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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93910	A salutation of my endeared love in God's holy fear and dread, and for the clearing of my conscience, once more unto you of that city of Bristol ...	Stirredge, Elizabeth, 1634-1706.; Dole, Dorcas.	1683 (1683)	Wing S5685A; ESTC R171804	9,703	12

appearance of Evil that we may shun it and it shines more and more unto them that obey it unto the perfect day and then such can look into the perfect Law of liberty the Ark of Gods Covenant and not be destroyed nor consumed for it is the pure in Heart that shall see God and live but the Wicked shall not be able to abide the notable day of his coming neither shall they be able to stand in Judgment with him for when God speaks all flesh must keep Silence before him O therefore prepare prepare to meet thy God O Israel and bring thy works before-hand to Judgment lest thou and thy works be burnt up together For Sion must be redeemed through Judgment and her converts cloathed with Righteousness for with the Spirit of Judgment and the Spirit of Burning will the Lord purge away the filth of the daughter of Sion and he will have a clean People zealous of good Works for Faith without works is Dead as the Body is dead without the Spirit and that Faith which doth give victory over the World is the true Faith which is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen therefore did the Apostle exhort them in his day to come up in the true Faith and to put on the whole armour of God that they might be able to stand against all the Wiles of the Devil in the evil day and so having done all to stand with their loins girt about with Truth and so having on the brest plate of Righteousness and their feet shod with the preparation of the Gospel of Peace and above all taking the shield of Faith wherewith they might be able to Quench all the fiery darts of the Wicked for the travel of the Righteous in all Ages was that they might know and witness the true passage through the great Tribulations within the Enemies of the Lord subdued in their own Houses and then they did not question Gods sufficiency in bringing down their outward Enemies for such that have given up their Souls Bodies to serve the Lord can trust him with the lesser as well as the greater for of how much more value is the Soul than the Body for the Body is but for a little moment of time and is cut down and returns to the dust from whence it came but the Soul passeth into the never ending day of Eternity where the Souls of the Righteous shall forever live with the Lord in everlasting Joy and Felicity but the Wicked in everlasting Wo and Misery Oh therefore what great need have we while we are in these Earthly Tabernacles to bring forth Fruits meet for Repentance and to work out our Salvation with fear and trembling that our calling and election may be made sure with the Lord for what have we to do whilst in the Body but to fear God and keep his Commandments which is the whole Duty of man and blessed be the Name of the Lord can a Remnant say When he doth enlarge our Hearts that his Commandments are not grievous but joyous and his way a way of Pleasantness and all his paths Peace O therefore you that would be counted Friends of God and Disciples of Jesus Christ come away whilst the call of the Lord lasteth into faithfulness and leave your Nets and Entanglements in this Life which keeps you a fishing after the things of this World which do perish in the using take up the daily Cross of Christ as the true Disciples did and follow him that he may make you Fishers of men for those that will be Christs Disciples must deny Self and take up the daily Cross of Christ and follow him through the great Tribulations wheresoever he leads them then such may be made Instruments in the hand of the Lord when they are converted to strengthen their weak Brethren and to teach Transgressors his Ways that Sinners may be converted to the Truth for the Lord did not call us into his Vineyard to stand Idle but to work and especially at this time of day now the Name of the Lord is so much prophaned amongst the Heathen by some that have left their publick Testimony to save Self and have not done as holy Daniel did notwithstanding the King's Decree he worshipped his God as at other times with his Windows open towards Jerusalem but if Daniel had reasoned with Flesh and Blood That the same God that could hear in publick can hear in private and so shut up for fear of man till the King's Decree was over where had Daniel's Deliverance been and Gods All-sufficiency seen Oh therefore what have you been a doing in your secret Chambers for the Lord that it cannot yet appear on the house top but are ready to say within your selves That you have not left your Testimony for the Truth but do meet often together in his fear O! arise arise come away for your Rest is polluted for the Lord loaths your solemn Assemblies and rejects all your Sacrifices because it is not of his own preparing therefore it is an Abomination in his sight it is no more than the cutting off a Dogs neck or the offering of Swines Blood for the Lord is jealous for his own Names sake which you should have honour'd in the fight of the Heathen if you had possest what you have profest for what excuse can you make with the Lord O ye Rich men of the Earth when the Lord shall enter into Judgment with you for his great Name 's sake which you should have sanctified in the sight of the People for it was not sufficient for the poor Woman when she was healed by Christ's Virtue of her bloody Issue which all the Physicians of no value could not do to slip away and not make known his Power but she was made at the call of Jesus to come and reverence him in the sight of the Multitude and to confess unto his Power which was beyond the sight of all Visibles and those that followed him no further than for what they could see in his visible Appearance or to receive from him to serve their own ends in the outward and not only and alone for eternal Life could not with all their thronging and pressing of him fetch one drop of Virtue from him to the saving of their Souls Oh! therefore take warning and answer the end of the Lord with his own this day or else it will be more tolerable for the Professors of the times except you Repent than for you which never saw their way to wait upon the Lord in the silence of all flesh without they had an outward Teacher And what if the Lord should enter into Judgment with you and require their Blood at your hands for there are many honest-hearted amongst them that if they knew the Truth they would walk in it and gladly receive it and the day is at hand that they that do not gather with Christ with the

Testimony of Jesus and are cruelly used Oh! can you forget these things Come put your Hands to the Work and your Shouldiers to the Burden and cry mightily unto the Lord to spare a little and give a little time to renew your strength in him that you may do something for the Lord though but at the last Hour for surely Friends the last Hour to many is very near and the long invited if they miss of this Hour they will never have another Hour to work for the living God and therefore is my Soul concerned and my Heart pained within me and shortness of time is much before me and therefore I beg it of you that you will lay it to Heart before it be too late and consider how soon the Lord can call for your Breath for our Lives here are likened to the Flower of the Field as the Lord said to his Prophet when he said What shall I cry Cry All Flesh is Grass and the Glory thereof as the Flower of the Field And I pray how soon is that withered and the Beauty of it comes to nought And seeing it is so why will People run the hazard of their poor Souls for that which will augment to their perpetual Misery World without end Oh! the Lord grant me my Request and bow his Ear to my Prayer for I am very earnest with the Lord and my Heart is pained within me in your behalf Oh! it is you it it you that should have been as Pillars in the House of the Lord that the weakest might have leaned upon you that your Courage and Valour might have apppeared in the light of the Weak that they might have been encouraged by it that the Strong and the Weak might have gone up together to the Mountain of the House of the Lord where the Lord would have taught you of his Ways and you might have walked in his Paths and he would have fortified you with Might Courage Strength and Valour and your Bow would have abode in his strength so that you would have grown strong in the Lord and in the Power of his Might which he would have given unto you in a bountiful manner had you wholly given up your selves and all that God Almighty had given you and gave way to that noble Spirit that was in Joshua and Caleb who were resolved to follow the Lord they and their Families Oh Friends I can hardly write what ariseth in my Heart as touching this matter but in the fear of the Lord I have this to say Your Eyes should have seen the Wonders of the Lord in a miraculous manner as they did that thus leaned upon the Lord and trusted in his strength and believed in him and then all things were possible and by obeying of the Command of the Lord the Walls of Jeriche fell but if they had reasoned with Flesh and Blood or thought the Instruments too mean or consulted with reasoning they had never seen the Power of the Lord to do his Work neither shall any now this day that reason with Flesh and Blood No no first learn Obedience give up to obey the Lord and then your Eyes shall see the blessed Work of the Lord to be fulfilled in its due time for he is God Almighty and All sufficient therefore let every Heart confide in his Power So dear Friends keep your Hearts with all diligence for out of it are the Issues of Life for we all well know that the People that live most Chaste keep nearest to the Lord and they that are nearest hear most of his Counsel And truly Friends the time is at hand when all shall be distressed for the Lord and the most Faithful will not spare of the heavenly Oyl then it will be too late for any to go to buy Oh! it often riseth in my Heart that yet a little time and Time unto many will be no more for which my Soul is more concerned than for any outward Suffering for surely Friends it is in my Heart to believe that the great God of Heaven and Earth who hath been long provoked and tryed many waves and shaken his Rod over this Nation many a time and nothing will prevail therefore will he arise in his Strength and go through this Nation and will plague the Inhabitants thereof he will bring Terror and Amazement upon them that none shall be able to deliver out of his Hand for he hath long called and they have not regarded he hath long held out his Hand and they have not laid it to Heart and therefore will their Calamity come at a day unawares and because they have not regarded the Call of the Lord when they cry aloud to him he will not regard them Oh! then blessed eternally and happy for evermore will all them be that have obeyed the Lord in their Day and have not their Portion with the Wicked So with my endeared Love unto you and that beyond utterance Desiring and Praying for your Souls Prosperity I remain your Loving Friend Elizabeth Stirredge The 2d Day of the 1st Moneth 1683. For the Friends that have been slack in their Duty towards the Lord in this day of Tryal wherein they should have doubled their Diligence unto the Lord that the Lord and his Truth might have been honoured as it was by his Servant Daniel who believed in his God when the Enemies of the Lord were made to confess that he was the Servant of the Living God TO you that have been Professors of the Truth of God in the City of Bristol a weighty concern hath been upon me in the fear of the Lord to warn you that have made a profession of God and Christ and to be Christs greatest Friends that you may take heed that you be not found this day his greatest Enemies to his Cross which is the Power of God unto Salvation for if we that have made a profession to wait upon God and Christ in the pure silence of all flesh at the Heavenly Jerusalem to be endued with Power from on High should now break Christs Commandments and should not obey him in his requirings then how shall we know his Doctrine and Life then how shall Gods Ensign be set up to the Nations and his Standard of Righteousness to the People How shall they be gathered unto the Brightness of his Rising and to his great and Glorious Appearance from off the barren Mountains and dry Hills where they have been seeking the living amongst the dead and scattered up and downn as Sheep without a Shepherd if we that have known the Lord do not glorifie him as God and let our Light shine to the Nations For though the Candle of the Wicked is often put out yet it is not so with the Righteous who keep in the Just mans path which is a burning a shining Light for it burns up all the combustable matter that lies in their way and shines round about them to expel all darkness and to make manifest every

Whirlewind of his Wrath they shall be scattered and then shall the gathering of the People be unto him from the East West North and South and from the four Winds of Heaven and shall sit down with Abraham Isaac and Jacob in the Kingdom and the Children of the Kingdom that have lived in disobedience be cast out for those that have been first may be last and the last first Oh therefore while you have an hour to work in his Vineyard be diligent in his Work for cursed is every one that doth the Work of the Lord negligently Oh therefore while the last hour lasteth be diligent that you may be cloathed with the Wedding Garment of Righteousness and behold the Lord and live for the long suffering day of the Lord is almost at an end with many and the day of his Judgments near to be poured out upon the Rebellious then the Rebellious in Israel may say Oh that we had given up our all and trusted the Lord in difficulty that we might have seen his great sufficiency and his holy Arm made bare for our Deliverance then will many be ready to cry out like old Israel We will go up to the Land which the Lord promised us Oh! then it will be too late for what was the answer of Moses to them Go not up for you would not go up in the Lords time and therefore he is departed from you and now if you go up your Enemies shall prevail over you Oh! therefore you that have been called by the Name of Israel do not reason away your strength as Sampson and they did and give it into the hands of strangers and then let your Oppressors rule over you but be tender of the Glory of God and have true charity over the seed of God in your own Bosoms and then you shall be far from Oppression for the Lord hath long waited to be gracious and his tender Compassion sails not to his People nor there is no occasion to be offended in the Truth whatever hath happened amongst some that have profest it Blessed be the Name of the Lord Truth is clear in it self and without variableness or shadow of turning and more desirable to the Faithful than ever it was for the more we wait upon God the more our strength is renewed in him and as we grow up in the Faith and wait for the blessed Appearance of our Lord Jesus when he doth appear we can see him as he is and appear with him in Glory and grow up from strength to strength and from one degree of Grace to another till we come to the fullness of the Statute that is to be attained in him and he is glorifying his People more more and cloathing of them with his own Righteousness so that the Upright in heart can say O Lord thou art our Righteousness and by thy Name do we acknowledge thee and because thou hast washt us therefore have we a part in thee and thou in us and worthy worthy is our God to be waited upon and to be had in everlasting Remembrance of all his Saints that are about him and to be reverenced and worshipped in the beauty of Holiness in the Assemblies of his People for his Glory is far above over all the glory of Egypt to those that see him as he is in his invisible Appearance And so the desire of my Soul is that all the Lord's People may be gathered into the Covenant of Life and Light and grow up in the Life and Power of Holiness which is beyond all Declarations of Words and shall remain when Words may cease and Declarations may have an end but the Word of the Lord endures forever So I remain your Loving Friend Prisoner to Bridewell for Truths Testimony Dorcas Dole The 30th Day of the 3d Moneth 1683. O Lord by a high Hand and a stretched out Arm didst thou bring the Children of Israel out of Egypt and made a High-way for thy ransom'd ones to pass over through the great Deep swallowed up their Enemies quick that persued after them so that they sung thy Praise upon the Banks of Deliverance but O Lord how soon did they forget thy great Name and glorious Deliverance when they met with other Difficulties for the tryal of their Faith as if thy Arm was shortned that it could not save them or thy Ear heavy that thou couldst not hear them O! help thy People in this day that we may take warning by their Fall and follow thee fully through all Difficulties that thou mayest honour thy great Name in us in making known thy great Sufficiency in the sight of the Heathen O Lord let us not look back again into Egypt for Graves to bury thy holy Seed in bondage but raise us up more and more in the Resurrection of thy Life and Power that the second Death may have no Power over us O! thou that never slumberest nor sleepest who wast Israel's Keeper and Jacob's Preserver in Straits and great Difficulties watch over thy People for good and help us to Watch and Pray continually unto thee in the motion of thy eternal Spirit for of our selves we can do nothing but when thou dost enlarge our Hearts in and through our Lord Jesus Christ we are able to perform an acceptable Sacrifice unto thee for it is the Breath of Life which thou dost breathe upon our Souls which makes us in the living sense of thy quickning Power to return unto thee that which is thy due all Honour Praises true Thanks-giving for unto thee it doth belong and to the Lamb that sits upon the Throne from me and all that know thee O! therefore fill our Hearts and Souls with thy living Presence that our Souls may still live to Praise thee for thou art worthy to have all Praise Honour and Renown from the rising of the Sun to the setting of the same Amen D. D. ☞ The Way to Health long Life and Happiness Or A discourse of Temperance and the particular Nature of all things requisit for the Life of Man very necessary for all Families The like never before published Printed and Sold by Andrew Sowle at the Crooked-Billet in Hollway-Lane in Shoreditch