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A general epistle to all Friends everywhere, scattered up and down in the world that they all may faithfully keep and walk in the truth of God, as they have received it, thereby to eschew evil and do good in their day and generations / written by a servant of God ... James Park.
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Parke, James, 1636-1696.
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God hath sown in all your Hearts that in and by the same you may all stand and remain as noble Plants in the Vineyard of the Lord that none of you may be found corrupt Trees that wither and bring not forth good Fruit or as them who are twice dead and plucked up by the Roots and as wandring Stars who have left their Habitation that once they had in the Truth although such may retain the Profession of the Truth and come amongst us but Friends you having an inward Eye opened by the Spirit of the living God you will see them and beware of them and avoid their Deceit and Falsehood in their most plausable Words and fair Speeches which may tickle the Ears of such as have itching Ears and draw out the Minds of the Simple to their hurt But all of you mind the Lord God and eye him in all his Leadings and whither so ever the Lamb goeth follow him faithfully even through the greatest Hardships Difficulties and Tribulation that you may be called to pass through in this present world of Calamity and Troubles Oh! keep going on to Perfection in the Path of the Just and run the Race that God hath set before you with patience although you meet with many great Troubles and fiery Tryals look not out for that is the way that God leadeth his People into his Kingdom of Love Joy Rest and Peace which is everlasting and the great Tribulations which the Righteous meet with for a season in this world and are called to pass through is but the more to wash them and prepare them for that everlasting Crown and Kingdom which the faithful God in what he hath promised to the Flock of Christ will certainly give unto them and whatsoever evil men may do against the Church of God in the execution of their Malice Violence Spoils or Ruins which the Lord hath in many Ages suffered to come upon the precious Sons Daughters of Sion yet in all that which such suffered our heavenly Father designed nothing towards them but good and for their profit to make them more and more pertakers of his Glory who in common Calamities and Judgments met with hard measure and sufferings from wicked men that did not fear God but were bent to work Wickedness to do it with greediness such now will the Lord judge and recompence the Evil of their own Ways and Doings upon their own Heads and the divine Vengeance of God did overtake and will overtake such and with all the Wicked and Unrighteous of the Earth is the Righteous God pleading and they shall be broken to pieces by him even like a Potters Vessel for they cannot stand in Judgment in the great Day of the Lord wherein terribly he will shake the Earth that it may be removed out of its place in Peoples hearts also he will shake the Heavens for that is to be shaken that Heaven and Earth may be full of his Glory and that the Knowledge of the Lord may cover the Earth as the Waters cover the Sea that Knowledge may be increased Now in the woful Day of Judgment Calamity from God come and coming upon the Wicked and Ungodly it doth appear to me as if some weak and feeble Ones amongst us should say What will become of us shall me be hid in the Day of the Lord's Wrath will the Lord have pitty upon and spare us when the overflowing Scourge shall pass through the Land This I have to say as from God concerning the Righteous every where Fear not Man neither be dismayed at his Looks because of God's Judgments being in the Earth or when Calamity cometh for although Judgments and outward Calamity may reach all in general yet will the Lord remember to spare keep and support the weak of his Flock that continue with him in Tribulations and follow him fully he will give them a Kingdom of Rest Joy and Peace which is everlasting the Light of his Countenance shall shine upon them he will give them Beauty for Ashes and the heavenly Oyl of Joy instead of the Spirit of Heaviness that is but for a Night but Joy cometh in the Morning the Lord will hide spare and pitty you weak and feeble Ones in times of Peril Trouble and greatest Danger you abiding faithful unto him he will not leave you comfortless but will comfort you and will be a Rock and Refuge to you for you will find a sure place of Refuge in his holy Name in which you have believed and do trust he will not forget you nor forsake you in your greatest straits be patient in Tribulation for Tribulation worketh Patience and patience Experience and Experience that Hope which maketh not ashamed and that will be as an Anchor to hold you all unto and keep you steadfast upon the sure and certain Rock of Ages Christ Jesus even from the least of you to the greatest and from the weakest of you to the strongest and you will mightily be upheld and supported by him in all through all and over all that which God may permit wicked Men or Devils to do against you to trouble oppress or try you who being sound Righteous you shall have the blessed Reward thereof freely bestowed upon you in this World and that which is to come and it shall go well with you however it be as to Troubles Oppressions or Tryals in this world when God's Judgments are in the Earth and the Vials of his Wrath poured forth with fury upon the Heads of the Wicked and Ungodly to cut them off the Lord will have mercy upon Sion he will hear the Cry of the Afflicted true Sion his Bowels of Compassion will the more appear and be inlarged to relieve save help and deliver you and to cause your Enemies to be at Peace with you God's love and care in watching over his and to incamp about them that is a sure Defence and a Buckler and Shield will the Lord ever be to all that fear him and think upon his Name whether weaker or stronger God who is just and equal in all his judgments and wayes will not destroy the Righteous with the wicked from that great Deluge that came upon the old World for there great wickedness wherewith they then provoaked the Almighty to great Indignation against them yet he saved Noah that Preacher of Righteousness and his Family being Righteous in an Ark which Noah built being warned of God to do it long before it was finished when the Flood came in that Ark was he and his Family saved and not destroyed with the wicked and when God overthrew the Cities of Sodom and Gomorrow by a dreadful violent Fire the destroying Angel could not proceed to his work till just Lott was gone out of Sodom but afterward those Cities were laid in Ashes And how did the Lord keep and preserve that fruitful Bow Joseph who was hated of his Brethren and sold by them a Slave into Aegypt how did the Lord help