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heart_n	flesh_n	new_a	stony_a	5,704	5	12.0562	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47150	Help in time of need from the God of help to the people of the (so called) Church of Scotland, especially the once more zealous and professing, who have so shamefully degenerated and declined from that which their fathers the primitive Protestants attained unto ... / writ by George Keith, prisoner for the truth in Aberdeen in the latter end of the year 1664.	Keith, George, 1639?-1716.; Jaffray, Alexander, 1614-1673.	1665 (1665)	Wing K173; ESTC R36221	73,094	85

foundation which is not of my building to pluck up root and branch and all which is not of my planting I have said to my Messengers and servants go ye up upon her walls break down her battlements bull-works for they are not mine level all to the ground and let them not be built for ever and ever Amen saith my soul. And it is God's rich mercy love and compassion that he hath brought this day over you could ye but open your eyes to see it and some shall see that ye may suffer loss in these things which have been and are a loss and snare unto you The 10 th Month 1664. from the Tolbouth of Aberdein George Keith The word of commandement from the Lord which filled me with heavenly joy and comfort came unto me the 30. day of the 10 th Month called December saying Shew unto the people of Scotland my true and righteous judgement concerning the particulars above-mentioned And now however these be received by you I have peace in my God The blessed long looked for day of God broke up amongst us the Lords people called Quakers with a declaration of the Lords loving kindness to us and what he hath done for our Souls in causing the light of his countenance to shine on us And a brief description of our Church Ministry Word Worship order and Government And a Proclamation of the foresaid day of the Lord to the People of Scotland in judgment and mercy With a loving Exhortation unto them and dear and tender counsel concerning what the Lord requires of them in order to a perfect and thorow reformation which they have often assayed but never as yet come at Also a few words to such who expect the breaking up of the day of God and yet deny it broke up among us Written in the fear and will of the Lord and in bowels of love and compassion to the people of my native Country THe day of God is the Revelation of his living and eternal arm in and among the children of men to put an end to transgression and recover lost man to the blessed holy pure innocent state wherein he was created by God who breathed in him the breath of life and he became a living soul it 's the setting up the Kingdom of Jesus Christ the eternal King of righteousness in the hearts of the Sons and Daughters of Adam and the pulling down the Kingdom of Satan who hath ruled over the sons of men as God and swayed his Scepter as an absolute Monarch in the earth It 's the arising of the Son of righteousness with healing under his wings in the shinings forth of his pure Light for the dispelling the the thick Egiptian darkness that hath long covered the earth and brought upon the Inhabitants a sad sore and dismal night wherein the blessed sweet and amiable countenance of God hath been eclipsed and vailed from men whereby they could not live to God for that life is in the light which by the power and prevalency of darkness hath been much shut up so that it hath not shined forth in its glorious brightness upon mankind It 's the pouring forth of the Spirit of the Lord upon all flesh and the breathing of life upon the dead bones that they may stand up and live with flesh and sinews in strength beauty and comeliness of proportion It 's the manifestation and discovery of that great and glorious mystery hid from ages and generations Christ within the hope of glory Jesus Christ in his powerful spiritual glorious heavenly appearance in his Saints triumphing victoriously over death and hell and all the powers of darkness giving to his Saints to sit down with him upon his throne and making them partakers of that glory he had with the Father before the world began It 's the bringing of many from the East and from the West and from the North and from the South to sit down with Abraham Isaac and Iacob in the Kingdom of God and the gathering of his elect seed from the four winds of the earth which hath been long scattered and pended up in the holes and caves thereof lying in death bondage and captivity The day of God is the redemption of his beloved seed and raising it up out of the grave to live in the blessed and glorious presence of its God It 's the marriage day of the Spouse with the Lamb and the bringing of her into the Chamber of Presence and the Banquetting-house where she is entertained with the sweet fellowship and communion of the noble plant of renown the beloved of her souls and under his shadow she sitteth down with great delight and his fruit is pleasant to her taste where she gets access to him in the bed of love and sees his sweet comely soul-ravishing countenance and hears the sweet melodious voice which pierceth the heart with darts of love so that she is constrained to cry Stay me with apples comfort me with flagons for I am sick of love turn away thy face from me for it hath ravished me being filled with the glory of his Majesty that the sight of it is scarce tollerable in the house of clay which often trembles at the Revelation of the weight of glory The day of the Lord is the tabernacling and habitation of himself with men the Immanuel God in us bringing them up out of all visible and corruptible perishing things into fellowship with him and his Son through the eternal Spirit It 's the dispensation of the new Covenant taking place in the earth the tenour whereof is I will put my Law in their inward parts and write it in their hearts and will be their God and they shall be my People and they shall teach no more every man his neighbour saying know the Lord for they shall all know me from the least of them unto che greatest saith the Lord for I will forgive their iniquity and remember their sin no more Jer. 31. And again I will sprinkle clean water upon you and yee shall be clean from all your filthiness and from all your Idols will I cleanse you a new heart also will I give you and a new spirit will I put within you and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh and I will give you an heart of flesh and I will put my spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statutes and yee shall keep my Iudgements and do them and yee shall dwell in the Land that I gave to your Fathers and yee shall be my People and I will be your God Ezek. 36. It 's the coming down of the new Ierusalem from above out of Heaven upon the Earth cloathed with the Garments of Salvation the Lambs Glory which is her Light so that She needeth not Sun nor Moon nor Candle and the pure white linnen which is the Righteousness of the Saints It 's the causing the old Heavens and the old Earth to pass away and the

Elements to melt with fervent heat and the drying up of the Sea and the making all old things to vanish and the creating the new Heavens and the new Earth wherein dwelleth Righteousness and the making all things new It 's the relieving the Creation of God which hath long travelled under the bondage of Corruption It 's the coming forth of the Woman cloathed with the Sun and a Crown of twelve Starrs upon her head and the Moon under her feet out of the Wilderness And her getting victory and Dominion with her seed which hold the testimony of Jesus the spirit of Prophecy Rev. 19.10 the great quarel of the adversary against her Rev. 12. over the Dragon Beast and false Prophet It 's the discovery fall and utter overthrow of mystery Babylon the mother of Fornications who hath bewitched the whole earth with the Golden Cup her Merchants hath handed forth into them who dwell thereupon whereby they have adulterated and gone a whoring from God and the pure holy life of Jesus Christ and the chast leadings of his spirit and the true spiritual glory hath been lost from among them who drunk of the cup of her sorceries and a false imaginary glory set up in its room which is the Image of the Beast over which the Saints get victory which false glory stands in some of the words and formes of truth patched together with the inventions of men by the cunning and art of the whorish spirit which is very taking and specious to the eye of man whereby it comes to pass that this whorish woman hath been taken for the spouse of Christ and her Merchants for his Ministers The day of God is the pulling up by the roots every plant which is not of the Lords planting and the fire of the fierce wrath and indignation of God passing thorough the bryars and thorns for the consuming of them and the plowing up the fallow ground and preparing and digging and dunging of it whereby it may become good and fruitful that the pure and tender plant and seed of truth sown therein may grow up and become a tree filled with the fruits of righteousness and holiness this seed hath long lyen as it were barren in the earth which hath been as a Wilderness and brought forth the Vines of Sodom and Grapes of Gomorah but now the Lord hath looked upon the earth and pittied it for the seeds sake and hath sent forth and is sending his servants to till and dress it that it may be for the Lord and master of it a garden of pleasure and now the truth which hath been long holden down in and under unrighteousness is arising and shall arise throughout the whole earth in victory and dominion over all And we the Lords People called in derision Quakers and mocked and persecuted by the World as all the Children of God before us have been because we are not of them and they know us not do witness this day of God come and broke up among us in pure perfect brightness to the fulfilling all these things aforesaid every one in their measure and yet more abundantly to be fulfilled and his Kingdom revealed with power and great glory in our hearts and the Lord hath brought back our Captivity as the streams of the south whereat we are as those that dream for joy and we who sat by the Rivers of Babylon hanging our harps upon the Willow Trees are now returned to Zion having our hearts and our mouths filled with the Songs thereof and our Harps harping the sweet Praises of our God in the Land of our Nativity And the Lord hath redeemed us out of Kindreds Nations Tongues and People to be a peculiar people unto himself a choice Generation a royal Priesthood and holy Nation zealous of good works to shew forth the Praises of him who hath called us out of darkness into his marvelous Light which hath shined forth in beams of Glory through the darkness in us to the dispelling and swallowing up thereof by its brightness and the Light is very dear and precious unto us and we cannot deny it notwithstanding all the opposition we meet with from a wicked perverse World shut up in darkness and because they in the state they are in cannot comprehend it therefore they mock persecute and blasphem both it and the vessels thereof and they would have us to disown the Light and cease to bear our testimony unto it because they hate the Light themselves being it reproves their evil deeds and makes manifest the hidden things of dishonesty which they are loath should be known therefore they would have the Light quenched stopt and buried least their wickedness be seen hence it is that people of all Professions ranks orders qualities and degrees Rulers Teachers Priests and People Scribes Lawyers Doctors and Disputers of this World have and do oppose the Light and such who testifie of it least their pride pomp ambition lust tyranny deceit covetousness and other evil deeds which are rife among them should be made manifest and men of all callings hate the Light for deceit treachery unrighteousness hath seated and spread it self over all and taken a dominion in the Earth and is loath to quit it and therefore it puts into the hearts of all its subjects to oppose the Light which if it get footing in the earth will put a period to its raign and finish transgression and bring in everlasting Righteousness And the Devil sets men upon the opposing the Light least it bind him and cast him out of his place and spoile his house and break his Kingdom dashing it as a potters vessel into pieces and the Whore mystery Babylon the mother of Fornications hates the Light and puts into the hearts of the Kings and powers of the earth to make war with the Lamb the Light and the Children of it for that is it which discovers the cup of her Fornications and sorceries unto men and makes manifest her whorish mire whereby she may be discerned and when she is known the same Kings and Princes and great ones on the earth who upheld her shall come to loath and hate her and burn her flesh with fire and now glory to the Lord who hath shewed us Light and placed it in our hearts and hath raised and is raising it up over all opposition whatsoever in us and by this Light we have discovered the Whore the Antichrist the Beast the Dragon the subtle Serpent the false Prophet with all their subtle workings and deceivableness of unrighteousness we have seen the Land of graven Images and the wilderness where there is no way we have so long walked in hungry and thirsty and our souls fainting in us and our tongue failing with thirst and the light hath given us an out-gate shewed us an entrance into the way of life and path of righteousness holiness which the Vultures eye can never reach this path at the beginning appeared to us very strait

God having experience of the saving work of his right hand on their hearts who speak because they believe and are indued with power from on high and filled with the holy Ghost whereby they are made able Ministers of the new Testament having received gifts by the ascending of Christ on high even for the rebellious that he may dwell among them for the work of the Ministry to the perfecting of the Saints and edifying of the body and such Minister from the Light and from the Life and from the power and Spirit and Word of God whereby those to whom they Minister may come into the fellowship of the mystery with themselves and be made partakers with them of the Unction or anointing from the holy one which may be with them for ever and a teacher unto them of all things good necessary and expedient for them to know even to bring them unto the Spirit of truth which may lead them into all truth and instruct them in the will councel and commandement of God at all times whatever it be and to espouse them unto Jesus Christ the great King and Lawgiver in and to his People the great high Priest from whose mouth the Law is to be received the great Prophet by whom God speaketh now to his People wherof Moses writes who is the head in all things and who so will not hear that Prophet shall be put to death and this Prophet Jesus Christ is nigh unto us yea more nigh then all the men or books upon the face of the earth he is both our Maker and our Husband the anointed of the Lord the breath of our nostrils so that our fellowship and communion with him is most intimate and immediate and nothing else does satisfie our souls but the immediate imbraces of his dear and sweet love the seeing of his Countenance which is comely and the hearing of his voice which is pleasant and powerful and glorious and full of Majesty and the Bride rejoyceth greatly because of the voice of the Bridegroom himself and now we need not say who will go down into the grave and bring up Christ to us or who will ascend to Heaven to bring him down to us or who will go over the Seas and bring us tidings of him from Ierusalem where he suffered in the flesh him whose name is the Word of God Rev. 19. we of a truth witness nigh us even in our hearts so that we need not either ascend or descend or go forth the word of life the word of power the word of faith which Paul preached and Moses before him and all the true Ministers and pointed people to this which was able to save them as they turned their minds thereto and gave up to be taught and led thereby And this the Ministers and Servants of the Lord among the People called Quakers do preach without money or price being the free gift of God and many have believed and received it not as the Word of Men but as it is indeed the Word of God and found it after diligent attendance turning their minds inward thereto to spring up in themselves and to be living and powerful and sharp as a two edged Sword to the dividing of soul and spirit and discerning every thought and intention of the heart and though one evil and unbelieving Generation will not give credit thereto no nor yet those of the National Ministry who give themselves forth for the Ministers of Christ but are found lyars they call it a fancy and delusion and turn People from it which is the only Rock that can save them yet we know it to be the Word of God and we have tasted the Heavenly sweetness of it yea and our very hands have handled that Word of Life and we have hid it in our hearts as an only Treasure and we do daily and hourly witness the pretiousness and worth thereof for it is the food of our souls the food of Angels the living bread which came down from Heaven to give life unto the World the Manna incorruptible which feedeth us unto life everlasting and when we are an hungred it refresheth us and satisfieth our souls with good things it 's milk to the babes and flesh to the strong it 's health to our navil and marrow to our bones it 's the bread which strengthneth mans heart and the wine which maketh it glad and oyle which maketh his face to shine and when we thirst living water springeth forth from this word of life in our hearts and ministreth drink unto us out of the living fountain and we witness the promise fulfilled he that believeth in me Christ the Word out of his belly shall flow a well spring of liveing water and when we are weak and our hands hang down and our knees wax feeble the Word maketh us strong and lifteth us up as an Eagles wings so that we run and are not weary and walk and are not faint and when we are heavy through sorrow the Word springeth forth in streams of pure joy and consolation from the presence of the Lord which causeth us to forget all our former troubles and we are comforted in our God in all our straits and difficulties and when temptations from the Devil and his Instruments assault us and the powers of darkness environe and surround us as if they would swallow us up the Word sendeth forth sweet and comfortable beams of Light and openeth the eye-lids of the morning upon us and breaketh through the thick Egiptian darkness as a fiery flaming sword and divideth asunder and giveth us victory and deliverance And when we are hated of the World the Word saith peace in us and causeth it to flow into our souls like the waves of the Sea and when Sathan transformes himself with his Messengers into an Angel of Light that he may deceive us coming up out of the deep with Samuels Mantle the Word of truth which searcheth into all the depths of Satan and to the bottom of the mystery of iniquity discovereth to us the foulers snare and the voice of the inchanter so that our souls escape as a bird out of the net and the Word defends us by night and by day so that we need not fear the terror by night nor the arrow that flyeth by day nor the pestilence that walketh in darkness being girded with the sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God and the Word is a light to our feet and a Lanthorn to our pathes the V●im and the Thummim by which the Lord answers us and giveth us counsel in all things pertaining either to the temporal or eternal life and herein we meditate day and night and by it are we made wiser then our Teachers and it 's sweeter to us then the honey and the honey comb and more precious then thousands of gold or silver and in the Word our fellowship stands with God and one to another whereby we know and enjoy and have communion one