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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56574	A testimony to the Lord's power and blessed appearance in and amongst children wherein is expressed the great love of God to them, who, as young and tender, have tasted of his good word & heavenly life. Published for the use of Friends, and to prevent various reports, that they may have a true account in the following testimonies, given forth by faithful witnesses. Here are also added to what was before printed, several pretious testimonies and epistles, which are as the effects of the appearance and opperation of that great power & wisdom of God in and amongst them.	Taylor, Frances, d. 1685.; Paterson, A., Quaker, attributed name. aut; Taylor, Christopher, ca. 1615-1686, attributed name. aut; Matern, John, 1639 or 40-1680. aut	1679 (1679)	Wing P683B; ESTC R217119	22,314	71

Springs were opened in dry places and the very Depth did utter forth its Voice I my self was so overpowered and overcome with this heavenly Life Virtue and Power of God that I did shake and tremble before Him the mighty God of Heaven and Earth who by his quick and powerful Voice shaketh the Wilderness and breaketh the Cedars of Lebanon at whose appearance and look the Earth Trembles and at whose touch the Hills Smoke This his great Love and powerful Operation upon my Heart and Spirit being livingly refreshed and comforted by it did cause my Soul to magnifie the Lord and my Spirit to rejoyce in God my Saviour singing and making sweet Melody in my Heart to the Lord because he did so graciously answer the Desire of our Souls and powerfully break in upon the Hearts and Spirits of our Children revealing himself in his great and Almighty Power among them in and through which their Hearts were broken their Spirits melted and their Souls humbly-bowed before him as the alone searcher of the Heart and tryer of the Reins making known to every one his state and condition and bringing to Light the hidden things of Darkness and Counsels of the Hearts which brought Sorrow and Trouble upon them and caused many of them to lament and cry out before the Lord. Oh! who can appear and stand before the great Judge of the Quick and Dead and not Tremble at his Word and not Howl and Cry as under the Sense of his Judgments till they be brought forth unto Victory and the Soul comes to feel Redemption from Sin and Iniquity through the Blood of Jesus Christ We are living Witnesses of this great and powerful Work of the Almighty God in and amongst the Children of our Family by which he hath begun to work out their Salvation with Fear and Trembling and to turn their Minds from Darkness to Light and from the Power of Satan unto himself that they may receive Forgiveness of Sins and Inheritance amongst them which are sanctified by Faith in Christ Jesus to the great comfort and satisfaction of our Souls who was thus graciously pleased to appear and reveal himself in and among us in his heavenly Power and Authority for my Soul hath often been poured out before the Lord on their behalf that he would be pleased to reach unto their Hearts in his heavenly quickening Power that at length they might come to experience in themselves what hath-often been declared to them by others that so in the sense of this Heart-breaking Power they might learn to fear him their Creator in the dayes of their Youth and their Souls might be engaged and constrained to love and obey him Now the Lord hath heard our Cry and answered our Desire he hath manifested his great Love Favour and Mercy unto them and us in the sense whereof my Soul did and doth rejoyce praising and glorifying his Name on their and our behalf I can bear my witness in Truth that the sense of the goodness of the Lord did rest upon my Spirit all the Night long that after I awaked my Eyes were full of Tears and my Soul full of holy Praises and Thanks-giving unto the Lord because of his tender Mercies and great Love towards us breathing to the Lord that he in his heavenly blessed Power would carry on his great Work of Regeneration that he hath begun in and upon our Spirits and to Bless us daily more and more with all Spiritual Blessings in Christ Jesus to the Praise and Glory of his Grace wherein he hath made us accepted in the Beloved according to the Riches of his Grace wherein he hath reached and abounded towards us to declare unto our Souls that he has pardoned our Sins and received us into his Fatherly Love and Care What shall I say of the next following Meeting I am not able to express the sweet refreshing Life Virtue and Power of our heavenly Father arising in us with healing under his Wings For as the Evening before Fearfulness and Trembling came upon many and Horror had overwhelmed them so now at this time the sweet Love of a most tender and merciful Father embracing their Spirits did sweetly and livingly refresh and comfort their Souls he healed the broken in Heart and bound up their Wounds with the Balm of his heavenly Life Virtue and Power to the great comfort and satisfaction of our Souls who partook of the Water of Life that the Lord poured forth and made us to drink of in and through which the Spirit of the Humble was quickened and the Heart of the Contrite Ones revived Now as the Lord in those two Meetings hath appeared and revealed himself in and to us in a most special gracious and powerful manner so his Sweet and Heart-melting Love and tender Mercies have hitherto followed us from Meeting to Meeting sensibly and livingly Refreshing Comforting Strengthening and Confirming our Souls in his Love Life Vertue and Power until this very Day Praises Praises Praises Glory and Honour be to our God henceforth forever and forever Moreover it is sealed to my Spirit by the holy Spirit of the Lord God That We shall be Monuments of his Tender Mercies and Fatherly Love and Care These are the Words which livingly arose in my Heart as we were lately gathered together and arise again as I am writing this Testimony for God I say We shall be Monuments of his tender Mercies and fatherly Love and Care if we keep Low Humble Meek and Tender before him he will instruct us and teach us in the Way which we shall go and guide us with his Eyes if we alwayes Fear and Dread his holy powerfull Name which he hath revealed unto us and poured forth in and among us as a good and precious Ointment which causes us to be glad and to rejoyce in him and to love him with all our Heart Soul and Mind In the sense of this great Love and tender Mercies of the Lord God my Soul desires that I and every one of us especially our dear Children that have with us tasted of the good Word and Power of the World to come by which our Souls have been quickened and livingly refreshed and comforted may be alwayes kept in a living sense of the Lovingkindness and Goodness of the Lord towards us that so we may walk in Humility Righteousness and Holiness before him who hath reached to our Souls and made us sensible of our inward State and Condition and also of his Love Grace and Mercy that we may walk worthy of this his great Love and Dread and Fear him in our Hearts alwayes having the Eyes of our Mind towards him that in his Light shining in our Souls we may see even the least appearance of Evil waiting in it we may receive Power to be kept and preserved out of it lest by entring in or consenting to it we should offend the Lord and cause him to with-draw his sweet Love and to hide the Light and Favour

time thee or my School-fellows I am moved with compassion unto you because of my former Acquaintance and because of the Love which I bear unto you O! how am I cast down when I think of things which were done there with thee in my time O! when the Lord gave me a sight of the Vanities thereof O how Naked I saw my self in the sight of the Lord for even I was as Naked as Adam when he had eaten of the forbidden Fruit yea when the Lord called unto me saying Where art thou I was afraid and was ready to hide my Face but if I had called never so often to the Hills and Mountains to hide me still I should have been as Naked as ever I was and he that cannot first witness these things with me can never witness a new Birth and if he cannot witness a new Birth he cannot enter into the Kingdom of Heaven for Paul said while he was upon Earth Flesh and Blood cannot enter into the Kingdom of Heaven O! when I remember the Pride of the Pharisee he who is counted the Shepherd of the Town when as I once went down the Town and did not put off my Hat to him how he complained unto thee O! but he never considered when he was Drunk himself and when he lay in Babylon even to the Day and Hour he was to feed his Sheep O that thou mightest but think upon these things with consideration then wouldest thou not wink at these things any longer And so no more but thy Loving Friend Ralph Fretwell Waltham-Abby the 19th of the 11th Moneth 1679. My beloved Brother MY dear Love in the Unchangeable Truth of the Lord our God wherewith my Heart at this time is overcome saluteth thee so that in the feelling Sense of the Heart-ravishing Love of a Tender-hearted Father witnessed towards my Soul am I constrained at this time to write a few Lines unto thee shewing thee how wonderfully and how powerfully the Lord hath made bare his Arm of Eternal Salvation and hath stretched it forth towards our Souls in this Place in the Sense of which my Heart at this time is broken so that I cannot forbear but must needs acquaint thee with that which I have seen with mine Eyes and heard with mine Ears and my Hands have handled of the good Word of Life since I came into this Family Oh! my Mouth cannot speak these things which I have livingly felt and experienced in mine own particular neither can I express those things wherein I have seen others exercised since I came amongst them for I have felt the Almighty and Powerful God at work in me to the rooting out in some measure of that Spirit of the crooked Serpent that hath so long possessed the House but now have I felt the Cleansing Power and Purifying Spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ who is come as a Refiner with Fire and as a Fuller with Sope and who hath determined That he will have a Pure and Undefiled People to Worship him to purifie and to cleanse my Soul in some measure from the Polutions of Sin and Iniquity Oh my Brother my Soul cannot express the wonderful Loving-kindness of the Lord God Almighty which he hath handed forth unto me in and through his beloved Son who is come indeed that his Children might have Life and that they might have it more abundantly Oh! the flowings forth of his heavenly Life is felt in this Day to refresh the Hearts of those that wait upon him and his heavenly Peace is witnessed to comfort their Souls which is more than Thousands of Gold and Silver and indeed as one said A Day in his Court is better than a Thousand else-where Oh! this is the Day of glad Tidings indeed unto a Remnant whom he hath reached unto by the Operation of his blessed Power which worketh wonderfully in the Hearts of his little Ones and of his tender hearted Babes whom he tendereth before him whereby they come to witness the Times of Refreshment and of sweet Consolation to run down their Souls as a place of broad Rivers Oh! my Soul at this time is sensible of his Consolating and Refreshing Presence whereby he hath often comforted me to his Praise I can say it and I know assuredly that he withholds nothing that tends to the good of those that love him and that delight to run the Way of his Commandments and to follow him in the Regeneration but he enables them and endews them more and more with Power from on High and he renews their Strength from time to time so that indeed they can run the Race that he hath set before them and not be weary and walk in his Heavenly Way and not faint Oh! my Soul is so filled at this time with the pure Life of Jesus that I cannot but admire his Holiness who so filleth the Hearts of his Children with heavenly Praises and melodious Songs whereby he makes them to praise and magnifie his Name in the Land of the Living Oh! how can those who are sensible of this his blessed Power and of the Dawnings of his heavenly Day upon their Hearts and Souls but forever praise and magnifie his Name for his blessed Appearance and for the Revelation of his holy Power whereby he hath turned their Hoarts from their former Lovers and from their former Idols unto the Love of him and of his Truth who is over all worthy to be loved and waited upon So having no more at present I do remain Thye Loving Brother D. Barclay A Testimony of one of the Teachers BLessed be the Name of the Lord our God forever and evermore who in this Day hath made his People sensible of his Redeeming Arm of Power stretched forth for their Deliverance out of the Bondage and Slavery of Satan to serve him in the Liberty of his own holy and blessed Spirit and to praise his Name in the Land of the Living who is their God and their King their Captain and their Leader who goeth out and in before his Children his Sheep his Babes his little Ones whose Hearts he hath tendered by his heavenly Power and thereby he doth over shadow them from time to time and makes them to grow in the sense of his Love and Goodness to their Souls Thus the Lords Love is extended in this his heavenly Day unto many and the Arm of his Eternal Power is revealed in many for their Deliverance whereby they are come to know a blessed Change wrought upon their Hearts and as their Minds are staid upon him they do alwayes feel him near unto them and he is never wanting to administer Comfort and sweet Consolation unto them when they do truly and in Uprightness of Heart wait upon him O! the flowings forth of his fatherly Love and heavenly Everlasting virtuous Life that my Soul with the Souls of others hath been many time sensible of in our Family Meetings in this place And I can truly say I have been made to