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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57212	Abstracts of some letters written by Mr. Robert Rich treating mostly of spiritual matters and here transmitted to posterity and recommended to the sober and serious enquirer for promoting of universal love amongst all sorts of people without respect of persons, parties, or sects : together with a friendly letter of Dr. Jer. Taylor to the said R.R. in answer to one of his / published by J.P.	Rich, Robert, d. 1679.; Pennyman, John, 1628-1706.	1680 (1680)	Wing R1354; ESTC R26429	24,390	27

the Saints my love to that Testimony made me willing to stand by him in his Sufferings and to bear his Cross for which Testimony the World the Powers of darkness then ruling my Kindred and my Brethren the Quakers sold me into Aegypt by their many false reports yet there the Lord my God appeared to me and finding me in my Innocency wherewith he had clothed me hath ever fince become my exceeding great Reward Nov. 30. 1678. BY what I have formerly and now sent for England you may see how I have bin acted for many years Lately I have heard a Voice from Heaven saying Turn thy Sword into Plowshares and into Pruning Hooks stay at home Dress and keep clean the Garden of Eden thine own Heart that no root of bitterness spring up there I also now begin to feel an inclination to write out fair that which long since I have prepared and to present each of the seven Churches of Christendom with an Epistle I formerly intended them Then will many come to see beyond the Letter of that * Viz. the Gift of 210l. to the 7 Churches An. 1666. Action and not the sound of Words only nor from Mount Sinai but from Sion where it is written In the Mount of the Lord it shall be seen and heard by all that have an Ear to hear what the Spirit saith at whose Voice of Love our Friend Lazarus will awake and rise out of his sleep In truth I thought the Epistles promised would soon have followed my Gift but in short time after I came to see that the day was not for Unity and Amity but for biting and devouring one another so that instead of raising our Brother Lazarus we had our hands every one against his Brother two against three and three against two which work tended to the Crucifying of the Lord of Life afresh but I hope the day is dawning that after Ages or next Dispensation will speak more reverently of Unity and Amity I have bin made contrary to my Nature a Man of Contention and strife to all the World one that at the command of the Lord hath sold my Coat made of Love and Good-will to all and bought a Sword with which I have fought a long and tedious Battel of about ten years standing against all Professors of Moses and of Christ which War I believe will go on throughout the whole World to the destruction of all Idols in all Religions and to the setting up of Christ Jesus God's Word in the Heart his Priest and Prophet King over all the Earth His Fan is in his hand and he will throughly purge his Floor even all the Children of Light that they may offer to the Lord in a clean Vessel of His own an Offering in Righteousness Wherefore be ye clean pure Virgins that bring forth the Birth of God and bear the Vessels of the Lord. Thus all that are baptized into this one Spirit of Love to Truth and Righteousness stand as Saviours on Mount Zion with the Trump of God in their Hearts to judg and save the Mount of Esau not in a wrathful bitter Spirit but in the same loving-kindness wherewith God hath judged and saved us for so will the Kingdoms of this World become the Kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ and he shall and must reign for ever and ever I confess formerly for a long time I have had Conscience of an Idol and contended only for one sort of People but now an Idol to me is nothing and my present state is to own that which is of God in any sort of Men and to become all things to that of God in all Men that is not of Sin that so I may reach save and unite in the Love of God all Men to each other in all Religions which Love shed abroad in our Hearts is God's Salvation to all Men even to the ends of the Earth I have here sent my Epistle to the Roman Catholicks that by this you may see the Patern of the rest which Patern I received some years since from the Mountain of God's Love not from Mount Sinai but from Mount Sion the Habitation of the Blessed the New Jerusalem who is Father and Mother Brother and Sister of all God's Children who are regenerate and born again of the Seed and Spirit of Grace God's Sons and Daughters At the revelation of which when I saw and considered the end of the Lord in that my saluting of the seven Churches my Heart did leap and skip within me like to a Roe or young Hart upon the Mountain of Spices I say in this Mountain of God's Love the sanctified Heart stands the Saviour Christ our Lord the Spirit of the Father who saves his People from their Sins the which sanctifies and redeems them from all Iniquity Who is who was and who is to come one and the same through all Generations from everlasting to everlasting An. 1677. And now I shall settle to write out fair what I have prepared for the remaining seven Churches That already sent I think hath no contention or strife in it if you see any thing of that Nature I pray take it out of the way My Mind is directed in this Testimony of the universal Love of God to the World to receive and treasure up as in Joseph's Store-houses all that which is of God in every Religion and to hand it forth in this time of Famine of Love to God and our Neighbour which is seen to break in as an overflowing Scourge over all Christendom not only in Egypt amongst the Prophane but amongst Professors of all sorts who account themselves the Sons of Jacob And what I see to be false and reprobate Silver the Inventions Traditions and Impositions of Men to return that back again as their own Money in their own Sacks And in so doing I hope none will be offended thereat You need not be careful or sollicitous in publishing what I send only when you feel your Mind in frame whether as in a Cloud or Pillar of Fire fitting and preparing to such an end gently follow after it as it leadeth for they that are come into the Faith of God's Elect the second Covenant do not make haste but are entred into their Rest even into God's everlasting Sabbath of Rest where in the new Covenant of Grace in Matters Spiritual they cease from their own Works from labouring and toiling in the first Covenant of Works as He did from His. The Days approaching are evil to all Worshippers in the outward Court Lo here and Lo there where the Potsherds of the Earth will dash one against another and bring all into Confusion This is the portion of the Ungodly that have not the Birth of God in them In this time of Trouble will God build his Church and Temple the New Jerusalem in the sanctified Hearts of his People wherein he will place his Name for ever And as for those that worship God in the Spirit