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A57302
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A general epistle to the people of God, in scorn called Quakres, in England, and elsewhere
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Rigge, Ambrose, 1635?-1705.
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1693
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Wing R1482; ESTC R219043
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A General Epistle to the People of God in scorn called QVAKRES in England and elsewhere Dear Friends Brethren and Sisters UNto whom the visitation of Life in the Son of the Father's Love hath reached when you were as dry bones scatterred upon the Earth here and there the Compassionate Eye of a tender Father was towards you and his Word breathed Life unto you giving you Knowledge and Understanding And gathered you together to be his Household of Faith in this latter Age of the world The Salutation of my dear and unfeigned fatherly and brotherly Love at this time extendeth it self freely unto you all in the heavenly unity of that one Spirit of Life by which we were first quickned who were dead in trespasses and sins as well as others Oh that Grace Mercy Love and Truth with all the Fruits of Righteousness may grow increase and be abundantly multiplied in and amongst you all this my Soul daily breaths to the Lord on your behalf who are heirs together of the Grace of God being planted into the likeness of his Son to bear his heavenly Image and as Living Members fitly joynted and framed together under one Head to be a compleat Body in him you are as Living Epistles written with the Spirit of the Living God in one anothers Hearts who lives and moves in your Integrity and continues in your first Love without wavering here you daily have and receive Mercies and Blessings from above with a daily increase of Life and Vertue in your Bosoms whereby your strength is renewed as the Morning and you need go no more forth for your Bread is sure in your own Houses and Springs of Water in your own Wells My Soul blesseth God in the Remembrance of you who are made Living Monuments of his Mercy and are daily waiting for the Consolation of Israels God who in this his glorious Day is fulfilling his antient Promise in manifesting him whose Voice is not heard in the Streets yet ordained of God to bring forth Judgment to the Gentiles and to be their Light and Glory and this we are Witnesses of in our day through the tender mercy of our God in visiting us with his antient Gospel day springing from on high who sate in darkness as well as others and were by nature the Children of Wrath When we thus laid poluted in our Blood he said unto us Live and his Word was an everlasting Covenant Oh! let all who are made pertakers of so great Love and Mercy live in the daily Remembrance thereof and walk worthy of so great Salvation in all Humility and Godly Sincerity as Lights in the world that your good Works to them may appear daily which are the proper effects of that living Faith you have from God received by this alone your Faith will be seen to live and you in it for all the Body without the Spirit is dead so Faith without Works is dead also And being planted into the likeness of him who is from above you may bear his Image and be cloathed with his Righteousness for no other Covering will hide your nakedness from the World nor keep your Beauty and Comliness in the sight of God And now my beloved Friends Brethren and Sisters who are of the Household of Faith seeing the Lord hath chosen you to place his great Name in by the Revelation of his Son which Ages and Generations before you knew not as sound and honourable Vessels in the House of the Lord keep your places and station and let your Chaste Conversation coupled with fear and gravity in every place where you dwell be seen and known unto all men for to this purpose were you called and separated from the Ways Worships and evil Customs of this present world to be the first Fruits in the Lord's Vineyard which he hath planted with his right hand in a very fruitful Hill Oh wait for his watering from on high which will be known and witnessed as your own Hearts are kept empty and open unto him for he is waiting to be gratious and bountâ—ful to his chosen Seed Flock and Family every where who keep his Word and Covenant to them he is and will be as the shadow of a mighty Rock though in a weary and desolate Land But he will sift the Nations in the Sieve of his Wrath who have dispised his Word Grace Life and Consolation which is the Root and moving cause of all true Worship and Service to him This the Corner-stone which Babel's Builders have rejected as useless to them and thinks to reach Heaven without it this will bring Confusion upon all Religions on Earth if they continue rejecting this Stone their buildings though never so high will fall for the Judgment of the great Whore is come who hath made Nations drunk with her glittering Cup and the fall of Babylon as a Mill-stone into the Sea is at hand and all her Lovers who have made Merchandize of the Souls of men shall mourn and be astonished at her destruction And now my beloved Friends and Brethren as the Lord hath called us out of her and hath opened our Eyes to see her Whoredoms and Abominations among all sorts of Professions whose Hearts and Minds are adulterated from God though in words they make a large profession of him yet in Works deny him This is Atheism in nature look not back at her again nor stay with her in her Suburbs neither let any thing of her Language Customs or Nature remain for that will lead to depart from the living God and his heavenly Jerusalem to the love of her again who is the Mother of Harlots and Abomination of the Earth Oh! the exceeding Riches of the Father's Love who hath not called us unto Wrath but to obtain Mercy in turning every one of us from our Iniquities who have loved and obeyed his Truth Therefore as dear Children of one Father let us live in all humble subjection unto him who hath begotten us again unto a living hope by the Word of his Power to be the first Fruits unto his Glory in these latter Ages of the World in which he will be glorified in by and thorow us or without us For of Stones he can raise up Children unto Abraham who shall glorifie his Name in the day of their Visitation by walking in his Light and Covenant But if we walk in the Light as Children of the day in watchfulness sobriety and honesty we shall keep our holy Vnion and Fellowship one with another without Jar or Strife Debate or Contention and the Blood of Jesus Christ his Son we shall daily witness to cleanse us from our Sin and then the good purpose of the Lord will be answered in visiting us with his heavenly Gospel day which dawned and sprung in our hearts by which the Seat of Antichrist hath been discovered and the hidden things of Esau brought to light which nothing could manifest but the arising and appearance of the Son of Righteousness in the