Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n
Text snippets containing the quad
|
ID |
Title |
Author |
Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication) |
STC |
Words |
Pages |
|
A36276
|
A salutation of my endeared love to the faithful in all places that bear their testimony for the Lord and keep in the lowliness of truth as it is in Jesus.
|
Dole, Dorcas.
|
1685
(1685)
|
Wing D1836; ESTC R27305
|
5,578
|
8
|
for this end did the Lord mark us out that we should bear his Name in our Foreheads and appear to others as Living Monuments of his Mercy Oh? therefore have a care you Carless Ones that have slighted your own Mercyes which you have in a large manner been Pertakers of among the Faithful for it is those that keep in a living Sence of Gods Dealings with them that do prize it and receive it with Thanks-giving and to such the Sure Mercies of David are continued and multiplied Morning by Morning Oh therefore be concerned for time to come you that have been negligent in the work of the Lord and work while you have a day for the Night is hastning upon many in which there can be no work done for the Lord for the work of the Lord is to be done while the Light shineth which gives a true discovery of the Deeds of Darkâ—ess therefore bring your deeds to the Light that they may be made manifest whether they are wrought in God or no for the Just Mans Path is a shining Light that shineth more and more to the Perfect Day so in tender bowels of true love my heart is open to you that have tasted of the good Word of God and the powers of the World to come to perswade you to persevere in the work of the Lord and to wait diligently upon him that he may perfect his own work in you to his own prayse that so you may Sanctifie his great name in the sight of the Heathen and appear to be in deed what you have made a long Profession of and for this end did God Manifest his unspeakable Love unto us and give us a Manifestation of his good Spirit that we might profit therewith and be Perfected by it that so we might come to witness as the A postle said that we are able to doe all things through Christ that strengthens us-and as it was said of old by one that had seen the end of all Perfection that the commandements of the Lord were exceeding broad so it is manifest to the faithfull this day and they can keep them with great delight and they are not grievous to them for it is such that are in the true possession of the true Faith that shall hold fast the Profession without wavering and they do shine as a City set on a Hill that cannot be hid and dare not hide their Candle under a Bushel or under a Bed nor rest in a bare knowledge of the Truth bâ—t are willing to be Faithful in their measure to what God Requires of them that so they may feel the increase of Gods Love to their Soules to preserve them though there be no need to say to some Know the Lord yet there is great need to say to some Obey the Lord for Obedience is better then Sacrifice and to hearken to the Voyce of God then all vain Oblations and for want of Obedience many are become vain in their Imaginations that were once Englightned and their Understandings again Darkned and the Ear that was once open to hear the Voice of the true Shepherd is again stopped by the Philistian nature so though the Lord speak once and again yet they Regard it not for the Abomination is yet standing in the hearts of such which are not Faithful to the Lord and therefore they cannot hear the Voice of him that calls for purity and holiness this hinders the work of the Lord that so their Calling Election is not made sure but Excuses are made by such that they are not to be too forward to goe in a Trying time to offer Sacrifice and so cause the dayly publick Sacrifices to Cease and see not so much need of the continuance of it as the Apostle did when he spake to the Church in the sence of what Christ had done for them to offer up Spirituall Sacrifice through him to God and they were exhorted not to forsake the Assembling of them selves together as the manner of some were that saw not the necessity of it for those that know the blotting out of Sin and passing by Iniquity saw they had as much Need to wait upon the Lord to feel Refreshment from his Presence and their strength Renewed in him as they had before to gather together to wait for him in the way of his Judgments and the travel of my Soul is that it may be so with all who make a Profession of his name at this day so that we may press forward toward the mark of the high Calling in Christ Jesus that the Enemy do not betray us from the Simplicity of the Gospel that so in the end we may say as the Apostle did that in Simplicity and Godly Sincerity we have had our Conversation in this World So blessed are all they that do order their Conversation aright the promise is to them that God will shew them his Salvation for he that hath called us to cease from man whose breath is in his nostrills hath also commanded us to live in the Spirit and power of holiness and obey him in all things lest we be cut off from the True Vine and cast out as Fruitless Branches fit for nothing but the Fire wherefore seeing and knowing these things let us take the more heed to our wayes and consider what manner of Persons we ought to be in all our conversation to the end if we are Christs Disciples the offence of the Cross is not to be ceased from but a dayly taking it up is to be known by all them that follow the Lord fully because it crucifies the world to them and they to the world and this is the Saints Glory for they dare not to glory in any thing saving in the Cross of Christ but must forget what is behind and wait upon the Lord for dayly strength to go forward to perform our reasonable service to him seeing we can do nothing without him that is acceptable in his Sight we have great Reason to Wait at the heavenly Jerusalem to be indued with power from an high that we may be carried on in the ark of safety Christ Jesus who Vanquished the Tempter when he tryed him with various Temptations and when he had overcome in all things the Angels Ministred to him and in the power of the Spirit he was carried into Galile and all places to do his Fathers will and it was his Delight to please his Father in all things though through Deep Sufferings and though a Son yet learned he obedience to his Father and his Father Delighted in him and gave him that testimony that in all things he was well pleased with him and it was for our sakes thaâ— he gave the only begotten Son of his love to Suffer for us that we might be redeemed to God through his name and find acceptance to the Father by him who is the only propitiation for our Sins and as we live in obedience to his power we shall Receive an answer from God that he accepts of us and our doings because we live and move and are acted by him in whom his Soul takes pleasure and therefore hath he made him heir of all things and put in subjection under him and anoynted him with Oyle of Joy above his Fellows that the Virgin Daughter of Sion may love him because of the preciousness of the Oyntment that proceeds from him who is the Husband of the true Church and therefore is her desire after him and those that do live in the sence of the great love he hath bestowed on them will prize it and walk worthy of it and they are of the same mind the Apostle was when he said but whose keepeth his word in him is the Love of God perfected hereby know we that we are in him he that saith he Abideth in him ought himself also to walk even as he Walked So in true love to all that make a profession of the Truth my Soul is inlarged beyond what Ink and Paper can demonstrate desiring the prosperity of Sion and welfare of heavenly Jerusalem and my Prayer to God is That all might be gathered into that Faith that works by love and gives Victory over the World for they shall prosper that Love Sion So having Cleared my self of what lay upon me from the Lord I am a Friend to all that love the Appearance of our Lord Jesus Christ Prisoner to Newgate in Bristol for the Testimony of Jesus the 17th of the 12th Month 1684. Dorcas Dole THE END LONDON Printed by John Bringhurst in Leaden-hall 1685.