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lord_n	word_n	worship_v	worshipper_n	176	3	11.3389	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60851	Some breathings of life, from a naked heart presented in love to the honest, vpright, and single-hearted, that they, with me may wait to feel the imediate drawings, and leadings of the Holy Spirit in all things ... so that they need not any man to teach them, 1 Joh. 2. 27., with an epistle for peace and unity.	Salt, William.; Fox, George, 1624-1691.	1663 (1663)	Wing S460; ESTC R17566	16,219	20

serving in the Spirit and walking in the Spirit or else be still Did Israel trust upon God and rest wholly upon him they would find him their rest And good it is to be found faithfull in what they are called of God And so in their Callings to abide with God and then is man in his place one day as well as another for there hath been a time of shewing these things unto many and there may be a time of practizing the same what they have seen and that from the Lord concerning their coming out of observation of dayes and though they cannot act therein so inoffensively as they would in respect of them without yet to do it as inoffensively as they can Now who have believed do enter into rest and he that is entred into his rest he also hath ceased from his own works as God did from his And such a one his Servant shall rest as well as him and his Cattel likewise for a good man is merciful to his Beast And if any more publiquely hath a testimony to bear against their day and that from the Lord let none be offended but all Israel keep in keep coole and quiet And that is the way to keep safe and not to strive to go forth that day more then another If that there was formerly Collection for the Saints on the first day of the week must there needs be meetings on that day whether the Spirit of the Lord move or not For as to time I know it from the Lord that there is none more holy then other For the Seed of God being come up sees over time and beyond and as it is kept in the Dominion over things in time and keeps open and single unto God which is the blessed Seed or that in which the blessing is and seeth all time in the Fathers hand For feast-days holy-dayes or Sabbath-days what were they more then Shadows of good things to come but the Body is Christ whose day is holy and his rest is Everlasting For all Shaddows were to terminate in something be they what they would Christ the end of all things in whom all Types Figures and Shadows end the restorer of the Creation the Rest that God hath prepared for his People in whose Arm of Power the weary Soul finds rest And the resting in any outward Observation or Thing could not give rest to the Soul therefore was there a necessity of bringing in that which was more perfect the better hope by which we draw nigh unto God And when that which is perfect is come then that which is imperfect comes to be done away So each thing was to be done as under the Covenant in which it was and according to its appointment but the first gave place unto the second and was changed then there must be also a change of the rest For the Priest-hood being changed there must be also a change of the things that were done under it A change of their offerings which Christ the one Offering ends and the end of their Law by which they took their Tithes Christ within the hope of Glory the Mystery hid but now revealed praises be to his Name who liveth for ever who is the Souls Bishop who watcheth over and taketh the Care of his Flock for had his Compassions failed we had not been a People whose Love hath overcome my heart therefore have I a Zeal for him and for his People And it is his blessed appearance that is to be waited for that blesseth you the Glory of the Lord to fill his own Temple which appearance many have waited for For of old they were to go up by appointment and do things in its Order And we are now to receive an appointment before we do and to do things as under that Covenant in which we are not according to the Letter of a dispensation as they that were ordered according to the Law of the Carnal Commandment which was to come to its end but in newnesse of Spirit to receive the Commandment new and in all things to be ordered according to the power of the endlesse Life For it is the New Testament to which we are come where are new and fresh discoveries and leadings according to his will that we are Children of He made known his Will unto the Children of the first Covenant which they were to obey and do and he maketh knows his mind by putting his Law into our minds that we might serve and obey him likewise not as they did in the oldnesse of the Letter but in newness of the Spirit And this is that which we are to keep on in the New and Living way that leadeth unto the Living God wherein is found the Daily Bread for that which I Received Yesterday will not serve me to day nor that which I have to day will not serve me to morrow but I must have it fresh and new and then it is good So that this I find according to the mind of the Spirit of God in me to be the time under which we are as New-Covenant Children to Act in newnesse to walk in newnesse of life marke new for the ●ords have an import in the very sound of the Covenants the first could not continue which was old and ready to vanish away but the second is new and everlasting and abides for ever and is a Covenant of life and peace to all that stand in it or live answerable to it So that this is according to what Moses Prophesied of Christ that 〈◊〉 was to be heard in all things And said the Minister of Christ whatsever ye do in word or deed do all in the Name of the Lord Jesus or in his power that the power may stir first then in the name of Jesus which is the Saviour there is safty And so he may be called a spirituall man that doth all in the spirit and with it and a good understanding wherein the true worshippers worship the Father in spirit in truth And this will be a Dread among People that they see we serve God indeed with Reverence and Godly Fear not in our own Time nor Will nor their Will but when he pleaseth or stirreth and not till then And this is that which is acceptable not Customary Formally or by Tradition as others have done which the Lord hath cast out before us And the Lord knowes I am even sick with love therefore beare with me and overcome with the goodnesse of the Lord which my soule hath felt and it is the life of love that I breath after to see brought forth among us to know the depth thereof gifts may cease and tongues may cease but love abideth which is most excellent And this when even tyred and wearied in my mind the Lord fixed me upon his spirit of love which he hath born up in me which I prayed the Lord and supplicated him for as seeing a beauty in it which the Lord will bring his

strengthned for if the Spirit be stopt or quenched then the unity is quenched that is plain And this would put a stop quickly to all Customary and Formal proceedings all to do and every one to do as they are moved of the Spirit by the Lord which is Holy Just and True And thus I have born forth my Testimony as moved of the Lord and in Love to you all wherein let me be Received William Salt And these two things feel me in and therein abide with me My heart fixed in the Spirit of Love wherein I am to keep for ever And drawn and guided by that Spirit which way he pleaseth and I passive therein which will never deceive any of you to abide in Love and know the Imediate motions of the good Spirit to guide you Thus it was well with Israel as they were kept by day and by night to the Conduct of the Pillar of Fire and the Cloud and had this in their sight through all their Journeyings to be kept in a continual Subjection and Dependance upon God And at the word of the Lord they travelled and at the word of the Lord they stood still or abode in their Tents whether two Dayes or a Month or a Year as the Cloud tarried or remained upon the Tabernacle the Children of Israel Remained still and Journeyed not So as this is to be Read by each in Particular so it is in the General At the Commandment of the Lord they rested in their Tents and at the Commandment of the Lord they Journeyed and rose up and sate down with Holy Breathings in their mouths Arise O Lord and let thine Enemies be scattered and return unto the many Thousands of Israel And the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord went before them in their Journeyings holding forth at that time what the Spiritual Israel were to have to go before them in ages to come even him who was given for a Leader and Commander to the People And what is it can help out of the Apostacy heal any of their Backslidings or save any from the errours of their way but th● unerring Spirit of the Lord to know its Motions and Leadings And whereas it was said by one speaking concerning the Raging of the Sea and casting up its Mire and Dirt yet said he We must 〈◊〉 through it yea but the Lord must lead first otherwise Creatures may quickly sink and where the Lord leads there any are to follow but for otherwise And another speaking to this effect To heed the Power and Spirit of the Lord which was before Storms and Tempests was yea so to heed it as to be guided by it So that this brings still unto the thing that hath been spoken of to feel the Lord present or to see the Living going before if that move not then to be still So let all Flesh be silent before the Lord and all fleshly reasonings for the Lord is risen of a Truth whom we are to follow and let the sound thereof go forth to the utmost ends of the Earth This then in short what the tendance of my words hath been not to appear in any thing but what the Spirit of the Lord moves unto directly for had that been still I had been still in this matter neither having regard to one time or place more then another but Spiritual all in the Spirit to be performed or as that makes way or bows the hearts of any which is to be waited for In the mans day things hath been done in the mans time and according to his will but in the day of the Lord all is to be done in his time and according to his will who hath all times in his hand which the Creature is to eye diligently in this mighty day of the Lord wherein man is wholly to be ceased from for ever So to visit one another any as they are moved and speak one to mother and meet together as they are moved for if two or three shall agree on Earth as touching any thing that they shall ask it shall be done for them of my Father which is in Heaven saith Christ For where two or three are gathered together in my Name there am I in the midst of them And so daily to exhort one another as they see cause or are led thereunto by the Spirit of the Lord where there is any Buffettings Temptations or things of that kind And where any more generally shall assemble themselves together and find leadings thereunto in the Spirit of Love let them do it even as that puts forth it self in the thing otherwise it were better to be still and not to do it because it hath been done and others have exhorted thereunto and so to be tyed to the Letter of a dispensation for there is a time for all things and to every thing there is a Season saith Solomon there may be a time to go forth and there may be a time to keep still a time to speak and a time to be silent or is the spirit of the Lord to be limited about any of these things as that he shall not have the liberty left him to require what or when he pleaseth And may not some as contentedly be brought to sit in silence or to be taught as formerly to be Teachers of others and may it not be 〈◊〉 Convenient And did not the Prophet of the Lord Declare their strength was to 〈◊〉 still may there not be a time for sitting still now as well as then and is not the Creature Man and Woman to be held in subjection to the Creator and did not the Saints sit at his Feet to hear the word at his Month which is the thing that is so desirable now and the matter contended for to receive the Word at his Mouth which the Holy men of old well knew and more desired it then their necessary food yea it was sweeter to them then the Honey or the Honey Comb. But the Flood is come and what shall I say even to be still This then is my exhortation unto all in the fear of God and in Love and as moved thereunto by his blessed Spirit every one as Members one of another to answer his place in the body The Wise mans eye is in his head and sees what he requires and to answer his requirings or what may be laid before one another in meeknesse and in Love as they feel the thing in their own Life to answer it that there may be no drawings back for such the Lords Soul hath no pleasure in And this which I have here in the beginning written is what in time past hath risen in me from the moveings and openings of the spirit of the Lord which I now think meet to commacate When I was in deep distress and sorrow of spirit concerning the ark of our God and the cause of his truth and something concerning the condition of others when I set my face toward them to both