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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

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

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