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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65889	This is an epistle for the remnant of Friends, and chosen of God whom he hath yet preserved to bear their testimony in and about the city of London, to whom, this is a testimony of the dear love, and tender care which flowes forth, and is extended towards them, and all tender hearts who are concerned in the like sufferings, temptaons [sic], and tryals / from their faithful friend and servant in the Lord, G. Whithead.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1665 (1665)	Wing W1963; ESTC R20330	8,939	18

This is an EPISTLE FOR THE Remnant of Friends AND Chosen of God WHOM He hath yet preserved to bear their Testimony in and about the City OF LONDON TO WHOM This is a Testimony of the dear Love and tender care which flowes forth and is extended towards them and all tender hearts who are concerned in the like Sufferings Temptaons and Tryals From their faithful Friend and Servant in the Lord G. WHITHEAD Printed in the Year 1665. This is an Epistle for the Remnant of Friends and Chosen of God whom he hath yet preserved to bear their Testimony in and about the City of London c. O My dearly Beloved Friends Brethren and Sisters among whom my Soul hath travelled and suffered for the Afflicted's sake and whose burthens and tryals are still with me in Spirit as also the Love Tenderness care and freeness of Spirit that has appeared among you towards the afflicted and harmless sufferers who have been led and driven as sheep to the slaughter for the witness of Jesus and of a good Conscience Oh dear hearts feel my life and tender bowels towards you all in the spirit and unity of true love and faith of the Elect seed wherein life and dominion is felt by all that wait patiently upon the Lord in true subjection to his eternal Power and Councel in all the Exercises tryals and hardships that the Righteous Seed is beset withal that being thorowly tried it may come forth as Gold thorowly refined and the Righteous who are of this Seed may through all these things go on in their way and the Innocent and clean in heart may grow stronger and stronger in the Lord that Truth and Righteousness may for ever shine forth both among you and all his Elect to the praise of his Name who both beholds feels and bears the sufferings of his People in his long suffering and patience wherein the spirits of his Chosen ones are exercised and by which they shall overcome and be more then Conquerours where neither calamities distresses life nor death shall ever be able to separate from that love vertue life and glory revealed and made manifest in the faithful And my dear hearts the glory and weight of Gods Righteous Testimony of life and Salvation being in his light truly and evidently manifested in and among you you have great cause for ever to prize his love and glorifie his Name and stick close to him therein what ever perils trials oppositions sufferings or temptations you meet withal and to be of a constant spirit and upright mind in the unchangable truth to the Lord God of life in whom your preservation and safety stands knowing that no weight of affliction or suffering is comparable to the weight of Eternal life and Salvation which you are called unto through the Glorious appearance of God's power and Gospel of peace and Salvation for the sence and enjoyment thereof doth certainly out-ballance and far exceed all the sufferings and trials of the present time though they are very many and deep And so none of you to be discouraged or shaken in mind at things of this nature nor because of the seeming advantage or occasion that the wicked or rebellious and envious spirits or such as are prejudiced do take against us because of that common Calamity and late Mortality which has befallen many of the Righteous as well as the Unrighteous as to the outward man in this time of such a great and universal calamity and sore distress as has been upon that City for God's Testimony and glory shines and will shine and break through all these clouds of afflictions sufferings and reproaches which the Habitation of the Righteous hath been and is encompassed with yea the faithfulness innocency and uprightness of many innocent Lambs in and about that City is never to be forgotten which so greatly did appear and shine forth in their faithfully standing to their Testimony and keeping to the Truth in tenderness of Conscience and sincerity towards God who hath called us to meet together in his fear and in his everlasting name and power and out of a real respect to his Glory and righteous cause which is concern'd in the obedience of his people both in that and all other duties or acts of obedience required by him whose obedience and spiritual worship many have not denyed nor declined neither under the trials which have proceeded from men or under those which came from God but whether they have been liable to fall into the hands of God or men for the proofe of their faith they have not departed from him who makes up his Jewels through trials and tribulations in all which his Fatherly care is felt and his tender mercy and compassion is seen towards his own as to his own peculiar Off-spring and tender babes sons and faithful servants whom he loves and therefore chastiseth and tryeth not in anger and fury but in love fatherly care and pitty so that whose eyes are open in the true light and in a right mind and spirit have thoroughly weighed the state of the suffering seed amongst us which is in the faith of Abraham brought forth in the Immortal power of an endless life considering the faithfulness and godly sincerity of a Remnaut whose life hath testified for God herein both in doing good and suffering for well doing such who have thus weighed this suffering state do plainly see that neither Satan nor his Instruments have any real advantage against any of the Remnant of this Seed through any of these trials or sufferings either from the hands of God or men since that many have kept their Integrity to the last and have imbraced their trials and afflictions in Gods tender love and have had such unity therewith that they have been far from either blaspheming or cursing God as the wicked many times have done and will do when Plagues woes torments and pains seize upon them but neither Satan nor his Instruments have their evil designs or ends answered or fulfilled herein against the Righteous as the Devil would have had against Job under his affliction when he sought to make him curse God to his face so that the Truth of our God and innocency of his people who know the Redemption of the Soul which is pretious doth and shall come over both Men and Devils in as much as the Truth is over the Devil himself who hath the power of death and darkness even to the confounding and stoping their mouths that they all who are acted by the power and spirit of enmity and darkness may be convicted confounded and left without excuse before the Lord God who will be known to be clear when he judges Yea blessed for ever be the name of our God who hath given us strength and courage to stand in an evil day over Hell and Death and the Devil with all his fiery darts and fierce assaults against the Righteous and that the Lord hath yet spared and will spare a

Remnant to bear his mark and name upon Earth and to hold forth a living Testimony for his glory and praise amongst the sons of Men for which many have not loved their lives unto death but have offered up their lives as divers manifestly did in that City the last Summer when such a sore Visi●ation and Calamity was upon that place wherein divers offered up life and all for the truth and their afflicted Brethren and Sisters for whose sakes my soul has often been greatly bowed down and afflicted and my bowels have earned for them and my Inwards were so moved with compassion and brokenness of spirit that neither life it self nor any outward privilege did seem too dear to me to resign or offer up for their sakes And though when the Sickness was so hot in that City and Prisons some of the Persecutors at that time appeared cruel wicked and abominable against the Innocent to destroy them in these Pestilential places of Confinement where both there and also on Shipboard wherein so many were confined for Banishment many innocent Lambs laid down their lives for the witness of a good Conscience And though the wicked may for a time in their wickedness and mischievous minds be lifted up against us to insult over us because of these our deep trials and the death of so many innocent persons either in the Prisons on Shipboard or out of Prisons yet their being so elevated and hardened against us who are the People of the Lord does but the more make for and further their own destruction ruine and misery as often I have said and been sensible and their Plague torment and calamity which slumbers not is greater and more sad then many's that have died under that common Calamity of the Pestilence by which many have been removed both of good and bad which thing those that are yet alive and remain in their sins without taking warning thereby it will prove the greatest Plague and Judgment against such who are the least considerate sensible of the hand of the Lord in it or of their states and conditions for as to this particular calamity or sickness 't is in it self not the worst of Judgments which God hath in store for a sinful provoking rebellious people or Nation and Gods controversie is not yet ended in this Nation nor the viols of his displeasure emptied upon his enemies and persecutors of his Seed And oh to consider what a sore heavy Judgment is it what misery does it presage to many in this Nation that so many innocent or Righteous persons in it should be taken away as those whom the world are not worthy of but such are taken away from the evil to come both from future calamities and set in safety for ever from them that have puffed at them and made a prey upon them in their life time And as for us that yet remain who fear the Lord and stick close to him always eyeing and seting him before us in the greatest of our perils and sufferings we know his goodness endures for ever though the mighty and exalted of the Earth boast and insult for a time over us and the more the suffering is the greater is the consolation and glory to them that continue faithful to the end And what ever conclusions are brought forth against us either by wicked men or any who in prejudice turn against us and take occasion from this Mortality which has come upon so many Friends in the time of this great Calamity as if it were in Gods wrath indignation or fury against the body of Friends or any of us who are come to the Communion of the body of Christ which we are Members of or if any that profess the name of the Lord be so clouded byassed and prejudiced in their minds as to conclude this a fulfilling of some such Prophecies of wrath and indignation against Friends such spirits and evil tidings are plainly seen and they to be presumptuous and no Prophets sent of the Lord and therefore cannot make us afraid who confide in the name of our God and in that living faith wherein our unity and victory stands our innocent life stands over them in true Judgment against all that which among some has crept in at unawares to create devisions enmity against the faithful servants or people of God where 't is received in any unstable or brickle spirits And therefore my soul saith the Lord rebuke thee oh Satan who enviest the heritage of God why doest thou subtlely present thy self amongst the sons of God to trouble the innocent endeavouring with thy fiery darts and temptations of this nature to turn them against their Maker and why doest thou subtlely make use of Instruments in this thy wicked work to effect thy treacherous designs The Lord will rebuke thee by his mighty power for we are sure that where Gods faithful Witness in the Conscience is owned which ought to be judge in the case and must deside the Controversie We know that does bear witness with us and for us and to the justification of all the Faithful amongst us who are really of Us and belong to the seed of Election and therefore will not go out from us who abide in the truth of God which changes not being of the seed of Jacob and off-spring of Israel after the Spirit which is beyond revolting Israel after the flesh for herein are we heirs of promise and then who shall condemn conclude or prophesie wrath where God justifies and not bring condemnation upon themselves for that Gods love was felt by many under that trial and Visitation which many died in about that City and many were sensible of Gods love and favour till the very last And the life peace satisfaction and comfort that many innocent Friends felt and that some express and signified on their Deathbeds I am a living Witness of for them Having at some times as the Lord hath drawn me in his Love been present with many of them when they were very low in the outward Man and with divers when upon their Deathbeds both in that destructive place of Newgate and some other places Yea when sorrow and sadness has seized upon my spirit and my heart and soul has been pierc'd and wounded when I have seen the sad sufferings of so many harmless Lambes when they were on their sick beds in these noysome holes and Prisons Yet at the same time having had a deep sence and knowledge of the Lords love and care to them in that condition and having truly felt his life and power stirring amongst them This on the other hand has refresht and revived my spirit knowing that Christ their Salvation and Redemption was manifest to and in them though in that suffering state as they have followed and obeyed him through sufferings and tribulations and so with such to live was Christ in that state and to die was gain it being through death that the Lord had appointed