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A35842 A general epistle to Friends, from that ancient servant of Christ William Dewsebury Dewsbury, William, 1621-1688. 1686 (1686) Wing D1270A; ESTC R216346 4,798 15

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is hid vvith Christ in God vvhich vvill cause you to pray vvithout ceasing that the Lord vvould enable you to loath and abhor the Pride Pompe Pleasures of this evil World and to give you assurance of Gods Love to your Souls and until you enjoy it in all places of your retirement you vvill pour forth your Supplications vvith Tears to the Lord as the blessed and heavenly Travellers and Companions did and doth vvho could not find the Kingdom of God in outward observations tho none more faithful in observing what is made known to them to be the will of God but the Kingdom of God not consisting in outward observations you in the Light press forward according to your Spiritual Hunger and Thirst in true poverty of Spirit weeping and seeking the Lord your God asking the way to Zion with your Faces thitherward that you may enjoy his Salvation for Walls and Bulworks Oh you blessed Children of the Lord lift up your Heads and stay your Minds upon the Lord patiently waiting upon him he will turn your Sorrows into everlasting rejoycing and seal you up with the holy Spirit of Promise in the marrige union with himself and will give you assurance of your eternal Salvation then you will certainly know the Kingdom of God to be within you and the anointing to teach you which will enable you to delight in taking up the Cross daily in true obedience to the Light of Christ all the days you have a beeing amongst the Children of Men then will you in the Name of the Lord trample upon the Pride Pompe Pleasures and Vanity of this evil World to the great comfort of your dear and careful Parents Masters and Mistrisses whose tuishion you were under in your minority and tender years and to all that walk in the pretious Truth of our God over all blessed forever Amen And all dear Friends and Brethren seeing the Lord who turneth the Hearts of men as Rivers of Water and in his loving kindness so ordereth those in Authority that the Prison Doors were opened once more in our day to injoy Peace and Quietness according to his blessed will Praises be to his holy Name for ever more I have a concern upon my Spirit that all Friends and Brethren have their Hearts affected as mine is to live in the sense of the Mercies of the Lord and every one for the time to come endeavour to prevent the Enemy in what he hath been a doing of late years to make dis-union amongst Friends and Brethren by publick opposition of some and others not patiently keeping in their places hath also separated the difference being so publick hath caused many a sorrowful Heart and given cause to the Enemies of God to rejoyce which hath been a greater Exercise and Trouble to me then all the sharp Persecutions and Imprisonments I have endured for the Word of God and Testimony of our Lord Jesus Christ c. Therefore in the Bowels of the Love of God I beseech and enterat you all who have been or is concerned in what is before written let the Love of God so abound that in it all labour for Peace and Unity in Christ the Prince of Peace who in love laid down his Life for us when we were Enemies and called many of his Children in our Age to give up their lives in the heat of the day weeks months and years to gather Enemies unto the knowledg of and union with God therefore wait for the heavenly Wisdom to bear one with another that if any who are Conscientious to God and Blameless in their Conversations have a concern upon their Spirit to declare in publick Assembly the Truth to edifie the people I beseech you in the love of God that not any through disaffection shew at least any publick opposition but rather speak to the party in private if there be any occasion for him to be spoken to so will the Enemy be prevented of casting a stumbling block in the way of tender spirited People that comes in love to be Comforted in the Meeting and in so doing it will cause Love and Unity to abound amongst Friends that in the Love of God all may be restored that hath been scattered and brought again into Unity to meet all together in the Everlasting Truth to feel the Healer of Breaches to reign who is the Restorer of the Desolate exalted in his Kingdom in all your Hearts to offer up a Peace-offering in passing by all offences that have caused Dis-union and to binde you all up in the Unity of the Spirit and Bonds of Everlasting Peace to meet all together who profess Gods Blessed Truth to Praise his Holy Name all as one and one as all while we are here in these mortal Bodies and forever when time here shall be no more even so be it with you all saith my Soul in the Name of the Lord to whom is my Prayers that all may be accomplished as above written until it be so with you I shall remain your exercised Brother in the Kingdom of Patience and Tribulation of our Lord Jesus Christ. William Dewsebury My dear Friends through the sharp Persecutions that was passed through in the heat of the day and many long Imprisonments being nineteen years a Prisoner in this Town of Warwick and four of them being kept close Prisoner it hath pleased God to suffer my Health to be Impaired that many times I am forc'd to rest two or three times in going to the Meeting in the Town not being of ability of Body to travil as in years past I ●o in the Love of God visit you with this Epistle desiring it may be carefully read in the Fear of the Lord in the Assemblies of his people that Peace and Eternal Unity may be amongst you in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ Amen Given forth in the movings of the Peaceable Spirit and Word of Reconciliation in the Lord Iesus Christ to whom is my Prayers that all Convinced may wait to be made of the number of the Slain of the Lord and conformable to Christ in his Death that they may witness his quickening power to raise them up in the Resurection of Life to enter into the Gates of Sion to dwell in the City of new Jerusalem where Peace is within her Gates and Quietness amongst all that have their Habitation therein having Salvation for Walls and Bul-works and are the blessed of the Lord preserved by him to the Honour of his Name forever Amen Warwick the 4th of the 10th month 1686. W. D. THE END