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Several living testimonies given forth by divers friends to the faithful labours and travels of that faithful and constant servant of the Lord, Robert Lodge ... ; also, two general epistles, written by himself long since to the believers in Christ, and are now printed for their edification and refreshment.
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largely signified the love of God to his Soul at that time He was in his Day a true Traveller in the Lord's Service and doubtless he hath received his Reward and though he be taken from us I doubt not but the Lord will raise many faithful Witnesses to bear a Testimony to his Name that he may have Honour to whom all Honour is due Alice Clarke A Testimony concerning our dear Friend and Brother in the Lord Robert Lodge WHo was a Yorkshire man and dyed in the Lord in the Year 1690. when he had fulfilled his Ministry and finished his Testimony who was often under great Persecution Sufferings and Spoiling of Goods which through the assistance in the Lord's Power he went through them all joyfully and many times had great Exercise with Backsliders Apostates and Prophane He was a man that laboured and travelled and had a great Care upon him for the Peace of the Church of Christ and his Government of Peace the encrease of which there is no end he travelled up and down in many places in England freely preaching the Everlasting Gospel of our Lord and Saviour and did turn many to it being a man much indued with the Gifts of God and being an Elder and Pillar in the Church of Christ he travelled with me up and down in Ireland jeopardied his Life among the Priests and Papists there in the Year 1669 where there were many large and pretious Meetings of the Lord's People and the Lord's Presence and Power was among us and them And when we had finished our Testimony there we came over into England and in it he travelled up and down visiting the Churches of Christ and turned many to the Lord and he dyed in the Lord in Yorkshire and is blessed and entred into his Rest and is ceased from his Labours and his Works follow him And much more might be writ of his faithful Labour in the Lord who was well known in the Church of Christ who preacht in his good Life and Conversation as well as in his Doctrine and was much beloved and he will be missed in the Church of Christ but the Lord can raise up more faithful Labourers in his Gospel to stand in his place Amen The 13th of the 9th Month 1690. G. F. An Epistle To FRIENDS Written from Chambrussel in the County of Armagh in Ireland the 24th of the 4th Month 1660. MY dearly beloved Friends with whom I have Unity in the unchangeable Love and Life in the Lord Jesus in whom we receive pure and living Consolation whereby the Seed is refreshed which breaths and thirsts after the Fountain of Love and Mercy which tenderly falls down upon the upright in Heart as Dew to the tender Herb whereby that which hath been in the want comes to be satisfied and filled with the living Vertue which comes from the presence of the Lord and in this my dearly beloved Friends I salute you in the Fountain of Love Life and endless Joy which is shed abroad in my heart which streams forth it self through me whereby the Seed is refreshed and in this feel me as you are felt in the measure of the unchangeable Life of God in which I rejoyce feeling you in that which is everlasting in which my Unity stands with you who are of a broken and contrite Heart who are kept in a feeling of the dreadful presence of God And therefore wait all Friends to feel the Power which raises the Seed immortal to which the Promise of Blessing is due which Seed the Lord is satisfying with the breakings forth of his Love in all them who in patience are kept waiting to feel the opperation of God's living Power for by the Power of God comes the Seed to be brought out of the weary Land which the Lord abundantly waters in all the Faithful who in faithfulness are kept near unto the Seed such come to receive of the loving-kindness of God and to pertake of his sweet Mercies which daily are felt to the glory of the Lord for ever Therefore my dearly beloved Friends wait in the Light the Power to feel that you may be kept safe in the Arms of the Lord's love that you may be shadowed over with the Power of the Most High God which is our strength and daily support wherein we feel the Spirit of the Lord lifting up a Standard against all the Enemies of the Seed So dear Hearts be stayed in the Light continually to feel the dreadful Power of God accompanying you unto which all your Enemies must become subject whose Power and Presence is felt wherein our Souls rejoyce who hath enlarged our hearts and filled us with the heavenly joy for in him we have Peace and Comfort therefore be not cast down at the sight of Affliction but all be watchful and deligent to feel the pure workings of the Spirit of Life whereby a change may be wrought in your Hearts and you raised above the Grave by the quickening Power of the Almighty God for in this is Comfort and Refreshment felt and Peace and pure Love which many Waters cannot quench and in this all wait to be knit up and united that the one Fountain of Love and Mercy may be every particulars satisfaction and reward So rest your Friend in the Truth Robert Lodge Let this be sent to Hardcastle-Garth and so to Masham A Salutation of Love from the Opening of the Springs of eternal Life unto the Flock of God in Bonds or elsewhere scattered upon the Earth but are one in the endless Life of God Greeting DEar Friends whom the Lord hath visited with the Day spring from on high and unto whom the Lord hath made known his Power and the Arm of his strength for your deliverance from the deep captivity that your Souls lay in in times past when there was none to help you nor to comfort you when you spent your days in mourning for want of the presence of the Lord and in that day did the Lord hear your groans and the sighs of your Spirits and he appeared for your comfort when you were comfortless and in that day the Lord made known his Judgments in you for the purging of the Dross out of you that way might be made in you for the sweet dispencing forth of his Mercies And since the Lord prepared you for himself by the work of his own Spirit how hath he let forth himself unto you to the making of your Hearts glad and to the overcoming your Souls with the strength of his love that hath made you to say in secret who is like to the Lord or what is to be compared with his love and when your hearts were thus disposed of by him for whom you had waited what was all the worlds glory to you for this was more to you than all whose hearts were opened in the sence of the want of him And now seeing the Lord hath done such great things for you it is the pleasure of your God to try