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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54280	Something formerly writ, foreseen and foretold, of what should come to pass, much of it now being fulfilled and fulfilling, is thus collected and presented to the view and consideration of the people called Quakers	Pennyman, Mary, 1630-1701.	1676 (1676)	Wing P1429; ESTC R30099	6,386	8

Something formerly writ foreseen and foretold of what should come to pass much of it now being fulfilled and fulfilling is thus collected and presented to the view and consideration of the People called QUAKERS Let him that readeth understand but the uncircumcised in Heart and Ears cannot FRiends These things following were writ to Others but being clearly seen how deeply they now concern You they are thus directed that you may be instructed thereby that you may hear and fear and truly desire to have all Flesh abased and the Lord alone magnified sought after and joyn'd unto by every one that takes his Name into their Mouths what he hath determined must stand and the Word which he spake by his Prophet of old must be fulfilled viz. I will bring a Plague upon this People even the fruits of their own Imaginations Jer. 6.19 Did not some in days past cause the very Offering of the Lord to be abhorred and is it not so now yet who laments or lays it to heart where 's the Man that 's truly wise that loves Reproof hates Hypocrisie and desires to have all things appear just as they are delights not in the praise of Men neither can glory in multitudes but in Him only who justifies in secret that cannot feed upon or be satisfied with any thing that must come to an end tho it appear with ever so sair an outside From what is writ some good may be gain'd to the upright and honest mind tho it seem like putting to open shame If it might have been forborn it had not come forth having lain by several Months not daring to publish it till its appointed Season There seems to be little of Mans wisdom in it but a mind that loved Righteousness hated Deceit and esteemed of no People for their outward Profession Let the answer to it of every upright heart be Search me O Lord and try me shew me what is amiss in thy sight for whom have I in Heaven or Earth besides thee or what do I desire in comparison of thee M. P. Something formerly writ c. A Testimony of W. E. c. Pag. 96. MY rejoycing is to behold darkness and ruine upon all fleshly Gloryings and former Excellencies wherein so many vain boastings have appeared Now God is pouring Vials of Wrath on that which once was lovely p. 74. p. 77. All the Churches indeed shall fall but the Saints therein shall rise This the Lord would have them know this day p. 78. altho they will not that they are all in Babylon dead dry bones and divided sticks dead in their Forms divided in their Fellowships and defiled in both p. 82. Of old the People of God were in Babylon but now Babylon is in them especially in the Churches p. 69. Their Church Fellowships and Forms is that they glory in God spoils them and stains the pride of all their glory who because they would not wait for the Spirit to build them up as the Primitive Saints did the Spirit shall come to burn and consume them at last p. 35. God who will not abide for ever in any Form is at last weary with forbearing p. 133. The purest Forms of Religion this day are but the old Religion in a new dress p. 17. Never shall the Saints unite and come to one in love till wrath be poured forth on all their Forms p. 55. The Spirits presence was more waited on and the Saints far more spiritual before their Church-Fellowship more simple-hearted sincere self-denying and dying to the World p. 178. As the Mystery of Iniquity did first begin to work in the Primitive purest Churches So in the purest Churches the Mystery of Iniquity and Man of sin shall be last revealed p. 179. We have lookt upon Antichrist once at Rome but of late we have seen him in Reformed Churches God may shew them the Mystery of Iniquity among themselves very shortly They shall find such an Apostacy and falling away in themselves that they shall not need to go far to find the Man of sin p. 163. Our first scattering was by coming into gathered Churches by looking on Forms we lost the Spirit and Power of Godliness here we are scattered again less Godliness appearing then was in us before Well! God will yet gather us again up to Himself which appearing in us with power and glory will manifest to the World who our Pastor is even he who keeps us as a Shepherd doth his flock p. 269. The Apostate-Church which seems to be the Spouse of Christ and one flesh with God in her her Head and Husband but joyning with Man and with Forms invented by Man cleaving to the Traditions and Teachings of Man to the Wisdom and Power of Man the Spouse becomes an Harlot p. 245. Your Church-Fellowship is at an end with God tho some men see somewhat in it yet 't is but a dead Carcass they look upon but the Spirit Life and Power from on high appears not at all to me therein nor to many p. 91. Truly in all that I have said I do not condemn the generation of the Righteous but the generation of Vipers who under Forms of Religion eat up their Mothers bowels even the power of Righteousness p. 154. God will gather a remnant out of the Churches tho most of them perish with their Pastors God I say will bring them again to their folds to their spiritual communion with the Father and the Son and they shall be fruitful and increase in all the fruits of the Spirit p. 199. The Promise of the Father and Power from on high or Baptism of the Spirit being only that which constituted a Gospel-Church and made Ministers of the Gospel to go forth without this is not only to deceive Men but to deny God to crucifie Christ to stifle the Spirit and to strangle the Babe even the new-born Glory beginning to rise in the Saints of the most High p. 262. It is an usual Artifice of Satan in all Ages to set up the Letter of a thing against the Truth and Power of it yea no opposition so fierce as that which is manag'd by the Man of Form against the true spiritual worshipper p. 129. The People of God so call'd were as Children they are now Men they were simple now subtile they were self-denying now scrape up all to themselves they were dying to the world now living wholly to the world and worldly honours they were content to be poor now all must be rich p. 125. I will not now speak of their Oppression Pride Cruelty Covetousness their cunning designs and cover'd desires of preferment profit pleasure their eartlhy-mindedness all the day long p. 62. This they will not see but God does and men shall when he shall turn their inside out their hidden Hypocrisie shall appear to all for they shall openly practise Hypocrisie as men do

that Thou hast given it over my soul and actions I have kept it in the Throne and greatest Reverence and Authority in my heart In actions to be done or omitted I have always advised with it and taken its advice I have neither stifled nor forced nor bribed it but gave it free liberty to advise and speak out and a free subjection of my will purposes and actions to it If through inadvertency of mind or importunity of temptations c. I have at any time done amiss I have not taken her up short or stopped her mouth or my own attention to her chiding and reproof but I have with much submission of mind born her chastisement and improved it to an humbling of my self before Thee for my failings for I looked upon her as acting by Thy Authority for Thy Service and to Thy Glory and I durst not discourage discountenance or disobey her When she was pleased and gave me good words I was glad for I esteemed her as a glass that represented to my soul the favour or displeasure of God himself and how He stood affected towards me I have more trembled under the fear of a sear'd or discourag'd Conscience then under the fear of a sharp or scupulous Conscience because I always counted the latter tho more troublesome yet more safe I have been very jealous either of wounding or grieving or discouraging or deading my Conscience I have therefore chosen rather to forbear that which seemed but indifferent lest there should be somewhat in it that might be unlawful I would rather gratifie my Conscience with being too scrupulous then displease disquiet or flat it by being too venturous I have still chosen rather to forbear what might be probably lawful then to do that which might be possibly unlawful because I could not err in the former I might in the latter If things were disputable whether they might be done I rather chose to forbear because the lawfulness of my forbearance was unquestionable As I have been careful to advise impartially with my Conscience before my actions so lest through Inadvertency Incogitancy or sudden Immergencies I had committed any thing amiss in the nature or manner of the action I commonly every night brought my actions of the day past before the Judicatory of my Conscience and left her to a free and impartial censure of them and what she sentenced well done I with humility returned the praise thereof to Thy Name what she sentenced done amiss I did humbly sue to Thee for pardon and for Grace to prevent me from the like miscarriages By this means I kept my Conscience active renewed and preserved my peace with Thee and learned vigilance and caution for the time to come It 's time for every one who sees a blasting come upon all Flesh to return to that wherein Substance instead of Shadows may be enjoyed and therefore is this following set down Christians Pattern Pag. 130. I Will hear what the Lord God will speak in me Blessed is that soul that heareth the Lord speaking in her and receiveth from His Mouth the Word of Comfort Blessed are those Ears that hearken only to the Divine Voice and listen not to the whisperings of the World Blessed indeed are those Ears that hearken not to the Voice that soundeth outwardly but unto the Truth which teacheth inwardly p. 89. He that can live inwardly and make small reckoning of outward things neither requireth Places nor attendeth Times for performing of Religious Exercises p. 101. To walk inwardly with God is the state of a Spiritual man p. 50. He therefore that intends to attain to the more inward and Spiritual things of Religion must with Jesus depart from the multitude and press of people p. 5. Many words do not satisfy the Soul but a good life comforteth the mind and a pure Conscience giveth great assurance in the sight of God THE END Printed in the Year 1676.