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A93420 A Christian life manifested wherein is shewed who they are which follow the lamb in meekness and patience. Smith, William, d. 1673. 1661 (1661) Wing S4294; ESTC R184391 7,932 10

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and have not at any time taken advantage against those who without law have wronged us but have in our innocency been willing to bear the reproach of those that have reproached us and to endure the hard afflictions of those that have afflicted us and it is well known that we have not at any time sought an occasion against those that have dealt cruelly with us but have sought their eternal good and it is also well known that we have not behaved our selves disorderly or tumultuously among any people but in all sobriety meekness and fear we have held forth our testimony and have laboured in the work of the Gospel that all might be gathered into the fellowship of it and come to the enjoyment of the love and peace that is in it and in these things we have manifested a christian life in its nature which is a state beyond the Jews and Gentiles and Apostates who are not yet attained unto the glotious Resurrection of Christ nor to the mystery of the fellowship of the Gospel and as we have received Christ Jesus the Lord so do we walk in him and are rooted and grounded in his love and by his power we are preserved to abide faithful and to persevere in the work unto which he hath called us and by how much we are afflicted for his sake by so much the more doth he cause his joy to spring and abound in our hearts so that tho●gh we be afflicted yet we are not cast down and though we be persecuted yet we are not forsaken for the Lord is with us in all our tryals and in faithfulness he performs his promise even as with his seed of old so that when we pass through the fire he is with us and when we go through the water it doth not overflow us for the Lord is our Rock and refuge and by him alone we are saved as it is at this day Therefore ye people behold a christian life which in this day is manifested as in times of old for the Lord hath raised a people who are of the seed of Abraham and he establisheth his covenant with them for ever and he hath said in his counsel surely in blessing I will bless them and in multiplying I will multiply them and their branches shall spread abroad and they shall flourish as plants of my own hand and I will pluck up the wild plants from amongst them and will lay wast the bryars and thorns that troubles them and they shall grow in my love and increase in my life for I am their God and they are my people and all generations shall call them blessed Now forasmuch as these things are so and that the Lord hath called us unto peace and the fruit of his spirit doth so mani●est it self through us then why is it that we bear the affliction of this present time for as we follow peace with all men and walks blamelesly towards all men so ought we to receive encouragement in the same and not to be oppressed for our obedience unto God for as the life that we live is the life of Christ so it is not in our own power to make choice of any thing in our own wills but as we have received Christ and lives in his life so by him alone we are disposed and it is his leadings that we follow we know his way is peace and his life eternal rest Therefo●e all people of all sorts waite in the light to know a christian life and content not your selves with a christian name for except you be regenerated and born again you cannot enter into the kingdome of God and howsoever you may be cloathed with the name of christians yet whilest the Heathen nature lodgeth in you the uncleanness remains upon you and your christian name will leave you in the day of your calamity and then you will see the want of a christian nature and so if whilst you seem to be something in a christian name you be found nothing in a christian nature you do but deceive your selves in your imaginations and now the day of the Lord shines forth and the light of it spreads abroad and he is gathering the scattered in the covenant of his life and with the light of his day he is visiting the Nations and he proclaims his salvation in the word of his power and that is his living testimony in every man and the witness of it is true and faithful and unto this must every man turn his mind if ever he come to have life in Christ or come to witness a christian state and therefore every one is to bow unto that which reproves them for anger and envy and malice and deceit for that is Gods witness whose word is life and let your ear be open to its counsel and cast not behind you its holy testimony but encline with dilligence and obey it with carefulness that by it you may be lead out of all your own wayes where you are scattered may come into unity and fellowship with those who are by it gathered and so worship God in his living spirit in which there is no condemnation and there you will know a christian life by translation then you will cease from persecution and live in love and peace and unity with those that obey the gospel and where there is unity there is no persecution So all Rulers Teachers and People be sober and moderate and let not innocent christians be the obj●ct of your severity but wait for the day of redemption which is come and is yet coming that you may all feel the power of God to change your hears who hath all hearts in his hand and that the weight of Gods power may go over all that in you which at any time provokes you to anger and evil will and draws you to exercise cruelty upon the meek of the earth and that it may all be subdued and beaten down into the obedience of Christ that the low meek humble spirit may arise in you and by its own power dispose you and order you for this is the day of the Lords gathering though it be a day of sore affliction and though many be yet a far off yet is the Lord fetching them in for the cords of his love is very strong and he is gathering together in one even in Christ in whose love and life many are set down in rest and inherits the riches of his grace in heavenly places and many are drawing night to their habitation who have been wandring as sheep without a shepheard but now are returning to the shepheard and Bishop of their souls whose pastures are fresh and green with which he doth satisfie every breathing soul that cannot live by any other food So if you will hear and obey Gods spirit in your selves then may you do well and may come into unity and fellowship with us who of the spirit are born and loves the Lord Jesus Ch●ist in sincerity but if you refuse the heavenly call of Gods holy spirit in your conscience and will not come unto us who in the spirit of life and bond of peace are united but yet say in your hearts that you will make us come unto you then do you deceive your selves with an uncertain hope for as we abide in the life in which we are gathered and in which we have fellowship with God and one another it is most certain that if you will not come unto us we can never return unto you and forasmuch as God in his mercy hath manifested his life in us so is our beleif in it and our testimony is unto it and the life that we now live is by the faith of the son of God and the dearness of his love is more pretious unto us then all perishing things and in his power we wait to be preserved in whose life we are united and from whose nature a christian life is manisested and this is the Lamb whom we follow who leads us in his hand and comforts us with the riches of his goodness and we live by him and his own works prayses him who is over all blessed for ever W. S. The End Printed for M. W.
their life doth manifest their nature and though they be hated and wronged they do not seek revenge and though they be reviled they do not revile again but endures patiently and waits to see the conversion of their enemies for christians never persecuted any but hath alwayes been persecuted by the Apostates who have cloathed themselves with the name of Christians and it hath ever been a mark of a true Disciple of Christ to be hated and persecuted for his names sake and whosoever will live godly in Christ Jesus must suffer persecution but whosoever doth live godly in Christ Jesus doth not persecute any for it is contrary to their life for they that are born of God they have the mind of Christ and in his life they hold forth their testimony in all long-suffering meekness and patience not striving nor resisting nor revenging but loving and praying and blessing and in this a christian life is manifested and the heathens life is judged and condemned for who are guided by the spirit of God they do not persecute any though they be contrary minded but in all meekness and gentleness they labour in love and seeks to win them unto the truth which they are partakers of and by soundness of doctrine and holiness of life they hold forth their testimony and this manifests a christian life where love and good will is held forth unto all people and this life is far from persecuting any for it can love an enemy and as there can be no perfect unity nor fellowship but in the spirit of God so they that are guided by the spirit and lives in it they labour in love to gather others into fellowship with them for what can persecution do to the changing and renewing the mind of a man it can never work reformation in the heart though it may force the outward man to conform in practise for it is only the love which overcometh and perswadeth the mind into the way of truth and though persecution may prevail over some as to make them conform in practise yet it doth not make them Christians neither doth it cast out heresie where any is found in such a state and what advantage hath the persecutors by forcing contrary minds into their practise and worship whilest such is not in their own hearts reformed thereunto and to force a conformity when in heart people is nor reformed it is but to make a hypocrite for if a man be not perswaded in his own heart that the practise which he observeth is according to truth he can never joyn in unity with such as are so perswaded though he may conform his body to their observation Then forasmuch as persecution cannot make a christian neither cast out heresie where it is then it would be more commendable to let persecution cease seeing that it doth not manifest a christian life in practise neither can make a christian by such a practise therfore let every one waite to be gathered in the spirit of life and love in which there is no persecution but peace and unity and prosperity every way for it ever hath been and is the ruine of people and nations where any Religion hath been endeavoured to be promoted by persecution and such as have endeavoured it have ever fallen in it but could never establish themselves by it and so the fall of one hath been the rise of another and these things brings desolation and not peace Objection But if any shall say that people and nations ought to be kept in order in matter of worship according to the present constitutions of the laws of that nation wherein they live Answ It is the spirit of God that ordereth all in the worship of God and they that are not ordered by the spirit of God they are in disorder however they may conforme to that worship which by the laws of any nation is set up and if the worship be not performed in the spirit of God it is not the worship of God neither is that order in the order of God for God is worshiped in the spirit only and not by the constraint of the constitution of any nation law and when people are guided by the spirit of God then they are guided in good order and edifies and comforts one another and dwells together in the love and peace and unity of the spirit and so they are under the law of the spirit which only hath power to order the conscience and not the law of any nation in things pertaining to the worship of God so as the spirit comes to be received and the testimony of it obeyed then by the spirit the mind of man is disposed in love and peace and meekness and godliness and that is good order and against such there is no law for the birth born of God hath love to all people and it is this day manifested amongst a poor and an afflicted remnant whom the Lord hath raised in his power and chosen to himself who are by such as are strangers to their life reproachfully called Quakers though they have a name given them which no stranger can read for the Lord hath raised them in his own name and the name of Jesus is their life and it is a name which is above every name and a name unto which every knee must bow and they beare his name in all long suffering and patience and follows his leadings in all gentleness and meekness and with his name they are cloathed as with a garment for they are of him and they live unto him and the fruit of his own life declares his prayses he hath appeared for them in the day or their distress and he hath helped them when there was none to pitty them and by the arm of his power he hath raised them and they are his people and they dare not deny him but are in love with him and keeps his Commandements and he prepares their way for them and leads them in it with joy of heart and though tribulation do attend them yet with his power he preserves them and they are not weary though there race be long So doth the Lord our God give unto us his peace in all that he calls us to and we desire that all might be pertakers with us which we know none can that set themselves against us and as the Lord hath wrought his own work in us and hath changed us from that nature in which we sometimes lived so we are constrained to serve him and worship him in the spirit in which he hath gathered us and as the cause is his own so we commit it to him who is able to defend it and to preserve us in it and we must confess it before men and we know that we shall never be ashamed of our testimony for that of God in every conscience is our witness how unblamably we have behaved our selves and how through all our sufferings and hardships we have borne and endured with patience