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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52030	A second epistle, being a tender salutation to the seed of Jacob vvherein is contained an exhortation to the called and chosen people of the Lord, who have kept their first love, to abide therein to the end : also, a hand of dear love held forth to the spiritual travellers, who are travelling from Egypt's land of darkness towards the spiritual land of rest : the counsel and determination of the Lord God Almighty founded in the ears of the unfaithful, disobedient and deceitful, who hold the truth in unrighteousness, and cover themselves with a profession of the precious truth, and yet live in the nature and spirit of those who walk in the broad way, that leadeth to destruction : also, a brief rehearsal and discovery of the enemy of man's soul, his workings from the beginning of his appearance unto this day, age, and generation / Charles Marshall.	Marshall, Charles, 1637-1698.	1673 (1673)	Wing M742; ESTC R7579	15,880	27

A Second EPISTLE Being a Tender Salutation To the Seed of Jacob. VVherein is contained an Exhortation to the Called and Chosen People of the Lord who have kept their First Love to abide therein to the End Also A Hand of Dear Love held forth to the Spiritual Travellers who are travelling from Egypt's Land of Darkness towards the Spiritual Land of Rest The Counsel and Determination of the Lord God Almighty founded in the Ears of the Unfaithful Disobedient and Deceitful who hold the Truth in Unrighteousness and cover themselves with a Profession of the Precious Truth and yet live in the Nature and Spirit of those who walk in the Broad Way that leadeth to Destruction Also A brief Rehearsal and Discovery of the Enemy of Man's Soul his Workings from the beginning of his Appearance unto this Day Age and Generation Charles Marshall Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians and how I bare you on Eagles Wings and brought you unto my self Now therefore if you will obey my Voice indeed and keep my Covenant then ye shall be a peculiar Treasure unto me above all People for all the Earth is mine Printed in the Year 1673. A Second EPISTLE Being a Tender Salutation To the Seed of Jacob. THou Seed of Jacob that hast been scattered amongst the Nations who hast indeed been small and lain amongst the Pots thy Glory hath been covered thou hast been as trodden down amongst all Nations desolate and forsaken as a Widdow thy Habitation hath been in the Wilderness the great red Dragon hath sought to devour thee the Beast that rose out of the Sea and the Beast that rose out of the Earth and Mystery Babylon the great have all sought the Vailing of thy Glory and the Destruction of thy Life thou hast been as a speckled Bird and being desolate hast mourned and cried through many Ages and Generations thou hast been as in a strange Land how hath the Egyptian and Assyrian oppressed thee how have the Task-masters oppressed thee Oh thy Burdens thy Oppressions thy Wounds thy Cries and Tears thy Lamentations thy Groanings under all thy Oppressions and Oppressors thy Burden is felt and thy deplorable Estate amongst the Nations over which Darkness hath spread it self as a Covering God Almighty hath given a sence of Oh thou that art as in the Clifts of the Rocks and as in the secret Places of the Stairs my Soul hath been often bowed down in a sence and sight hereof but blessed be the Name of my God the Sorrow hath not been without Hope having felt the Arm that will deliver thee Arise Arise thou Worm Jacob the Lord hath heard thy Mournings and hath taken notice of thy Oppressions and his Bowels earn on thee yea he hath seen he hath seen thy desolate Estate thy Cries are come before him and thy Sighings and Mournings and he hath taken notice of thy Oppressors and is angry with the Nations because of thee And now in the Name of the God of the whole Earth the Everlasting Creator ●… prophesie of thy universal Visitation and Deliverance through all Nations Tongues and People now will the Lord plead with all Nations for thy sake and give Nations for thee and People for the Ransom of thy Life Now will be gather thee thou Seed of Jacob from the East and from the West he will now say to the North give up and to the South keep not back and will bring his Sons from far and his Daughters from the Ends of the Earth therefore thus saith the Lord who redeemed Abraham concerning the House of Jacob Jacob shall not now be ashamed neither shall his Face now wax pale but when he seeth his Children the Work of my Hands in the midst of him they shall sanctifie my Name and Sanctifie the Holy One of Jacob and shall fear the God of Israel And now behold the Name of the Lord cometh from far burning with his Anger and the Burden thereof will be heavy his Lips are full of Indignation and his Tongue is Devouring Fire and his Breath as an Over-flowing Stream shall reach to the midst of the Neck to silt the Nations with the Sive of Vanity and there shall be a Bridle in the Jaws of the People causing them to Err but thou Seed of Jacob shalt have a Song as in the Night when an holy Solemnity is kept and Gladness of Heart as when one goeth with a Pipe to come into the Mountain of the Lord to the Mighty One of Israel and the Lord shall cause his Glorious Voice to be heard and shall shew the lightning down of his Arm and the Indignation of his Anger and with the Flame of devouring Fire with scattering Tempests and Hail-Stones And therefore Arise thou Precious Seed spring at the Salutation of the Prophecy of thy Deliverance for thou shalt be made a quiet Habitation a Tabernacle that shall not be taken down not one of the Stakes thereof shall ever be moved neither shall any of thy Cords be broken thou shalt be as a Royal Diadem in the Hand of thy God even an Eternal Excellency the Joy of many Generations this is thy Portion and the Lot of thy Inheritance thou Oppressed Afflicted Seed of Jacob. And now unto you the First-Fruits of the Glorious Day of Visitation which hath dawned in this Northern Island of the Gentiles who have kept your first Love in and through which the Lord God Everlasting reached unto you and have kept your Habitations in the Light unto which you were turned by the Might of the Arm of Jacob's God and therein have waited and diligently sought and served the Lord I say your Bones are full of Fatness your Souls are full of Vertue and Hearts filled with the Love of God and Minds possessed with the Pure Fear and Aw of God the Almighty your Tents are Goodly and your Habitation is Lovely you it is I dearly love honour and esteem you are the Jewels of the Lord which he will now make up and spare My Soul is refreshed in the very remembrance of you and my Spirit is comforted in the sight of you in the Invisible Spirit of Holiness you Beloved of the Lord you Amiable Ones whose Souls abhor every Graven Image and Likeness nothing satisfying your Thirsty Breathing Panting Souls but that River the Streams whereof make glad the City of God Unto you this Exhortation springs in my Heart who am a Fellow-Citizen with you in the pure Movings and Arisings of the Eternal Power of the Mighty One of Israel from day to day from week to week from moneth to moneth from year to year to the very end of our dayes let us keep our Habitations and stand upon our Watch-Tower wherein we hear what the Lord saith who speaketh Peace to his People that they turn not again unto Folly let us keep the Commandments of the Lord cleaving to him loving and serving him all our dayes with all our Hearts and with all our Souls And as here

of a great Eagle given her fled into the Wilderness for a Time Times and a half from the Face of the old Serpent and he hath made War with the Remnant of her Seed and by his powerful Workings brought Night over again who work'd mysteriously even amongst the Churches causing some to lose their First Love others to hold the Doctrine of Balaam others the Doctrine of the Nicolaitans others to have a Name to live and yet dead to God others suffered the Woman Jezabel others called themselves Jews and were not but were in the Nature of the Synagogue of Satan others there were that were Luke-warm neither Hot nor Cold and manifold have been the Transformings of the Adversary of Mankind the ●evil but in one and the same Nature and Power His first Appearance under which he would have destroyed the Man-Child and the Woman and the Remnant of her was a great Red Dragon then as a Beast rising out of the Sea the Waters who had seaven Heads and ten Horns and on his Heads seven Crowns and the Beast had his Power Seat and great Authority from the ●ragon and John saw another Appearance a second Beast that rose out of the Earth which Beast had only two Horns and that like a Lamb but spake as a Dragon and exercised the Power of the first Beast which first Beast having a Wound by the Sword and did live all the World wondered after who had made War with the Saints and overcame them and all worshipped and do worship the Beast that had a Wound and did live whose Names are not written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the Foundation of the World if any Man hath an Ear to hear let him hear Here is Wisdom let him that hath Understanding count the Number of the Beast who carryed Mystery Babylon the great the Mother of Harlots who was drunken with the Blood of the Saints and Martyrs Oh horrible Night Oh deplorable Time and Season that hath been over all the Nations Tongues and People this Forty and Two Moneths all which time the holy City hath lain trodden under Foot and this Thousand two Hundred and Sixty Dayes which time the Witnesses have Prophesied in S●…k-cloth and Ashes and have been slain by the Beast whose dead Bodies have lain slain three dayes and a half in the midst of the great City not put into Graves which i● s●iritually called Sodom and Egypt where also our Lord was crucified the Woman which was clothed with the Sun hath been in the Wilderness a Time Times and an half the Book of Life was sealed with seven Seals But now that which lies on my Spirit is to manifest that this horrible Night of Apostacy entered at first through the departing of some from the Power even the Power of Godliness it self into the Form thereof through which came into the Churches the before-mentioned horrible Evils And this Depature from the Power is occasioned through going out of the Daily Watchfulness in the Gi●t of God in which and through which the Power of the Almighty is daily felt and manifested and through the getting up of that Wisdom that is sensual in which the cunning Serpent the Devil wrought to bring in Damnable Heresies privily for this is the Treacherous Part in Man in which the Devil hath appeared against the Life the Truth the Power in all Ages and Generations for herein he makes a Likeness of the Truth and thereby and therein setteth up Prescriptions and Rules and Limits to the Spirit and Power of God it self and those born of it and this is that which hath and would kill the Heir the Life that Self may have the Inheritance and this birth of the Evil One leadeth to sacrifice to their own Net and herein the Apostacy came in privily cunningly and gradually and improved it self through the Workings of the power of the old subtil Serpent in his Transformings as an Angel of Light in the Wisdom of Men which is from beneath and is sensual For that which caused the Appearance of the Lord Jesus in the Apostles dayes to be Glorious was not the Wisdom of Man aforementioned but the Out-goings and Daily Arisings and Manifest Operations of God's Eternal Power and Spirit in which no Graven Image Likeness or Similitude can be set up for that 's the Work of the Devil in the Wisdom and Will of Man that acts like the Devil of it self apart and without the daily and continual Revealings of the Eternal Power of God Almighty and all Knowledge either gathered by or standing here puffeth up and at last leads to forsake the Life and Power like Demas But now dear Friends ever-blessed be the Name of the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob and all the Faithful through Ages and Generations past the Lord God of Heaven and Earth hath caused his Ancient Power and Arm to be reveal'd after this sore horrible Night of Darkness that hath been in and over the Earth and the good Old Way and Ancient Path of Life is again revealed into which Thousands and Ten Thousands have been called and many have been gathered Magnified and Praised be his Name for it let it be given and returned to him through Ages and Generations even for evermore for that he hath remembred and visited again the Distressed in the Wilderness and is bringing forth the Desolate so that now she is seen leaning on her Beloved and Life from God is entered into the two Witnesses and the Seven Seals are opened and opening and great Babylon is come in Remembrance before him to be sunk down and destroyed by a perpetual Destruction and now Jerusalem is coming down as a Bride adorned for her Husband the Seven Thunders uttering their Voices the Perfection of Shaking that the Mystery of God may be finished But dear Friends the same Roaring Lyon that appeared in the Ages by-past is now going about and that diligently seeking how he may destroy this Appearance of the Mighty God in this Age and Generation by drawing the Mind and Heart gradually aside from the Eternal Power it self that first visited and also through his many Instruments opposing the Truth that are led captive at his Will And now dear Friends there is no Preservation but in keeping to the Simplicity of the Gospel and to the very Living Almighty Power of the Lord God by which all being kept low Self and that part aforementioned that the Enemy worketh in will be made of no Reputation but be humbled to Death even the very Death of the Cross which is the Power of God and here let all keep in the pure Retiredness in the Valley of Humility in pure Dread Fear and Awe and let that be your Instructor and Teacher that hath been least and not the Wisdom of Man for that will lead in Nature from the Power although in Name own and speak thereof And dear Friends a Travel hath been on my Spirit beyond all expression That the Enemy may never deceive any of us as he did Eve by Subtilty for this I declare in the Name of the Lord God The Enemy worketh no way which hath a tendency more secretly destructive to the Appearance of the Most High God in this day then in the Wisdom of Man which is not that Wisdom that is from above which Wisdom is pure and peaceable the Nature of which is to lay low all as the Nature of the other which is sensual is to make Men and Women grow Jesurum like thick and fat and high which leads and turns from the Broken-hearted Tender Contrite-spirited estate And so dear Friends in the Bowels of unexpressible Love to all that have been visited with the right Arm of God's Salvation and are tender before the Lord keep in the Light in a daily watchful Estate for if there be not a keeping here a good State and precious Growth in the Truth may soon be lost and an Image of the thing come up in its place God Almighty in his Heavenly Power by the working of his everlasting quickning Spirit open unto you all the many Snares Wiles of the Enemy by which he lies in wait the Innocent to deceive and preserve all in the Gift of his Love in the sight and knowledge thereof that by the daily Manifestation and Operation of his pure Power we may break all the Enemies Snares in the same live to his Glory to the end of our days And all Friends every where all to your Tents dwell and walk with the Lord build on the sure Foundation the try'd Corner-Stone which they only do who hear the Word of the Lord and do it so shall you and your Building stand in the stormy Day that comes to try all Foundations and Buildings in which day the Floods will come the Waves will beat the Rain descend and then all Sandy Foundations and all Buildings how stately soever built thereon shall fall and great will be their Fall and perpetual Destruction And so the Lord God preserve you all to build and be establish'd on the Foundation of many Generations so will you go through the Fiery Tryal in which nothing shall be consumed but the Dross Lead Tin and reprobate Silver for the Gold will endure the Tryal and the Wheat the Fanning but the Chaff will be blown away and all the Stubble consumed by the dreadful purifying Fire of God that will try all The Lord gather the Upright into the Ark of his Covenant and into the Munition of Rocks where Bread will be sure to the Hungry Ones and Water to the Thirsty in which Estate the God of the Spirits of all Flesh preserve and keep his Flock and Family every where and abundantly water dew upon and Replenish His even from this time forth and forever and ever Charles Marshall Tetherton in Wiltshire the 7th of the 1st Moneth in the Year 1673. 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