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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54225	Tender counsel and advice by way of epistle to all those who are sensible of their day of visitation and who have received the call of the Lord by the light and spirit of His Son in their hearts to partake of the great salvation, wherever scattered throughout the world : faith, hope and charity which overcome the world be multiplied among you / by William Penn.	Penn, William, 1644-1718.	1695 (1695)	Wing P1377; ESTC R28424	17,575	47

your victorious Leader All these things are for your good that proud Flesh may be debased and that the Soul may be redeemed Wherefore bear the hand of the Lord whom he loveth he Chastneth his Anger lasteth not for ever but his Mercys endure for ever Shrink not from the pure operations of his holy word let it divide asunder betwen the Soul and Spirit the Joynts and Marrow in you suffer your right Hands to be Cut off and your right Eyes to be pluck'd out that do offend let not the pain scare you O bear the pure searchings of this Heavenly word Yea if your minds be stay'd in it you will find it to be a word of Patience which will keep you for all Virtue is in it Keep it and be still It is good said one of Old that a Man should both hope and quietly wait for the Salvation of God Yea it it is good for a Man that he bear the Yoak in his youth this is your youth and such an one sitteth alone and keepeth Silence because he hath born it upon him Ah blessed are they that bear this holy Yoak who are come to this Silence who Dye daily that not they but Christ may Live and Rule in them therefore hear him and take up his Cross and follow him Follow him keep him Company he hath beaten the Path and trode the Way start not aside at his Cup neither shun his Baptism Go with him to Caiaphas to Pilate and to the Cross dye with him to the World and you shall rise with him unto Life Eternal Honour Glory and Immortality are at the end of this Holy Race O that you may run it with Chearfulness and Perseverance But this is not the utmost Strategem of the Enemy he hath yet a more plausible and a more dangerous Device wherewith to destroy the holy Sense that God hath quickened where he seeth these Temptations resisted and that he cannot hinder a Religious Work in the Soul by any of his Baits taken from the things that are seen and that is his drawing you into Imaginations of God and Christ and Religion and into Religious Duties not in God's way or time nor with Christ's Spirit Here he is transformed into the Appearance of an Angel of Light and would seem Religious now a Saint yea a Leader into Religion so that he may but keep him out of his Office whose right it is to teach prepare enable and lead his Children with his holy Power and Spirit Yea if he can but keep the Creature 's Will alive he knoweth there is a ground for him to work upon a place that he can enter and in which his Seed will grow If this Will of Man standing he knoweth that the Will of God cannot be done on Earth as it is done in Heaven O this Will is God's Enemy yea the Soul's Enemy and all Will-worship ariseth hence Yea it is the Off-spring of the Serpent and of the Will of Man and it can never please God Let all beware of this God is a Spirit and he will be Worshipped in his own Spirit in his own Life The Worship of God standeth in the Will of God and is not brought forth of the Will of the Flesh or of the Will of Man Remember that the Word came not to Esau the First-birth the Hunter that stayed not at Home but to Jacob the plain Man he that dwelt in Tents to him came the Word of the Lord that dwelt in a still and quiet Habitation For in the true silence is God's Word heard into which the Hunting Nature of Esau the First-birth can never come It can never stand still and therefore it can never see the Salvation of God Against this Nature watch and know Jacob that inherits the Birth-right the Election of God though now a Worm to wrestle and prevail Then Worm Jacob is Israel a Prince to whom belongs the Statutes and the Ordinances The Word came to Jacob and the Statutes to Israel Here is Dominion Government Exaltation This is the Lot of Worm Jacob. Wait therefore till the Angel move upon the Waters before you step one step Are ye Followers of the Lamb that hath visited you the Captain of your Salvation Run not in your own Wills wait for his Word of Command do nothing of thy own Head and Contriving yet do all with diligence that he requireth Remember what became of them of Old that offered false Fire O stay till a Coal from his Holy Altar touch your Hearts and your Lips Jesus told his Mother at the Marriage in Cana in Galilee his time was not come He rejected the Will in her and staid till his time was come that is his Father's time in whose Hands are the Times and Seasons Whose Will he came to do and not his own Leaving us therein a Blessed Example that we should also follow his steps that is not to attempt to perform even things of God in our own Wills nor out of God's Season and Time which is the best For in his Seasons he is with us but in our own Seasons and Wills he withdraweth himself from us And this is the Cause that the Nations Worshippers have little sense of God in their Hearts and that their Priests cry out against inward Sense Lest the People should go alone and come to a more acceptible Worship My dear Friends as you would enjoy God's Presence Love and Life and be acceptable with him wait in his holy Light and Spirit that hath visited you against these strategems of Satan and Wake not your Beloved before his time Watch against the will that Instrument of Satan and Enemy of God's Glory and your own Comfort Let it be Bridled Subjected and kept under Christ's Yoak yea subdued that the will of God may be done in you and by you which bringeth glory to the Lord and Eternal peace to the Soul One Sigh rightly begotten out-weigheth a whole Volume of self-made Prayers For that which is born of Flesh is Flesh and reacheth not God's Kingdom he regardeth it not and all that is not born of the Spirit is Flesh But a Sigh or a Groan arising from a living Sense of God's work in the Heart it Pearceth the Clouds it entereth the Heavens yea the Living God heareth it his regard is to it and his Spirit helpeth the Infirmity He loveth that which is of himself and hath care over it though as Poor as worm Jacob. For the Crys of the Poor and the Sighings of the Needy will I arise saith the Lord The Poor in Spirit that hath parted with all that they may win Christ that need him only and Seek him above all Who have no helper in the Earth but have denied all earthly helps that he might bring and work their Salvation for them And as you are not to run in your own wills nor to offer up Sacrifices of your own preparing so have a care how you touch with those that do how you bow to their wills

and joyn with their Sacrifices For all these things greatly help to extinguish the Divine sense begotten in your Hearts by the word of Life And as you are faithful to the Light and Spirit of Christ which giveth you to discern and relish between that which standeth in your own will and the will motion of the Spirit of God in your selves so will you by the same Light discern and savour between that which proceeds from the will of Man and the will and motions of the Spirit of God in others and accordingly either to have or not to have fellowship with them For what hath Light to do with Darkness Or what hath Spirit to do with Flesh Or what hath Life to do with Death For the Grave cannot Praise thee O Lord Death cánnot celebrate thee They that go down into the Pit cannot hope for thy Truth The Living the Living he shall praise thee as doth my Soul this day This was the Testimony of the blessed Prophet Esaiah and it standeth true for ever According to the Prophet Thou hast ordained peace for us for thou hast wrought all our works in us Wherefore I exhort you in the Spirit of Truth and in the Counsel of the God of Truth keep in the Divine Sense and Watch if you would endure to the end in the will of God And I say again Touch not with Man-made Ministrys nor Man-made Worships let their words be never so true 'T is but Man 't is but Flesh 't is but the Will and it shall have no acceptance with God O this is the Golden Cup of the Whore that is gone from the leadings of the Spirit with which the Nations are defiled have nothing to do with it Keep to Christ Jesus God's great Light follow him as he shineth in your Hearts and ye will not walk in Darkness but have the Light of Life not of death to Condemnation as in the World but unto Life which is Justification and Peace And remember that nothing bringeth to Christ that cometh not from Christ Wherefore all Ministry that cometh not from Christ God's great Prophet and High Priest to all true-born Christians cannot bring People to Christ Man only gathereth to Man to hear and believe in Man and depend on Man And if the Church of Corinth sought a proof of Christ's speaking in Paul that had begotten them and had wrought the Signs and Works of an Apostle in them how much more reason have you to demand a proof of Christ's speaking in the Priests and Ministers of this World who have not wrought the Signs and Works of Apostles or true Ministers And by what should you try them but by the Light and Spirit of Christ in you Yea 't is Christ Jesus in you that giveth you to savour if others speak from Christ in them And this the Apostle referreth the Corinthians to for a proof of Christ's speaking in him For nothing leadeth to God but that which came from God even Christ Jesus the Son of God O let him be your Vine and know him to be your Fig-tree Sit under his holy Teachings whose Doctrine shall drop as Myrrh upon your Souls He will feed you with the Bread of God that cometh from Heaven that feedeth and leadeth them thither that feed upon it And He is that Bread Therefore wait and watch unto his daily and hourly Visitations to your Souls and against all the Approaches of the Enemy that so he may not take you at unawares but that you may be preserved from the power of his Darts and the force of his Temptations by the Holy Armour of Light the defence of the faithful Antients If you be willing and obedient you shall eat the good of the Land Now is your Day now is your Time work while the light is with you for the Night cometh in which none can work Not only the Night of Eternal Darkness to the Wicked but the Night of Death unto all For in the Grave there is no Repentance neither can any Man there work the Works of God You know the Foundation Is he Elect Is he Precious to you Have ye chosen him Yea I am satisfied you have See what you build upon him Have a care of Hay Straw and Stubble Have a care of your own Wills and Spirits Labour not for the Bread that perisheth as all the Bread of Man's-making doth But labour you in the Light and Strength of the Lord for the Bread that never perisheth that Bread that cometh from Heaven that nourisheth the Soul in that Life that is heavenly that is hid with Christ in God the Root and Father of all Life that of this Fountain you may drink that is clear and pure that cometh from the Throne of God and of the Lamb and not of the muddy Puddle of Man's Invention There is a Bread that perisheth and there is a Drink that perisheth and Wo to them that feed thereon for their Souls shall perish also if they Repent not But there is a Bread that never perisheth and there is a Fountain that springeth up unto Eternal Life and Blessed are they that Feed and Drink thereof for they shall have Eternal Life with God This is that which only satisfieth what is Born of God it will feed on no other Bread nor drink of no other Water I cannot but warn you all that are come to the Lord's Day that you cease from all other Food from Man and Man's Will and Invention for that stifleth the Divine Sense that overlayeth and killeth this Heavenly Birth There are no Grapes to be gathered of Thorns nor Figs of Thistles Keep to your own Vine and Fig-tree Christ Jesus sit under him that you may eat of his Fruit which is the fruit of Life the hidden Manna hid from the Nature and Spirit of this World a Mystery thereunto Two things consider first you must wait till the Manna cometh and then you are not to be idle you are to work and next as it daily cometh so it must be daily gathered and fed upon For the Manna that was gather'd yesterday will not be Food for to day it will not keep for that use As it was outwardly so 't is inwardly Time past is none of thine 'T is not what thou wert but what thou art God will be daily look'd unto Didst thou eat yesterday That feedeth thee not to day Therefore Jesus taught his Disciples and us in them to pray for our daily Bread for the present sustenance and to look no farther but depend upon the Lord and live by Faith in him that raised up Jesus from the Dead so that the time to come is no more ours than the time past can be recalled Wherefore Blessed are they that fear the Lord and confide in him they shall never be confounded They shall lack no good thing for the Lord loveth Israel he is good unto Israel and all that are of an upright Heart whose Hearts look up to Heaven and not down to the