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Several letters written to the saints of the Most High, to build them up in the truth, as it is in Jesus. By William Deusbury. James Nayler. George Fox. John Whitehead
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Dewsbury, William, 1621-1688.
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outward things thought never so seemingly glorious for they all shall perish in the using but the word of the Lord endureth for ever when it goeth forth it giveth understanding to the simple and the soul of the needy is refreshed by it therefore wait every one within your selves to hear that joyful Sound and every one of you dwell in the obedience to what is made manifest and so more shall be communicated You must all give an account of your Stewardship oh therefore be faithful that you may do it with joy and not with grief for it will gnaw you eternally if you trifle away this day of the Lords Love and Mercy Now there is balm in Gillead and a Physitian in your Souls see therefore that your health be recovered by him and that you neglect not so great Salvation for not withstanding your vain imaginations and hard thoughts of the Lord yet his arms of Love are stretched out still but how long you know not therefore be not secure and careless and careless but strive to enter in at the strait gate yet many strive are not able because they would have their own wils and wisdoms kept alive with the profits and vain delights of this world which keepeth them captive in the broad way which leadeth to destruction But my brethren not as unbeleeving or disobedient put on strength in the power of the Lord who hath called you and presse on the strait gate where the earthly wil and wisdom is kept in death for the Kingdom of Heaven suffereth violence and the violent take it by force So wil they who forsake their own wil and reasoning and yeeld themselves up into the Love and Mercy of the Lord minding to be guided by his pure counsel though your strength seem weaknesse yet there is nothing in Heaven nor in Hel neither in the Earth that is able to resist you but as Conquerours you must pass through death into life therefore be strong in the Lord every one of you give up give up what you have and are into his Wil let not carnal pleasures inlure you nor carnal fears cause you to distrust but run with patience that race which is set before you for your reward is with you and your work before you be not slothful but vigilant for to that end hath he chosen you that you might manifest the riches of his Love and bring forth fruit to his praise and faint not in your way the time of refreshment cometh cometh on apace when the Redeemed of the Lord shal walk in Sion with Songs and everlasting Joy upon their heads singing the Songs of their Deliverance Hallelujabs and Praises to him who sitteth on the Throne and judgeth the Earth in righteousnesse and therefore fear and tremble you carelesse ones which have lost your first love strengthen that which remains lest you walk in darknesse and you that halt between God and the world that which you lust after and account so profitable and delightful shal depart from you for this world passeth way and all the comforts which it affordeth and it wil leave you naked and bare before him whose Love you have rejected and whose Counsel you have despised Oh therefore consider and lay it to heart how wil you be able to stand hefore him when he ariseth to plead with you in his fierce Indignation Now you have time prize it and forsake that which is earthly and chuse that which is eternal you cannot have both be not sayers but doers lest you cause the worthy name of our God to be blasphemed and so bring upon your selves swift destruction Dear children you are called and chosen my desire is that you may be kept stedfast unto the end so I commit you all to the tender Mercy of our God who never leaveth nor forsaketh those that trust in him Written from the Spirit of the Lord be your Brother in the Truth of the Gospel Let this be read when you are met together JOHN WHITEHEAD I am now about to go into the Moors where I hear there is much hungring after the Truth when I shal return I know nothing Pray for me that I may be kept faithfull to declare the Truth as it is revealed in me Scarborough Octob. 6. 1653. In October 1653. TO al my dear Brethren the flock of God scattered abroad and kept together in the power up to God none be discouraged or disheartned at the Enemies without which is without God but be bold all in the power of truth triumphing over the world hold your freedome and keep and stand fast in it that you may be armed with wisdom and furnished against your enemies who are wiser in their generation then the children of Light But the wisdom of the most High is spreading and making it self manifest into your hearts by which you shal comprehend all the worlds Wisdome the worlds worship and knowledge and get them under your feet waiting in that which is pure it wil lead you before the world was before the false worship was before the seducers were before the Antichrist was and before the false Temple was and false Prophet and hirelings and here you wil comprehend all the World and what is done in the world therefore every one keep your habitation abide the trial and abide the day and stand fast in your freedom so far as Christ hath made you free free from mans wil and commandements which inbondageth free from the fashions and lusts of the world the fleshly wil which bondageth and burthens the pure and to you that cannot witnesse this wait and mind the pure and then the burthen wil be easie and wait for Redemption and Salvation to make it and your strength is to stand still that you may receive refreshings that you may know how to wait and how to walk to God and before God by the spirit of God within you So God Almighty be with you and keep you up to himself under his own dominion from under the dominion of Sathan that you may trample them al under your feet And friends every where meet together treading and trampling all the deceit under your feet and watch over one another in that which is eternal and see every one that your words be eternal life examine and search which speaks to that which is in prison in other which is eternal And you that are led out to exhort or to reprove do it with all diligence takeing all opportunities reproving that which devours the Creation and destroys the very humane reason and the truth which doth preserve every thing in it place and all meet together every where and in your meeting wait upon the Lord and take heed of a form of words but mind the power and know its which is eternal which will keep you all in unity walking in the Spirit and wil let you see the Lord neer you and amongst you So God Almighty be with you and multiply you and give you the dew of Heaven the Heavenly dew the living mercies which nourisheth the tender plants which causeth them to grow bud and bring forth and water you with his blessings So the Lord God of power be with you all my dear hearts I am with you in the spirit and in the love of your God your Father and my Father the Lord God be alone prosper you guide you and protect you all into his Kingdom of glory you who are elected called chosen and faithful who are the Lambs God Almighty blesse you and keep you all my dear hearts the love of God is love past knowledg which bears all things endures all things hopes all things envieth not thinketh no evil And the Bottom-stone is the love of God the ground of your hearts the bottom of your hearts which casts out the love of the world and the enmity to God betwixt you and God so it 's true He that beleeves is born of God and he that is born of God overcomes the world So fare you all wel and God Almighty blesse you prosper you GEORGE FOX 1653. This Precept was written from the mouth of George Fox as he spoke it forth by a Friend of truth ANd all you friends that wait in that which is pure it self which cannot lie which doth not change wait upon God God doth not change and let all flesh be silent before the Lord that the Life may speak in all then the mouth of the Lord is known and God is exalted and glorified with his own work which he brings forth and meet together there and every where and mind that which gathers you and wait on that which is pure which gathers you out of the worlds nature disposition conversation Churches forms and customes which wil knit your hearts together up to God That which gathers you out of all this is the Spirit of the Lord and to gather you up to him who is the Father of Spirits that you may be able to judg and discern and confound al the deceit in the world and grow up to be as Kings and nothing to raign but what is Life Eternal and beware of speakings in the presence of the Lord except your words be eternal life the eternal Word of God else it doth not profit nor build up nor edifie So God Almighty be with you all in your meetings that you may see him to be your Head King and Lord over all to you all who are inlightned with the lights of the Spirit that is the light which shews you sin and evil and your evil deeds and actings and the deceit and false-heartednesse which wil teach you holinesse walking in it and bring you into unity and it wil draw your mind up into God and in it you wil see more light but hating the light there is your condemnation FINIS