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A33498	The books and divers epistles of the faithful servant of the Lord Josiah Coale collected and published, as it was desired by him the day of his departure out of this life.	Coale, Josiah, 1632?-1668.; Coale, Josiah, 1632?-1668. Collection of the several books of Josiah Coale.; Coale, Josiah, 1632?-1668. Whore unvailed.; Coale, Josiah, 1632?-1668. Vindication of the light within.; Parker, Alexander, 1628-1689.; Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.; Penn, William, 1644-1718.	1671 (1671)	Wing C4751_PARTIAL; Wing C4760A_PARTIAL_CANCELLED; ESTC R23397	193,793	414

of darkness by which all who are guided by it comes to receive power over sin which made a separation between God and you And this is he which the Holy Prophets of God prophesied of in the dayes of old who is given a Light to lighten the Gentiles and for Salvation to the Ends of the Earth And whom Moses said the People should hear and said that he that would not hear this Prophet which the Lord should raise up to wit Christ Jesus the Light of the World Even he should be Cut off from amongst the People and therefore every one you being enlightened with a measure of the Light which comes from this Prophet Christ Jesus by whom the World was made and whom the people is to hearken to it is a thing of concerment to you all to wait to hear his voice who calls your minds out of the vanities of the World and the love thereof that you may hear live and no longer to spend your labour for that which doth not satisfie the soul But to hearken diligently to the Voice of God who is Light that you may come to eat of that which is good and let your Souls delight in fatness and so every out who prizeth the Everlasting Peace and welfare of your Souls beyond the pleasures and delights of the World Return unto him who calls in your minds out of the visible and perishing things of this World and the love thereof and wait to know the Sword of the Lord Jesus Christ who is the Prince of Peace to Cut down the Transgressor in every particular of you and to know the Righteous Law of God revealed in you to take hold on the unrighteous Nature which hath led you into Rebellion against God and against his pure witness in you which hath long called for purity and for a holy Life and a godly Conversation that so into purity and holiness you might all come without which none can see the Lord And so they who comes to the Light of Christ in them such comes to that which is pure and holy with which they may come to see God And Friends This is the Word of the Lord God to you all and his Everlasting Counsel to you all who have desires in Truth and Righteousness to walk in the way of Life that you hearken diligently to the Voice of God the Light in every one of your Consciences and to it be obedient at all times in whatsoever it makes manifest to be the mind and Will of God the Father that so his will may be done by you in Earth as it is in Heaven and that your sins and iniquities may be blotted out by him for his own Names sake Who is now arisen for his Glories sake which hath been long trampled upon and for his Seeds sake which hath long cry'd unto him from under the burden of oppression which hath ruled above the pure in every one of you And the Cries and Groanings of the Oppressed hath entered into the Ears of the Lord God of Rest and he is arisen and is zealous for his Glory And in the valley of Judgment will he plead with Egypts King and with all the Host of the Egyptians and by his out-stretched Arm will he bring deliverance unto his own Elect Seed and the Host of the Egyptians will he destroy in the Red-Sea of his Wrath and then shall the Seed rejoyce over its Oppressors And so Friends as you hearken to and obey the Voice of the Lord the Angel of his presence you will see leading you in the way in which he will have you to walk and beware of him and obey his voice for he will not at all pardon your transgressions any more Exod. 23.20 21. But will give a just reward to every one according to their deeds whether they be good or whether they be evil And so that you may come and receive the reward of Everlasting Life which is enjoyed in my Fathers Kingdom Every one be good and faithful Servants and improve your Talents which is committed to you that so when the Lord shall come you may be found doing his will and not your own So shall an enterance be Administred unto you into the Kingdom which is without end where you may feed on the Heavenly Manna and drink of the water of Life out of the Wells of Salvation even abundantly and be filled and your Souls satisfied therewith And so Friends and people arise and come out of Death you that have desires after the way of Life and Salvation Which is now Preached freely and be all obedient to the measure of the Grace of God which bringeth Salvation which hath appeared unto you and believe in the Light which you are enlightned withal for saith Christ I am the Light of the World he that believeth in me shall not abide in darkness but shall have the Light of Life and this is the sure word of Prophesie unto which you do well if you take heed as unto a light that shines in a dark place until the day dawn and the Day-star arise in your hearts which Star being followed will lead unto the knowledge of the Saviour as it did the wise men who found him lying in a manger for there was no room for him in the Inn because it was full of other guests him that reads let him understand and so when you have found him according to the Angels Inteligence though it be but in a low place in you yet wait to know him to grow in stature and you in him to increase in Wisdom and in Favour with God for truly People no Union nor Fellowship with God can be known by you until you come to be Obedient to the Son of God and to hear him in whom the Father is well pleased and in whom alone we are accepted of God and by whom we have free access to his Throne of Grace where he sits at the Right hand of the Majesty on High Judging and Condemning all who walk contrary to his Light and that disobey the Gospel which is now Preached and justifieth and giveth life unto all that obey and follow him and stand in his Counsel which is the desire of my Soul that you all may do who have desires in the least measure after this Life of Holiness And for your sakes have I written these Lines according as the Lord gave it me by his Spirit Who am a true lover of all your Souls and a Labourer and Traveller for the Seeds sake which is Scattered throughout the Earth That those who are wandering upon the Barron Mountains and in desolate places may be gathered into the Everlasting Rest and Fold of Jesus Christ with me to lie down in peace and safety where none can make us afraid Josiah Coale A SALUTATION TO THE Suffering-Seed OF GOD Wherein the Things are Declared and Signified before-hand that must shortly come to pass DEarly beloved Friends Brethern and Sisters Babes Lambs and Children who

already proved the true Church was interrupted and yet remained 4. But then said A. S. If any can say that there hath remained any other Church on Earth since Christs time unto this day without interruption and error let him tell what was she or what is she where was she or where is she what is her name what Bishops Pastors and Believers had she or yet hath she what Emperors or Kings did adhere to her or now do what general Councils did she hold what Hereticks did she condemn what Academies did she erect or confirm what Churches or Monastries did she build c. And then said he To these and such like Interrogatories all the Schismaticks Sectaries and Hereticks in the World cannot answer Answ To which I answer Although all the Sectaries in the World cannot answer those questions yet there are many who are Members of the true Church not of the Church of Rome that can answer them and first I say there hath remained another Church since Christs time to this day besides the Roman Pontificial that now is though not without interruption yet the true Church as before proved was interrupted And as to those questions viz. What was she or what is she c. I answer she was in Johns day a wonder in Heaven a Woman cloathed with the Sun that and there she was and the Moon was under her Feet and upon her Head a Crown of twelve Stars Rev. 12.1 And having brought forth a man-child that was to rule all Nations with his rod of Iron the enmity of the Dragon then arose who sought to devour the Man-child but being by the Hand of God prevented of his purpose on the man-child ver 5. he than cast out his flood of Persecution after the Woman ver 15. of whom this Ruler was born and drove her into the Wilderness whither she fled from him to her place prepared of God that they might feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore dayes Rev. 12.6.14 * To A. S. his Query viz. where was she and there she hath been and there she hath sitten as in a sollitary place and in a Mourning State and Condition out of which she * To where is she is now returning and is now coming up out of the Wilderness and is descending from God as a Bride adorned for her Husband Rev. 21.2 and her * To A. S's query what is her name name is the Bride the Lambs Wife the holy City ver 9. New Jerusalem And now is Jerusalem shaking her self from the Dust of the Earth in which she hath been trodden of the Gentiles and now is she putting on her beautiful Garments and now doth the Solitary begin to rejoyce and the barren that did not bear begins to break forth into singing Isa 54.1 And the things that many prophets desired to see and could not see is now seen and revealing glory to God in the highest The day is come which we have waited for we will be glad and rejoyce in it and now the Time Times and a half Time is expired in which the true Church hath been fed in the Wilderness and now is the forty and two Moneths expired also for which Time the holy City hath been trodden under foot of the Gentiles Rev. 11.2 in which Time the Beast had power given him to continue Rev. 13.5 and the whole World wondered after him and worshipped him and in that Time it was given unto him to make war with the Saints and to overcome them and he received power over all Kindreds and Tongues and Nations that all that dwelt upon the Earth should worship him whose names were not written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the Foundation of the World if any man have an Ear let him hear Rev. 13.7 8 9. And this was the Time that the true Church was in her mourning state which now begins to be over Glory to God for ever the day of rejoycing is come And for her Bishops Pastors and Believers that she had I answer Christ was and is her Bishop and chief Pastor 1 Pet. 2.25 And the rest after the Apostles days were they that fed her in the Wilderness and her Believers were those that had the Testimony of Jesus Rev. 12.17 whose Blood the Whore drunk And they are now her Believers whose Blood the Whore thirsts after And as to that question viz. What Emperors or Kings did adhere to her or now do Answ I answer On this wise did the Pharisees Query with those Officers whom they sent to take Jesus and bring him unto them saying Have any of the Rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him Joh. 7.48 Well what Emperors or Kings did adhere to him at that time Was he not therefore the true Christ because the Rulers of the World and the Pharisees rejected him And what said the Apostle to the true Church in his day You see your calling Brethren how that not many wise men after the Flesh not many mighty nor noble c. but God hath chosen the foolish things of this World to confound the wise c. that Flesh might not glory in his Presence 1 Cor. 1.26 27. And further the Apostle who preacht Christ said That he preached the Wisdom of God in a Mistery which none of the Princes of the World know c. 1 Cor. 2.7 8. By which it appeares that none of the Princes of the World knew Christ the Wisdom of God 1 Cor. 1.24 And the true Church was in the World as Christ was for the Apostle said as 〈◊〉 so are we in this present World 1 Joh. 4.17 And 〈◊〉 World knows as not ver 1. because it knew not him So that understanding the Princes of this World knew not Christ when he was amongst them and although the Rulers believed not in him nor did adhere to him when he was come yet that did not argue that he was not the true Christ And notwithstanding it was so that the true Church was unknown to the World and was composed not of many wise men after the flesh nor of the Nobles of the Earth but was persecuted by them as she is at this day yet she was the true Church for all that And seeing it was so that the Princes and Rulers did not adhere to her in the time of her flourishing state when she was cloathed with the Sun how can it be expected that they should adhere to her in her persecuted state and in her mourning Wilderness-state for a rich man shall very hardly enter the Kingdom Mat. 19.23 but there is more in them words And moreover seeing the Kings of the Earth committed Fornication with the great Whore and went into her how then can it possibly be expected that they should adhere to the true Church Surely all who have a spiritual eye open may be hereby satisfied as to this particular And further as to that Query viz. What general Councils did she hold and what

and no thing is hard unto me though bonds and travels attend me yet the comfort of his Spirit is with me and all places are alike unto me both the roaring Sea and the dry Land because of his Omnipresence who created them all And this is the Mighty God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob who is with me who fills my heart daily with his Love and causeth his Blessing and Living Vertue to abound so that my Cup doth overflow for which I Bless and Magnifie his Name and Sound forth his Praises through the Horn of his own Anointed And this is the God whom David served who is now with me even he that made him wiser then his Teachers and gave him more understanding then the Ancients and delivered him out of the Mouth of the Lion and from the paw of the dovouring Bear and gave the Life of the uncircumcised Philistine into his hand even he it is that doth accompany me and carry me through all my travels who spake to Moses out of the Bush when it was on Fire and was not consumed at whose voice Moses feared and trembled exceedingly and this is he of whom I make my Boast who leads me whethersoever he pleaseth And who shall withstand him in his way and not fall before him for the lofty City he bringeth it down he layeth it low even with the dust Wherefore howl ye Inhabitants thereof For behold your desolation cometh swiftly and none shall be able to hinder it for the Destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way and who is he that can withstand him or be able to deliver you out of the just hand of the Almighty for he is greater and stronger then all whose Controversie is certainly great with you and will assuredly plead with you in his jealousie and in his fierce indignation and you shall not escape his hand for he will find you out whatsoever covering you hide your selves under and he will recompence every one according to their doings for all things are naked and bare before him with whom we have to do And his Kingdom of Righteousness shall be exalted over all the Kingdoms of the Earth and the Lord God Omnipotent shall raign and the Powers of Darkness must bow before him that sits upon the Throne and rides upon the white Horse whose name is called Faithful and true and in righteousness he doth judge and make War wherefore let the Armies that are in Heaven rejoyce that follow him upon white Horses for your Enemies shall be given into your hands for a prey and by their spoil shall you be enriched He that hath an Ear to Hear let him Hear what the Spirit saith which now speaketh expresly and signifieth the things that must shortly come to pass Wherefore put on valour and courage you heads of the Army of the Lords Heavenly Host who are in the front of the Battel and art oft-times deeply engaged in War with the Beast and false Prophet who must be taken alive and cast into the Lake I say unto you my beloved Brethren and Fellow-Souldiers whose Weapons are not carnal but spiritual and mighty through God I am not insensible of your travels combats and oppositions and hardships which daily you meet withal but in my measure partake with you and do truly travel in your strength I speak to the wise in heart and I also partake with you of the everlasting Consolation which daily abounds so that we need not faint in our minds nor in our hearts though our Enemies seem many in number and great in strength for the Lord the mighty God of Jacob is with us even the Mighty Jehovah is on our side and this you fully know and it is not because you know not these things that I write thus unto you but because you know it and can seal this Testimony and that you may be refreshed hereby and he it is that fights all our Battels for us and all Nations are but as a drop of a Bucket before him and the hearts of Kings are in his hand and he can turn them as the Rivers of Waters who turns a Fruitfull Land into barrenness for the wickedness of them that dwell therein Oh my beloved Brethren how doth my Soul love you and cleave unto you how oft are you in my Remembrance and sweet pleasant and delightful is the Remembrance of you unto me your Beauty ofttimes even ravisheth my Heart and at this time even overcomes me your Crown is glorious which I behold and the might of the Power with which you are endued and by which you are armed who can declare Oh go on therefore you mighty men of War you valiant Champions of the Lord's Host lay waste the heritage of the wicked that the heritage of the godly may flourish Let the Nations feel the stroke of the Hand of the God of David who is with you who smote the Philistine that defied the Armies of the living God that he dyed Let the Enemies of Gods Truth be smitten in the hinder parts that they may fall and never rise again For Gog and Magog have set themselves in Battel against the Lord and the Bryers and Thorns shall set themselves in array but Oh how will he dash them to pieces like a Potters Vessel of Clay and how will he burn them up and consume them with the Fire of his Jealousie and fierce Indignation and Wrath how will he consume it and lay waste until the Spoyler be utterly spoiled and the Devourer laid waste for the Cryes of the Oppressed and Distressed Suffering Seed is entered into the Ears of the Lord God of Sabboth and he hath assuredly regard thereunto and he hath awakened and made bare his Arm that cut Rahab and wounded the Dragon in the dayes of old and he hath rouzed up himself as a man out of Sleep and hath put on the Garments of Vengeance for clothing and is clad with Zeal as with a Cloak and fury to his Adversaries he will repay and he will certainly plead the cause of his own Elest who have no other helper in the Earth Wherefore all you suffering Lambs of the True Shepherds Fold be of good chear and of good comfort and suffer patiently whatsoever the Enemy shall be suffered or permitted to inflict upon you for the tryal of your faith and eternally I say unto you it will be your Crown for ever and everlasting reward shall you receive from the hand of the Almighty when you have been tried throughly then shall you appear in the Beauty of holiness and your sorrow shall be turned into rejoycing and for your affliction you shall have the everlasting comfort of Gods good Spirit which shall abide with you forever and the wicked and those that hate you shall be clothed with shame and everlasting contempt and confusion shall cover them for the Mouth of the Lord hath spoken it Wherefore put on courage and strength in the Name of the Lord and lift up your heads above

And whereas he saith Let us labour with God for his blessed Spirit to guide us in all Truth He therein seems to own Truth to be a Mystery within also for if the Spirit be to be receiv'd it must be within and the Spirit is Truth because as J. N. elsewhere confesseth It is of the same beeing nature power and tendency with God who is Truth and with Christ who is the Truth And the Spirit is the Unction which was received from the Holy One which was True and not a Lye so here he seems to own Truth a Mystery within the Spirit being Mystery which before he said was contrary to Truth 's Intent and thus his Confusion appears from time to time And moreover if in such a dangerous time as he supposes this to be the Spirit be the only Thing to be labour'd for as a Guide to lead in all Truth wherefore then does he so much cry against the Quakers whose Principle it is and also their Practice To labour with people to wait for the Spirit 's Operation that by it as the most certain Guide they may be led into all Truth Hath he not also oppos'd himself hereby who not long before asserted the Scriptures to be the only Rule which do but testifie of the Spirit which now he would have people labour for as a Guide in all Truth which indeed is the only Guide without which the Scriptures cannot be known because they are things of God and the things of God know no man but the Spirit of God and he to whom the Spirit of God reveals them And he saith Let us not be hasty to receive an Opinion before we have weighed the same by the Law and Testimony seeing there are many false spirits gone out into the world Answ That there are many false spirits gone out into the World I grant and that is a false babilonish spirit that contradicts it self as the spirit of J.N. has done as before shew'd And that is the true Spirit of Grace which teacheth to live God-like in this present World but that which leads into Confusion is not God-like but such is the spirit of J.N. therefore not to be receiv'd And that all Opinions and Spirits are to be try'd by the Law and Testimony I own but what is this Law and Testimony is it not the Light and Spirit in the inward parts for Solomon said The Law is Light and the Angel said The Testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of Prophesie Pro. 6.23 Rev. 19.11 So here is the Law and Testimony declar'd which I dare say J.N. never intended to direct people to as a Touch-stone to try Opinions by as he call them And is not this Light the Law of the Spirit which the Apostle speaks of and which he sometimes called The perfect Law of Liberty Jam. 1.25 And by this Law indeed Paul said He was set free from the Law of sin and death So as the Prophet said Let all to the Law and to the Testimony or as the Apostle said Look into the perfect Law of Liberty the Law of the Spirit or Light thereof in the inward parts for this is that perfect Rule that leads in the Way in which a Wayfaring-man though a Fool cannot err And without this there are none able to understand the Scriptures nor to practise them because of our selves we can do nothing yet we are willing to having our Doctrines Principles and Practices try'd by the Scriptures of Truth But then saith J.N. the most dangerous spirit is this that draws all the Happiness of this Life and that which is to come into man and finishes all the Glory of man at the brink of the Grave Answ If by the Glory of man he means the Glory of Man as simply a Creature then I do say all that is to be finish'd at the brink of the Grave for it s but the glory of Flesh which as the Flower of the Grass passeth away But if by the Glory of man he means that which the Wise in Heart shall inherit Prov. 3.35 and which is the Reward of those before whom the Righteousness of God goeth then I know none except Athiests and Ranters that affirm or assert any such thing and I say also that is the most dangerous spirit of all and to be shun'd by all But that spirit which would keep people out of an Expectation of seeing and beholding that Glory that is endless while on this side the Grave is not much inferior as to the Ill-consequences of it to the other for that would deprive people of the chief Happiness of this Life and of the happy Enjoyment of that Glory which their Peace and Joy is full of in believing while they remain on this side the Grave and may also endanger to deprive them of the enjoyment of that which is to be receiv'd in the Life that is to come For if the Earnest of the incorruptible Inheritance which is a part thereof be not receiv'd in this Life what true Comfort can there be enjoy'd in this Life So then that Spirit of Grace or Word of Grace which manifests its Light and Strength in the Inward Parts by its own Operation for the begetting of Faith in and concerning it self in all that hear and receive it this I say is not to be shunn'd but adhered unto by all as unto the Author of true Faith seeing Faith cometh by Hearing and hearing by the Word of God and the Word is nigh thee in thy Heart and in thy Mouth Rom. 10.17 and the Spirit is in the inward parts which with the Word is one by which Faith is given And all that hear this Word and obey this Spirit of Faith shall doubtless behold the Glory of the Word as the Apostles did even as the Glory of the only Begotten of the Father full of Grace and Truth and shall doubtless know that Faith in which is Peace and Joy unspeakable and full of Glory and this will be unto them an Earnest of the Everlasting Inheritance that never fades by which they will be assured of the full Possession thereof when time shall be no more And thus having examin'd the principal matters in this Book viz. Concerning the Scriptures being the Word of God and the perfect Rule and the sad Consequences which he saith will follow the denying of them so to be and concerning Christ being the Word really so and as he saith but comparatively so and concerning Christ being a Saviour as he is God or a Saviour only as he hath a Body of Flesh and concerning his being in Heaven with the Father at his Right-hand and his being in man really so I say having gone through with these things and spoken as to them I shall leave them to the Judgement of the Judicious Reader desiring of God by his own Spirit to give a right Understanding unto all that desire after him that they may know him that is true to be manifested in them that they may by his spirit be baptized into him to live and have their Beeing in him that so they may understand the things that appertain to his Kingdom and to their own everlasting Peace that in the Faith of the Unchangable Truth they may stand as Mount Sion that cannot be moved And the rest of his Book consisting of a large pretended Answer to six Queries that were sent to him by a certain Person whom I do not well know I shall not much concern my self therein at this time though I do acknowledge that divers things therein contained do concern the Truth which I profess and therein I am concerned but it consists chiefly of things that I have already spoken to so that what I have written may serve for an Answer to all for it would be superfluous to reiterate that which in substance I have already gone over J. C. A TESTIMONY Concerning LODOWICK MUGGLETON FOR as much as I have been informed That Lodowick Muggleton hath vaunted concerning my departure out of the Body because of his pretended Sentence of Damnation given against me I am moved to leave this Testimony concerning him behind me viz. That he is a Son of Darkness and a Co-Worker with the Prince of the Bottomless Pit in which his Inheritance shall be forever And the Judgment I passed on him when with him stands seal'd by the Spirit of the Lord by which I then declar'd unto him That in the Name of that God that spanneth the Heaven with his Span and measureth the Waters in the hollow of his Hand I bind thee here on Earth and thou art bound in Heaven and in the Chain under Darkness to the Judgment of the great Day thou shalt be reserved and thy faith and strength thou boastest of I defie and trample under Foot And I do hereby further declare the said Lodowick to be a false Prophet in what he said to me at that time who told me That from henceforth I should be always in fear of Damnation which should be a Sign to me that I was damned which Fear I was never in since so that his Sign given by himself did not follow his Prophesie which sufficiently declares him to be a false Prophet Josiah Coale What Josiah Coale spake a little time before he died to Friends that were about him WEll Friends Be faithful to God and have a single Eye to his glory and seek nothing for self or your own glory and if any thing arise judge it down by the Power of the Lord God that so you may be clear in his Sight and answer his Witness in all People then will you have the Reward of LIFE For my part I have walked in Faithfulness with the Lord and I have Peace with the Lord and his Majesty is with me and his Crown of Life is upon me So mind my Love to all Friends Then he ceased speaking After he spake to S. C. saying Dear Heart keep low in the Holy Seed of God that will be thy Crown He said after A minister of Christ must walk as he walked THE END