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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66856	An epistle to all Friends that be travelling towards the holy city and rest that is in the everlasting life, that they may not over-charge themselves, nor burden themselves in their journey. With a visitation of pure love to all such as have err'd in their hearts from the holy commandment, that to the Lord, who is very gracious and merciful, with all their hearts they may be turned, and so be by him saved.	Wollrich, Humphry, 1633?-1707.	1674 (1674)	Wing W3291; ESTC R224071	10,182	15

AN EPISTLE To all FRIENDS That be Travelling towards the Holy CITY and REST that is in the Everlasting Life that they may not Over-charge themselves nor Burden themselves in their Journey WITH A Visitation of Pure Love To all such as have Err'd in their Hearts from the Holy Commandment that to the Lord who is is very Gracious and Merciful with all their Hearts they may be Turned and so be by him Saved DEar Friends that have a Love to the Lord in your Hearts that would enter in at the Straight Gate and Narrow Way that is holy and undefiled forever but its End is Peace and Everlasting Life They that will so fight the good Fight of Faith like the good Souldiers of Christ as to take hold of Eternal Life they must not Over-charge their Hearts and Minds with the Affairs and Things of this Life which if they do they cannot please their Captain that chuseth them to be his Souldiers They must not Entangle themselves nor Load themselves with the many Things for that will hinder them in the Way and Work of God which Way is Holy and Work Honourable and Glorious So dear Friends this is the Work of God in all we do or put our Hands unto to believe in him whom God hath sent a Light into our Hearts to lead out of all that which would darken your Understandings and shut the pure Eye with which the Lord may be seen going before you making your Way perfect and plain This is he that is not of this World that leads man out of the Evil of the World in the VVay of Righteousness not to do his own Will or seek his own Glory for he that seeks the Glory of him that sent him and doth his Will he sanctifies all that stand therein Him ye may trust and believe in and commit your Way unto that he may bring it to pass for the same is true and there is no Unrighteousness with him and so doing all your things in him who is meek and hath Salvation they are done in the Name and Power of the Lord which the Family of God and Houshold of Faith know to be their House eternal to work all their Works in and so they be done to the Praise and Glory of the Heavenly Father and in the Victory over the VVorld and its Spirit and such in VVell-doing shall not be weary nor faint in their Minds for their Faith stands in the Power and the Power keeps open the Eye of their Understandings and they see him that is true with whom there is no Unrighteousness And he is their Tower and strong Hold in the Day of Trouble their Shield and their exceeding great Reward And this is that Invisible and Holy One who is full of Grace and Truth whose Day of Glory Moses and Abraham saw and it made them willing to deny themselves and the Pleasures of Sin that are but for a season their own Country and all Egypt's Treasures and Glory And this is he whom we in our Day and Age have seen or else we should have been weary by reason of Unreasonable Men their Cruel Laws and Precepts they have prescribed to weary us out and make us deny our Just and Holy Principle in which we be established as Mount Sion that cannot be removed and taught of the Lord in the Spirit and in the Truth and in the Beauty of Holiness to worship the Lord and not after the Precepts and Commands of men by whom we have deeply suffered who have been stirred up by the Hirelings and Deceivers of the Nation that have turned about like the Wind and have been given to change with the many Changes of Government and they that do so serve not the Lord Jesus but their own Bellies But He is become our Salvation our Light our Life and Glory and as we in him abide he makes us Triumph in every place and he leads us into the strong City and Country that hath Foundations whose Builder and Maker is God and we therein do Bless and Laud and Praise him that lives forever And they that will so run the Race that is set before them as to obtain the Price even this Inheritance that never fades away and Kingdom that cannot be shaken must cast off every Weight and the Sin that doth so easily beset them mark that the Sin that easily besets that must be cast off also and every thing that brings a Vail or a Burden on God's Spiritual and Holy Day that so the Just may be Ruler in you all and as a Morning without a Cloud or else ye cannot enter in at the Everlasting Door and Gate of the Heavenly City and Holy Place there to minister before the Lord in the Holy Robe and Garment of Righteousness to do the Work of his Sanctuary and Tabernacle that he hath set up and pitched amongst us And this is that Gate where be the pleasant Things and City into which Job whose Glory was fresh in him with his Garment of Righteousness that was to him as a Robe and Diadem entered where the Rock poured him out Rivers of Oyl For Friends where the Righteous dwell and reign there is great Glory and the Secret of God is upon their Tabernacle there is Oyl and a Treasure to be desired which the Wicked One will consume and devour if he be not watched against But the Way to attain these things will be too straight and narrow for them who do not take up a Daily Cross and walk in the Foot-steps of the Flocks of the Companions casting off the Weights and the Burdens and the many things which in the true Light that shines in the Heart be seen to hinder the Eye to guide man's Feet out of all the Sin that darkens him into the Way of Peace the Way and Everlasting Door will not be lifted up nor exalted in them but be rather shut against them who be in the Bond of Iniquity and in that which brings the Vail and Gall of Bitterness over them and such had need to Repent and wait for his Judgments to put away their Sins and Iniquities from their Tabernacles that hath put them far from the Lord and made them to wander in a barren Wilderness where no plain Way is and in a Land of Fear where no Peace is like Cain to whom the Lord has no Respect for he was not of that Righteous One as Righteous Abel was in which Righteousness he had the Living Record in Heaven and Witness That he pleased God So to such I say Before ye pray put away your Idols and put down the Altars of Baal and the Images of the Sun that ye may know the Golden Altar which the Apostles had right unto thereupon to minister before the Lord for it is raised and builded in the Fear and in the Name of the Lord. So Friends wash ye in Innocency that ye may compass this Altar of the Lord with your holy Offerings for all that be round

them for his Mercies endure forever And so is not this our State whom the Lord hath brought out of spiritual Sodom and Egypt where the Witness was slain in us and where the Vine most dear and the pleasant Plant could not grow nor prosper by reason of the cruel Lord and strange King that ruled over us before we knew the King of Saints who bound the Kings and Nobles in Fetters of Iron to be the Lord our Righteousness whose Service is perfect Freedom and Work Honourable and Glorious and they that are in his work and are become his Workmanship can say His Praise endures forever But was not Israel for this his Ingratitude disinherited and plucked up by the Roots from the good Land which the Lord had promised and sworn to their Fathers if they took heed to his Commandments his Laws Statutes that he set before them they should inherit forever But even as he did to the House of Ely the Priest of the Lord for their Disobedience to him so did he to them whom he had said should walk before him forever afterwards said Now be it far from me for I will do a thing to the House of Ely the Ears that hear thereof shall tingle For them that honour me I will honour but them that honour not me shall be lightly esteemed And was not the Word of the Lord spoken by Samuel justly fulfilled on them That they should be cut off and such as remained of the House of Ely shoul● come and crouch for a piece of Bread So Friends we have been by the Lord brought into a good and spiritual Land and heavenly Place which is the Glory of all Lands and Places and with the piritual Rock and Bread of Heaven have we been water'd and fed and the Vine-yard we planted not and Wells we digged not have sprung up to us and we rejoyced over it greatly as Israel of old rejoyced over their Well in the Wilderness saying Spring up O Well sing ye to it And thus was it with them in the Day of their Espousals then their Hearts were glad because of the Lord whose Right-Hand was exalted and whose Holy Arm had got him the Victory in bringing them out of Egypt and through the Red Sea and a perpetual Name of Praise of Fame and of Glory as it is at this Day But let all dear Friends and People consider but especially those whose Hearts be not stedfast with the Lord who deal faisly in his Covenant and secretly turn back in their Hearts into spiritual Egypt and Sodom that black Sink and Sea of Iniquity I say let us all consider that have known the Lord and fear before him by their Example who after all these Signs and Wonders and Mighty Hand and Out-stretched Arm and Great Judgment shew'd to them in the Red Sea upon their Enemies and Persecutors who said Let us pursue them and over-take them and satisfie our selves upon them But after this they not remembring these his Mercies but soon forgot his Word they waited not for his Counsel but ran a Whoring after their own Inventions and lifted up their Eyes to the Idols of the People that knew not God which made Moses that Holy and Just Man to say Do ye thus Requite the Lord O foolish People and unwise Is not he thy Father Even so it may be said to many that have known the Truth and Way of he Living God and were glad when they had found it and walked therein for a season who have been greatly benefited by it every way whi●st in it they stood but as it was in the Apostles dayes with some even so have they turned again like the Dog and like the Sow once washed to wallow in the Mire And be not these the foolish People and unwise even like the foolish Galatians that were bewitched from the Spirit who do thus requite the Lord who hath long spared them and waited on them to do them good and to be gracious to them expecting his Long-suffering that they have not duely prized should have led them to Repentance and they have turned and not have dyed but have been made Vessels of Mercy meet for the Bowels of Love and Mercy For O Friends how great are the tender Mercies and the Loving-kindness of the Living Lord that he doth daily extend towards his living Children even in and through that true Light that out o● Darkness hath shined in their own Hearts and doth daily open to them that obey it and follow in the Love to it in the Self-denyal which this Light calls for in all that come to God through it it opens to them the Bosome of the Father that Abraham and all the Holy Followers of God that walk in Love as dear Children after him do lie in and giveth them the Light of him and the Knowledge of the Glory of him and as he over-came Abraham's Heart and Moses's Heart and Mind to follow him that is invisible with the Eye open looking straight on before them being atop and above all the Amazements Fears Terrors of the Wicked his Snares and Allurements being all seen and ye know the Net being seen the End and Desire of the Fowler and cunning Hunter is all in vain So dear Friends and Brethren in the Name of the Lord all keep your Eyes open to him from whence comes your Salvation lest ye be taken in the Pit of the W●cked for if the Night comes and Darkness blinds the Eye by which Moses in his Day and we in our Day do see him that is invisible we wander then in Crooked Wayes and By-Pathes wherein at best we do but warm at the Light of the Fire that our own hands have made and kindled then is Darkness put for Light and Light for Darkness But the lasting and perfect Peace of God to keep the Heart is not known as they do know it whose Hearts and Minds be stay'd on the Lord out of and clean above the World and things that therein are So dear Friends in every place that call on the Name of the Lord though but with Sighs and Groans that in words cannot be utter'd nor declared stir up your selves and let the Loins of the pure Mind that seeks nothing but the Living Lord be girded up and stand stand on your holy Watch continually that the head and chief Corner-Stone ye may see lifted up above all t●e Billows Temptations and Raging Waves of the Sea So the Lord and his holy Power be amongst you all in and over you all Amen So Friends in the Heavenly Power and Seed feel and feed on the Height Depth Length and Breadth of the Love of the Everlasting God I rest in Peace with the Lord whom I do love above all other things your Brother praying in the holy Spirit where the true Faith is known that stands in the Power to my God and your God your Father and my Father to shew Mercy and Loving-kindness always to your Souls with his Heavenly Riches and Treasures spiritual Blessings in Christ Jesus which is and forever shall be the Reward Lot Inheritance and pleasant Portion of all that love Equity and Righteousness so as to hate every False Way Deceit and the thing that is Evil in the Sight of the Lord. The 2d Moneth 1674. Humphry Wollrich THE END

that clotheth the Lili●s and heareth the Ravens when they cry he feeds and satisfies them and the Eyes of all the Living that look to him and wait upon him do not fail for he enlightens them and keeps them alive in Famine from the Scourge of the Tongue even the Viper's Tongue and Noisom Beast that would devour them in his secret Pavilion and Tent of the Lord that is round about them pitched in that doth he hide them till the Wrath of Man be over and the remainder of Wrath will he restrain and it shall praise him and be to the Praise of his Grace and holy Power that saveth them But the Eyes of the Wicked shall fail and they shall be cut off that watch for Iniquity and secretly cry Ha ha so would we have it their Expectation shall perish as their own Durg and as the Vntimely Birth of a Woman their Hope shall be as the giving up of the Ghost But the Righteous shall rejoyce in the Lord and glory in his Strength and praise him in his Sanctuary and in the goodly Tents of Jacob and Dwelling-place of Israel forever and forever Even so be it Amen O Friends do you all examine your selves and in the True Light the just Measure and Ballance of the Sanctuary which the Lord loves and delights in for his Mind is in it and it is one with him Do ye try your selves whether Christ be formed in you your Hope and Glory and so brought forth from under the Clouds and deep Waters that have been round about him and whether ye be in the Faith even in that living Faith that standeth in the living Power of God and gives perfect Victory and Dominion over all the VVorld and the Prince thereof If ye be of the Houshold of Faith then in the Power of God's Endless Life your House in the Heavenly Place that is in Christ we witness it so as said the Holy Seed in former Ages Thou h●st been our Dwelling-Place in all Generations and he was made more to them then their Necessary Food and more precious then the Golden W●dge of Ophir and said they We have a strong City whose Wells be Salvation and Cates Praise and here was the River of God and Wells of Salvation whose Springs and Streams made them glad And Friends can ye in the Faith that is true and living that was once delivered or given to the Saints let down your Buckets every one of you into these Wells that be within the Walls of this Holy City of God and draw of the Waters of Life that the true Believer hath in himself springing up and keeping the Soul in Eternal Life but if it be not so well with any but Deadness and Leanne's is come upon them and t●e Clouds be returned after the Rain let such examine themselves What the Cause is and What it is that hath shut up their Sp●●ng and W●ll that the Water doth not run and issue out to make them glad as formerly and if the Lord in his own Light be not lifted up as Moses lifted up the Serpent in the Wilderness over all in his own House and Temple then Examine and try your own Hearts Vnto what vain and perishing thing hath the Mind and Heart been lifted up or turned aside unto and what Idol of Abomination that makes the Soul'd solate and to want its former M●rcus hath been preferred before him even the Lord who did in this our Age and Day work Wonders for us as ever he did for Israel of old in the Land of Egypt and in the Tabernacles of Ham in bringing us out of the House of Bondage and House wherein all that be there be yet the Servants of Sin even many of them loving and pleading for the Hard Master the Cruel Lord and Strange King whom they serve It was the Lord I say who in Mercy brake Israel's Bands and he in Mercy hath broken our Bands and Fetters and the heavy Yoak of Sin that was of the Devil and loaded us and oppressed us and as he after a wonderful manner broak the Yoak of Israel's Oppressors in the dayes of Mid●an when he mightily oppressed them so he in tender Mercies hath taken the Yoak from off us and burst the Clouds and Bands and Chains of Darkness and from off our Hearts hath he rent them by the Rising of the Day of his Power and the Exaltation of his holy Mountain that enter'd and were drawn over us in the sin and transgression these has he done away in Christ Jesus and made us to go upright And Friends this is true in him and truly witnessed by us as we in him do abide and we ought to give all Diligence to search and examine our selves Where we be whether we have a Name to live and Profession only or in the holy and divine Nature out of which we can do nothing well-pleasing neither can we be made Partakers of the exceeding Great and Pretious Promises but as in him we abide to whom they be all made sure And so after all this Grace and Mercy shew'd of the living Father of Mercy unto us in this his unspeakable Gift Christ Jesus we had need to be vigilant in walking worthy of his Merties in rendring to the Lord as from him we have receiv'd even our Souls and Spirits to him and all our Members a living Offering and Sacrifice and Servants to Righteou●ness which is but reasonable seeing when we had sold our ●elves for nought and being filled with our own Devices and held fast with the Cords of our own Sin then he with a Frice redeemed us and this the time of our Mi●cry was the time of his Love and when there was no Intercessor or Dayes man then did his own holy Arm bring Salvation and get him the Victory So we be not our own any longer or to please our selves but the Lord. And all you that have known the Resting place which remains forever because it is not polluted and the Bed of Love that is green and so truly honourable and und filed you that have known the fresh and large Pasture and the gathering of the true Shepherd and his puttings forth into it who hath brought you nigh the Shepherd's Tent-prize ye this his Mercy and be not like Israel of old who were unmindful of their Pock't at begat them and did lightly esteem God their Saviour who had fed them to the full with the Bread of Heaven but they waxed sat kicked against him moreover he brought them unto a good Land wherein was no want of any good thing that was in the Earth to possess Houses they builded not Vine-yards and Olive-yards and Wells and Fountains of Waters they planted not and digged not and so for want of remembring the Lord their God who brought them up out of the Land of Egypt and House of Bondage and Slavery who remembred them in their low Condition when they cryed to him in their Afflictions he helped