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heart_n	according_a	lord_n	mercy_n	2,514	5	6.2304	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91903	A compassionate invitation of Christian love to all tender-hearted people. Testifying unto [brace] God's free-grace. His spirit's teaching, and good end of man's creation. / By one that has tasted of the goodness of the Lord, William Robinson. London, the 25th of the 2d month, 1692.	Robinson, William, member of the Society of Friends.	1692 (1692)	Wing R1724; ESTC R182826	22,680	31

A Compassionate INVITATION OF Christian Love TO All Tender-hearted People Testifying unto GOD's Free-Grace His Spirit 's Teaching and good End of Man's Creation By one that has tasted of the Goodness of the Lord WILLIAM ROBINSON London the 25th of the 2d Month 1692. LONDON Printed for Tho. Northcott in George-Yard in Lumbard-street 1692. A Compassionate Invitation OF Christian Love To all Tender-hearted People MY dear Friends and all tender-hearted People there is Love in my Heart to you all according to the measure of Grace received from the Lord and my Heart is truly enlarged at this Time and Season in the consideration of the Work of the Lord that he has begun in our day and how the Lord has reached forth a Hand of Help unto us to bring us on our way Oh! my dear Friends there is a Travel upon my Spirit that none of us may turn back again but that our Eye may be to that Arm that has gathered us into a belief that it can save us and preserve us if we keep to it that that brings to the Birth will bring forth in the Lord 's due time for we may remember the earnest Cries that has been put up unto the Lord in days past and in years that are gone that the Lord would be pleased to make known his way to us and we were ready to say we would walk in it And truly Friends the Lord has been very gracious to us he has brought us by a way we then did not know and a great Concern and Travel was upon our Souls to be delivered from the Bondage and Captivity that we was then under notwithstanding we had a Profession but there was still something longed after that is beyond all the Professions that are in the World even Life to our Souls Oh the longings of Souls that was in that Day when the Lord visited us let it never be forgotten And truly Friends these things are mentioned that all may be stirred up to watchfulness and to faithfulness to God and for no other end for we may say and that without boasting we have known the Terrors of the Lord and therefore we perswade Men to come to this godly Sorrow and to a bowed down state before the Lord for this we can say that the Lord wills not the Death of him that dyes but rather that he may turn to him and live Turn ye turn ye why will ye dye said the Lord Turn ye at my Reproofs I will pour out my Spirit upon you and make known my ways unto you Oh! that all People were but willing to walk in God's way and lay aside all that hinders that every thing that hinders may be brought down by degrees every Weight and every Burden may be removed and Sin that so easily besets Oh how easily are men perswaded and drawn away after this thing or the other thing not considering what the end of these things will be Surely if the end was rightly considered People might be more concern'd how to get out of these Besetments and Entanglements for we may remember that the wages of Sin is Death but the Gift of God is eternal Life through Jesus Christ We would all men might come to this Gift of God he has given to us this is that we shall be called to an account for whether it amount to the degree of one two or five Talents comparatively that all People may be faithful to it the least measure the least appearance is of a saving nature if men will believe in it Oh what a tender regard the Lord had to a People in former times that were beset and under heavy Burthens how willing was the Lord to deliver them and bring them out from under Pharaoh that hard Task-master Was not this a lively Figure to his spiritual Israel in this our day he divided the Waters they passed through the Deeps he brought them into the Wilderness and Pharaoh and his Hosts were drowned And then they could sing and praise God for this Deliverance Now Friends there is an inward Warfare to be known there are inward Enemies to be met withal and we had need to know the same Arm of Power as they did to work in us and for us that we may come to serve God and worship God and love God with all our Hearts love his Truth love his Word and love his Appearance tho' God may appear in Judgment yet it is for a good end that we that know him trust in him and not in our selves nor in the Arm of Flesh but in God I will bear thy Indignation O Lord says one of old because I have sinned against thee and though thou kill me I will trust in thee Now Friends the way of his appearing is not to kill the Body but the Sin that dwells there the evil Affections the evil Desires that war against the Soul Oh what Warfare there has been and a Travel there has been that we might arrive at the good Land and that we might not faint in our Minds And truly Friends the Lord has given us a Brook by the way he has turn'd our Wilderness into a fruitful Field so that we many times can invite others to come and partake with us for we believe that God would have all men come to the knowledge of the Truth and be saved Now there has been a great deal of searching after outward Knowledge many have been very busie and diligent in seeking that to talk of and discourse of but the knowledge of the Truth as it is in Christ is a saving Knowledge and a sensible Knowledge to know the only true God and Jesus Christ whom he hath sent is Life eternal Come Friends try your Experience have you been made to cry out under the weight and burthen of Sin as one did when it was too heavy for him to bear Now People may see what a loathsome thing it is to have a Profession and Talk and Notions of good things and be out of the Life and Knowledge thereof for what benefit has a hungry Man or Woman in hearing tell of Bread if they do not partake of it We know that the Lord feeds the Poor with Bread but many are so high and rich in Notions they do not mind to come into a state of low degree nor the low and little appearance of Truth in their Hearts Oh! come Friends let us take notice of the day of small things and be faithful in a little or else we shall never be made Rulers over much And now Friends as we turn in our Minds we may find how the Lord reproved us for many things even things that were little taken notice of by some and made us to remember that Saying We must give an account to God for every idle word Now Friends here we can say was a good beginning when the Truth met with us and brought Judgment upon us we were made sensible what it was for and how we had been led

placed a flaming Sword at Eden 's Gate that turned every way if a man had all false Coverings of Professions or the Fig-leaf Garments or all the changable ways of Religion that are in the World this flaming Sword still placed it turns every way against him that there is no way at all left for fallen Man to enter or find out for Life in a state of Sin if he chang'd his way never so often this still turns against him Now in this state we may truly say there was none to help but the Lord and What did the Lord say to this thing for he had warned Man and Woman and had given them a Command before and a very large Priviledge too if they would have been contented Of all the Trees of the Garden thou maist eat save that only of Knowledge of Good and Evil And yet after Transgression the Lord in his great Love that he had to the Workmanship of his Hands says on this wise That the Seed of the Woman should bruise the Serpent's Head here is the Promise of the Lord this is the way that God promis'd to restore Mankind And this Seed was Christ he is the Way to God again Now it is very like many will be ready to conclude that Christ is the way to God again but that they suppose they may do by Tradition and never come to know the Seed to bruise the Serpent's Head in them but until this is known Men may make a Profession of God and Christ and yet know little or nothing at all of the Work of that Eternal Power and Spirit of Christ to renew to break down Sin and Satan and to renew and restore them into the Image of God again Oh! what need have we all to wait as they did of old until we be endued with Power from on high But some may say they had a Command for so doing and doth not this Command reach to us I hope none will deny it for says the Prophet They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength these are all they that come to a true waiting State upon the Lord for he is worthy to be waited upon and he will be waited upon and sought unto by the House of Israel and truly if People had a true regard to the Spirit of Truth that Christ said the Father would send in his Name People would be more watchful and more concern'd in waiting upon God then they are for I cannot but take notice many times how loose and careless many People are though not in pursuing after the things of this World that pass away and comes to an end but very loose and careless in Religious and Heavenly Matters and Things of far more concern then the Things that are here which we can behold with our outward Eye for the things which we behold with our outward Eyes are Temporal but the things that are not seen thereby which we ought to behold with our inward Eyes are Eternal Oh! that all People might hasten out of Sin even as Lot hastened out of that sinful Sodom that the Lord was angry with in days past Come Friends it is the same in our day the Sins of the People of England cry aloud and the Lord has spared this Land of ours many Years though sometimes visited with Judgments Oh! that all People would lay to heart the great Mercy the continued Mercy of the Lord to this poor Land wherein we live and how the People have provoked the Lord with their Disobedience for Disobedience is as the Sin of Witchcraft and the Disobedient dwell in a dry Land they know not when good comes But the earnest Cry of my Heart to God is that all People may come to amend their Ways and amend their Lives by coming to Unfeigned Repentance and turn to the Lord to his Grace that has appeared to all Men Where has the Grace of God appeared In the Heart where Sin has appeared For what end but that Sin may be forsaken destroyed and wrought out and everlasting Righteousness brought in instead thereof For righteousness exalts a nation or a people but sin is a shame to any nation or people And why will People love that which is a Shame to them and a Disgrace to all that are found in it indeed we may say the Lord found many of us therein but there has been a day of Washing and a day of Cleansing known inwardly where this Pollution lay there has been the Word of the Lord as a Fire and as a Hammer to burn it up and consume it Root and Branch And thus Friends we have learned true Religion and to bridle our Tongues that we might not offend against the Lord and a Stay to our Minds that we might not wander any more nor be bewildred any more nor turn aside any more Oh! the Lord grant that all People may come to walk in the Light of the Lord and then we are sure they will walk in that which pleases God And the Prophecy of Isaiah will come to be fulfilled upon us That the time should come that they should say one to another Come and let us walk in the light of the Lord let us go up to the house of the God of Jacob and he will teach us of his ways and we will walk in his paths For how do People linger away their time in sinning against God How easily are they overtaken and perswaded to live in Sin term of Life but they are not so easily perswaded to forsake Sin although when a Sinner doth repent him of his Sins or forsake them he shall find Mercy the Lord will have Mercy he will abundantly pardon But now instead of Mens forsaking of it they are daily adding Sin to Sin and pulling it upon them as with a Cart-rope Men of perverse Minds of ill Minds and of ill Lives their Lives bespeak whose Children they are and whose Works they are a doing even the Works of the Flesh which is Sin the Works of the old Enemy that is shut out for ever he upholds his Kingdom in Disobedience and so do all that loves Sin and pleads for Sin there is nothing so hurtful as Sin is here Men has lost their Belief they have lost their right Senses talk of believing in God the Father Almighty and in Jesus Christ his only begotten Son and yet believe Sin must Reign as if there was a necessity for it so to do but we have learned better things Glory to God and things that do accompany Salvation we know that of whatsoever a Man is overcome of the same he is brought in Bondage I write said John unto you little children that ye sin not and to you young men because ye are strong and the word of God abideth in you and ye have overcome the wicked one then there was a possibility of Victory therefore let none be faint-hearted but look to Christ who has all Power in Heaven and Earth and is Alsufficient