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spirit_n	ghost_n	holy_a	son_n	41,079	5	6.0417	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47171	A salutation of dear and tender love to the seed of God arising in Aberdeen in two epistles : directed unto friends of truth in that place whom the Lord hath called ... to bear their testimony for his glorious truth (against an evil, adulterous, and persecuting generation) ... / writ by George Keith.	Keith, George, 1639?-1716.	1665 (1665)	Wing K202; ESTC R24137	7,780	9

A SALUTATION OF Dear and tender Love to THE Seed of God Arising in ABERDEEN IN TWO EPISTLES Directed unto Friends of truth in that Place whom the Lord hath called and is calling forth to bear their Testimony for his Glorious Truth against an evil adulterous and Persecuting Generation with others their dear Friends in these Nations Writ by George Keith Prisoner for the said Testimony in the Tolbooth of Aberdeen Isa. 60. 22. A little one shall become a thousand and a small one a strong Nation I the Lord will hasten it in his time Isa. 30. 17. One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one ●t the rebuke of five shall ye flee till ye be lest as a Beacon upon the top of a Mountain as an ensign ●n a hill Isa. 62. 1. For Zions sake will I not hold my peace and for Ierusalems sake I will not rest untill the Righteousness thereof go forth as brightness and the Salvation thereof as a Lamp that burneth Isa 62. 10 11 12. Go thorough go thorough the gates prepare you the way of the People cast up cast up the high way gather out the stones lift up a standard for the Peop●e B●hold the Lo●d hath p●ocla●med to the end of the wo●ld say ye to the Daught●r of Zion b●hold thy Salvation cometh behold his reward is with him and his work b●fore him And they shall call them the holy People the redeemed of the Lord and thou shalt be called sought out a City not fo●saken Printed in the Year 1665. To Friends in ABERDEEN Dear Friends THere is a precious Seed among you in love to which several of the Lords Servants have been drawn to come and visit the Seed preach the Everlasting Gospel thereto which is the power of God unto Salvation and the Seed hath been reached and we have been made manifest in your Consciences the witness of God in your Consciences hath answered our Testimony that we are of God and that which we declared unto you was not a cunningly devised Fable but the living Truth of the Living God which hath been revealed to us and which we have learned from the Spirit of Truth and our Testimony among you hath been that the Son of God is come and his Kingdom revealed with power and great Glory even the Kingdom of God which is Righteousness peace and joy in the Holy Ghost and now hath the Sun of Righteousness arisen with healing under his wings and the glorious light thereof hath shined forth upon the Earth and the Inhabitants thereof after the long dark night of Ap●stacy that hath been wherein many poor things who have had true breathings and desires after the Lord have lamented after him and sought him whom their souls loved and longed for but could not find him and the thick Egiptian darkness hath choaked them and the living breathings in many hath been suffocated and killed and Babylon the mother of Fornications hath bewitched the whole Earth with the cup of her Sorceries who hath given her self forth to be the Church and spouse of Christ but indeed a Harlot and her Merchants who have handed forth the Cup of her abominations have past in this time of darkness and ignorance for the Ministers of Christ and Pastors of the flock now it pleased the Lord out of his rich mercy and love a hundred years ago or thereby to send forth some beams of his Heavenly light into the Souls of people whereby the more gross abominations of the Whore were disc●vered and quit and no question many have been accepted of the Lord in that day according to their faithfulness But alass there hath been a great backsliding and defection since which some of the Lords servants then saw that it would come and that Christ should be again crucified in Scotland and now it s my Testimony and the testimony of hundreds and thousands that he is again arisen in this Island and in other parts of the Earth and all the wit and policy of Sathan and his Instruments shall not be able to hold him from the setting up of his Kingdom in the Earth Truth is planted and taken root in the Earth yea even in Scotland and it shall grow and prosper and spread and fill the Earth and every Plant which is not of the Lords planting shall be rooted out and their folly shall be made manifest to all who set themselves against the truth And Friends think it not strange that truth hath such opposition from many who have even had a great profession thereof this day hath abundantly discovered them that their glorying hath been but in the flesh and that they are not come to live in the truth but have had the form of Godliness and denyed yea been altogether strangers unto the power thereof now they not being in the truth which is living and gives the discerning but in the form of it which is but a dead thing how could they but misken truth in its appearance and the children and vessels thereof and yet there is a pretious seed even in many hundreds which the Lord will raise up in his own appointed time who may be for the present through ignorance and their being deceived with false appea●ances enemies to truth and reproachers of it Now the faithful testimony of such whom the Lord hath gathered and is gathering into the truth shall have a shril and loud sound even to the awakening and quickning of such and they shall be made to build up that which once they were endeavouring to destroy And therefore dear F●iends be faithful to the Lord God in your testimony for his truth in every particular according to the knowledge thereof which ye have received from God for thereby ye shall both save yourselve a●d others having the eye of your souls continually fixed upon the Lo●d to see whither he will farther lead you being res●lved and re●●gned up to him even to follow whethersoever he leads though it may be much in the cross to flesh and blood for this I testifie unto you that its such and such only who are of that spirit whereof honest Ioshua and Caleb were to follow the Lord fully even in all things to the least circumstance of his requirings who shall get an entrance into the blessed Land of promise whereinto many can set to their seal and witness it that they have entred among whom I am one even into that good Land that floweth with milk and honey yea with streams of joy peace and consolation from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power and this you shall all come to witness in your selves in the Lords good time as you keep faithful to him and grow up more and more in a resignation to his will in all things sparing nothing against which the Lords controversie and indignation is but giving up all to a hope that 's contrary to his will that it may be burnt up and slain by the judgment of the