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prayer_n	pray_v	spirit_n	watch_v	2,594	5	9.9201	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65850	A Christian epistle to Friends in general of weighty concern, for their present and future peace and safety from the soul's adversary's subtill devices and snares of death. To be carefully communicated to the children of light, and professors thereof every where. Being faithfully given forth, and recommended from the spirit of Christ; by his servant George Whitehead.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1689 (1689)	Wing W1906; ESTC R220965	9,717	18

A Christian Epistle TO FRIENDS In General Of weighty Concern for their present and future Peace and Safety from the Soul's Adversary's subtil Devices and Snares of Death To be carefully Communicated to the Children of Light and Professors thereof every where Being Faithfully given forth and Recommended from the Spirit of Christ By his Servant George Whitehead Matth. 26. 41. Watch and Pray Praying always Ephes. 6. 18. With all Prayer and Supplication in the Spirit And watching thereunto with all Perseve●ance Printed by Andrew Sowle And sold at the Three-Keys in Nags-Head-Court in Grace-Church-Street 1689. A Christian EPISTLE to Friends in General c. Dear and Tenderly Beloved Friends and Called of God every where IN a real and deep sence of my Heavenly Fathers Love and tender Mercy revealed through his most dear Son our ever blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ which I am with many more livingly made a partaker of doth my Life and Spirit very dearly and tenderly salute you as truly and most heartily wishing and praying that divine Grace Mercy and Peace with all Spiritual Blessings and Divine Favours in Christ Jesus may be encreased and multiplyed among you and unto you to your great Consolation Peace and Prosperity in the Love of God. Dear Friends I finding for some time of late a living and holy constraint and pressure of Spirit to communicate some things of weight and concern unto you respecting your Safety Peace and Prosperity in the blessed unchangeable Truth am opened and encouraged by the precious Life and Spirit of our God to be clear and free therein towards you all and that in discharge of my tender Conscience in the sight and presence of the God of my Life whom I serve with my Spirit in the Gospel of his dear Son as I have sincerely done from my Youth upward blessed be his pure Name forever And having had these many Years experience in the weighty Service of the Lord our God through manifold Exercises Burthens Spiritual Travels and Oppositions I may not hide my Talent nor conceal those things my Lord and Master requires me to divulge for the Safety and Good of his People in their several Conditions States and Attainments as having long and truly seen the goodness of the Lord in the Land of the Living and the good and blessed Estate of his chosen and faithful Ones for which I praise the Name of the Lord my Redeemer in whom I have believed through his divine Goodness never to be forgotten by any of us as also being not ignorant of or unaquainted with the many Wiles various Workings and Depths of Satan the great Adversary of mans Felicity and of the Peace of God's People who worketh upon the divers Inclinations mutable Affections Wills Weaknesses and Infirmities of the Sons of Men to deceive pervert deprave and corrupt them that they may the more easily be led captive by him at his Will in their following their own unsubjected Wills and Spirits You therefore my dear Friends who have livingly felt and tasted of the Lord's Power and Goodness and known his Work in your Hearts in order to your Deliverance and Redemption out of the Evil World and the Corruptions thereof prize his tender Mercies and Goodness and forget them not Let the holy fear of the Lord God be your Treasure and true Wisdom and Understanding the Stability of your times in Righteousness Let your sincere Love to the pure Name and Truth of the Lord and one unto another be continued in that unchangeable Truth and Power of an Endless Life whereunto the Lord hath called us and I pray God increase your Love and Zeal for his Glorious Name and Christian Tenderness and Brotherly Affection one towards another that Life for evermore may be your Blessing and Portion as it will be to all them who dwell in Amity true Love and Unity of Spirit in our Lord Jesus Christ which is a most joyful comfortable and blessed state which too many Professors of Truth are short of for want of keeping near to the Lord in his holy fear Love of his blessed Name and Truth whose negligence and unfaithfulness to Truth in themselves hath caused a decay of Love want of Charity towards others and then instead of humbly waiting and depending upon the Lord some have exalted themselves in a Self-will Self-conceit Affection to preheminence in judgment over others until thereby Divisions and Self-separations have been caused and stirred up by them to the great grief of the Spirits of the upright who have kept their Integrity to the Lord his Truth and People And this Self-Exaltation slighting and contemning others have been and are the great Evils Snares and Engines wherewith the Adversary catches them that never were throughly subjected into true Humility Mortification true Self-denial or dying with Christ such though under Profession of Truth may make a great shew and flourish for a time in outward appearance Leaves and Blossoms yet they bring not forth Fruit unto perfection or ripeness in Christ. Therefore beware of Self-exaltation beware of an Earthly Spirit entring beware of Covetousness which is Idolatry Let not the Earth interpose betwixt any of your Souls and the brightness of that divine Glory which has appeared even in our Day and Times Spiritual Gifts may be lost or fallen short of if the Fountain of them the holy Spirit of Life it self be not diligently minded followed and where Love towards God and his Truth decays in any their love towards his Servants and People grows cold and then their Gifts decrease and dye as the Life of them is withdrawn or departed from or that Love lost which is the more excellent way for If I want Charity or Love I am nothing What Gifts Openings Discoveries Visions Revelations Wisdom Knowledge or Understanding soever any have yet still 't is the heavenly Root must bear them they must keep low their Minds and Spirits to that from whence Life and Love springs or else they fall wither dye and become empty uncharitable and hard-hearted and there the Enemy has his Evil Ends upon them in betraying them and corrupting their minds from the Truth from Life from Love from the Innocency and Simplicity which is in Christ the Way the Truth and the Life and there 's a danger in being too early and forward to censure and judge others and in judging censuring and undervaluing others Gifts Ministry and Labour● whom God hath called into his Work and Service for some whereby may either lose their own Gifts Life and Strength or fall short of those heavenly Gifts which otherwise they might attain to if they kept low and tender in Humility Love Society with their Brethren whereby they might also be serviceable with them For I have seen in my time some who never passed through Judgment in themselves yet very censorious judging detracting and whispering against their Brethren slighting them their Ministry and Labours who themselves have greatly lost by it