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The word of the Lord to all children born again of the immortal seed as the salutation of the bowels of the unlimitted love of the father, flowing forth to you in the forcible power of his own life / thorow your brother and companion in tribulation and kingdom of patience in the Lord Jesus Christ William Dewsbury.
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Dewsbury, William, 1621-1688.
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requires me neither regards the cries and tears of the mournful children thou comfortest them in what thou maist but thou freely leaves them for the glory of thy God and thus is it with Wife concerning tender Husband and children concerning their dear Parents in this day of rending one from another Assuredly I cannot but commiserate your condition and sympathize with you being sensible of the earnings of bowels whilst I have been drinking this cup for many years And now Oh ye Babes born of the royal birth you are the chosen jewels let no care be upon your hearts for any thing in this world for you seeking Gods Kingdom and the righteousness thereof you shall have all satisfaction in the fulness of the love of God though separated one from another and let none of your eyes look out at any that deny the Lord of Life before men who in the profession of his Name came forth with us and goes forth from us because they are not of us for as I have proclaimed in your ears many years ago so I proclaim it again in the word of hiâ— faithfulness who liveth for ever That all that profess the Light and Name of Jesus and hath an eye to self in what they do and doth not follow him with a single heart in his work of regeneration before the trying day be over they will deny him and wither as though they had never made mention of him but all you Lambs that fear and dread the Name of the Lord and freely gives up to be governed by his powerful Spirit and in the least measure wait in the Light self to be buried down under his judgement and your souls raised in the resurrection of Jesus and born again of the natural seed of God which cannot depart from him but must follow him let the power of darkness over all the face of the earth do what it is permitted Oh the beholding of you children of the immortal birth it is known to the Lord the earning of bowels in the meltings and breakings of my heart and I am streamed into you as a River in the unexpressable unlimited love and life of my God and your God where feel and taste and let us solace in the invisible in-dwelling love of a tender father where no vulterous eye can behold nor any venemous beast shall enter to sting the beloved Babes begotten of the father any more And dearly beloved Brethren and Sisters where ever the Lord orders you watch diligently that in the sweet reserved Spirit in the heavenly wisdom you walk together in the loving meek holy Spirit of the Lord Jesus and in the nearest fellowship and familiarity with any one watch to the Light to be covered alwayes with his spirit of Sanctification that you may stand before the Throne of the Lamb with the pure garment of his own righteousness to the glory of his great Name for ever And in all your words and works be tender over one another in love in what you may and the strong bearing the burthen of the weak that the holy meek lowly healing Spirit of our Lord Jesus Christ may rule in you all binding up your hearts together in the eâ—ernal unity of the Spirit and bond of peace where ever the Lord orders any of you his faithful children that you with us and we with you may be as sinews to the loynes and marrow to the bones of one another in the meek lowly spirit of Christ our head and life that in him we all may be manifest to the whole world to be the children of the most high God through the aboundings of his vertue in and amongst us who are born again and is the Church of the first born the pure bride of the lamb of God who abhors to live in any thing that is not of his nature and in sincerity of heart have given up our names to him and in his glorious Majestical dominion trampling upon all false births tained self-creating self-serving spirits who are gone from the innocent life and make to themselves pleasant pictures in a voluntary humility and smooth words and gestures and outward appearances to enter the affectionate part and betray the innocent as with a kiss but in the tryal of the day that is come upon all pleasant things and pleasant pictures they are found serving themselves and Judasis to the innocent life of those that are regenerated by the power of the most high and redeemed from the earth therefore to you that stand girt up in the light thought and will of God to reign over all the pollutions of this world I write as to my honourable brethren and sisters desiring you all to resign to the faithfulnesse of God that his alsufficiency may preserve you 〈◊〉 and over all the clouding thoughts of your own hearts that in the pure discerning you may taste and weigh all spirits of what nature they are in what Nation Country or Island soever you are ordered to go and lay not your hands hastily upon any neither regard their fained smooth words and behaviour but in the life of the Lord Jesus wait that he may give you ability in his pure wisdome to make your passage in the invisible entrance through all outward appearances to try and taste what they are inwardly to God in the measure of the heart searching spirit you have recâ—ived of the father that so you may all be kept and preserved in the intire union in the sincere life to reigne over all false births in the dominion to walk with the Loâ—d aâ—d one towards another in the eternal inexpressable 〈◊〉 pure holy chast love of our father in the Lord Jesus who in his unlimitted love laid down his life for us and with his blood hath redeemed washed and cleansed us that we might have accesse to the throne of his glory continually to offer up the living sacrifice of Halelujahs and high praises glory and honour unto the Lord God and to the Lamb that sits upon the Throne our light life strength and righteousnesse joy peace tranquility and everlasting felicity over all God blessed for ever of whose dominion there is no end And in his glorious powerful resurrection and dominion keep your state with God that his tender bâ—wels may be inlarged in you to all where you feel any true breathings and heavenly desires towards the Name of the Lord though in some outward things they may differ let not that shut up your bowels but in the openings of the spirit of the Lâ—rd in what you may minister to the enlivening of that in them which the Lord hath begotten to hunger for him Oh I beseech you ease my heart in this matter for I am in travel till all that hunger for the righteousnesse of God under what denomination soever be all gathered to the light of Jesus there to receive an understanding to feel the spirit of the Lord make a separation in condemning sin in the flesh and quickning in spirit in the resurrection in the powerful life in Christ that so our little sister that hath no breast scattered among languages tongues and pâ—ople in the Nations by your sweet and holy conversations in the meek lowly and loving chast spirit of the Lord Jesus may be gathered in the light and life of Jesus with us to sit down at the table of our God to drink continually the Cup of salvation In which woâ—k O my God bless thy servants with thy prosperous presence where ever thou sends thâ—m and all you chosen Lambs comfort my heart in what my soul desires in this thing that as in the pure discerning of the Spirit of the 〈◊〉 God you trample and reign over the greatest sâ—btilty which in the mistery of iniquity transforms it self as is before written that so you may in the service of love in the meek tender healing compassionate spirit of Jesuâ— gather all the tender hearted forth of all sects formâ— â—pinions with all that hath strayed from the footsteps of the flock of the Companions in the light of the Lord with us to walk in faithfulnesse all their daies until their change come that if it be possible that not any may be lost who hunger after righteousnesse and hath their faces set towards Sion That so in the heavenly harmony all that have truly sought the face of God may in his pure light life and dominion walk together with us in the unlimitted bowels of of love in the Lord Iesus to the confounding of all Sions enemies who in the time determined of our God shall come bending to the soles of the feet of the afflicted suffering lambs of my father who love the Lord better then your lives and your neighbour as your self yea and they that withstand you shall in the day determined of God confess it is in vain for any to strive to bring to passe their evil intents upon a people beloved of God whom he will carry through by his Almighty power and save with the arm of his salvation for every tongue lifted up against you shall fall in judgement and all weapons formed against you shall not prosper but come to nought and you shall see the mighty salvation of God for your joy which the Lord will hasten more and more to the astonishment of all that withstand the rising of his glory and you shall certainly know this is to you the word of the Lord God declared thorow your brother and companion in the tribulation and Kingdome of patience in the Lord Iesus Christ. Farewell From the common Gaol in Warwick sent forth at the command of the Lord the 8. day of the 3. month 1665. William Dewsbury THE END
THE WORD OF THE LORD To all children born again of the Immortal Seed As the salutation of the bowels of the unlimitted love of the Father flowing forth to you in the forcible power of his own life thorow your Brother and companion in tribulation and Kingdom of patience in the Lord Jesus Christ. William Dewsbury Blessed are they that overcometh through the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony and love their lives no more to death Printed in the Year 1665. DEar and honourable brethren and sisters oh how doth my soul bless the name of the Lord for you who stands faithful to God in your living testimony for him in the pure meek peaceable spirit of our Lord Jâ—sus with the hazard of the losse of all outward substance dear and tender wife and children and beloved husband and tender children to be rent from their dear beloved parents and also with the hazard of your liberty and transportation out of your Native country and not at all love your lives to death to seal your testimony with your blood in the word of his patience if the Lord require it at your hands and when you have done the will of God in what is before written your love is so large to the Lord Jesus that you abhor loath and detest and trample upon every appearance of the arrogant self-priding and self-inriching boasting spirit in what you have done or suffered for the testimony of the truth of our God and in true watchfulnesse and pure attendancy to the light and councel of the Lord Jesus you are alwaies kept in a true sensability of your own nothingnesse cloathed with the garment of everlasting humility where you sit at the feet of Jesus as Mary did chusing the good part that shall never be taken away casting your garments of all self righteousnesse upon the ground that Jesus may tread upon them and the cumbred disposition of Martha that would complain of the innocent life or that would have any eye to self and rob him of his glory and for this you children of the most high is yrur daily waiting that the Lord Jesus may take you up into him and cause you to rejoyce and sing Hosanna to the highest and to blesse him that comes in the name of the Lord to cover you with his own righteousnesse and marry you to himself as his chosen and beloved bride in his own faithfulnesse and give you perfect victory in overcoming through the blood of the Lamb and the word of your faithful testimony in the pure meek holy healing spirit of the Lord our righteousnesse in whom you shall be as pillars in the Temple of our God and shall go no more forth but shall grow as trees of righteousnesse in the midst of the street of the City of our God bringing forth acceptable fruit to him in due season and your leaves shall be for the healing of the Nations where ever the Lord suffers you to be cast for the testimony of his glorious name yea the prisoners of hope will be refreshed at the sound of your coming and the mourners will rejoyce in your arising for the tongue of the learned shall be given unto you all in your measure to speak a word in due season to every condition for you and all the companions that can read and understand in the true experience your state as here written shall stand as Saviours upon Mount Sion which can never be removed because you have not any eye to self in what ever you do but it is your delight to be ordâ—red by the holy Spirit of the Lord Jesus and in your resignation into his pure will you shall be translated more and more into the angelical glory and by your holy conversations words and works which hath the love of God stampâ— upon them you become preachers of the mind of God to the Nations and as ministring Angels shall reap in his harvest to the gathering our brethren from far and our sisters from the ends of the earth and all the Nations shall confesse that you are the children of the most high God the righteous seed whom the Lord hath blessed and the hearts of the people shall be changed in the day determined by the power of the mighty God who turns the hearts of men as a river of water and the people of the Nations in the earth shall more strive in their fervent desires for yâ—u suffering innocent Lambs to live amongst them then they now strive and endeavour to send you away from them the mouth of the Lord of Hosts hath spoken it through your brother in the Lord Jesus whose life hath been of no esteem to serve you with my faithful brethren who in true self-denial through the almighty power of God indured the heat of the day that you might be gathered and established to indure the tryal which were of the Lord determined of which I was sent in years past to proclaim in your ears and in the same word which speaketh thorow me to you of which neither jot nor tittle shall fall to the ground till all be fulfilled I declare to you this day Therefore dear and honourable Brethren and Sisters from the highest growth to the lowest stature in Jesus let not any consult with flesh and blood but all in the perfect light and life of Jesus lift up your heads that your souls may be inlivened with his quickening vertue in that eternal hunger which nothing can satisfie but the Lord of glory in this day of separation between the precious and the vile between the true birth and the false birth as it was in the dayes of old when they confessed unto him and followed him beyond the Seas but when the Lord said Except ye eat my flesh and drink my blood you have no life in you All that were the false birth that stood as the high-way ground stony and thorny ground hearers foolish Virgins that had no oyle in their lamps they said this is an hard saving and who can bear it and they went back and left the Lord of Life and followed no further Then the Lord said to the children born of the true birth will you go away also They answered nay thou hast the words of eternal life and whither shall we go Oh dear child canst thou leave the father that begot thee or canst thou feed of any thing but the bread he hath prepared for thee Though thou maist be beset and compassed about as Bees with the enemies of thy souls peace that would hinder thee from walking with thy God yet can they keep thee from him nay assuredly thou hangest upon him as a child upon a father Though thou be as a little babe thou abhors all things that would hinder thee from following the Lord Thou saith of thy riches of this world thou shalt be no snare to me and to the tender Wife weep not for me give me up for I must forsake thee when the Lord