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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60851	Some breathings of life, from a naked heart presented in love to the honest, vpright, and single-hearted, that they, with me may wait to feel the imediate drawings, and leadings of the Holy Spirit in all things ... so that they need not any man to teach them, 1 Joh. 2. 27., with an epistle for peace and unity.	Salt, William.; Fox, George, 1624-1691.	1663 (1663)	Wing S460; ESTC R17566	16,219	20

serving in the Spirit and walking in the Spirit or else be still Did Israel trust upon God and rest wholly upon him they would find him their rest And good it is to be found faithfull in what they are called of God And so in their Callings to abide with God and then is man in his place one day as well as another for there hath been a time of shewing these things unto many and there may be a time of practizing the same what they have seen and that from the Lord concerning their coming out of observation of dayes and though they cannot act therein so inoffensively as they would in respect of them without yet to do it as inoffensively as they can Now who have believed do enter into rest and he that is entred into his rest he also hath ceased from his own works as God did from his And such a one his Servant shall rest as well as him and his Cattel likewise for a good man is merciful to his Beast And if any more publiquely hath a testimony to bear against their day and that from the Lord let none be offended but all Israel keep in keep coole and quiet And that is the way to keep safe and not to strive to go forth that day more then another If that there was formerly Collection for the Saints on the first day of the week must there needs be meetings on that day whether the Spirit of the Lord move or not For as to time I know it from the Lord that there is none more holy then other For the Seed of God being come up sees over time and beyond and as it is kept in the Dominion over things in time and keeps open and single unto God which is the blessed Seed or that in which the blessing is and seeth all time in the Fathers hand For feast-days holy-dayes or Sabbath-days what were they more then Shadows of good things to come but the Body is Christ whose day is holy and his rest is Everlasting For all Shaddows were to terminate in something be they what they would Christ the end of all things in whom all Types Figures and Shadows end the restorer of the Creation the Rest that God hath prepared for his People in whose Arm of Power the weary Soul finds rest And the resting in any outward Observation or Thing could not give rest to the Soul therefore was there a necessity of bringing in that which was more perfect the better hope by which we draw nigh unto God And when that which is perfect is come then that which is imperfect comes to be done away So each thing was to be done as under the Covenant in which it was and according to its appointment but the first gave place unto the second and was changed then there must be also a change of the rest For the Priest-hood being changed there must be also a change of the things that were done under it A change of their offerings which Christ the one Offering ends and the end of their Law by which they took their Tithes Christ within the hope of Glory the Mystery hid but now revealed praises be to his Name who liveth for ever who is the Souls Bishop who watcheth over and taketh the Care of his Flock for had his Compassions failed we had not been a People whose Love hath overcome my heart therefore have I a Zeal for him and for his People And it is his blessed appearance that is to be waited for that blesseth you the Glory of the Lord to fill his own Temple which appearance many have waited for For of old they were to go up by appointment and do things in its Order And we are now to receive an appointment before we do and to do things as under that Covenant in which we are not according to the Letter of a dispensation as they that were ordered according to the Law of the Carnal Commandment which was to come to its end but in newnesse of Spirit to receive the Commandment new and in all things to be ordered according to the power of the endlesse Life For it is the New Testament to which we are come where are new and fresh discoveries and leadings according to his will that we are Children of He made known his Will unto the Children of the first Covenant which they were to obey and do and he maketh knows his mind by putting his Law into our minds that we might serve and obey him likewise not as they did in the oldnesse of the Letter but in newness of the Spirit And this is that which we are to keep on in the New and Living way that leadeth unto the Living God wherein is found the Daily Bread for that which I Received Yesterday will not serve me to day nor that which I have to day will not serve me to morrow but I must have it fresh and new and then it is good So that this I find according to the mind of the Spirit of God in me to be the time under which we are as New-Covenant Children to Act in newnesse to walk in newnesse of life marke new for the ●ords have an import in the very sound of the Covenants the first could not continue which was old and ready to vanish away but the second is new and everlasting and abides for ever and is a Covenant of life and peace to all that stand in it or live answerable to it So that this is according to what Moses Prophesied of Christ that 〈◊〉 was to be heard in all things And said the Minister of Christ whatsever ye do in word or deed do all in the Name of the Lord Jesus or in his power that the power may stir first then in the name of Jesus which is the Saviour there is safty And so he may be called a spirituall man that doth all in the spirit and with it and a good understanding wherein the true worshippers worship the Father in spirit in truth And this will be a Dread among People that they see we serve God indeed with Reverence and Godly Fear not in our own Time nor Will nor their Will but when he pleaseth or stirreth and not till then And this is that which is acceptable not Customary Formally or by Tradition as others have done which the Lord hath cast out before us And the Lord knowes I am even sick with love therefore beare with me and overcome with the goodnesse of the Lord which my soule hath felt and it is the life of love that I breath after to see brought forth among us to know the depth thereof gifts may cease and tongues may cease but love abideth which is most excellent And this when even tyred and wearied in my mind the Lord fixed me upon his spirit of love which he hath born up in me which I prayed the Lord and supplicated him for as seeing a beauty in it which the Lord will bring his

strengthned for if the Spirit be stopt or quenched then the unity is quenched that is plain And this would put a stop quickly to all Customary and Formal proceedings all to do and every one to do as they are moved of the Spirit by the Lord which is Holy Just and True And thus I have born forth my Testimony as moved of the Lord and in Love to you all wherein let me be Received William Salt And these two things feel me in and therein abide with me My heart fixed in the Spirit of Love wherein I am to keep for ever And drawn and guided by that Spirit which way he pleaseth and I passive therein which will never deceive any of you to abide in Love and know the Imediate motions of the good Spirit to guide you Thus it was well with Israel as they were kept by day and by night to the Conduct of the Pillar of Fire and the Cloud and had this in their sight through all their Journeyings to be kept in a continual Subjection and Dependance upon God And at the word of the Lord they travelled and at the word of the Lord they stood still or abode in their Tents whether two Dayes or a Month or a Year as the Cloud tarried or remained upon the Tabernacle the Children of Israel Remained still and Journeyed not So as this is to be Read by each in Particular so it is in the General At the Commandment of the Lord they rested in their Tents and at the Commandment of the Lord they Journeyed and rose up and sate down with Holy Breathings in their mouths Arise O Lord and let thine Enemies be scattered and return unto the many Thousands of Israel And the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord went before them in their Journeyings holding forth at that time what the Spiritual Israel were to have to go before them in ages to come even him who was given for a Leader and Commander to the People And what is it can help out of the Apostacy heal any of their Backslidings or save any from the errours of their way but th● unerring Spirit of the Lord to know its Motions and Leadings And whereas it was said by one speaking concerning the Raging of the Sea and casting up its Mire and Dirt yet said he We must 〈◊〉 through it yea but the Lord must lead first otherwise Creatures may quickly sink and where the Lord leads there any are to follow but for otherwise And another speaking to this effect To heed the Power and Spirit of the Lord which was before Storms and Tempests was yea so to heed it as to be guided by it So that this brings still unto the thing that hath been spoken of to feel the Lord present or to see the Living going before if that move not then to be still So let all Flesh be silent before the Lord and all fleshly reasonings for the Lord is risen of a Truth whom we are to follow and let the sound thereof go forth to the utmost ends of the Earth This then in short what the tendance of my words hath been not to appear in any thing but what the Spirit of the Lord moves unto directly for had that been still I had been still in this matter neither having regard to one time or place more then another but Spiritual all in the Spirit to be performed or as that makes way or bows the hearts of any which is to be waited for In the mans day things hath been done in the mans time and according to his will but in the day of the Lord all is to be done in his time and according to his will who hath all times in his hand which the Creature is to eye diligently in this mighty day of the Lord wherein man is wholly to be ceased from for ever So to visit one another any as they are moved and speak one to mother and meet together as they are moved for if two or three shall agree on Earth as touching any thing that they shall ask it shall be done for them of my Father which is in Heaven saith Christ For where two or three are gathered together in my Name there am I in the midst of them And so daily to exhort one another as they see cause or are led thereunto by the Spirit of the Lord where there is any Buffettings Temptations or things of that kind And where any more generally shall assemble themselves together and find leadings thereunto in the Spirit of Love let them do it even as that puts forth it self in the thing otherwise it were better to be still and not to do it because it hath been done and others have exhorted thereunto and so to be tyed to the Letter of a dispensation for there is a time for all things and to every thing there is a Season saith Solomon there may be a time to go forth and there may be a time to keep still a time to speak and a time to be silent or is the spirit of the Lord to be limited about any of these things as that he shall not have the liberty left him to require what or when he pleaseth And may not some as contentedly be brought to sit in silence or to be taught as formerly to be Teachers of others and may it not be 〈◊〉 Convenient And did not the Prophet of the Lord Declare their strength was to 〈◊〉 still may there not be a time for sitting still now as well as then and is not the Creature Man and Woman to be held in subjection to the Creator and did not the Saints sit at his Feet to hear the word at his Month which is the thing that is so desirable now and the matter contended for to receive the Word at his Mouth which the Holy men of old well knew and more desired it then their necessary food yea it was sweeter to them then the Honey or the Honey Comb. But the Flood is come and what shall I say even to be still This then is my exhortation unto all in the fear of God and in Love and as moved thereunto by his blessed Spirit every one as Members one of another to answer his place in the body The Wise mans eye is in his head and sees what he requires and to answer his requirings or what may be laid before one another in meeknesse and in Love as they feel the thing in their own Life to answer it that there may be no drawings back for such the Lords Soul hath no pleasure in And this which I have here in the beginning written is what in time past hath risen in me from the moveings and openings of the spirit of the Lord which I now think meet to commacate When I was in deep distress and sorrow of spirit concerning the ark of our God and the cause of his truth and something concerning the condition of others when I set my face toward them to both

grow green and the Renown will go forth as a wise and an understanding People that stand in the Councel of God and the God of Peace will dwell among you and bruise Sathan under your feet And so to live in the True Unity of the Spirit and not to quench it nor grieve it For if the Spirit be quenched then the Unity is quenched for in that it stands for the bond of Peace is strengthend the more the Spirit and Power is united to wherein is the Fellowship which I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ which is the Power of God unto Salvation out of which is not safety And this Fellowship and Unity in the Spirit and Power of the Lord is Strong and Unalterable and unlesse there be a going from the Power and Spirit it cannot be broken for as not any outward thing can or doth make it so neither can it break it which keeps down the mans part in all or that that would exalt self that the Lord alone may be exalted And it is a nearer Unity the Lord is bringing his People into then any outward thing can break it W. S. Let this Passe through all Friends of God Written by his Servant Prisoner in Rome DEar Sisters and Brethren and Holy Building of God we must be like Lambs Suffering all things that we may be like our Father the Shepheard For God Almighty suffereth all things and easeth his burthened and grieved Spirit of his Adversaries when he will I well know it And therefore as Dear Children take occasion to speak to each other in the pure bowels and to cherish one another that you may be prepared and trimmed with the mighty strength to bear every Tryal and comfort your hearts in the Lord who will do great things which your patient hearts shall see in his time Therefore wait and pray and believe and go to one anothers Houses and visit one another and especially the Prisoners and the Afflicted and the Tribulated that you may be Consolation to them in the Name of the Lord and kisse one another in the Immortal and so be joyned as one in the Wedlock of the Lamb For so am I exceeding dearly bound to you all and in the simplicity dwell which saith yea and it is yea and nay and it is nay and thee and thou for the Crosse is there And all must come to the first day and second day and third day and to all the six dayes for the Kingdome of Heaven is in you which stands not in words but in Power which is the seventh day of Rest to which all must come And so in the truth you stand in the Power of God which brings forth all your words in Subjection to the Power and thus they are spoken in the Kingdome in the Pureness and Plain-heartednesse And here they are not a tradition but the fruits of the Power and so are all the actions of the same nature by which God is Gloryfied in you and the whole world confounded before you And as concerning Tythes all Friends must stand in the Power of God to Saluation which is the Cross of Christ for Christ is the everlasting High-priest of freedom from the first Priest-hood and all the tythes and carnall Ordinances which appertained thereunto who by the Purchace of his Blood hath he ransomed you from them all No man therfore ought for the love of the things of the world by paying Tythes to deny the Blood of Christ and the Lord which bought them least in so doing they draw fire on their own heads And as touching the observation of dayes all must come into him which Created all dayes and then they are over them all for God is the Lord of the whole Creation and we know that God ceaseth not his labour every day who dwells in his everlasting Sabbath of rest whose Soul is grieved with such as are in the observation of days which know not him that created them for God feedeth the Sheep and the Wormes and the Fishes and the Fowls and Children and men and all quick things in the Wombe and maketh the Vines and the plants and Corn and Flowers grow without respect of dayes and maketh the Rivers run and the Seas to Ebb and Flow and the Rain falls and the Sun shines and the Winds blow and it Lightens and Thunders and Hailes and the Sun and the Moon and the Stars go their course without respect of dayes And we know that all these are the continual works of God who also causeth the Bryers and Thorns to be plucked up and the unfruitful and dry Trees to be cut down and maketh them rot as they stand in the ground and killeth the Creatures in the Sea and in the Earth by death and slays men by Sword Fire Plagues Famine and by Death without respect of dayes and still God is in his Rest and we in him do like him Labour all dayes without respect of dayes which is the true Godlinesse to be like God and are in Gods Sanctified Sabbath Day of Everlasting Rest and the whole World sees us not but is Confounded And in Order to Prayer many of the World take off their Hats and pray standing in the Synagogues with their heads covered and rest in that Service But Christ kneeled down and so did the Apostles and Daniel besides others of the Holy men of God fell down with their faces to the ground prayed with their Heads uncovered and we read not that in a Custom they took off their Hats or Caps Stand you therefore in the Power of God to Salvation which is the Crosse of Christ to all that stand in the Customs and Traditions and ask the World what is the difference between the fleshly Head of a Carnal Man and a Carnal Woman and which of them two God doth most respect That one stands in such an exercise with Hoods and fine Dressings or Hat on and the other with Hat or Cap of And the Answer of the Seed in them will confound them and hereby God Almighty is glorified in you And therefore as you stand over the Worlds Head in like manner stand over all their Hats and Caps also And if any Friends are moved of the Lord God to Pray in the Congregation of God falling down with their faces to the ground without taking off the Hat or the Shooes let them so do in the Name and Fear of the Lord and if the World be contentious ask them why take you off your Hats without precept and not your Shooes seeing it was a precept which God Commanded Moses saying Take off thy Shooes from off thy Feet and the Seed will Answer you in secret and so God is Glorified and the World Confounded J. P. THe first time that any thing hath been touched concerning the Ceremony of taking off the Hat was when J. P. was Prisoner in ROME in the Solid and weighty Seed of the Kingdom not in a Light or Contentious Spirit as may be seen by the foregoing Paper of His And though several hath seen and felt the thing as it was in themselves yet it may be hath not publickly declared it or it might not be laid upon them to Publish it What is it therefore to be dispised because it came from a Suffering Servant of the lord Though in this Case I desire to know no man after the flesh For if I see and feel it be of the Lord it is sufficient for Christ is my Alpha and Omega he who is the Beginning and the End the First and the Last And who is it shall lay any thing to the Charge of Gods Elect It is God that Justifieth who shall Condemn For when I saw it or it came to my hand to write it I had this Testimony for it in Spirit That it was in the Dominion and Authority of the Lords own Spirit And this I have to say farther if any thing be revealed to another is not the first to hold his Peace For the Spirit of the Prophets is to be subject to the Prophets and God is not the Author of Contention and Strife but of Peace as in all the Churches of the Saints And this is according to the True Church Order Subjection to the Spirit of the Lord in one another and the Prophesying one by one that all may be Comforted and all may be Edified Therefore have Salt in your selves and Savour and Love whereby you may Edifie one another for that which hurteth or destroyeth is out of Gods Holy Mountain These Books may be Enquired for of Thomas Simmons OH Day of Tryal come thou art For to Discover every heart And manifest things as they be That all the Innocent may see The Man that doth the Life possesse From him that onely it Professe Yea thou wilt shew them who they are That Soar'd up above the Spheare In words in Carriage or in Action Which gave the Seed no Satisfaction And such before that thou art over Their Nakednesse thou wilt Discover Whereby some that deceiv'd have been And catcht by them as in a Gin Will be Ashamed and sit down And wait within to feel their own Eternall Gift to guide again And Life to breath upon the slain And as these things they come to feel It will afresh revive their Zeal To stand against every thing That would to God dishonour bring And patiently the Crosse to bear Whoever flee it they will not dare Because they 'l see it would offend And bring them sorrow in the End The Living God who is so just That all that will him follow must Deny themselves in every thing And wait on him who is their King GEORGE FOX The Younger THE END

SOME BREATHINGS OF LIFE From a Naked Heart Presented in Love to the Honest Vpright and Single-Hearted That they with me may wait to feel the imediate Drawings and Leadings of the Holy Spirit in all things Or come to know that State which the Apostle speaks of to have the Anointing to teach them all things or of all things that cometh from Christ Gods Anointed So that they need not any man to Teach them 1 Joh. 2.27 With an Epistle for Peace and Unity Thus hath it been said by a Servant of the Lord. If Thy Presence go not with us carry us not from hence And another blamed some for that They had need to be Taught the first Principles of the Oracles of God Not by Might nor by Power but by my Spirit saith the Lord of Hosts Who art thou O Great Mountain before Zerubbabel Thou shalt become a Plain and he shall bring forth the Head Stone thereof with Shoutings Crying Grace Grace unto it Printed in the Year 1663. Some Breathings of Life from a Naked Heart NOt to run with the Stream nor Strive against the Flood which casts up its Mire and Dirt which is the same with that in France Italy Spain c. for it is the Nature of the Sea to cast up its Mire and Dirt therefore to stand still in the Arke to abide still in the Secret of the Almighty and so to keep out of its reach not to strive against it least it cast upon thee its Mire and Dirt neither to run with the Stream for it runs into the Sea that is Bottomlesse So strive not stir not nor provoke but stand still and the Lord will dry it up Which shall not hinder the Churches coming out of the Wildernesse though the Dragon may cast out his Floods but come over every green thing yea those Professors that have talked of Noah's Flood returning and abide not in the Ark will run with it And many Floods shall passe over the Righteous Soul whom the Lord will Deliver and will be as a Winter-storm So that its like the Floods may rise and swell and may prevail for a while but who are in the Arke will ride upon the Floods So that there is no going out but to stand still till it be abated And there hath been a time of bringing all Home of bringing them to their own and there may be a time of keeping at Home And so every one to sit down under his own Vine and quietly to enjoy the Fruits of his Labours for it hath been the Lords Work to bring us hither And he that hath laboured will now come to eat So let Israel abide in their Tents and not in any thing outwardly to put forth but as seeing the thing inwardly in their own Life and according to the moveings and leadings of the Spirit of the Lord for therein is safety that their own life may be their head in every thing And the Lord bid Noah go forth of the Arke before he went forth after that the Flood was abated So that as he Commanded him in so he Commanded him forth again and he was held in Subjection So that the mans part being kept down any thing may be done at the Commandment of the Lord where the Creature is held in Subjection If I find movings from the Spirit of the Lord to put off any Garment or the whole and see the end thereof I may do it otherwise it would be wisdom to let it alone in its place And if it be to go to any man or place I may do it as I find drawings and there it would be safest to find leadings to it and the hasty thing kept down and the Creature kept to the lowly humble self-abasing Spirit And though I have an high esteem as to Meetings yet I am not to do the thing in my own will or time nor any other least it be said who required this at your hands So that there is no other course to come into but that which the Spirit of the Lord leads into daily And not to uphold any thing because it hath been done no farther then the Spirit of the Lord moves or leads thereunto at the present Newly for I am to serve God in Newnesse of Spirit and so is the Creature kept in a daily Subjection to the Spirit in every thing And so as sometimes I have said Let Life lead in all things and as that leads so to follow or else to be still if it be from House to House so that I am to Act from the Life For the Worship of God is a weighty thing therefore am I to do it rightly and truely in the sincerity of my heart and not lightly as a Costome Tradition or formal thing but in the strength of my Life And this is not to bring things out of course or leave things at uncertainties to do it in the moveings and leadings of the Spirit of the Lord daily and hourly in every thing for who are from the feeling of that and the leading of that run at uncertainties Therefore if I go to a Meeting I go in the moveings or in the fear and dread of the Lord upon my Spirit in expectation of some thing that from the Lord hath been stirring thereunto that both may be done in the Spirit wherein is the unity or else it would not be right in him or them that hath appointed it and it would turn to Israels reproach not to have the Lord going before us in every Meeting or thing done to wait for his Motion or appearance as towards that Thing or Service or else not to put forth in it And as was said by one We are ready to hear all things that are Commanded thee of God so say I. And it hath been upon my heart for the Preservation of the simple in this day and the avoiding Customariness and Formality in any Service of God Go not forth but stand still neither stir up the Souls Beloved untill he please nor force the thing but let it alone untill he gently leads that People might not loose their Expectation coming to find some appearance of the Lord and find carelesnesle in Meetings Customarinesse Formality Deadnesse and Drowsinesse can they say this to be of the Lord or according to the appointment of his Spirit Some have been blamed for that they were grown so formal as to know before hand when to begin and when to end their matter O that the dread of God may be upon all hearts in this day that nothing may be given forth or attempted but what he appears in first for Christs Sheep hear his voice and they follow him And the hungry would be willing to wait for his appearance and many would be disappointed of their wicked intents and purposes as not knowing the time which the Seed of God raised up by the power of God fees all time in the Fathers hand or dispose And so would Friends in their Service be preserved