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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60664	Univeral love In which a visitation floweth through the creation, that all people may be informed into the truth, and in their several places come to walk in the truth, and live in the truth, to be a good favour unto God, and honour God. 1. To parents of children. 2. To masters and dames of families. 3. To servants in their places. 4. To aged people. 5. To such as live a single life. 6. To young people. 7. To children. 8. To such as are in outward government. 9. To ministers of parishes, so called. 10. To such as practise in the nations law. 11. To such as trade in wights and measures. 12. To such as buy and sell in the markets or in any other places. With a general exhortation. Also something concerning faith, and hope, and love, and the word, and mans restless part, and the election, and a particular place of bondage opened. ... William Smith.	Smith, William, d. 1673.	1668 (1668)	Wing S4344; ESTC R219638	76,293	165

no Repentance Therefore young people Consider your present day and let all your vanity go it will never bring comfort in the latter end and to live in that and please your selves in that which will not give you peace in the end what is the profit you reap by it Surely no more but the satisfying of your vain minds which God will judge and that is a sad state And now your full strength being naturally upon you and the bad nature being at liberty in you you must needs run in the swiftest stream of vanity and that mind seeks to please it self and to behold it self in the excellency of its own form and so you adorn your bodies with costly apparel and broidered hair and many foolish needless things which are of no use nor service but to please your haughty minds Therefore Young people Remember your Creator in the dayes of your youth and whilst you be in your full strength give up your selves to serve the Lord and turn to the Light with which you are enlightned and be obedient unto the Light in all things and when it reproves your vanity in any place then love it and part with your vanity for it that you may walk in it and that will reform your wayes and doings where-ever they are amiss and will do you good in your latter end and by loving the Light and denying your selves to your vanity pleasures the Light will lead you and guide you in a way that you do not know a way of true Joy and Peace where no unclean thing can walk And this will do you good and in the Light you will have an understanding given to discern thing● that be amiss in every place and you will come to see that those customs your Parents trained you up in and taught you to observe that they are all vain and not worthy to be observed and so wherein you have been amiss in the vain Customs and Traditions if you love the Light it will reform your wayes and your doings where they are amiss and that will dye which you have observed out of the Truth in any Custome or Tradition which you have been accustomed to and have been taught by your Parents to observe for many young people that comes into such a custome of things in their infancy being taught to observe them by their Parents that in their youthful dayes they are natural to them in practise and so young people are much wronged in their infancy whilst they are not capable of any more then what they receive from others and follows that in the custom and practise as a right thing and so walks by the Traditions received from their Fathers and not after Christ the Light the Truth the Power and Wisdom of God And therefore young people take heed to the Light for that is the thing you must all come unto if you come unto God and depart out of all your vain customes and fashions and traditions your pride and vanity and false worships and learn of Christ who is meek and lowly that he may baptise you into his Death while you are young and that he may raise you up in his Life to bear witness to his Name in your Generation so you will be a Generation in time to come and will be good patterns in your places to the young Generations that are to succeed you And as evil hath entred by disobedience and flows into Generations as a natural stream in vanity in Customs and Traditions so by Christ Jesus righteousness may spring and flourish and flow in from Generation to Generation and then will all Generations be blessed in their Generation and have the power and presence of God amongst them So you coming to be ordered in Gods Wisdom in your Generation and walking in meekness and humbleness of mind in your Generation and in love and peace unto all people you will then be a sweet savour in your Generation and your savour will descend to Generations to come and then will the Lord delight in you and multiply your Peace and Joy and fill you with his blessing So young people fear the Lord God in your day and time that it may be well with you in your latter end To Children LIttle Children there may be many of you at present who are not capable to receive Information which in time may grow into that state as to be sensible of your conditions and as you that are not now capable do come into a capacity let your minds be kept to that of God in you so will you in your day come to the truth and walk in the truth with those which in this present time are in a capacity to be informed into it and are made willing to receive it for Children there is but one Truth and that Truth is Christ Jesus who through all Generations is the same and the Truth is the Way to God and leads to God and so Christ Jesus is the Light the Way the Truth and the Life and there is none comes to the Father but by him and Christ saith Learn of me for I am meek and lowly and you shall find rest for your souls So you must mind the Light with which Christ enlightens you which Light is in your Consciences and with its Light it will let you see when you think any bad thoughts or speak any bad words or when you do any thing amiss if you tell a lye it will shew it unto you if you swear it will let you see that you have done amiss if you be angry or froward or perverse or hasty the Light will let you see that you should not do such things and will make them manifest unto you to be evil then when you see the evil with the Light love the Light that shews it and if you love the Light the Light will guide you and lead you in the way of peace and if you keep your mind unto it and love it then you will not walk in darkness nor run into the evil deeds of darkness and this will be your peace And upon the first dayes which the Heathen calls Sunday do not run into wicked practises but seeing it is a day in which people do not follow their labours be careful that in keeping of it you keep it to the Lord and take your books and read in that which is good you that can read and when you do not read and you that cannot read keep quiet and be still and sit in the fear of God and do not run into vain sports which upon that day is practised and observed for then you will grieve God that made you and he will correct you as disobedient children And when you read the Scriptures read them in the fear of God and not with a vain mind and wait to understand what you read for the Scriptures was given forth from the Spirit of God and you cannot understand them though you read them and get them

Devil all that are proud and heady and high-minded all Drunkards and Swearers and Lyars and prophane persons all that sports and playes and follow vanity they are all servants of the Devil and that is his work they are doing and rejoycing in and such are out of the favour of God But all that obey the Light when for such things it doth reprove them and with the Light comes to be drawn out of them then they depart out of such evils and cannot serve the Devil any longer but yields themselves servants to obey Christ and follows Christ and he leads them in humility and lowliness of mind and he teacheth them to be sober and to speak truth and to do justly and to walk always in fear before him And when you come into this state then you are servants of Christ and knows his power that hath redeemed you from under the power of the Devil and so you come from darkness to the Light and from the power of Satan to God and then you know that Scripture fulfilled in you and are come to the power which remits your sin unto you for Children you are conceived in sin and though you may not have committed much sin actually because many of you are young in years and in the state of infancy yet you bring the Root of sin with you into the world mark the Root of sin is in you from your natural conception and as you grow in your natural state from that root are all the evil branches nourished and so springs up and is manifested by you and then sin is actually committed by you and the guilt comes upon you which before you was clear of though the root of sin was in you All people that are out of the truth may learn what this means though it be written to children for sin lies in the root from your conception and then you coming to be acted by the Devil who in that root is lodged you actually commit sin and comes under condemnation and by how much you actually commit sin by so much the more doth the body of it grow and increase and the greater the body grows the harder it is to be broken Therefore little children I write unto you in much love because many of you are yet innocent and knows not your right hand from your left that you in time may be careful for in your tender years you are as young Plants easily bended but growing up into a fuller strength you will not so easily be made subject for if you come to be wrapped into the root of sin and delight your selves in the action of it there will be sharper Judgment from the power of God rise against you and be executed upon you and greater will your condemnation be for as I said before that the greater the body of sin is the greater will be the Judgment and it will fall with a greater weight upon you and the hand of the Lord will be more sharp in severity against you So do not increase your own burdens by increasing the body of sin for every sin actually committed by you doth add to the body of it but whilst you are young and tender mind the Light of the Lord God and his power in you and you will be kept clean in your infancy and so come to be planted into the Root of Life whilst you are young and be nourished in the love of God and spring up as tender plants in the hand of God and he will beautifie you with the holiness of his Life whilst you are young and you will be unto the Lord a chosen Generation and Generations to come will call you blessed And so Children mind the Love of God for God hath much love unto you for you are not so much defil'd with sin as many others in whom the body of sin standeth and the Lord would not have you to commit sin and to defile your selves with it but his love is to you in Christ Jesus the Light that you might be cleansed whilst you are young be kept clean throughout your dayes and if you mind the Lord he will do you good and make you a blessing in his hand and you will be a good savour in your present Generation and so truth and righteousness will naturally flow unto Generations to come and the Seed of the Evil-doer with his evil branches will be plucked up and rooted out and the pure Seed of God will spring and increase and bring forth its natural fruit of holiness and mercy and all goodness and the glory of it will spread abroad through Generations and it will become a covering over the earth as waters cover the Sea And now children you being carefull to walk in the fear of God as you are brought forth in your natural Generation so to pass your dayes in all humility and fear that your favour may be sweet in your Generation and that the end of your dayes may close in the righteousness and holiness of God that the next Generation which is to come may feel the sweetness of your savour and that you may leave a sweet savour behind you in the Life of God So little children I have briefly informed you in many places and in much plainness I have spoken truth to your capacities that you may feel the Witness of God in your own Consciences give an answer which if you take heed unto you will do well therefore be carefull and the Lord God Almighty give you an understanding in all things that you may be a sweet savour to God and honour God throughout your dayes so he will make you children of his Kingdom and heirs of his blessing for ever To such as are in outward Government THe Wisdom of God was the first in Government and by Wisdom the whole Creation was brought forth in a holy Order and by Wisdom was governed in its created state and the whole Universe stood subjected in that state unto Wisdom's Government and there was no disorder nor confusion throughout the whole body of the Creation but every thing as it was brought forth in Wisdom's time and order so it was subjected under the power of Wisdom's Government but when man degenerated from the Wisdom of God by which all things were made and created then he went from under the power of Wisdom's Government in himself and became actually disposed in his own wisdom and thereby lost his Dominion in Gods Wisdom And this was his fall he fell from the Wisdom above that is pure into the wisdom below that is earthly and sensual and devilish and there the disorder came into him which by his own wisdom he could not rectifie And since the orderly Government of Wisdom hath been lost there hath been disorder order amongst the Sons of men and so there hath been a setting up of some who have been appointed for the work of Government and to rule with their power to keep order amongst men and to keep them

honest and a just thing in the sight of all men and is not vanity the contrary for when people are in their honest labour they are bold and cares not who sees them but when they are in vanity there is a shame comes upon them when sober people beholds them and sometimes they lurk into secret places to be out of sight when they practise vanity And doth not the observing such dayes after such a manner do more hurt than good every way is not both Masters and Servants wronged in the end of it and the Creation burdened with it and Gods Spirit grieved But some may say If Servants have no liberty they would be discouraged and cast down and their slavery would be great if they were alwayes kept to hard labour This doth not diminish any thing from their liberty but adds unto it for that which is pretended for liberty proves their greatest bondage every way and they are far more in bondage to their vanity than to their labor because the mind and delight being in it they are not so well satisfied as when they are in the practise of it and if they be at any time restrained then they are in great bondage and trouble and so the unruly vain mind worketh over the good and if it be not satisfied they are in bondage to their own heart lusts for by their vanity and wicked practises their souls are oppressed and there is bondage within and by the exercise of their bodies in vanity they will be so wearyed as somtimes they cannot follow their labour for some dayes after and that is bondage to the body then where stands their liberty but in their vanity and so uses their liberty as an occasion to serve the flesh for if Masters and Dames did order their servants in Gods wisdom and if servants were kept in the fear of the Lord God then there would be as true liberty as any service might open for their liberty and it would not stand in observing days or times but as any needful occasion might offer it self for the servants benefit then they might have true liberty on their own behalf and in their own business as need required and not be gainsayed and they would not expect or desire any liberty beyond that in any case if they were but brought into Gods fear and good order and they might then have liberty allowed them to serve the Lord and to wait upon him and to exercise themselves in the worship of his Spirit at any time or upon any day as there might be occacasion and not to keep a day as a holy day and pretend a worship to God upon that day and prophane that day which they pretend to keep as holy that is not good order nor decent for to pretend the observation of a day and a worship to God upon that day and to go to a Steeple-house a few hours and observe the practise of such Ceremonies as is there observed and then to run into vanity and wickedness the remaining part of the day these things grieves the Lord from day to day Therefore you that have servants under you First mind the principle of God in your selves the Light of Christ Jesus in your Consciences and receive the testimony of it and do not gain-say its reproof in your selves then you will know what to reprove in your servants and coming to the Light of Christ in your selves with the Light to be guided and ordered in your own particulars then you will be good patterns and examples to your servants for you being from that of God in your selves which would guide you and lead you into truth and righteousness you become bad patterns to your servants And how can you reprove or reform their evil practises in any place when their eyes behold you in the practise of the same thing which you in words may reprove in them nay many times you exceed them in vanity and profaneness and so are out of order in your selves not being guided by the Light which is pure And who are convinced of profaneness and in your selves are ordered into moderation and soberness and have some desires after God and sets up a practise in your Families of reading or expounding Scriptures and prayer and singing David's Psalms which you call Family Duties Take heed you be not ensnared in that place for there is a danger lyeth near though your practise may have somthing of a shew of godliness in it for though at first you may practise such things in some tenderness towards God and perform them as necessary Duties and in that place standing faithful to God in what is made manifest and not a further manifestation opened to you your practise is not condemned in that place but this is the danger when the observation of a practise centers the mind in the form of what is practised and so in time is content with the observation of the form only this is a place where many loses the life and the savour of it and that which at first was truth in it self in the manifestation and practice doth in time become false through the observation in the form only and there the Kingdom of God is not found nor true peace enjoyed But some may say Is not Family Duties good Order Yes they are so but not as they stand in the observation of a form only for such a practise may be observed and continued when there is not any thing of God to move unto it and that observation cannot then stand in the order of God but in the disorderly part of mans own will who sets his own time and speak his own words and in that performs somthing as a service unto God Therefore who are in this state and would have your Families come into good order in this place keep your minds to the Spirit of God in you and wait to know the motion of it and it will shew you the time and will give you words if there be need in the time and will move to prayer as there is need and will teach you how to pray and what to ask for the Spirit knows your infirmities and makes intercession with groans many times when never a word is spoken and when the Spirit of God moves you to a Duty either on your own behalf or the behalf of your Family in any place then neglect not that time but call your Family together and sit down in Gods fear and wait upon him that in his spirit you may discharge your Duty and then if any thing be out of order in your Families by which you are grieved there will be a word of Reproof given in the Spirit or if there be need of Exhortation the Spirit will give a word of Exhortation and when it is a time of Prayer the Spirit will move to prayer and give words in Prayer And this will stand in Gods order and out of your own wills and you will have comfort in it and

fear to be cheated or deceived because the uprightness deals plainly and simply and speaks of things as they are and not otherwise and cannot conceal any fault if it know it to be a fault and then there would be a closing in few words as the Commodity was liked and yea and nay would stand on both sides And in this is the good order and is comly and commendable amongst men and a good savour unto God whereby he is honoured And when you have done your markets then repair to your outward dwellings and do not sit and drink and revel in Ale-houses for by that you many times doubles your offence and when you have gotten some dishonest gain by deceit in bargaining then to sit at an Ale-house until you have spent it and it may be much more then had you not better been without it every way for it adds sin to sin with grief Therefore be careful and eschew such evils and when you have refreshed your selves as need requires then do not run into excess for many are taken and wronged in that place who goes to use the creatures only for refreshment and when they fall into company and the strength of drink doth begin a little to strike upon their naturalls then they are overcome to continue until they wrong themselves every way Now the light of the Lord Jesus Christ guides out of all those evils If that you mind it and obey it it will guide you from lying and learn you to speak truth it will guide you from drunkenness and learn you soberness and so will change you from all those Evils wherein ye walk as it hath done many in this day who sometimes were such in some degree but now are washed and changed by the light and walks in the way of peace with God and can commend it unto you from a certain ground if you can but receive the report and they can tell you in truth that it is better to walk one day in the light though it be in the Cross unto themselves than to satisfie themselves by gaining the world through Invention and this is the Word of the Lord God unto you all people forsake your way and live and walk in the way of understanding that you may honour God in your generation and that you may be a good savour unto God and unto one another and in all things chuse the good and let the evil go then will your dayes end in peace which otherwise will end in sorrow and in that day you will remember the time you have mis-spent which then you cannot recover again though you may seek it with tears therefore whilst you have it prize it and do not spend it vainly for you have spent too much after that manner A General Exhortation NOw as there is a view taken of this great body and every particular state being seen in its several place how it lyeth and an Information being gone forth in the universal love of God unto them all whereby they may behold their error from the Created uprightness in every place and may also behold a way open to come in again into the good and blessed state of Innocency and to be gathered into the way and path of simplicity where no deceit nor guile nor hypocrisie can have beeing and so to come into the holy and good order of wisdoms Government and to stand as so many branches in their several places to be a good savour to God and honour God for if there were unity in the life and power of God through the universe how sweet would every one be in their place and what a good savour there would be through the Creation and then the Creation would be set free from that which now burdens it and God would have honour and glory and praise in his own work and his goodness and his blessing would rest upon it and there would be plenty to every man in his particular place and he would rejoyce in his own portion and then no deceit nor guile nor lying and swearing would be used amongst people to get dishonest gain and how would such a generation honour God! and how amiable would such a generation be in their places how amiable a thing would it be to see parents of children to bring up their children in the fear of God and to nurture them in the wisdom of God and to train them up in love and peace and unity together and to see Masters and Dames of families to order their families in Gods wisdom and to keep them in good order every way and to see servants in their places serve with diligence and to see aged people filled with sound wisdom and gravity and to see single people wholly given up to serve God and to see young people remember their Creator in the dayes of their youth and to see children fear the Lord in their infancy and to see such as are in outward Government to be cloathed with the wisdom of God and to see Ministers of Parishes deny deceit and come into the truth and to see Lawyers in true Judgement and Equity and to see all Trades-men with Just Weights and Measures and to see all Buyers and Sellers in the created uprightness then would hearts and minds come neer together in the one principle of God and unity and peace would abound amongst people And therefore as one body you are all exhorted to fear the Lord God and turn to his light with which you are enlightned and yield to obey it when in your Consciences it doth reprove you hearken diligently to that voyce which calls you to return and do not reject the Counsel of the Lord in any wise but be still and quiet and bow to the light in every manifestation and believe in it as it doth manifest it self that with the light the disorderly nature may come to Judgement in every place and that through Judgement the Creation may be delivered which at this day travels in pain grief and sorrow for the disorder is above and by disorder you are all out of your places and so runs in wicked practises with which you dishonour God and wrong your own souls Therefore you are all exhorted to mind the Light which would do you good and do not run your selves wilfully into eternal misery for the Lord would not have you perish but would that ye might come to the truth and be saved And this is his compassion towards you and his patience and forbearance concerning you for who amongst you that have not deserved cutting down if the Lord should not exercise his mercy every instant of time he may justly smite you and bring your dayes to an end in a moment Therefore consider for what end you are yet a breathing Generation and have yet time given you is it not that you may behold Gods goodness and come to repentance and that you may know the Light with which you are enlightned to be your redemption from