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A31341 A salutation in the love of God and in the fellowship of the work of His blessed truth ... with a word of exhortation and counsel ... also a warning unto all them that have long known the truth but have not, neither obey it with all their hearts ... / by Samuel Cater. Cater, Samuel, d. 1711. 1672 (1672) Wing C1489; ESTC R36283 11,127 14

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and how far thou hast been faithful unto God and in what thou hast not been faithful and wherein thou hast d●ne well thou art justified by it and in what thou doest evill thou art condemned by it and so here thou comes to see the Scripture fulfilled which saith Tribulation and anguish on every soul that doth evill but glory honour and peace to them that worketh good And therefore Dear Friends as you desire to have peace with God keep to the Word and Grace of God which appears within and which calls for purity and obedience out of a pure heart for them which went before us which did injoy peace and which do now injoy the same and comes to witness such high privilledges and pertake of so great promises as to be Saints in the Light they are such as did and do obey the Grace and Truth of God with all their hearts whereby they come to be elected unto God through Sanctification of the Spirit and obedience unto the Truth So Dear Friends You that have received the knowledg of the blessed Truth of God which is Christ The way the Truth Life and Light whereby through the Mercy and Love of God unto your Souls you are made pertakers of that which David prayed unto God for Lord sayes he Send forth thy Light and thy Truth and it shall conduct us unto thy holy hill and for that same end hath the Lord our God visited you with his heavenly Light whereby he hath guided your feet into the way of peace that you may travel therein unto his blessed and everlasting Kingdome that stands in Peace Righteousness and Joy in the holy Ghost into which nothing that defileth or worketh Abomination can enter And therefore Dear Friends This is the word of exhortation which lives in my heart unto you that have believed wait in it and keep to the word of faith which purifies the heart and cleanseth the conscience for it is the pure in heart that come to see God and to pertake of the great and pretious promises of Life and Peace even such as walk in the Light in which there is no occasion of stumbling for in it every snare that the enemy of our Souls layes to take our feet or to intangle our affections with any visible thing or to draw down our minds into the earth and to give us a sight of the visible and carnal things which if the mind and heart close with them and so enters into the Temptation it brings darkness over the heart and death upon the Soul for to be carnally minded brings death but obedience to the Spirit of the Lord brings life and peace And therefore all live in the Spirit and obey Christ the Power and Wisdome of God and look not out at your own weakness nor at any Temptation of the enemy of your Souls either without or within but all look up to Christ in whom your help is Who is able to save to the utmost all that comes to God by him and none to be discouraged because of the frownes of the ungodly or the threatnings of the wicked for they are but as the crakling of thorns under a pot with the Lord our God whom we in Soul Body and Spirit serve and worship who hath set bounds for them and they shall do no more unto us then shall make to the glory of our God and to the advantage of his Truth and for the trial of our Faith that when our Patience is tried we may come forth in our Testimony as gold tried in the fire and then blessed are all that wait in patience and rest contented with all the flock of Christ until the Lord renders vengeance on them that trouble us But thou Dear friend who art given up and resolved in thy heart and soul to serve and obey the Lord thy God what ever it cost thee and thou hast honestly counted the cost and thou seest the Pearl to be more worth then all that thou canst part withall for it or suffer because of thy obedience to it be not thou discouraged at the appearance of the wicked one whose work the Lord thy God by his blessed Light is a discovering unto thee but rejoyce in that the Lord hath made him manifest who hath Sat in the Temple of God exalting himself above all that is called God saying that he himself is God and this is he that Rules Head King and Prince in all the Children of disobedience which are yet in darkness and who now proclaime him their King and Potentate And both Priest and Professor and Prophane strike hands with him saying That they never can nor shall be freed from sin on this side of the grave and so make the death and coming of Christ of none effect who came to save his People from their sins and to Redeem them from all unrighteousness who will bruise the serpents head and overcome his power in thee For unto him all power in heaven and earth is committed and this is he you are to look unto and belive in who is come a Light into your hearts And to bind the strong man and spoyl his goods and cast him out who w●ll certainly do it for he is come into your hearts that is greater then he that Rules in the world but he does and will strive to keep his possession as long as by any meanes and wiles or cunning craftiness he can And therefore my Dear Friends All watch to the Light for in that you will see and know His cunning craftiness whereby he lies in wait to deceive and whom he can no longer deceive but with the Light he is seen and by the power of God his Temptations are denyed by the honest hearted Then he accuseth before the throne of God night and day And this is he which tells you who are tender of Gods glory and hunger and thirst after Righteousness that you shall never overcome all your corruptions which you see to be the foes of your own house but all believe in the Light Which is the power of God unto salvation unto every one that believes and you shall come to see this accuser cast down and by the power of the Living God overcome and your feet set And your house built upon the Rock Which the gates of hell cannot prevail against nor the floods of the ungodly can never overflow nor the stormes of the wicked neither can nor shall overcome For the Lord preserves his people and delivers them that put their trust in him And therefore This is the word that is in my heart in the true sence of Gods love unto your Souls that are come to the Light of Christ which is the way of Life end see it to be a narrow way and the gate where by you must enter into Rest is straight I say unto you wait upon God and keep subject unto his Grace which appears unto you for in that lies your help for that is the same that ever