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A48300	Something by way of testimony concerning Clement Lake of Crediton in Devonshire with something he wrote in his life time by way of answer unto John Flavell, independent preacher of Dartmouth.	Lake, CLement, d. 1689.; Flavel, John, 1630?-1691.	1692 (1692)	Wing L186; ESTC R32449	16,488	34

Something By way of Testimony Concerning Clement Lake OF Crediton in Devonshire With Something he wrote in his Life time by way of Answer unto JOHN FLAVELL Independant Preacher of DARTMOUTH Blessed are the Dead which dye in the Lord from henceforth yea sai●h the Spirit that they may rest from their Labours and their Works do follow them Rev. 14. 13. London Printed and Sold by T. Sowle at the Crooked-Billet in Holywell Lane in Shoreditch 1692. Something by way of Testimony concerning Clement Lake THis is that we have to say concerning our Deceased Friend Clement Lake of Crediton He was a Man of an Innocent upright Life Conversation very Tender Heared and affectionate towards the Truth and them that walked in it He at first received Truth in the love of it and continued to the end Faithful to its Testimony through all the Exercises he met with for in the time of his Convincement he met with no small Opposition and Exercise from and by the Wife of his own Bosom and also suffered Imprisonment with Friends for the Testimony of Truth all which he bore with Patience and Meekness in a humble mind submited unto God's Will and in due time it pleased God through the Spirit of the Lamb to give him the Victory and Dominion over that which stood in his way he was diligent in frequenting Friends Meetings to wait upon God though outwardly a man attended with much weakness and infirmness of Body and many times being filled with a deep sence of the Love of God unto his Soul and his Heart tendered and broken thereby his Mouth was opened to Magnifie and Praise the Lord and tell by experience of the Goodness of God unto his Soul In short we are generally well Satisfied concerning him that he was a man that did truly Fear God loved Truth and Righteousness bore a Faithful Testimony until death his Conversation was a good savour to all in his day and now being removed from us we believe it s well with him and he hath his reward viz. The Crown of Life and Peace and is at rest in the Lord. John Colsworthy Robert Ellis Peter Richards Robert Ford. The Testimony of Phillip Dicker Concerning Clement Lake A True Testimony and Account concerning the Life and blessed End of that Faithful Servant of the Lord Clement Lake This I can truly say from a sence I had of him that I believe he was one whose Meditation was on the Lord Day and Night for since I have been concerned to bear a Testimony for the Lord I have had great Society with him I have considered his solemn Carriage and weighty behaviour when he was in the Body and I have heard him speak of the many straights and conditions he had been in since first he believed that God did expect Worship and Service from him And further I have this to say of our Friend Clement Lake Deceased that he was a Man wholly given up to answer the Mind and Will of the Lord for I can truly say from a certain sence I had of him that his Conversation was Heavenly and that the Lord hath made his promise good unto him as he did unto the Righteous in all Ages and through the Faithfulness of him that hath promised we are made as Witnesses of it that his promise is fulfiled in us by the Spirit of his dear Son Jesus Christ our Lord and Master for so he is And I being with C. L. and having had a certain knowledge that the Lord's Goodness lasted with him and he in it unto the end of his Dayes for which we can do no less then to return the Praise Glory and Honour that is due unto the Lord for his Mercy and Goodness bestowed upon his People So he dyed the Death of the Righteous and hath received the Reward of the Faithful Phillip Dicker The Testimony that I have to bare for my Dear Husband Clement Lake deceased is as followeth HE was a Man endued with much Faith and Patience tender of the Honour of the Name of the Lord and Zealous for his Truth and Worship and a good Patern and Example in his Family often exhorting me his Children and Servants in wighty sayings touching the good and wellfare of our Souls telling us that if we perished he was clear of our Blood and since his Death several of my Neighbours have born this Testimony of him to me that they never were in company with him but they received Benefit by it and farther I bare Testimony of him though often attended with much weakness of Body yet he was very chearful under it many times Declaring the Goodness and Love of God towards him from time to time in the many Exercises and Tryals he went through in baring his Testimony for the Truth in the Town of Crediton in Devonshire where he lived and elsewhere and further he was a man of a clean Conversation his very Enemies have since his Death spoken well of him and confessed they believed he is happy and further I cannot well be clear but must acknowledge that after my Husband was Convinced of the Blessed Truth through the many Instigations of those whom we formerly were in fellowship with and others caused me to grieve him very much by ill demeaning my self towards him a considerable time but since the Lord was pleased to open my understanding and give me a sight and sence of the workings of the Enemy who is the sower of discord I have been much troubled and known sorrow for the same and further I add it was the great Love of God towards me in answering the desire of my Soul which was often with many a Cry and Tear that he would shew me the way of Life and Salvation and where he feeds his Flock and causeth them to rest at Noon day and since the Lord appeared and answered Blessed be his pure holy Name for evermore we lived in great Unity Love and Fellowship to the Comfort one of another Ah but at length he was visited with a strong Feaver whereof he lay near a Week and ended his Dayes here the 23d of the 12th Month 1689. And when the Lord was pleased to take him from me it was I must confess very heard to me considering my great loss of so dear and tender a Husband as he was to me but being throughly perswaded and satisfied in my Heart that he is at rest with the Lord I am satisfied in the Will of the Lord who is over all God blessed for evermore Amen saith my Soul Grace Lake A Letter sent by John Flavell an Independent Preacher at Dartmouth in Devenshire to Clement Lake of Crediton The Second day of the Fifth Month 1687. DEar Christian Friend the true Christian love I have born to you ever since I came acquainted with you and saw the Grace of God in you hath engaged me in real Tenderness to your Soul to give you this Paper if happily the Lord may thereby Confirm you in his

must be Experienced or no entreing the Kingdom of Heaven John 3. 3. And we believe that for all those for whom the Blood of Christ maketh Satisfaction they know and Experience a purging of their Consciences from dead works to serve the living God and this a Remnant have found and can speak it to the Glory of our God 1 Pet. 1. 18 19. They know Redemption from a vain Conversation by the pretious Blood of Christ and I hope that this is also clear If Scripture will pass and I be believed that it is the Faith of those called Quakers As to the Second that They deny the Imputed Righteousness of Christ as the matter of Our Justification Before I answer this Question I would query my self what is ment by Our Whether it be all men universally without condition or quallification and so whether Christ did in the Body of his Flesh in his own Person all that was to be done for man or whether his work is not to be experimentally known in every man for the destruction of Sin and the work of Sanctification by all that shall have the benefit of his imputed Righteousness yea or nay For my part this is my Faith that he is a blessed Man to whom the Lord imputeth Righteousness and to whom the Lord will not Impute Sin Rom. 4. 6 7 8. But I believe also that those Souls that are in this Ble●ed State do know and Experience a work of Sanctification wrought in them and the destruction of Sin wrought for them and Redemption from Sin all wrought by the same Lord Jesus Christ for all those that believe in his Name and Power 1 Cor. 1. 30. And he was also made manifest for the destruction of the works of the Devil 1 John 3. 8. And where this work is wrought for man and in man the fruit of the Spirit is brought forth according to Gal. 5. 22. And this also is my Faith that they also know the old man to be Crucified that the Body of Sin may be destroyed that henceforth they may not serve Sin and so know a washing and a sanctifying before they know themselves to be Justified 1 Cor. 6. 11. And those shall have the Righteousness of Christ imputed to them Thirdly That they deny the Resurrection of the Body and its Partisipation of Glory with the Soul This is another false Charge we believe the Resurrection of the Body that the dead shall be raised up incorruptably 1 Cor. 15. 52. And we believe the Resurrection of the dead both of the Just and Unjust Acts 24. 15. And that those vile Bodys shall be made like to his Glorious Body Phil 3. 21. And we believe that all that are in the Grave shall come forth they that have done well to the Resurrection of Life and they that have done Evil to the Resurrection of Damnation John 5. 28. 29. And those that are guided by the Counsel of the Lord and follow it here shall be received up to Glory Psal. 73. 24 And that we shall be glorified to gather with the Lord Rom. 8. 17. 18. And we believe that those that follow Christ in the Regeneration deny themselves and take up the Cross shall Inherit Eternal Life Math. 19. 28 29. And we believe also that the end of those that are Enemies to the Cross of Christ will be destruction Phil. 3. 18 19. Fourthly That they lead Men to the Covenant of Works and Obedience to the Light within This is a Slander cast out of the Mouth of the old Dragon like a Flood to prejudice the World and spread by his Agents what ground Men have for this Charge I know not except it be for pressing People to the Mortification of Sin by the Power of the Lord denying of self Crucifying of the Flesh with the Affection and Lust thereof and tak●ng up the Cross and following of Christ who is our Way Truth and Life out of whom we believe there is no Salvation from Sin or Wrath No Name or Power given under Heaven whereby any Soul can be saved but Jesus Christ He is our all in all and man is nothing neither can do any thing as to his own Salvation for without him we can do nothing it is he that worketh both to will and to do of his own good Pleasure And to as many as receive him to them he giveth Power to become the Sons of God even to them that believe in his Name which Faith also is the Gift of God It would be thought hard measure from us if we should say that because no mention is made in all thy Letter of any thing that is to be wrought in man or done by man as a Quallification of those that shall partake of those benefits by Christ that therefore you do believe that Men may partake of them and yet do what they will and live as they list tho we have as great a ground for it as any have for charging us to lead Men to the Covenant of Works For the Second part of the Charge That they lead Men to Obedience to the Light within for Salvation This I will say that Rebellion is as the Sin of Witch-craft and Stubbernness is as Idolatry and that without Obedience there will be no eating the Fat of the promised Land And for the Light within so much despised by the dark Rabbies of the World this Light of Israel shall be for a Fire and his Holy One for a Flame that shall burn and devour the Thorns in one day Esa. 01. 17. And that we press Obedience to the Light within we own who is Jesus Christ the Light of Israel the Light of the World who is given to be a Covenant to the People and a Light to the Gentiles to open the Blind Eyes Esa. 42. 6 7. This was David's Light to his Feet and Lanthorn to his Paths Psa. 119. vers 115. And this word or Light or Jesus was in the beginning and in him was Life and the Life was the Light of men 1 John 8. And this beginning he is our Light and Life and he it is that expels the Darkness out of the Heart and those that are Obedient to him are called the Children of Light Ephes. 5. 8. And it is by this Jesus Christ who is the Wisdom and Power of God the Light that maketh manifest all things as they are that bringeth down every Imagination in man that exalteth it self against the Lord and bringeth every thought into Obedience to himself he it is that is the author of Eternal Life to all that obey him Hebrew 5. 8. and 1 Pet. 1. 2. And that he is within and dwelleth in the Saints we own it tho for owning it we are an Abomination to the Egyptians 2 Cor. 13. 5. Are not the Saints the Temple of God And doth he not dwell in his Temple And is it not in the Heart And is not the Heart within And is not his Throne there And is it not there he