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A tender greeting and salutation of perfect love and life of truth to the children of the kingdom ...
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D. B. (Daniel Baker), fl. 1650-1660.
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Wing B486; ESTC R551
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A TENDER GREETING AND SALUTATION OF Perfect Love and Life of truth to the Children of the Kingdom From a Brotheâ— and living Witness and fellow-servant and companion of the Election and of the Churches of Christ gathered by and through the Power and Ministration of the Eternal Spirit of the Lord Jesus out of the World into Covenant with God and his Christ over all blessed over all for ever Amen In which Grace and peace be multiplied and abound to every member of the infinite Body of which Christ is Head Amen for ever Mâ— Friends ye Babeâ— and Children of Life of pure innocency of immortality brought to light that 's clear and marvellous in our eye that 's single pure holy unchangeable without variableness in which the perfect love of the eternal riches of the everlasting Gospel and glorious power of an endless Life and its perfect unspeakable blessed unity and fellowship of us with the Father with the Son and one with another in one and the self-same holy Spirit of Faith and Vertue and Sanctification standeth well entire and compleat in the pleasure of the Lord God according to the proportion of the faith of Abraham in the election dispensed to us and in every of us received unto salvation unto whom the Heavenly Divine Power from on high is come and given even unto us bountifully with the precious things or riches that 's durable and unvaluable treasures which pertain to life and godliness more or less according to the wisdom of God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ and through the manifold dispensations of his eternal loving-kindnesses hath he manifested himself and made known the good pleasures of his Will to us-ward in by and through the â—evelatioâ— manifestation and ministration of his unspotted Lifâ— which well witnesseth and beareth record both of the Father and of the Son in one Word that changeth not in us but is the same as in the beginning and before all things and cannot alter or vary but remaineth in its own entire unfathomable unlimited boundlesâ— goodnâ—ss and fulness which endureth forever â—ho hath called uâ— with this Eternal Word of Life of Holiness and by the same hath wounded and killed quickened and made alive to his glory and virtue with endless praises in perfect love in which is no fear that worketh evil or torment but that which worketh good unto edification and perfection And on how hath the same abounded towards you my dear Friends And how hath the distillings from God's right hand of mercy and goodness where the Son is that hath made your very hearts glad in the savour of his holy Spirit the Comforter so that it hath been unexpressible to demonstrate the truth of this what your immortal souls have met with and been made partakers of under the perfect sence of his unspeakable love by his righteous Judgements and Mercies who hath sought and called and found you that were gone astray and even lost in obscurity as 't were without hope of any recovery in the alienation from the Life of God yea even as exhiled captives aliens and strangers from the unchangeable Covenant of promise that 's sure to the Seed of the eternal inheritance of the purchased possession the same that was fore-ordained for you that believ in the Name of the Lord God of immortality before the foundation of the World to the end that ye may be heirâ— together with him that is one with the Father who hath drawn with the Cords of his Love by which the bonds of wickednesse have been burst assunder and the Cords of your sins which have entangled you in captivity these have been broken and iniquities that are past have been finished and blotted out by the arising and coming of the just one with his unspeakable refreshings of his glorious power even as the morning-light of a clear day yea with such like healings and vertuous refreshings of the Son of Righteousnesse hath he come that expels the corruptible darknesse that hath opprest and covered the earth so that by its divine pure and powerful operation in the stilnesse of your subject on to the same Ordinâ—nce that 's of God Eternal which he hath ordained to subdue contrarieties and they come to be done away hereby the Crosse that extends pence as a River of flowing streams to the poor to the needy the hungry and thirsty to revive replenish the contâ—ite in heâ—rt by the very same which sheds its saving health â—nd sanâ—tifying virtuâ— to every plant and green thing to every Treâ— thaâ— buds and blossomes and bears fruit according to the goodnesse and pleasure of the end of the good Husbandman that well rejoiceth over the choice Vines and Vinyards and Gardens of the pleasure of his right hand where the River streams that makes glâ—d the beloved City of my God and his pleasant Plants add no sorrow unto his soul but he well-delighteth in them and taketh pleasure in them that fear him and keep their habitations in the first love and behold his mercy and goodnesse is over them as a lovely banner and comely Ornament of praise and his fear seated in your hearts yet more abundantly manifest in the sight of the Nations the same shall be a sure defence to prâ—serve you unto his Heavenly Kingdom of all fulness without limitation What if I say to some My Babes and universally to all My Friends my Brethren my Sisters to you are these sayings spoken And what if I say of the Loveling of my heart Verily mine eye hath wel affected mine heart and I am in perfect love and unity with every of you that love the Lord and obey his unchangeable truth and name and suffer for it more or less Well J cannot but tel you on this wise that J heartily love you in the same in no other thing or name or word or life or what else but in the very thing in which we are Witnesses of in its dispensations not only of salvation but also of condemnation in their time and seasons and because the same love with which the testimony of my Conscience giveth a good evidence to my understanding that J am beloved of my God the same well aboundeth in my very heart to ye ye faithful of the Lord therefore do J send you here with the greetings of the same kindness to your edification in the same love by which your most holy Faith worketh that together with me herein your pure minds by way of remembrance may be stirred up in one spirit to blesâ— and praise the living Lord as it becometh Saints in Light and hereby to be the more abundantly quickened unto all wel-pleasing in the pure presence in his Light of his countenance that shines over you for good and J say and exhort you in the very self-same Spirit of faith and love to lay aside and put far away from you whatsoever would vail or separate from this unvaluable love and goodness virtue and peace of Christ which