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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

the Trees that are planted by the Rivers side bringing forth fruits of righteousness the planting of the Lord bringing forth fruit in due season wherein you wil be lovely to the Father and one unto another and so in the Love and Life abiding and keeping in the unity you wil be known to be the planting of the Lord to the glory of his most holy Name And tender Friends and little ones I exhort you in the Name and fear of the Lord to watch against and to be aware of suffering any root of bitterness to spring up amongst you or of harbouring any prejudice one against another but in that Spirit of Love dwel which thinks no evil nor is not easily provoked for that which gives offence and that which takes the offence is one and comes from the same old root of bitterness and proceeds from him that watcheth to divide and devour and to break the unity amongst the Lambs and to make a prey a rent a division and a spoil and if any are overtaken in these things for want of a diligent watch to their thoughts words and actions in it the Enemy will have a great advantage to hurt your peace and to weaken you And therefore dear friends be tender one to another let the strong bear with the weak and be you pittiful and tender-heatted towards the bruised Reeds that have been hurt by the subtilty of the Enemy and let your bowels earn over any in whom there is yet remaining a little Love or Zeal though it be but as a smoaking Flax or of any that are wounded by reason of their fall which they have taken in the Evening-tide I say again in God's fear Be very tender to any such that in the spirit of love and meekness such may be restored if so it may be For Friends you your selves may be tempted snared and overtaken by the subtil Enemies bait and therefore let all that think they stand fear continually and take heed lest they also fall And Friends beware of watching over one another with an evil eye for that watcheth for the evil and doth not see the good and by that the good manners is and hath been corrupted and they that watch with that eye they provoke to evil and not to good And Friends it lieth upon me to warn you to take heed of looking back to Egypt or to any thing that you have left behind but pass on and let your eye be to that which is before and abide in the way in which you have begun to walk and in the patience dwel and keep to the good Word thereof that in the Faith you may be found that so the old Enemy may not beguile you and so you come to be dispossessed of the blessing through disobedience therefore to your Guide keep and faithfully follow him and take heed of staying behind and beware of being too forward in going before for there is danger in both of being overcome with the Enemy In staying behind you wil be guilty of disobedience and so not onely lose your reward and the blessing of rest and peace but you will have that Talent taken away which you do possess and you wil have your portion where wil be weeping and gnashing of teeth And he that goes before wil be puffed up above his measure and so forget the Lord and he wil have his portion also with the wicked Therefore I do exhort and warn you all to take heed of an evil heart of unbelief and of departing from the living God Be you all therefore stedfastly grounded setled and staid in your minds unmoveable upon the everlasting Foundation of God that standeth sure that so you may not be tossed turned aside nor easily shaken in your minds from that which you have believed nor weakned in your confidence but that you may hold out unto the end and then you wil assuredly receive your reward if you faint not So you that have believed in the Truth take heed of fainting and beware of hunting abroad for my Friends there may be erring on the right hand as wel as on the left therefore to your Leader keep and dwel low in the pure fear and so the Cross you wil be led into and then you wil feel that which wil slay your Enemies on every hand for of a truth friends there is no safety out of the fear nor prosperity out of the Cross therefore let your resolution be for ever therein to dwel and then you wil obtain the Crown and reap the Blessing that is everlasting So remember it was he that hunted abroad that fainted and sold his Birth-right for a little of the earthly enjoyment to satisfie his earthly desire and so he lost the blessing Therefore all dear Lambs and little ones keep at home and dwel in your own habitation in the Light the House of the living God and be you faithful unto him in all things that he doth require that so none might deprive you of your blessed Inheritance nor take away your Crown of glory joy rest and peace And Friends Brethren and Sisters children of God think it not strange that we have tryal upon tryal and if the Furnace of affliction cometh to be heat more hotter yet look not out thereat be valiant for the Lord and for his Truth upon the Earth and in that stand which is immovable for this I have seen in the eternal Light that there wil be a day of dividing and separating between the precious and the vile the good metal and the dross between the weighty Wheat and the light airy chaff between the meek gentle patient sheep and the rough rugged Goats the vile in nature shal no longer be hid under a false outside form of likeness without the Power and Life that dross shall no longer abide among the good Metal to darken the brightness thereof for the day is come that burns as an Oven the Furnace is already kindled and the Refiners fire is lighted which wil try each matter metal and work of what sort it is neither shal the chaff any longer cover the good Wheat but by the Arm of Gods Eternal Power wil be threshed off and blown away with the wind of his wrath for he is come whose Fan is in his hand by which he wil scatter the chaff and the wheat he wil gather into his Garner therein to be preserved and he wil also purge his Floor in this his notable day and all the gentle meek and patient sheep on his right hand he wil set where the fulness of joy mercy peace and pleasures are for ever and for evermore when as the rough and bruitish Goat● shal be separated on the left hand to receive the curse having walked out of the way of righteousness which is the way of peace in that therefore dear Friends all abide which wil make you fruitful and to abound in every good word and work for this is the day wherein he is come to seek for