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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41056	An evident demonstration to Gods elect which clearly manifesteth to them I. How necessary and expedient it is for them to come to witnesse true faith, II. That after they have attained to the faith, it must be tried as gold is tried in the fire, III. It shews how many have departed from the faith and denied it, IV. That the standing of the saints is by faith in the Son of God, V. How strong Abraham was in the faith and how all that believe are to look unto him / by Margret Fell.	Fox, Margaret Askew Fell, 1614-1702.	1660 (1660)	Wing F630; ESTC R36425	11,187	17

their meat nor for their drink neither for their body what they should put on for saith he shall he not much more clothe you O ye of little faith And again when the tempest rose upon the Sea they begun to be afraid Then said he unto them Why are ye fearful O ye of little faith And again when he shewed them the Fig-tree how it was withered Christ said unto them If ye have faith and doubt not ye shall not onely do this which is done to this Fig-tree but also if you say unto this mountain be thou removed into the Sea and it shall be done and whatsoever you pray for believing ye shall receive And again he said unto Peter when the Sea was boistrous and he afraid he said unto him O thou of little faith why dost thou doubt Yet after this Peters faith was shaken Again when that the Disciples could not cure the man that was Lunatick then Jesus said unto them O faithlesse and perverse generation how long shall I be with you how long shall I suffer you bring him hither to me And one of the Disciples said why could not we cast him out Then Jesus said unto them because of your unbelief For verily I say unto you if you had faith as a grain of mustard-seed you should say unto this mountain remove hence to yonder place and it should be so and nothing shall be unpossible unto you And unto Thomas he said Be not faithlesse but believing So here is the very life of your life that you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ for whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed for there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him and believe in him And so now Friends seeing that many when tryals come upon them have been shaken as you may see in the Scriptures more fully Therefore in the fear of the Lord God keep close and near to the word of faith which is nigh in the heart and neither ascend nor descend but keep to the righteousnesse of faith and then you keep to the substance of things hoped for and to the Evidence and Testimony of things not seen Through faith you may understand that the Worlds were made by the Invisible Word of God so that things which are seen are not made of things which do appear but by the immortal and Eternal Word which was in the beginning here you wil see him that is invisible as Abraham did who believed and it was accounted unto him for Righteousnesse not when he was in the Circumcision but when he was in the uncircumcision and so he received the signe of Circumcision a seal of the righteousnesse of his faith which he had before he was Circumcised that he might be the Father of all that believe though they be not Circumcised outwardly that Righteousnesse might be imputed unto them also not of the Jews onely but also of the Gentiles for all who walk in the steps of that faith of our Father Abraham for the promise that he should be the Heir of the World was not to Abraham or to his seed through the Law but through the Righteousnesse of Faith therefore is it of faith that it might be by Grace to the end that the promise might be sure to all the seed not to that onely which is of the Law but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham which is the Father of us all who against hope believed in hope that he might become the Father of many Nations Oh the Infinite love and wisdom of the Lord God and the depth of the mystery that hath been hid but now is revealed by his Spirit Know ye therefore that they that are of faith are the children of Abraham and the Scripture which cannot be broken foreseeing that God would Justifie the Heathen through faith preached before the Gospel unto Abraham saying in thee shall all Nations be blessed The promise of the blessing to Abraham and his seed this is the glad tydings of the Everlasting Gospel the liberty to the Captives the desire of all Nations which is now come and risen manifested and fulfilled what he hath promised in this his day And all they that be of the faith are blessed with faithful Abraham and this is the Gospel which the Apostle was not ashamed of to preach which is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth to the Jew first and also to the Greek for therein is the Righteousnesse of God revealed from faith to faith for the Just lives by faith whether they be Jew or Greek bond or free there is neither male nor female here but they are all one in Christ Jesus And if they be Christs then are they Abrahams seed and heirs according to promise And here is the fountain opened for the house of David and for the Inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleannesse Christ Jesus the Everlasting Covenant who in the last day of the great feast stood and cryed saying If any man were athirst let him come unto me and drink he that believeth on me out of his belly shall flow Rivers of living waters but this he spake of the spirit which they that believed on him should receive according to the words of the Apostle who said unto the Jews Received you the Spirit by the works of the Law or by the hearing of faith for we through the spirit wait for the hope of the Righteousnesse of faith for in Christ Jesus neither Circumcision nor uncircumcision availeth but faith that worketh by Love and obedience unto him who saith I am the Resurrection and Life he that believeth on me though he was dead yet shall he live And he that liveth and believeth shall never die and he that believeth worketh the works of God he that believeth shall never thirst And this is the will of the Father that hath sent the Son that every one that seeth him should believe on him and have everlasting life and he would raise him up at the last day and blessed are they that believes and lives in the freedom of the spirit for to the spiritual mind is life and peace and no evil tydings can come to such such reckons not the sufferings of this present time worthy to be compared to the glory that shal be revealed for the Just lives by his Faith but if any man draw back my soul hath no pleasure in him Now Friends seeing it is so that the spirit speaketh expresly that in the latter times some shall depart from the Faith giving heed to seducing spirits and Doctrines of Devils and that some have cast off their first Faith and some through the love of money have erred from the Faith and pierced themselves through with many sorrows and some have denyed the Faith and some have had their Faith overthrown by others words and some have made shipwrack of Faith and Jude

AN EVIDENT DEMONSTRATION TO Gods Elect VVhich clearly manifesteth to them I. How necessary and expedient it is for them to come to witnesse true faith II. That after they have attained to the faith it must be tried as gold is tried in the fire III. It shews how many have departed from the faith and denied it IV. That the standing of the Saints is by faith in the Son of God V. How strong Abraham was in the faith and how all that believe are to look unto him By Margret Fell. That the trial of your faith being much more precious then of gold that perisheth though it be tried with fire might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ 1 Pet. 1.7 And this is the victory that overcometh the World even our faith LONDON Printed for Thomas Simmons at the signe of the Bull and Mouth near Aldersgate 1660. Friends of God and of the Living Truth as it is in Jesus who are called to be Saints and to live godly in Christ Jesus as becometh Saints THere is something upon me as from the Lord to write unto you concerning the precious Faith which was once delivered unto the Saints which may be you may be called to contend for times of tryal thereof seeming to approach but the the onely intent and desire of my soul is that you may be brought into it in the Truth and soundnesse of it which indeed is a mystery and cannot be held but in a pure conscience void of offence towards God and towards man And being that it is so that without faith it is impossible to please God and that whatsoever is not of faith is sin This being weighed and read in the pure eternal Light which every one hath a measure of to try withal it will nearly concern every one to search and try narrowly and throughly whether they be in the faith which is of Gods Elect yea or no This may be lightly looked upon with many as though it were needlesse and below their condition and state as if it were easie to be in the faith of God yea the very World the Apostatized Christians will talk of a faith though it be dead and they yet in their sins But truly Friends I see in the Eternal that it is a great mystery to be made partaker of the precious faith which gives the victory over the World and faith is the gift of God And I find in the Scriptures of the Prophets that there was few that witnessed and spoke of Faith though there was many faithful men which by faith obtained a good report and died in the faith by which they did the Commandements of God according to his Eternal purpose yet the Fathers were under the cloud and the appearance of God in their day was in a cloud and all passed through the Sea and were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the Sea and they did drink of the Rock which followed them which Rock was Christ while Moses is Read the vail is over the heart which vail is done away in Christ When God called Moses and Aaron and Miriam he said Hear now my word if there be a Prophet among you I the Lord will make my self known unto him in a vision and speak unto him in a dream This is the state which we must passe through but the Lord said with Moses my servant it is not so who is faithful in all my house with him I will speak mouth to mouth even apparently and not in dark speeches Here Moses was faithful to God as a servant and his ministration was glorious yet this glory was to be done away by reason of the glory that excelled which glory remains where the spirit of the Lord is the covering And so Friends come into the Light of the Son of God which gives the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ the brightnes of the Fathers glory which Moses could not see and live And here you will come to see to read through the mystery of the faith of the Gospel in the ministration of the spirit And now that none may think of themselves above what they ought to think let every one with the light of Jesus seriously and singlely search and try your standing for it may be that times of tryal of faith may come The Apostle bad the Corinthians examine themselves whether they were in the faith prove your own selves saith he know you not how that Christ is in you except you be Reprobates This he said to the Corinthians who were a gathered people And to the Galathians saith he If a man think of himself to be something when he is nothing he deceives himself but let every man prove his own work and then he will have joy in himself and not in another Friends be not offended that you are put to a search and warned before-hand that your foundation and standing may be sure when the day of tryal comes for the Lord hath said Zech. 13.9 I will bring the third part of them through the fire and will refine them as silver is refined and try them as gold is tryed And they shall call on my Name and I will hear them I will say it is my people and they shall say the Lord is my God And Peter saith Ye who are kept by the power of God through the faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time wherein ye greatly rejoyce though now for a season ye are in heavinesse through manifold temptations that the tryal of your faith being much more precious then gold that perisheth though it be tried by fire might be found unto the praise honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ O blessed will ye be if you be found here for then will you not think it strange concerning the fiery tryalls which are to try you but you will even rejoyce inasmuch as you are partakers of the sufferings of Christ Truly Friends my care is with the desire of my soul that you might come into the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ and that the same mind may be in you that was also in Christ Jesus who made himself of no reputation but took upon him the form of a servant and was made in the likenesse of men and being found in fashion as a man he humbled himself and became obedient to the death of the Crosse and through that he is exalted And this is the path that the faithful in Christ Jesus must walk in wch may be found strait and narrow to the first man which is rough and hairy Esau-like And though as I said before you may think strange that you should be exhorted to come into the faith of the Lord Jesus Christ yet this is above the Disciples condition for they were often reproved for the want of this of their Lord and Master when he was exhorting them to take no thought for