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Universal love being an epistle given forth by the Spirit of God / through his suffering servant, Will. Gibson ; and is to be sent into all nations and countries where the Lord God hath rais'd a people to worship him in spirit and in truth ; to be read in his pure fear in their publick assemblies and private families for their edification and comfort.
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Gibson, William, 1629-1684.
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any of you nor let not the Storm or Heat of Persecution drive any of you away from the Lord God but all keep your Virginity unto the End And all Friends every where Keep your Meetings in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ who never fell nor chang'd and feel his Living Vertue in the mid'st of you keeping you Quick Fresh and Lively out of all Carelesness Dulness and Drousiness for these are Uncomly So all have a great Care to keep out of such things and all wait upon the Lord in the Comly Order that you may all be Refresh'd by him in your Meetings and that you may all have Cause to say Good is the Lord and worthy is he to be waited upon for he feeds the Hungry with Good Things And as all do diligently wait upon God in the Measure of his Holy Spirit which he hath given unto them to profit withal they will feel a true Hungering and Thirsting after the Righteousness of God to be made Partakers of it more and more and unto such the Blessing doth belong and God will deal bountifully with such for he delighteth in his People's Diligence And as it is written The Diligent Hand maketh Rich but the Sluggard shall be clothed with Ruggs whose Field grows over with Briars and Thorns And Man in such a State is Miserable and shall not be Crown'd with Honour which God gives unto the Faithful nor can he in that State dye in Peace with the Lord. Therefore all be Faithfal unto the Lord God in all things that when your dayes are ended in this World you may rest Eternally in the Bosom of the Lord as it is written Blessed are the Dead which die in the Lord for they shall rest from their Labour and their Works shall follow them And Friends Our God who is the True and Living God he is Love as it is written of him and all People who do dwell in God they do dwell in unfeigned Love one unto another and also unto their Enemies as the Lord Jesus hath commanded In which Love of God we are raised up to Worship him and in it to watch one over another and to build up one another in Holiness and in it are we Comforted and Edified and are made of one Heart and Mind and made near and dear one unto another and truly tender one over another and careful one of anothers Good every way and in true Humility to Honour and Esteem one another and thereby led to be just and true in all our Words and Actions one to and concerning another and to and concerning all our Enemies in which we do seek the Eternal Good of all People and in which we do live in sweet Unity and pure Peace together as doth become the Family of God O how sweet is the Unity in God's Spirit of Love and Life in which the Bond of Peace is kept without BREACH For in the Spirit of Love and Life all Friends being kept which keeps all Upright Just and Pure the Bond of Peace cannot be broken So in this the Lord God of Heaven and Earth preserve you all my dear Friends unto whom my Love is dear and near in the Lord that so all your hearts may be full of the Pure Love of God which thinketh nor doth no evil unto any but doth good unto all that you may be known to be the Disciples of Christ who said Every Tree shall be known by its Fruit and said A Good Tree cannot bring forth Evil Fruit and he said The Good Man our of the Good Treasury of his Heart bringeth forth Good Things But he said The Evil Man out of the Evil Treasury of his Heart bringeth forth Evil Things Which are the Fruits of the Flesh begotten therein by the power of Darkness which doth Rule in the Hearts of all the Wicked and Ungodly upon the Face of the whole Earth Which Evil Things are Envy Malice Murder Oppression Injustice False-judgment Idolatry Strife Hypocrisie Defrauding one another in Words and Actions Evil Imaginations and Evil Thoughts and Evil Words Pride Covetousness Swearing Lying Drunkenness Whoredom Thieft Lightness Wildness Vain-Laughter Idle-Jesting Whispering False-accusing and Tale-bearing to sow Strife c. So all Friends who do make Profession of the pure Truth and perfect Way of the Lord and to be Followers of the Lord Jesus Christ the Patient and Innocent Lamb of God who did not Sin neither was Deceit at any time in any thing found in his Mouth See how you do follow him your Living Example and perfect Pattern I say Search all with the Heart searching Spirit of the Lord God and see that you stand out of all those before mention'd Evils c. For because of them comes the Wrath of God upon those who do continue in them and do not believe in Christ and follow him who leads out of them and destroyes them For no Vnclean Thing can inherit God's Kingdom But Glory to the Lord God He hath Redeem'd a Remnant from such of the before mention'd Evils as they were guilty of who now know a Pure Peaceable Rest and a quiet Habitation in him in whom he workes to Will and to Do of his own Good Pleasure and he is daily Redeeming those that wait upon him in the Wayes of his Righteous Judgments And so all who do profess the Truth and live and walk contrary to it and thereby cause the Way of Truth to be Evil-spoken of and harden the Hearts of Unbelievers against it and so shut the Kingdom of Heaven against men not entring themselves but by their Evil Example hinder others If they do not Repent while they have time and amend their wayes and walk orderly as becomes the Gospel heavy will the Judgments of God fall upon them in the End And all such who have once known and Professed the Way of Truth and in some Measure and for some time have walked in it but now are turn'd away from it into the Ungodliness again like the Dog to his Vomit and the Sow that was wash'd to the wallowing in the Mire and now are grown so hard-hearted that they can speak Evil of the Way of Truth and oppose it and hate contemn scorn and reproach those who live in it and suffer for it My Soul pitties them Miserable is their Condition O that it were in their Heart to seek a Place of Repentance then it may be the Lord might shew Mercy unto them But if they do go on in Gainsaying as Core did then had it been better for them that they had never been born for Everlasting Torment and Anguish will be the Reward of their wicked work And dear Friends and Brethren and Sisters every where This Testimony am I mov'd of the Lord God to bear for your Consolation viz. That this is the True and Living Faith wherein we stand who have believ'd in the Lord Jesus Christ the true Light and have follow'd the Leadings of his Blessed Holy Spirit which hath led us
Direction And let not your Fleshly Affections be drawn out by the Enemy of your immortal souls to encourage your Children in Wildness nor any Unrighteous Word or Action but still in the Wisdom of the Lord God watch over them and shew your Dislike unto the Evil in your Children and seasonably in the Wisdom of the Lord Reproving and Correcting them for the Evil and Admonishing them to that which is Good not in Rashness nor Fretting but in that weighty Spirit of the Lord God which will keep your own minds Cool and Temperate and that will not harden your Children's Hearts nor provoke them to Wrath against you And Friends Strive not so much to get great Riches in this World for your Children as to bring them up in the Fear of the Lord God for if they come into the Fear of the Lord God and Serve him though you have little to leave them yet will the Lord God provide for them and if they do not Love Fear and Serve God much outward Riches will do them no good but they will be hurt by it as we may see many are at this day who had outward Riches left them by their Parents who were not train'd up by their Parents in the pure Fear of the Lord God but contrariwise in Pride Sports Plays Games Vain words Lightness Wildness Swearing Lying and Drunkenness c. and so growing up in Wickedness which took root in them in their Youth They spend their outward Riches left unto them by their Parents upon their Ungodly Lusts and so Grieve and Dishonour the Lord the more thereby and so it had been better for them that they had never had it And all Friends every where Keep in the Pure Spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ which will keep you all Meek and truly Lowly and Humble in Heart and Mind that your Adorning may not be that of putting on of Rich or Costly Apparel but that it may be the hidden Man of the Heart in that which is not corruptible even the Ornament of a Meek Pure and Quiet Spirit which with the Lord God is of great Price And be you not nor your Children Conformable unto this World and its Fashions and Customs and Manners which are Corrupt and Vain and Changeable and aboundantly Sinful in Riotousness Gluttonny Drunkenness and Superfluity of Apparel while they suffer the Poor to lie languishing in the Streets for want of a Supply of those things which are needful And this is a crying Abomination in England and many other Parts of that call'd Christendom which is a great Shame to the Bishops who are call'd Reverend Fathers in God a Name very unfit for their Unmerciful Ungod-like and Unchrist-like Nature For God is Love and those that dwell in him they dwell in Love and Love doth feed the Hungry and clothe the Naked with a Garment So the Bishops Priests and Rulers and Rich and Fat and Wanton People who suffer their Poor Neighbours yea and their own Church-Members to suffer want of Food and Raiment while they are Eating and Drinking and clothing in excess without the Fear of God have not a Habitation in God who is Love nor in Christ Jesus So be not you like unto them but keep in the Wisdom of the Lord in putting on your Apparel and in all things else that you may preach forth Righteousness in the whole course of your Life and manner of your Conversation And all dear Friends every where who have been call'd by the Lord God out of the worships of the World which are vain into his own pure Worship which is in Spirit and Truth continue stedfast with the Lord in all things I tenderly beseech you as mov'd by him Oh Friends You that have been moved and commanded by the Lord God of Heaven and Earth to with-draw your selves from the false Teachers who are set up by men and not by the Lord God whose Work hath been and yet is to preach up War Strife and Persecution and to set People one against another to destroy one another O keep your Testimony pure unto the End that so you may all receive a full Reward of the Lord God O Friends you know what War the Priests have prepar'd against us since the time the Lord in his tender Mercy let us see their Deceit and call'd us out from among'st them and constrain'd us to forbear putting into their Mouthes What Havock and Spoil have they made of our Goods and imprisoning of our Bodies divers until Death But O how hath the Lord born up a Remnant who loves him and fears him as upon Eagles Wings And hath made us to bear joyfully the spoiling of our Goods and the imprisonment of our Bodies Glory yea Glory unto his Holy Blessed Vame forever So all be valiant for the Lord God and his Worship which he hath call'd us into and have an Eye unto the Recompence of Reward which the Lord God hath in store for those who continue in Well-doing unto the End So the Lord God Almighty strengthen you all with his Mighty Power in your inward Man and let not an Evil Mind of Vnbelief spring up in any to distrust the Lord concerning outward things For he who feeds the Ravens and clothes the Grass and takes Care for Sparrows he hath provided for us and doth and will provide for us if we do abide in Faithfulness unto him he will not suffer us to want that which is good for us that all the Faithful are fully satisfied in And many have deep Experience of his Fatherly Care over them which hath begotten a depth of Love in their hearts unto him by which they are made strong in the Faith to follow him through the greatest Hardships And so we know him a God near at hand Mighty to Save and do endure Afflictions with Chearfulness because we do inherit his Mighty Power by which we are made Conquerers over Hell and Death and all the Rage and Fury of Man And all dear Friends in England and else-where who have been and yet are under great Sufferings in the Spoil of your Goods and Imprisonment of your Bodies for your Pure Obedience to the Living God in meeting together to Worship him in Spirit and Truth Happy are you and great is and will be your Reward if you continue in Well-doing unto the End O Friends Rejoyce in the Lord who hath given you Ability to suffer for his Glorious Name 's sake knowing that it is not only given unto us to believe in Christ Jesus but also to suffer with him and for his sake and if we do suffer with him we shall also Raign with him But if any should refuse to suffer with him they cannot Raign with him For said Christ he that denies me before men him will I deny before my Father which is in Heaven And he said Whosoever doth forsake Father or Mother Wife or Children Lands or Living for my Name 's sake he shall receive in this World Many-fold and