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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

admire the Love of God in my Heart when I have been sensible how he hath condescended in reaching unto the Capacity of several of the Children whom I have really felt to be reached and blessedly tendered by the Power of an Endless Life Yea and the Lords Glory hath shined and doth many times shine amongst us so that sometimes it hath been in my Heart That the Lord hath begun to build up his Sion among us as to the Educating of Children for we can say to his Praise and Everlasting Glory That he hath done more in a short time for some Children here than ever any Teacher could be able to do Glory be to his Name who is the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob and of their Seed for he is known to be the God of his People in this Day who are in the Faith of Abraham and of their Children also as they walk in his heavenly Way which he hath again revealed in this his glorious holy Day O! the riches of his Love and the infinitness of his Kindness towards all the Sons of men but more especially towards them whom he hath gathered into the knowledge of his ever-blessed Truth and in whom he hath revealed his Son who are his Witnesses on the Earth whom he hath loved with a singular Love in his Son Christ Jesus and given him unto them to be their Leader and Commander and not only so but he hath begun to visit many of their Children in their Young and Tender Years which cannot but be unspeakable Joy unto all Upright-hearted Parents to see and feel their Children visited with the same holy Arm of Power wherewith they were visited when they were gone far astray from the Lord which to feel in themselves is now their chiefest Joy How much more then will their joy abound to fell it operate in their Children while they are Young and Tender And now for the Encouragement of all who rejoyce to hear of the Prosperity of God's Eternal Truth I do testifie for the Lord and to the Praise of his great Name That the Lord our God hath not withdrawn the Sense of his Power and Heavenly Presence as to the General from us in this Family but at all times many of us are sensible as we are retired in our Minds that the Lords Love is towards us and we do alwayes feel his Power in our Meetings whereby our Souls are refreshed and we are thereby confirmed from time to time and in the Faith and Belief of the Prosperity of the Lords Work which he hath begun amongst us For notwithstanding that the Enemy may work at times in some of the Children to draw their Minds into Wildness and Disorder yet the Lords Power is over all and that contrary Spirit is much chain'd and kept down by the Revelation of Gods Heavenly Power whereby a Remnant are kept in a blessed Measure since the first time that they were thorowly reached thereby and do grow in Weightiness daily and in the experience of the work of Truth in their Hearts which is indeed great cause of joy unto all those of the Lords People who are concerned in them And so that the Lord God of Heaven and Earth may carry on this his Glorious Work among the Children and Off-spring of his People not only in this Nation but in all Nations and Islands where he hath gathered them is the Desire and earnest Breathing of my Soul From one who travails for the Prosperity of God's Truth in the Earth and at present is exercised among the Children in the School of Waltham-Abby Alexander Seaton Written the 17th of the 11th Mon. 1679. OH my Dearly Beloved Friends when I was alone and my Mind exercised in the Truth this Cry came thorow me That the Lord hath heard our Cryes and hath bottled up our Tears and hath answered our Desires in a Blessing upon the Children and hath broken the Wills of many that they fear before him and now is he fulfilling his Promise and that blessed Saying That Righteousness shall Cover the Earth as Waters the Seas that is all over for verily it cannot be said all over except Young as well as Old come to know the Lord. And this is my Testimony That the Time is at hand for a blessed Day have we seen of the Lords pouring forth of his Spirit upon Young and Tender Children that they may know him and fear before him And I can say of a Truth That we have of our Family Children that truly fear the Lord and do truly hunger after Righteousness O! how doth the Lord appear to us in our Family Meetings that we are overcome with his wonderful Presence and our Childrens Hearts broken before him that they cannot contain from Praising his holy Name His Glory doth so arise upon us that our Meetings are indeed to Admiration The Lord doth so follow us from Day to Day and from Meeting to Meeting as our dear Friends can witness with us holy Praises saith my Soul be to our God forever Do we not read in the Scriptures of Truth That Children in the dayes of Old have Blasphemed the Name of the Lord Scoffed at his People and Servants and were Cursed forever But now blessed be his Name he is appearing in his Love and Mercy unto Children that he may Bless them forever Ah! what the Lord hath done a few Moneths and Weeks past that the like hath scarce been heard of in many Ages or Generations amongst Children My Soul desires that the Sense of it may ever remain amongst us for we can never be able to speak it forth how Unutterable indeed are his Mercies unto us and his Wayes past finding out Oh! the Sense of this overcomes me that all within me is constrained to praise the Lord and magnifie his holy Name for he is Worthy Worthy Worthy saith my Soul O! how hath he broken in amongst us in our Meetings like a mighty Man of War that nothing hath been able to stand against him but we have fallen down before him with Praises and sweet Melody in our Mouthes that sometimes we could scarce know how to depart to go to our Natural Rest And when we have been in our Beds sometimes our Eyes could take no Rest for several Hours we have so admired the Lord's doings with us The Lord hath Determined That this His Blessed Work in this His Day shall be a President to the Ends of the Earth that the Generations to come may Magnifie his Holy Name who lives forevermore Written in the 11th Moneth 1679. Frances Taylor THE END

of his Countenance from us which would bring Sorrow Anguish and Destruction upon our Souls Oh! let us walk worthy of this great Love let every one of us be circumspect in our Lives and Conversations that our Enemies who Reproach and Blaspheme the holy Name and powerful Work of the Lord God who hath graciously and gloriously appeared in and among us may behold our Holy Innocent Upright Life and Conversation and by it may be reached and convinced that not the Devil but the Lord God in his holy Life Virtue Power and Spirit hath appeared in and among us by which he hath wrought a new Heart and renewed a right and holy Spirit in us the blessed Effect whereof is Holiness and Righteousness which Work is not of Man much less of the Devil but of the Everlasting Pure and Holy God who in his Everlasting Holy Pure and Quickning Power hath begot us again into the heavenly Image of his dear Son Christ Jesus which consists in Holiness and Righteousness and Truth which the Devil is out of Having therefore received Grace and Mercy Life Virtue and Power of God let us cleanse our selves from all Filthiness of the Flesh and Spirit perfecting Holiness in the Fear of God that we may shew forth the heavenly Vertue and Power of him that hath called and translated us from Darkness into his marvelous Light and turned from Satans Power to his own Holy Pure and Living Power in which we are inabled to do good Works new created of God in Christ Jesus unto good Works that we may walk therein in which if we are found walking doing the Works of God we shall never fall again for so an entrance shall be ministred unto us abundantly into the Everlasting Kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ who is the true Light which lights every man that comes into the World in which heavenly and divine Light we daily receive Life Virtue and Power to escape the Corruption that is in the World through Lust and to live Soberly Righteously and Godly in this present World to the Honour and Praise of him that hath called us to Glory and Virtue For this is the very end of the heavenly living powerful Appearance of our God in the midst of us that in and through the heavenly Power of his Son Christ Jesus reveal'd in us in his divine heavenly Light Life and Spirit he might redeem us from all Iniquity and purifie unto himself a peculiar People zealous unto good Works and that so out of the Mouthes of Babes and Sucklings he may perfect Praises for his Name Let us therefore always be found in Well-doing that our Light may shine before men that they may see our good Works and glorifie our Father which is in Heaven who dwells in the Light and is Light in which if we walk therein we have fellowship with him and one with another and the Blood of Jesus Christ his Son which cleanses us from all Sin is inwardly known and felt and the true Fellowship with the Father and his Son Jesus Christ comes to be witnessed Righteousness and Holiness is shewn forth in our Lives and Conversations by which our heavenly Father comes to be praised and glorified For herein is our heavenly Father of his Children glorified when ●hey bring forth much Fruit of the Spirit which is in all Goodness and Righteousness and Truth always proving and doing what is acceptable unto the Lord to whom be Glory and Honour Praises and Hallelujah Wisdom and Dominion from my Soul in the living Sense of his great Love and tender Mercies now henceforth forever and ever Amen Amen The 5th of the 5th Moneth 1679. Testified by me J. M. VVHen I consider the Goodness Mercy and Love of Almighty God to the Sons and Daughters of Men so largely manifested and suited to every Capacity and Condition to this end and purpose that all even from the least to the greatest may be made sensible and living Monuments of his wonderful Work which he hath been carrying on in all Ages less or more but now in this latter Age of the World is cutting the Work short in Righteousness I see it clearly in the Light of the Lord for which my Soul and Heart is overcome with Praises and Thanksgivings to him who I see takes pleasure to dwell with the lowly in Heart and that are willing to follow him whithersoever he in his Requirings may lead Glory to his blessed Name forever I say the consideration of the Lord 's wonderful Dealing with people but more especially with the young Ones in our Family constrains me at this time to open my Mouth in my small Measure to declare of his Wonderful and Soul-ravishing Virtue livingly witnessed to in my measure and also am an Eye Ear-Witness but which is more I find it seal'd in my Heart that the Lord hath begun a blessed Work in and among the Younger sort so that I can say in Truth The Lord hath been here the blessed Effects whereof do sufficiently declare it Oh! how is my Soul overioy'd when I see that wild Nature which bore rule in some changed and brought under so that I may justly say with the Prophet and do witness the same both in my own particular as also I declare it on the behalf of the Children That in some I see instead of the Tkorus comes up the Fir-tree and instead of the Bryar comes up the Myrtle-tree and it is for the Lord a Name for an Everlasting Sign that shall not be cut off This hath been the End and Tendency of all the Upright-hearted Ones in their Labour and daily Exercise in this Family who are more nearly concerned in them And Oh! let all Hearts joyn with me at this time and at all times to Praise and Extol the God of all Goodness who in his Love hath given us an Earnest of our Desires which is more to us than Thousands of Silver or Gold This the Lord hath been bringing to pass for several years past by his Almighty Power and Out-stretched Arm invisibly in the Hearts of the Young Ones and now is more manifestly begun to shew forth his Power to the melting of the Rocky-hearted and tendring of them into Tears which was livingly witnessed to by many who felt the Power of the Almighty to overshadow them in a Wonderful and Soul-ravishing manner at our fourth day's Meeting in Waltham-Abby so that in the Sense of the goodness of the Lord tendred to my Soul and the Souls of the Children there present I was broken into Tears having a deep sense of the Work of the Lord in my own particular to work in my Heart as also I was overcome with Joy to feel the Lord's Power so wonderfully to work on the Childrens Minds that they were melted and broken to the Amazement of many there present who never saw such a Day nor witnessed the Lords Power to change them in their Minds Oh! but what Joy what Comfort what

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 Printed in the Year 1679. Dear Friends WHEN I consider the great Love of God in this Day extended so largely both to small great it is to my great admiration and especially the hand of God reaching abundantly towards Children how wonderfully he hath appeared to them that in their Generation they may be God's Faithful Witnesses as we have been in our Day as the Lord hath kept us Faithful Some of the Openings of that Life in them and Pratlings of their Lips as tender Babes in Christ Jesus are here presented to be read in the Additional Epistles and Testimonies to what was before Printed Many other precious Epistles and Testimonies we have by us which were written to their Unconverted Friends and Relations which at this time we thought not so meet to be published C. T. OH dear Children into whose hands this Book may be recommended whether in the Truth or out of the Truth but I hope it may meet with many that are in the Truth a word is put into my Heart to Encourage you that fear the Lord and walk in his Way and an Invitation to you that fear him not And when this comes to your hands take this holy Exhortation and enter into your Closets and with Seriousness and Godly Fear read this Book which was at first put forth at that time when that Hellish Report was raised of us That the Devil arose amongst us This Book I say was put forth then to take away the Reproach and now many other things are added unto it of the Effect of that Great and Notable Day and the pouring forth of the Lords blessed Power and Spirit poured forth upon our Children a Holy Day indeed Forever let it be had in remembrance of us and of all those that truly fear the Lord a Notable Day indeed Verily the Devil Roared at it and stirred up his Instruments to Blaspheme this his holy Work but in the Name of the Lord We Defie him and them Ah! dear Children what may we say unto you of some of ours that live in the House with us that were once wild and disorderly as well as others but the Lord hath made them to Lament for their Sins and I know they have repented of them and the Lord hath been pleased to shew Mercy unto them and now they love his Righteous Wayes and the Lord hath filled their Hearts with his holy Praises and hath also constrained them to write to their Relations that live in Sin and do earnestly beseech them To Repent of their Evil Wayes and Defie the Devil who is the whole Cause of the Misery and Sorrow that falls upon the Sons Daughters of men for transgressing the holy Law of God that is written in their hearts Oh! how do they Lament over them that they may come to Fear the Lord walk in his Way with them that they may be blessed with them forever And many blessed things are amongst them too large here to relate This greatly exercised me this Morning and I could have no Rest until I had it writ down and then God's Peace confirmed me that I had done his Will Frances Taylor The 29th of the 11th Moneth 1679. A Testimony to the Everlasting Power of God which in Ages past hath wonderfully appeared in Sons Daughters which hath been Despised Mocked and Evil spoken of by the Wisdom which is from below that sees it not nor can know it which heavenly Power hath appeared in our Days and hath wrought wonderfully in and upon the Hearts of many even to the amazement of many and it hath met with the same Spirit of Opposition now as formerly calling it Madness Witch-craft and Diabolical Delusion It was prophesied of Old That the Lord would work a Work which some should not believe if it were told them This in part hath a Remnant seen in these Dayes and even of late as hereafter is mentioned UPon the 4th day of the Moneth called June 1679. at a Meeting in the Town called Waltham-Abby in Essex of the People call'd Quakers where was present about Forty or Fifty Young Boyes and Maidens God's heavenly Power brake forth in some Maids and Young Girls it begun with Three or Four at first broke them into Tears and Melting of Heart continued so a small time then it reached two or three of the Younger Boys which melted them into Tears and in a very small time reached all the Boyes and Young Girls many of them being but about Eight or Nine and Ten Years old the Power was so mighty that they were all broken into Tears some into Trembling and at last it reached unto the Elder People so that all in the Meeting was broken by the Power into Tears and Melting which did continue for about one Hour until the Meeting was ended This I was an Eye and Ear Witness of and felt God's Power wonderfully to the gladding of my Heart and answering the Breathings of my Soul which I have many a time had in a Travail to the Lord for the Children That the Lord might visit them in their Young Dayes after which Meeting I had this Hope and Faith raised up in my Soul which to some I did declare that God had a Work to work with some of these Children which he would bring forth e're long And several signal Testimonies hereof hath the Lord brought forth since as hereafter appeareth from other Eye and Ear Witnesses thereof And although Men in the Fallen Wisdom see not understand not not believe that this is from the mighty Power of God yet there is a Remnant gathered by this Power and have Experience of the Operation thereof how it hath wrought in them even in some when they were Young these are God's Witnesses that this is his Work yea it is fealed to them by his Spirit And let all the Mockers know God's Work in our Day will be too heavy for them and except they will Repent will be a Stone of stumbling upon which they will fall and be broken to pieces yea those that slight and neglect the Day of their Visitation untill it be too late this same Power they stumble at will fall upon them and Grind them to Powder This is from one who Travails and Breaths to the Lord that his Everlasting Power may be more and more revealed in the Hearts of the Sons and Daughters of men that many may be gathered