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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42022	Three general epistles for the whole body of Friends 1 from William Caton, 2 from R. Greenway, 3 from Christopher Bacon.	Caton, William, 1636-1665.; Bacon, Christopher.; Greenway, R. (Richard)	1662 (1662)	Wing G1864; ESTC R26437	11,728	17

fruit and blessed wil all they be that are found in the Faith for it s they that are in the Vine and therein abide which wil yeild unto the Lord living fruit of obedience and every Tree wil be clearly known of what sort they are by their fruit for no man can gather grapes of Thorns or figs of thistles Therefore all to the Vine come that the nature thereof you may feel that so fruitful unto the Lord you may all be in this his glorious day to the praise and glory of his most holy Name for I have also seen in the Spirit of the living God that there wil be a mighty fierce storm a very great tempest and a shaking time such as hath not yet been upon the Earth by which those trees that are fruitless dead and dry which hath stood for a time and made a shew yet do but cumber the ground and are rotten at the root are not wel setled and fastned upon the true Foundation in the good ground they wil be turned up and laid low as without it hath been seen in which the Lord hath shewn his mighty Power though the blind do not see nor regard the operation of his hand And after that great and notable day of the Lord in which many of the lofty Hills and high Mountains wil be overturned and levelled thereby and the tall Cedars and the sturdy Oaks wil be made to bend and bow and many great old buildings wil be thrown off its rotten Foundation then I say in that day those that do stand and abide firm and wel fastned they wil be exceeding faithful to the praise and glory of the Lord and such his good Trees that are bringing forth fruit unto him in this his day them he wil purge prune dress prop and preserve and the wild Bores of the Forrest whose nature is to root rend and tear shall never be able to root them up neither shall the subtil Foxes of the Wood have power to crop and spoile their tender branches that abide in the living Vine neither shall they ever be able to hinder them from clustering for the Lord God wil guard them by his Power and uphold them by his Eternal Arm as hitherto he hath done neither wil he suffer the Swine to destroy his young Plants that are newly coming up but by his power they shall be fenced nourished and kept And so all my dear Friends be not at all discouraged although the Furnace may yet be hot for the Lord wil not suffer his Gold to come to loss therein but he wil save and bring it forth all that the good Metal shall lose therein shall be but its dross that it may shine the better in lustre to the honor of the Lord and also his good sheep he wil not suffer to be devoured by those old black Blood-hounds that thirst for blood Oh! no no my Friends he wil preserve them because they are his own gathered by his own hand and are profitable unto him Therefore I say he wil take care of them and though he do suffer the dogs which are without the fear loose a little to course them and drive them up in holes and pines for a season it is but that they may be driven from those rotten bogs of this Worlds enjoyments and delights which might otherwise be hurtful for them to feed upon that they might be driven nearer to himself and one unto another to wait upon the Lord and to feed together upon the Life that is Immortal and to lye down in his Fold of rest peace and joy which wil last for ever And so my dear Friends Brethren and Sisters Lambs and Babes what ever the Lord our good Shepherd suffers to come to pass or to be acted against us in the Heathens wrath and Enemies rage he wil turn it to his own praise and for our good and the remainder of the wrath rage of the wicked he wil restrain Therefore blessed are all you of the Lord that can say of a truth he is your good Shepherd So dear Lambs and Babes Plants and Children of the Lord in the Light live walk and for ever abide and you wil have unity and fellowship with the Father and one with another and so in the holy awe and pure dread of the Lord God Almighty stand continually and the peace and blessing of the Lord wil be felt by you and multiplied in and amongst you to the glory of his most holy Name to whom be all glory given honor and praise rendered with living obedience and thanksgiving for ever and for evermore Amen saith my soul. So dear Friends take this as a testimony of my love to you all who are of my Fathers Flock from one that is of the same Fold with you and your Friend and Brother in the Kingdom suffering and patience of the Lord Jesus who am called and known to many by Richard Greenway Written the sixth day of the ninth Month 1662. in the County-Gaol called the High Gaol at Exon where I suffer outward Bonds for my obedience to the Command of God and for abiding in the Doctrine of the Lord Iesus ●hrist by the wills of unreasonable men and I in patience wait therein until the Lord God arise in his Power and plead my innocent cause in the hearts of my persecutors or in his own way and time work my deliverance A Second Salutation to the flock of God every where in outward Bonds and at liberty who are born of the immortal Seed and redeemed from the Earth and separated from the evil that is in this World and called to be Saints and quickned by the power and operation of the Spirit of Life and sanctified by the Word of Truth and are in this day of tryal found faithful to the Lord in doing or suffering for that precious Truth which makes free from sin and death and keeps us above all the fears threatnings and terrors of man whose power is from beneath and soon passeth away Oh! unto you my heart is opened and streams of unfeigned Love from the incomings of the Fountain of Life runs forth unto you all abundantly who am the least among many Brethren but not the least in love to you Oh my dearly beloved Brethren and Sisters as you suffer for God's living Truth upon the Earth in any measure I suffer with you and am one with you and am afflicted with you Oh my dear Friends apply your hearts and give up your selves to and for the service of the living God and diligently wait upon him in whom all our strength is that you may be strengthened and encouraged enabled and furnished with power and might in the Lord of Hosts that you may not faint nor be weary in your minds but stay your minds upon the God of Truth that his blessing of peace may for ever encrease in all your habitations And you dear Friends you upon whom the ends of the Earth is come and in your

Three General EPISTLES FOR THE WHOLE BODY O● FRIENDS 1 From William Caton 2 From R. Greenway 3 From Christopher Bacon Printed in the Yeer 1662. Three General Epistles c. Amsterdam the 15 th of the 11th Month 1662. MY dear Brethren and Beloved Sisters in the pure holy and heavenly Relation who are sons and daughters of one Father and heirs of one Kingdom begotten through the one Eternal Word of Life which lives and abides for ever With the salutation of my dearest love do I greet you all and with strong and vehement desires to the Lord do I wish that love and life joy and peace grace and mercy may be multiplied among you all to the filling of every of your earthen Vessels to the refreshing of every weary soul and to the making glad of every sorrowful heart among you I hope my dearly beloved you are not forgetful of the wonderful kind Love of our God which he manifested to us in the day of our visitation how he sought us out that were as lost sheep going astray that he might bring us unto himself who is the chief Shepherd and Bishop of our souls how he took us as perforce from our Lovers that our hearts and affections might be set upon him and that our souls might love him above all how he broke us that he might bind us up how he blinded us that he might make us see how he wounded us that he might heal us how he impoverished us that he might make us rich how he weakned us that he might make us strong and how he proved and cryed us as gold that is seven times tryed in the fire that we might finally become his Jewels though then we knew not whether that we should become Vessels of honor or dishonor And since that day of blessed Visitation how hath his endlesse love abounded towards us how plentifully hath his Wisdom and Power been manifested amongst us And what wonderful things have we seen him since bring to passe by the Arm of his Power not onely to our admiration but also to the astonishment of his Enemies And oh how hath he brought down Principalities and shaken powers inwardly and outwardly how hath he overturned overturned that which hath been exalted inwardly and outwardly that that which hath been abased might be exalted how hath he confounded the wisdom of the wise and brought the understanding of the Prudent to nothing how hath he scattered them that were gathered and not by him that he might gather that which was scattered from him Oh the Wonders that he hath wrought in the Earth they are innumerable And the noble acts that he hath done in the Earth who can declare them to the utmost Neverthelesse we will be speaking of them when thereunto moved by his spirit that we thereby may shew forth his praise who through his making us Witnesses of them hath made truly glad our hearts and souls which have cause to rejoice in him notwithstanding his trying of us with many tryals and his proving of us through many temptations and tribulations vvhich many have been exercised in and that divers manner of vvays Yet let us not faint nor let slip the confidence that vve have in him for as certain as vve have seen his Wonders in the Earth so certainly hath he vvrought several of them for good towards us and as certainly as he hath dealt gently and favourably vvith us so assuredly hath he loved us And as certainly as his glorious Work is begun in the Earth so assuredly will he make known his Name and Povver even unto the ends of the Earth And as certainly as his adversaries oppose him and his Truth so assuredly shall they be broken as the potsherds of the Earth and as certainly as his lambs and babes novv mourn and are aff●cted so assuredly shall they rejoice and be comforted And as certainly as the Wicked are novv set up so assuredly shall they fall And as certainly as iniquity abounds so assuredly shall it have an end And as certainly as the name of the Lord is blasphemed and dishonored so assuredly shall it be glorified and exalted in the earth And as certainly as Gods Truth is now trampled upon and rejected by thousands so assuredly shall it be advanced and received by ten thousands and though my eye should not see the fulfilling of these things yet I will rejoice and do rejoice in the Testimony that J have that these things shall come to pass And my soul inviteth you my dear brethren and sisters to come and rejoice with me in the assurance which God giveth us of the certainty of these things which shal as certainly be fulfilled as it is certain that the things before mentioned are come to pass since the Lord omnipotent first visited us Wherefore my dearly beloved look not out at the present blackness and darkness which represents it self upon the face of the Earth by reason of the many clouds which hang over the Earth But look at the Day-star which is a risen in your hearts which precedes the sons of righteousness which though he yet seem to be darkned yet as certainly as the Lord Iehovah is in the highest Heavens so assuredly shall this Sun of Righteousness arise and shine gloriously in the hearts of the sons of men and then shall just Judgement be set up in the Earth and the Inhabitants thereof they shall learn righteousness then shal Wickedness and Oppression have an end Cruelty and Tyranny shall have no place and Deceit and Unrighteousness shall wither and the Works and Workers of iniquity shall go to decay And then shall the joyful song of deliverance be sung by the ransomed ones of the Lord then shall the voice of joy and gladness be heard in our Land then shall babes and sucklings learn the song of Zion and the sons and daughters of the Most High shall make a heavenly pleasant melody and great wil be the joy and delight of the Lords chosen even such as that their present sufferings shall not be worthy to be compared to the same Therefore O ye my suffering Friends be ye comforted be ye comforted of the Lord and comfort ye one another with the assurance which God hath given unto some of his servants of the certainty of these things coming to pass of which I believe some of you wil be eye-witnesses and partakers with the Saints in Light and my confidence is That neither principalities nor powers shall be able to deprive you thereof though they should be permitted to deprive you of your liberty of your estates and of the society of Friends And if your Heavenly Father should suffer such things to come to pass for the trial of your precious Faith be not ye therefore dejected as if you were altogether left comfortless and should so perpetually remain For I testifie unto you That our Heavenly Father hath re●erved enough in store not onely to comfort you withal in this life but also in the