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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62882	A few words of counsel and advice to all the sons and daughters of men, more especially to the children of believers from the motion of Gods spirit upon my heart, in the love of God that they may come to lead the course of their lives in this world, so as to lay down their heads in peace with the Lord, when time in this world shall be no more.	Tompkins, Anthony, d. 1699.; Needham, Richard.	1687 (1687)	Wing T1830; ESTC R10282	6,165	10

past and in years that are gone convinced me of the vain Fashions of the World in my Trade or Calling but not being faithful to the blessed manifestation of Light nor giving up to the requirings of the Spirit of the Lord upon my mind but after some time let in the Spirit of the World for want of true hearty obedience to the Lord and gave the exercise of my mind and hands to be a Slave to that Spirit that runs into the superfluities of things altogether needless by which my understanding became darkned by reason of disobedience to the heavenly Call in these things my Soul received a great wound I hope I need not mention particular things but all Friends who are concerned may understand what I here hint at as there is a waiting in the light of Life to feel what the Spirit of the Lord moveth against For dear Friends the Lord hath shewed me it is below the Nobility of the Truth which we profess to be as Slaves to that Spirit that runs into these changable things for it is my Testimony it is a destroying the Creation of God and so it is as bad as Gluttony and Drunkenness And so my dear Friends who are convinced of the blessed everlasting Truth be faithful to the Lord I dearly beseech you as one that have been near the brink of the horrible pit of Darkness and have known the stroke of God's dreadful correcting hand for disobedience and have somewhat been acquainted with the misterious wiles of Satan the Enemy of all Righteousness Therefore my dear Friends I beseech you whose hearts the Lord hath touched with his Love be faithful to the Lord and keep out of the vain Fashions of the World and take heed of that curious mind that can hardly be pleased but all wait for the feeling of the Sword of the Spirit the Word of God that slays sin and cuts down Transgression and pierceth through the Scales of the Serpent for his Scales is his Pride shut up together as with a close Seal for he is a King and Rules over all the Children of Pride Therefore Friends watch against him for he hath many Snares and many Gins Therefore my dear Friends wait low upon the Lord that you may feel that which stops Satans Gins and breaks the Bonds of the Wicked One for whosoever is overtaken with these Snares it will lead such from the solid life and so my dear Friends I beseech you be modest and sober that herein you may judge them that run into that vain proud fantastical Spirit which is become as a God amongst People yea as I may say the greatest God that many thousands of People Worship for that which is the chiefest exalted in the heart of Man or in the heart of Woman that 's their God and that they worship and that they fall down unto let it be of what nature soever it is And therefore my dearly beloved Friends I dearly beseech you wait for the feeling of the incorruptible Seed that you may be true born Heirs of that blessed everlasting Kingdom that shall never have an end which comes not with observations as Christ said when he was demanded by the Pharisees when the Kingdom of Heaven should come he said The Kingdom of Heaven comes not with Observations not in the Lo here or the Lo there but behold the Kingdom of Heaven is within you Mark He said to the Scribes and Pharisees tho they did not believe in his Name that the Kingdom of Heaven was within them but they were not in it see ye so the Kingdom of Heaven may be in a man and that man out of the Kingdom therefore Friends let a true and a narrow search be made in every heart and wait for the feeling of that little Seed of the Kingdom which was compared to a grain of Mustard-Seed which is the least of all Seeds But when it i● grown it is the greatest amongst Herbs and becometh a Tree so that the Birds of the Air come and lodge in the Branches thereof Another Parable our Lord and Saviour spake unto them The Kingdom is like unto Leaven which a Woman took and hid in three Measures of Meal till the whole was Leavened therefore let all wait for this that the old nature may be wrought out by the Operation of the word of Life for it is as powerful in its Operation as ever it was it is not at all changed in its Nature or Property but is the same and it works the same works in all them that dwell in the Love of the Truth as ever it did in antient Daies Oh there is an excellent vertue in this blessed Seed Oh that it were more known amongst the Sons and Daughters of Men Therefore my dear Friends Brethren and Sisters whose hearts the Lord hath in any measure touched with his Love. Oh wait more and more for the feeling of this blessed Seed that a real work and thorow change you may all come to witness by the power of this blessed Seed of Jacob the Noble Seed the heavenly found Seed of Abraham to which all must bow or be broken by it for whosoever falls upon it shall be broken and tendred but on whomsoever it falls it will grinde them to powder And so my dear Friends this is the desire of my heart and the breathing of my Soul to the Lord that all whose faces are turned Sion-wards may wait for the bringing forth of the Birth and Babe Immortal and hearken to its Cry. Oh the Cry of the Babe Immortal and the breathing forth of It unto the Father all wait this day to feel then I know pure Praises and living Thanksgivings will arise up unto the Father naturally out of the mouth of that Birth for it is the nature of the Babe Immortal to breath unto the Father and to bless praise and magnifie the Name of the Father that begets it and so my Friends wait so upon God that you may feel that holy Seed which God hath sown in your hearts to grow and to prosper that it may bring forth fruit to the praise of God for have not our Souls been in a deep Travel and our Spirits pained within us when we went weeping and mourning enquiring the way to Sion And therefore my Friends whom the Lords Arm hath in any measure reached unto Arise arise and shake your selves from the dust of the Earth and come up to the help of the Lord against the Mighty power of Darkness to wit the Devil the grand Enemy of the Souls of all men that i 〈◊〉 you may feel the arising of Sions Glory for the Day of the Lord is broken forth and his blessed Day his glorious Day sprung from on High hath visited our Souls in an acceptable Day and in a time of need blessed be the Name of the Lord our God for ever And as much as we have obtained mercy with the God of mercy Oh my dear Friends prize his Love prize his mercies and let them be as a double ingagement upon your Spirits to feat before him that so you may feel the aboundings and super aboundings of his Love flowing forth into your bosom daily so that none be as the careless Daughters of ●ion But all be faithful to your first Loves not only remain in the ourward Courts or in an outward Conformity to the Truth or covered with Self-righteousness but that you may be as 〈◊〉 Saviour upon Mount Sion that can never be removed For ye are the Salt of the Earth but if the Salt have lost its Savour wherewith shall it be salted it is henceforth good for nothing but to be cast out and troden underfoot of Men saith our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ who said I am the Vine ye are the Branches and as the Branches cannot bring forth Fruit but as they abide in the Vine no more can ye except ye abide in me So my dear Friends wait for the feeling of his Light and Life that ye may be kept in the love of the Truth that the Seed may take deep t●●● downward and bring forth fruit upward that the Plant of Gods renown which his own right hand hath planted may grow up in every ones Heart for every Plant that my heavenly Fathers Hand hath not Planted shall be plucked up And every Tree that brings not forth good Fruit shall be hewen down and cast into the fire And so I dearly beseech you all Young Men and Women who are convinced of the Lords blessed everlasting Truth Fashion not your selves according to your former Lusts in your ignorance but let the time past be sufficient whose adorning saith the Apostle Let it not be that of putting on of Apparel but mind the hidden man of the heart which is a meek and quiet Spirit which is with the Lord of great Price This was the Apostles wholesom exhortation and admonition For after this manner saith he in the old time the holy Women of old who trusted in God adorned themselves being in subjection to their own Husbands even as Sarah obeyed Abraham calling him Lord whose Daughters ye are as long as you do well and are not afraid with any amazement Therefore Friends take good heed unto your selves that ye love the Lord your God that so the pure fear of the Lord be lived in that we may walk low before the Lord in the Humility of our Spirits that we may in all things adorn the Doctrin of the Gospel of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ who hath called us with an high and holy Calling for if we be not faithful to the Lord who hath in mercy reached unto us then we do not answer the end fo● which we are Called And so the very God of peace sanctifie you wholly throughout in Soul Body and Spirit that the God of all Grace who hath Called us into his Eternal Glory by Christ Jesus after you have suffered a while make you per … and Establish Strengthen and Settle you To Him be Glory and Dominion over all who is God over all blessed for ever and for evermore Given forth by a lover of Truth who desires the prosperity of Sions Seed R. 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