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A call to all bishops and others who are zealous for the Book of Common Prayer (for which I have been also sometimes zealous) by way of remembrance : now to come to the way of the Quakers to the grace of God ... / J.A.
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Anderdon, John, 1624?-1685.
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Com. Pr. Collect. Quinquagissima Sunday Send thy Holy Ghost and Power into our hearts that most excellent Gift of Charity the very Bond of Peace and all Vertues without which whosoever lives is accounted dead before thee Quaker And the Lord hath sent his Holy Spirit and Power into our Hearts Gal. 4.6 That most excellent Gift of Charity And we have believed and received him and so have received power thus to walk in Charity and Good-will towards men and rejoyce in the Truth and not in Iniquity and suffer long 1 Cor. 13.4 5 6 7. verses read And the Bond of Peace is known and we seek peace with all men and ensue it and if all did come to this which is our Way they would be bound to Peace and there would be an end of all strife and as Charity abounds Peace abounds and because men are out of it therefore so much Wickedness and Strife abounds And so as you Pray wait to receive an Answer that you may with us have Charity and Good-will towards all men and be quickned by the Power and Spirit of the Lord that you may not be dead while you live and forbear to persecute them who are quickened and live unto God Com. Pr. Collect. first day of Lent called Ashwednesday Create and make in us New and Contrite Hearts Quaker And this is that we are come unto the Word of God in our hearts and have felt the operation thereof to break down and abase the Loftiness and Pride of mans Heart and to purge and clense our Hearts and so create in us new and contrite Hearts and here we with the Prophet have felt the Word of the Lord as a Fire and as a Hammer And Friends when you come to know this Work wrought in you by the Word of God by which all things were made then shall your faces gather Paleness and ye shall also know what it is to tremble at the Word of the Lord And so do not reproach nor scorn our Way Com. Pr. 2d Sunday after Easter Collect. Almighty God who hast given thine only Son c. And also endeavour our selves to follow the blessed Steps of his most holy Life Quaker And so be ye Followers of us as we are Followers of Christ as the Apostle hath said and he will teach you to be Meek and Lowly and to be of no Reputation in this World And as you learn of him he will teach you to be otherwise minded and to seek the good and welfare of all men and not to persecute For he came not to destroy but to save mens lives Which is the Way of God Com. Pr. 5th Sunday after Easter Collect. Lord grant that by thy holy Inspiration we may think those things that be good and by thy merciful guiding may perform the same Quaker It is granted And the Inspiration of the Almighty hath given us Understanding Job 32.8 whereby we think and do that which is good and it is not of our selves And so here Inspiration and the immediate Teachings of Gods Spirit is owned And why should the Cry of the people be so vain as to say The Spirit ceaseth now and if it be so it is to them that are Disobedient to him and Inspiration ceaseth and Revelation ceaseth now what then is become of the Knowledge of God in those dayes whom to know is eternal Life for it is written No man knoweth the Father save the Son and he to whom the Son reveals him Mat. 11.27 And Gods people are taught by his Spirit and as many as are led by the Spirit of God they are the Sons of God Rom. 8.14 And this is our Teacher and Leader And if Justification be ceased why then do ye still pray for it in vain Com. Pr. the Sunday after Assension Collect. Send to us thy Holy GHOST to comfort us Quaker He is come to be our Comforter which bears us up in all Tryals and Persecutions and he speaks not peace nor comfort to the Wicked Com. Pr. Whitsunday Collect. GOD which hast taught the Hearts of thy faithful People by sending them the Light of thy holy Spirit Grant us by the same spirit to have a right Judgment Quaker So here the Light is the Teacher which we own and bear Witness to and have believed and received it in our hearts and are taught by it which giveth the knowledge of God and gives us Judgment and Understanding of these things that differ And if ye were like-minded you might come to be of a right Judgement and then you would not persecute us for receiving that which you desire Com. Pr. 9th Sunday after Trinity and 15th Sunday Grant us LORD we beseech thee thy Spirit to think and do alwayes such things as be rightful Lead us to all things profitable to Salvation Quaker Here are many and frequent desires after our TEACHER Oh that People would receive him and be taught by him and they would profit more then by all other Teachers whatsoever For the Lord teacheth his People to profit And this is he that helpeth our Infirmities and teacheth as to Pray and maketh Intercession for us with Sighs and Groans that cannot be uttered Rom. 8.26 And by him we both think and do that which is rightful and acceptable in the sight of the Lord And why should we be persecuted for so doing And Godliness is profitable to Salvation 1 Tim. 4.8 Com. Pr. St. Andrews day Collect. Almighty GOD grant unto us all that we being called by thy holy WORD may forthwith give up our selves obediently to follow thy holy Commandments Quaker And why should not this Prayer be fulfilled which is universal And why should we not go to Preach and Declare the Everlasting Gospel being called by the WORD of GOD And many have freely given themselves up to follow the Lord 's holy Calling and Commandment therein And who should let or hinder that which is so prayed for And so that which is now come to pass hath been desired in former Ages And Moses that good Man envyed not nor would not have others envy for his sake when Eldad and Medah Prophesied in the Camp of Israel in dayes of old but wished That all the Lords people were Prophets who preached freely and declared the Word of God freely without Money and without Price And in the Apostles dayes who freely had received freely gave And why should any be offended when the Lord grants that which they themselves pray for Com. Pr. St. John Baptist. Almighty God make us constantly speak the Truth boldly rebuke Vice and patiently suffer for the Truths sake Quaker And why should we be hindred troubled or persecuted for the practice of those things that have been so long prayed for being come to the fulfilling of what hath been desired by the Martyrs and primitive Reformers since the Apostacy who desired to see this Day and endeavoured in their day and time a Reformation according to the best of their Knowledge in those dayes And seeing that is now come to pass and fulfilled which many good men in their day and time desired to see and their Soules travelled after and they suffered for Why should not all now with one accord freely lay hold upon the largeness of God's Love and Rejoyce that the Kindgom of Heaven is come unto them and press after it And not to push at them who are come to walk in the Way and are guided and led by the Spirit of the Lord in the Path of Holiness the end whereof is Everlasting Life And why should not all come to walk in this Way in the unity of the Spirit of the Lord and all be made a holy Temple for the Lord to dwel in and be Worshipped who dwells not in Temples made with hands And why should any envy us for walking in this Way that hath been so long desired and yet is And why should any endeavour to bring us back again after so many years travel on out of your Way in the WAY to Everlasting Happiness but rather incourage us to go on rejoyce that some are come to the Good Old Way and yet New and Living Way that you and many others have so long in words talked of desired and say in your hearts This is the Truth come let us walk in it and this would make you right honorable in the sight of the Nations And lift not up a hand against us any more until you have convinced us by sound Arguments touching these things and practices But let us go on to walk in the Light of the Lord God and of the Lamb in which the Nations of all them that are saved must walk And bless God that there is a Remnant that have obtained that which you desire and endeavour not to turn them out of the Way for that which is of God shall stand and that which is of man and by man shall have an end and come to nothing For the Lord will stain the Pride and Glory of all Flesh and exalt his own Name and Truth over all unto whom be Praises and Glory for evermore Amen J. A. The 13 th of the 7 th Moneth 1670. THE END * And also prayed for on Simon Judēs day