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A78561	A tender salutation: or, loving epistle to such, who have a breathing in the innocent life of my friends with whom I walked in the outward observances. Also, for my relations (after the flesh) with all others professing God, and that have any breathings after the truth in the inward parts. Wherein something is declared in the power and light of God, concerning the sure foundation, and the house of God, with the inward glory, government, cloathing, feeding, non-superiority, and safety, that is in Gods habitation. With a word to the weak to establish them, that they faint not at the appearances of outward trouble for their consciences. - Whereunto is annexed a further discovery of God to my soul, concerning the spiritual temple, tabernacle and ark of Gods testimony, being the truth, life, and substance of the temple, tabernacle and ark of the testimony under the legal day. - To be read in the light, which discovers the things that be of God. -	Chandler, Jacob.	1664 (1664)	Wing C1927A; ESTC R227552	24,960	33

will cloath you all with rich and soft cloathing for all his Family is arrayed with soft Rayment Oh every one that will be a Daughter of this King Jehovah Tzebaot the Lord of Hoast shall be all glorious within and shall be brought into the Palace of the King and the King shall greatly delight in her beauty for he is the Lord her God and she must worship him and that in Spirit and in truth I say my Friends God shall cloath and has in a measure cloathed all his children with soft and fine Rayment Are not they that wear soft Rayment in Kings houses yea my Friends they are Now this soft Rayment I declare of is the inward righteousnesse of the Lord Jesus which is the righteousnesse of all Gods Saints this is the cloathing of our house from heaven that every Saint groans for according to the measure of working here 's the putting on the Lord Jesus in Spirit power and truth and this is that righteousnesse that justifies the soul to God and is made acceptable to God and to the Lamb. Friends this Rayment I say is soft Rayment its meek still and quiet 't is all in the Spirit which Rayment in the sight of God is of great price of great value of great esteem Oh Friends There be many that have a covering but not of my Spirit saith the Lord. They have I say a covering something in imitation of this I declare of but it s too narrow then that the soul can wrap its self in it so that its nakednesse is seen by a spiritual discerning And therefore Friends all take heed lest you cover with such a covering insomuch that your shame appears I know there are some such abroad but they must stand or fall to their own Master for every mans works must be tryed and that by fire viz. the fire of the pure living God and if his works have not been wrought in God and sprung up from the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets whose foundation was Christ Jesus the chief Corner stone that bore up all their building and from which they restified that their works was wrought in God and had it not it must suffer losse Some think to shrow'd themselves under such a form and such a form and such an observation outwardly but it s not the form or observation outwardly that can hide any poor soul from the wrath of God and of the Lamb the which every soul is exposed to let them be shrowded where they will it s nothing but this covering to wit the inward righteousnesse of God and Christ investing the soul that hides from the wrath of the Lamb. This soft Rayment I declare unto you is that Rayment with which the Bride the Lambs wife makes her self ready withall and is so dressed therewith as a Bride is for her husband in the choice embraces of everlasting kindness and this Rayment every foul must have on to come to the Marriage-supper withall else it s an unwelcome guest though such as have it not on them may present themselves amongst the sons and daughters of God yet when the searcher of hearts the everlasting God shall make inquisition then they shall be discovered to be but intruders and though they held the form they did not hold the head by which all the members by joints and bands are knit together c. And though they had the semblance the vizard the shew of holinesse yet they denied the power the inward life of purity and righteousnesse and built on their form The Lord sayes to such what hast thou to do to take my Name into thy mouth seeing thou hatest to be reformed for he that nameth the Name of the Lord must depart from iniquity in vain is it that thou namest the Name of the Lord in vain is the multitude of thy services the Lord will say and does now say Who hath required this at your hands in vain is your solemn Assemblies your Sabbaths your Fastings Thanksgivings Preaching Praying Supper Baptisme Alms Conference with a multitude more they are all an abomination to the Lord in the outward observation because thou hast not on this wedding garment this inward pure righteousnesse of the Lamb and therefore they are an abomination oh soul because performed and externally carried on out of the life acted and carry'd on by the same spirit that thou sinnest with sure this is a loathing to the pure holy God of life who rejoyces in truth in the inward parts from whence all without must spring and not to take up an imitation from the Apostles practice and to do such works as thou gatherest from the Scriptures the writings of those holy men out of that life that moved them to it and many things else which oh soul thou art ready to despise but do thou wait upon the Lord for the more clearer breaking in of his light and movings of his life in thy own soul and abide in his counsel and abide his reproof in thy soul and be still look not forth but mind thy watch within least the enemy of thy soul get an advantage against thee and cleave to his power which thou shalt feel spring up whereby thou shalt be able to overcome sin hell death wrath self condemnation the world and all evil and thou shalt mount up in the life of God and here shalt thou be cleathed with his righte ousnesse and hear his voyce and obey his Commandments in thy own particular whose Commands are not grievous to the Spirit but joyous so thou shalt have the light of life in thy own heart as the Apostles and servants of God had before the Apostasie which was by them spoke of 2 Thess 2. the which came upon the world in some few years after the Apostles but now in these latter dayes the light is dawned and the Lord has visited some with his tender mercies the day-spring from on high hath visited some and God is a renewing of that defaced image that Adam had in innocercy and that the Apostles had by which they acted and was led and guided into the wayes of purity and righteousnesse doing what they did without as they had a command from this innocent life in themselves with singlenesse of heart and great joy blessing praysing magnifying the Lord God of power and purity and this is that life that my soul in a measure feels and has communion with And my soul breaths to the everlasting pure life that thou maist have the same holy pure and innocent life that the Apostles and Servants of God had and now some in a measure have in which life thou shalt learn what is the living sense of the Scriptures and Writings of holy men and of those Ordinances that the Apostles in their days was by the life commanded to do the which thou maist also do or forbear as the same life commands thee though this the carnal and fleshly reason cannot bear but I may not speak to please

Now Friends I am not a judging of any of you neither a disswading you though the evil mind in some may think I do insinuate to draw from the use of the Elements but do as the Lord shall direct you and as you see him going before you in all you do and moving you after and leave nothing undone that you are really perswaded in your Consciences to be your duty lest you get a wound to your soul and the Lord should say Who hath required this of you c. But know from the Lord God your life lies not here viz. in these outward observations though never so strictly observed but in God and the communion of Saints lies not here but in Spirit truth and power and therefore be not fierce against your Brethren that are not of your mind or perswasion in the outward observation Friends turn in and stand still from your own wayes and commune with your hearts and make enquiry Do I eat of this bread of life and drink of those pure springs of refreshment Does the Lord lead me into his green and fresh pastures and make me to lie down and repose my soul in eternal kindnesse And do I receive my refreshing from the pure and clear chrystal fountain of living waters Or do I take up in the outward observances and lesse mind this inward feeding this inward drinking of the bread and waters of life Oh Friends this thing is to be well minded and weighed in the truth and equity of God Now there be many a poor soul more a minding the outward observances than the inward vertue and power of the living God as it was in dayes of old so 't is now one cryes in this observation Lo here is Christ and others in that observation Lo there is Christ c. Every perswasion cryes up their own and sayes Come amongst us Christ is here in the observing of this order and others in that order and so are divided amongst themselves and are in confusion in Babylon and knows not where Christ is but what saith the Scripture Believe them not go not forth after them Now Friends Christ is nigh thee in thy heart as Paul did witnesse The righteousnesse that is of fatth saith on this wise Who shall ascond to heaven to fetch Christ down or who shall descend to fetch Christ up but what saith it Christ is nigh then in thy heart Rom. 10.6 7 8. Therefore Friends look not so much at the outward observation for Christ if that be it thou art in good earnest desirous to have as to a looking in for Christ for Christ as before said is within he is nigh in thy heart Christ is the pearl of price that great treasure that is hid in the field of every mans heart and therefore Friends stand still from thy own words works thoughts and carnal reasonings of the fleshly wise part and hearken to the voyce of Christ in thy own particular which cannot be heard but in a still quiet state of the soul freely resigned up to God to be no more any thing in it self but that God might be all in all and above all to its soul And as to the outward which man flesh and carnal wisdom make such a stir about they walk in as they have freedom and seeing the Lord going before them in it and if any thing outward be done otherwise it s but fleshly labour which profits not Oh but how many poor hearts is there that thinks God cannot be enjoyed truly and have communion with truly but it must be injoyed and had in such a way in such a form which I know is the language of men in different forms wayes or perswasions every one binding as it were and limiting the holy God to their perswasion but Friends the Lord is free to work where he please and when he please and on whom he please and this I have heard some say but will not stand unto it but bind up the Lord in his workings as much as they can and calls all into question that the soul injoyes of God if it come not in at their door though it do come in at the door of the sheepfold as I have had experience of and do know of what I speak and much more than this also But Friends the Kingdom of heaven manifests its self not in this or that observation but in righteousnesse in power Spirit and truth and this will be owned by many in words but denied in works and so manifest that they are in Babilon in confusion it s he in what Narion soever whether Jew or Gentile bond or free one or tother that feareth the Lord and worketh righteousness and that has all his works within wrought in and by God within is excepted of him it s not he that observes observations without but he that stands in the power Spirit and truth of God within that is accepted it s not thus much outward observance but this inward obedience That soul that is convinced of this is near the Kingdom near the possession now stand but still from acting in thy will and sink down into God and settle upon the foundation and resign up all to the Lord and stand to his order and cleave to truth with a purpose of heart and a little while viz. the Lords time he that shall come will come and bring thee into the Kingdom into the possession wherein thou shale enjoy all as before said and much more abundantly than I can speak of for I have but a stammering tongue in these matters yet what the eternal God has freely given to me to experience and to spring up in me freely declare I unto you my dear Friends all unto whom this is writ that you might all eat hereof and drink hereof i. e. of that which this points unto and so come to a higher growth in the birth of God though I may be traduced calumniated and persecuted one way or other either in secret smilings or open reproaches by some or other for I see in the light of God and through the revelation of the Spirit that the evil thing in some cannot bear that the power life and truth of God should clearly shine though in words they may speak otherwise that they might go undiscovered but may seek to destroy this holy Child Jesus the birth of God the shinings forth of the light of God by putting upon it some false glosse as delusion false light heresie blasphemie c. as they did by Christ himself and the servants of God in dayes past and so opposing of the seed of God and so as Pharaoh will labour to deal subtilly that it spread no further but I shall leave it and my self to the Lord and wait on him as being given up to his will not fearing what man can do or say knowing that I am a discharging my duty and conscience herein Of the inward adorning and beautifying of Gods House FUrther Friends the Lord my God

that the Lord God everlasting destroy cut up and consume carnal wisdom fleshly reason and fleshly will by thy Almighty power that they might never more hinder and deface thy pure holy glorious Image and breakings forth of thy innocent breath and of the pure and holy openings of thy indeared and tender love unto it And Friends in this life you shall be cloathed with this pure fine white linnen John declared of which is clean and white the which the Bride the Lambs wife is to bedeck her self with for the Marriage with the Lamb and therefore if any soul-pretends a Marriage with the Lamb and have not this fine white linnen which is the righteousnesse of the Saints he or them shall be dealt severely with he shall be taken by the Lord and bound cast out and his portion appointed with the Hypocrite where shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth for ever Such shall be for ever banished from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power to be punished with everlasting destruction because they obeyed not the Lord who commanded them to put on this garment this righteousnesse which is the Lord Jesus in Spirit and truth and because they obeyed not therefore sudden destruction shall overtake them Therefore Friends all be exhorted in the pure fear and dread of the Almighty God to turn in and make inquiry into this pure spotlesse matchlesse fine white-linnen which is the righteousnesse of the Lord Jesus Christ and of the Saints and you may come to know it by its effects for as it hath been already declared that it 's soft Rayment so 't is it 's soft gentle and quiet where it is and it fills the soul with peace passing the carnal understanding the work of righteousnesse shall be peace and the effect of righteousnesse quietnesse and assurance for ever And this habitation of God where this soft cloathing is to be felt is a peaceable habitation there is sure dwellings and quiet resting places And Friends this ornament beautifies the soul in the sight of God because its the comelinesse of God the beauty of God that is upon it this soul worships God in the beauties of holinesse in the Spirit of power upon the Mountain of righteousnesse And Friends this garment does not make the soul proud but humbles though its glorious apparrel yet it does not puffe up but layes the soul low it sinks the soul deep into humility and brings the soul into a free resignation to God This soul thinks not scorn to hear the voyce of the Lord out of the mouth of a Babe and Suckling but is content yea joyes in the Spirit of the Lord to see the life move in a despised instrument by the world and carnal wisdom But those that have covered but not of the Spirit of the Lord not of this righteousnesse of this pure garment they are proud despisers of them that are good fierce and cruel to the Saints betrayers of the Saints and of one another as their self-interest lies yet build upon a form of godlinesse but denying the power thereof and will own little in reality but what is in their form and way Friends be still and consider these things and examine your hearts Know you not that this is set And further Friends I find from this inward adorning and beautifying my soul to God and to the Lamb a garment of praise spring up in me which leads me forth in the pure fear of the Lord to praise magnifie and adore the pure living God and here I come to experience and to feel what it is to sing a Hymne or spiritual Song unto the Lord God of life and unto the Lamb that sits upon the Throne singing praise and hallelujah to the Lord God Omnipotent because he has taken to himself his great Rule and Raign singing with grace in my heart which heretofore I had heard the sound of and many other things the which now my soul feels the living vertue power and spirit of Oh Friends labour to feel the living power of this and of these things in your own souls and then we shall rejoyce together and sing the Song of the Lamb which none can sing but those that are redeemed from the earth i. e. from the earthly will wisdom and practice for the carnal part has nothing to do herein but the Spirit only The precious Laws of Government in Gods House and the choice Anointings and Teachings by the Spirit AND further Friends the house the habitation of God through the Spirit that I declare of has precious Laws of Government and Rule in it which before was hinted at I am made willing in the power of God to speak a little further of it The Laws of Gods house are spiritual as the house is in the Spirit so are the Laws it s called the Law of the Spirit of life and this same Law ruled and governed in Christ Jesus Rom. 8.2 and so in a measure in all the sons and daughters of God This is the Law of the new Covenant that Law that comes from God out of Sion this Law is not in the letter but in the Spirit the letter is 〈…〉 the Law is within As God said I 'le put my Laws in your mind and write them in your hearts and they shall not teach every man his neighbour saying Know the Lord for all in whose heart this Law shall be made manifest shall know me from the least to the greatest Every one in particular as they come to have the seed of God the Lamb of God the life of God to rise in them they come to experience and feel this Law in the Spirit and life teaching directing counselling and guiding into all truth and as every particular comes to obey they come to have peace with God they shall be all taught of the Lord and great shall be their peace This peace passes all understanding and its such peace that none can speak but the eternal God nor can give but himself who is the God of peace God blessed for ever And therefore Friends every one of you turn in and look for the Law in your hearts in your minds to be guided by it and as you come to see it and to be taught by it obey it and give up your minds to be guided by it which will guide from sin Iniquity and transgression from the world the pride of it the fashions of it the lust of it and it will guide you into righteousness into life and peace with the eternal God Friends think not this manner of speech strange and contemptible I know in the spiritual knowing part whereof I do affirm and have had an inward feeling abundantly whereof I declare Spend not all your precious time in the Law of the letter written on paper with pen and ink without the Law in the Spirit written in your hearts by the Spirit of the living God Oh Friends what if you should never so much study the

and a pushing one at the other for that 's of the flesh but a submitting the shoulder to bear each others burthen they lay out for each others good of what the eternal God has laid into their hearts and all this according to his working in them who works freely that all might be strengthned and comforted so that here 's not among the children of God Superiority one over another but all equally alike the children of God and Brethren one of another And certain I am that according to the measure of Gods indwelling in the pure light of life in the soul so the haughtinesse of man is crucified and laid low for haughtinesse and lordlinesse of spirit is from the flesh and beneath But as the soul receives of the Spirit of light and life and obeyes its teachings and drawings it shall find it drawing him from this spirit of haughtinesse and lordlinesse into a humble and low frame that it can standing in the power of such drawings condescend to wash his Brethrens feet as Christ did and become in the power of this so little and low that a little Child may lead him to wit Christ the Babe of righteousnesse the holy One of God for Friends the more the soul is anointed with the consecrating oyle i. e. the Spirit of God the more humble that soul is and willing to instruct his poor and weak Brother what God has done for his soul in order for his weak Brothers perseverance in the truth such a soul under the anointing of God is far from a Lordly and Majestical spirit This is that which God destroyes in the day of his power and glorious appearings of his life in a soul In that day the lofty looks of man shall be humbled and the hanghtinesse of men shall be bowed down and the Lord alone shall be exaleed AND now my dear Friends Turn in and see what you can experience in your own particulars that your rejoycing may be in your selves and not in another and think not this strange that you are pressed through such a weak instrument as I am to turn in and to see if these things are wrought by the eternal Spirit and that you have your teachings from the Spirit within Consider Friends the soul that is to be saved is within and Christ the light is within he sayes I am meek and low in heart And Christ in you the hope of glory And know you not that Christ is in you c. And the Law of the Spirit of life by which every particular is taught though every particular does not learn holinesse righteousnesse and the true fear of the Lord c. is said to be within I 'le put my Law in your minds and write it in your hearts c. And God himself is within as the Apostle declaved I will dwell in you and walk in you and you shall be my people and I will be your God Now if all this is within then turn in and examine your selves what of the teachings what of the life of the power and Spirit what of the flowings forth of the living vertues of the eternal Fountain of righteousnesse do I feel spring up in me that I and thou oh soul may rejoyce in our own portion and not in anothers and each of us come to sit down under our own Vine in particular and eat of the sweet fruit hereof none making afraid sayes my soul This Vine to be Christ and the Father to be the Husbandman that we may rejoyce together as the children of one Father all drinking into that one Rock and baptized into one Spirit and bound up together in the bundle of one life and that our union and communion may stand in the life Spirit and power and not in forms and outward observances saith my soul A brief discovery of the entrance into this house and habitation of God AND Friends There is no entring into this house of God but by great travel and pains Thou must travel out of Egypt through the loathsom Wilderneste to enter into Canaan Thou must oh soul experience the bond of thy iniquities to be broken Thou must know a day of trouble of misery a day of burning before thou canst advance this Church that is in God I say Thou must know the terrors of the Lord as my soul has known by reason of sin a day of shaking the foundations of the earth and making it to tremble a feeling the Arrows of the Almighty God stick in thy soul and great disquietnesse within thy borders because sin is in thy Tabernacle thou must feel his indignation as my soul hath according to thy measure and 't is good to bear it because of sin untill he raise thee up and comfort thy soul as sin is purged out Wait upon the Lord and suffer the wrath of God to be revealed from heaven against thy unrighteousnesse and in due time thou shalt feel a power-springing up from that light which first discover'd to thee thy sin whereby thou shalt have sin cast out but not all at once but as thou waitest here and obevest so thou shalt feel thy sin and thy old nature and all self destroyed and crucifyed so thou shalt experience a crucifying with Christ that thou maist live with him a pure innocent and spotlesse life and as thy sin and old nature c. is destroyed and dies so shall Christ the light of life live in thee and so as thou obeyest this light of life which is risen to destroy thy death thou shalt come to live in the pure life and have it in your selves and so as he who is this light of life to wit Christ Jesus lives in you you shall live also in him and so come to experience what it is to dwell in the house of God and to be a member of the true Church that is in God and to experience all and much more as already declared And now Friends unto the Lord I commit you and give up to be taught governed and guided by his pure Law of righteou snesse the Law of the Spirit of life which is the Law written in the heart which Law is pure and consents not to sin but reproves it and manifests it and holds out a power to mortifie it the which every soul that waits on the Lord and stands in his counsel shall feel spring up to cast out the son of the bond-woman for it shall not be heir with the son of the free-woman i. e. with Christ the life and seed of God And that you might be cloathed with the garment of light and salvation and with zeal and holy courage for the Lord as with a Cloak and that you might come to praise and adore the living God of endlesse life and that you might be fed upon the Mountain of Gods holinesse with the Feast that God has prepared a Feast of fat things of Wines well refined and that he might destroy by the appearance of his life the