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A97307 A few words in tenderness to the well-meaning professors, suiting the present season [by] Thomas Zachary. Zachary, Thomas, d. 1686. 1674 (1674) Wing Z2; ESTC R43844 4,928 1

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in their own Willings and Strivings in their own Wisdoms and Understandings but wait for the Ministration of the Spirit of Life and Power Now wherefore is it that you all joyn together against us and have Enmity to us Have you Peace in so doing Are you justified before God herein And have you Hope hereby to lay us wast O know assuredly such Hope is vain and shall certainly perish for our Foundation standeth sure O the Sen●e I have had of the Power of Darkness strong Workings at this Day against us to render us infamous in the Eyes of all People not only as No Christians but as Deceivers Juglers Equivocators and Impostors and as having a Diabolical Spirit O thick Darkness that we should be so judged by a Professing People but we know we have a Testimony in the Hearts of many which the Enmity of our Adversaries cannot destroy Lord what have we done Whose Cause have we espoused What Kingdom and Interest seek we to exalt but the God of Heavens We can in the Integrity of our Souls appeal unto him and stand over the Heads of our Adversaries and in true Patience bear with all the Revilings and Reproaches of Men of all Sorts counting it not a new Thing for the true Servants of the Lord to be so dealt with when Christ himself found the hardest Measure from the strictest Professing Jews who doing such wonderful Things even to Astonishment and which they were Witnesses of and could not deny yet their Darkness and Enmity was such as to strike at his very Root and Spirit by which he did those wonderful Things saying He had a Devil a Diabolical Spirit and that by Beelzebub the Prince of Devils he did those mighty Things and never rested till they murthered him Oh that the same Spirit were not to be found among some of you But I dare not charge all among you believing that some have true Desires after God and his Truth and truly desire more of the Knowledge of him for whose sakes I had some Constraint upon me to publish these Things to provoak you to a Retirement of Spirit and to an inward Feeling of your States before the Lord what you are in his pure spiritual Light and if in the true Measure of the Light of the Lord in you you feel not a closing with our Testimony and have some Savour of our Life then wait in that true spiritual Light that the Lord may reveal it to you and judge not those Things you know not nor turn in Enmity to us lest Hardness come over you and Darkness cover you But if in the Singleness of Heart before the Lord you can receive our Testimony then be not hasty but wait in the Light of the Lord for Strength that you may come to the Obedience of his Heavenly Will For it is the Obedient that inherit the Good of the Land and whose Souls delight in Fatness And until I was brought to Obdience and Subjection I could never witness Satisfaction for great and long hath the Travail of my Soul been after the Lord even from a Child the Fear of God was upon me and some Desires stirring in me after him under several Forms of Religion and still I followed that Ministry and People where I found most of the Life of Jesus and when I saw too much exalting of Form and idolizing of them and an inward Decline of that first Simplicity and Zeal that was once among many and that Religion was grown a Worldly Interest and a Foot-stool to Promotion my Soul loathed it And upon the very hearing of a poor despicable People in the North of England called Quakers of their Behaviours Words and Conversations my Soul closed with them with Sense and Feeling of them that they were the Chosen of the Lord and then saw and declared of the Seas●nableness of their coming forth That when the pure Simplicity and living Testimony was just expiring among the Professors of the Nation the Lord who would not leave himself without Witness in every Age Generation in due Season raised up his Witness afresh in a poor inconsiderable People to bear up his Name in the Earth whose Testimony was in Spirit and in Life and Power Upon which most of the Priests and formal Professors in the Nation was stirred and provoaked and joyned together to oppose them and though they themselves in their Zeal had cryed to God to send f●rth his Light and his Truth and that the Kingdom of Christ might be exalted and that he would pour out of his Spirit upon his Sons and Daughters yet when the Lord had chosen and raised a People thus to bear his Name and to exalt his Truth on Earth and to proclaim the Great Day of the Lord to level the Mountains and to lay low the Lofty of the Earth and to bring Proud Flesh into Contempt and to raise the Poor to inherit the Kingdom Instead of meeting with the Lord who was about to perform those great Things themselves desired in the Day of their Tenderness they evilly entreated those blessed Messengers and overlookt them for their Meaness and spake all Manner of Evil of them Imprisoning Whipping Stocking and reproachfully reviling them many of whom dyed in their Imprisonment And I do believe had not the Lord in his Righteous Judgment taken Power from them they would have been farther deeply guilty of the Blood of the Innocent But my hearty Desire for all that are tender-hearted among you who have the Fear of the Lord upon you that you take heed that you be not leavened with that Persecuting and Anti-christian Spirit for the very same that now reproach us and would unchristian us would destroy us if it had Power But the Hand of the Lord is to be seen in suffering all these Storms of Oppositions against us to provoak us to the more Watchfulness and Diligence and to brighten our Testimony for the Righteous God whom in Spirit and Truth we serve Therefore unto him do I commit our Cause who sets Bounds to the Seas and stills its Raging who can appease the Wrath of Man and scatter the thick Clouds of Dark●ess with which he is compast by the bright Shining of his Day in which ●ll Works Doctrines Principles and Spirits shall be made manifest and in the Breaking out of this blessed Day doth my Soul rejoyce before the God of Heaven So Friends in Faithfulness to the Lord and in true and dear Love to all simple-hearted People who have the least of Vprightness of Heart to God and sincerely desire to follow the Lord wherever he shall lead them I shall conclude leaving this my Testimony to the Witness of God in all your Consciences who am Your Real Friend in the Service of Truth and Love Thomas Zachary The 5th of the 9th Month 1674.