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love_n	buy_v	drink_v	love_v	5,590	5	11.2267	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54422	Some fruits of a tender branch, sprung from the living vine being a collection of several sound and godly letters, written by that faithful servant of God, Benjamin Padley. With diverse living testimonies to that innocent life, in which he walked, and continued to the end of his day.	Padley, Benjamin, 1658 or 9-1687.	1691 (1691)	Wing P161; ESTC R217466	26,941	57

a reasonable Service and all nothing in comparison of what he hath done for my soul and I desire with all my Heart and Soul that I may for ever be kept and preserved in this holy Resolution that I may count nothing too dear to part with for the Lords sake who is worthy over all to be worshipped served and obeyed praised glorified honoured and exalted of me and of all that have tasted of his Mercy and knows how good he is both now for ever and for evermore And now dear Brother the Lord laid this weightily upon me to lay open before thee if happily thou not being fallen into these snares might be preserved out of them or if fallen into them that thou might see how to be redeemed out of them again and therefore I entreat thee as one having Charge of thy soul that thou slight not the day of thy Visitation until it be overpast but while it is called to day hearken and turn not away thine Ear from the Counsel of the Lord nor harden not thine heart against Instructions nor cast not his Reproofs behind thy back lest thou provoke the Just God to anger and cause him to withdraw his good 〈◊〉 from th●● for of a Truth God will not be mocked but he said I will be glorified in all that draw near me And they that make a profession of him in Words but in Works deny him he will glorifie himself in destroying of them as he did Nadab and Abihu who offered a strange Fire unto him for he hath said His Spirit shall not always strive with Man but the Candle of the wicked shall be put out O who can express the Misery of that Man O sad and deplorable is his Condition Oh! It even causes my heart to relent and my Spirit to bleed within me to consider the miserable sad and lamentable Estate of that Man or Woman whom God hath ceased striving with and whose Candle is put out Oh surely utter Darkness will be their Portion for ever Woe and Misery bitter and anguishing Pangs shall take hold of them as of a Woman in Travail when they shall be cast into utter Darkness never more to behold the Brightness of the Glory and Excellency of our God And therefore dear Brother in the sence of these Miseries which shall assuredly come upon all that will not Obey the Counsel of the Lord do I entreat thee for the Lords sake and for thy poor Souls sake be obedient to his Counsel and give Attention to his Call for the Bowels of his Love yearns towards thee and he still waits to be gracious Oh therefore embrace his Love and wait for his Appearance though he may appear as an Enemy yet it is but to destroy sin and therefore fly not at his appearance to hide thy self as Adam did when he had transgressed his Commandment but wait for his coming to destroy sin in thee for therefore must he first appear before thou can be a sit Vessel for him to dwell in and then thou wilt come to witness the saying of the Prophet fulfilled which he prophesied of in the days of old saying The Lord is our Judge the Lord is our Law-giver the Lord is our King and he will save us so Mark he is first to be known as a Judge and a Condemner of Sin in the Members and to take away that which makes a separation betwixt him and thy soul and then must he be known a Law-giver to give Laws and establish Laws and Commandments in the hearts of his People and here also comes another Scripture to be fulfilled which God promised in the days of old saying I will write my Law in their hearts and put it in their inward parts and I will be their God and they shall be my People and then as there is an obeying of these Laws and a keeping of these Commandments which the Lord hath given unto us and written in our inward parts then do we witness him to be our King who will save us and bring salvation with him And blessed be his Name for ever who is not awanting this day unto them that really fears and obey him for the Fountain of his Mercy is open and the Sluces of the River of his pleasure is drawn and the Flood-gates is set wide open and the Call is gone forth to all the World and the Sound thereof to the ends of the Earth Come you that will come come he that is a thirst and he that hath no Money come buy Wine and Milk without Money and without Price Oh this is the Love of our God! Oh what manner of Love is this wherewith he hath loved us that he should thus freely tender his Mercy unto us who hath not deserved it at his hands Oh surely it may well engage all who have felt of these his Mercies and drank of this blessed Fountain for ever to love him and never to let him pass out of our Remembrance O that it might for ever be as a Seal upon all our Souls and as a double engagement upon our Spirits for ever to wait upon him in the true Poverty of our Spirits and in the true Nothingness of our selves before him to bow at the Foot-stool of the Throne of his Grace and there pour forth our Supplications day and night before him beseeching him that he may never withdraw himself from us but for ever let us feel of these his Mercies and be Partakers of these his Blessings that in the Eenjoyment of the same our Souls may be daily obliged and daily feel fresh occasion of returning Glory and everlasting high Praises and Thanksgiving unto him who over all is worthy is worthy for ever And now my Brother there is still something livingly ariseth in my heart to lay before thee that I may be clear as to the discharging my Conscience in Obeying the will of the Lord in faithfully doing that which he commanded me and that I may not do the work of the Lord deceitfully he also having many times brought into my remembrance the charge which he gave unto his Prophet when he sent him to forewarn the Children of Israel in the days of old saying If thou forewarn them of their evil in speaking the things which I command thee and they turn not from the evil of their ways then shall they dye in their iniquities and their blood shall be upon their own heads but if not they shall dye in their wickedness but their blood I require at thy hands Now these are the things which I have to lay before thee 1st That thou let not thy mind out into the earth in striving to gather great riches for many times pride doth attend that spirit that as soon as people are grown rich and full as to the outward then do they come to be exalted and puffed up and look for Honour and Esteem in the world saying in their hearts I am full and entire lacking nothing when they are naked blind

of the Lord our God for ever that hath not left us to our selves nor suffered the enemy of our Souls to destroy us neither hath he cut us off in our Transgression but hath spared us to be as Monuments of his Mercy and not only so but his blessings is largely extended towards us to this very day that my Soul can say that he is become an open fountain and a place of broad Rivers unto them that truely fears him and is given up to serve him he is making them to drink of the waters of a full cup to the glading of their Souls for which my Soul is ingaged to return Glory Honour and Thanksgiving unto him who is God over all blessed for ever and ever Amen Friends here about are generally well onely Christopher Hutton lyeth a dying if he be not dead his Son Emanuel was taken away last winter he dyed a very honest young Man So desiring these may find thee in good health as through the Lords Mercy we are at present we remain with our dear Loves to thee desiring to hear from thee which is most at present from Thy truly Loving Brother Benjamin Padley Northcave 29th of 4th Month 1687. A Letter sent unto his Brother John Padley Dearly Beloved Brother THe Salutation of my endeared Love is unto thee desiring of the Lord that he may preserve thee with my own Soul in Faithfulness before him in answering his Requiring and doing those things which he makes manifest to be our Duty though it may be never so great a Cross to our own Wills for they that will be Christs Disciples they must come truly to Witness a dayly taking up of his Cross and a dayly dying unto those things in which we have formerly delighted and give up truly to follow the Lord in the true self-denyal to be truly acted ordered and guided according to his Good Will and Pleasure And now dear Brother that which is upon me at this time to lay before thee by way of caution is to desire thee to be careful lest the Enemy beguile thee by drawing thy Mind into some visible thing or other for it was my Loss when I began to set up an Imployment for my self my Mind being hasty and desirous to gain Wealth and to accomplish great things I was altogether frustrated for I did not only lose in outward things but I partly lost my inward Condition that I did not enjoy the Presence of the Lord in so large a Measure as I had formerly done but blessed be the God of my Life forever who has not left me to this day but he has preserved with his Righteous Judgments that has been greatly mixt with Mercy and now blessed be his Name for ever whose Blessings and Mercies I do enjoy this day in my measure and therefore unto him be the Praise and Glory who alone is worthy over all and so it is the desire of my Soul that we may both be preserved faithful before the LORD however it may go with us as to outward things that we may first seek the Kingdom of Heaven and the Righteousness thereof And I do believe the Lord will not suffer us to want those things that is needful for us but they that makes hast to be rich do run themselves into a Snare and is in danger to fall into a Pit but it is my Hope and Considence in the Lord that as we stand in his Councel and dwells in Humility desiring to be preserved faithful in all our Undertakings the Blessings of the Lord will be with us and he will still delight to shew Mercy unto our Souls that we shall have fresh occasion to bless and magnifie his great and powerful Name who alone is worthy over all for ever Amen Benjamin Padley FINIS A Catalogue of some Books Printed for and Sold by Tho. Northcott in George-Yard in Lumbard-street JOhn Burnyeat's Works Price 2 s. 6 d. G. Keith's Presbyterian and Independant Visible Churches in New-England and elsewhere brought to the Test and examined according to the Holy Scripture Price 1 s. 6 d. His Way to the City of God 1 s. His Fundamental Truths of Christianity Price 8 d. Stephen Crisps Alarum sounded in the Borders of Spiritual Aegypt which shall be heard in Babylon Price 3 d. His Epistle concerning the Present and Succeeding Times Price 2 d. G. Fox the Younger's Works Price 1 s. 8. d. Eliz. Bathursts Truths Vindication Price 8 d. Sam. Fisher's Works Price 12 s. William Tomlinson's Innovations of Popery Price 6 d. Buds and Blossoms of Piety Price 1 s. G. F's several Treatises worthy of every true Christian's serious Consideration Pr. 6 d. R. Barclay's Apology for the True Christian Divinity Price 4 s. Robert Barclay's Works Price 12 s. Francis Howgil's Works Price 10 s. Isaac Penington's Works Price 12 s.