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A78561	A tender salutation: or, loving epistle to such, who have a breathing in the innocent life of my friends with whom I walked in the outward observances. Also, for my relations (after the flesh) with all others professing God, and that have any breathings after the truth in the inward parts. Wherein something is declared in the power and light of God, concerning the sure foundation, and the house of God, with the inward glory, government, cloathing, feeding, non-superiority, and safety, that is in Gods habitation. With a word to the weak to establish them, that they faint not at the appearances of outward trouble for their consciences. - Whereunto is annexed a further discovery of God to my soul, concerning the spiritual temple, tabernacle and ark of Gods testimony, being the truth, life, and substance of the temple, tabernacle and ark of the testimony under the legal day. - To be read in the light, which discovers the things that be of God. -	Chandler, Jacob.	1664 (1664)	Wing C1927A; ESTC R227552	24,960	33

A Tender Salutation OR LOVING EPISTLE To such who have a breathing in the innocent life of my Friends with whom I walked in the outward observances ALSO For my Relations after the flesh with all others professing God and that have any breathings after the Truth in the inward parts WHEREIN Something is declared in the power and light of God concerning the sure Foundation and the House of God with the inward Glory Government Cloathing Feeding Non-superiority and Safety that is in Gods habitation WITH A word to the Weak to establish them that they faint not at the appearances of outward Trouble for their Consciences Whereunto is Annexed A Further discovery of God to my Soul concerning the spiritual Temple Tabernacle and Ark of Gods Testimony being the Truth Life and Substance of the Temple Tabernacle and Ark of the Testimony under the Legal day To be read in the light which discovers the things that be of God By Jacob Chandler That which we have seen and heard and felt declare we unto you that you might have fellowship with us and truly our fellowship is with the Father and with the Son Jesus Christ 1 Joh. 1.3 If our earthly house of this Tabernacle were dissolved we have a house not made with hands eternal in the heavens 2 Cor. 5.1 Printed in the Year M.DC.LXIV To all those that love the Lord Jesus in Power and Spirit of my Friends with whom I walked in the outward form As well my professing Relations after the flesh with all else unto whom these presents shall come that have any breathings after the precious Truth and life of God Grace Mercy and Peace be multiplied the everlasting love life and truth of God dwell richly in you c. DEar Friends it has been oft upon me to write unto you of the things appertaining to the Kingdom of God in Spirit and Truth But my flesh with the reasoning part withstood upon some considerations that now I 'le forbear But now after much striving of the Lord God of Power by his Spirit in my Soul I am overcome with the overcomings of the love of God to write unto you And this I find springing up in me to exhort you in tender bowels of love to look at the power light life and truth of God within in every one of ye in particular for Friends it s not the outward profession that will stand you in stead in the day of Tryal and in the day when all Secrets shall be made manifest nor approve you to God without the power and truth of God within And therefore Friends in the bowels of tender compassions let the evil minded think never so otherwise I am moved as before said to exhort you to look to your standing that you turn inward and see what foundation you are built on for Friends that which is not built on a good foundation will come to nothing if the foundation be rotten and corrupt you know whatsoever is built thereon suffers losse Therefore let every soul take heed how he build thereon for every mans works must be try'd Now if you build on the truth and power of God you build on a sure foundation but if you build on some other foundation viz. some outward observation of external performances outward gifts parts humane wisdom or the sayings of men though they may be good men c. Be it known unto you that its a false foundation its deceivable and the whole building will fall great and lamentable will be the fall thereof There is but one foundation for every poor soul that would be saved to build on and another foundation can no man lay than that which is already laid and that is Jesus Christ the power of God the wisdom and truth of God This is that ground and pillar of truth that saves to the utmost all that come unto it and build on it Therefore Friends mind whether you have built on this foundation whether the truth power and Spirit of God be the thing that you mind the foundation that you build on How to come to the foundation and build thereon and how to know in the light of God when the soul has built on the sure foundation THere must be a digging deep to build on this foundation it s not so easie as many Professors think of thou must dig down into thy innermost parts into the secrets of thy soul deep yea very deep into humility must thou sink and resign up freely and must be content to be nothing in thy will wisdom understanding c. Oh soul before thou canst find the foundation the Rock to build on and in the deep thou maist find it for 't is hid from the carnal wise man by all his wisdom he cannot search it out and all his notional knowledge though he may speak much of the foundation is too short to fathom it And now Friends if you are built on this foundation this Rock then you are immovable and cannot be shaken away from the confidence that you have springing up from hence and you are sure and stedfast and you walk in the pure fear of the Lord and you are of tender bowels and full of compassion to all the Lords little ones and you are of a meek spirit and lowly in heart and you are of tender compassion to all the Creation of God you are weak with the weak and bear a dear sympathy with the afflicted precious sons and daughters of Sion let them be under what name and notion soever if thou seest they are built on the power life and truth of God by which they breath after the everlasting well-springs of life the fountain of eternal love thou hast a principle in thee if thou art upon the sure foundation that is stirred up with an endearednesse to such a breathing soul after the pure life of God for my Friends if we have built on a good foundation then 't is certain we have a good building if we have a good Root we have a good Tree and if a good Tree there must be good fruit Now Friends by this you may come to know whether you are built upon the power life and truth of God or what foundation you are built on Let me lay it farther before you NOW if we have a good foundation we have a good building a good house and there is good order and government in this house and good dyet good meat and drink and choice cloathing and blessed safety and no Lordly or Majestick superiority over one another in this house or family that is built on the power and life of God with other good things Now that soul that hath built upon Christ the truth and power of God hath a good building a good house and it s none other but the house of God the Temple of God and God hath said I 'le dwell with you and walk in you and be your God c. And this every Saint is in particular the habitation

brightnesse that is shining in them Mat 17.5 6 7 8. that is seen and felt in the light and life of God Oh what a covering hiding and vailing of the flesh is there as not being able to look upon or behold such brightnesse of his glory Friends these things are true and faithful VII The everlasting God did promise to meet with his people in the Legal day and to commune with them upon the Mercy-seat c. Oh Friends God in old times did speak Heb. 1.1 2. commune and meet with his people in divers manners and at sundry times but now in these last dayes he has and does speak meet and commune with his people in and by his Son Mark 9.7 who sayes This is my Son hear him And it s he that has the mind and message of the Father and shews it his true Disciples He speaks not of himself but what he hears and receives of the Father that he declares John 3.32 John 10.30 1 John 2.23 and here it is that the soul meets and communes with the Father because he hath the Son for the Father and the Son are one and he that hath the Son hath the Father also and he that hath the Father hath the Son also Now as any soul comes to hear the voyce of the Son of God in themselves particularly and comes to obey the voyce of the Son of God in themselves which obedience is life comes to meet with the Father in the tender imbraces of divine love seated in his tender mercies but if the soul rebells and disobeyes his heavenly voyce Isa 63.10 and vexes his holy Spirit then the soul comes not to partake of this heavenly blessing to wit of this heavenly communication and glorious making forth of the eternal presence of the everlasting God but I say if the soul hears and obeyes the voyce of the Son of God as he obeys so he comes to have life and because he lives whose voyce it is they obey they shall live also for said Christ Because I live ye shall live also John 14 19. whose voyce is in the soul calling to be pure as God is pure holy as God is holy and so to live in all manner of holy conversation in the streamings forth of the life within 1 Pet. 1.15 whose voyce calls for a love to all righteousnesse and to a hatred and forsaking of all iniquity though never so secret whose voyce is for inward cleansing inward purifying As be ye pure and clean that bear the Vessels of the Lord. Now if we would be Vessels holding the treasures of heaven in us 2 Cor. 4.7 if we would be Temples of the Holy Ghost houses and habitations of God through the Spirit we must be pure clean and holy for Friends Holinesse becomes the house of the Lord for ever Now this the voyce of Christ the Son of God calls for in us Isal 93.5 and as every soul comes to obey the voyce of the Son in the Spirit of power he comes to meet and commune with the eternal God in his everlasting mercies Thus Friends ye have a brief description of what God has shew'd unto me though more sometimes by the light of God I see in a great deep for the which there is a desire in me to be found waiting on the everlasting light till he is pleased to bring it forth and duly manifest it Now how by Temple Tabernacle Ark can be meant or understood outward Ordinances as at the beginning was spoke of and for such that are come to this state herein mentioned and have no freedom to subscribe to and walk in I know not but I have a testimony in my soul that the substance comprehends and includes all the shadows and signs and signs are not for them that believe but for them that believe not so that if my soul enjoyes the substance and lives in the possession according to the measure the which I have an inward testimony of let who will question it the which some has done then I have the end of all the shadows and signs Col. 2.16 17. for they all end in Christ who is the truth substance of all light life power Gospel Covenant Word Supper Baptisme Rest c. so that in him my soul reposes and finds rest and in his light can dilcern betwixt the shadow and the substance the form and the power the letter and the Spirit not slighting that without yet esteeming more of that within and walk in that without as I find freedom within and so my soul enjoyes peace Isa 32.17 for its peace God calls unto and the effect of righteousnesse is peace and that is righteous that God works so unto what the righteous God works freedom to therein let 's obey herein none shall be oppressed and his Conscience Lorded over but walk in the freedom and liberty wherewith Christ does make free only Brethren use not your liberty for an occasion to the flesh the which if you do pretend to liberty in Christ and walk carnally you demonstrate that you know not this liberty and freedom by Christ but are in bondage to this day Judge not rashly least you be judged for with what rash judgment ye judge of the same shall you be judged withall Wherefore holy Brethren partakers of the heavenly calling consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession Christ Jesus Who was faithful to him that appointed him as also Moses was faithful in all his house For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses and Moses was faithful in all his house as a servant for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after But Christ as a Son over his own house whose house are we if we hold fast the considence and the rejoycing of the hope firm unto the end Wherefore as the Holy Ghost saith To day if you will hear his voyce harden not your hearts c. So I sware in my wrath that they shall not enter into my rest Because I was grieved with that generation and said They do alway erre in their hearts and they have not known my wayes Wherefore Brethren Take heed least there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God Hebr. 3.1 2 3 5 6 7 10 11 12. Now unto 〈◊〉 him who is able to keep you from falling I commit you and the peace of God that passeth all understanding fill you and God everlasting make you perfect strengthen establish settle you working in you that-which-is-well-pleasing in his sight through Jesus Christ to whom be glory for ever and for ever Amen Near the end of the 4th Month in the Year 1664. Your Brother That waits to see the redemption of the pure seed of God in you all and its enlargement over all the Earth J. C. THE END

of God through the Spirit this house is erected by the finger and power of Jehovah Tzebaot the Lord of Hoast The inward pure Government and shining glory and requirings in the house or habitation of God in the Spirit AND farther Friends this house of God has good government for its the Lord Jesus that rules and governs in this house and no other has right to govern but himself for it s his own and hath bought it and purchased it not with corruptible things as silver and gold but with incorruptible even with his own precious blood Friends when Christ is born in the soul of any whether Jew or Gentile bond or free the government is put upon his shoulder and to that end is this Son given and the Child born viz. that the government may be upon his shoulder that he might rule and govern and raign in the soul in his own house and he will raign in righreousnesse and governs with pure Laws of light and freedom not with Laws of darknesse and bondage The pure and everlasting God layes not hard service upon his children and servants he imposes no heavy task upon his family but what is in the pure freedom of the Spirit his requirings are according to the growth of his children and servants were it not there would be disorder instead of order but no no my Friends there is nothing but pure order in the house of God The ever-blessed God rules governs and orders all in pure love pure light pure fear taught by himself and not by the precepts of men pure righteousnesse pure truth and all inward Now to see a Saint walk and acting without from these pure Laws of God within oh what a great shine and glory does it cast upon all it does oh then if so great a shine without how great is that glory within it being all glorious it being that more excellent glory it being the brightnesse of the Fathers glory Oh Friends my soul admires this glory Friends sink down from all your selfnesse and somethingnesse and come into this most excellent glory and lie with my soul still from self-acting before this glorious God that this glory may passe besore us i. e. that it might more and more manifest its self unto us that we may come to be transformed from glory to glory by the pure Spirit of the living God Now Friends to see an house in such an order under such a government is to see it in a comely order to see it all fait and to have no spot in it Of the heavenly bread and waters of life that is provided eat and drank of in the family and house of God in the Spirit of the living God THere is not only Rule in this house but there is plentiful spiritual provision made for the whole family of God and duly administred by the hand of living power and vertue whereby it gives living spiritual nourishment for growth to encrease with the encrease of God the eternal pure God gives it the bread of life and the waters of life to eat of and to drink of and the soul being in a living state eats and drinks thereof and is refreshed and cryes out evermore Father give me of this bread of life and these waters of life Oh my soul though the e●ternal grace of God have an internal or inward caste hereof and it cryes and breaths in the pure fear and Spirit of God after more and I find it s not that I might eat and drink hereof alone but that all might come in the fear of the living God to eat and drink hereof also with my soul that we might rejoyce together in the Spirit and that we might sing a Hymn and spiritual Song singing and making melody in out hearts to the living and pure fountain of life giving pure and spiritual thanks alwayes to God in the name i. e. power and Spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ Oh Friends every soul that is surely fixed on this foundation of God which alwayes stands sure have a measure of this heavenly food viz. of this bread of life and waters of life dealt forth unto him according to his growth and appetite that his soul hath Now we ought and it s our duty to be thankful with or for such a measure that we have and to eat and drink to the glory of God Friends if it hold true in the outward much more for the inward But Friends inlarge your appetite open your mouth wide and the Lord will fill it Labour for a greater hunger and thirst after this true bread and water of life and you shall be filled satisfied and refreshed Oh Friends thirst not hunger not so much after the outward observance which is a spending your money for that which is not bread and your labour for that which satisfies not and your strength and time for that which perishes But labour to feed more of this true bread that cometh down from God out of heaven the which whosoever eats of is blessed and to drink of those waters that runs by the Throne of God whose streams make glad the heart of the City the habitation the house of God here Friends does my soul come to experience what is meant by eating of the fruit of the Tree of life that John declared of Rev. 11.7 And here I come to understand know feel and to eat of the hidden Manna that is spoke of in Rev. 11.17 its Manna that is hid from the wise and prudent of this world but revealed to them that fear and love the pure God in Spirit and truth and such eats thereof to their souls nourishing and refreshing Here my soul comes truly to eat of the flesh and to drink of the blood of the Lord Jesus and so comes to have life in it for this is meat or nourishment indeed and this is drink or refreshment indeed I may eat long enough of the elementary things before my soul is nourished and refreshed in the eternal life but if my soul eats and drinks of this spiritual food then my soul comes to have life and refreshment as my soul knows right well through the Spirit Now in eating and drinking of the true bread and water of life we come to have communion with the body and with the blood of Christ for this communion is in the Spirit and not in the letter whose praise is of God and not of men for men are carnal and this is spiritual But this I know will seem strange to a formal person but let it its true and faithful yea and our communion as Saints is in the Spirit in eating this spiritual bread and wine of the Kingdom of God and not in the outward visible elementary things in the pure Spirit is our pure communion and our living communion in and by the living Spirit Here I come to know what it is to eat of the Supper of the Lord amd to drink of the new Wine in the Fathers Kingdom

that the Lord God everlasting destroy cut up and consume carnal wisdom fleshly reason and fleshly will by thy Almighty power that they might never more hinder and deface thy pure holy glorious Image and breakings forth of thy innocent breath and of the pure and holy openings of thy indeared and tender love unto it And Friends in this life you shall be cloathed with this pure fine white linnen John declared of which is clean and white the which the Bride the Lambs wife is to bedeck her self with for the Marriage with the Lamb and therefore if any soul-pretends a Marriage with the Lamb and have not this fine white linnen which is the righteousnesse of the Saints he or them shall be dealt severely with he shall be taken by the Lord and bound cast out and his portion appointed with the Hypocrite where shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth for ever Such shall be for ever banished from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power to be punished with everlasting destruction because they obeyed not the Lord who commanded them to put on this garment this righteousnesse which is the Lord Jesus in Spirit and truth and because they obeyed not therefore sudden destruction shall overtake them Therefore Friends all be exhorted in the pure fear and dread of the Almighty God to turn in and make inquiry into this pure spotlesse matchlesse fine white-linnen which is the righteousnesse of the Lord Jesus Christ and of the Saints and you may come to know it by its effects for as it hath been already declared that it 's soft Rayment so 't is it 's soft gentle and quiet where it is and it fills the soul with peace passing the carnal understanding the work of righteousnesse shall be peace and the effect of righteousnesse quietnesse and assurance for ever And this habitation of God where this soft cloathing is to be felt is a peaceable habitation there is sure dwellings and quiet resting places And Friends this ornament beautifies the soul in the sight of God because its the comelinesse of God the beauty of God that is upon it this soul worships God in the beauties of holinesse in the Spirit of power upon the Mountain of righteousnesse And Friends this garment does not make the soul proud but humbles though its glorious apparrel yet it does not puffe up but layes the soul low it sinks the soul deep into humility and brings the soul into a free resignation to God This soul thinks not scorn to hear the voyce of the Lord out of the mouth of a Babe and Suckling but is content yea joyes in the Spirit of the Lord to see the life move in a despised instrument by the world and carnal wisdom But those that have covered but not of the Spirit of the Lord not of this righteousnesse of this pure garment they are proud despisers of them that are good fierce and cruel to the Saints betrayers of the Saints and of one another as their self-interest lies yet build upon a form of godlinesse but denying the power thereof and will own little in reality but what is in their form and way Friends be still and consider these things and examine your hearts Know you not that this is set And further Friends I find from this inward adorning and beautifying my soul to God and to the Lamb a garment of praise spring up in me which leads me forth in the pure fear of the Lord to praise magnifie and adore the pure living God and here I come to experience and to feel what it is to sing a Hymne or spiritual Song unto the Lord God of life and unto the Lamb that sits upon the Throne singing praise and hallelujah to the Lord God Omnipotent because he has taken to himself his great Rule and Raign singing with grace in my heart which heretofore I had heard the sound of and many other things the which now my soul feels the living vertue power and spirit of Oh Friends labour to feel the living power of this and of these things in your own souls and then we shall rejoyce together and sing the Song of the Lamb which none can sing but those that are redeemed from the earth i. e. from the earthly will wisdom and practice for the carnal part has nothing to do herein but the Spirit only The precious Laws of Government in Gods House and the choice Anointings and Teachings by the Spirit AND further Friends the house the habitation of God through the Spirit that I declare of has precious Laws of Government and Rule in it which before was hinted at I am made willing in the power of God to speak a little further of it The Laws of Gods house are spiritual as the house is in the Spirit so are the Laws it s called the Law of the Spirit of life and this same Law ruled and governed in Christ Jesus Rom. 8.2 and so in a measure in all the sons and daughters of God This is the Law of the new Covenant that Law that comes from God out of Sion this Law is not in the letter but in the Spirit the letter is 〈…〉 the Law is within As God said I 'le put my Laws in your mind and write them in your hearts and they shall not teach every man his neighbour saying Know the Lord for all in whose heart this Law shall be made manifest shall know me from the least to the greatest Every one in particular as they come to have the seed of God the Lamb of God the life of God to rise in them they come to experience and feel this Law in the Spirit and life teaching directing counselling and guiding into all truth and as every particular comes to obey they come to have peace with God they shall be all taught of the Lord and great shall be their peace This peace passes all understanding and its such peace that none can speak but the eternal God nor can give but himself who is the God of peace God blessed for ever And therefore Friends every one of you turn in and look for the Law in your hearts in your minds to be guided by it and as you come to see it and to be taught by it obey it and give up your minds to be guided by it which will guide from sin Iniquity and transgression from the world the pride of it the fashions of it the lust of it and it will guide you into righteousness into life and peace with the eternal God Friends think not this manner of speech strange and contemptible I know in the spiritual knowing part whereof I do affirm and have had an inward feeling abundantly whereof I declare Spend not all your precious time in the Law of the letter written on paper with pen and ink without the Law in the Spirit written in your hearts by the Spirit of the living God Oh Friends what if you should never so much study the

and a pushing one at the other for that 's of the flesh but a submitting the shoulder to bear each others burthen they lay out for each others good of what the eternal God has laid into their hearts and all this according to his working in them who works freely that all might be strengthned and comforted so that here 's not among the children of God Superiority one over another but all equally alike the children of God and Brethren one of another And certain I am that according to the measure of Gods indwelling in the pure light of life in the soul so the haughtinesse of man is crucified and laid low for haughtinesse and lordlinesse of spirit is from the flesh and beneath But as the soul receives of the Spirit of light and life and obeyes its teachings and drawings it shall find it drawing him from this spirit of haughtinesse and lordlinesse into a humble and low frame that it can standing in the power of such drawings condescend to wash his Brethrens feet as Christ did and become in the power of this so little and low that a little Child may lead him to wit Christ the Babe of righteousnesse the holy One of God for Friends the more the soul is anointed with the consecrating oyle i. e. the Spirit of God the more humble that soul is and willing to instruct his poor and weak Brother what God has done for his soul in order for his weak Brothers perseverance in the truth such a soul under the anointing of God is far from a Lordly and Majestical spirit This is that which God destroyes in the day of his power and glorious appearings of his life in a soul In that day the lofty looks of man shall be humbled and the hanghtinesse of men shall be bowed down and the Lord alone shall be exaleed AND now my dear Friends Turn in and see what you can experience in your own particulars that your rejoycing may be in your selves and not in another and think not this strange that you are pressed through such a weak instrument as I am to turn in and to see if these things are wrought by the eternal Spirit and that you have your teachings from the Spirit within Consider Friends the soul that is to be saved is within and Christ the light is within he sayes I am meek and low in heart And Christ in you the hope of glory And know you not that Christ is in you c. And the Law of the Spirit of life by which every particular is taught though every particular does not learn holinesse righteousnesse and the true fear of the Lord c. is said to be within I 'le put my Law in your minds and write it in your hearts c. And God himself is within as the Apostle declaved I will dwell in you and walk in you and you shall be my people and I will be your God Now if all this is within then turn in and examine your selves what of the teachings what of the life of the power and Spirit what of the flowings forth of the living vertues of the eternal Fountain of righteousnesse do I feel spring up in me that I and thou oh soul may rejoyce in our own portion and not in anothers and each of us come to sit down under our own Vine in particular and eat of the sweet fruit hereof none making afraid sayes my soul This Vine to be Christ and the Father to be the Husbandman that we may rejoyce together as the children of one Father all drinking into that one Rock and baptized into one Spirit and bound up together in the bundle of one life and that our union and communion may stand in the life Spirit and power and not in forms and outward observances saith my soul A brief discovery of the entrance into this house and habitation of God AND Friends There is no entring into this house of God but by great travel and pains Thou must travel out of Egypt through the loathsom Wilderneste to enter into Canaan Thou must oh soul experience the bond of thy iniquities to be broken Thou must know a day of trouble of misery a day of burning before thou canst advance this Church that is in God I say Thou must know the terrors of the Lord as my soul has known by reason of sin a day of shaking the foundations of the earth and making it to tremble a feeling the Arrows of the Almighty God stick in thy soul and great disquietnesse within thy borders because sin is in thy Tabernacle thou must feel his indignation as my soul hath according to thy measure and 't is good to bear it because of sin untill he raise thee up and comfort thy soul as sin is purged out Wait upon the Lord and suffer the wrath of God to be revealed from heaven against thy unrighteousnesse and in due time thou shalt feel a power-springing up from that light which first discover'd to thee thy sin whereby thou shalt have sin cast out but not all at once but as thou waitest here and obevest so thou shalt feel thy sin and thy old nature and all self destroyed and crucifyed so thou shalt experience a crucifying with Christ that thou maist live with him a pure innocent and spotlesse life and as thy sin and old nature c. is destroyed and dies so shall Christ the light of life live in thee and so as thou obeyest this light of life which is risen to destroy thy death thou shalt come to live in the pure life and have it in your selves and so as he who is this light of life to wit Christ Jesus lives in you you shall live also in him and so come to experience what it is to dwell in the house of God and to be a member of the true Church that is in God and to experience all and much more as already declared And now Friends unto the Lord I commit you and give up to be taught governed and guided by his pure Law of righteou snesse the Law of the Spirit of life which is the Law written in the heart which Law is pure and consents not to sin but reproves it and manifests it and holds out a power to mortifie it the which every soul that waits on the Lord and stands in his counsel shall feel spring up to cast out the son of the bond-woman for it shall not be heir with the son of the free-woman i. e. with Christ the life and seed of God And that you might be cloathed with the garment of light and salvation and with zeal and holy courage for the Lord as with a Cloak and that you might come to praise and adore the living God of endlesse life and that you might be fed upon the Mountain of Gods holinesse with the Feast that God has prepared a Feast of fat things of Wines well refined and that he might destroy by the appearance of his life the

vail that is upon you that you might come forth from darknesse and walk more in the light of life A word to the Weak to establish and direct them that they faint nat at the sight of the outward Adversary in their Meetings AND Friends There is a desire risen in me that every one of you in particular may come so to be established on that sure foundation the everlasting Rock of Ages that you may not be so soon shaken away many of you from the confidence that you seem to have for God and Truth as you are perswaded I speak not this to reproach you but in the power of God to establish you Friends your 〈◊〉 going forth out of the power of God into the flesh is it that makes you faint in the day of adversity and in the face of your enemy Therefore Friends if you would be valiant for the truth mind the life of God in your souls reside and dwell in it and give up all unto it fix your mind steddy upon it and stay thereon and as thou comes to this O soul thou shalt be kept in peace and quiet off from the trouble and disquiet that the flesh raises up for God will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is staid upon him Friends it ill becomes those that fears the Lord to be of such a fearful frightful spirit as I have observed there is sometimes in your Meetings though it be but of suspition of an invasion by the enemy without Friends the desire in my soul is that you would mind the life the spirit in you and be still and quiet in the patience of the life and Lamb of God according to the measure in you and as you mind this and dwell in this your fears and terrors of the flesh will abate and your courage advance for the life of the pure God crucifies the flesh which leads to death The Spirit of God is a Spirit of love and of a sound mind it casts out such fear and it is not a Spirit of slavish fear so that my Friends if you be the sons and daughters of God why then you are led by the Spirit and not by the flesh which is fearful sinful c. And if you have the Spirit and live in the Spirit why then it has mortified the deeds of the flesh which are evil c. See Rom. 8.5 to the 17. verse They which are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh and they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit Slavish fear and cowardise for truth is of the flesh and to be fleshly and carnally minded is death to the soul but to be spiritually minded is life Oh Friends it has been a trouble to my spirit sometimes to see the distraction perturbation and trouble that many have entered into in their Meetings at a shallow c. Oh Friends labor to crucifie this old man with his fleshly meanbers and branches that springs forth into the visible life and what you have in the invisible life watch to have it strengthned and live in the measure you have attained of this invisible or inward life in your own particulars And if any further of the coming in of the visible enemy be into your Meetings in the discharging what you are perswaded to be your duty which is too probable and likely be still and quiet in your selves sweetly composed with your mind fixed upon God enjoying communion in the life and Spirit of God according to your particular measure keeping steddy in the beholdings of the life and be in the serious pursuit of it and do not suffer your thoughts and your minds to straggle in the least no not for a moment though the enemy provoke you be diligent in the watch that the enemy of your soul the invisible enemy break not in to overthrow your peace and communion with God and destroy your pursuit in the life and so your peace being lost your watch down and the enemy broke in then you enter into the flesh in the troubles fears tempests and disquiets which the life is freed from c. and so will be ready to say any thing do any thing so that you might be acquitted of the enemy without and released of a Prison and banishment for thy body which affrights many poor hearts who considers not the Prison the banishment and darknesse and trouble that their souls is in in the want of the light life Spirit peace and communion with God Oh Friends I say unto you all watch watch the life and go not from upon any terms be surely built on the sure foundation and you shall be able to say in the same life according to thy measure as David I am fixed I am fixed O God I am fixed O happy state here is the only safety And now unto the Lord once more I commit you that every one of you may so come to be established on that sure foundation the everlasting Rock of Ages and build so upon the power and life of God that Prisons Fines Persecutions the gates of hell even death it self may not prevail against you non affright you Amen Some further discovery of Gods house or habitation through the Spirit And according to my measure declaring of the spiritual Temple or Tabernacle and Ark of the Testimony the Truth Life and Substance of the Temple or Tabernacle and Ark of the Testimony under the Legal dispensation to be read in the light which manifesls the things that are of God FRiends The house and habitation of God is called the Temple or Tabernacle of God where God dwells walks moves c. and this was shewed by the Temple under the Law in which Temple or Tabernacle God was graciously present with his people in that day but now dwells no longer in Temples made with hands but in his people and children who are the Temple and hat itation of God through the Spirit Though my Friends some do imagine that the Legal Temple or Tabernacle is a figure holding forth to us the outward Ordinances viz. Preaching Praying Supper Water Baptism c. And some calls this a new Iemple state and 't is to be feared there do abide and look no further or very little higher than just to draw from it the outward observation but God hath revealed it otherwise to me and a necessity is laid upon me being called to it not to deny it In order to your understanding of this Consider I. That in the Legal Temple was the Ark of the Testament and this was the Ark of his presence Now this Ark figured forth the Lord Jesus in the Spirit which dwells in his people or particularly in a Saint this is the Ark of the New Testament Isa 42.6 Mal. 3.1 which also is called the New Covenant That Ark was Legal this is a Gospel-Ark that was an outward Ark this an inward Ark that was an Ark in a form this an Ark in the power that

was in a Type and shadow this is in truth and in substance Deut. 10.30 that was wrought by mans hands this is wrought by the finger and Spirit of God I say that Legal Ark was a Type Hebr 9.3 4. Exod. 23.33 and Christ Jesus the Ark of the New Covenant is the Antitype of the Tipe the residence of the Legal Ark was in the Temple or Tabernacle not in the outward Court or Sanctuary but within the Curtain or Vail called the Holy of Holies by Gods appointment so is the Gospel-Ark the Ark of the New Covenant it s in the holy place it s within the Vail Col. 1.27 it s not in the outward Court of profession or Sanctuary of observation but within Christ in you the hopes of glory And know you not that Christ is in you except you be reprobates 2 Cor. 13.5 II. In this Legal Ark whose place of residence as before said was in the Temple Deut. 10.4 5. and in the holy of holies in the Temple there was put the two Tables of stone whereon was the Law of the Ten Words or Ten Commandments by which the Jews in their day was to walk what does this figure forth unto us Rom. 8.2 but the Law of the Spirit of life which was in Christ Jesus the Ark of Gods presence which Law is alwayes in the Ark for believers to walk by as God said This is my Son hear him And Friends it s he only that teaches the will of God perfectly and profitably for none teaches to profit like him Hebr. 8.10 Jet 31.33 2 Cor. 3 3. I will write my Law in your hearts and put it into your inward parts said the Lord. It s not now as under the Legal dispensation a written Law without on Tables of stone or by pen and ink but upon the Tables of our hearts by the Spirit of the living God and this Law of the Spirit of life is read and known by all that comes to know it in the Lord Jesus Christ the light the Ark the Covenant and Gospel of God III. In the Legal Ark there was Aarons Rod put which budded in the Ark c. what does this figure forth Ans Heb. 9.4 Gal. 5.22 John 15.8 John 3.21 Isa 26.12 Ezek. 37.1 c. The Spirit of God which buds blossoms and brings forth fruit to the praise and glory of the pure God which pure Spirit is in Christ Jesus the Ark of God without which none can bring forth fruit except they abide in it and that in them working the works of God in them and for them for without this Aarons Rod viz. the Spirit of God what dry sticks dry bones are we bringing forth no fruit to God nor good to our Neighbour so that to me Aarons Rod does figure forth the pure Spirit of life Col. 1.27 29. and the budding is that fruit that is brought forth where it is by its operation and working and this is in the Ark in Christ Jesus who dwells in the Temple that is made without hands Acts 17.24 Chap. 7.48 IV. In the Ark of the Legal Temple there was a golden pot of Manna put c. Now what also does this figure forth I shall declare as God hath inlightned me in it and given my soul to taste hereof which is the sweet fruit and divine manifestations of his precious love to the soul in and through the Spirit it s the precious fruit of the Kingdom of light the true bread that cometh down from heaven John 6.51 the which the soul that eats thereof shall never dye and no soul comes to eat of this Manna but as he overcomes Rev. 1 ●7 and he that overcomes shall eat of this hidden Manna i. e. shall eat of the peaceable fruits and have the divine manifestations and sweet refreshings of the eternal Spirit of truth It was laid up in the golden pot now gold is the purestand finest of all mettals 1 Tim. 3.9 so this Manna I speak of is put into a clean Vessel into a pure and holy heart and the more any soul comes to be clean pure and holy the more they come to enjoy and see God For the pure in heart shall see God Mat. 3.8 Heb. 11.14 and without holinesse none shall see God But I say as they come to be holy and pure so they shall see God and the more the soul comes to see God the more is that soul transformed into the likenesse of God now the more any soul sees God and is like God the more does that soul eat of this hidden Manna i. e. this soul feels a spting of life peace comfort 2 Cor 3.18 joy in the Holy Ghost spring up in him wherein the soul comes to be strengthned fixed and established in God and his soul feeds on this and is refreshed and this is the Manna the meat he eats that the world knows not of and which a carnal flesh in all its outward shew cannot feel nor see John 4.32 for its spiritually seen and felt Blessed is he that knows and feels the living vertue and spring of it V. Upon the Legal Ark there was the Mercy-seat c. what does this shew Answ It figures forth unto us that the tender mercies of God is seated on Jesus Christ for God in himself is unknowable unutterable unexpressable unconceivable as having nothing to do with his creatures or his creatures with him but as he hath introduced himself into them through his Son and so the eternal God comes to be known seen felt and heard as he hath and does make forth himself through his Son by his Spirit so that all knowledge and mercy of God comes in upon the revelation of the Son as Christ said John 1.18 Mat. 11.27 None have seen God at any time save the Son and unto whom the Son shall reveal him Neither can we see God in the divine manifestation and discovery in the Spirit of his eternal goodnesse righteousnesse and truth except the Son does reveal him so that in this brief hint it may be seen if the light of God doth inlighten according to the measure of it that its on the Ark of the testimony of God to wit Christ Jesus that mercy is seated for this is the way of all mercy to the whole Creation Friends I give you but a hint of these things though sometimes I see much of these things in the deep VI. Upon the Legal Ark was two Cherubims covering their faces with their wings because of his presence Now as God manifests his living pure presence the flesh is hid and doth disappear and that soul is led by the Spirit and walks after the Spirit and not after the flesh Rom. 8.1 14. Oh when the Lord God in his eternal Spirit of light and holy brightnesse appears according to the measure of its manifestation what a trembling is there in the flesh by reason of his presence and glorious