Power and Life dwell and take heed of speaking words in the sight and visions of the Truth when you are not in the Life and Power all mind the Union in the Power which will be manifest in all that wait in the pure fear in the silence of your Spirits in the Light for the living Power of Christ to declare it self in you and even through you to the praise of his Name who is worthy for this is the Word of the most high God to you his Sons and Daughters whom he hath chosen in his eternal love to watch over one another in love with a single Eye as over your own Souls and if you see any of the Children of Light through the Subtilty of the Devil prevailed against and turned from the Light take heed of laying open their infirmities to discover there Shame in uncovering there Nakedness to others but thou that discovers their conditions in tender Bowels of love minister to the pure in the Conscience to raise up the Witness to restore them again with the Spirit of Meekness then wilt thou save their Souls from Death and hide a multitude of Sins and here is Christ and his Disciples serving one another in love washing one anothers Feet in ministring to the pure to wash away the filthy nature and bearing one anothers burthens so fulfilling the Law of Christ who did bear the Burthen for us when we were Enemies he died for us and in fulness of time hath manifested his mighty power in you in raising up his Seed that you might be of the first Fruits in him to grow Trees of Righteousness in his Vineyard to bring forth Fruits to the praise and glory of his great and glorious Name who alone is worthy God Blessed forever God Almighty be with you his dear and chosen Children and his powerful and dreadful Spirit accompany you in all your ways and his eternal Power establish you in Vnity of the Spirit and Bond of Peace that in it yâ—u may stand over all the World and the troubles thereof within you and without you in his Power stand fast and unmoveable in the will of God where I am present with you saluting you in the Bowels of tender love in the eternal Vnity W. D. Dear Pretious and Beloved Friends CAlled in the Light of the Lord to stand living witnesses for God in the midst of a crooked wicked perverss and untoward Generation Dear Friends all in the Light and pure meek Spirit of the Lord enter into the Chamber of Rest which God hath prepared for you in his unlimitted Power to dwell there to stay your Minds and keep your Confidence and hold fast your Faith that so the door may be shut that not any thing enter which would cause feebleness of mind faintness of Spirit or in the least measure would cause you to stagger at the promises of the Lord who hath promised he will never leave us nor forsake us that what tryal soever any of us be called unto who love the Lord and have given up our names unto him he will not suffer one hair of our Heads to perish but what shall be for the Glory of his Name and the Comfort of our Souls forever as many of us are witnesses of the faithfulness of our God in making our passage pleasant through all Tryals and Suffering that hath been unto this day which is now manifesting it self as was proclaimed amongst you in times past Therefore I beseech you all dear Friends put not the day of the Lord afar off for a general Tryal will go on all that make mention of the Name of the Lord that it may be known who are truly born of God and who are not that so his pretious Jewels may be made up which doth and shall more and more shine forth in the brightness of his Glory being established in his Light Life and Love which the Gates of Hell cannot prevail against because the Lord is the strength of all that is born again and for their sakes he is making a short work in the Earth and to
Field and confessed to the Truth and received it and after some time he did testifie to it and in 1653. he came into the North into Westmerland Cumberland and Lancashire and declared the Truth both in Steeple-Houses and Meetings and underwent great Sufferings Beating c. with the rest of Friends for the Truth and then after was Imprisoned at York and also at Northampton in 1654. And when I was brought up a Prisoner to Oliver Cromwell I got leave of him that brought me up to see him in that Prison and after that he Travelled up and down a great Part of the Nation declaring the Truth and went under great Sufferings with the rest of Friends who went in great hazard of their Lives declaring the Truth of Christ. And in his latter Days he was long Imprisoned in Warwick but after he was set at Liberty he came to Visit Friends at London where he bore a faithful Testimony for Love and Unity and against the Spirit of Division and after went back and finished his Course and laid down his Head at Warwick in Peace with the Lord in 1688. George Fox London the 16 th of the 10 th Month 1688. Here Followeth some Expressions of his amongst a few Friends near a week before his Departure this Life BEing met together rising from his Bed in great weakness of Body he said to them my God hath yet put in my Heart to bear a Testimony in his Name and blessed Truth and I can never forget the day of his great Power and blessed Appearance when he first sent me to Preach his Everlasting Gospel and proclaim the Day of the Lord to all the People and also he confirmed the same by Signs and Wonders and particularly by a Lame Woman who went on Crutches where I with my Dear Brethren George Fox nnd Richard Farnswarth were cast and as I cryed mightily unto the Lord in Secret that he would signally Manifest himself at that time amongst us and give witness of his Power and presence with us R. F. in the Name of the Lord took her by the Hand and G. F. after spoke to her in the Power of God and bid her stand up and she did and Immediately walked streight having no need of Crutches any more therefore Friends be faithful and trust in the Lord your God for this I can say I never since played the Coward but joyfully entered Prisons as Palaces telling mine Enemies to hold me there as long as they could and in the Prison House I sung praises to my God and esteemed the Bolts and Locks put upon me as Jewels and in the Name of the Eternal God I alway got the Victory for they could keep me no longer than the Determined time of my God and Friends this I must once again testifie to you in the Name of the Lord God that what I saw above thirty Years ago still rests as a Testimony to leave behind me That a Dreadful terrible Day is at hand and will certainly come to pass but the Time when I cannot say but all put on strength in the Name of the Lord and Wait to feel his Eternal Power to preserve you through the Tribulations of these days that approach very near in the sence of which I have often been distressed and bowed down in Spirit with Cryes and Tears to my God for the preservation of his Heritage and this I have further to signifie that my departure draws nigh blessed be my God I am prepared I have nothing to do but Dye and put off this corrupt mortal Tabernacle this Flesh that hath so many Infirmities but the Life that dwells in it transcends above all out of the reach of Death Hell and the Grave and Immortallity and eternal Life is my Crown forever and ever therefore you that are left behind fear not nor be discouraged but go on in the Name and Power of the Lord and bear a faithful and living Testimony for him in your day and the Lord will prosper his Work in your Hand and cause his Truth to flourish and spread abroad for it shall have the Victory and no Weapon formed against it shall prosper the Lord hath determined it shall possess the Gates of its Enemies and the Glory and the Light thereof shall shine more and more until the perfect Day so concluded in Prayers to the Lord with servent Breathings and Supplications for all his People every where but more especially for his dearly beloved Friends assembled together at the Yearly Meeting at London where he had intended to have been if the Lord had given him Health his dear Love was to all Friends that should enquire of him He departed this Life the 17 th of the 4 th Month at Warwick and was Buryed the 18 th 1688. This is the Word of the Living God to his Church he hath called and chosen out of the World to place his Name into order and guide in his pure Wisdom to his praise and glory who alone is worthy God over all blessed for ever THat in every particular Meeting of Friends Servants and Children of the most high God that there be chosen from among you one or two who are most grown in the Power and Life in the pure discerning in the Truth to take the care and charge over the Flock of God in that place and this is the Word of the living God to you who are chosen To watch over the Flock of God to whom I commit the charge and care to take the oversight thereof not by constraint but willingly not for filthy Lucre but of a ready minde I charge and command you in the presence of the living God not to rule as Lords over Gods Heritage but rule in the Power of the Spirit in all purity to be Examples to the Flock and to see that order be kept in the Church in constant meeting together according to the Rule that hath been given forth once a week or more if it may be beside the First-day Meeting and to have a general Meeting with other Friends near to you once in two or three weeks as the Lord orders and makes way Be not slack and backward but faithful to the Lord in improving every opportunity for Friends to meet and to lay the charge and care of some Friends that is the most grown in Truth in every Town where Friends are scattered to see they meet together to wait on the Lord three or four hours as the Lord orders one night or two in a week and to watch over one another with a pure single Eye to see those that come amongst them walk orderly according to what they profess and if any walk disorderly for them to whom the care and charge is committed or any other which discerns them and is moved to speak to them to deal plainly with them in reproving them and ministring to the pure in the Conscience for the restoring of them and if they will not reform acquaint two or three
the glory of his Name and the comfort of one another which will cause you to prize the opportunities God gives to you not knowing how soon you may be deprived of them c. And be tender one over another and watch over one another with a pure single eye and every one see the Beam cast out of your own Eye before you go to spy a Moâ—e in others And if any Brother or Sister offend you that know speak to them privately in all tenderness to restore them and this know Whoever turns a Sinner from the error of his ways saves a Soul from Death and hides a multitude of Sins But if they will not hear take two or three more and speak to them again in the spirit of meekness waiting and seeking the Lord for their recovery but if they will not hear but persist in wickedness then acquaint the Church whom the Lord in his Wisdom will order to deal with them for his own glory And in all things you do I dearly beseech you do unto others as you would be done unto your selves that so you may all in your measures stand as Saviours upon Mount-Sion to the glory of the Lord in the power of his own Spirit which will cause the Whisperer Bcakbiter False-accuser and Tale-bearer to be clensed away and cast out of the House of the Lord that so in the good order of the Holy Spirit of our God we may all live that he alone in his Dominion may reign in us and amongst us whose Government is upon his Shoulders and all the Crowns of the Gory of Man cast down at his Feet that he may be exalted in ordering every member of the Body in their place and service to his everlasting Praise and Glory Even so dear Father carry on thy work in all the Churches of the Saints scattered over the face of the Earth that in the Eternal unity they may be established in the Lord being one and his Name one and all the contrary swept away with the Breath of thy Mouth and brightness of thy coming So come Lord Jesus take to thee thy great Power and reign in thy Authority in and amongst thy dear Children to the astonishment of the Nations and all people that are not born again and to the Exaltation of thy own Name and Kingdom over all who is worthy to reign blessed for ever and of whose Dominion there is no end And all you faithful Labourers in the Gospel of Christ who in true innocency travel in his Strength and seeks not any thing for your selves in what you do but to Glorifie the Lord in establishing his People in the living Unity in his own Spirit Oh blessed are you amongst the People my Soul Praises the Lord for you and blesseth his Name that ever he raised up such a Spirit in you that in all the greatest riches of the Spirit God gives to you yet you remain truly poor in your selves and in deep humilty become Servants to his People for the Lords sake and being poor you make many rich in that which will abide fresh and green in the Winter Storms and will not fade away in the Terrible Blasts which will come for the trial of his People and cause all Hearts to fail but what is born of his own nature Oh dearly beloved Brethren feel my Bowels of enlarged love which floweth to you in the Love and Life received and enioyed thorow death where there is no variableness nor shaddow of change I remain your Brother in the Word of his Patience to endure the Suffering according to his determination with all that love the Lord better then their lives W. D. Warwick the 14 th of the 10 th Month My dear Friends IN these trying days be not afraid of what Man can do whose Breath is in his Nostrils and lock up to the al-sufficiency of the Almighty God to stay your minds in him who hath counted you worthy to Suffer for him In all humility walk faithfully before him unto the end he is your reward and will give unto you a Crown of Life forever even so be it with you in the Name of the Lord is the breathing of my Soul for you whom my Soul loves and keep your Meetings in the Authority and Life of the meek and patient Spirit which wares out and overcomes all things that is not of its nature Read this in the fear of the Lord amongst Friends W. D. Warwâ—ck the 5 th of the 3 d Month 1671. For my dear Brethren George Whitehead A. Parker and Brethren concerned in the General Meeting My dear Brethren IN the Love of the Lord my Soul in the endeared Life of God is with you if the Lord had set my face to have been with you I should have been present in Body but I am ordered otherways having much upon me while the Door is open therefore my breathing to the Lord is that he may cover you in that Assembly with his Glory and heavenly Wisdom as I believe he will to the comfort of his People that so all Hearts may be gladed in feeling his pure Power and heavenly Refreshing in you My dear Brethren in the Light and Life of God whom my Soul loves and remains Your dear Brother in the Vnity of the Spirit of our dear Father who hath called us by his Name W. D. Bristol the 7 th day of the 3 d Month 1673. My dear Brethren Friends are generally in a sweet state with God in this City and where I have passed both to my comfort and yours in the Lord blessed be his Name forever Dear Brother IN the Covenant of Life in Christ our head my Soul salutes thee and simpathizeth with thee in thy exercise in thy Bonds with breathings to the Lord to sweeten all our ways what he calleth us unto with his living Presence to the perfecting of his glory forever Amen Dear George Fox I have been through many Counties in the North Countrey and the comfortable Persence of the Lord did manifest it self in all the Assemblies of his People to all our comfort in him our Head and Life blessed forever All was very peaceable and great Resort to Friends Meetings of all sorts of People and not any opposition but all Meetings parted in peace And it would be too tedious to mention the names of them that minded their Love to thee through all the Counties where I Travelled but generally all the Ancient Friends in Cumberland Northumberland Byshopprick and York-shire Darby-shire Notingham-shire Leicester-shire and in this Town desired to have their dear Love remembred to thee and the deep sence of thy Labour and Travel is fresh upon their Spirits which causeth many Prayers to be poured forth before the Lord if it be his good Will and Pleasure to give thee strength of Body and Liberty to Travel amongst them to their great comfort as in the days of old and years past but in the Will of our God our Souls rests with
181. Several short Epistles pag. 185. Let this go abroad amongst all the afflicted pag. 192. O King hear the Word of the Lord pag. 186. Dear Children of the most High pag. 1â—8 Dear Brethren and Sisters born of the Birth pag. â—99 Dear beloved Friends of the Noble Seed pag. 200. Several Short Epistles pag. 202. To all the Faithful in Christ pag. 214 The Word of the Lord to New Jerusalem pag. 225. Breathings of Life to Gods Spiritual Israel pag. 233. The Word of the Lord to Sion pag. 239. To all the Faithful in Holâ—s Prisons and Goals pag. 247. To the beloved Seed of God in London c. pag. 251. To Dear Friends in London and on board the Ship for Transportation pag. 254. For the Dear Daughters of Sion pag. 259. For my Honourable Brethren that are to be Transported pag. 260. The Word of the Lord to all Children born again pag. 262. The Discovery of mans return to his first estate pag. 272. To all revolted Souls pag. 283. The Discovery of Mystery Babylon pag. 288. To all inslaved hard hearted and unbelieving Jews pag. 301. A Word from the Lord to all that are waiting in Sion pag. 303. To Richard Thomas at Hartford pag. 308. A Word of the Lord to all the Inhabitants in England pag. 310. A General Epistle pag. 319. An Epistle to the General Meeting 1673. pag. 328. An Epistle to G. Fox at Worcester pag. 329. A general Epistle pag. 331. Titus Oates's Cirtificate about William Dewbury c. pag. 343. A Testimony concerning Mary Sam W. D's Grand-Child pag. 344. An Epistle to Friends pag. 353. An Epistle to Friends pag. 356. An Epistle to suffering Friends at Bristol Gloucester c. pag. 363. An Epistle to Edward Nightingale pag. 365. An Epistle General to Friends pag. 369. To all proud Priests pag. 377. An Epistle to Friends pag. 380. Several short Epstles pag. 385. An Epistle to Friends pag. 393. A Letter to the Mayor of Terrington pag. 397. An Epistle to all Companions of Tribulations pag. 400. A Letter to the Iustices of Northampton pag. 401. A Letter to the Yearly Meeting 1688. pag. 405. THE END 1653 1654 1655 North-riding of Yorkshire Psal. 51.5 Isa. 43.7 Mat. 12.36 2 Cor. 5.10 Isa. 43.7 Isa. 10.15 Isa. 43.7 Iâ—a 43.7 Luke 17.20 Gen. 3.24 Rev. 20.11 12. Luke 17.20 Acts 10.30 Dan. 10.21 Luke 17.20 Gen. 3.24 Psal. 22.21 Psal. 3.16 Heb. 22.21 Isa. 43.7 Luke 17.20 Psal. 66 â—6 Rom. 7.24 Luke 17.20 Gen. 3.24 Psal. 51.3 1 Cor. 11.28 29. John 15 27. Luk. 22.2 Ephes. 4.30 1 Cor. 10.16 17. Phil. 3.15 Ephes. 5.11 1 John 1.6 Eph. 5.13 James 5.13 Ephes. 5.6 Jer. 23.32 Luke 17.20 Deut. 30.14 Isa. 30.1 Job 33. from 19 to 22. Jer. 5.25 Isa. 59.2 Luke 17.20 Ezek. 34.6 Acts 2.37 2 Cor. 13 5. Luke 17.20 Judg. 5.23 Mat. 26.52 53. Luke 17.21 2 Cor. 10.4 5. Mat. 26.53 Luke 17.20 Rev. 19.15 Mat. 26.52 Isa. 26.8 Gen. 4.14 Rom. 9.13 Exod. 29. Ephes. 25.8.9 Jonah 2.2 Isa. 9.6 7. Lam. 3.26 John 5 35â— Mat. 5.6 Eph. 2.13 Mat. 24.27 John 5.25 Eph. 2.13 1 Pet. 1.3 Isa. 55.3 Rom 5.14 Mat. 11 13 and .12 Rev. 19.15 Mat. 2.13 Rev. 11.7.8 9. Rev. 11.10 Mat. 24.15 Dan. 11.31 Rom 7.19 20 22 23 24. 2 Cor. 12.9 Rom. 7.24 Rev. 11.11 Verse 19 Rev. 17.5 Rev. 18.3.5 6 7 8. 2 Theâ— 1.7 8. Isa. 4.4 Rom. 8.2 Rev. 7.14 Rev. 22.14 Rev. 21.27 Mat. 5.6 Rev. 22.2 5. John 3.3 Rev. 20.6 John 6.45 Isa. 54.13 Mat. 25.15 John 1.19 Eph. 5.13 Titus 2.11 John 17.3 John 14.6 John 5.39 Job 32.8 Rev. 5.3 4 5. Ephes. 1.13 Isa. 8.16 Jer. 31.33 34. Ezek. 36.24 25 26 27 28. Neb. 8.10 11 12. Isa. 54.13 Rev. 29.1 Rev. 5.13 Gal. 1 15 16. Rev. 7.14 John 5.19 Mat. 6.22 Rev. 14.6 Isa. 53.12 Act 24.14 Hos 14.1 Isa. 30.18 John 1.9 Isa. 55.3 Cap. 35.10 John 4.24 Luke 24.23.27 1 Cor. 1.3 Zach. 14.9 Luke 17.20 21. Rev. 11.1 2. 2 Tim. 3.5 Jam. 5.4 Isa. 58.6 Jer. 3.14 Rev. 5.9 Rev. 7.9 Ezek. 34.13 Jer. 31.33 Zech. 14.9 Dan. 10.21 Heb. 8.10 11 12. Rev. 21.2 22 23 24 25 26 27. John 4.24 Rev. 22.5 1 Thes. 1.1 Isa. 2.3 Isa. 9.16 1 John 2.27 Luke 17.20 Has. 4.6 Dan. 10.4 Rev. 7.17 Isa. 35.10 Rev. 5.13 Ezek. 21.27 Jer. 9.13 14. Dan. 12.2 Isa. 58.6 Rev. 13.16 Dan. 7.8 ver 20.21 Rev. 13.15 Mica 3.11 Rev. 13.17 Dan. 12.9.13 Rev. 13.18 Dan. 3.3 Dan. 2.40 Rev. 14.16 Dan. 2.34.35 Mic. 3.10 11. Mic. 3.11 Exod. 18.23 Isa. 5.51 Mat. 10.8 Pro. 8.13 Pro. 1.7 Isa. 26 1. Mich 4.4 Dan. 2.43 Dar. 2.44 Mic. 3.10.11 Pro. 6.19 2 Thes. 2.12 Jam. 5.1 2. Isa. 58.6 Jam. 5.3 Luk. 13.7 Rev. 21.8 Isa. 55.3 John 3.19 Joel 2.1 Luke 13.7 Rev. 22.15 Tit. 2.11 12. John 3.19 Isa. 51.3 Mal. 3.17 Luk. 13.7 Mat. 23.5 6 7. Isa. 56.10 11. Jer. 3.30 31. Ezek. 34.2 3 Mic. 3.5 â—er 23.30 Jer. 1.14 Jer. 23.29 Ezek. 13.10 11. Jer. 23.32 Mic. 3.6 7 Mat. 23 13. Job 1.9 He. 12.14 Mat. 23.13 1 John 2.20.27 John 3.19 20 21 Mat. 25.15 Dan. 10.21 Mat. 24.23 Mat. 24.27 1 Cor. 1.26 27. Act. 20.33 Mat. 10.8 Jer. 23.30 Psa. 131.1 Psa. 6.6 Psal. 119.120 Mat. 23.13 John 1.9 Mat. 7.20 John 1.9 Jude 11. Hos. 6.9 Mat. 25.15 Rev. 22.18 Psal. 2.12 Ezek. 34.2 3. Gal. 5.13 Mat. 5.48 Rom. 7.23 Ezek. 18.20 Rom. 7.24 Rom. 8.2 1 Jo. 3.8 Rom. 7.1 Rom. 8.3.4 Isâ— 30.1 Rom. 6.6 Rom. 8.4 Gal. 5.24 Rom. 8.10 Rev. 17.4 Isa. 55.2 Luke 17.20 21. Rev. 18.4 Revel 18.23 24. Rev. 18.4 John 4.24 Mat. 25.15 Isa. 42.2 Luke 1.53 2 Pet. 1.19 Isa. 55.2.3 John 3.19 2 Pet. 1.10 Isa. 51.3 Joel 2.3 1 Sa. 3.11 Dan. 2.55 Mal. 4.3 Verse 4. Verse 3 Mat. 24.31 Ezek 34.12 Verse 13 Verse 29. Verse 30. Isa. 33.2 John 3.20 Act. 2.25 1 Pet. 2.9 Isa. 55.2 Isa. 13 9 Joel 2.2 3. 1 Sam. 3.11 Joel 2.4 6.7 8 10 11. Rev. 17.14 I de 14.15 Dan. 7.27 Rev. 5.9 and 14.3 and 19.6 and 5.13 1656 1675 1658 1659 1660 1661 1662 1663 1664 1665 Gen. 1.26 27. Gen. 2.15 16 17. Gen. 3 1.10 Gen. 3.22.23 24 Rev. 2.5 Gen. 1.26 27. Gen. 3.24 Luk. 14.26 Mat. 10.37 Eph. 4.5 Eccl. 2.3 Jer. 9.33 Joh. 5.44 1 Cor. 3.6 Col. 1.27 Jer. 23.30 Cor. 9.26.23 Gen. 3.24 Mat. 25.19 Gal. 15.19.20.21 Gen. 3.24 Eph. 5.13 Luke 17.20 Gen. 3.7 Mat. 9.16.17 Gen. 1.14 to 19. Gen. 5. Gen. 27.34 38. Heb. 12.17 Gen. 12.9 10. 2 Pet. 1.19 20. Gen. 4.1 11 12. Gen. 21.1 Gal. 4.30 Rev. 18.3 John. 10.1 Mat. 10.20 21. Phil. 3.5.6 Gen. 3.24 Gen 2.7 Rom. 5.4 Mat. 11.12.13 Joh. 1.6 to 9. 26 27. ver Mat. 7.13.14 John 1.9 Eph. 2.1 2 3. Rom. 8.3 Joh. 3.36 1 Pet. 2.8 Gal. 3.27 Rom. 6.3 to 8. Rom. 8.17 2 Tim. 2.11.12 Joh. 5.25 Eph. 5.14 Miâ—h 6.1 John 1.9 8.12 9.5 Jer. 17.6 Eph. 5.13 John 1.2 3.3 5 Rev. 20.12 13. 2 Cor. 5.10 Mat. 12. â—6 Jam. 2.10 Gen 3.8 9 10. Gen. 3.7 Gen. 4.12 13 14. Gen. 27.34 38. Heb. 12.17 Gen. 21.10 Rev. 19.15 Rom. 3.6 to 8. 2 Tim. 2.11 12. Mat. 18.11 Luk. 19.10 Luke 16.16 17. Mat. 11.11 Joh. 5.35 Mat. 1.12 Luke 3.5 2 Pet. 2.10 Luk. 17.24 John 5.25 Rom. 8.16 1 Cor. 14.45 Rom. 6.23 Eph. 2.5 8 9 10. 1 Joh. 3.3 2 Cor. 3.14 Tit. 3.5 Luk. 9.13.24 Joh. 4.1 to 5. Joh. 23.24 Isa. 54.13 Heb. 8.10 11 12. Ezek. 36.24 25 26 27 28. Jer. 31.33.34 Rev. 21.23.24 25 27 v. Rev. 8.3 Rev. 20.8 Mat. 12.39 Gen. 3.24 Rev. 19.15 Rev. 11.7 8. Jer. 17.19 Gal. 5.13 Prov. 14.14 Heb. 1.13 Heb. 10.38 Rom. 6.1 Mat. 25 17 18. Rom. 7.1 Mat. 15.17 18. Rom. 7.23 Rom. 6.16 Ro. 7.25 ver 5. Luk. 9.2 Phil. 3.18.19 2 Pet. 2.19 20 21. ver 22. Heb. 10.26 to 32. ver Rev. 2.5 Eph. 4.13 Psal. 137.8 9. Psal. 2.11.12 Rev. 18.3 Rev. 17.5 Rev. 11.7 â—er 17.5 Rev. 13.4 Joh. 1.9 Eph. 5.13 Rev. 17.3 ver 4. 2 Pet. 1.11 Gen. 11.7 8 9. Rev. 17.4 Mat. 15.19 20. Gen. 6.5 Gen. 5.19 20 21. Prov. 1.7 Luk. 14.26 Mat. 10.37 Mat. 19.29 Jer. 9.23 Joh. 5.44 Mat. 6.21 Mic. 2.1 2. Prov. 22.16 Amos 4.1 Hos 2 18. Revel 24. rev 18.13 John 1.9 and 8.12 and 9.5 1 John 2.27 Luk. 17.21 22. 1 Cor. 1.26 Mat. 10.8 Gal. 1.11 12. Ma. 10.16 Mat. 10. to ver 8. 2 Cor. 5.14 19 20. Act. 21.13 2 Peâ— 2.15 Jude 11. Mar. 10.14.15 Mat. 19.14 Luke 18.16 17. Mar. 10.16 Isa. 56.11 Jer. 5.30 Mic. 5.11 Ver. 5. Jer. 23.30 Cor. 9.27 Jer. 23.31 32. Psal. 131.1 Psal. 38.1 7. Rev. 18.11 Isa. 55.2 Eph. 2 1â— Isa. 55.3 Rev. 18.4 2 Cor. 6.17 18. Isa. 38.18 Isa. 65.2 Jer. 3.12 Hos. 14.4 Mica 6.8 Mal. 6.21 Luke 17.21 Ro. 8.14 1 Joh. 6.26 Mat. 1â— Mat. 24.32 36. Luke 17.20 21. Eph. 5.13 Mat. 13.21 32.3 33. Zac. 4.19 Joh. 1.5 Joh. 11.10.6 Ro. 10.7 8 Pro. 20.22 â—am 3.25 Isa. 8.17 Mat. 25.21 Mat. 12.36 2 Cor. 5.10 Isa. 57.17.17 Rev. 18.3 Luke 2.7 Mat. 13.54 55 56 57. Mark. 6.4 Isa. 30.22 Rev. 11.8 Rev. 3.20 Isa. 61.2 Isa. 30.18 20.21 â—ohn 1 9 8.12 Eph. 513. 1 â—oh 2.27 Isa. 42.3 Mat. 2.20 Pro. 20 2â— Rev. 13.3 Rev. 13.11 12 13 15. Mat. 13.37 1 John 4.1 2 3. Luk. 17.10 Heb. 10.36 Col. 3.2 Ezek. 36.31 32. 1 Cor. 1.29.31 Re. 22.18 Jer. 23.28 29. 2 Cor. 10.41 Rev. 14.4 5. Lam. 1.3 Mat. 25.20 21 22 23. Mat. 1.10 11. Mat. 21.5 Rev. 22.14 Rev. 21.17 Cant. 2.9 Rev. 17.4 Rev. 19.16 Rev. 5.9 10. 1666 1668 1673 1675 ☜ ☜ ☞ 1678 1680 1682 1684 1686 1688
grow to the eternal praise and glory of the powerful God of Vertue that his Name be magnified in and amongst you over all God blessed for ever his powerful presence more and more fill you and overcome you that the strength of his Love and Wisdom may govern you and build you up in the Life of Love Farewel Let Copies of this be sent all abroad in the Meetings of the Church of the living God. W. D. Given forth the 28 th of the 6 th Month 1661. at Beckrins Park in Bedfordshire Dear beloved Friends OF the noble Seed born of the Birth of the excellent Life in Christ the Son of the most high God in his Eternal Power wait to keep your estate with God in the measure of his Life to feel his Almighty presence leading through every condition to the establishing the Soul in his eternal Wisdom to walk with him that not any take their flight in the Winter nor on the Sabbath day but in the midd'st of the Winter Storms whether in the inward or outward Man or both seek not to flee in the least measure from the Light and Power of the Lord to get any ease but as it is handed in God for wo to them that take their flight in the Winter or on the Sabbath day And when you are in the Winter or in the Sabbath doth the Enemy work to get entertainment to cause you to flee from the leading Power of God which if he prevails in the Winter your flight is into Unbelief and Dispairing thoughts Hardships and Difficulties to cause you to Faint and draw back to Perdition But all dear faithful Vessels of the Lord to whom his Power is known in the Light all of you wait on the Lord in the middst of the stormy Winter the Lord hath and will keep you in the Word of his Patience in which he hath made you his chosen Jewels to stand in his mighty Power which hath caused his Renown to sound over the Earth in leading of you even unto Blood others to the spoiling of their Goods some Imprisoned even until Death in the meekness and patience of the Lamb of God who in tender Bowels hath remembred you and answered the Cries and Supplications of his people that have been poured forth in the behalf of you faithful Sufferers for the Name of the Lord who in measure hath caused the fierce Winter storms in the outward many times to cease that a Sabbath of rest in measure you may come to enjoy c. Dear chosen renownable Children of the most high God which not any Winter storms could move from your stedfastness in the Lord This is laid upon me to write to you that all diligently watch to the Light of the Lord that the Enemy do not enter with his Temptations as to cause any to take your flight on the Sabbath day into security which will draw into a customary Formality and into an easeful mind that will vail and darken the understanding and cause dryness and barrenness in the inward Man which will quench the first Love and cause the Innocent to suffer and bring a greater exercise then all the storms that have been indured from the hard-hearted Children of Men c. In the Name of the Lord all stand armed against the subtil Enemy of your Souls Peace with the Light judge him in the Power of God trample and tread down Sathan under your Feet that in the pure humble Spirit of Life in Christ you all be kept and grow in unity in the depths of the Love of the Father that his Vertue and Life abound in you to bind you up in eternal oneness with himself and one another to serve the Lord with singleness of Heart in faithful obedience in the Cross that the Crown of the glorious Dominion may rest upon you to the glory of the Name of the Lord for ever Farewel your Brother W. D. Given forth in Newgate Prison London the 11 th day of the 12 th Month 1661. Dear beloved Brethren and Sisters BOrn of the noble Birth of the God of our strength in whom my Soul rests with you in the Life of God oh let us in true humility be glad in him and strong in the Power of his Love and Life in these trying daies to keep our Habitations in God that in our faithfulness to him comfort may flow to all the Babes Lambs and Children of our Father through all who know his loving kindness abounding in the secrecy of the depth of his Love in the new Covenant of Light which stands in his own faithfulness all that wait in his fear will feel your strength renewed from day to day in the Resurrection of his Glory Power and Dominion with him to dwell and reign over self and tread down Sathan under your Feet in the Unfathamabâ—e depth of the Love and Life in God that his own Vertue may stream it self into every Vessel more and more to make these transcendant excellencies to appear to be of God in the brightness of his glory to shine forth in the strength of his Incomprehensible Love and tender feeling Compassions to the strengthning the weak and feeble minded and enlivening that which is ready to die that in the feeling enjoyed Life in Christ the Babes and Children of the Lord be raised in eternal unity to grow up in the Heavenly Dominion of the Lord God of our Righteousness him to obey with boldness in the strait way of self-denial and daily Cross in faithfulness unto the end and watch one over another with a single Eye building up one another in the holy Faith opening your Hearts in the free Spirit of God to them that are in need that ye may bear the Image of the Heavenly Father who relieveth the Hungry and easeth the Burthened and maketh glad in refreshing his in the time of need giving liberally and upbraideth not even so be it with you in the Name of the Lord saith your Brother and Companion in the Lord Jesus Christ Farewel W. D. Given forth in Newgate Prison London the 16 th day of the 12 th Month 1661. Dear suffering Brethren ANd Companions in the Tribulations and Kingdom of Patience in Christ Jesus in him Watch and Pray and believe in his Name that you may keep the Word of his Patience in the Will of God quietly lye down in your present Sufferings for the Word of God and Testimony of Jesus Christ who numbers the daies of your Sufferings and when they are accomplished will plead the Cause of his People in the day he will be revealed in flames of Fire rendering Vengeance upon all that know him not and obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ then shall your Innocency with all the Elect be cleared in the sight of all people and you shall shine as the Morning Stars in the Power of God to enlighten the people of the Nations through the brightness of the glory of God that shall rest upon you to
Birth Immortal which in you breathes through over and above all the Pomp Pride and Pleasure of the World to enjoy the fulness of Life in Christ who liveth forever with the Light of the Lord judge all your own thoughts and desires which would draw from the Light that in the Life of God you reign over all Doubts Fears Cares Representations of evil and hardships which would look you in the Face in this trying day which is now manifest to the sight of all people that fear the Lord all take heed of consulting with Flesh and Blood or suffering an evil Spie to go forth in the reach of your Sence reason to fore-see how you may pass through such tryals as may appear to your Sence if you hearken to these reasonings you go from the Light and so will be weakned in your spiritual Travel as Israel was in the daies of old So all dear Lambs and chosen Vessels in the Light of the Lord wait to receive his strength to tread down every motion that is out of the Life of the voice of Christ the high Priest over the houshold of God you all hear and feel who saith in his Light believe in the Name of the Lord and you shall see his mighty Works brought to pass while you stand still in Obedience and Peace with the Lord and he will clear your Innocency and smite the Hearts of them that devise mischief against you so shall you behold the Lord in his glory pleading your Cause with the raighty of the Earth whom he will make to confess and say it is in vain to afflict a People whom the Lord supports or to destroy whom the Lord God will save for as it hath been proclaimed in your Ears certainly it shall come to pass the Lord will try all that they may be known who are born of him for whom God will appear to carry through with joy whatever he calls unto and by his mighty Arm will bring deliverance unto us who cannot handle Sword nor Spear neither trust in the Arm of Flesh but in the spiritual Power and Life in the Light which he will exalt over all contrary to him so will he make his Name famous in the Earth because of his glory which he will reveal to cover the Earth as the Waters cover the Sea and all ungodliness will be buried in the deep and sink as a Stone to the bottom thereof and never rise agaâ—n over the Just but the Righteous shall rejoyce that the Lord reigneth their Strength and Life blessed for ever So all Brethren and Sisters lift up your Heads in the valiant Spirit of the Lamb which bears all things and endures all things that in his Light Life and Power every particular reign over whatever is contrary to him and rest in peace in a faithful resignation to the heavenly Will of the Lord and in his Name meet and his presence you will feel in the mid'st of you who will not suffer one hair of your Heads to perish but which is for his glory and as you abide faithful to him for the eternal comfort of our Souls for ever so in Faith and Patience in the Power of the Lord all in your own measures received of God stand stand still all in the pure unity with the Lord and with one another in his living Dominion rest in peace God will give you an answer of all your Prayers and Tears an expected end in refreshing your Souls with his Light and Power and Life forever in whom you shall sit under your own Vines and never more shall any make you afraid the Mouth of the Lord hath spoken it through your Brother in the Tribulation and Kingdom of Patience in Christ Farewell W. D. From York Castle the 4 th of the 9 th Month 1662. Dear Lambs and Babes LIft up your Heads in the Light and Life of God that you may keep the Word of his patience which will carry you up over and above all the afflâ—ctions you meet withall in this present World for the Lord is dear over you and your lives are pretious in his sight who hath called you to witness forth his glorious Truth this day through Tribulations and Afflictions to enter the Kingdom Oh be bold and valiant in the Patience of the Lamb and in the love of his own Life feel his vertue filling you that in the eternal unity you may grow Pillars in his Temple unmoveable to bear your faithful Testimony to the astonishment of the Enemies of Sion and the praise and glory of the God of our Strength Life and Righteousness over all who Reigneth and Ruleth for ever and the God of Life bless preserve and keep you in Unity and Love over all in his Life to Reign to his glory for ever Farewell W. D. From York Castle the 2 d of the 7 th Month 1662. Dear Suffering Brethren FOR the Testimony of the Name of the Lord the strength of the Almighty God is with you and the eternal Crown of glory shall rest upon your Heads that in your faithful Obedience refresheth the Flock of the living God Oh lift up your Heads you chosen Vessels in the Light of the Lord arise up in his Strength and Reign over every thought and whatever would streighten you of drinking in of the fulness of the vertue of God that you may alwaies be fall of the Power of the Spirit to water the Plants and build up the Feeble in mind and speak a word in due season to the Weary and Oppressed in Spirit that the Blind may see and the Lame walk and the tongue of the Dumb loosed to praise the Name of the Lord in the Assembly of his People that the glory of the Lord may be spread abroad in and through you his chosen Vessels whom the Lord hath called to be the first-Fruits amongst many Brethren The eternal glory of the Lord rest upon you and cover you saith your Brother and Companion in the Name of the Lord. W. D. From York Castle the 21 th day of the 8 th Month 1662. Dear beloved Brethren and Sisters IN the eternal love of the Lord Jesus Oh my dear beloved ones love the Lord Jesus and delight your Hearts in his Light Power and Life of our beloved who hath chosen you in his eternal love to make known his everlasting Salvation in the sight of all people that he may get himself a Name over all in carrying you in your faithful Testimony to the astonishment of all that know not God and exalting his glorious Name over all and spreading his renown to the ends of the Earth Oh be valiant my beloved Friends in resisting the thoughts of your own Hearts that in the eternal depth of the love of God in Christ you grow and abound to the eternal comfort of one another and the glory and praise of God over all blessed for ever and ever in which Farewell W. D. York Castle the 17 th of the 1 st Month 1662