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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54137	An epistle of farewell to the people of God called Quakers where ever scattered or gathered in England, Ireland, Scotland, Holland, Germany, or in any other parts of Europe.	Penn, William, 1644-1718.	1699 (1699)	Wing P1284; ESTC R38192	4,018	10

God Almighty forbid I know there is a Serious and Diligent People amongst you who do not only know when Good comes from the hand of the Lord but wait upon him for it and that dayly That their Souls may be strengthened in the way and work of the Lord And these can no more live without his Presence his mystical and hidden Manna in their Spiritual Journey to the Eternal Canaan of God than outward Israel was able to live without Manna in the Wilderness in their Journey to their temporal Canaan And I Beseech my God and my Father and your God and your Father my Dear Brethren to attend all these holy Waiters upon him with the good things of his House and Dayly make them Glad in his Holy House of Prayer But the Condition of some who pretend to follow Christ yet are afar off affects my Spirit for they know little of these Enjoyments and hardly Eat so much as the Crumbs that fall from Christ's Table and seem to satisfie themselves with a meer Convincement of the Truth or at best with a bare Confession to it Who taking up with a formal Going to Meetings and Hearing what others have to say of the Work and Goodness of God in and to them they shun the Dayly Cross of Christ Whereby they should dye dayly to their earthly Wills and vain Affections and Overcome the World the Flesh and the Devil Oh! these are still their own and not the Lord's and gird themselves and go Whither and do What they list For which cause they are Lean Barren and Vnfruitful to God and to their own Souls and Worship him in the Form only and not in the Power of Godliness such must needs be weak in Faith ready to slip and start aside at every windy Doctrine or sensual Temptation Oh! My Dear Friends let me prevail with you in this my Farewell to you to turn your Minds inward and wait to feel your Redeemer and meet him in the way of his Righteous Judgments for there is no Redemption but through Judgment nor Conversion but through Righteousness Come and be baptized by Christ He will Baptize you with his Fire and Holy Ghost He will Scowr and Rinse you for believe me his Fan is still in his Hand and he will if you will let him throughly purge his Floor viz. your Hearts and make all things Clean and New there by his Spirit and Power So will you Come to find your Interest in Christ as you feel his Workmanship and Interest in and over you And as you thus come to be related to Christ the Heavenly Head by knowing him to be Head in you so will you come to be related to his Body the Church and see your Proper Membership and Service therein which I pray God effect to his Glory and your Comfort And now to the whole Family and Flock God in this European part of the World of the same Communion according to the Dispensation of God be they High or Low Young or Old Rich or Poor Wise or Simple Strong or Weak Male or Female Bond or Free I send this parting Salutation of my most Dear Love in the Truth beseeching you all to have Me and Mine in your Remembrance not only when upon the mighty Waters but when in the Solitary Desarts of America if it please the Lord to bring us safe thither For I am not above the Love and Prayers of my Dear Brethren knowing I need them and have often found by Good Experience that they avail much with the Lord. I must leave you but I can never forget you for my Love to you has been even as David's and Jonathan's above the Love of Women And suffer me to say That to my Power I have from the first endeavoured to serve you and my poor Country too and that at my own Charges with an upright Mind however mis-understood and treated by some whom I heartily forgive Accept you my Services and ever Love and Remember My Dear Friends and Brethren your Old True and Affectionate Friend Brother and Servant in Christ Jesus William Penn. Cows Isle of White weighing Anchor the 3d of the 7th Month 1699. FINIS Printed and Sold by T. Sowle in White-hart-court in Gracious-street 1699.