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A dissenter from those (by some) called Foxonian Quakers, having lately put forth a paper for the exaltation of the Lord's Christ, &c. which a certain person having read over again and again, and hoping it may be profitable to many, hath caused it to be reprinted as following, that so it may be more universally spread abroad for its further service.
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best Service we are enabled to do by the gracious Assistance of his Spirit as He said by way of Caution lest they might imagine that they merited Life by their Service or be too much self-conceited c. Luke 17.10 When 〈◊〉 shall have done all those things which are commanded you say We are unprofitable Servants we have done that which was our Duty to do So here is all Vain-boasting excluded and by all our Performances there is to be no claiming a Right or Title by way of Merit to the Kingdom of God for it is by Grace free unmerited Grace that we are saved through Faith in our LORD JESUS and that not of our selves it is the Gift of GOD not of Works lest any Man should boast Ephes 2.8 9. Such as before is said who sincerely love our dear LORD JESVS and nobly confess Him for His dear Names-sake and can say that they count all things even all their own Righteousness as the Apostle did Phil. 3.9 but as Dung and Dross in comparison of Christ and to be found in him not having our own Righteousness which is of the Law but that which is through the Faith of Christ c. It is for you Friends that Christ is gone before to prepare a Place in the heavenly Mansions of Glory whom He will own and confess as you persevere faithful to the end in that great and last Day of general Account when all Nations shall stand before Him and He will separate one from another as a Shepherd divideth his Sheep from the Goats setting the Sheep on his right Hand and the Goats on his left Hand and will say to the Sheep Come ye blessed of my Father inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the Foundation of the World With undaunted Courage therefore and with a Holy Boldness let us hold fast the Profession of our Faith looking unto Jesus who is the Author and the Finisher thereof He will be as we continue in his Word Heb. 12.2 Who for the Joy that was set before Him endured the Cross despising the Shame and is set down at the right Hand of the Throne of GOD Whom altho we have not seen with our bodily Eyes we love in whom tho now we see Him not yet believing we rejoice with Joy unspeakable and full of Glory 1 Pet. 1.8 Who is not entred into the Holy Places made with Hands which are the Figures of the true but into Heaven it self now to appear in the Presence of GOD for us Heb. 9.24 And He hath made the same Jesus whom the Jews crucified both Lord and Christ Acts 2.36 And as said the Apostle to the believing Corinthians unto whom he zealously preached Christ crucified and among whom he determined not to know any thing 1 Cor. 2.2 save Jesus Christ and Him crucified for says he in 2 Cor. 8.9 Ye know the Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ that tho He was rich yet for your sake and ours too He became poor that ye through His Poverty might be rich And when He shall change our vile Bodies that they may be fashioned like unto his glorious Body according to the working whereby he is able to subdue all things to Himself Phil. 2.21 Then shall we and all Saints be compleatly rich and everlastingly happy in all respects And this Riches which our Blessed Lord Jesus will give unto all his faithful Followers and true Believers in Him and which now in time doth give an Earnest of is truly worthy our diligent seeking after above all things visible it being a Portion that none can deprive us of and the real Enjoyment of it in any measure is very comfortable and supporting in the time of great need when we shall leave this World and launch into the boundless Ocean of Eternity O then no bare Profession of Religion tho never so resined will stand us in any stead but only the real Possession of the Life thereof as blessed be the LORD I can speak something by Experience having been often much visited with bodily Weakness which through Mercy I have been helped to bear and esteem it as that which my heavenly Father saw best for me And when I have been weak and low not knowing whether the Lord would be pleased to restore me to bodily Health again which blessed be His Holy Name I now enjoy far beyond what I have often expected I can truly say that the inward Meditation of the unspeakable Love of GOD to the Children of Men through His dear SON hath very deeply affected my Soul And I hope without any Self-boasting at all but to the Praise only of the most worthy Name of my dear LORD be it spoken He hath been pleased of late time to reveal and demonstrate to my Understanding both immediately and instrumentally divers weighty precious Gospel-Truths necessary to Salvation and they are more clearly opened to me than formerly tho the LORD knows I have in the Sincerity of my Heart desired and that in the deep Humility of my Soul the true and living Knowledg of those things which appertain to our eternal Peace and everlasting Well-being with him for ever Now Friends being right sensible that the time hastens on apace upon us all that nothing can stand in any stead but a true Interest in Christ and a full Assurance through His Spirit in our Hearts that we have a Right to that incorruptible Inheritance which is received through Faith in Him And now through his great Love and Mercy He hath brought me truly to esteem HIM His Doctrine and Truth more than ever I trust it shall be my greatest Concern while I have a Being through his divine Aid and Assistance to exalt Him over all and to confess Him and to follow Him whithersoever he leads whatsoever Oppositions or Discouragements I may meet with in the way So being through the great Goodness of GOD in a true Sense of these things my Heart is opened in tender Love to the whole Flock and Family of Christ where-ever dispersed and under what Denomination or by what Profession soever distinguished even all who sincerely love our blessed Lord Jesus and truly believe in Him and depend only upon Him for Life and Salvation who are given up to honour Him in their Day by a sober and Christian Life in Faithfulness and Obedience to the Measure of Light and Dispensation of Grace and Knowledg they have received desiring to advance further and come nearer to the LORD Unto all such without respect to Persons is the Salutation of unfeigned Love universally extended in that never-dying Life of our blessed and only supreme Head and glorious Captain of our Salvation the Lord Jesus Christ in some measure of whose pure Life and heavenly Presence I have felt a Concern upon me for some time to write these things for the stirring up the pure Mind in all by way of Remembrance of the many Obligations we are under that so we all together may persevere to the end and join together as one Man in contending 〈◊〉 for the Faith that was once delivered to the Saints with holy Zeal but truly qualified by the Spirit of LOVE and MEEKNESS and so fight the good Fight of Faith and finish our Course with Joy and in the End receive the everlasting Crown of Life and Glory which GOD hath laid up in store for all who truly believe in and sincerely love the blessed Appearance of our dear LORD and Saviour JESUS CHRIST to whom be Glory both now and for ever Amen Reading the Month called July 1696. M. S. London Printed in the Year 1696. and are to be sold with the other Impression at George Keith's at the Golden Ball in White-chappel