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A60635	An holy kiss of peace, sent from the seed of life, greeting all the lambs and little ones with a tender salutation with a few words, entituled, relief sent forth into the camp of Israel.	Smith, William, d. 1673.	1660 (1660)	Wing S4307; ESTC R21311	9,911	18

AN Holy kiss of Peace Sent from the SEED OF LIFE Greeting all the Lambs and little Ones with a Tender Salutation With a few Words entituled Relief sent forth into the Camp of Israel OH ye little Ones who in the eternal Power of the everliving God are raised and redeemed out of the Earth and from the glory of its fading beauty and in whom and through whom the everlasting love of the Father is made manifest and in your hearts shed abroad by which you are drawn into the one-life and power of the Pure God in whose Eyes you have found favour and through the leadings of his Power hath made you partakers of the riches of his Grace wherein ye now stand and hath also brought you into the Covenant of his Life and Peace and therein is present with you and daily making manifest his everlasting goodness to you that your Souls in him might be replenished daily and thereby grow up into him who filleth All in All his love is strong unto you and his Compassion doth not fail you for he hath chosen you because he delighteth in you Oh what manner of love is it that he bestows upon you and wherewith he loves you and daily renews unto you even before the sons of men whereby when you read you may understand And all his benefits retain and do not let them slip out of your minds but consider your Calling and walk worthy of it and know assuredly that Gods determinate Council is to do you good for he will save you from your Enemies and deliver you from the hands of those that hate you for marvellous loving kindness he hath prepared for you and manifold Mercies will he give unto you Oh his Love his Love his dear and tender Love it runs and abounds towards you and with mighty overflowing streams it reaches to you meet it in the salutation and rejoyce in the lovely Greeting for it will seal upon your lips everlasting Peace Oh my Brethren What is like the Cords of Love and what Vessel can contain it when it arises in its strength Many Waters cannot quench it neither can the Floods drown it nor Prisons keep it but through the World it runs to visit the little Babes that cannot live without it Oh this is the Day of Loves abounding and overflowing prize it highly esteem it chiefly for the strength of it breaks the bonds of Deaths and this is not shut up from you but with a swift motion runs towards you that it might draw you and with its strong Cords gather you that you might dwell in it and it might dwell in you Oh! my Brethren be not at all cast down the strength of Love will blow over the Storm and will gather you under the shadow of its own Wing until all be passed over For certainly the Lord is with you and the shout of a King is sounded amongst you and dreadful will his Appearance be unto the whole Host of the uncircumcised sealed is his Council and his Decree with Abraham's Seed must stand for he hath blessed it and it is blessed for ever And this is his Love unto you who in the blessed Seed hath gathered you that he might not leave you nor forsake you but in his eternal Power preserve and save you and unto the end keep you and reward you Oh! draw nigh draw nigh ye little Ones the Cords of Love are about you cast come willingly on and halt not in the way that his vertue and goodness you may taste for Mercy stands ready Truth to meet and Righteousness is prepared Peace to embrace Oh! feel them in their Meeting and rejoyce in their lovely Greeting and Salutation Oh! the Lord is gathering his little Ones and from all the Quarters of the Earth he is bringing up his Sons and Daughters and in the bundle of Life he will bind you all and in the Covenant of Peace he will joyn you perfectly together and make you stand as one man in the power of the holy Birth which in you is born that with one heart and mind you may glorifie his Name and this is the end of your Calling Brethren to give up your selves freely unto him who tells you That according to his good pleasure he may work his work in you and glorifie his own Name in the beauty of Holiness you are the Vessels prepared for his use and with the Heavenly Treasure of his Love he is filling you full Oh! The Temple of the Lord The Temple of the Lord is Holy which Temple you are he hath made you and formed you and in the New Creation hath stamped his Heavenly Image upon you and this is the Work the World doth not know neither can their corrupted Eye behold the beauty of it for which Cause they hate you and do despight unto you and speak all manner of evil against you which is a sure Seal that you are not of the World for if you were so they would love you but because you are not so therefore do they hate you and think it not strange because the World hates you for they hated him before they hated you and if they hated him they will also hate you and if they persecuted him they will persecute you for you are not greater than your Lord who endured the Mocking and Spitting and Buffetting and the Contradiction of Sinners against himself and through Sufferings was made perfect and Reigns for ever Oh my Brethren unto him keep your Eye lest you be weary and faint in your minds for it was a sharp Cup when he cryed that it might pass from him yet he learned Obedience though he was a Son and yielded up himself into the Fathers eternal Will and offered up himself an Acceptable Sacrifice this is your Fore-runner who is gone before the Way to open and make easie for you be faithful and shrink not but follow with boldness and be of good Courage and think it not strange concerning the Tryal that is come amongst you to prove you but rejoyce in as much as you are partakers of his Sufferings and counted worthy to bear his Reproach for the recompence of Reward will answer it all for ever And know that all things work together for your good and thorow it he will perfect his praise Oh my Brethren be Bold and of a good courage for the Lambs day is come and you hath he Chosen to be followers of him be not slack to yield all Obedience to him for the day is his the Wicked shall know it when through Egypt he smites in the fierceness of his wrath be you strong in his Power and valiant for his Cause and certainly he will plead it for you and speedily will he make a short work in the Earth Look up unto him all ye little Ones his love breaths strongly towards you and is exceeding dear over you it Greets you and Salutes you with a kiss of Unity to comfort you and refresh you with its living

And take heed of many Words for they gender unto Bondage and in the multitude of them there is evil and where they are much used and not in the Power and Wisdom of God for Edification and Comfort one of another they bring Anguish and Pain upon the Seed of God And be Watchful over the Boaster that nothing may arise in any of you to glory in your Parts or Gifts or Sufferings and bring forth an Exaltation in what is made manifest and your Suffering for it And being many in this Day whose Testimony is now born forth in a state of Suffering and are in Prisons together for Truths Cause and your Obedience to the Commands of Jesus Christ be diligent in your Walking and run not into many Words one with another but as they may stand in some Service Nor glory not in your Sufferings one unto another for so will the Enemy work a Conceitedness in you and lift you up in it and then draw a Security over you through Sufferings And beware you run not into affectionate Unity one with another which doth not stand in the Wisdom of the Seed Oh! you will find my Brethren the great need of Watching and Praying that ye may not enter into Temptations And what I say unto One I say unto All Watch that the Enemy may not get any Advantage upon you to hurt and wound the Innocent Life in you And Brethren be diligent to the Lords Counsel every moment of time that you in his hand may be kept and in his Power preserved that the Wicked One which is near unto you may not have power to touch you And now is the Lord God Trying you in a state of Suffering that through the Path of Suffering he may wean you and draw you out of all the Paths of the World and from the Desire and Love of all things in it so as you may forget your Kindred and your Fathers House with all your outward Relations whatever they may be unto you And all your Earthly Substance of what nature soever it is yea and your lives also For through the Affectionate love unto things that are without the Pure love to God hath been cooled within so that many have not only cooled in their Love but have quite lost it by letting in the Tempter and running into his Temptations which he hath presented in the Earthly Substance and outward Relations And this is the Ground of your Suffering Brethren that you may be a Redeemed People unto God and not to have your Love or Life in any thing besides him and yet have a true Interest and Possession of all things in him and hither will the Lord God try you that the Scripture may be fulfilled He that loves any thing more than me is not worthy of me And this Cup will be sharp to drink when Life and Substance and Relations must be given up and exposed to the Censure and also to the danger of Loss in the Wills of Cruel and Wicked men And this is not to set the Wicked over you but to exalt the Seed in you and set it in everlasting Dominion For Iniquity must have its Day and be filled up and the Sufferings must be compleated and finished through the whole Body that they which are gone before us and we that follow after them in Faithfulness may be all made perfect in One Oh! Keep your Eye out of all things below and keep it single to that which is above that you all may be ready to Answer his Will in what he calls unto or permits to come And Faithfully follow the Lamb for He alone must Reign this is his Day and in his Glory he is Risen do not Deny him but bear forth your Testimony to him and in his Life an Holy Kiss of Peace doth reach you and with the Lip of unfeigned Love doth Greet you and Salute you even with tender Yearning Bowels over you 20th Day of the 11th Month 1660. In Worcester County Goale From your Brother and Companion in Bonds bearing the light Affliction of his present time W.S. OH Lord God everlasting whose Holy Covenant hath been ever sure with thy Seed and from Age to Age thou hast remembred thy Mercy and performed all thy Promises faithfully Oh! look down this Day and behold thy Heritage Comfort all thy little Ones and in thy eternal love do thou strengthen thy Innocent Lambs Be not thou far from us O Lord but hearken to the voice of our Supplication for it is thy own that makes Intercession O Lord the Spoilers are risen and the Devourers are ready for their Prey make haste to help us for our Eyes are to thee smite them and dash them and with thy powerful Arm do thou break them and thy own Heritage do thou save and deliver from them that with thy People thy Faithfulness may appear this day as with Abraham Isaac and Jacob of old that the Heathen may know that thou O Lord God of Hosts art the God of thy own Seed and safety of thy Chosen People this Day And let all thy People Trust in thee O Lord and Magnifie thy Name for thou hast Chosen us and thou wilt not forsake us but Strength thou wilt give us to stand and overcome Therefore let all thy Children and Chosen Ones say in Truth O Lord Thy Will be done Amen Relief sent forth into the Camp of Israel OH Israel The Visitations of Love hath been large unto thee and with tender Bowels of Mercy hath the God of thy Salvation Reached thee and with his out-stretched Arm he hath done Great and Wonderful things for thee Thou wast without an Helper and he hath helped thee Thou wast in sore Travail and he hath Eased thee he hath made thy Rising glorious and thy Coming forth exceeding sweet and precious He hath been a Nursing Father unto thee and through many Trials he hath given thee-strength to stand Thou hast been as a Plant springing up in the midst of pleasant Showres and as a Vine dressed to bring forth glorious Fruit Thou hast spread thy Branches over the Nations and the taste of thy Fruit hath delighted the Hearts of many Thou hast been terrible unto the People and powerful amongst the Mighty The Nobles have been smitten the Strong have bowed down The Horse and his Rider hath fallen together and none hath hitherto been able to Encounter with thee or to stand before the God of thy Strength Thou hast known his Goings on and thy Way hath been prepared by his Arm He hath poured forth his Plagues for thy Redemption and wrought Signs and Wonders for thy Deliverance and Freedom This hath thy God done for thee and hath not forsaken thee but hath ever appeared with thee and with his Right Hand hath done valiantly for thee His Ear hath been open to thy Cry and out of his Holy Hill he hath heard thy Groanings And who amongst all the gods that hath been able to divert his Goodness from thee And