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An epistle for friends for them to read
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Fox, George, 1624-1691.
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Confusion and not of Peace is the God of the World who abode not in the Truth because there is no Truth in him and when he speaks a Lye he speaks of his own for he is a Lyar and the Father of it Now the Jews which did the God of the World's Lusts and them called Christians that do were in Strife Confusion and Disorder For the Jews they went out of the Order of Aaron and Moses going from the Spirit of God poured out upon the House of Israel and so went from the Lord and his Law went into Confusion and Disorder which the living God of Truth was not the Author of Also the Christians which go from the Light Grace Truth Power Spirit Gospel and Faith which Christ Jesus is the Author of they go from Christ and his Order who was not made a Priest after the Order of Aaron but after the Order of Melchizedech who was without beginning of Dayes or end of Life an Everlasting Order And such go into Strife and Confusion that go from Christ which Christ and God is not the Author of but the World's God who got into Man and Woman by Transgression and Disobedience of the Command of God who is the God of Confusion Strife and Disorder in whom there is no Truth For what Order can there be in the World's God and amongst his Subjects in whom there is no Truth and in whom there is no Truth there is no true Order and they that abide not in the Truth Grace Light Spirit Gospel Faith and Word of Life they abide not in the Order of God and Christ And such will cry against the Order of the Truth Light Grace Spirit Gospel Faith and Word of Life which brings into the Order of Christ and the Order of the living eternal God of Truth who is a God of Order and delights in Order having Pleasure in them that live in his Spirit and Law of Life and the Gospel and its Order For blessed is the Man that delights in the Law or Order of God it was so under the old Covenant much more blessed is the Man or Woman that delights in the Law and Order of Love and the Law and Order of Faith and the Law and Order of Life and of the Gospel the Power of God And none keep the Law of Faith but who keep in the Faith which Christ is the Author of which works by Love And none keep the Law of Life but who keep in the Law of the Spirit and walk in it which is in Christ Jesus the heavenly and spiritual Second Adam who was before old Adam was who was under the World's God out of Truth iâ— whom there is no Truth nor true Order but Confusion and Unruliness And therefore all who come to God who is a God of Order must come by the Grace Truth Light Power Gospel Faith and Anâ—inting the Word of Life within and such come to love the Lord Jesus Christ and to delight in God and Christ's Order So you may see that God is a God of Order who called Aaron and Moses and they had an Order from God And Melchizedeck had an Order and Christ is after his everlasting Order And Christ the Truth hath an everlasting Kingdom that stands in everlasting Righteousness and Power Joy in the holy Ghost yea an established Kingdom that will never have an end and cannot be broken and no imperfect defiled nor corruptible thing enters into it And all Christ Jesus his Subjects of his everlasting Kingdom that see it and enter into it are born again not by the Will of Man but of an incorruptible Seed by the Word of God and have the incorruptible Milk of the Word of God by which they grow from Babes to Men of God and have the Fine Linnen the Incorruptible Clothing the Righteousness of Christ which is the Fine Linnen which they do wear in Christ's Kingdom So all Christ's Subjects of his Kingdom are known by their Birth and Clothes and live in his Order of his Gospel of Love Life Light Grace and Truth which no man comes into his Kingdom and Order but by the Light Grace and Truth Faith Power and Spirit and Anointing and Word of Life within through which they know Christ and his Everlasting Kingdom that stands in Power and Righteousness and Joy in the Holy Ghost and by it keep in his Order of the Law of Life which they have in Christ Jesus And they that follow the World's God that are out of Truth disobey their Creator the God of Truth and the Lord Jesus Christ I say all such obey and follow him in whom there is no Truth and such cannot endure to hear talk of the Order of Truth and of the Gospel or the Law or Order of the Spirit of Life which is in Christ Jesus which all they that do obey the Voice of the Lord and Christ Jesus in his Light Grace and Truth and Gospel the Power of God and his Holy Spirit and Faith and Word of Life within come into Unity and Fellowship one with another and with the Son and with the Father and in this they know the Order of Christ and God to be a God of Order and delights in his Heavenly and Eternal Order of Light Life Power and Spirit of God that is over Death and Darkness and the World's God who is a God of Disorder in whom there is no true Order but Confusion and into this holy Order of the Everlasting Light Life he cannot come Glory to the Lord God and his Son Christ Jesus who is over all from Everlasting to Everlasting and is the Rock and Foundation and Habitation of his People blessed forever and evermore Amen G. F. Postscript HERE you may see by these following Scriptures how the Apostles loved the good and holy Order of Christ in his Gospel and Light and Life and Truth but as Job said The Land of Darkness is without any Order And Babylon signifies Confusion which is the False Church and is called a Woman and a City of Confusion who is against the Order of the true Church and gets the Titles of the true Church that is called a City and a Woman which brings forth the Man Child Christ Jesus and of the inerease of his Government and Peace there shall be no end who sits upon the Throne of David and upon his Kingdom to Order it to stablish it with Judgment and with Justice from hencefoâ—th and forever So here you may see Christ doth order in his Kingdom and them that have him have his Order Isa 9. And David saith Although mine House be not so with God yet he hath made with me an Everlasting Covenant Ordered in all things and sure for all my Salvation and all my Desire c. 2 Sam. 23. Again David saith Order my Steps by thy Word and let not Iniquity have Dominion over me Psalm 119.133 Which is the Duty of every true Christian to have their Steps ordered
entred into the Rest out of the Toil of old Adam for they are grafted into him who was before old Adam was For Unbelievers in the Light are grafted into old Adam in Transgression And the Believers in the Light which is the Life in Christ are grafted into Christ the Word by which all things were made and Created So here is perfect true Freedom and Liberty And likewise the true Liberty and Freedom is in the Grace which brings Salvation and not Destruction and teaches to live Godly not Ungodly and Soberly not Unsoberly and Righteously not Unrighteously and teaches to deny the World and not to cleave to it and to follow it This Grace stablishes the Heart and seasons the Words the Fruits of its Liberty and Freedom will manifest it self And also the True Liberty in the pure holy Spirit of God and Christ doth baptize and plunge down that which is gotten up by Transgression in Man and Woman and Circumcises and cuts off the Body of Death and Sin in the Flesh that is gotten up in Man and Woman by Transgression and mortifies and kills that which would grieve vex or quench the Motions of the pure Spirit of God so that in this holy pure Spirit of this pure God and Christ is the holy pure Freedom and Liberty over all Bondage and false Liberties and Freedoms And the Fruits of this pure Spirit is pure Love Righteousness and Godliness Patience Temperance and Humility by which Spirit all are made to drink into one Spirit so that all are the living Wells that have their living Water from God and Christ their true and living Fountain and in which Spirit they have a holy and spiritual Fellowship in this Baptizing Mortifying Circumcising Spirit yea one with another and with the Son and the Father also through which the Love of God warms every one Heart But when the Love of many waxes cold as Christ saith then they go from this Grace Light Truth Power and Spirit and the Anointing and the Word of God in their own Hearts then such turn to be Betrayers and not Saviours upon Mount Sion And against such God's swift Judgment turns and suddainly falls though they may cry for a time Liberty Freedom and Peace Peace but a Day of Trouble will overtake them ere they are aware And therefore all ye Friends of Christ Jesus stand fast in that Liberty wherewith Christ Jesus hath made you free by his Light Grace Truth Spirit Faith and Everlasting Gospel the Everlasting Power of God which is an Everlasting Freedom and Liberty above all Bondage and false fallen Liberties and Freedoms in this glorious Gospel and glorious joyful Liberty where all may exercise God and Christ's holy Gifts in his holy supernatural Light Grace Truth Spirit and divine Faith Word of Life and the Gospel which Word cannot be bound with all the World's Cords or Chains for it is a Fire to burn and a Hammer to break and a Sword to cut in pieces and therefore Love the Word and keep the Word of Patience and the Lord will keep you for it is a tryed Word and it will keep you in all Tryals which shall come upon all the World to try them for the Word was before the World was and will be when the World is gone which all the new born Babes of the incorruptible Seed of the Milk of the Word grow by it up into an immortal Life and Kingdom that is without End Glory and Praises to the Lord God forever And now ye Babes of Christ If the World do hate you it hated Christ your Lord and Master also if they do meek and reproach and defame and buffet you they did so to your Lord and Master also who was and is the Green Tree that gives Nourishment to all his Branches his Followers Now if the World do persecute you and take away your Goods or Clothes was not your Lord and Master so served did not they cast Lots for his Garments was not he haled from the Priests to Herod and before Pontius Pilate and spit upon and if they hate thee and spit upon thee he was hated and spit upon for thee did he not go to Prison for thee and was he not mocked and scourged for thee did not he bow to the Cross and Grave for thee he who had no Sin neither was Guile found in his Mouth and did he not bear thy Sins in his own Body upon the Tree and was he not scourged for thee by whose Stripes we are healed did not he suffer the Contradiction of Sinners who dyed for Sinners and went into the Grave for Sinners and dyed for the Ungodly yea tasted Death for every man who through Death destroyed Death and the Devil the power of Death and is risen for Death and the Grave could not hold him nor the Powers and Principalities with all their Guards and Watches could not hold him within the Grave but he is risen and is ascended far above all Principalities Powers Thrones and Dominions and is set down at the Right Hand of God and remaineth in the Heavens till all things be restored And he is restoring with his Light Grace Truth Power Spirit Faith Gospel and Word of Life so that you read of some that came to sit together in Heavenly Places in Christ Jesus And therefore all must bow at the Name of Jesus their Saviour in his Light Grace Truth Power Spirit and Gospel for he hath bowed for you if you rise with him And you must suffer with him if you will reign with him and dye with him if you will live with him And all that are dead and â—â—â—yed with Christ and are risen with him they will seek those things that come down from above where Christ sits at the Right Hand of God and there you will seek those things which come down from above and not those things which are below For those which seek those things that are below are the Tallers of God and Christ and the Prophets and the Apostles words but they are not dead with Christ nor risen with him and therefore they cannot seek those things that come down from Heaven where Christ sits at the Right Hand of God But they are them that seek the things that are Above that are dead with Christ and risen with him they I say do seek those things which come down from Heaven where Christ sits at the Right Hand of God and they have not only sought them but have found them and received them and come to sit together in Heavenly Places in Christ Jesus a safe established and heavenly sitting in a heavenly Rest and Habitation in Christ Jesus who is the First and Last and over all from Everlasting to Everlasting Blessings and Praises over all be to the Lord God through him forever Amen The Eternal living God of Truth he is a God of Order and is not the Author of Confusion but of Peace in all the Churches of the Saints Now the Author of