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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36890	A few vvords of truth from the spirit of truth to all who are convinced of the truth, and stand in opposition to the cross ... also a few words to all the litteral professors, who can own the ministration of Christ without them but deny him within them and to those that have their dependance upon the teaching of men, in oppostion to the ministration of the spirit within : together with a short discovery of the Presbyterian government, and some reasons of dissenting from it / William Dundas.	Dundas, William, fl. 1665-1673.	1673 (1673)	Wing D2612; ESTC R17235	15,054	23

from England was returning for England of whom I desired Passage in his Company which he freely granted me and so came to England with his Convoy But I have omitted all this time to shew you that the High Places as yet were unbroken down in me but that some Groves were as yet left standing notwithstanding all the Wonderful Mercies the Lord had bestowed upon me in carrying me and my Wife upon the Wings of his Providence in our Wilderness Condition which would spend more time to relate then some it may be would bestow upon the reading of it yea and I dare say that none could well understand nor believe but those who have trod in the same Pathes as we did But I being so long in Egypt and I so habituated and leavened to their Fashions and Customs I was like Joseph that could Swear by the Life of Pharoah and had not come to that Plainness of Language which God doth require but could Complement with their Fashions and Words And I had Thoughts that all was well with me till I came to a Tryal in England again so that the Face of Friends did strike a Dread and Terror in my Heart when I thought that all was well till the Spirit of the Lord running through others of his Vessels did awaken me for I was Upright in my own Judgment but the Lord searched me For I could come with Confidence to Meetings and frequent the Assemblies of the Lord yet I durst not own the Name of Quaker I not being Faithful to the Measure which I had receiv'd for now it was become so far high for me as before my Obedience I had esteemed it low and after that I would willingly by Wisdom have made void the Obedience into such things as Matters of Indifferency and accounted them but Circumstantials and Foolish to put any Weight upon the doing or not doing it became so burthensome to me that I could have undergone the greatest Strait Imaginable rather then omitted it and as I became Obedient there I felt Strength and Power and a more real Content did spring up in me and in this Light and Power of the Spirit that hath visited me did I feel Strength to wait and know further his Will and Mind for in the height of this Exercise I found my self overcome and my self not my own but the Lord's to do with me what he pleased to require of me what Service he would I should be willing to obey in his Strength and if the Lord never show me any more I feel Contentment in his Will earnestly desiring that I may never stop the course of his Spirit for I find that there is nothing can nor is able to satisfie my thirsty Soul short or beneath the Lord of Life In the Fire as Gold tryed I was Till Consumed was the Tin and Dross And then I knew what was come to pass That I did not suffer any Loss Postscript FRIENDS THere are a few Words which I have to add to you The Litteral Professors who can own the Ministration of Christ without you but deny him within and who raise up Jealousies and Prejudices against us as if we denyed the Scriptures and Ordinances of God and Christ that dyed at Jerusalem professing him in Words but denying him in Reallity and Substance and you to be the only Owners of Christ and yet ye forget your own Principles who have been all your time praying for the Spirit of the Lord and now when he comes to you in his Spirit ye will not only be shie and scare off him but ye will persecute all that will not own him after your Form though we really in our hearts own that Christ in the Flesh which in the Fulness of Time did offer up that Body prepared to do the Will of the Father according as it is expressed in the Scriptures of Truth Neither do we hold any thing for Christ but him who appeared and was made manifest in the Flesh I cannot believe that Doctrine of you the Litteral Professors who recede from your own Principles of the Literal Profession of the Letter which saith Is not Christ within you except you be Reprobates and Christ in you the Hope of Glory I know that some of you will say That it is the Vertues and Graces of Christ But I would willingly know of you How Christ's Vertues and Graces are separated from himself This seems a setting up of your own Conceivings or an Image in your Mind of the Mind of the Spirit and miss the Thing it self which alone is known by the Spirit For we find experimentally a clear Distinction betwixt the searching out by the Reasonings of the carnal Mind and Scriptures opened by the Spirit and felt in the Life Therefore it were better for you to examine really your Knowledge of Christ your Faith and Knowledge of the Scriptures and your Prayers also lest ye miss of the Substance and meet with a Shaddow which is only able to please the Natural Part but justifieth not the Soul I desire that you let not this my Christian-Expostulation with you displease you but rather set you home to sink down to that which is only able to make you clearly discern whether you or we are the Truest Owners of Christ seeing ye cannot make it appear by Scripture which ye say is your Rule to walk by that the Outward Application of Christ bringeth Salvation without the Inward Manifestation of the Spirit O! Blessed be the Day forever That it pleased the Lord to come Me from the World to sever Unto the State of some Who have past through the Seas Unto the High and Glorious State Of all that have the Spirit of these That pass by Tophet's Gate Unto the Port of Heaven Where all the Saints have Rest Which the only Lord has given To the Seed that he has Blest For when I was in Egypt's Land Wanting Straw I did make Brick And ready at the Command Of the so called Kirk To Work all the length of the Day Without the Sense or Sight Of which I ever should Obey The Shining of the LIGHT That would have taught me the Way From Dead Formal Duties that 's without Unto the LIGHT Within I say Who lives in LIFE and has no doubt The Promise to Obtain Which none at all can have In the State that I have been And would not TRUTH receive Oh! that all those as do this read Would come and feel the same That they may know with all the Seed The true Abode of the I AM Who is the only Great JEHOVAH And Rules in the Hearts of Men Praises Honour and HALELUJAH To him be sung of all the Seed AMEN Given forth the 10th of the 3d Moneth by a Lover of the Souls of all men but especially to the Faithful of the Infallible and Only Everlasting Truth William Dundas THE END

A Few VVords of Truth FROM THE Spirit of Truth To all who are Convinced of the Truth and stand in Opposition to the Cross By one who remained in that Estate above Seven years before he was brought to the True Obedience of Truth and was whipped to it by the Merciful Rod of the Lord for no less could do it Also a few words to all the Litteral Professors who can Own the Ministration of Christ Without them but Deny him Within them And to those that have their Dependance upon the Teachings of Men in Opposition to the Ministration of the Spirit Within Together with a short Discovery of the Presbyterian Government and some Reasons of Dissenting from it William Dundas Before I was affl●cted I went astray but now I have kept thy Word Psal 119. 67. Peri-issem nisi peri-issem Peri-issem I called upon the Lord in Distress the Lord answered me and set me in a large place The Lord is on my side I 〈◊〉 not fear What can Man do unto me Psal 118. 5. 6. Vnless the Lord had been my Help my Soul had almost dwelt in Silence Psal 94. 17. Printed in the Year 1673. A Few VVords of Truth FROM THE Spirit of Truth To all who are Convinced of the Truth and stand in Opposition to the Cross FRIENDS IT is from a deep Sense of a clear and through Exerience that I am moved to lay before you having fresh in my Thoughts your Conditions for upon that Ground did I set up my Tent for many years and was most unwilling to remove it till the Lord by Fire and Sword did pursue me and did turuble me out of all my False Rests and whilst I was settling upon my Lees he poured me from Vessel to Vessel where I never had a settled Peace nor Comfort till the Lord settled the Ark of my Soul upon the Mountains of Ararat then I did see all the World I mean those of that spirit lying as so many Dead Corps swimming upon the Waters and then my Soul was refreshed with the Sense of God's Love who had pulled me like a Brand out of the Fire who was walking from Hill to Mountain and running after the Lo here and Lo there and seeking the Living amongst the Dead and the Pearl abroad that was lying hid within my own Breast I was feeding upon Husks and the Inventions of Man seeking the Law from his Mouth and treading upon the Light which was within which shined in Darkness but Darkness could no comprehend it and thus did I live in the Night of Darkness but that it was a Day of Love that the Lord visited me from on high when I was wallowing in my Blood with my Navil-string uncut nor salted and notwithstanding the setting of my Feet in Opposition to the Light after so many years Conviction and that I had gone near to sin out my Day and that before the Candle of the Lord was put out in my spirit he did of Mercy shine upon me and though late I coming to the Vineyard to work he gave me the Wages of those that came first O the Unexpressible Love of a Merciful Loving Tender and Long-Suffering God which did not cut the Thread of my Life betwixt the Conviction and being brought to the Obedience of the Truth it was only the Free Love and Mercy of the Lord that preserved me and the more that I ponder it the deeper sense I have of it even to the bowing of me down so that I had no Peace till that I should make my Condition known to those who are where I was and that I may be set up as a Beac●n to those who are travelling Sion-ward lest that they split upon the same Rocks Shelves and Sands from which the Lord hath very narrowly delivered and brought me into the s●fe Harbour where my Anchor is cast within the Vail and now being come to my Rest it is the more with me to shew to others the Pilgrimage of my Warfare which is thus It was the Lord's Free Grace That brought me to this Port For else-where I found no Place My Soul for to Support Whilst I was in my young and tender years I was brought up in a Family and Families where the Lord was Worshipped according to the Worship of that Nation of Scotland but as I grew more in years the Lord was pleased to give me more and more the Light of his Presence and did offer me more plenty of his Grace then I was willing to receive and if I hàd gone any further then the Form of the National Church so called did allow I was counted a Sectary and so disowned and my looking one Step further then their publick Faith did allow should become a Brand of Schism and Heresie notwithstanding as to their Law I was as strict a Pharisee as many of my Equals and brought up at the Feet of Gamaliel For since I entered into the Covenant with that People I came to see a little clearer and that the Covenant did tye so my Conscience to their Form of Presbytery my spirit did begin to fail me in the thing and when there was an Order from the General Assembly For all the Nation to take the Covenant the second time in that Interim the Lord had cleared the Fogs and Mists partly by opening the Eyes of my Understanding so that I Refused to take the Covenant the second time upon the Day appointed for that End which was to be done upon a First-day called Sunday A dear Friend of mine whose Name I will omit because now removed by Death one whom I believe laid down the Body Convinced of the Truth for a little before his Death he said to an eminent Friend of Truth at his own House when some were slighting the Quakers he said That he wisht all the Nation were Quakers This Friend I say and I went from the place where we were expected to take the Covenant that day to hear a Country-man preach by Orders publickly at the Town of Linlithg●w one who was never at Schools nor Colledges nor knew no Language● but his Mother Tongue and as himself said to me he was brought up a Herdsman with keeping of Sheep at home which was a rare thing in the Nation of Scotland in these times and they were come one step nearer to the Quakers Principles especially having discharged the wearing of Ribbands and if they had continued Faithful to the Measure they had received then and not run retrograde they had not so much stood in opposition to them now But as I have said We going to eschew the Covenant-taking to hear the Preacher who was called from his Sheep-keeping to Preach we escaped the taking of the Covenant the second time This was like the Covenant of old That could not all perform So neither could we live as we would In Things that are enorm Yet not so but that I was taken notice of and when I came to receive the Sacrament so called at the