daughters of men after which his eye looks and his heart savours and would take pleasure in He that is not zealous for God he cannot be an Elder he cannot watch over Souls but suffers the lusts in his own flesh to lead him captive be that is not zealous for God is no Evangelist no setter forth of the Mystery of the Kingdom he that is not zealous for God and against all the World he cannot be a true Minister of God nor become worthy to receive the hidden Wisdom and the Riches of the Power which opens the eye and seals the Instructions in the heart He that is not zealous for God and for his Truth and his Righteousness he cannot get the Victory over the World and over the Transgression and the Error of his Life to crucifie his earthly nature and mind but his mind will be earthly and corrupted with the delighting in and loving that in which the seed of evil doers delights he will be taken in the captivity of the Enemy and in the Snare and in the Cloud of Errors and fall into Adversity which he cannot escape He that is not zealous for God cannot love God with all 〈◊〉 heart but will reason with flesh and â—â—â—d about earthly things and the sufferings of this life and will love something better than Christ and so be unworthy to do his Will and to enter into his Kingdom and cannot give up all things suffer all things endure all things for Christ's sake He that is not zealous for God cannot work the Works of Eternal Life nor do the Work of God uprightly only for the Lord's sake and in love to Him looking for no other reward but the Lord which work the Prophets Apostles and Ministers of God and Christ did through Faith though contrary to the World and its Teachers and Ways though for it they suffered many things yet by Faith in the Light they were upheld By Faith it 's seen how just and righteous Joseph was who though he was sold into Adversity and to be a Slave yet stood faithful unto the Lord even in the Land of his Captivity and would not hearken to the Entisememts of a Whorish woman though never so secretly but rather chose to give up his Life and his Body unto Sufferings and Prisons than to transgress the Law of his God who through Faith gave up to suffer rather than to enter into defilements and his Faith brought him through the Sufferings and to be faithful in Ten Temptations so that by his Faith he subdued the whole Land of Egypt under himself and became Lord of it all who was as a fruitful Vine upon the Wall and his Branches reached unto Heaven who for his faithfulness was greatly beloved of God and made a Ruler over the sons of men By Faith it 's seen how zealous Moses the Servant of the Lord was who as a Servant was faithful in all his House who did the work of God uprightly who when through Faith he had forsaken Pharoah's Court and refused to be called the son of Pharoah's daughter sought to set up Judgment and Justice in the Earth and to establish Truth and Righteousness amongst men who though he was rejected by wicked men yet God made him a Judge and a Leader of his People and to appear before Pharoah to bring his People out of bondage who refused to lead them out on Pharoah's terms but would have them go freely with all they had and he bowed not to the will of Phareah though Pharoah oppressed the People the more By Faith it 's seen when Pharoah and his Task-masters oppressed the Seed of Israel most they to wit Pharoah and his People were nearest Destruction for the Lord heard their Cry of Oppression and delivered them and overthrew King Pharoah and all his Host By Faith it 's seen and believed that it was just in Moses to sanctifie the People in the Wilderness after he had brought them to stand still to see their deliverance out of Egpt though wicked men withstood him and said he took too much upon him and Corah Dathan and Abiram gathered a Company against Moses and Aaron the Servants of the Lord who with their Company perished in their Gain-sayings for the Earth opened her mouth and swallowed them up quick and many feared because of their Cry This is a true Figure to all Earthly minds whose Cry will be great who are swallowing up in the mouth of the Earth and so goes down to their home quick because they withstand the Sanctification and do not believe they shall be cleansed and perfected in this life By Faith it 's seen that it was just with God to plague Israel in the Wilderness because they followed not the Lord fully though He was unto them a Cloud by day and a Pillar of Fire by nighty to preserve them from the Heat and the Cold and to guide them in the way wherein they should walk You may understand something by this if you read in the Light but went into Fornication and lusted after things that were not convenient and looked back into Egypt to lust after the Flesh-Pots of Egypt who ate and drank and rose up to Play every one neighing after his Neighbors Wife whose Carkasses fell in the Wilderness By Faith it is seen how just it was with God to destroy the Kings of the Amorites and to give to the Children of Israel the Amorites with their Country because they would not let them pass thorow their Dominions into the promised Land of Rest therefore was Og King of Bashan and Sihon King of Heshbon destroyed with their People and the Dominion of God came over them and their Dominion and their Earth which was taken from them though they would not let the Righteous Nation passe thorow it who were innocent and harmless and would have paid them for all And though Balak sought Inchantment and hired Balaam to curse the People yet God blessed them altogether and rejected Balaam who would have cursed for Promotion and Wages whom God reproved by the voice of the Asse for he was earthly and though the Lord blessed his People yet Balaam taught Balak to cast a stumbling-block before the Children of Israel namely To Allure them with the Daughters of his Land to commit Fornication with the People of the Land for which the Anger of God was against His People and by Faith Phineas stood on the Lord's part and thrust through Zimry and Cosby in their Fornication though they were Princes Children and turned away the Anger of God and received the Promise of an Everlasting Priesthood he was zealous for God and took away the evil-doers from the Land By Faith it is seen how just it was with God to have Achan destroyed because he disobeyed the Commandment of the Lord when by Faith the Walls of Jericho fell down and his mind run into the Earth he coveted the two hundred sheckles of Silver and the Wedge of Gold and the
A TRUE BELIEVER'S Testimony Of the WORK of True Faith Who hath believed in CHRIST JESUS the True LIGHT Who Enlighteneth every One that cometh into the World that all men through Him might believe Wherein are many Excellent things held forth which through Faith in the Light are seen learned and certainly believed c. and are profitable for all to reade With a Visitation to the Called of God every-where By a Servant of the Lord Geo. Rofe London Printed for Rob. Wilson in Martins le Grand near Aldersgate 1661. To the READER Reader VVHosoever thou art that shalt reade this little Book Be it known unto thee that I have not given it forth in any desire to appear unto men to be a setter forth of Books but in the Innocency and simplicity of my heart as it was upon me from the Lord who moved me thereunto by his own Spirit and Power else I should not have set my Pen to Paper to appear in Print So if thou readest in Innocency and simplicity of heart thou mayest see that my End is to manifest the living Truth of God and to establish many in the Faith which if thou truly desirest after then have regard to the Light which Christ hath enlightned thee withal that thou mayest reade with a sound Mind and a good Understanding weighing and considering seriously as thou readest and not making light of it and then thou mayest come to understand those things which thou never understoodst and to see the Faith in Jesus Christ who is the true Light and Truth by which we are carried through Nations and upheld in all Conditions both by Sea and by Land having the Promise of an Everlasting Kingdom after which we earnestly press and labour to bring People to for which sake all the Kingdoms of the World are against us But we do assuredly believe That the Truth shall overcome them And though we have nothing on our parts but the Truth of our God to uphold us against all our Enemies who are as the stars of Heaven in multitude yet they shall fall and dye away and waste as the Dew and every Mouth shall be stop'd and every Power confounded which riseth up against us and the Truth of our God in which we live and in which we have believed which if thou desirest to believe in fear not though thou maist meet with Difficulties but believe in the Truth and true Light and thy Faith shall give the Victory Farewel G. R. A True Believer's TESTIMONY of the Work of True FAITH c. AFter that from my Childhood I had often both desired and sought after the Lord in sighs and groanings and many tears and strong cryings the Lord in his own time manifested Himself to me by the Light which enlightens every one that comes into the World that all through it might believe in which Light I came to see my self when I first believed in it and when I first came to hear it speak in my heart and to own it I came to hear the Word by which Faith comes for it preached Faith unto me and by Faith in it I came to see all that ever I did and to have all my sins brought into my remembrance and set in order before me by the Light which comes from Christ the Author of Faith who enlighteneth every one that cometh into the World that all through Him might believe By Faith in the Light I came to see Judgement kindled in my heart and the thoughts and intents and purposes of my heart revealed and to own the Judgments of God upon all that ever I did and that God was Just Holy and True in all His Wayes and in all his Judgments By Faith in the Light I came to see if I forsook not the vain course of life in which I lived the Wrath and Judgments of God abode upon me By Faith I came to see how all the world live in wickedness and ignorant of the true God not knowing the way of Eternal Life By Faith I came to see all the World With its Ways and Worships are to be denied they acting all they do in that nature and with that spirit and mind which transgresseth and is without the Faith and out of the Light and that which is out of the Faith out of the Light cannot please God for out of the Faith none can please God By Faith I came to see where the Enemie of Man's soul lodgeth and how he dwells in the hearts of all Transgressors to turn the purposes of every heart unto Evil and to corrupt the thoughts of every mind By Faith in the Light I came to see the Judgment of the World and the Prince of the World judged and cast out By Faith I came to see the Seed which is immortal which through Faith it hath pleased the Father to reveal in me and Thousands of his Sons Daughters which by Faith he raised from the dead through his own Spirit which makes us to differ from all the World By Faith I came to see the Image of God renewed in his Seed which Seed is Christ one in the male and one in the female who is the Lamb of God which was slain from the Foundation of the World which God is raising in many Sons and Daughters to work out that nature which hath transgressed that the Sins may be taken away and the Transgressions blotted out By Faith I came to see that no one is in the Covenant nor in the Promise which is Life Eternal who are not come to believe in the Light and to witness the Word of Faith in the heart and in the mouth to give them Victory over every evil Temptation every evil Lust every evil Desire every evil Thought and Word which the Light checks and reproves for By Faith I came to see that it is the true Light which enlightens every one that comes into the World which manifests every ones evil and reproves the evil of every heart and checks for every evil word work thought and deed and that this Light is spiritual and eternal and never changeth but is the same though when man or woman changes their Obedience it changeth its Administration it preacheth the Gospel truly in them even the Day of the Vengeance of God to that which transgresses and Peace Love and Good-will to every one that obeyeth and worketh Righteousness both to the Jew and likewise to the Gentile without respecting or accepting any person but witnesseth the Truth in all as in the sight of God By Faith I came to see that the Light which enlightneth every one that all men through it might believe is the very ground of the knowledge of all Good and is indeed the very Life of God it self in which his Seed is known in which God hath placed the Promise not only to live ever but that all that believe in it might live by it Because I live therefore I will that ye live also And this is
gives to fulfil his Will and to receive his Peace and to get Conquest over all the Enemies of the Soul in every partiticular and this gives Peace in all the World and satisfieth concerning outward things and enjoyments and gives to see the end of them all and that the losse of Estates Friends Relations and the destroying the outward body all is as nothing and but a parting with that which must be parted with be it sooner or later the Will of the Lord be done for we praise God we have found Christ and all things else is but as dung and drosse and must be parted withal By Faith in the Light man comes to see Him that is invisible and to the end of all visible things and delights and to be made willing to let all the Honours Preferments and Riches of the World and the Great Name and Reputation to passe away as that in which Life is not to be found and to be satisfied if he loses any thing for the Lord's sake and the Gospels sake he shall receive his Reward By Faith it comes to be seen that every one having Food and Rayment they are therewith to be content and that the labour of all in the works of the Creation is to be for the Glory of God and for the Praise of God and the Honour of God and every ones Labour is to be for the Lord and not to incumber themselves with taking care to lay up in store for Generations to come and for a Son or a Daughter which its not known whether they may glorifie God therewith or no so that every one in his present Generation is to preach Righteousness in all things that in all his works he may preach for God Noah a Preacher of Righteousness obtained mercy with the Lord in his Generation who obeyed God even God that hath created Heaven and Earth and all that lives therein who watereth the Earth with the dew of Heaven and causeth it to fall upon the tender Grass so that it buddeth and to mollifie the Clods of the Earth that the Seed yeeldeth encrease Seed for the Sower and Bread for the Eater who satisfieth every living thing that hath life and breath both in Heaven and in Earth and in the Waters under the Earth so that upon Him the care of every creature is to be set and the expectation of every Creature is to wait upon Him who is the Provider for all Generations from Generation to Generation unto a Thousand Generations that his Works might be seen unto all and the Wonders of his Mercies throughout all Generations to the setting forth of his Praise unto all Generations that the works of his Hands might all praise Him and He might be extolled by all his Creatures But certainly Generations have abused themselves and dishonoured the Lord Almighty and the Enemy of Mankind hath had his strong-holds in bewitching thousands and ten thousands to set their hearts on earthly things and earthly delights more than God so that they have forgotten God their Saviour rebelled against the Rock of the whole World who hath founded the Sea and the dry Land in Himself and every Creature in his Power who reserves the Wicked in his Wrath and places them in His Displeasure unto perpetual Generations And indeed this is the ground of the snares of all the world the Enemy having bewitched the minds of People to delight themselves in earthly things they have forgotten God their Saviour and defiled themselves with themselves and with the rest of the Creatures having their thoughts tempted to the creatures they give themselves up to be earthly and carnally minded and to have the burnings of the lusts to run into the greatness and height of glorying in the Creatures and this is that which separates the families of the Earth from God and which causes the enmity and the warrings and envyings and discord in all the World against which the Law it self was given for in that Nature which delights as before stands the sum of the Transgression of the Law from which a man must be born and redeemed before he can love the Lord with all his heart and mind and soul and serve Him with all his strength and to love his Neighbour as himself and to do unto every one as he would be done unto which fulfills all the Law but the Earth is the Snare and the parting with it the fear of many and the keeping many from the Covenant though man in giving all things up to the Will of the Lord and himself too gives but the Lord 's Own to Him which the Lord requires that in all things He may be served and honoured and who gives not up freely the fear with which they feared the Lord will bring upon them and the thing which they put far off He will bring near and make them suffer in Therefore ye Families of the Earth if you will come to the Covenant of God give up to the Lord in all things whose right it is and shake your selves come out of the love of the World and the delights of those things in which thousands have perished that Satan may not tempt you for when you are tempted and overcome and defiled you have first let your thoughts out to take pleasure or liking and to love that or those things at which the Temptation pointeth else you could never be so easily overcome as to make Sin the greatest pleasure in the World for if you believed in the Light and walked in the Light in the Fear of God and in Humility you would see the Thoughts and judge them and not suffer the Eye of the Mind to look on that at which the Temptation pointeth to take delight in that and to love that and to advantage thy self in that and then the Tempter should not overcome thee neither wouldst thou like the Glory of the World though tempted to it This is the great Temptation which blessed is he that overcometh and getteth the Victory through the Faith by which Faith Abraham forsook his Father's house and native Country and wandred a Pilgrim and a stranger in a strange Land seeking a habitation which was not an Earthly Tabernacle but Eternal in the Heavens whose Builder and Maker was God By which Faith Moses chose to suffer Affliction with the People of God rather than to enjoy the Pleasures of Sin for a season and would not dwell in the King's Court nor be called the Son of Pharoah's Daughter By which Faith the Saints chose to wander in Sheep-skins and Goat-skins and in Dens Caves of the Earth suffering the spoyling of their Goods with joy giving up their Bodies to suffer all manner of Torturâ—s these overcame the great Temptation and loved not their Lives unto Death Of whom the world was not worthy who through then faith suffered all things not accepting of deliverance By which Faith many in this Age give themselves up in the like Sufferings having the Evidence of a
in the Night Rev. 3.3 Behold I come as a Thief blessed is he that watcheth and keepeth his garments lest he walk naked and they see his shame Rev. 16.15 So now all may see that there must be a waiting and there must be a watching that ye may stand in the Evil Day that you may resist the Enemy of your Souls therefore put on the whole Armour of God that you may withstand the Evil put on the Armour of Light that you may be able to quench the fiery Darts of the Devil Rom. 13.12 So now all that come to know the Covenant of God and to walk in obedience to his Law that he writes in the heart and puts in the mind that every man need not say to his Neighbour and Brother Know the Lord for they shall all know him Jer. 31. Heb. 8. These I say must come to the waiting and watching in the Light which Arms against the Devil and his fiery Darts that you may come to be established in Righteousness for all the People of God shall be taught of God and established in Righteousness and far from Oppression Isa 54.14 15. Joh. 6.45 Now who comes to know this Promise fulfilled must come to know the waiting in the Light the Armour of God that ye may know an VNCTION from the Holy One by which ye may know all things as the Saints did I Joh. 2.20 27. who were anointed in their Souls by the Eternal Spirit and the Anointing which they had received of God abode in them which taught them all things so that they needed not that any man should teach them but as the same Anointing taught them all things which were true and of it is no lye and as it taught them they were to abide in Him And now all that come to wait and receive the Knowledge of these things need not any to teach them but all shall be taught of God and established in Righteousness so that they will not need any man to teach them Glory in the Highest A Visitation to the Called of God every where FRiends I consider the former dayes when God first made known unto us his Son to be a Light unto us to enlighten us and every one that cometh into the World which manifested unto us all that ever we had done and judged Transgression in us in all its appearances then we believed in it and had Grace for Grace manifested and Faith revealed from Faith to Faith so that the Light being believed in in which the Hope of Eternal Life came to be seen and laid hold on then was the Love strong which ran forth towards die Lord and his Truth and the breakings into true Tenderness and into the true Fear and Humility and the real-heartedness for God came to be seen and felt in which the bringing out of the World came to be seen and the true Zeal for God so that through obedience in the Faith to the Light nothing was too dear to be forsaken and parted withal and a true enquiring into the state and condition there was to see how it was between God and every Soul and then in the Light both Words and Actions came to be weighed and an enquiring into the Worlds wayes of Deceit and Words to deny them their Wayes and Words and their corrupt Language Oh! the heart-breakings that were in that day and the revealings of Secrets and the manifesting God's Power which begat into the true Cross and truly to cross that mind and nature which had transgressed both in thought word and deed So that the Lord arose in the Glory of his Majesty to shake terribly the Earth and to abase the flesh and lay low the glory of man as thousands can witness then earthly Enjoyments and Riches and Preferments came to be lightly esteemed on and cast off yea all of them that did let or hinder Then strong was the Love of God and mightily did his Power work to bring out of all things which were contrary to the Lord and to the rooting out every Plant which the Heavenly Father had not planted In this day Friends could ye wrong any Was not every one's care to be found innocent just upright and harmless having your Consciences exercised pure and void of offence towards God and man could ye then at all bow to the World or to their Wayes Worships Manners Words or Performances could ye then partake with them almost in any thing at all was not this a precious day and a day of Love could ye not endure all thing in this day and suffer all things and bear all things and was any thing too hard then to do or perform did not your Souls even hate all the corrupt delights of the Sons and Daughters of men in that day when the Zeal and Power of God broke forth could any temptation of the wicked ensnare you was not the Light present to judge and condemn every temptation and through its Judgement to deliver you Oh! the Beauty and the Glory of that day when God shook the Heavens and made the Earth to tremble and brake stony hearts at his pleasure and overturned Babylon as a thing of naught and brought forth many Sons and Daughters unto Glory my heart is broken within me when I call to mind this day wherein God did valiantly and wrought excellent things How were the hearts of many drawn after him how did their Love flow forth how were they gathered by God how quick was the Lord to execute Judgement and Justice and to set up his Truth in the hearts and to confound the wisdom of all flesh He gathered thousands in his Love to deny themselves and all their own Wisdom and Knowledge and to become as little Children yea as new Born Babes to wait at the breasts of Consolation that they might learn both what to do and what to speak yea in that day the Lord made of a little one a thousand and of a small People a strong Nation so that nothing was too hard for him to do When I saw it I was glad and trusted in the Lord who in that day fitted many to his Service and for his Honour and Glory for then he was swift in executing Judgement upon the World and in casting out the Prince of this World so that he setled many to wait upon him and it was their delight to do his Will for his Love constrained them and he was with them in their Assemblies and blessed them when they waited in stilness and silence then were their tears as a Fountain and the dropping down of their eye-lids as the dew of Heaven Oh! how precious it is to dwell in the tender Love of the Lord then they thought the time long until they were come together and they waited in silence until the Heavens dropped down dew and their Consolation came from God so that none waited in vain who waited in the Lord for the Mountains melted at his presence the Earth trembled the
Rocks were rent and the Clouds vanquished away and the Glory of the Lord filled his Sanctuary and he threw out the Buyers and Sellers out of his Temple and the Money-changers and overthrew their Seat then cloathed he himself with Zeal as with a Cloak for the day of Vengeance was in his heart and he sent forth his Sons and Daughters with his Word to run to and fro in the Earth and gave them hearts as the heart of a Lion and strength that turned away from none so that his day of Vengeance became proclaimed for he ordained strength in the mouths of Babes and Sucklings when he shut out the Wise and Prudent of the World This was the day in which God opened the door of Confusion unto the Diviners of the Earth and turned the Prophets and their Seers into madness so that to them all is become as the Vision of the night night is upon them they cannot divine fearfulness surprizes them they have changed their work and blesse themselves in their Railings and Envyings and Blasphemies against the chosen Heir because he is too strong for them and holds them bound in the bottomless Pit where they have now neither beginning nor end nor place to rest but have stirred up the smoak thereof to darken the Earth and to corrupt the Powers of it that they may lift up their last weapon for them and exercise their utmost and last Power and Strength and Victory for them but alas hath not the Lord our God in whom we believe and upon whom we wait and serve day and night broken their strength often times as it were but a burnt thread or Flax which had been burned in the fire hath he not rebuked the Powers of the Earth because of them and overturned the mighty from their Seats because of their hearkening to their deceits who have been as Catter-pillers of the Earth destroying both good and bad as far as they can reach and hath not the Lord taken us out of their Prisons and Bonds and Persecution of murder from time to time what valiant thing hath not the Lord done for his Chosen who believe in his Light that according as he hath purposed they may be ordered to bear the Image of his Son hath he suffered any thing to be done but that which makes for his own purpose have not sufferings confirmed and builded up many in the Faith when as they have been exercised in them for a moment as it were to prove them for good and then hath he not delivered out of them in Glory and great Dominion and hath he not done a double service this way in suffering these things have not thousands been convinced thereby and way made in many places and Towns for the Truth to enter hath he not manifested the deceit of this Generation of Priests there-through so that thousands never thought in their hearts to have seen nor that it had been in their hearts to have done so as they have done and if they have drank of our blood is it not that they may be overcome thereby and by Faith and Patience and have not they and their Rulers persecuted and imprisoned us to make us grow and encrease and be strong and established and multilied hath not the Lord done valiantly through all these things though the Evil-doers weaken their selves and destroy their own Souls daily thereby yea and valiant things will he yet do until he hath fully compleated his purpose for his Son shall Reign and he shall certainly overturn all that oppose his Work and every one that riseth against him in it it will be his own breaking in pieces for the Lord is making a short work who will finish it in Righteousness and wil make all serve for his own purpose either to save or to be destroyed Now seeing these things are so and that all hath wrought for good who should not Fear who should not Love the Lord who should not hold fast the beginning of their Considence unto the end and their Faith which God gave unto them when they first received the Light which brought into the Work and into the Power and Zeal for God and into the Worship to be bowed in all things unto the Lord and into the Silence and into the Meetings and Fellowship and Waiting upon the Lord Now when I consider the infinite Love and unsearchable Wisdom of God in all things that he suffereth and doth and how he turns all to his own end my heart is even broken within me and my bowels yearn after many that many might come to believe in the Light where they might see the unspeakable Love and Wisdom of God and for many doth my soul travel and seeks unto God with earnest desires and fervent Love which I have seen the Lord answering but for many who were once partakers in the Works that God began to work in the beginning of the day and of the love and mercies which God began to bestow I could even bewail my self and take up a lamentation over them and could pour down with mine eyes as a flood and make my place solitary because of the leanness of many souls and the faintness of many hearts How soon was the Lilly torn among the Daughters how faded their Beauty away and how was the singing of Birds amongst them so soon silenced how came their Spring to be turned into Winter and their Sun to set in the East their Morning turned into darkness their Sun was drawn over with darkness in the East their Morning came not forth in their haste they stumbled and while they were aspiring they fell their strength stood not in the Virgin therefore they fell and mingled with the earthly and that are them out their Beauty became as a fading flower because they trusted not in God their Saviour but forsook their first Love The young men liked the Lord well while they stood in his Innocency but when the Earth arose the eye looked not towards God Oh! that that liberty had been stopped and the sanctification come into then should the Scepter have been established and the Cross have been kept down that earing worm and the desire of the heart should have stood in the Lord who therein fulfilleth every desire in his own appointed time but hastiness destroyes many Oh the sorrow of the Just and the burdens which have come upon the upright because many have stumbled by the way and pierced their own souls through and turned the day of God into blackness to themselves whose Authority and Dominion is fallen in the Earth and their strength fallen by the way who have weakened their own hands and the Praise of the Work is given to another but all this hath the Lord suffered for the establishing his Chosen and the building up his Elect on whom his Spirit resteth so that things which appear strange the Lord turns them all to good and maketh the evil to be as an example that all may fear and be humble
before him and assuredly every one that hath tasted of the day and hath not kept the Faith nor walked unspotted of the World even hating the Garment spotted with the flesh they shall bear their own burdens and the Truth is clear and in it there is no insufficiency though some have forsaken their first Faith and not kept to their first Love But unto all ye precious Sons and Daughters who have kept the Faith and grown up since the begining of your first Love in the abundance of the Power and Vertue of the Lord unto you doth the Salutation of my Love reach and my Life springs forth and streams towards you which nothing can hinder for the Lord hath enlarged me in his Life and Power so that my Soul flows forth in the abundance of his Love towards you to be felt and known of all the Faithful for my life and strength is given up for the Service of the Lord and cannot be separated from you but must be known and felt though to the outward separated to the Work of the Lord yet in that which is alwayes near wherein the Lord doth bless his Work and prosper his Truth wherein I lye down in the Faith and Love giving up and being given up in all things to the Work of the Lord having the earnest desire of my Soul that we may all give up with one consent in Faith and Love to do the Will of the Lord and not to stagger or be dismayed at any thing whatsoever shall come to pass in the Earth we may witness forth the Truth boldly as we have already done bearing all things suffering all things and enduring all things joyfully for the Lord is merciful and will suffer nothing to come upon any but what will make for good and to fit them unto glory as all abide-faithful unto him and in this I bid you all farewel for my Love is with you and my life reaches you in the Salutation of Peace and Love having you often in my Remembrance And all ye who have tasted of the beginnings of the Work of the Lord unto whom the Light in some measure hath appeared yet the coming forward hath been but slowly unto you I say let the Light search that you may see wherein your hinderance stands and what it is that lets for in the true Light and Love and Faith of it there is no insufficiency no weakness no straitness for the straitness is in your selves and of your selves and stands in that which opens the eye to look into the pleasure of the delights of the Sons and Daughters of men and of earthly things which when they are looked into something likes them takes delight and seeks to advantage it self in them and this is the snare and hinderance which being given place unto then the Just suffers and so that which should strengthen and build up in the Power that ministers Judgment yea through Judgment must the Just be raised therefore arise be awakened shake your selves of the Encumbrances and of the Earth that the Virgin-Seed may be raised which will keep your minds staid on God and bring ye into the one Life where ye may feel true satisfaction in the enjoyment of the Lord and the Temptations ye may be redeemed out of and may see the Ground from whence they do arise namely the mind nature which hath not God to be its full delight but would delight it self in something else and when this mind is up then it 's easie for the Enemy to come and enter in with his Enticements and Allurements to entangle the mind and lead the Creature into the Cloud of Error and in that thing to which the Creature hath been most addicted will the Enemy most appear to bring it into remembrance which when it rises if it be savoured or liked the Enemy hath his advantage to ensnare But the Virgin-Seed delights in God alone and is throughly satisfied in the enjoyment of the presence of God the Lord and this is that in which the Judgment stands and the Power which wil keep out of the snare of the wicked unto which all must come before ye can grow into the plenteous Redemption be made Heirs of Eternal Salvation the Blessings of his Peace which establishes man in his growth and liveliness to grow up as the Corn in the night season and to be like the Trees bringing forth their pleasant fruits which who brings them forth becomes encouraged and receives confidence in God but such as bring not forth the pleasant fruits that which should be their encouragement becomes their Judge and rejects them in their purposes and so the growth in the Life they fall short of And all ye sons and daughters ye young men and women in whom the Virgin-Seed is arisen which delighteth in God and hath its full delight in God in which the Power Life stands to keep unspotted of the world it 's safe for us to keep in Union with the Virgin for she is the Lambs Wife and maketh her self ready for the appearing of the Lamb unto whom we have joyned in our youth and she is become the Wife of our youth therefore let none deal treacherously with the Wife of his youth but let the Virgin-Seed have the flower of her dayes in delighting her self in God and in doing his Will I say let none do violence to his Virgin but dwell in Unity with her and to be delighted in God with her and to make ready with her that all may be prepared against the Lamb comes for he that rejecteth