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A40265 A Spiritual or heavenly salutation to all the tender-hearted in Christendom that are seeking the kingdom of God and the righteousness therof which I desire and intreat them to read over these following lines in the love of God, in which they are sent to them from him that desires the good of all mankind here, and their eternal happiness hereafter / [by] George Fox. Fox, George, 1624-1691. 1690 (1690) Wing F1919; ESTC R36423 9,457 16

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A Spiritual or Heavenly SALUTATION To all the Tender-hearted in CHRISTENDOM That are seeking the Kingdom of God and the Righteousness thereof which I desire and intreat them to Read over these following Lines in the love of God in which they are sent to them from him that desires the good of all Mankind here and their Eternal happiness hereafter GEORGE FOX LONDON Printed for Thomas Northcoot in George-yard in Lumbard-street 1690. A SPIRITUAL or HEAVENLY Salutation c. TO all the tender Hearted in Christendom whose Faces are turned towards Heavenly Jerusalem and whose Minds are turned and drawn by the Spirit of God to Christ who is the new and living way to God and the one Mediator betwixt God and Man who enlightneth every one that cometh into the World with his Heavenly Divine Light which is the life in Christ the Word by whom all things were Made and Created Christ saith Believe in the Light that ye may become Children of the Light so Christ who is not of the World but from above hath given us his Light to believe in and to walk in that we may have the Light of life and he that believeth is a Child of Light and born of God and overcomes the World and passes from the Death that came by Adam and is engrafted into Christ the life the second Adam and so are living Stones or Members of him the living Head and the Children of this Light that walk in this Light have fellowship with the Son and the Father and one with another and all Christendom that walk not in the Light that Christ hath given you are not in this Heavenly Divine fellowship But this Prophesie we do witness fulfilled and fulfilling concerning Christ God said I will give him for a Covenant of the People and a Light to the Gentiles and he shall be my Salvation to the ends of the Earth Isa 49.6 8. So that they that come to know their Salvation and into Covenant with God they must come into the Light of Christ which giveth the Light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ Jesus which Light shines in their Hearts the Heavenly treasure in the Earthen Vessels and if all that is called Christendom had believed in the Light the life in Christ which Christ giveth and teacheth to Believe in that which he giveth them then had they been all Children of the Light and of the Day of Christ in Unity and Fellowship in the Light and then they had not made so many Faiths and Beliefs which they have destroyed one another about And if all Christendom had observed the Apostles Doctrin to the Church of Christ who exhorted them to look to Jesus the Author and finisher of their Faith then they would not have made so many Faiths about which they have Persecuted one another Whereas no manner of Men below can make a Catholick Divine Faith for I say that Christ Jesus is the Beginner and Finisher of our Holy Divine Precious Catholick or Universal Faith which he the Holy one doth reveal from Faith to Faith and the Mystery of this holy Faith is held in a pure Conscience and not in an impure one and it purifies the Heart and gives Victory over that which displeases God and separates from God in which holy Faith which we have from the holy One we please the holy God which gives us the Victory over that which displeases him and separates from him and have access to him In this holy Divine Faith is our Unity so Christ has the honour who is the Author of our Faith and Finisher of it and likewise gives us his Light the Life in himself so he is the Author of our Belief to Believe in And happy had all Christendom been had they kept to the Apostles Doctrin to the Church of Christ who said the Grace of God that bringeth Salvation hath appeared unto all men and teacheth us namely Christians then and now to live Godly Righteously and Soberly and deny Vnrighteouness and Worldly Lusts Now I say happy had all Christians been since the Apostles days if they had kept to this Grace of God their teacher which would have brought their Salvation and would have brought them into Favour with God if they had then there would not have been so many itching Ears and have set up so many Schools and Colledges to make Teachers which brings Christendom into confusion one against another Some may say is this Grace sufficient God said to Paul it was sufficient when he was in his Tryals and Temptations and Thousands can Witness that the Grace of God is sufficient and doth teach them what to deny and how to live and doth bring their Salvation for as the Law came by Moses in the Old Testament and the Jews were to live under it and Grace and Truth is come by Jesus in the New Testament and this Grace and Truth is in the Hearts of Gods People and they are under Grace's teaching and in the Covenant of Grace for Christ by the Grace of God tasted Death for every man that they may all come out of the Death in Adam to the Light and Life in him by his Light Grace Truth and Faith in their Hearts that he is the Author of for there is a Prophecy in Joel That God would pour out his spirit upon all flesh which the Apostles in Acts 2. shew the fulfilling of to the Jews and now what is the matter that all the Sons Daughters Servants Hand-maids and Old-men in Christendom have not their Heavenly Prophecies Visions and Dreams Is it not because they have erred from the Spirit of God and vex quench and grieve it that he hath poured upon them and become like the Jews to whom God gave his good Spirit but they Rebelled against it therefore is not all Christendom on heaps one against another out of fellowship therefore the means by which all Christendom and all People are to come into Unity and Fellowship in the Spirit is that they must Come all into the Spirit that God hath poured upon them by which Spirit they must be Circumcised and have the Body of Sin and Death cut off which they came into by Transgression in Adam who had none before he fell and they must be Baptised with the Spirit to plunge down Sin by this Spirit I say all must be Baptised into one Body and so all to Drink into one Spirit this Spirit of God brings all into Fellowship and Unity for the Spirit of God is the bond of Peace and in it is the profiting and it openeth the Heavenly Prophecies Visions and Dreams to Gods People now as it did in the Apostles days Christ Jesus set up a Worship above Sixteen hundred Years agoe in the Spirit and in the Truth when he put down the Jews Worship at Jerusalem and the Samarinus at Jacob's Well and said The hour cometh and 〈◊〉 that they that worship the Father must worship him in spirit