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A few words in true love written to the old long sitting Parliament who are yet left alive, and do sit there now in the Parliament House at Westminster
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Bache, Humphrey.
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1659
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Wing B253; ESTC R2665
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was not yours yet in consenting with them in it which did till you declare to the Nation whom you wronged therein your disprovement of their so doing the sin will lye at your doore and be charged upon you when God appeares with his terrible out-stretched arm of judgement to give unto each of you according to the deeds done in the body whether good or evill which hastens a pace therefore read through your selves with the Light which I have written that you may be converted and healed that your sins may be blotted out confessing and forsaking of them and a time to you of refreshment may come from the presence of the Lord which would be more sweet to you to feel and enjoy then now you can be sensible of And now I could even freely unbosome my heart to you further how the Lords presence hath gone along with me since even to this present time That you might see that the same gâ—ace of God which hath appeared unto all men and Checks for sin is sufficient to save from sin as I being brought by the power of it waiting in it to deny self in that particular have Experienced For I being turned to it it wrought in me an awe and dread of God least at any time I should offend with my tongue or do any evill action and so thereby came under Gods displeasure so reading some books of those peoples putting forth who are called Quakers I could not find any thing in them contrary to truth so speaking with one that had heard those people he asked me what I thought of them for his part he said he did beleive that what they declared would stand when all else would fall and he asked me if I believed that thee and thou to one perticular Person was truth I said yea said he then if I did not come into obedience to what I was convinced of to be Truth I must come under condemnation I said it was truth So then knowing a stay to my minde the Light it became a bridle to my tongue and preserved me in the word Thou in heart and tongue single to the Lord and redeemed me out of the Worlds words into Truths Word which is was from the beginning Thou to one perticular person Then loving the Light bringing my deeds to it to prove them whether they were wrought in God or not I saw that I was in respect of Persons Which whosoever doth respect persons commits sin in that foolish thing putting off the hat to some and not to others according to a vain custome of the World which is evill in the sight of God So then the same Grace taking heed to the Light which is the Grace I knew the crosse to my carnall minde to give me dominion over that evill and to redeem me out of that likewise and this was the day of small things with me which none is to dâ—spise for it was pretious then a strong Enemy appeared which warred in my members to bring forth fruit unto Death and had been of long continuance in me which vvhilst I looked to the Light I had power over but when a Temptation to it appeared I looking to the Temptation that which my carnall minde led me into leaving the Light which should have preserved me single in the sight of God in the crosse to my carnall minde there I fell into Temptation and then the swift Witnesse of God in me pursued me with Judgements and the Lords anger was kindled against me so that I became again a terrour to my self and seeing what I had done I said in my heart in zeal for the Lord whom I had greatly displeased Yea I said cursed be that hand that lifteth it self up against the Reign of Christ in my soul for loving the Light though it did condemne me knowing that in it was my life it discovered to me wherein my heart was adulterated from the pure God and Woe there was my portion and the curse came on both my hands with which I had been in Rebellion thâ—ough disobedience as againâ—t the pure God of my life but waiting in the Light I was born up in Patience to wait in the Light to receive power to stâ—nd in the hour of Temptation against the Fiery Darts of the Adversary then further I saw into several things in my calling in the outward that I was not a servant to the Lord Châ—ist in who had enlightned me with hâ—s true light and that improvision of Rings and toyes to sell to proud and vain people I was a servant to the Divel in the hearts of proud and vain people that came to my shop to buy such things which by the power of the same grace of God that discovered them to be evil and my service evil there in selling them I say by the sam-power I am ransomed and redeemed out of â—hâ—â— service and this I have been made free in to relate to you that you may come to own Christ Jesus the Light of the World through hâ—s Grace which hath appeared to all men to be taught to deny ungodliness whereby each of you might come to witness in truth redemption out of a vain conversation having escaped the corruptions that are in the World through the knowledge of him whom to know is life eternal Ah friends when you went out from the truth which would have made you and the Nation free from guilt and condemnation and preserved you free had you stood in it so that you might have felt the blessing and presence of God with you and so to have been a blessing and good savour to the Nation whereas now the ill savour that went from you spread over the whole Nation and many poor Soldiers I heard sold their Debentures for six pence in the pound some for one shilling some for two shillings in the pound and some with that money by the report doubling of the Debentures purchâ—sed Kings Lands for what the wood was worth upon the ground and this surely should have been seen too better by you when this poor Nation groaned under such a weighty buâ—then and poor souldiers defrauded of their right for the eyes of sober people looks upon these things I mention it to provoke you to a deep sense of it that your hearts might be broken and you might consider for then when I heard it I remember it was a great grief of heart to me and as you may truely tast them words true to you that sin is a reproach to any people so that now longing desires might spring up in you to tast the other words true to you that righteousnesse exalteth a Nation by the Righteous working of Gods grace and power in you making you willing to deny self and to stand in the dayly Crosse to your carnall minds that iniquity may be rooted out of you by it and you through it be guided into equity whereby Gods presence you may come to feel in the blessing of Peace to your own particulars and may become a refreshment and blessing to the Nation which is the desire of him who in true love flowing towards you had it in his heart to write these lines unto you Humphery Bache Tower street London 13. d. 3d. month 1659. London Printed for M. W. 1659.