do appear in the presence of the living God in whose presence you now are and nothing can be hid from the all-seeing eye nor any thing cover you but purity for the wo is to all them that are covered and not with the spirit of the Lord for now all coverings must be ripped open and the Lord the heart-searcher will search all as with candles and an outward shew or covering with the Saints words will not hide nor cover any of you if the pure life of Christ be wanting let none be therefore deceived with a vain hope neither do you set up a false rest short of the true rest for verily I say unto you you had need to be watchful and to walk circumspectly not as fools but as wise men in the Lord for your adversary the devil goes about like a roaring Lion seeking whom he may devour going about by all wayes and means to deceive the hearts of the simple and honest minded ones his work is to oppose the work of Christ and he works in a mistery in the hearts of the children of disobedience working them into his Image and liknesse to do his lusts and the creature is captivated and the members thereof and becomes servant to the Devil who rules as a Prince in the heart and when he cannot keep people in the common filth of the world he will get into a form of godliness and there keep people feeding upon the empty and dry husks drawing near to God with their lips and mouths when he keeps possession in their hearts and draws away their affections after the lusts of the world and glory of it which fades away and comes to an end And when by his wiles he cannot hide himself nor keep people in the empty form then he will transform himself as an Angel of light and whatever the Saints of the most high do speak or practice as they are moved by the power and spirit of the Lord dwelling in them the subtil Serpent will get into the outward form likeness gesture and words or whatsoever is used or practiced outwardly by the Saints and servants of the Lord The devil will lead his servants into the likness and so get the words as many do get the words of truth into their unrighteous minds and so contend for the truth with that mind that is out of the truth and so glory in the words and outward appearance and the boaster gets up to boast in other mens lines and things above their measures being enemies to the Cross of Christ and servants of sin and in the bondage of corruption but into the light and life the devil cannot come nor enter so in the light which is pure all wait for the power and pure life of the Son of God to be manifest in you that so from the light and life fruits abundantly may be brought forth to the glory of God Stand upon your watch and bring your deeds to the light that so they may be proved and tryed whether or no they be wrought in God for he that walks in the light is kept from stumbling But all careless and slothful negligent ones who run head-long rashly without consideration or tryal of their deeds are captivated and ensnared by the temptation of the devil and so the light follows them and is their condemnation and so trouble and misery comes upon the wicked and it is just for he is the fool whose eyes be abroad and whose tongue is at liberty and so the rod is prepared for the back of the sool Therefore weigh your words in the just ballance and be well advised before you act any thing first try the motion before you go on to action for in all words and actions whatsoever any one doth either act or speak there is some thing within that moves before the action bee acted or words be spoken and whether it be good or evil it comes from within out of the heart and as is the heart so will the words and actions be if the heart be evil the words and actions will be evil and if the heart be good and pure the words and actions will be likewise good and pure Now come all to the touch-stone and to the ground of all things that you may know the ground of good things and the ground of evil things for as God is the Author of all good so the Devil is the Author of all evil and as God is a pure Spirit and works in a mistery in the hearts of the children of obedience working them into his Image and likenesse to do his works which are works of righteousnesse so the devil is an unclean and a dark spirit and works in a mistery in the hearts of the children of disobedience working them into his Image and likenesse to do his works which are works of unrighteousnesse And as the Author of good and the Author of evil are contrary one to the other and no fellowship betwixt them so the workers and servants of each of these are contrary one to the other and no agreement amongst them but a strong and an irreconcileable enmity and so a great and strong battel and this battel is begun in this Nation and other parts the great and mighty battel between the Prince of light and the Prince of darkness between the raging Beast and the meek and harmless Lamb. Now there is none can serve those two Masters neither can any be heirs of these two kingdoms but every one becomes his servant to whom he yields himself servant to obey whether of sin unto death or of obedience unto righteousness according as the Scripture declares All who obey the motion of the Lord in light and spirit as he moves in the pure heart become servants to the Lord and so his work is brought forth into the world which are works of righteousness as love gentleness patience long-suffering meekness temperance brotherly-kindness humility soberness godliness doing unto all as they would be done unto and such like fruits of righteousness which are a witnesse against the unrighteousnesse of the world and so are justified by God in spirit and created in Christ Jesus unto good works But all who yeeld to and obey the motion of the Devil in the dark as he moves in the dark heart by the spirit of darkness become servants to the Devil and so his work is brought forth into the world and fills the world with darkness and unrighteousness as pride and vain glory covetousness hatred malice strife and debate drunkenness whoredomes murders theft lying and swearing vain and profain talking tiranny cruelty and oppression persecution and such like ungodly wicked practises as the Land abounds with notwithstanding all their profession of God and Christ and high notions and large and fair pretences yet the fruits of wickedness in a high measure are daily growing and encreasing and all those evils and all other the abominations that are acted and done in the world they all proceed
life of the Heathen and the pure law of equity is set up to do to all as they would be done unto according to the doctrine of Christ and all who walk according to this light though they bear the name of Heathens yet their heathenism who keep the Law of equity doing unto all as they would be done unto their heathenism shall condemn those who profess Christ in words and are called Christians but do not act according to the Law of equity but cast the Law of God behind their backs such are shut out from the promise of life and have no right unto Christ who act contrary to him such are heathens of what countrey or nation soever they be who live in sin and fulfil the desires of the flesh they cannot please God for they who live after the flesh are not subject to the Law of righteousness but are heathens living in rage and malice pride and vain-glory lightness and wantonness scâ—ffing and jearing reviling and persecuting lying and swearing drunkenness whoredomes murders and such like these are the marks of the heathens and all such are shut out of the kingdom of God and have no share with the Christians in the inheritance which is everlasting for there is no promise to the wicked but wo is their portion for ever So the true Christians have right to to the inheritance Christ Jesus but the heathens have no right unto the promise until they come forth and repent and be turned from darkness unto light and from the Power of Satanunto God they that are Christians are in Christ and are Christs bought and purchased by his bloud and they that are Christs have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts but they that are heathens are out of Christ in the world not bought and redeemed from sin but are satisfying and fulfilling the lusts of the flesh so in the name of God I do exhort every one that doth read this to try your selves with the Light of Christ in you whether you be in the faith or no or true Christians and be not deceived with a vain hope contenting your selves with the bare name when the life and nature is wanting for though you may profess all the Scriptures and can talk much of God and Christ without you yet all this doth not make you true Christians unless the word of God and the life of Christ be manifest in you as it was in them that gave forth the scriptures for the scriptures do declare of a generation that were great professours and as zealouss for God and the Ordinances of God as you can be for Christ and his ordinances as you profess yet they were blind in understanding and had not true discerning but did oppose Christ Jesus the Son of God I speak of the Jewes and that generation of scribes and Pharisees who profest a Christ to come but when he was come because he came not in pomp glory according to their expectation but in a low despised manner they called him a blasphemer and cryed out crucifie him and this was the cause of their blindness they had not the word of God abideing in them so the vail was over their eyes Christ cryed wo unto them calling them blind guids whited walls painted sepulchres and the like so I say unto you all your outside profession your going to hear Sermons and the like this you may do many years as I know you have done and be never the better but grow worse and worse ever learning laden with sin and led away with divers lusts but never able to come to the true knowledge of God for none ever knows God in truth and righteousness but as he is known by the working of his spirit within whereby he destroys the works of the Devil in the heart and creates a new heart and a new mind according to his own will and renews his own Image of righteousness and true holinesse and so man is made Gods workmanship created in Christ Jesus unto good works and so his members are servants of righteousness and the work of God is brought forth into the world by his servants and children whereby he is glorified in them and wisdom is justified of her children But all those of what name soever they are called whether Jews Gentiles or Christians though they may professe much outwardly and be counted godly and religious yet if their hearts be not upright to God and purified by the Word of God abiding in them they cannot serve nor worship God in truth for if iniquity do lodge in the heart and be regarded God will not hear the prayers of such nor accept of their sacrifices for it is not every one that sayes Lord Lord that shall enter into the Kingdom of God but such as do the will of God such shall know of his doctrine and such are they that are built upon the rock of ages and such do glorifie God by their godly and upright lives and so are Gods workmanship and bears Gods Image of love and meeknesse patience and long suffering and the like But thou and all you that are in rage and envy you are the devils workmanship and bears his Image drunkards swearers lyars scoffers scorners light and wanton ones you are the devils workmanship and he begot you and is your father and you bear his Image and not the Image of God All you high and lofty ones you proud Pharisaical professors you proud and covetous ones God never begat you but the God of the world the Prince of the air he rules in you and carries you up into pride and vain glory and all you ungodly ones under what name soever you be you are not in the way of God but in the way of the wicked one and your end will be misery The righteous God of heaven and earth doth not desire the death of any of you but that you might turn from your wickedness and live for this end he hath given his dear Son a light into the world who doth enlighten you wherby many times you are made sensible of your lost conditions how that you are aliens and strangers from the covenant of promise and you have been many times reproved in secret for your sins and iniquities and called and invited to come forth of your sins But have you not been rebellious and stiff-necked and resisted the councel of God and would none of his instructions But you have chosen your own wayes and you have delighted in your own abominations and so not minding the goodness and long suffering of God which leadeth to repentance all that hearken to his voice but you after your hardness and impenitent hearts are treasuring up unto your selves wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgements of God who will render unto every one according to his deeds done in the body whether they be good or evil To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for honour
they did eat together in singleness of heart as it is declared and testified in the Scriptures 1 Cor. 10.16 The cup of blessing which we bless is it not the communion of the blood of Christ the bread which we break is it not the Communion of the body of Christ for we being many are one bread and one body for we are all partakers of that one bread This bread and this cup are not carnal and visible but spiritual in invisible This bread is Christ for saith he I am the bread of life I am the living bread that came down from above John 6.35 John 6.51 he that eats of this bread shall live for ever and he shall never hunger and he that drinks of this cup shall never-thirst but it shall be in him a well of living water springing up unto eternal life John 4.14 Christ Jesus is called by several names in the Scriptures and they who have the names but not the substance are in confusion and devision and falls out about the names and so runs into the outward which are but the shadowes but knows not the life and substance 1 Cor. 2.14 John 6.35 John 8.12 He who is called the bread of life the same is called the Light of the World who doth enlighten every one that cometh into the World John 1.9 and every one loving and walking in the light so they come to walk in love and unity 1 John 1.7 and are all made partakers of that one light and so of that one bread which is the Saints life 1 Tim. 3.16 which is spiritual and a mistery hidden from the world and from all worldly wisdom Psal 25.15 but revealed to them that fear the Lord and is to them a living Ordinance ordained of God for the Salvation of their souls And as for the outward water it is but a figure of the living water within which washeth and cleanseth the heart which the outward water doth not Heb. 10.22 Ephes 4.5 Mat. 3.11 As for the one Baptism I own which is the Baptism of Christ with the holy Ghost and with fire which the water Baptism was but a figure of and in denying the outward water Baptism it is no breach of Christs Commands 1 Cor. 1.17 for I was not sent to Baptize but to preach the Gospel And all you who take upon you that power I demand of you who gave you commission to go and Baptize with outward water if you take your commission from the letter without a lively commission from Christ I deny your ground and your commission 1 Cor. 3.11 for it is not the letter of the Law of God that doth impower any one to execute the Law of God neither doth the letter of the Gospel impower any one to go and preach the Gospel though they be never so skilful and expert in the knowledge of the Scripture without power from on high to commission and impower them no more then the letter of the Law of England doth impower any one to be a justice of peace to execute the Law though many may buy the letter of the Law and may be expert and skilful Yet if the earthly powers do not give them commission they cannot act as a justice nor execute the Law if they should take upon them such a thing the powers of the earth would call them into question Even so all you who have taken upon you that power to baptize without commission from the Lord assure your selves you will be called into question and in the Name of my Lord and Master I do charge you to give an account who it was that gave you commission and cease speaking against others who keep the commands of God whom you cannot accuse justly for breach of the holy and pure substantial commands And likewise all other the Ordinances of Christ as praying and singing according as the spirit of God doth move to sing with understanding 1 Cor. 14 15. and to pray with understanding for as the Apostle saith Rom 8.26.27 1 Cor. 2.10 we know not what to pray for as we ought but the spirit helpeth our infirmities and makes intercession for us with sighs and groans that cannot be uttered for it is the spirit that makes manifest and searcheth out the deep and hidden things of God John 4.24 for as God is a spirit and will be worshipped in spirit so there is none knowes him nor worships him in spirit John 3.5 but those who are born of the spirit And so whatsoever the world or the enemies of Truth do say or speak of us Rom. 13.8 yet we can truly say in the presence of the Lord that we ow no man any thing but love 2 Cor. 6.4 to the 11. desiring the good of all people that all might come to the knowledge of the truth and for this end do we labour and travel under many heavy burthens through much reproaches and cruel mockings Mat. 5.11 12. stocks bonds and imprisonments every one giving their sensures of us and so we pass thorow many tryals but in all these things we can rejoyce knowing that it is and hath been the portion of the Lords chosen ones to be reviled and persecuted by the wicked generation they went through evil report and good report as deceivers and yet true and so in the Name and Power of the Lord do we go abroad as we are led by his spirit freely declaring unto others in tenderness of love unto their fouls what the Lord hath done for our souls and we do not go about to deceive any Acts 26.18 nor to draw any to our opinions but to turn them from deceit and deceivers and to gather them to the Lord that so the Lord may teach them according as he hath promised and according as it is written Isa 56.13 all the Children of the Lord shall be taught of the Lord. And though for our love we be envied and hated John 15.20 yet for Christ our Masters sake we can willingly bear it for the servant is not greater then his Masters for saith Christ as they have done unto me so will they do unto you and so it is no new thing but that which hath formerly been for the appearance of Christ was ever opposed especially by the professing people who had a form of godliness but were ignorant of the power as the Scriptures do bear testimony with me For in the time of the Law under that administration divers Statutes and Ordinances were given forth by Moses and while those things were practised and done in the integrity and simplicity of heart it was accepted of the Lord But when they turned from their integrity and uprightness of heart though they drew near to God with their lips and with their mouthes and multipled their offerings and sacrifices Yet it was abomination in the eyes of the Lord and the Lord sent his servants the Prophets to testifie
against them as you may read Isay 1. chap. where the Prophets declares against the wickedness of that generation saying a sinful Nation a people laden with iniquity a seed of evil doers children that are corrupters they have forsaken the Lord they have provoked the holy One of Israel to anger c. to what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me saith the Lord bring no more vain oblations incense is an abomination unto me The new moons and Sahbaths the calling of Assemblies I cannot away with it is iniquity when you make many pruyers I will not hear for your hands are full of blood Thus the Prophet declares against them and those things which they practised though they were commands of God and his exhortation to them was cease to do evil learn to do well wash ye make ye clean put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes saith the Lord. And likewise read Isay 66.3 Where the Prophet compared the commands of God to abominable things saying He that kills an Ox is as if he slew a man he that sacrificeth the Lamb as if he cut off a dogs neck he that offereth an oblation as if he offered swines blood c. Here you may see the Prophets testimony and to what abominable things he compares the commands And the Prophets of God in the days of their prophesie they were hated and many of them killed by such as had the form of the Law but were enemies to the life of the Law And after the Prophets dayes another generation comes and gets the Prophets words and cries up the words but are still in the same nature of their fore-fathers that killed the Prophets as the Scriptures make mention of the Scribes and Pharisees and that generation who were zealous for the Law and the outward commands and did build the Tombs of the Prophets Mat. 23.29.30 31. and garnished the Sepulchres of the righteous yet not being led into those things by the light and spirit of God within they were found enemies and persecutors and crucified him who was the life and substance of those things which they had the form and shadows of Mat. 27.20 22 25 26. And thus the form in those dayes did oppose the power and afterward the Ministers of Christ who were sent forth in the Name and Power of Christ they were hated and persecuted in their dayes by those who had the form but not the power Acts 8.3 4. Act. 22.28 30 31 c. 2 Thes 2 3 4 5 c. and so all along to this age the subtile twining Serpent hath got the form but persecutes the appearance of Christ wherever he is made manifest as it is at this day in England and other parts The clouds of darkness hath long been over all Nations but now the glorious day-light of the Lord is breaking forth and he is appearing in the power of his spirit in the hearts of his people and is bringing to pass his strange work which makes the Heathen to rage 2 Thes 1.10 Acts 13.4 2 Cor. 6.8 and the carnal Professor to swell in their vanity and cryes out of error and herefie and deceivers and blasphemers and fills the ears of people with such a loud noise that many who have prayed for these dayes formerly and have had some glimmerings of the true light now when the time is come and the Lord is bringing to pass his work Jer. 31.31 c. Joh. 7.48.49 Gal. 4.29 Job 21.30 Isa 66.15 16. and fulfilling his promises because it is not in their way and according to their expectation they stand up against and oppose the truth as their forefathers have done and so as it was then even so it is now they that are born after the flesh they persecute them that are born after the spirit but woe to all persecuters and all envious and malicious ones the sword of the Lord is drawn forth and they shall be cut down as fuel for the fire Therefore all people every where try your selves and the ground of your faith and profession Lam. 3.40 2 Cor. 13.5 1 John 3.3 John 5.4 see whether you be in the true faith yea or nay the true faith doth purifie the heart and gives victory over sin the world the flesh and the devil and so good fruit is brought forth to the praise and glory of God The Lord is coming to rip open and search all hearts and a profession and talk of the Saints words without the Saints life will noâ— hide nor cover any one of you Jer. 17.10 Isa 30.1 it is not your fair-saying and your crying Lord Lord that will stand you in stead in the great and terrible day of the Lord being found workers of iniquity it is not your many years profession Mat. 7.2 and hearing and writing of Sermons and repeating them over and over the Lord is coming to look for fruits Mat. 3.10 and all fruitless trees must be hewen down and cast into the fire You who have long been talking of the new-birth 1 Cor. 3.11 to 17 Rom. 8.7 8. 2 Per 3.7 to the end honestly consider and see what you can witness of a change and what is cut down within you for as long as the enmity stands within you all your profession of the Scriptures and Christ without you will not save you in the fiery day of the Lords fierce indignation for this I testifie unto you that Regeneration is not a thought 2 Cor. 5 17. or a conceiving of a thing but it is a real work of God wrought within by the power of his spirit 1 Cor. 6.11 Acts 15.9 whereby the heart is purified and cleansed and the affections and fleshly desires crucified according to Scripture Gal. 5.24 they that are Christs have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts Now try and examine your selves and see if your many years profession have wrought this effect are you crucified to the world and the world unto you Rom 6.2 Gal. 6.14 1 Pet. 1.15 16. and are you dead unto sin as those were whom you profess the words of Be not deceived with a vain hope the Lord calls for purity and without holiness no man shall see him Now consider well you who profess your selves to be Christians and do cry up the commandements and Ordinances of Christ are you not a sinful people Isay 1. chap. are you not laden with iniquity are you not a seed of evil doers are you not corrupted from the top of the head even to the sole of the foot as those were which Isaiah cryed against I have heard many of you confess much in words Prov. 28.13 and cry out of your sins but I see few of you that doth forsake your sins but goes on in your customary wayes being dead in sins and trespasses then to what purpose is your calling of Assemblies your preaching and your feigned long prayers your dayes
wilde it tames and brings down and leavens the whole and brings it into the nature of Christ to meekness and gentleness and lowliness of mind and brokenness and tenderness of spirit and so the fountain comes to be opened and the pure streams flowes forth to water the City of the living God Therefore hide not the enemies of your peace in your own bosoms neither let any prejudice or evil thoughts lodge in your hearts if you do it will eat as a canker untill the pure love be grown cold and then comes a cloud of darkness and hides the glory of the Son of Righteousness that it doth not shine in its brightness and the earth will grow thick and stop the passage that the streams of love cannot run to water and refresh the plants of God therefore be faithful in following the light and yielding up to the pure obedience to what the light makes manifest though it be never so small or foolish to worldly wisdom for that which stumbles at little things will never obey greater and whilst you are disobedient to the light after convincement of any fin you not turning from that sin which the light of Christ makes manifest and reproves for it you are still in the same nature with the world under the same condemnation being condemned by the light in your own consciences Therefore every one be faithful according to your measures and so in love and joy you will be kept in the unity of the spirit and bond of peace and grow up in the vine as lively plants and encrease in grace until we all come into the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God unto a perfect man even to the measure and stature of the fulness of Christ Take heed of reasoning and consulting withflesh and blood for that betrayes the simplicity for many have been convinced of the Truth and tender and honest desires and a true love raised in them by hearing of the sound or declaration of Truth but not abiding in that love to wait in the Cross of Christ but reasoning with flesh and blood they have lost their tenderness and simplicity and those true desires are choaked and the iniquity got up and their love grown cold and such though they may come to your meetings Yet are dead barren empty and possessed with a dull and sluggish drowfie spirit when others are feeding and sitting in peace and rest under their own vine having oyl in their vessels these careless ones are ready to starve and are weary in waiting when words are not ministred I say unto all such repent and fear the living God and cause not the holy Name of our God to be blasphemed amongst the Heathen return to your first love and wait in patience until refreshment come into your souls from the presence of the Lord. And all you dearly beloved ones who keep your garments white and clean you are as my own life and dear unto me as the Apple of mine eye with you I am present in the spirit of pure love though in the body I be absent from you Dear hearts let my bowels be refreshed to hear of your faithfulness and growth in the truth that the labour and travel of the Messengers of the Lord may not be in vain but that we may rejoyce in our labours and see the fruits springing up to the glory of God this will be our joy and your comfort So all of you in patience wait until the work of the Lord be perfected in you turn not to the right hand nor to the left but keep in the plain way that leads to life eternal meet often together accordingly as you have been directed and when you are met together wait upon God in his pure fear with the loins of your minds girt up that his voice you may hear and his counsel receive and stand in so shall your meetings be for the better and not for the worse and your strength renewed though there be no sound of words spoken to your outward ears yet coming once to taste of the sweetness of the love of God you will find the union more pure more dear and more neer then pen or tongue can declare for if there be a sweetness and a refreshment to hear words as I know there is when they are spoken from the pure life and spirit of the Lord then much more is there sweetness and more pure refreshment in the spirit of the Lord from whence the words do proceed and all words and writings given forth from the spirit are to bring to the spirits worship this is the sum and the end of all the shadows and carnal observances to know God and to worship him in Spirit and in truth according as it is written for there is no man knowes the things of God but the spirit of God so without the spirit guiding and teaching all words and writings will but little avail onely serve to add to the condemnation of all those that are hearers but are not doers of the Word of God Therefore every one retire your selves into your inward habitations and wait upon God in the manifestation of his spirit as you have received and as the pure spirit of the Lord doth move in any of you so be obedient either to act or speak for the Word of the Lord is not limited but if any one have the Word of the Lord let him speak it faithfully for you may all prophesie one by one and if any thing be revealed to another that stands by let the first hold his peace quench not the spirit for it is my desire that all the Lords people were Prophets but let all flesh be silent I charge you by the Lord and none to speak before the Lord for that is but as chaff and what is the chaff to the wheat saith the Lord is not my word as a fire and as a hammer that breaks the rocks in pieces So all dear friends wait that the Word of the Lord you may feel within you and tast of it which is quick and powerful and cuts down sin and removes the earth and breaks the hard heart and purifies it and purges the conscience from dead works and so the body is made a holy Temple for the Lord to dwell in as it is written I will dwell in them and walk in them I will be their God and they shall be my people Wherefore saith he come forth and be ye separate touch no unclean thing and I will receive you and will be a father unto you and ye shall be my Sons and daughters saith the Lord God Almighty All mind the call of a loving Father and be obedient to his voice that you may be heirs of the promise and have a right unto the tree of life and live and reign with the Lord God and the Lamb and sing the songs of deliverance praises and haleluja's for ever and ever The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you and teach you to live soberly and righteously and establish you in the truth that your words and actions may be gracious and savory proceeding from the grace of God that you may have salt in your selves to savour withal no more to be tossed to and fro with mens doctrines but be built upon the rock of ages even Jesus Christ the light of the World the same to day as yesterday and shall continue the same forever The peace of God which passeth understanding keep your hearts and minds up to God in love and unity all to grow that God may delight to do you good and to dwell amongst and his pure power to compass you about 〈◊〉 keep you upright and single-hearted This so large an Epistle with my own hand have I wriâ—ten unto you because my love is enlarged toward you The Lord God Almighty breath forth his spirit upon you and guide you in his pure wisdom that with chearfulness you may run the race set before you Faint not 〈◊〉 the way but be ye faithful unto death and you shall have 〈◊〉 Crown of life Read this with a meek and sober spirit in the fear of the Lord when in his name you are met together For friends in the Truth in the West parts of England or else where it may come Written from the movings of the Lord as I was directed by his spirit by your dear brother in the Lord who is a Labourer in his Vineyard Known to you by a nearer name then Alexander Parker THE END