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mercy_n	eye_n	lord_n	wait_v	2,901	5	9.3473	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66856	An epistle to all Friends that be travelling towards the holy city and rest that is in the everlasting life, that they may not over-charge themselves, nor burden themselves in their journey. With a visitation of pure love to all such as have err'd in their hearts from the holy commandment, that to the Lord, who is very gracious and merciful, with all their hearts they may be turned, and so be by him saved.	Wollrich, Humphry, 1633?-1707.	1674 (1674)	Wing W3291; ESTC R224071	10,182	15

them for his Mercies endure forever And so is not this our State whom the Lord hath brought out of spiritual Sodom and Egypt where the Witness was slain in us and where the Vine most dear and the pleasant Plant could not grow nor prosper by reason of the cruel Lord and strange King that ruled over us before we knew the King of Saints who bound the Kings and Nobles in Fetters of Iron to be the Lord our Righteousness whose Service is perfect Freedom and Work Honourable and Glorious and they that are in his work and are become his Workmanship can say His Praise endures forever But was not Israel for this his Ingratitude disinherited and plucked up by the Roots from the good Land which the Lord had promised and sworn to their Fathers if they took heed to his Commandments his Laws Statutes that he set before them they should inherit forever But even as he did to the House of Ely the Priest of the Lord for their Disobedience to him so did he to them whom he had said should walk before him forever afterwards said Now be it far from me for I will do a thing to the House of Ely the Ears that hear thereof shall tingle For them that honour me I will honour but them that honour not me shall be lightly esteemed And was not the Word of the Lord spoken by Samuel justly fulfilled on them That they should be cut off and such as remained of the House of Ely shoul● come and crouch for a piece of Bread So Friends we have been by the Lord brought into a good and spiritual Land and heavenly Place which is the Glory of all Lands and Places and with the piritual Rock and Bread of Heaven have we been water'd and fed and the Vine-yard we planted not and Wells we digged not have sprung up to us and we rejoyced over it greatly as Israel of old rejoyced over their Well in the Wilderness saying Spring up O Well sing ye to it And thus was it with them in the Day of their Espousals then their Hearts were glad because of the Lord whose Right-Hand was exalted and whose Holy Arm had got him the Victory in bringing them out of Egypt and through the Red Sea and a perpetual Name of Praise of Fame and of Glory as it is at this Day But let all dear Friends and People consider but especially those whose Hearts be not stedfast with the Lord who deal faisly in his Covenant and secretly turn back in their Hearts into spiritual Egypt and Sodom that black Sink and Sea of Iniquity I say let us all consider that have known the Lord and fear before him by their Example who after all these Signs and Wonders and Mighty Hand and Out-stretched Arm and Great Judgment shew'd to them in the Red Sea upon their Enemies and Persecutors who said Let us pursue them and over-take them and satisfie our selves upon them But after this they not remembring these his Mercies but soon forgot his Word they waited not for his Counsel but ran a Whoring after their own Inventions and lifted up their Eyes to the Idols of the People that knew not God which made Moses that Holy and Just Man to say Do ye thus Requite the Lord O foolish People and unwise Is not he thy Father Even so it may be said to many that have known the Truth and Way of he Living God and were glad when they had found it and walked therein for a season who have been greatly benefited by it every way whi●st in it they stood but as it was in the Apostles dayes with some even so have they turned again like the Dog and like the Sow once washed to wallow in the Mire And be not these the foolish People and unwise even like the foolish Galatians that were bewitched from the Spirit who do thus requite the Lord who hath long spared them and waited on them to do them good and to be gracious to them expecting his Long-suffering that they have not duely prized should have led them to Repentance and they have turned and not have dyed but have been made Vessels of Mercy meet for the Bowels of Love and Mercy For O Friends how great are the tender Mercies and the Loving-kindness of the Living Lord that he doth daily extend towards his living Children even in and through that true Light that out o● Darkness hath shined in their own Hearts and doth daily open to them that obey it and follow in the Love to it in the Self-denyal which this Light calls for in all that come to God through it it opens to them the Bosome of the Father that Abraham and all the Holy Followers of God that walk in Love as dear Children after him do lie in and giveth them the Light of him and the Knowledge of the Glory of him and as he over-came Abraham's Heart and Moses's Heart and Mind to follow him that is invisible with the Eye open looking straight on before them being atop and above all the Amazements Fears Terrors of the Wicked his Snares and Allurements being all seen and ye know the Net being seen the End and Desire of the Fowler and cunning Hunter is all in vain So dear Friends and Brethren in the Name of the Lord all keep your Eyes open to him from whence comes your Salvation lest ye be taken in the Pit of the W●cked for if the Night comes and Darkness blinds the Eye by which Moses in his Day and we in our Day do see him that is invisible we wander then in Crooked Wayes and By-Pathes wherein at best we do but warm at the Light of the Fire that our own hands have made and kindled then is Darkness put for Light and Light for Darkness But the lasting and perfect Peace of God to keep the Heart is not known as they do know it whose Hearts and Minds be stay'd on the Lord out of and clean above the World and things that therein are So dear Friends in every place that call on the Name of the Lord though but with Sighs and Groans that in words cannot be utter'd nor declared stir up your selves and let the Loins of the pure Mind that seeks nothing but the Living Lord be girded up and stand stand on your holy Watch continually that the head and chief Corner-Stone ye may see lifted up above all t●e Billows Temptations and Raging Waves of the Sea So the Lord and his holy Power be amongst you all in and over you all Amen So Friends in the Heavenly Power and Seed feel and feed on the Height Depth Length and Breadth of the Love of the Everlasting God I rest in Peace with the Lord whom I do love above all other things your Brother praying in the holy Spirit where the true Faith is known that stands in the Power to my God and your God your Father and my Father to shew Mercy and Loving-kindness always to your Souls with his Heavenly Riches and Treasures spiritual Blessings in Christ Jesus which is and forever shall be the Reward Lot Inheritance and pleasant Portion of all that love Equity and Righteousness so as to hate every False Way Deceit and the thing that is Evil in the Sight of the Lord. The 2d Moneth 1674. Humphry Wollrich THE END