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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28614	Judas his thirty pieces not received but sent back to him for his own bag who hath betrayed the Lord of Glory ... : being something by way of answer to a letter that was sent to John Reynes ... from Robert Rich ... which was for the distribution of a certain sum of money to seaven churches ... wherein it is mainfested ... Quakers cannot partake of his gift ...	Bolton, John, 1599-1679.	1660 (1660)	Wing B3506; ESTC R26455	13,488	15

folly was made manifest and blessed be the Name of God Truth and the Power of the Lord is established over the heads of all the unclean in heart and so we deny thy gift But Robert there is another end in sending thy Contribution to Seven Churches as thou call'st them thou sayest that these might more fully discern the mind of thy Lord in this figure of Love and Amity to them in the reading thy Letter there was a belief that there was a mystery in thy imagination about these Seven Churches it is declared before that thou wast one of the first that run out in the imagination to the dishonour of Truth thou joyned to them that could not indure the Yoke and to the Ranters and after some small space of time when that Cloud of Darkness was blown over a second assault from the Bottomless-Pit ariseth through that Poetical Instrument John Perrot who set up and promoted the keeping on the Hat in Prayer and Supplication to God and that was not the only thing by which he sought to destroy and overturn the precious Truth of the Living God but it will stand for ever the second thing whereby this Instrument that was as thy fore-runner in this matter he wrote that Epistle for Unity and Amity and to take away the hedge of Opinions and so to unite all together in one this was the work of this nimble Poet and afterward when he could not effect his work to espouse and joyn us to the world that are in wickedness who were escaped from Sodom and were gotten to Soar the place of rest then himself after all his profession that he made of denial of this World and the Fashion thereof for a more enduring Substance yet at the last turned into the Earth and sought the preferment thereof and built again the things which before he had destroyed and so in that sinfull state laid down his body and so is a warning unto thee for if thou continue in that Apostising spirit in which thou went'st out from Gods Truth thou also wilt likewise perish but yet it is the desire of the Soul that thou mayst repent and come to Salvation and the glorious Salvation that we testifie of and are joyned together in is the pure Life and Power of Jesus Christ and blessed for ever be the Name of the Lord we abide therein and all those that did partake with us of the Grace of God in the Light of Christ Jesus and after a while drew back and fell from it we very well know Gods Soul harh no pleasure in them Therefore having received power from Christ we warn thee in the Name of the Lord to return to that which first convinced thee which was the pure Light and Spirit of Christ that thou mayst know it to clense and sanctifie thee and to lead and guide thee in the Everlasting Way of Holiness which will administer comfort to thee in the latter end We omitted of purpose the naming of those Persons which thou speakest of in thy Letter of direction to John Reynes because of our intention to make this Paper sent unto thee publick unto whom thy further request is to receive the Thirty pounds and therewith to provide a Dinner or a Supper thy words are which I chiefly do for the raising of my dear Friend Lazarus viz. the Love of God we are not unquainted blessed be the Lord for ever how the Love of God was raised up in our hearts we have in some degree spoken of it before but yet its needfull to say that the Lord in an acceptable day reach'd to our Souls to let us see that without Christ we were utterly undone and lost for ever and we had been long seeking him even through almost all Forms of Religion that had a Form of godliness amongst them but we could not find the Beloved of the Soul there for in those several Forms we come to know that Christ the Second Adam the Lord from Heaven his Countenance is more marr'd then any mans but when in the Ministration of the Gospel and by it alone we came to be acquainted with the pure Power of the Lord God we very well yet remember how that Power of God wrought in our Souls even to an utter loathing of all manner of sin and evil and it begat an everlasting love in our Souls to the Living God and to one another who by a visitation in his Spirit and Power had drawn us with the Cords of pure Love and this Spirit and Power of the Lord Jesus Christ this and this only is able to raise up the Love of God in man and also to preserve for ever that Love in the heart for by the Power therof are we preserved and therein do we rejoyce and our Joy can no man take from us But what love is that which is raised up in good fellowship as the World call it in eating and drinking is it not the love of such a god whose god is Bellies who mind earthly things to raise up the Love of the true God in the hearts of men and women but undoubtedly a Dinner or Supper in the outward will not raise up the Love of God in the heart that which sheds it abroad in the heart that alone can raise up pure Love to the pure God and this we are acquainted withal and we do believe that thou speakest thy own condition in those words viz. Which hath been long pining away through a tedions and sore famine of contention and strife even unto death Robert we very well yet remember when thy self with others departed from the Unalterable and Everlasting Living Holy Way of God what strife and sore contention did you and your Company make in our Meetings and Assemblies to the wounding the hearts of many that did truely love and fear the Name of the Lord through which strife and contention of yours together with the Ranters to which you were joyn'd you made our otherwayes peaceable meetings to be a scorn to the World and thereby thou lost the pure Love of God that before did begin to be shed abroad in thy heart by the holy Spirit and now being gone from it and from the pure Light that leads to it thou wouldst buy the Gift of the holy Spirit with money in giving Thirty pounds to make a Dinner or a Supper for the raising up thy Friend Lazarus as thou call'st it but yet thou canst not be in friendship with the pure Love of the Living God whilst thou art out from the way that leads to it and we advice thee to turn to the Grace of God in which the Salvation is which blessed be the Name of God is become our Teacher and hath taught us to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts and to live soberly and righteously in this present World in the beginning we had some knowledge of thee in this Grace of God in which the Love of God is for ever but not to be bought with money

blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth from all Sin So we find thee gone from the true Fellowship that remains unalterable for ever which is in the true Light and holy Spirit which blessed be the Lord for ever we are whom thou art got atop of in thy words baptised into one Body and have been made to drink into one Spirit It is no matter at all of what perswasion in Religion we were before we came to know him that takes away Sin but now we are let the Ranters say whatever they will in him that is true and the departure of all them that could not abide and continue with us to walk in the strait Way that leads to Life it shakes not our confidence at all for we bear witness for the Lord and our witness will stand and abide and cannot be prevailed against because it is for him yea and in him that we are come to that which all the Prophets bear witness of and the glory is come and he is known that hath established the Soul upon the sure Foundation and all the proud swelling words cannot shake us at all for we will not know thy words but we will know thy power and try that and there we find thee light weighing in the Ballance of the Sanctuary we are called to it to contend for the Truth mark once delivered blessed everlasting God thou hast comforted the hearts of thine in this who are kept by thy power that they shall never fall because they are built upon the Rock Christ and we knowing that thou art gone from the blessed Way and Truth of the Living God and thou wast one of those of the first rank that departed from the Way Everlasting and joyned with them that got up into the Imaginations yet them that were thy Leaders in that particular there was some degree of repenting and God being gracious to them there was a sense of sorrow upon their hearts of their sin in dishonouring the name of the Lord and in causing his truth to be evil spoken of for your sakes but Robert I never yet heard that thou came to a sence of what thou art departed from or in what state thou now standest but that which thou art departed from and we enjoy gives us light to see thy condition and what work thou art working in this thy liberal Contribution and in this as to us what is it more then the Enemy of the Soul did to Christ our fore-runner when he shewed him the glory of this World and saith All this will I give thee if thou wilt fall down and worship me for now we being brought under as to outward things by the late Fire and thou being in fulness as to outward things it seems a sit time to lay thy snare to entrap our feet and by this means love as thou call'st it to overcome us who had whilst thou wer 't yet in London in that unclean spirit to which thou wast joyned denied thee and that spirit and thou so continuing we are still the same as we were when thou departed from us and say if thou continue where thou art Thy Money perish with thee for we have learned in all estates to be content and we know our God whom we serve is able and all-sufficient to provide for us it is our glory for ever that we come to know him that takes care for us and we know he makes provision according to our need and so we deny thy Sacrifice for it is the price of Blood as was hinted before for thou hast slain the pure tender innocent Life that was arising in thee the tender Bud it scarce ever came to blossom it was nipt the subtil Foxes spoil the tender Grapes that Birth thou speaks of was strangled before it was brought forth And all that are baptized and come to that Unction the Apostle speakes of which is true there is no lie in it the Soul even blesseth and magnifieth the Lord for ever that we are come to that pure Spring of Love and Life that satisfies the Immortal Soul and there is no Lye in it neither will it joyn or partake of a Lye in another therefore all that have been made partakers of it and come to know the worth thereof in some degree they had need walk humbly before the Lord for ever and prize his love and also stand in the watch lest through negligence or carelesness they giving not heed to the pure Light of Life which is the Gift of God in which the Wisdom which is from above is placed all that come to it and have kept their virginity have not been spoiled through vain deceit and a false flattering love that neither for fear nor favour of others but in singleness of heart are given up to the Lord to walk with him in the Covenant of his own Light and Life mark they need not strive after excellency of words for their Kingdom is not in that but they are come to know the Brest-plate of true Judgment the Judgment of the Living God is placed in it for ever and all them that dwell in the unalterable Truth of the Lord our Righteousness prize his mercy to you for ever Oh the excellency of the pure Power of the pure Life of the Son God and without all doubt the Virgins that follow the Lamb the Light whither he goes mark they have this treasure in earthen Vessels Oh ye faithfull ones that have kept your dwelling and have abode under the Wings of the Almighty exalt and magnifie for ever the alone precious glorious living saving strengthning Power of the Living blessed God your and our All is in it and without the preciousness of this in a setled stayed mind the want whereof and the neglect to attain the Wisdom that is from above that is for ever pure it is true in our dayes as in the dayes past The Sluggard the Sloathfull I in my Soul can desire there were none such they are clouthed in Rags mark the pure Life calls and cries out to the Lord that all and every one in the particular would labour and strive and watch to that so there might not one that profess the Name of the Lord be barren but all be acquainted with the Excellency of Gods Power and be enriched with it no one going before another but a standing in the unalterable Power of the Lord for the growth and comforting of the pure Life in all this is that we were made partakers of in the beginning we did we do inherit Life the preciousness whereof is beyond the utterance of all words and all the deceitfull ones that are gone out from the pure Appearance of the Lord and his pure Light and are made wise in many of the words of Truth yet are out and against the Power of Truth although they come amongst us with their lying wonders from day to day Robert as thou and thy Company did in the beginning but your sins remains and your