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A66079
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A warning to all Friends who professeth the everlasting truth of God which he hath revealed and made manifest in this his blessed day (whether on this side, or beyond the seas).
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Waite, Mary.
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1679
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Wing W224; ESTC R6899
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A WARNING TO ALL FRIENDS Who Professeth the Everlasting Truth of God which he hath Revealed and made manifest in this his Blessed Day whether on this Side or beyond the Seas Dear Friends IN Tender Bowels of love do I feel from the Lord a warning Spring in my heart to you that you all may be kept low in his humble self denying Life where safety is to be found For assuredly the great and Notable day of the Lord is at hand in which he will arise in the greatnesse of his strength to plead the cause of his suffering Seed with all its enemies whether within or without So all Dear Friends be faithful under your several dispensations For in our Fathers house are many Mansions Keep in the low valleys For there will be your safety there will the green pastures of Gods love be partaken of and with such will he delight to dwell So all Friends keep to your watch that the day of the Lord come not in an hour you look not for it and so you receive the unfaithful Servants Reward for indeed Friends my soul is in a great Travel for the Prosperity of Sion that her walls may be builded her breaches Repaired and made up For for many monthâ— yea some years hath my spirit been bowed down and groaned under the sense of an easeful selfish Lukewarm Spirit that hath crept in upon many for want of watchfulnesse and Keeping to the Dayly Cross of Christ Jesus and in the Narrow way and Savoury life that only will bring honour and praise to the Name of the Lord. And how to be eased of these weights and burdens I did not know my cry was to the Lord that he would give me wisdome and strength to do his will And it pleased him to lay his hand upon me and bring me near to the gates of Death so far as I saw and was pleased to hide himselfe from me and my Soul was in a languishing condition and my cryes was great unto the Lord that he would not hide his face from me but let me feel of his wonted goodness and mercy by which I had received daily comfort and satisfaction from him in his unerring path in which he had been pleased to lead me And at length the Lord appeared and said he would be my Phisition and cure my disease and came in and comforted my Spirit with his overcoming love which greatly revived me And in the openings of the bowels of his endlesse love he shewed me a Terrible day drew near even as one may say at the doors And laid it upon me to goe warn his people in this City and elsewhere to Depart from all filthinesse both of flesh and Spirit from all Lukewarmness from the fashions customes and friendships of this world from Pride Covetousness and every sin that seperatech from the Lord and brings drynesse barronnesse and deadnesse upon many and made as unsavoury salt that was good for nothing but to be cast forth and trodden upon And to warn them not to delay time but come into the true humility lowlinesse of spirit and felfedenying life that the Lord might be a hiding place to them for terrible will that day be to all the unfaithful and disobedient All the sinners in Sion shall be afraid fearfulnesse shall take hold on the Hypocrite Dread and horror shall surprise them O whither will you unfaithful fly would you not be glad that either Rocks or Mountains could hide you from the presence of the Lord and the wrath of the Lamb. O this will be a terrible day indeed unto all those that have had a form of Godlinesse but denyed the power that would have saved them out of all defilements and pollutions of this world For long hath the Spirit of the Lord been grieved with these who have long come and sitten amongst Gods people as if they had been of them but never came to sink down to the heart searching Light of Christ Jesus in them that by it they might be cleansed from all secret and open sins from every Dalilah that lodgeth in the bosome as Pride and Coveteousnesse which often the one attends the other Covetousnesse saith the servant of the Lord is the root of all evil and advised them to fly from it but who abide not in the spirit of judgement and of Burning which God hath prepared to purge away the filth of the daughter of Sion their filth hath not been purged nor done away which causeth many miscarriages blots and staines and great Reflections have such brought upon the blessed truth and much dirt hath been thrown upon the pure holy undefiled way of the Lord which he hath cast up for the Ransomed to walk in and so through the unfaithfulness and uneven walking of such the name of the Lord hath been greatly dishonoured his Spirit grieved and the hearts of the Righteous made sad And many a wounded Soul there is amongst the Lords people who are bowed under these weights and pressures but assuredly the day hastens that every one must bear their own burden and the Lord will case his Innocent ones who have been bowed down before him and have mourned and groaned under these things yea the day hastens that the unfaithful and disobedient shall bear their own burdens And the Lord will arise for his own Name and Glory sake and will case him of his enemies and avenge him of his adversaries and take to himselfe his great power that he may Reign and Rule in the hearts of his that faithfully labour in his work and ordereth their conversations aright before him his glory shall rest upon them for he will not give it to another seed or birth but to Christ Jesus the seed of the woman who was given to bruise the Serpents head he hath born the iniquities of all and been pressed under them as a Cart with sheaves his face hath been more marred then any mans and his voice not heard in the streets no beauty nor comlinesse seen in him And because he hath been a man of sorrowes and acquainted with griefs therefore hath he been passed by and not regarded but the Lord will make him the joy of many Generations and his Sion the praise of the whole earth Therefore Dear Friends love him with all your Souls and be you delighted in him above all injoyments whatever that you may lye down in the bosome of his love and be nourished by his side as Children of our heavenly-Father begotten by the Immoral word of life to Live and Reign hear with him in it and when time shall be no more enter into that blessed rest prepared for all them that have obeyed his glorious Gospel and though as yet we be but as the gleaning of the Vintage yet the Lord hath many to gather year the numberless number shall be gathered And great will be the work of our God which he is bringing to pass in this his blessed day it cannot be declared as it is seen
everlasting destruction where is the Woe and Misery and that for evermore there the worm never dyes the fire never goes out so all you young and tender ones where desires are begotten after God keep you low in his fear and to the daily Cross that all the contrary may be crucified and all the Enmitie slain upon it For every one that will be a disciple of Christ Jesus must come into the selfedenying life you cannot have two Kingdomes So my advice to you all is stoop to Christs appearance in you he who Invites all to come and learn of him who is meek and lowly and you shall find rest to your souls So all be faithful in your several places and the exercises you may be under that you may grow in grace and in the feare and wisdome of God let not your eys look out at others but mind your own Conditions for if you do it will Spye many faults in others and may be over look more at home This hinders the grouth of many so all waite low within to feel your grouth in the Blessed truth and know how the work goes on and whether thou feel Gods love mercy and goodness Renewed to thee day by day or not for your accounts will be for the deeds done in your bodyes and not for other so every one is to labour to know your calling and election made sure And you that are Apprentices keep in the truths love and obey it for it will keep you faithful in your places and out of every deceitful way performing them not with eye-service but with singlenesse of heart as unto the Lord from whom you must receive a Reward And if the enemy entice consent not Though he come in with never so fair pretences that thou may'st deceive thy Master and it will never be known c. Or purloin or waste his Goods believe him not he is a Lyer and the Father of lies for there is an Eye that sees in secret which will bring all the hidden deeds of darkness to Light and every worke to judgement So as thy worke is shall be thy Reward But fear the Lord and obey his voice in thee and he will deliver thee out of every unclean way and polluted path by his dear Son Christ Jesus whom he hath given for a high way of Holyness and a Restorer of paths to dwell in Glory to his Name for ever saith the Redeemed who is now returning unto Sion with Songs of diliverance in their mouths and everlasting high praises is sounded unto him by those whose garments are made white in the blood of the Lamb for Sions Redeemer is come the taker away of sin and iniquity is made manifest the mourners in Sion comforted The weary Travelers are Refreshed The feeble knees are strengthened the broken Spirit bound up and the wounded Soul hath oyle poured in who can but rejoyce and be exceeding glad for he hath put a new Song in our mouths he hath given his people beauty for Ashes and in stead of heavinesse the spirit of praise all that know him will speak well of his name for all the Noble Acts he hath brought to pass for his Children My soul is greatly affected in the Remembrance of the Lords numberlesse mercyes to me and a little Remnant whom he hath pluck't as Brands out of the fire to shew forth his praises and declare of his goodnesse in the Land of the living to hold forth Christ the way to the Father To the Nations that his scattered seed may be gathered from all the ends of the earth So I have cleared my Spirit of what hath long lain upon me and discharged my Conscience in delivering the Lords Message faithfully according to the abillity he hath given me And so am clear in my Spirit The Lord set it home upon every heart whom it may concerne and that it may be Received in the same bowels of love it was given forth Then shall I have my reward and the Lord his Glory And so shall return to my Tent and enter into the hole of the Rock where safetie is to be found till the indignation be overpast and in the endless unchangable love of God do I Salute you and bid you Farewel in the Lord. Yorke 10 th 2 d. Month 1679. Mary Waite Let this be Read in Friends meetings when they are gathered together in the fear of the Lord and in his weightie â—avoâ—â—â—…y Life