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A66079 A warning to all Friends who professeth the everlasting truth of God which he hath revealed and made manifest in this his blessed day (whether on this side, or beyond the seas). Waite, Mary. 1679 (1679) Wing W224; ESTC R6899 6,588 12

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A WARNING TO ALL FRIENDS Who Professeth the Everlasting Truth of God which he hath Revealed and made manifest in this his Blessed Day whether on this Side or beyond the Seas Dear Friends IN Tender Bowels of love do I feel from the Lord a warning Spring in my heart to you that you all may be kept low in his humble self denying Life where safety is to be found For assuredly the great and Notable day of the Lord is at hand in which he will arise in the greatnesse of his strength to plead the cause of his suffering Seed with all its enemies whether within or without So all Dear Friends be faithful under your several dispensations For in our Fathers house are many Mansions Keep in the low valleys For there will be your safety there will the green pastures of Gods love be partaken of and with such will he delight to dwell So all Friends keep to your watch that the day of the Lord come not in an hour you look not for it and so you receive the unfaithful Servants Reward for indeed Friends my soul is in a great Travel for the Prosperity of Sion that her walls may be builded her breaches Repaired and made up For for many month● yea some years hath my spirit been bowed down and groaned under the sense of an easeful selfish Lukewarm Spirit that hath crept in upon many for want of watchfulnesse and Keeping to the Dayly Cross of Christ Jesus and in the Narrow way and Savoury life that only will bring honour and praise to the Name of the Lord. And how to be eased of these weights and burdens I did not know my cry was to the Lord that he would give me wisdome and strength to do his will And it pleased him to lay his hand upon me and bring me near to the gates of Death so far as I saw and was pleased to hide himselfe from me and my Soul was in a languishing condition and my cryes was great unto the Lord that he would not hide his face from me but let me feel of his wonted goodness and mercy by which I had received daily comfort and satisfaction from him in his unerring path in which he had been pleased to lead me And at length the Lord appeared and said he would be my Phisition and cure my disease and came in and comforted my Spirit with his overcoming love which greatly revived me And in the openings of the bowels of his endlesse love he shewed me a Terrible day drew near even as one may say at the doors And laid it upon me to goe warn his people in this City and elsewhere to Depart from all filthinesse both of flesh and Spirit from all Lukewarmness from the fashions customes and friendships of this world from Pride Covetousness and every sin that seperatech from the Lord and brings drynesse barronnesse and deadnesse upon many and made as unsavoury salt that was good for nothing but to be cast forth and trodden upon And to warn them not to delay time but come into the true humility lowlinesse of spirit and felfedenying life that the Lord might be a hiding place to them for terrible will that day be to all the unfaithful and disobedient All the sinners in Sion shall be afraid fearfulnesse shall take hold on the Hypocrite Dread and horror shall surprise them O whither will you unfaithful fly would you not be glad that either Rocks or Mountains could hide you from the presence of the Lord and the wrath of the Lamb. O this will be a terrible day indeed unto all those that have had a form of Godlinesse but denyed the power that would have saved them out of all defilements and pollutions of this world For long hath the Spirit of the Lord been grieved with these who have long come and sitten amongst Gods people as if they had been of them but never came to sink down to the heart searching Light of Christ Jesus in them that by it they might be cleansed from all secret and open sins from every Dalilah that lodgeth in the bosome as Pride and Coveteousnesse which often the one attends the other Covetousnesse saith the servant of the Lord is the root of all evil and advised them to fly from it but who abide not in the spirit of judgement and of Burning which God hath prepared to purge away the filth of the daughter of Sion their filth hath not been purged nor done away which causeth many miscarriages blots and staines and great Reflections have such brought upon the blessed truth and much dirt hath been thrown upon the pure holy undefiled way of the Lord which he hath cast up for the Ransomed to walk in and so through the unfaithfulness and uneven walking of such the name of the Lord hath been greatly dishonoured his Spirit grieved and the hearts of the Righteous made sad And many a wounded Soul there is amongst the Lords people who are bowed under these weights and pressures but assuredly the day hastens that every one must bear their own burden and the Lord will case his Innocent ones who have been bowed down before him and have mourned and groaned under these things yea the day hastens that the unfaithful and disobedient shall bear their own burdens And the Lord will arise for his own Name and Glory sake and will case him of his enemies and avenge him of his adversaries and take to himselfe his great power that he may Reign and Rule in the hearts of his that faithfully labour in his work and ordereth their conversations aright before him his glory shall rest upon them for he will not give it to another seed or birth but to Christ Jesus the seed of the woman who was given to bruise the Serpents head he hath born the iniquities of all and been pressed under them as a Cart with sheaves his face hath been more marred then any mans and his voice not heard in the streets no beauty nor comlinesse seen in him And because he hath been a man of sorrowes and acquainted with griefs therefore hath he been passed by and not regarded but the Lord will make him the joy of many Generations and his Sion the praise of the whole earth Therefore Dear Friends love him with all your Souls and be you delighted in him above all injoyments whatever that you may lye down in the bosome of his love and be nourished by his side as Children of our heavenly-Father begotten by the Immoral word of life to Live and Reign hear with him in it and when time shall be no more enter into that blessed rest prepared for all them that have obeyed his glorious Gospel and though as yet we be but as the gleaning of the Vintage yet the Lord hath many to gather year the numberless number shall be gathered And great will be the work of our God which he is bringing to pass in this his blessed day it cannot be declared as it is seen