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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57212	Abstracts of some letters written by Mr. Robert Rich treating mostly of spiritual matters and here transmitted to posterity and recommended to the sober and serious enquirer for promoting of universal love amongst all sorts of people without respect of persons, parties, or sects : together with a friendly letter of Dr. Jer. Taylor to the said R.R. in answer to one of his / published by J.P.	Rich, Robert, d. 1679.; Pennyman, John, 1628-1706.	1680 (1680)	Wing R1354; ESTC R26429	24,390	27

I might have said much more in return to thine but that I see and know that Words and Declarations tho never so true unless the Life it self speak them and go along with them have but little strength And I could also tell thee that to forsake your Form yea and to speak against it too were not to forsake Truth as thou chargest And is it not strange that you should so complain of my disturbing your Meetings in a Song or few words of Truth when as your selves have gone to others assembled even with railing Accusations calling them Dumb Dogs Liars Hirelings Baal's Priests c. yet cannot bear with such as come to admonish you O that the time were come that those who desired Liberty of Conscience would give it to others I know you cannot believe the Truth when told you nor cease from reproaching judging and condemning it neither will you let the Innocent go free to serve the Lord according as their Light shall lead them till the Judgments you have pronounced against the Innocent fall upon your own Heads For I know that the Lord hath poured out upon you a deep Spirit of Slumber which hath so blinded your Eyes and hardened your Hearts that in seeing you should not see neither perceive the Truth in things that differ And there is yet a Treasure a Dispensation of Grace where you have as yet by reason of your Self-exaltation and bitter Spirit seen but little into the which some have seen felt and handled To this you must all stoop and bow tho never so high before you find Peace and Rest to your Souls or be free from vain Contention and Strife R. R. to M. B. and other Quakers THis I have to say unto thee or rather to G. F. who hath begot many of you into his Image That you no longer tempt any of the innocent Lambs of Christ to withdraw from the leading and teaching of the Unction of God which is Christ to follow the Letter or your Teachings or Traditions wherein you must and shall perish in the dark Wilderness of your own Imaginations for the Lord hath sworn in his Wrath that you who call your selves Good old Friends and the Israel of God who have so falsly accused condemned and bitterly persecuted your innocent Brethren for those things the Lord hath and doth justify shall never inhabit the good Land I know G. F. is raised of God for this very end to try refine and purify many as Pharaoh was and tho many fall in the Trial under his Power yet many will be delivered into the glorious Liberty of the Sons of God I likewise see that daily more and more will fall off from that Body and that some that separate from them will with Daniel stand in their Lot and follow the Lord in the Spirit of the Lamb more fully than they have done whilst they that oppose shall stand with Lot's Wife turned into a Pillar of Salt continuing their preaching up Truth in Words without Power whilst others baptize with the Holy-Ghost and with Fire Thou writest of my going to the Steeple-house To which I answer Blessed are those that have Rest Peace and Satisfaction in themselves for they that look forth are like to find but little in this the day of God's searching Jerusalem with Candles wherein he will stain the Pride and Glory of all Flesh R. R. in Answer to some Friends not Quakers YOu judg me to be a Ranter and to hold their Principles I can truly say I have been but little acquainted with that People or with their Principles I would not be thought to be an Advocate for the loose and licentious Practices of any sort of People much less for Them who from the itching ☜ Notions of Liberty have run without their Guide into the excess of all Riot and Prophaneness who while they greedily catch at the Bait are caught with the Hook till a Dart strike through their Liver and they are led with the Fool to the Correction of the Stocks and there plagued with their own Iniquities I desire this may be shewn to Mr. Bacon as to all others who seem to stumble at my Love to this dark Beelzebub this mad ranting Crew THe time is coming and now is that we shall not know and own each other as we are of one Sect or outward way but as the Grace and Principle of God appears in each other the Love of God shed abroad in our Hearts and where this is witnessed thither will the Upright resort and gather If you see any dividing among the Religious Parties take you notice of that I know every one must divide till all unite in the Word in the Heart My Love flows to all that in uprightness of Heart serve the Lord in any Form For as all Forms are alike to me so is the Substance the Power of Godliness also and altho Uprightness God accepted in all Forms and suffered all Sects to walk in them yet now calleth all Men to reject the evil in each Form and to wait on Him to be their Teacher from henceforth and for ever J. N. and J. P. tho dead yet speak who declared they were to cease from words even of Truth spoken from the comprehending part of Man's Understanding and from thus speaking in set Meetings and so to give way for a greater Glory viz. the Spirit 's teaching leading and speaking in the Saints Also they declared that they had received greater Wounds from the House of their Friends than from the House of their Enemies And I can assure you they who meddle with the Quakers had need be fenced within and without with the whole Armor of God Truth and love to Righteousness David ●s Sling and Stone and enabled to use both hands the left as well as the right the Wisdom of the Serpent as the Innocency of the Dove And truly till the Spirit of Love and Reconciliation be brought forth wherewith every Christian shall willingly leave each other to the guidance of God's holy Spirit of Grace in that Form or Way they are persuaded to walk in the Strife which is occasioned by outward Traditional Observations will never cease And I have this further to declare to all the World to Jew Gontile Barbarian and Christian tho I know it will be an Offence and Stone of stumbling to G. F. and all Masters of Assemblies in every Sect who prescribe impose and would have Dominion over the Faith of others that the Eternal God who wills not the death of any Sinner hath sent his dear Son Emanuel his Light and Spirit of Grace into the World his everlasting Covenant a Divine Law writ in every Man's Heart that whosoever believeth in Him and followeth Him shall have Eternal Life And this Divine Law and Word in the Heart is the Ensign to gather together all things into Himself and to present every Man perfect in God being thereby sanctified justified and saved from their Sins To which Word

be glorious and inherit the Blessing and could wish his last end in it Mark O Balak and Balaam who are but one from thy own Mouth and Practice is thy Condemnation Thus Man's Spirit the Witch of Endo● being raised to its height and received into the Consciences of others and upheld there first began the Apostacy and in this Spirit doth the Apostacy still stand and subsist even to this very day in every Sect and if any one of them could obtain their Will they would be as great as the Pope and make all others bow and come in to them else neither buy nor sell nor live in Love and Peace with any But this bitter envying is not so with the God-like and true Christians such bless and not curse Nothing will be acceptable but what proceeds from the Root of Jesse and is the Off-spring of the pure Movings of Love all else is but as the Offering of Cain and as the Repentance of Esau which must be rejected and cannot inherit the Blessing And now Joseph being delivered out of Prison and the deep Pit wherein his Brethren had put him where he passed through divers Trials and Temptations both of Soul and Body I say being now risen with Christ and made Lord over that Earth which held him can with boldness speak what he hath seen and heard And considering how contrary to my Life which was Peace and good Will to all I have been acted in Strife and Contention for near these seven years ever since the difference first brake forth betwixt G. F. and J. N. the which I call my strange Work as to Man and to my self But the Lord who doth in Heaven and Earth what he pleaseth in that day shewed me that was the least able for this Work of War of all my Brethren Many things that began to appear and to wax strong which were for destruction and the one thing needful viz. Love in Truth even amongst Brethren much neglected so as the Lord commanded I sold my Coat of Peace and good Will to all and bought a Sword the which I girded upon my Thigh and in the strength of God's Command drew it and therewith spared neither small nor great yet my chief Aim ever were against Agag the fat and fairest the King and Head of that bitter Spirit Amalek which would not suffer them to pass peaceably through his Land whom the Light guided out of their received Traditions and notwithstanding their Talk of Light and Love such soon selt and found the Dragon's Power and Herod viz. G F. with his Men of War to stand in the cross Ways ready to cut off all the Innocent that would not own him King and call him Master receive their Mark and Number of their Name against which Spirit the Sword of the Lord hath been sharp and will most certainly chop the same in pieces as Herbs for the Pot. And though this was War indeed yet forasmuch as the ground and root thereof had the Command of God and Love to Truth such Weapons are Spiritual I say it was a War in Heaven Well Friends Joseph hath been with the Lord in the Deep and hath there seen his Wonders wherefore receive these things kindly and friendly from his Treasury they may prove a supply to you in this Day of Famine not of Bread but of the Loving-kindness of the Lord towards one another And be not offended at what is spoken tho it tend to the throwing down of Man into the Dust yet if God and his Grace be hereby exalted give up Self to the Death of the Cross It is good to die with the Lord tho Flesh and Blood see not this Neither be you troubled nor offended at him that declares these things tho he seems sometimes to appear as a Man walking on the Sea which is rough foaming and tempestuous Joseph is now out of Prison and hath no more Conscience of an Idol to him no Idol is anything neither Paul nor Apollos no nor Christ after the Flesh he knows no more neither their Circumcision nor Baptism nor any outward thing nothing but Grace that works by Love I have no dependence nor Worship nor Fear nor Care for any thing save that I worship the only alone true LORD GOD who is Love any thing acted out of that I value not And I clearly see that such a People the Lord will bring forth as the praise of his new Creation that in the quietness and stilness of their Spirits which is Jacob's Ladder do patiently wait for the immediate Movings of Love which is Joseph's Cup wherein he prophesied freely resigned to the Will of God in all things relying on his Grace for their only Guide and not so much as lift up a Tool or make any Noise or Complaint in his Work nor with Vzzah hold up a hand of Fear or Care that it should fall or that his Will should not be accomplished and brought to pass in its due time and season No Friends those that have hitherto attained are not of them that look back to see what others will do but have pressed on to the Mark Christ the Love of God in their Hearts his Stature and Fulness where they see their Souls saved and have learned always to pray Thy Will be done whose Will is their Sanctification Salvation and Glorification c. An Abstract of some of R. Rich's Letters to G.F. J.C. and several others IT is written of Jeroboam that he set up two Calves much like Thee Thou and the Hat putting also a necessity of bowing down to them and worshipping as ye do saying These are thy Gods which brought thee out of Egypt that so the Kingdom might not return to David which is the Love of God I urge not this by way of Censure as rashly judging any even the meanest appearances which God draws out the Spirits of his People in but rather to shew you the Idolatry of such Limitations which in these outward things you lay upon the boundless variety of that unspeakable Spirit of Truth for I have heard some of the chief Rulers amongst you say That if any return to the Hat again meaning putting it off in Salutation then all their Profession is lost as if this or such like were the God that redeemed them And indeed who is there upon the Face of the whole Earth that fears God and worketh Righteousness if he receive not your Mark of Thee and Thou and the Hat may be accepted or owned as a Brother amongst you And what is your Form of Words in Thee and Thou but a customary Singularity in Speech another Mode of speaking than is commonly used which no way respects the Truth of what is spoken Pray tell me is not Truth where understood the Language of Canaan in what Speech or Dialect soever exprest Or did the Disciples of Christ in their Declarations of Truth to every Man in his own Language refuse the Dialect either of the Medes Persians Egyptians or