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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42007	A general epistle to the whole flock of God wheresoever scattered upon the face of the earth who are among men called Quakers, whether in prisons or sentenced for transportation or in any other tryals or temptations whatsoever unto you and for your sakes ... / Thomas Green.	Greene, Thomas, 1634?-1699.	1665 (1665)	Wing G1843; ESTC R28046	10,984	18

they violently rose up against us or rather against the appearance of the Lord in us and have defied us because of our littleness and because of the Lords work in us they have scorned us doing their utmost to destroy us many times that we might not have a being upon the face of the earth And notwithstanding they have the honour of the world outwardly yet they like proud Haman are troubled and are not satisfied to have a true Jew live in their countrey Surely the Lord hath beheld them and the Almighty hath taken notice and his bowels have yearned for his peoples sake who have been termed desolate and forsaken Oh! us hath he chosen and and hath often filled us with new wine and hath been strength unto us in our greatest weaknesse and a shelter to us and a rescuer for us when the Dragon hath pursued us and the false Prophets and hirelings made a prey of us then hath the Lord brought the hearts of the faithful into such a frame and they have waited till it was so even to suffer the spoiling of their goods with joy having an earnest in themselves of that durable treasure that the moth cannot corrupt nor thieves steal away Therefore ye children of the Lord who are brought to the knowledge of this and are gathered into the everlasting covenant of endless life my love is drawn out to you and I knowing my life is among you I am constrained in my spirit even to write to you even as the dearly beloved of my father and as children brought up with me we having drank together in the one pure spirit of the water which hath flowed from the living fountain according to the determinate counsel of our God which hath been in us as a well of living water springing up to the Lord our God the eternal life And friends thus far hath the Lord brought us and to this day he hath been with us even when our enemies have rose up against us who have encamped about us on every side even as at this day Therefore lift up your heads for now is the Lord opening the everlasting gates that the righteous nation may enter in who keepeth the truth and are born of the royal seed for the Kingdome which cannot be shaken they are the heirs of and they shall enjoy it saith the Lord that lives for ever though unto it they come through great tribulations yet in them they shall learn patience and experience and witness that living hope of which they shall never be ashamed Therefore thou weakling and tender mournful one who sometimes fears thou shalt not hold out to the end thy tryals are so many for thy sake I am enlarged thy mournings thy sighings thy faintings the sence thereof lieth as a weight upon me and I cannot pass by thee as if it was nothing to me to see thee in sorrow and grief saying within thy self didst thou ever see such a weak one undertake such a journey and the true birth in thee saith the Lord knows my heart I would fain run to the end that my God might be glorified who hath regarded my low estate and hath vouchsafed to keep me unto this day but my enemies are so many on every side and I think I shall one day fall my strength is so little that I can cry surely there is none like me and yet I have not wanted supplies from my God till this day Oh! thou child thou tender one who cannot forget the day of thy visitation thy God beholds thee and if he cause thee to do a mans work he will give thee a mans strength and thou shalt know that all power is from him therefore cast thy care upon him and wait that thy mind may be kept out of all visible things in the poverty of spirit joyning to the spirits cry turning thy back upon all questionings so wilt thou have access to the Lord and know thy approaching in the spirits life to the throne of his grace with boldness where thou shalt receive grace for grace and into his arms will the Lord gather thee and give thee of the milk of the word that the little one in thee may grow as the willows by the water brooks and though thy enemies be as the tall Cedar and strong as the mighty oak yet will thy God bring them under and make thee more than a conquerour through his son Jesus that thou shalt say with gladness of heart salvation is come to my house and shalt feel the spirit of the son to rule in thee whereby thou shalt cry Abba Father And whoever thou art who hath begun in the spirit thou knowest thou canst not be made perfect in the flesh therefore wait to be led by the spirit of the Lord so thou mayest come to the knowledge of the sonship and heirship in the everlasting covenant the light So look not at thy weakness for in that will the Lord ordain strength and out of the mouth of the babes will he perfect his praise and for thy sake that 's faithful to him he will cause the mountains to be removed and the hills to melt away and will make a straight path for thy seet and will lead thee in the way everlasting where thy peace shall be extended as a river and his loving kindness to thee as the waves of the sea that instead of mourning thou shalt rejoyce and instead of sighing thou shalt sing and instead of fainting thou shalt be strong and in the strength of thy God thou shalt praise him and in the feeling of his heavenly virtue thou shalt magnifie him and say My lot is fallen in a good ground on which the showers from heaven fall yea even as the former and the latter rain in its season And now thou shalt see thy God hath not forgotten thee neither is the Almighty changed but he keepeth covenant for ever with his people and man cannot disanul it for saith the Lord the holy one of Israel if they could break my Covenant with the day that there should not be night and day in their season then might they break my Covenant with my people Israel and the seed of Jacob my chosen Therefore thou least of the Flock be not cast down but look thou steadfastly to the Lord whose mercies endure for ever and his loving kindness to his own seed from generation to generation So whatever thy tryals temptations or exercises are let thy mind be joyned to the light by which thou maist behold the Antient of dayes as thou dwellest in the pure fear of him so wilt thou be kept out of the tossings whirlings and imaginations in the truth in which is stability in which thou wilt feel the springs of life running to refresh thy soul flowing from the Lord who is fulness it self who doth all things freely yet will he be waited upon by his people Israel and in their waiting upon him he doth and will renew their strength mounting up in

me till his head hath been wet with the dew and his locks with the drops of the night and hath knocked and called at the door of my heart but I gave him no answer but have folded my hands as one who hath delighted to slumber but now my heart is overcome and my bowels are melted in the sence of my Gods tender mercies in that he did not give me over but waited as a tender Father for my return and continued calling unto me till a voice in me said speak Lord for thy servant he ars And now I cannot but look upon him whom I have pierced and admire his long-suffering and patience and loving kindness And now I am constrained and cannot but love the Lord and his truth above all the world because he hath forgiven me very much therefore am I abundantly ergaged unto him and a cry is in my heart that iniquity may never have a seat in me again and that my love may never wax cold to the Lord his truth and people but that in the innocency I may dwell and feel the growth of the immortal seed of God in my heart that nothing may hinder its appearance prosperity but that by the truth the partition wall which hath stood between me the Lord may be broken down I kept in the peace with the Saints of God even in that which passeth knowledge understanding and that by the power of God of which I have somewhat felt and have had some experience of in that I despised not the day of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 things but received the truth in the love of it when indeed I could 〈◊〉 ●…onger be without it And now my soul desires that death may be swallowed up of life and the power thereof destroyed and that I may walk worthy of the Lords love that hath been extended to me for indeed his banner over me hath been love and that I may not be the cause of hiding his face from me again but that I may set the Lord alwaies before me that I most of all desire that I may not be moved nor soon tossed to and fro with the wiles and sleights of men nor subtilty of the serpent whereby I am sensible he lieth in wait to deceive and to draw out of the simplicity Well that thou mayest not be deceived nor overcome by the Dragon nor Serp●nt keep thy mind to the true and eternal light for whatsoever is to be known of God is manifested in man by the light which discovers all things and manifests unto man his state and condition and is given thee of the Lord to be a leader and a guide and to be his salvation to the ends of the earth so go not out but remember Dinah who went out and came in ravisted and him that put his hand to the plough and looked back was not fit for the kingdome so to the true and faithful witness of God in thy conscience do I commit thee by it to be guided in all things and take heed of consulting with flesh and blood or entring into carnal reasoning but keep to the anointing of the Father in thee so shalt thou need no man to teach thee but as the same anointing will teach thee of all things which is truth and is no lye and take heed of entring into disputations or vain janglings about the things of God for by that thou mayest wound thy self and bring dishonour upon the truth and cause the way of it to be evil spoken of if thou shouldst boast of other mens lines or of the truth received in the judgment or opinion and hath not learned it of the Lord by the feeling of his work and power in the heart therefore wait that thou mayest say as David who said come and see all you that fear the Lord and I will tell you what he hath done for my soul and that thou mayest say as the Queen of Sheba who heard of the wisdome of Solomon when she came to see said I have not heard one half of which I now behold Therefore this I leave with thee and take my leave of thee that thou wait in the light in the truth by it to be set free and in it to live to the glory of the Lord where thy souls comfort thou mayst feel to the praise of our God who lives for ever and for evermore Amen And now all my dear brethren sisters and friends whether in bonds or at liberty or under the sentence of transportation wait that ye may all be found in the prevailing life in the prevailing seed which must possess the gates of its enemies when it hath accomplished the work of God by finishing transgression and making an end of sin and when this is known in the heart then are ye in the blessed state for blessed are the pure in heart for they do see the Lord even as Job for themselves and not for another and shall know the Redeemer liveth and shall praise the Lord in the land of the living and shall witness the Winter to be past and the Rain to be over and gone and the voice of the Turtle shall be heard in the land and now Jerusalem shall be joy and her people rejoycing the redeemed from the earth shall sing praises to the God of heaven and give glory unto him that sitteth upon the Throne for ever and for ever therefore all ye that know the faith by which the mountains are removed dwell in it and abide in it for this is the day wherein the Lord is trying the faith of his children and the Just shall live by it but if any man withdraw himself Gods soul will take no pleasure in him and happy and pretious shall they be in the sight of the Lord who make not shipwrack of faith and a good conscience in this day wherein the beast is exercising his power against the Saints even the beast that was not and now is and must go into perdition and into everlasting torment but well shall it be with the righteous who dwell in the faith of the elect seed in that which seeth over the seas even to the ends of the earth to the beginning to the first and the last who lives for evermore these are the people that shall dwell alone that shall not be numbred amongst the Nations but shall be rejected of men but chosen of the Lord in his everlasting Covenant for these doth he marry even as a young man doth a Virgin and these will he for ever take care of and these will he deck with his Jewels and cloath them as with broidered work onely this doth he require of them even faithfulness unto him for my glory saith the Lord I will not give to another nor my honour to graven images but they that are faithful unto me even unto the death I will crown them with eternal life and they shall live and reign with me for evermore Therefore all ye tender ones whose hearts are melted in the sence of the goodness of God who feel his left hand to be under you and his right hand to embrace you oh let your hearts be tender before him that they may never be hardned again because that hardness of heart provoketh the Lord to anger therefore thou that art born of God not of flesh nor of bloud nor of the will of men feel the seed remaining in thee and thou in it for in it is the unity with the Lord and the true fellowship which they that love darkness and walk in it are out of so in the meek quiet spirit let us all dwell in this the day wherein our God is making up of his Jewels is purifying his sons daughters by his spirit of judgment burning and is exalting his own name in the midst of them and is giving strength unto the weakest child and is saying unto the poor Come up hither and is calling the mighty from their seats even they that have been exalted as high as heaven is he bringing down into hell for now Babylon is come into his remembrance and he will reward her as she hath rewarded others and will give her double to drink of the Vials of his fierce wrath till her place is not to be found for as a milstone falls into the sea so shall she pass away with a noise when the Lord shall have tryed his chosen to the utmost this shall be performed therefore now wait ye children of the Lord and stand still a little while for your redemption draweth nearer than when ye first believed therefore hold fast that which you have that none may take your Crown nor cause the offence of the Cross to cease so in the hidden life given unto you of the Father read me as I do you day by day and dwell in that that 's righteous that ye may never want of the Lords heavenly blessings for the time is near now in which it shall be said let him that is filthy be silthy still and let him that is holy be holy still and let him that is righteous be so still so shall he shine as a star in the Firmament for ever and ever This from a friend to Gods people and one that labours in the Gospel according to the proportion of strength that God giveth him who is your friend and brother Thomas Green London 23d first month 1665. This to be read in the Assemblies of the people aforesaid in the fear of the living God as any find freedome THE END