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A30837 A general epistle to the flock of God, but more particularly in Cumberland Banks, John, 1637-1710. 1698 (1698) Wing B655; ESTC R28345 6,418 9

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Names are written in Heaven In that hour Iesus Rejoyced in Spirit and said I thank thee O Father Lord of Heaven and Earth that thou hadst hid these things from the Wise and Prudent and hast revealed them unto Babes even so Father for so it seemed good in thy sight What remains for you then to say oh saith the truly humbled what manner of Love is this where withall the Lord my God hath loved me and visited my Soul And more especially in a day and time when I was an Enemy in my Mind to him by wicked works oh saith such I am constrained to love him again and to fear him always that I may in no wise offend him so Good and Gracious a God so Dear and Tender a Father Lord and Master who hath dealt so kindly and favourably with me not according to my desert for saith some I was unworthy that his Love should reach me What were we such And yet notwithstanding all this and much more hath the Lord with whom there is no respect of Persons loved us freely in a time acceptable never to be forgotten tho' you were such oh be humbled bowed and laid low before him under the consideration and sense of his love that our Hearts may be often broken and truly tendered thereby for if the love of God do not work that effect therein nothing can but all that carefully in true fear dwell in a sense thereof because of what thereby the Lord has done for them the secret cry of their Soul is oh I can never do enough for the Lord to answer his love and the Knowledge of his blessed Truth he hath given me and not only so but because of the Divine Sweetness and abounding thereof that I have many times felt to spring a-fresh in my Heart and Soul in waiting upon him Wherefore such is made often to say there is nothing that I have and do enjoy that is so near and dear to me but I can freely part with and forgoe for the Lord and his worthy names sake being all I have and do Enjoy it is the Lord's so can his redeemed say with a good understanding not only their Souls and Bodies but all they have and do enjoy is his So Dear and Suffering Friends blessed and happy are all whose Godly Resolution this is that is thus redeemed by his Power hold fast and continue your Godly Resolution unto the end in the true Faith and look not out nor give way to the reasoning part for that may hurt you in your Suffering Testimony but look in and keep near the Lord in his pure Light and relie upon the sufficiency of his Power that by waiting and watching therein you may receive strength then you will be Strong and Couragious Bold and Valliant for the Truth upon Earth for he for whose Names sake you suffer has sufficient in store to reward all your Losses Crosses Tryals and Sufferings both here and eternally hereafter and assuredly will not withhold it from you as you stand faithful unto him in your Suffering Testimony unto the end unto which the Lord by his own Power and Arm of Mighty Strength preserve you all Amen Dear Friends I being well stricken in Years cannot promise long time to my self in this World neither ought the Youth I was willing in answer to the Motion of God's blessed Spirit moving upon me to send this Epistle abroad amongst you as a manifest token of my entire love and tender care over the Flock of Christ wishing that Grace Mercy and Peace in and through him may be multiplied and increased amongst you and that Brotherly Love and Unity in the one Spirit of Life may continue and abound more and more and that in all your Meetings and Families you may be blessed with heavenly blessings in Christ Jesus From your Friend and Brother in the Covenant of Light and Life John Banks Given forth at Meare in Somersetshire the 23 d. Day of the 5 th Month 1698.
spiritual skill with a true willingness wrought in you how to come to his Judgment Seat that you might come to his Mercy Seat also that so you might know the way of your Soul's Travel from Death to Life through Weeping and Mourning to Joy and Gladness through poverty and weakness to feed at the Table of the Lord and so come to have your strength daily renewed to fit in heavenly places in Christ Jesus in that Rest prepared of God in Him where his Glory Shines in your indwellings that will make you to Shine as the Stars of Heaven as you keep your Station in the inward watchfulness and waiting in the true Light in the true silence and inward stillness Where the mind as it gets thither and is stayed there is unmoveable for its stay and strength is the sure Rock and Foundation of God his great and glorious Power out of which both the Water and Honey doth proceed this is the sweet Cup oh the meltings of it oh ●he divine sweetness that is in it who can set forth the Greatness the Goodness and Excellency thereof As you know Dear Brethren and Tender Sisters how that our Souls many times when together have been made rich partakers and livingly to possess and enjoy the same in the living enjoyment of the life-giving Presence of our God and one another Near and Dear when our Bottles have been so filled with the sweet Wine of his Kingdom as my Soul at this moment of time is that we have not been able to contain but Tears of Joy have often run that have far exceeded the Tears of our Sorrow Oh! how do I love and like the running of them and how doth my Soul delight therein even in the fresh springing up of Life as I know a Remnant of you so do Dear Friends whom my Soul loveth in all true Tenderness and unto whom I am unseperably joyned in the Unity of the Spirit of Life and Love though at this distance my Heart unto you-ward is full yet streameth forth as a stream of Love and Life that flows from the living Fountain with rowling of Bowels for all your Eternal Good both Old and Young anciently and of late convinced that you Ancient ones whose time cannot be long here may finish in that in which you have begun in the freshness in the livingness and true tenderness to the receiving of the Crown that so it may be well with you for evermore And that all you that are younger in the Truth and Years of Age please not your selves with long Life but Good and Godly nor yet with Worldly Preferment but wait with all Diligence and true Fear to feel the work of the Converting Changing Melting Moulding Heart Tendering Power of the Great and Mighty God to work a true Change in you throughout both in Body Soul and Spirit that so it may be well with you when Death looks you in the Face And Oh my Dear and Ancient Friends Be Careful that you never forget nor depart from your first Love and true Tenderness and all you Younger that have not so fully known it wait dilligently for it that you may know the blessed effects of it as the Ancients have done that through the Fear of God placed in the Heart and that because of his Chastisements and Awe and Dread of the Lord that was upon them in that day You may come to say with them Oh! that I may never speak a word that may offend him nor do any evil Action that may greive his Good Spirit nor break my Peace with him Oh! that I may neither Eat nor Drink to Excess nor wear any thing in Apparel contrary to the pure Truth neither be found in any Carriage or Behaviour in Conversation nor Communication in the whole Course of my Life amongst the Sons and Daughters of Men that may give any occasion or whereby Truth may suffer this was and is the desire and cry of all the Faithful and those that truly fear the Lord and have known what the first Love is and the blessed effects of it Oh! this was a growing time when nothing was valued like unto the Truth and it is so still with all that love Truth and Righteousness No Hardship no Scoffing no Scorn no Reproach for the Name of Jesus no Suffering nor Spoilling of Goods nor Imprisonment of Body Principalities nor Powers things present nor to come shall be able to seperate such from the Love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. All this and much more than I am able to express was the effects of your first Love and true Tenderness that have known it that was begotten in you thereby keep to it live in it and never depart from it nor forget it that so you may continue unto the End and in the End in that in which you have begun as those which the Lord in his Love and by his Power hath thus far preserved so shall you be Everlastingly happy when time here shall be no more And so Dear Friends in that I am thus far clear of what lay upon my Spirit to put you in Mind where we were when the Lord first visited us in the Morning of his Day and what the Lord hath done for us with the younger Generations that are coming up and what we still are without the help and assistance of the Lord's Power I have yet something to signifie unto you what we were when we were first visited with a few words of Counsel and Encouragement to Friends in and under suffering that all may have their Eve to where true Safety Preservation Growth and Prosperity is in all that which is good Dear Friends were we the Wisest the Greatest the Mightiest or Richest amongst the Sons and Daughters of Men what were we but such most of us as in the Prophets Christ and the Ap●stles time that were accounted Foolish Weak Mean Base and Contemptible like the Iews in the days of the Prophet Nehemiah that were called feeble by the Enemies of God and of his People Sanballat Tobiah and Gesham who mocked and laughed them to Scorn and said what do these feeble Iewes not knowing what work the the Lord had determined to do by them in answer unto the prayer of the Prophet put up unto the Lord. Who accordingly hath done great and wonderful things in this his Day through the strength and might of his own Power by those he hath called and chosen out of the World tho' counted Weak and Feeble yet made able and strong through his renewing of their strength and here is encouragement given by our Lord and Master Jesus Christ even for all true Believers and faithful Followers of him through many Tribulations Behold saith Christ I give unto you Power to tread on Serpents and Scorpions and over all the Power of the Enemy and nothing by any means shall hurt you Notwithstanding in this rejoyce not that the Spirits are subject unto you but rather rejoyce that your