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A65272 A heavenly visitation to the travelling soul and generation born again of the immortal seed With a testimony of the regenerate and true birth thereunto. Watson, Samuel, ca. 1618-1708. 1685 (1685) Wing W1097; ESTC R220880 4,223 9

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then all that is visible And accounted all which I had formerly comprehended and gathered in the faln state but as Dross and Dung in comparison of this divine excellency of the grace and knowledg of Christ Jesus my Saviour in and through whose Spirit holy Father thou hast raised me from Death to Life not any more to Worship in the oldness of the Letter John 4.23 24. but in the newness of the Spirit even in thy own Spirit of Truth not any more to War with Weapons that are Carnal but the Sword of the Spirit which slayes not the Creature but the enmity in the Creature and so brings peace unto the soul in which now my lise is bound up in the bundle of thy fatherly Testimonies which thou hast sealed up unto me with those Disciples that follow the Lamb in the Regeneration And now Father I get me to my Watch-Tower to hear what thou speaks to my soul for thou speaks peace unto thy People and Redeemed that they should not turn back to Egypts Folly and thy name is become a precious oyntment to me and a Tower of safety unto my soul where I find Rest and Peace and there is none that can make me afraid as I here abide under the Shadow of thy Wings thou seeds me with the pleasant Fruit and thy Banner over me is Love thou makes my Bones to Flourish the munition of Rocks is my Defence my Bread is sure my Water is sure and the Eye thou hast opened beholds the King of Salem in his Beauty he Raigns with the Government upon his Shoulders of the Encrease and Peace of which there is no end Therefore I pray to thee Father in thy own Spirit of adoption which I have received of thee Hollowed be thy Name thy Kingdom come or thou hast given me to possess the fruits thereof Thy Will be lone in Earth as 't is in Heaven for thou has subdued my Will which ruled by Nature unto thy heavenly will which is my Sanctification And now Father this is that I beg of thee that through the glory of thy power I may be kept in thy word of Patience to be fully assured of thy preservation in the hour of Temptation which shall come upon all the World to try them that dwell therein So shall my soul be made glad and rejoyce in thy beautiful presence And here do I rest and repose my self under the shadow of thy Wing until the Calamities and Storms be over past sith thou hast assured my soul in being faithful unto Death I shall enjoy the Crown of Life So in bowels of Love I conclude this short Testimony which opened in me in the Fountain of divine fulness for the sake of the travelling Soul and Birth which is not of this World which in the deep sence of the fatherly love has not only known his Voice to gather from the Mountains but has received counsell from him and in obedience to his mind delights now to hearken to him and loves nothing more then to Honour him and to answer his Requirings in a daily taking up of the Cross and making self of no Reputation that through the patient exercise in all the Sufferings Imprisonments Buffettings and Reproaches which this Suffering Seed and Generation meets with in its Lamb-like nature it may lie down under all and in that life which is hid with God in Christ be chearful and repose in the bosom of this beloved Son of God who hath overcome the World and makes his Remnant shine with the rayes of his own glory and gives them through living Faith to overcome whereby they inherit all things So let every Individual press after this Christian high calling in the Lambs Spirit and prize the visitations of a heavenly Father to their souls that the mark of holiness they bear in their forehead and read daily in the renewing holy Spirit their names written in the Lambs book of life Math. 5.34 35 36 37. then thou Child of the morning is thy joy full and in fulfilling unto perpetuity in the assured Testimony of one who has been taught in Christ's School and learns of him to suffer for his Name who yet continues in the godly patience in outward Bonds with a Remnant more for yeilding obedience to his Command nigh Three Years and is not weary of well doing but waits in godly patience till deliverance come according to his heavenly will who is God over all Blessed for ever Amen York Castle the 27th of 5th month 1685. Samuel Watson Dan. 12.10 Many shall be Purified and made White and Tryed but the Wicked shall do wickedly and none of the Wicked shall understand but the Wise shall understand 1. Pet. 3.12 The eyes of the Lord are over the Righteous and his ears are open to their Prayers But the face of the Lord is against them that do evil THE END