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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28614	Judas his thirty pieces not received but sent back to him for his own bag who hath betrayed the Lord of Glory ... : being something by way of answer to a letter that was sent to John Reynes ... from Robert Rich ... which was for the distribution of a certain sum of money to seaven churches ... wherein it is mainfested ... Quakers cannot partake of his gift ...	Bolton, John, 1599-1679.	1660 (1660)	Wing B3506; ESTC R26455	13,488	15

JUDAS HIS Thirty Pieces NOT RECEIVED BUT Sent back to him for his own Bag who hath betrayed the Lord of Glory and sold his Master and Crucified Christ afresh and put him to open shame and now liveth wantonly upon the Earth and hath killed the Just BEING Something by way of Answer to a Letter that was sent tó John Reynes Merchant of London from Robert Rich in Barbadoes which was for the Distribution of a certain sum of Money to seaven Churches as he calls them Wherein it is manifested wherefore the People that are the Lords in the Covenant of Light but by the World in scorn called Quakers cannot partake of his Gift as also in several passages is mixt a Manifestation in a way of Testimony what that blessed Truth of God is that they received and do injoy and for which they have heretofore and yet still suffer Robert Rich THere is a Letter come to our hands sent to John Reynes which bears thy name and is for the Distribution of a considerable sum of Money towards the relief of them that are in such capacity as the Letter in several passages of it makes mention wherein we find our Names amongst others assigned by thee to dispose of a part of it to such as are in need sickness or other kind of adversity whatsoever amongst us the People called Quakers so stiled by thee the consideration whereof together with the things contained in thy Letter caused us deeply to way these things before the Lord lest we should do any thing in this matter that might hurt the Truth or grieve the blessed Spirit of our Lord Jesus Christ which we blessed be his Name have received whereby we are established for ever and we stood in fear before the Lord and were not hasty in this matter and some of them whom thou hast named in thy Letter were altogether unwilling that we should meddle with that assigned to us lest we should pertake of the accursed Thing which will be spoken to in its place and weighing things on every hand at last those that have subscribed the Acquittance did think it meet that we might at the present receive the Money and the only reason that prevailed with us to-take it in our hands was lest any that had been heretofore convinc'd of Gods Everlasting Truth but now turned from it as thou art and yet go under that name these receiving it might in this as in other things bring reproach upon the blessed Truth of the Lord God which to prevent we did secure the Money in our own hands until we might have an opportunity to sent it back to thy self Note The Money he sent was received by a Stranger by our approbation and after receipt was sealed up and the very same sent back to him that so the People who are the Lords for ever in the Covenant of Light yet by the World called Quakers might stand clear from the accursed thing which is the price of blood as we shall make manifest in due place Robert thou art not ignorant that our acquaintance at the first Note also This Robert Rich had a convincement and was a while among the people of God called Quakers but he soon turned from them for their way was to strait for him to walk in came upon the occasion of thy being convinc'd and submission to the Everlasting and Unchangable Way and Truth of the Living God and we have a Testimony and it lives in our hearts for that pure Way which blessed be the Lord we are established in although many as thy self have turned their backs upon it our God whom we serve and bow before he is Light unchangeably so and we bear witness in him is no darkness at all it is written in our hearts by the Finger of Gods Spirit that we shall never forget the kindness and love of God towards us who had waited and mourned in the secret of our Souls for the appearance of him who is the desire of all Nations yet to them that believe not in the true Light that John bears witness of His Countenance is more marr'd then any Mans but blessed be the Name of God for ever that we received the Light the Way to walk in we bear witness for the Lord it is everlastingly Pure and the unclean cannot walk therein it was to us it is so to all them that believe in the Light and abide in it it is an Everlasting Morning to the Soul and gives pure satisfaction and we are fully perswaded in the Light and Power of the Lord it is so we are kept by it it is the mighty Power of God to Salvation to us who believe in the true Light there is a treasure in him for all that are in want oh that the Nations that are yet in darkness and blindness of mind were awakened that they might come to partake with us of the true treasure it enricheth them that have been poor outcasts that had no rest that had no rest for the weary Soul we bear a witness and hold forth a true testimony although the backsliding in heart be grieved thereby that Christ Jesus the Lord from heaven is come that delivers and saves from sin it is the Comfort and Consolation of them that have been in the travail and led into Captivity under the sore bondage of the cruell Enemie of the Soul to know the Deliverer come it is so blessed be the holy Name of the Lord for ever we testifie of the true Translation known and come into which we have a part in we know the pure Power of the Son of God taking place in our hearts and it hath overcome the power of the wicked one and this is more to us then ten thousand worlds and because of the savour of his good ointment do ye Virgins love the Lords Christ and cry Hosanna to him I mean all who receive the truth in the love of it and have kept their habitation in God he hath been he still is a stay and strength to the Soul whereby they are preserved that they do not faint in their minds notwithstanding the several trials and temptations that they have been exercised in and with and here we come to anchor here for ever is our Rest if Enemies rise on the one hand or the other either from the world who persecute because of the Name of God and our worshiping him in Spirit and Truth or those Enemies that once were convinc'd and saw the gate that is narrow and the way that is streight and have taken offence at the good way of the Lord yet mark to us that abide it is sealed for ever it is a pleasant way it was in times past to those that walkt in it it is to us who love the pure path in it they did we doe finde and inherit life everlasting we said we were come to Anchor and Rest for ever there is a consent in the soul it is a durable Rest to all them

folly was made manifest and blessed be the Name of God Truth and the Power of the Lord is established over the heads of all the unclean in heart and so we deny thy gift But Robert there is another end in sending thy Contribution to Seven Churches as thou call'st them thou sayest that these might more fully discern the mind of thy Lord in this figure of Love and Amity to them in the reading thy Letter there was a belief that there was a mystery in thy imagination about these Seven Churches it is declared before that thou wast one of the first that run out in the imagination to the dishonour of Truth thou joyned to them that could not indure the Yoke and to the Ranters and after some small space of time when that Cloud of Darkness was blown over a second assault from the Bottomless-Pit ariseth through that Poetical Instrument John Perrot who set up and promoted the keeping on the Hat in Prayer and Supplication to God and that was not the only thing by which he sought to destroy and overturn the precious Truth of the Living God but it will stand for ever the second thing whereby this Instrument that was as thy fore-runner in this matter he wrote that Epistle for Unity and Amity and to take away the hedge of Opinions and so to unite all together in one this was the work of this nimble Poet and afterward when he could not effect his work to espouse and joyn us to the world that are in wickedness who were escaped from Sodom and were gotten to Soar the place of rest then himself after all his profession that he made of denial of this World and the Fashion thereof for a more enduring Substance yet at the last turned into the Earth and sought the preferment thereof and built again the things which before he had destroyed and so in that sinfull state laid down his body and so is a warning unto thee for if thou continue in that Apostising spirit in which thou went'st out from Gods Truth thou also wilt likewise perish but yet it is the desire of the Soul that thou mayst repent and come to Salvation and the glorious Salvation that we testifie of and are joyned together in is the pure Life and Power of Jesus Christ and blessed for ever be the Name of the Lord we abide therein and all those that did partake with us of the Grace of God in the Light of Christ Jesus and after a while drew back and fell from it we very well know Gods Soul harh no pleasure in them Therefore having received power from Christ we warn thee in the Name of the Lord to return to that which first convinced thee which was the pure Light and Spirit of Christ that thou mayst know it to clense and sanctifie thee and to lead and guide thee in the Everlasting Way of Holiness which will administer comfort to thee in the latter end We omitted of purpose the naming of those Persons which thou speakest of in thy Letter of direction to John Reynes because of our intention to make this Paper sent unto thee publick unto whom thy further request is to receive the Thirty pounds and therewith to provide a Dinner or a Supper thy words are which I chiefly do for the raising of my dear Friend Lazarus viz. the Love of God we are not unquainted blessed be the Lord for ever how the Love of God was raised up in our hearts we have in some degree spoken of it before but yet its needfull to say that the Lord in an acceptable day reach'd to our Souls to let us see that without Christ we were utterly undone and lost for ever and we had been long seeking him even through almost all Forms of Religion that had a Form of godliness amongst them but we could not find the Beloved of the Soul there for in those several Forms we come to know that Christ the Second Adam the Lord from Heaven his Countenance is more marr'd then any mans but when in the Ministration of the Gospel and by it alone we came to be acquainted with the pure Power of the Lord God we very well yet remember how that Power of God wrought in our Souls even to an utter loathing of all manner of sin and evil and it begat an everlasting love in our Souls to the Living God and to one another who by a visitation in his Spirit and Power had drawn us with the Cords of pure Love and this Spirit and Power of the Lord Jesus Christ this and this only is able to raise up the Love of God in man and also to preserve for ever that Love in the heart for by the Power therof are we preserved and therein do we rejoyce and our Joy can no man take from us But what love is that which is raised up in good fellowship as the World call it in eating and drinking is it not the love of such a god whose god is Bellies who mind earthly things to raise up the Love of the true God in the hearts of men and women but undoubtedly a Dinner or Supper in the outward will not raise up the Love of God in the heart that which sheds it abroad in the heart that alone can raise up pure Love to the pure God and this we are acquainted withal and we do believe that thou speakest thy own condition in those words viz. Which hath been long pining away through a tedions and sore famine of contention and strife even unto death Robert we very well yet remember when thy self with others departed from the Unalterable and Everlasting Living Holy Way of God what strife and sore contention did you and your Company make in our Meetings and Assemblies to the wounding the hearts of many that did truely love and fear the Name of the Lord through which strife and contention of yours together with the Ranters to which you were joyn'd you made our otherwayes peaceable meetings to be a scorn to the World and thereby thou lost the pure Love of God that before did begin to be shed abroad in thy heart by the holy Spirit and now being gone from it and from the pure Light that leads to it thou wouldst buy the Gift of the holy Spirit with money in giving Thirty pounds to make a Dinner or a Supper for the raising up thy Friend Lazarus as thou call'st it but yet thou canst not be in friendship with the pure Love of the Living God whilst thou art out from the way that leads to it and we advice thee to turn to the Grace of God in which the Salvation is which blessed be the Name of God is become our Teacher and hath taught us to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts and to live soberly and righteously in this present World in the beginning we had some knowledge of thee in this Grace of God in which the Love of God is for ever but not to be bought with money