your Adversary although he seem Potent but joyning with that which lets you see him there lyes your Strength God Almighty bless preserve and keep you all Faithful and Obedient to the Measure of Grace received from him is the Prayer of your dear Brother in the Truth of God in his Measure your Servant for the Truth 's sake and a Watchman for your Souls good by Name Roger Hebden From York-Castle the 22d of the 12th Month 1654. THE blind Watchman cries Watch but cannot but I as to the outward being Imprisoned for the Truth am at Liberty in the Spirit of the Lord with you all that are therewith guided and rejoyce in that the World cannot comprehend where lyes the Unity and the true Welfare even Fulness for all that are Obedient to the Lord in what is made known to them to be the Will of God and are found doing it Let this Enclosed with this be read at your Meetings amongst Friends in the Fear of God in which Meeting and Waiting whilst you are together and being kept when asunder all other Fear will be kept forth and you brought into the Blessedness For Blessed is the Man that feareth always A Letter to John Hebden my Brother after the Flesh I Am in Health and Well every way being and knowing my self to be in Obedience to the Will of God in this Condition and how long here I do not desire to known for that which would is for Condemnation with the Light that comes from Christ Jesus in obeying whereof the true Peace is But this is a Mystery to the Carnal Mind but to be Carnally Minded is Death and to be Spiritually Minded is Life and Peace is witnessed Praises to the Lord God Almighty for evermore Therefore in Love running forth to thy Soul I exhort thee Consider what it is thy Mind is upon whether upon things Carnal or upon things made known by the Movings of the Spirit of the Lord in thee to be thy Duty to do A Talent God hath given a Measure of his Spirit unto every Man to profit withal and the Movings thereof in every one is cross and contrary to the Will of Man For Prophecies is times of old came not by the Will of Man but holy Men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost Say not That was so then but can any expect it to be so now Who say it cannot make God changeable and not a Fulfiller of his Promise who saith Sons and Daughters shall Prophesie and upon Servants and Handmaids he will pour forth of his Spirit and they shall Prophesie Therefore that in thee which calls with a still low Voice as if it were behind thee when thou turnest either to the right Hand or to the left from That which the Righteous Pure and Holy Law of God makes known unto thee to be thy Duty to do or to leave undone To that give heed and thou shalt do well as the Apostle Peter saith as to a light shining in a dark place until the day dawn and the day-star arise in thy Heart And this Light shines in Darkness although the Darkness comprehend it not and so I know it is whith many as it was with me this Light did shine in me althogh the Darkness in me did not know what it was but when I came to know it and to be faithful in little things but it made known to be Sin avoiding them and by it little things which was made known to be my Duty doing them I came to find the Increase of God and whoso will not be Faithful in a little can never be made Ruler over much Who shall entrust him with it Nay that little is even taken from him and that unprofitable Servant is cast into utter Darkness where is Weeping and Wailing and Gnashing of Teeth so it was I did witness it But there is no Condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus who walk not after the Flesh but after the Spirit Time was when Paul found a Law in his Members warring against the Law in his Mind so it was there was something in me that would as with the Apostle have served the Law of God but he found a contrary power giving way to it led him captive to commit Sin and then he cried out of his Wretchedness But he here did not rest himself satisfied as the Professors of the World now do who take this Condition of his when he cries out under the Burden of his Misery and in his Warfare to plead for a Hold for Sin and Satan in them so long as they live but he looks up to Christ and thanks God that he gave him the Victory through him and then he says There is no Condemnation and That the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus had made him free from the Law of Sin and Death Which Condition is now witnessed the Conquest gotten by the same Conqueror and here is nothing of the Will of Man in it That hath neither Part nor Lot in this matter but the Work is the Lord 's only by that of himself in the Creature he joying to the Gift of God the Creature comes to Witness it Praises to our God for ever From a Well-wisher of thy Soul whose desire is that he may write himself thy Brother in that which the World cannot comprehend nor be bound by them wherein is the Unity of Saints and Rejoycing in the Lord in Spirit Roger Hebden York-Castle the 3d of the 1st Month 1665. From York-Castle the 12th of the 1st Month 1655 and sent into Swadale and Bishoprick to be read at their Meetings Frends ALL in the Manifestation of God's Spirit received wait for the increase of God being content with what is made known of him take heed of that desire that would be leading you before the Light for that will lead into Confusion and Trouble and that Zeal that would carry forth to Speak or Act beyond the true Knowledge which ariseth from the Light of the Son will lead into Darkness Sorrow and Lamentation when the Condemnation which comes from the Son ariseth upon it which will consume it up Therefore Friends every motion that calls upon you to Act or Speak do not lend an Ear to it so as to give obedience to it at the first although it seem at the first view to tend to Self-denial and be a Cross to your Wills but when such a motion doth arise then return in again and examine if there were not first in you a desire to do or speak such a thing as then is presented to be done or spoken it your find it so then to wait and be not hasty in the acting thereof it self be seen at the bottom then the Adversary will be ready to threaten with Disobedience if it be not presently done but do not hearken thereto but wait that you may know the Mind of God in it that you may not be deceived such waiting is not disobedience but
will follow when the Lord comes to lay open their Nakedness and clear our Innocency in these things as he hath done for me which Work hasteth greatly Praises Eternal be to him alone who hath let me see by the Light werewith Christ hat enlightned me Who is the true Light which enlightneth every one that cometh into the World John 1.9 As the Lord by the Prophet Jeremiah saith Jer. 7.22 23. I spake not unto your Fashers nor commanded them in the Day that I brought them our of the Land of Egypt concerning Burnt Offerings and Sacrifices but this one thing commanded I them saying Obey my Voice and I will be your God and ye shall be my People c. And when Jesus Chrift was upon Earth and spoke unto his Disciples and told them what they must do to come after him he did not tell them That they must Sing David's Condition either themselves or others or Baptize little Children or Infants with Water or take a Text or place of Scripture of another's Condition and add to it their own Inventions But these things said he unto them Whosoever will come after me must deny himself and take up his Cross daily and follow me Luke 9.23 And in obedience to his Commands we deny our selves and take up the Cross daily that accompanies the same whereby we are by him Baptized into that one Body whereof he is Head and we being many do eat of one Bread and drink of one Cup not Carnal but Spiritual where true Communion and Fellowship lies hid from the World wherein we are altogether of one Spirit and of one Mind even of the same Mind that was in Christ Jesus according to the Apostle's Exhortation Phil. 2.5.1 Pet. 4.1 And rejoycing in the same Spirit Praises to our God for ever And we Sing with the Spirit and with the Understanding also I Cor. 14.15 And with the same we Pray But it is not so with the World's Teachers who have their Form or those who are accounted the best of them that fetch in of the Saints Words but dare not however cannot truly say That they are given them by the Spirit of God and their Singing is the like not from the Spirit of God but taking David's words by which he declared the several Conditions that he was was in and these they put into the Peoples Mounths which they do not understand and these they Sing without understanding and so instead of glorifying of God they dishouour him and this is one of the Practices used in their Church as they call it which is without in the World but the true Church is in God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ as in 1 Thess 1.1 Now these words that they Sing are true as they were spoken from David who said That he watered his Couch with his Tears but it is not so with many And the will Sing his words who could truly say That he was not puft up in Mind and had no scornsul Eye whenas too many are puft up in Mind and have scornful Eyes and the like Thus the Leaders of the People their Priests in most places put such words into the Peoples Mounths causing them to Err and make them Hypocrites in saying They are as it is not with them and so by and in them is fulfilled that Scripture Isa 9.16 17. But if any shall say Doth not the Apostle Jomes 5.13 Exhort Is any Merry Let him sing Psalms Yea and so it is with the redeemed Ones of the Lord his Ransomed witness that Prophecy fulifilled Isa 35.10 and such come to find in themselves according to the Apostle's Exhortation being filled with the Spirit Eph. 5.18 19 20. speaking unto themselves in Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs Singing and making Melody in their Hearts unto the Lord giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ This is to be with the Heart it is not so with the World I know it when they are Offering up their Scarifices both of Prayers and Praises they with their Mouths and Lips may be pretending to Serve God whenas their Hearts may be in another place far from Him according to Scripture Isa 29.13 And after they have been Blessing God and Singing to his Praise as they pretend How often in the same Mouth is Cursing Which thing ought not to be James 3.9 10. Thus the Leaders of the People by putting the Name of God in the Mouths of People who are not in his Fear they speak it without understanding and so take it in Vain whom the Lord will not hold guiltess And as they have no Scripture for this their Practice to Sing David's Condition neither have they and for Sprinkling or Baptizing as they all it little Children Infants with Water nor any Command from Christ in Scripture to do that to any for those who are got up in Imitation of the Letter from John's Baptizing in Jordan those that confessed their Sins Mat. 3.6 or of his Baptism yet he said There was one to come after him which was preferred before him John 1.15 30. which was to Baptize with the Holy Ghost and with Fire Mat. 3.11 And that he must Decrease but Christ must Increase John 3.30 This of Christ's being the true Baptism that was to encrease The Apostle speaks but of One Baptism in Eph. 4.5 and by One Spirit not by any Outward Sprinkling or Dipping into Water that the Saints were Baptized into One Body 1 Cor. 12.13 This Outward with Water is not the Baptism that is to Save us whereof that of Noah's being saved in the Ark was a Figure but the answer of a good Conscience towards God by the Resurrection of Jesus Christ according to 1 Pet. 3.20 21. Many may come to the outward Baptism to have the filth of the Flesh put off but want the answer of a good Conscience towards God by the Resurrection of Jesus Christ This I having a sight of was through the Love of God towards me a means to keep me back from going into those other Forms in the World that differed from the publick Profession that was in this Nation I being let see that I might get into them and no change in my Life wrought And these Cries were often in mine Ears Born again a new Creature which Condition is now witnessed Praises to our God for ever by those who come to witness that Baptism of the Spirit spoken of in Scripture whereby they come to be Buried with him by Baptism into Death Rom 6.3 4. And to be made partakers of his Sufferings wherein is Rejoycing 1 Pet. 4.13 But this is not known by Water-Baptism but by the Obeying of the Spirit of our God And as the World's Baptism is without with Water so is their Communion without in Bread and Wine which they call a Sacrament For which as now used by them they have no Command from Christ nor any such Name given in Scripture
Form and another in that Form and they are all in Confusion and they being out of the Fear of God which is to hate Evil and depart from it whould lead others into Ways and Forms without this Pretending to Serve God but they lead them out of the Way of Serving God who do not lead them into the Holy Fear of him for such only as hate and depart from the Evil do Fear and Serve the Lord right as Psalm 2.11 Serve the Lord with Fear But these now in our Days who pretend to be the Teachers of others the Way whereby they may Know Fear and Serve God are strangers thereto themselves and although they pretend to be Ministers of Christ yet are found to be Antichrists contradicting Christ's own words Mat. 11.27 Neither knows any Man the Father save the Son and be to whomsoever the Son will reveal him but this way of knowing the Father they deny who say That none must expect now in these Days to know God any other way than by the Scriptures which they call his Revealed Will and Word And here they shew themselves against Christ in plain Words which is their common Practice to contradict Christ's Way to know the Father to wit by Revelation but Revelations are to such as fear him as Psalm 25.14 The Secrets of the Lord are with them that Fear him which Fear they being out of are Strangers and Enemies to such who come to find the Fruits of the Fear of God to know his Secrets and here they must of necessity stand to uphold their Kingdom in denying Immediate Revelation although it be the Way and no other Way hath Christ left upon Record thereof in Scripture for any Man to know the Father by but by the Revelation of his Son But if they should yield to this then their goddess Diana their Forms made by the Invention of Man which they cry up to poor ignorant People as of great Concernment will not only be despised but also their Learning will be in danger to be set at nought by which Craft they get their Wealth And as Demetrius Acts 19. with the Workmen of like Occupation then cryed out Great is Diana of the Ephesians So it is now with the Priests and Teachers among the dead Forms they cry out Great is the use of Learning and Study to gather the Scriptures together so that one may give the meaning or make another plain so they come to know the Secrets of God which they conceive to be in the Scriptures But the Secrets of God were and are with such as Fear him which gave forth the Scriptures as they were moved by the Holy Ghost and the same that gave them forth the same opens them and nothing else can as the Scripture declares 1 Cor. 2.11 The things of God knows no Man but the Spirit of God No but the Scriptures to all such as are not led by the Spirit of God are a Mystery a Sealed Book but those who come into the Obedience of the Spirit that gave them forth to such the Mystery is revealed the Seal taken off And such who gave the Scriptures forth were the despised ones of the World and such as are brought into their Conditions are despised now by those who make use of their Words to get Gain with although their Conditions they Scorn and Deride in others as they would have done by Moses of whom it is left upon Record Heb. 12.21 that Moses said I exceedingly Fear and Quake And Jeremiah said Mine Heart within me is broken because of the Prophets all my Bones Shake I am like a Drunken Man and like a Man whom Wine hath overcome because of the Lord and because of the Words of his Holiness Jer. 23.9 And when Habakkuk heard the Word of the Lord his Belly Trembled his Lips Quivered at the Voice rottenness entered into his Bones c. Hab. 3.16 And Paul was amongst the Corinthians in Weakness and in Fear and in much Trembling 1 Cor. 2 3. And the Corinthians received Titus with Fear and Trembling 2 Cor. 7.15 Yea those Conditions which the Lord Commanded and he hath said in Scripture he would have respect unto such they Scorn and Deride by reason of their Ignorance and Malice And so with them to wit the Priests and Teachers of the People in dead Forms it is true as it was with the Sadduces that Christ spoke to Mat. 22.29 They err not knowing the Scriptures nor the Power of God for although the Lord commanded his Prophet by his Word Ezek. 12.17 18. Moreover the Word of the Lord came unto me saying Son of Man Eat thy Bread with Quaking and Drink thy Water with Trembling and with Carefulnesss And Jer. 5.21 22. Hear now this O Foolish People and without Understanding which have Eyes and see not which have Ears and bear not Fear ye not me saith the Lord Will ye not Tremble at my Presence And the Lord by the Prophet Isaiah declares Isa 66.3 But unto this Man will I look even to him that is Poor and of a Contrite Spirit and Trembleth at my Word And in the next verse reckons up unto them their outward Sacrifices which he did not at all accept but saith He that killeth an Ox is as if be slew a Man he that sacrificeth a Lamb as it be cut off a Dog's Neck c. And they which did all these outward Services were such as did cast forth those which did Tremble at the Word of the Lord as in the fifth verse Hear the Word of the Lord ye that Tremble at the Word of the Lord Tour Brethren that bated you and cast you out for my Names sake said Let the Lord be glorified But be shall appear to your Joy and they shall be ashamed These that did thus could have a fair pretence to say Let the Lord be glorified and it is the same now for who are more Zealous for their outward Observances They cry and say Let the Lord be glorified as tho' his Glory therein stands and so cast out and Reproach with open Mouth those that see the emptiness of them and come forth of the Form into the Power and Life to Worship God in Spirit which Service it is only that Glorifies him But those who Worship only in the Form cry out upon those that Fear God and Tremble at his Word and say Wherfore should the Ordinances be lest And so would make the Ignorant People believe That we who fear the Lord whom the World in Scorn call Quakers who have been made to Tremble at the Presence and at the hearing of the Word of the Lord as the Holy Men of God did which Condition the Lord did require and accept but those who take their Words but are Strangers unto their Life and the Power of the Lord these I say cast Reproach upon us and say That we deny and cast off the Ordinances of Christ Jesus But the time is come to our Joy and their Shame
Spirit and in Truth This is not only in Form here is no acting by meer imitation of others who keep here to be guided by that which is pure in themselves this leads into the Power and into the endless Life which changes not nor will wither but endure for ever where is Peace endless and unutterable Therefore all to come forth of that which Fades into that which will Endure and every one of you as you come into the sincere Obedience of that which is pure the measure of the Grace of God within your Selves you will come to witness that Comfort flow in which is not from below but is from above and over all these things that are Visible and Perishing And this which Unites you unto God the same will Unite you one unto another and the Peace of God you will come to witness which passeth Understanding whereby the Heart and Mind is kept in the Knowledge and Fear of God and the Blessing of God you thereupon will partake of even of the Father Son and Holy Ghost as the Apostle prayed that they might have to whom he writ And I pray God that you may have the same continually whereby you may be known to be of God and Christ and to be guided by his Spirit the Fruit whereof is Love Joy Peace c. Therefore my Friends and Brethren every where I exhort you to consider from whence comes Strife Envying and Divisions proceed they not from hence from the Lusts that war in the Members of such who are looking at others with an evil Eye and watching over others for Hurt and not Good Therefore in the Presence of the Living God I charge you by his Spirit that you suffer not this amongst you even no Strife nor Envying one another as you will answer it before the Terrible and Dreadful God before whom you must all give an Account for all the Actions done in the Body therefore any of you that hath any thing against another do not speak of it behind his Back for that 's a work of Darkness but in love speak to them of it and if they will not hear then acquaint those who are appointed in the Church for to examine Differences and end Strife that they may be proceeded against according to the good Order given forth in the Churches from the Spirit of Truth and so Strife will be ended and Controversies cease so that those who are found in the fault if they fall not under the just Reproof then they may be denyed But Friends It is sadness of Heart to me to think of it that any that hath made but so much as a Profession of Christ much more that those that have tasted of the Love of God in measure should so much forget themselves and what they do Profess as that there should be cause for to Reject any such and deny them the Society of the Saints Therefore as my Heart's desire is so my Prayers unto the Lord for you all are That he would open the Eyes of such who have been in froward ways or that live in Strife Envying and Back-biting one another that they may turn from their wicked Ways and live for their Destruction if they be Destroyed is of themselves for the Lord not only by his Light in them shews the Evil but also by his Messengers hath many times and now at this time by his Servant whom he is pleased for to make use of doth Charge and Require all such among you once more for to cease from all Strife and Envying Surmising Whispering and speaking Evil one of another behind your Backs and that you all deal Plainly Simply and Honestly one with another in what you see or hear that is amiss and none to be Rash or Hasty in Reproving but let all things that are done amongst you be done in Meekness and Love and then you will be a People amongst whom the Lord will delight to dwell who is a God of Love and the Fruit of the Spirit will be seen amongst you which is Love and then I shall not have cause for to write unto you from Sorrow but from the Inflowings of Love which is my Delight for Sorrow it is unto me God is my Witness for to Write unto any among you of a Rod but I cannot forbear for the Rod is prepared for the Backs of Fools who wander from That of God within which is pure which ought to Guide and it is to Such that I am forced to hold forth the Rod with Sorrow and Weeping that there should be any such Fools sheltering themselves amongst the Flock of Christ But I thank my God that there is such amongst you who are my Joy and Rejoycing yea my glorying to my Brethren yea and I trust in the Lord that they shall be so and none can take it from me Therefore all who have received the Love of God dwell low in the Love received that you may find daily the Inflowings of the Love of God that the daily growth you may witness even that which Nourishes the Babe that it daily feeds upon the Milk of the Word you may suck from the Breasts of Consolation which all they receive who are obedient to that which is Pure even the Measure of the Grace of God in themselves And all you whose Minds are run forth into the Vanities Ob turn ye turn ye Why will you Dye This is the Lords call by his Spirit in his Servant and consider wherein have you run forth return within hearken call to mind what is past and what did call when you were running forth into the Evil and you would not hear but put off And now whilst that you have time prize it and return unto the Lord by a speedy Reformation of Life all you stiff necked ones who think much to stoop down to the Cross to walk in that way wherein your Wills are crossed and Self is denyed never expect to have Sin to dye until you deny your Selves and your own Wills for it 's the daily Cross that Christ's Disciples must take up and follow him in Therefore thou Fool and Unwise do not deceive thy self in forming up a nearer or easier Way than this his Yoke is easie his Burden is light when it comes to be taken up it is not Grievous but Joyous Oh come into the Obedience and than thou shalt witness what I say to be Truth do not say How long shall I do such things That 's it which makes the Burthen great for to consult with the Carnal Part which would limit the Lord and would set him down a way that you would serve him in that is for Destruction that must never enter it 's that which is willing and obedient and doth not say wherein or how long but which is willing to wait and doth not make haste but believes in the Lord it is that part and those that are therewith guided that Eat the good of the Land and come to partake of
who witness them true and to have been fulfilled in us and in obedience to the same Power are kept can read with Comfort from the Testimony within our own selves wherein we may and do rejoyce in Persecution and Suffering for Righteousness sake which none knows but as they are guided by the Righteous One wherein is our Happiness that although we be numbred amongst the Transgressors of Men's Laws yet we suffer not as evil Doers for who goes under the name of Quakers and suffers for evil Doing are neither owned by us nor know our Joy who suffers as Christians herein can Rejoyce in as much as we are made Partakers of Christ's Sufferings and can and may read 1 Pet. 4.13 14 15 16. Our Sufferings being for the same that the Prophets Christ and the Apostles practised to wit for speaking against Formal and False Worships and Worshippers and against Sin in Plainness even in their publick Meeting-places as they did as in 1 Kings 13.1 2. By the Word of the Lord the Prophet cryed against the Altar in Bethel Jeroboam standing by And by the Word of the Lord Amos prophesied in the King's Chappel in Bethel and in plainness speaks of the Judgments of God to befall Jeroboam Amos 7. But this was not from the Letter the outward Declaration of Scripture that they spoke but from the Movings of the Spirit of the Lord in them as Prophesies came 2 Pet. 1.21 And the Father and Mother of Jesus found him in the Temple amongst the Doctors both hearing them and asking them Questions Luke 2.46 And the Apostle Paul an his manner was went into the Synagogues and Reasoned with them three Sabbath Days together out of the Scriptures And into the Synagogues he went at three several places to wit at Thessalonica at Berea and at Athens read Acts 17. for which he was then Persecuted And it is the same Generation in Nature now which Persecutes for the same Practices as then He that was Born after the Flesh persecuted him that was Born after the Spirit even so it is now Gal. 4.29 And so all that live in Persecution Hating and Envying and in Pride Covetousness Drunkenness Swearing Lying or any such like Wickedness take the Scriptures and look who they were that did such things and what was to be their Portion And this use you may make of the Scriptures Search them and see every one where you can find your own Condition for this I know and so you shall find That if you do apply the Promises to your selves which do not belong to that Condition which you live in that will do you no good at all in the time of trouble Therefore all consider betimes now whilst you have time and now that you are warned And all People of all Professions cease from looking at your Profession and see whose Work you do and what Fruit it is that you bring forth whether it be the Works of the Flesh or the Fruits of the Spirit of God which are different as the Scripture declares Gal. 5.19 20 21 22 23. Now the works of the Flesh are manifest which are these Adultery Fornication Uncleanness Lasciviousness Idolatry Witcheraft Hatred Variance Emulations Wrath Strife Sedition Heresies Envyings Murders Drunkenness Revellings and such like of the which I tell you before as I have told you in time past that they which do such things shall not inherit the Kingdom of God But the Fruit of the Spirit is Love Joy Peace Long-suffering Gentleness Goodness Faith Meekness Temperance against such there is no Law And be not deceived God will not be mocked for such as you sow such shall you reap If ye sow to the Flesh then ye shall reap Corruption but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap Life Everlasting which is witnessed as in Scripture declared Gal. 6.7 8. Therefore with Bowels of Love running forth towards your Souls I exhort you all to consider whose Will it is that you are doing and what it leads into For the Will of God is your Sanctification 1 Thess 4.3 Therefore take heed I charge you all in the Presence of the Lord and by his Spirit how you go on in any Wickedness and lay the blame upon God and say When the Lord will it shall be otherwise It is not his Will that any should go on in their Wickedness but that all should turn from their Wickedness and Live but your Destruction I do declare unto you all to be from and of your selves running on your own Wills working the Works and delighting to live after the Flesh which brings Death as the Scripture declares Rom. 8.13 For if ye live after the Flesh ye shall dye but if ye through the Spirit do mortifie the Deeds of the Flesh ye shall live And the Lord is not wanting on his part for to bring to Life but by the Spirit of his dear Son he calls upon every one for to return from the Evil of their Ways and as Obedience thereunto is given the Deeds of the Flesh come to be mortified and so they come to witness Life But if any say Hath every one the Spirit of Christ I answer with the Apostle Rom. 8.9 If any Man have not the Spirit of Christ he is none of his that is such as do not live up to the Spirit of Christ so as to enjoy its Indwelling For a Manifestation of the Spirit is given to every Man to profit with And so every one as they stoop down in Obedience to that of God in them which is pure which rises up within them and shews them Evil Deeds and calls upon them to depart there-from they owning this to be of God from thence this Fear comes to be placed in the Heart that they dare not act contrary thereto but the same they obey and so him serve and worship who is a Spirit and is worshipped in Spirit and Truth Which that you may all do is my Desire and Prayer to the Lord for you all by whom I have been moved to write this forth unto whom I have cleared my Conscience and unburdened my Spirit in the informing your Understandings in the way of his Worship who is God over all and Blessed and Praised for evermore Hallelujah to the Highest Written by one who desires the Welfare of Souls R. H. Who was committed Prisoner to York-Castle for speaking the Truth To Enoch Sinclare Parish-Teacher of Slingsby this is A Copy hereof being sent to go unto him the first that went forth with what in this foregoing is thereunto added as in the Conclusion of this expressed is Friend I Being moved for to write something forth for to inform the Understandings of such as have been scattering and wandering in the cloudy and dark Day as I was whilst following the Inventions of such as thou art who knows nothing of God but by Hear-say conceivings of the Scriptures and looking upon things without Such pitying and in love unto their Souls I have