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A warning and testimony from the Lord who lives and abides forever that all that have known the Lord get into the name of the Lord therein only to have their confidence ... / by Humphry Woolrick.
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Wollrich, Humphry, 1633?-1707.
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us Whose privily slandereth his Neighbour him will I out off Him that hath a High Look and a Proud Heart will I not suffer but mine Eyes shall be upon the Faithful of the Land or perfect in the Way that they may dwell with me He that walks in this Way he shall serve me he that worketh Deceit shall not dwell within my House he that telleth Lyes shall not tarry in my Sight This was a right mind in David and be not you wrong who be in any measure gratifying and giving ease to any Lying Slanderous Spirit I will early destroy all the Wicked of the Land that I may cut off Wicked Doers from the City of God Shall I hide from Abraham that thing that I do shall be not surely become a great Nation Gen. 18.17 for I know him that he will command his Children and his Houshold after him and they shall keep the Way of the Lord to do Justice and Judgment that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him Read what Moses said of Levi Let thy Uâ—im and thy Thummim be with thy Holy One Deut. 33. whom thou didst prove at Massah and with whom thou didst strive at the Waters of Meribah who said unto his Father and to his Mother I have not seen him neither did he acknowledge his Brethren nor know his own Children for they have observed thy Word and kept thy Covenant So here we see God and his Covenant was more than all Relations and Affection They shall teach Jacob thy Judgments and Israel thy Law they shall put Incense before thee and whole burnt-Offerings upon thine Altar Bless Lord his Substance and accept the Work of his Hands smite through the Loins of them that rise against him and of them that hate him that they rise not again And consider also what the Lord said of Judah who was his Law giver Thou art he whom thy Brethren shall Praise thy Fathers Sons shall bow down to thee And Aaron was to bear the Iniquity of the Children of Israel upon his Heart in the Brest-plate of Judgment before the Lord when he went into the holy Place and they that be come unto Christ Jesus who is Judge in his own House and over his own House in Judgment They that are one with him do know there is no other way to bear Iniquity but upon the Brest plate of Judgment God spake to Moses saying Phinehas the Son of Eleazar Numb 25.11 the Son of Aaron the Priest hath turned away my Wrath from the Children of Israel while he was zealous for my sake in Executing Judgment Psal 106. and that was accounted unto him for Righteousness unto all Generations for ever more wherefore say Behold I give unto him my Covenant of Peace and he shall have it and his Seed after him even the Covenant of an Everlasting Priesthood because he was zealous for his God and made an Attonement for his People And Friends God loves to see Judgment still even the Judgment of his holy Spirit set up in his House and Church as ever he did And did not Saul lose his Kingdom for want of Executing Judgment upon Ameleck and Ely his Priesthood and his Family destroyed forever And did not the Lord make a Promise to Jehu That his Children to the fourth Generation should sit upon the Throne of Israel because he had done well in Executing the Judgment of the Lord upon the House of Ahab who gave up himself to do Wickedly And consider that holy-minded man David how sweet and pleasant a thing it was to see Brethren dwell together in Unity he said It was like to that precious Oyntment that was poured upon Aaron 's Head that had so swest and fragrant a smell or like the Dew that descended upon the Mountains of Sion where the Lord commanded his Blessings even Life for evermore And David knew where the hand of the Evil-doer was not cut off through Judgment which was a hand of Falshood and Deceit which Christ saith doth offend and must be cut off and cast away he knew this blessed Unity and Fellowship would soon be lost And so if thine Eye offend thee blind it and pluck it out through Judgment this must be done For out of the Heart proceeds the Evil Eye that hunts for Mischief and watches for Iniquity for thou wert better enter into Life having one Eye than having two to be cast into Hell Fire So all we that know the Lord and desire to be true in Heart to him we know he is a God of Judgment and that it is through Judgment that Mercy over-shadows and it is in that just and holy Spirit which leadeth to confes and forsake Sin that purgeth us cleanseth us from all Sin and in which we have fellowship with the Father and the Son and one with another to our great joy it s not in another thing but in the true Light that leads out of all Darkness we enjoy this And I do desire all that Love Christ Jesus to love his daily Cross that humbles down Self into the Death and take heed of that Spirit that would make it void and of none effect in any thing for that will establish Iniquity by a Law for have not I my self with many others traversed the Wayes of that Spirit that teaches how to make the Cross of our Lord void and of none effect in things not to be blamed by any man but him only that seeth the Heart that hath not Eyes of Flesh nor seeth not as man sees But did I ever find Rest or Peace there which the Lord hath suffered sometimes that man might see himself to be nothing out of him and also to magnifie the Riches both of his Patience and Mercy which the Vessels of Mercy have been a sitting for to whom be the Glory Eternally who out of all Names and Things is bringing and drawing the Minds and Spirits of his People to himself and to that holy Name in his House and Place within his Walls of Salvation that 's better than a Name of Sons and Daughters Oh! into that pure Mind come that seeks nothing but the Lord and the Kingdom that 's in Righteousness that is the Mind forever in Christ and his true Followers in which pure Mind he drew nigh to the Father in the day of his deep Distress in which he feared crying out to him If it be Possible Father let this Cup pass from me nevertheless if it may not unless I drink it not My Will but Thy Will be done And in this Mind and no other but that which ever cryes Thy Will be done can we be answered this is that holy and acceptable Will that Sanctifies forever and where we and all that be helpless do find Help and a place of Succour in time of need for God is a consuming Fire to that Mind and Spirit that is not subjected down into the holy Will of God that Washes and
Evil-doer and to condemn the Innocent although it be to their own Destruction and to the darkening the good Understanding till they be past feeling of the holy Spirit to lead them out of Darkness the Land of the Shadow of Death where the First-born of Death rules and reigns without any good order and in this Confusion saying in Word and gain-saying in Deed with your Words as smooth as Oyl but War in the Heart of that Seed and Spirit yea ejoyned to and led by against the very Heart of God and his Light and Life which his People live with him in and yet can cry You have nothing but Love in your Hearts to all when the Poyson is flung out before against the holy Child and against his holy Government and Order in his Church which all the Upright in Heart delight to see and in which the Apostle rejoyced when he wrote to the Church after this manner I am rejoyced greatly to behold your good Order and the Stedfastness of your Faith in Christ Jesus And again he saith in another place Now we live if you stand fast And what must they stand in but even in that holy Liberty which God who is not a God of Confusion but of Order gave them which is but one and of one Mind in all and all that be led by it and stand in its Counsel they be by it made of one Mind Heart and Soul there is no Division nor Rent amongst them for they all be for Christ their Head who purely put on and keep within this holy Vesture and Garment although ten thousand times ten thousand together this Holy Order that is in the Power being observed we have all but one Spirit the Author of our Faith and of our Hope which is but one and stands in one and makes all of one Heart and Mind having all things common where we all speak one and the same thing where we all seek the things that be Jesus Christ's and not our own these shall not hit each other nor break their Ranks nor fall before their Enemy when he shoots sore at them that they might fall and never rise again but they that put on this holy Garment must be girt about with Righteousness also and out of the Armoury of God which is built as the holy Tower of David where be the Shields of thousands of holy Men and Women which they wore and put on in their time of War and Distress but when the War was ended and Peace with God proclaimed over their Enemies the World and the Devil then they laid them down there again giving Glory to God and the Lamb whose Weapons they were crying Thou and the Lamb are worthy to have the Praise and the Honour of all our Salvation and Deliverance now and forever and ever And so I come to re-mind you of those Scriptures which some in their Darkness say I slight that ye may see whether you be in the same Love those holy and true men were in or in that Love that is of the Spirit of this World that 's Enmity with God for they said even Paul and Moses Thou shalt not hate thy Brother in thy Heart nor suffer Sin to lie upon him but thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy Brother and this is the Love which the Lord owneth and which he himself is the Author and Root of which hates the Evil and loves the Good and loves to see it exalted in Righteousness and in Judgment over all Deceit of Men that be Cunning and Crafty inventing Wayes to hold the Truth in Unrighteousness and to press into the Kingdom and holy Inheritance among the Saints in Light but yet have not known the holy equal and just Law of God fulfilled in them which fits and makes meet to inherit it And Paul saith who was a man that dyed daily to the Love the Friendship and Fashions of this Evil World through the Rejoycing he had in Christ Jesus the true Light he had Power to do this and to testifie what manner of Love the Love of God was and said Let Love be without Dissimulation abhor that which is Evil or as Peter saith Hating the Garment spotted of the Flesh And now hear some of the Sayings of David who hearkned to the Lord and to his words which were pure words to his Precepts and Statutes which were Life to his Soul and rejoyced his Heart greatly nay saith he I took the Testimonies of the Lord for my Heritage in the House of my Pilgrimage and all thy Precepts were before me and I did not put away thy Righteous Judgments from me more are they to be desired by me than Gold yea than much fine Gold and at Midnight will I arise to praise the Lord for his Righteous Judgments for Sion 's Children which be God's Children they be saved through Judgment and Righteousness So you may see who be turning Judgment backward with your feigned Love and Pity like old Ely to his Sons whilst they were in the Transgression whilst he that made them would not have Mercy on them and he that formed them from the Womb as it were to be his Servants and to wear an Ephod and a holy Prieft's Garment before him but seeing his Covenant was broken by them and the Sacrifices kicked at which he appointed in his Habitation therefore would he shew them no Favour but judged them and their Father's House forever But how did this good man David love to be judged searched and tryed by the Lord he was afraid of his Wayes like Job lest there should be any Iniquity in him hid in his Heart as a sweet Morsel and lest he had not a true Respect and Regard to all God's Commandments which he said were pure and gave Light as a Lamp Lanthorn to his Vnderstanding to the making Wise of the Simple And I do beseech you all who say You are led by the same Spirit to consider whether the same Fruit be brought forth by you in this respect or whether you love it in its Root and Buddings forth or whether the other thing that 's contrary be not budded even whether Pride be not budded and broken forth into a Rod of Violence to smite the Innocent with who in true Love dare judge nothing in you but the Bad. I will sing of Mercy and Judgment unto thee O Lord will I sing I will behave my self wisely in a perfect Way Psal 101. O when wilt thou come unto me I will walk within my House with a perfect Heart I will set no wicked thing of Belial before mine Eyes I hate the Work of them that turn aside from the path of Vprightness it shall not cleave to me a froward Heart shall depart from me I will not know a wicked Person we all in so doing shall know the Heart of God a coming to us for I am sure if we open to him when he judges he in Bowels of tender Mercy will open to