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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41056	An evident demonstration to Gods elect which clearly manifesteth to them I. How necessary and expedient it is for them to come to witnesse true faith, II. That after they have attained to the faith, it must be tried as gold is tried in the fire, III. It shews how many have departed from the faith and denied it, IV. That the standing of the saints is by faith in the Son of God, V. How strong Abraham was in the faith and how all that believe are to look unto him / by Margret Fell.	Fox, Margaret Askew Fell, 1614-1702.	1660 (1660)	Wing F630; ESTC R36425	11,187	17

speaks of many and sundry that fell away and lost their first love and did not keep their first estate as you may read And therefore did he exhort them that they should earnestly contend for the Faith which was once delivered to the Saints And so Friends this is the very end of my writing that you even would contend for the pretious Faith in every particular and also in the general And call to mind how that God after he had brought the Children of Israel out of Aegypt yet they fell in the Wildernesse because of unbelief Therefore fly all ungodliness and follow after Righteousness Faith Love and Patience fight the good fight of Faith and lay hold on eternal Life Consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession Christ Jesus who was faithful to him that appointed him as also Moses was faithful in all his house as a Servant and Christ as a Son over his own house whose house are we if we hold fast the confidence and rejoycing of our hope unto the end here will every one be preserved clear in his condition who through the Spirit wait for the hope of the Righteousnesse of Faith and take heed there be not in any of you an evil heart of unbelief departing from the Living God for we are made partakers of Christ if we hold fast the profession of our Faith without wavering And unto us the Gospel is preached as well as unto them but the word preached did not profit them not being mixed with Faith in them that had it Therefore did he swear in his wrath that they should not enter into his rest they entered not because of unbelief Now this being so fully proved and manifested to you lay aside every weight and run with patience the Race that is set before you looking unto Jesus the Authour and finisher of our Faith who is the Corner stone and Rock of Eternal salvation who is rooted and grounded on him will not be shaken though the storms and tempests beat Consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners least you be weary faint in your minds For all the promises of God in him are Yea and in him Amen in whom we have boldnesse and accesse with confidence by the Faith of him who worketh all in us and for us For none are Justified by the works of the Law but by the Faith of Jesus Christ and by Faith you stand For God hath put no difference betwixt the Jews and the Gentiles if their hearts be purified by Faith whose eyes are opened and who are turned from the darknesse to the ligbt from the power of Satan unto God that they may receive the forgivenesse of sin and an Inheritance among them that are sanctified by Faith in Christ even the Righteousnesse of God which is by Faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe For there is no difference for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God For if the first fruit be holy the Lump is holy also and if the Root be holy so are the branches and if some of the branches be broken off it is because of unbelief and thou standest by Faith be not high-minded but fear Oh Friends consider that your standing is by Faith in Christ Jesus even we have believed in Jesus Christ that we might be Justified by the Faith of Christ For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the World and this is the victory that overcometh the world even our faith who is he that overcometh the world but he that believeth that Jesus is the Christ here shall we be more then Conquerors as we abide and grow from strength to strength and from Faith to Faith building up one another in our most holy Faith till we all come in the unity of the Faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God unto a perfect man unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ that we henceforth be no more Children tossed to and fro and carried about with every winde of Doctrine by the sleight of men and cunning craftinesse whereby they lye in wait to deceive but speaking the Truth in love may grow into him in all things who is the head even Christ that so we might make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery which from the beginning of the World hath been hid in God who Created all things by Jesus Christ in whom we have boldnesse and accesse with confidence by the Faith in him that so Christ may dwell in your hearts by Faith and you being rooted and grounded in love may be able to comprehend with all Saints what is the height breadth length and depth and to know the Love of God which passeth knowledge unto whom be eternal glory honour and dominion for ever Now dearly beloved Friends and Brethren be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might take unto you the Armour of Righteousnesse that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the Devil For now you come not to wrestle with flesh and blood but with principalities and powers and against the Rulers of the darknesse of this World and against spiritual wickednesses in high places Wherefore let your clothing and Armour be Light that you may be able to stand in the evil day and above all take the shield of Faith in this will you quench the fiery darts of the wicked Stand fast in one spirit striving together for the Faith of the Gospel and in nothing terrified by your Adversaries which is to them an evident token of perdition but to you of Salvation and that of God For unto you is given in the behalf of Christ not onely to believe on him but also to suffer for his sake and that you holding fast the Word of Life may cause us to rejoyce in the day of Christ that we have not run in vain neither laboured in vain Yea if I were offered upon the sacrifice of your Faith I could joy and rejoyce with you all And now that you may come to the soundnesse of the Truth of the Gospel of Christ who is the beginning the first born from the dead that you being rooted and grounded in him and that through the spirit you may wait for the hope of Righteousnesse by Faith and so grow up as living plants which are called Trees of Righteousness the planting of the Lord. And truly Friends there is none that believes but he knows that God is nor there is none that believes but he hath the witnesse in him that he is in the unity of the Faith and he that believes hath his heart purified by faith he that believes is entered into the rest and he is sealed with the spirit of promise So Friends search your selves for a sinner in Zion will be afraid and fear will supprize the Hypocrite and truly none can dwell with the everlasting burning but he that worketh Righteousnesse and every mans work must be

their meat nor for their drink neither for their body what they should put on for saith he shall he not much more clothe you O ye of little faith And again when the tempest rose upon the Sea they begun to be afraid Then said he unto them Why are ye fearful O ye of little faith And again when he shewed them the Fig-tree how it was withered Christ said unto them If ye have faith and doubt not ye shall not onely do this which is done to this Fig-tree but also if you say unto this mountain be thou removed into the Sea and it shall be done and whatsoever you pray for believing ye shall receive And again he said unto Peter when the Sea was boistrous and he afraid he said unto him O thou of little faith why dost thou doubt Yet after this Peters faith was shaken Again when that the Disciples could not cure the man that was Lunatick then Jesus said unto them O faithlesse and perverse generation how long shall I be with you how long shall I suffer you bring him hither to me And one of the Disciples said why could not we cast him out Then Jesus said unto them because of your unbelief For verily I say unto you if you had faith as a grain of mustard-seed you should say unto this mountain remove hence to yonder place and it should be so and nothing shall be unpossible unto you And unto Thomas he said Be not faithlesse but believing So here is the very life of your life that you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ for whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed for there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him and believe in him And so now Friends seeing that many when tryals come upon them have been shaken as you may see in the Scriptures more fully Therefore in the fear of the Lord God keep close and near to the word of faith which is nigh in the heart and neither ascend nor descend but keep to the righteousnesse of faith and then you keep to the substance of things hoped for and to the Evidence and Testimony of things not seen Through faith you may understand that the Worlds were made by the Invisible Word of God so that things which are seen are not made of things which do appear but by the immortal and Eternal Word which was in the beginning here you wil see him that is invisible as Abraham did who believed and it was accounted unto him for Righteousnesse not when he was in the Circumcision but when he was in the uncircumcision and so he received the signe of Circumcision a seal of the righteousnesse of his faith which he had before he was Circumcised that he might be the Father of all that believe though they be not Circumcised outwardly that Righteousnesse might be imputed unto them also not of the Jews onely but also of the Gentiles for all who walk in the steps of that faith of our Father Abraham for the promise that he should be the Heir of the World was not to Abraham or to his seed through the Law but through the Righteousnesse of Faith therefore is it of faith that it might be by Grace to the end that the promise might be sure to all the seed not to that onely which is of the Law but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham which is the Father of us all who against hope believed in hope that he might become the Father of many Nations Oh the Infinite love and wisdom of the Lord God and the depth of the mystery that hath been hid but now is revealed by his Spirit Know ye therefore that they that are of faith are the children of Abraham and the Scripture which cannot be broken foreseeing that God would Justifie the Heathen through faith preached before the Gospel unto Abraham saying in thee shall all Nations be blessed The promise of the blessing to Abraham and his seed this is the glad tydings of the Everlasting Gospel the liberty to the Captives the desire of all Nations which is now come and risen manifested and fulfilled what he hath promised in this his day And all they that be of the faith are blessed with faithful Abraham and this is the Gospel which the Apostle was not ashamed of to preach which is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth to the Jew first and also to the Greek for therein is the Righteousnesse of God revealed from faith to faith for the Just lives by faith whether they be Jew or Greek bond or free there is neither male nor female here but they are all one in Christ Jesus And if they be Christs then are they Abrahams seed and heirs according to promise And here is the fountain opened for the house of David and for the Inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleannesse Christ Jesus the Everlasting Covenant who in the last day of the great feast stood and cryed saying If any man were athirst let him come unto me and drink he that believeth on me out of his belly shall flow Rivers of living waters but this he spake of the spirit which they that believed on him should receive according to the words of the Apostle who said unto the Jews Received you the Spirit by the works of the Law or by the hearing of faith for we through the spirit wait for the hope of the Righteousnesse of faith for in Christ Jesus neither Circumcision nor uncircumcision availeth but faith that worketh by Love and obedience unto him who saith I am the Resurrection and Life he that believeth on me though he was dead yet shall he live And he that liveth and believeth shall never die and he that believeth worketh the works of God he that believeth shall never thirst And this is the will of the Father that hath sent the Son that every one that seeth him should believe on him and have everlasting life and he would raise him up at the last day and blessed are they that believes and lives in the freedom of the spirit for to the spiritual mind is life and peace and no evil tydings can come to such such reckons not the sufferings of this present time worthy to be compared to the glory that shal be revealed for the Just lives by his Faith but if any man draw back my soul hath no pleasure in him Now Friends seeing it is so that the spirit speaketh expresly that in the latter times some shall depart from the Faith giving heed to seducing spirits and Doctrines of Devils and that some have cast off their first Faith and some through the love of money have erred from the Faith and pierced themselves through with many sorrows and some have denyed the Faith and some have had their Faith overthrown by others words and some have made shipwrack of Faith and Jude