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A30837
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A general epistle to the flock of God, but more particularly in Cumberland
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Banks, John, 1637-1710.
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1698
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Wing B655; ESTC R28345
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Names are written in Heaven In that hour Iesus Rejoyced in Spirit and said I thank thee O Father Lord of Heaven and Earth that thou hadst hid these things from the Wise and Prudent and hast revealed them unto Babes even so Father for so it seemed good in thy sight What remains for you then to say oh saith the truly humbled what manner of Love is this where withall the Lord my God hath loved me and visited my Soul And more especially in a day and time when I was an Enemy in my Mind to him by wicked works oh saith such I am constrained to love him again and to fear him always that I may in no wise offend him so Good and Gracious a God so Dear and Tender a Father Lord and Master who hath dealt so kindly and favourably with me not according to my desert for saith some I was unworthy that his Love should reach me What were we such And yet notwithstanding all this and much more hath the Lord with whom there is no respect of Persons loved us freely in a time acceptable never to be forgotten tho' you were such oh be humbled bowed and laid low before him under the consideration and sense of his love that our Hearts may be often broken and truly tendered thereby for if the love of God do not work that effect therein nothing can but all that carefully in true fear dwell in a sense thereof because of what thereby the Lord has done for them the secret cry of their Soul is oh I can never do enough for the Lord to answer his love and the Knowledge of his blessed Truth he hath given me and not only so but because of the Divine Sweetness and abounding thereof that I have many times felt to spring a-fresh in my Heart and Soul in waiting upon him Wherefore such is made often to say there is nothing that I have and do enjoy that is so near and dear to me but I can freely part with and forgoe for the Lord and his worthy names sake being all I have and do Enjoy it is the Lord's so can his redeemed say with a good understanding not only their Souls and Bodies but all they have and do enjoy is his So Dear and Suffering Friends blessed and happy are all whose Godly Resolution this is that is thus redeemed by his Power hold fast and continue your Godly Resolution unto the end in the true Faith and look not out nor give way to the reasoning part for that may hurt you in your Suffering Testimony but look in and keep near the Lord in his pure Light and relie upon the sufficiency of his Power that by waiting and watching therein you may receive strength then you will be Strong and Couragious Bold and Valliant for the Truth upon Earth for he for whose Names sake you suffer has sufficient in store to reward all your Losses Crosses Tryals and Sufferings both here and eternally hereafter and assuredly will not withhold it from you as you stand faithful unto him in your Suffering Testimony unto the end unto which the Lord by his own Power and Arm of Mighty Strength preserve you all Amen Dear Friends I being well stricken in Years cannot promise long time to my self in this World neither ought the Youth I was willing in answer to the Motion of God's blessed Spirit moving upon me to send this Epistle abroad amongst you as a manifest token of my entire love and tender care over the Flock of Christ wishing that Grace Mercy and Peace in and through him may be multiplied and increased amongst you and that Brotherly Love and Unity in the one Spirit of Life may continue and abound more and more and that in all your Meetings and Families you may be blessed with heavenly blessings in Christ Jesus From your Friend and Brother in the Covenant of Light and Life John Banks Given forth at Meare in Somersetshire the 23 d. Day of the 5 th Month 1698.