THE POOR Widows Mite Cast into the LORD'S TREASURY Wherein are contained Some Reasons in the Justification of the Meetings of the People of God called QUAKERS with an Approbation of several Truths held by them and the ground of Dark Persecution Discussed Written by a Woman of the South who came from the ends of the Earth to hear the Wisdom of him that is greater than Solomon and doth a far off behold the happy Estate of his Friends and Servants who stand continually before him to hear and receive Wisdom from him who is the true Emanuel Now lest it should be counted a Libel or any should think we dare not own it in the World I have subscribed my Name A MITE if ALL is more than ALL Than they Abundance have That have not FAITH to give up ALL Their ALL will not them Save Printed for the use and benefit of such Bees as suck their Hony from the Flowers and Blossoms that God makes to spring that they may have to keep themselves alive in the dark stormy Winter 1671 THE Widows Suite TO Her FRIEND T. S. whom she desires to be IMPRIMATOR to her Small Mite My Friend THese Lines to thee are sent that thou mayst them review Because I know thou dost Believe and Seest in things are True So that if ought be Unsav'ry and thou dost know the Fault Thou having in thy House Seas'ning put thereto the Earths Salt Moreover I not willing am that Truth at all be Blam'd Nor would I do or give out ought that any should be sham'd Therefore unto the Sanctu'ry I do my Weights forth bring The Ballance thereof them to try this is the only thing To have all right and made good weight Infirmities to heal And what Weights equal are and just on them to strike the Seal Which when they have Truths Seal on them Oh! then none will question Let the Noble Bereans search they 'l find the Weights all one The Poor WIDOWS MITE Cast into the LORDS TREASURY Where in are contained in short some reasons in the Justification of the Meetings of the People of God called QUAKERS c. NO Prologue Preface Frontispice nor no Epistle have To Usher in this little Mite that long hath lain in Grave But now a Resurrection hath and from the Grave is come And in the Holy City walks though before deaf and dumbe Nor did it see at all for that in 's very Birth 't was blind Nor taste the goodness of his God nor could him feel or find Now Praises praises unto him that quickned hath dry Bones By breathing makes the sences live to Abraham's Seed of Stones This is the mighty Power of God on us that blind were born His giving forth his Light his Christ his Everlasting â—…orn His Gospel Grace and Righteousness his Joy his Peace his Strength His mighty Arm Salvation brings unto us now at length With Wisdom Truth and Holiness which is to Sanctifie And cleanse this little New-born Babe which long in sin did lye This is the true Emanuel that doth his People save From all the sins that they have done that kept their Souls in Gravâ—… This is the Spirit that quickens us this is the time of Love When in our Blood we wallowing were Oh then What did 〈…〉 Our Father could not seeing he by birth an Am'rite was Nor Mother either cause that she came of the Hittits These fleshly earthly Canaanites could not help in that day Of the Souls great calamity God only is its stay For Pitty pitty no Eye had on it for to help when It was cast out and loath'd of all Love to it God had then He then did purge and purifie that Birth that is his own The which is born of the Spirit by a new Name is known And He it is deliverance brings from Satans Power and Might And hath translated us into his Sons marvelous Light Whereby we wonder and admire his Mercies manifold And from his Truth cannot retire his Truth doth make us bold And valiant for it upon Earth for which we All have lost For in our Building we sate down and did cast up the Cost And by the same our Souls have gain'd let th' world go as it will Let Life or Death or Sufferings come so God be with us still This is the Test we have for God in this we all agree That of our selves no help we have All is of Grace and Free For Obligations we have none wherewith the Lord to tye But the Free Promises he makes on them we do relye So those that true experience have pray tell it to each other What for their Souls the Lord hath done be it Sister or Brother This is the Cause that we do Meet together it 's Gods due That we may serve and witness Him by his Word which is true For in the mouth of two or three when they witness Allone Gods Word it is established and Truth prevails upon The Hearts and Souls of them that hear both IN and OVT also Whereby they the same Spirit know that is in many MO. This was the Order Paul did give the Co-rin-thi-ans to That to one place the Church should come and this also should do The Prophet or to Prophesie to Judge the others were By the same Spirit which they spoke that to them Truths did clear And if amongst them there did come one that believed not Convicted then he is of all and Judgement is his Lot And thus the secrets of his heart all manifested be So falling down upon his Face then worship God will he And of a truth report that God it is that lives in you This way th'unlearned come to know the Way of God that 's true Here one by one may Prophesie that all may hear and learn And also may be comforted that to Gods Spirit turn We Members of each others are being Christs Body dear Which he hath purchas'd with his Blood and plac'd in us his Fear For we be they the which are built on the Foundation Of Prophets and Apostles to Jesus Christ's Corner-stone In whom also the Building is fitly fram'd together Grown unto an holy Temple from which God will not sever For being Built together are through the Almighty Spirit An Habitation of God the which he will Inherit And so the Head it cannot say to 'th Foot I need not thee Nor eke the Eye unto the Ear O be thou gone from me For that the Body is but One yet Members hath it Many Apeare there would Deformity if lack there were of Any This Body God hath temper'd so the Members each with other That all should have the self same care Vncomly parts to cover Not to Rejoyce at Nakedness as did that cursed Cham But as Japhet and blessed Shem going backwards cover'd shame So what is wanting in each one a supply others have To Minister unto each wants by it their Soules to save And this all is by the same Spirit diversities of Guifts With
ears have heard for with his hands Gods Word hath handled been Yea this is he can truly tell you things of admiration What for his Soul the Lord hath done in his Regeneration So he is gatherd up into the Cloud of Witnesses Which here alone did serve the Lord yea him did fear and please And these are they that do not preach at any time for Hire But having Gods Word in their heart cannot contain T is fire And if the Holy Ghost could not for money then he bought And Simon Magus was condemn'd for having such a thought What is the Ghost that is in men that money out do reach And what is that which it receives with condition to preach It seemeth then that they have not of God this self-same Gift Sith that they can contain themselves till we for money shift For them their lips can knowledge keep ther 's none that they wil cherish For if People no money have they all are like to perish For freely they receiv'd have not the Gospel they do preach And therefore freely can't it give so for rewards do Teach That these men truly you may know they tell you what was said By Prophets Christ and Apostels these are their only aid And thus like to the wandring Jews in their Names would cast out The unclean spirit that 's in men but it gives them the rout And so upon them it doth fall that they do quarter crave And do return and tell men that him out there 's none can have For that they know they Power have both in and or'e them to Though they use Paul and Jesus words for money this they do For Satans Kingdom 's not so weak he should himself out cast But this same preaching Pollicy makes it the longer last And so he sets them for to steal the Saints and Prophets Words And bids them hear the Word of God thus much he them affords But yet with this Proviso to That none the same can keep Or any now hath the same Spirit but that it still doth sleep And therefore must not now look for any such Miracle For the power and work is lost this is Satans Oracle For he hath now changed his Form to keep from Peoples sight Though he the Prince of darkness be yet seems Angel of Light These Priests and Curats that do take upon them Souls to cure Physitians are of no value that God's fire can't endure But here you see they have but what they from their Neighbours steal They having not set Seal to God he nought to them reveals And though they say Hear you Gods Word spoken to Jeremy Or unto some other Prophet yet in their mouth 's a lye And so tho they do say or swear that the Lord he doth 〈◊〉 Yea then they do false witness bear this Test they cannot give Whereas those that do dwell in God and He dwelleth in them The Prophets and Apostles know yea Davids 〈◊〉 and Stone Bâ—ing in the Path they walkt do see their foot-steps every one And know their Light and Lanthorn to which unto them hath shown And therefore can in truth repeat what they to all do tell That God also their Souls hath brought from the dark pit of Hell This Spirit it may Preach and Teach Gods wonders manifold The which can speak Gods Word in truth being right a Lyin bolâ— Here you may see we do not quench Gods Spirit he affords That in the least measure doth speak rejoyce we at those words Something about SILENCE Object BUT some do say We marvel much that you can sit Silent We do conceive it no profit nor are with it content For if that we should sit a while silent from hearing breath Our mind a wandring then would be up and down in the Earth And so contriving in our hearts what 's to be done we plot Till there be someting we know not that on our heart doth smote And if this earthly spirit act â—…n for which we feel this smart Some former evil we have done lyes gnawing of our heart So to this outward Ear we must have Objects that do sound That the inward Intelect may thereby be wholly drown'd For that which doth us thus reprove and on our hearts doth smite Doth silence make our burthen ' cause it brings that to our sight For this is that to us doth shew the evils we have done In silence we are made to know therefore we silence shun And so among the trees do run our selves there for to hide For this same small still Voice at all by no means we abide Answer All this we must confess also for we the same have felt Gods Loving-kindness we do know thus he with us have dealt For t is the Lord the which doth wound and he doth also heal 'T is he doth kill and make alive thus with us he doth deal All the Satanick thoughts which thus wandred within our hearts His Light and Power did reprove he cast at them his Darts For this is the true Prophet which Ahab cannot abide That Prophesies not well of him that from the Lord doth slide And this is the Prophet also that the Samarians knew Which told them all they ever did they said 'T was Christ the true Though he at that time was in Fesh when he their thoughts did show But now in Spirit again is come by these things we him know The Word which in beginning was made Fesh Christ yesterday The same is now and e're shall be true Soules Eternal stay And this is that must humble all it is Gods mighty hand Before that ye exalted be his Power must make you stand And therefore now to Silence come Chastisement do'nt refuse For 't is Gods Love unto you all his Sons hereby doth chuse And therefore now with David pray the Lord your hearts to search To find out all Iniquity and in his fire it parch Yea with thy Candle do thou Lord search thy Jerusalem Tha it thy Holy City may be when thou turn'st out them That have kept and defil'd thy House the Temple that is thine Which unto thee should holy be Destroy them all in time That are not Children of thy House but came in by the Fall This Heathen Babylonish brood dash them against the Wall This Enemy which in thy Field when men slept there did Sow His Legions of Tares O Lord let them thy fire know This Man of sin in thy Temple presumptuously doth sit Exalting of himself above all that is calld God yet And shewing of himself to be the God of all the Earth Giving forth Laws of sin and death to all that here have breath And by those Laws in Members war and doth us captive lead Therefore for us O mighty God our Cause now do thou plead For in Hea'n we have none but Thee nor in Earth do we seek For any other helper but Thou Lamb of God the Meek For this same mighty Man of sin sends Ministers to praech None can
be freed from sin or death this Doctrine they do preach Whereby we all our Life-time have been kept in misery They also boldly do affirm that Paul he then did lye When unto God he did give thanks which was his strength and stay For that he had deliverance through Jesus Christ the Way And though Paul in his Agony did ask the question so From this Body of sin and death Who shall deliver Who This question it was only writ ' cause he would answer make Who was the alone Deliverance and for whose onely sake For none such tender pitty had to the poor wretched man To bind his wounds and 's wants supply but th' good Samaritan Who poured oyl into his wounds set him on his own Beast And brought him unto Christs own Inne the place of all Souls Rest With Wounds bound up and Charges paid this Love the Lord doth send With Stock laid in for future time what the poor Soul should spend Now shall not Paul when he is cleans'd and other Leapers to Return and give to God the thanks to whom alone t is due With David also come and tell what for his soul is done And that no Condemnation is in Jesus Christ Gods Son For they now walk not after flesh another Law they have The which of Spirit is and Life that doth their poor Souls save And this doth also set them free from Flesh Law Sin and Death And makes dry Bones together come for God sends for his Breath Which is the Gospel-Power of God which those Ministers hide Whose minds the God of this World blinds lest he should be espide Thus they go forth and People tell from sin they can't be freed Whilst on this side the Grave we are So their Lord's Lord indeed So making void the mighty Power of the Emanuel Who came to save People from sin Lyes of him they do tell As if his Hand were shortned and weakned were his Power Or that the World the Divels were for to rule every hour Whereas all Power in Heaven and Earth unto the Son is given And he must surely Raign on Earth though's Enemies have striven Him to oppose yet if not here Oh where shall Gods Son Raign For all his Enemies Death and Hell shall every one be slain For he must Rule till these be brought under his feet then shall The Son his Kingdom re-assigne and God be all in all So stop your mouths you Messengers that are Satanical For the Lords Christ is come to Raign his Rule must be your Fall And all your mighty Captains to which are of his Empire For Dragon Beast False Prophet to shall be cast in the fire For the Lords Christ came to destroy all the works of the Devil That Righteousness E'relasting may be brought from all that 's evil And if he were not to destroy his works in this world wrought What other World doth he work in that any out have sought When he his Messengers and Works are all cast in the fire What Works can he or they then do that any can desire 'T is also in this wicked World Gods Grace Salvation brings Teaching us worldly Lusts to shun and each ungoly thing And in this present world to live godly and soberly And to relieve in Righteousness the fatherless thereby The Widow likewise to visit this is Religion pure From the Worlds spots thus to keep clear the Devil can't endure And if all this you can't believe take your own evidence Of your own Doctrine the result and Catachistick sence Whereby this Truth it is confirm'd ' gainst all to be the same Where Children they are taught to say what 's promis'd in their name That the Devil and AL his works they must and will forsake And AL the Pomps and Vanities of this world leave to take And AL the sinful Lusts also of the Flesh which do rise ALL these they must be now forsook that did their hearts surprize And these not only to be left but they Gods Word must keep And his holy Commandements all their Life not in sleep This Christian Article of Faith they must fully believe Though they themselves their works destroy yet this to learn they give Oh is no here Babel built now anon pull'd down again This is the Dialect they speal of Sounds this is the strain Object But some may say For all this yet Paul in his flesh did feel A Prick Buffeting of Satan and this God did not heal Answ All this is true in his Warfare Pricks in the flesh he may And Buffetings of Satan to who sought him to destroy For when that â—e a Souldier was of Satan on his side He then with might did Persecute Christians could not abide And like his Master went about roaring for to devour And Letters had from the High Priest to take all in his Power And said himself He was e'en mad ' gainst all on God did call He went from house to house and did them unto Prison hall Now all this time there was no cause Satan should buffet Saul Till that he had his Champion lost and was convert to Paul And now who otherwise can think but Paul bufft'ed must be by his old Master that he serv'd now they do not agree Moreover must not Paul now have the measure he hid give And now the Wheel's upon him turn'd till the Lord him relieve So this no evil was in Paul nor ought that was unjust Though to the Lord he three times sought ' cause he did on him trust This seeking to the Lord did shew who had the power and might And that himself was but weakness 't was God must for him fight The Answer was he should not Fear sufficient was his Grace Him to defend and Courage give his Enemies to face He now must be a Souldier for his new Master t is right Therefore with Pricks and Buffets to his old Master doth fight Against him in temptation in raising of his mind To glory in the things he saw to which before he 's blind But by the Shield of Faith he did defend himself from evil And quenched hath the fiery darts cast at him from the Devil And Gods Light Armour on he put with the Sword of the Spirit The Helmet of Salvation to all 's Free here is no Merit So with this Armour and Weapon Paul did fight a good fight Against the Devil kept the Faith by Gods Pow-er and Might And by this Faith he did resist the Devil and made him fly And in this Faith the Victory got also a Crown thereby The which the Righteous God will give unto his Souldiers all That under this his Banner fight and on his Name do call So all may see that this was not an evil then in Paul But Souldiers marks of Jesus Christ the which we must bear all And his seeking thus unto God is as a sucking Child That seeketh for its Mothers Breast that is tender and mild And when the Child had suckt its
fill the Breast likewise is eas'd The Child then it is satisfi'd and Mother also pleas'd This figure God made use of when to Israel he did say Her Child can a Mother forget that sucks on her each day This is the Faith that sucks the Breast of Consolation By which the Just shall ever live if they feed thereupon For in the World we are but sent this plainly doth appear Which shews our Father is alive in whose House is our chear In which is Bread of Life enough and Mansions there are many So Prodigals must come thereto if they mean to have any And this may well observed be what doth the Father move No sooner sees his Son to come but RVNS to meet his Love Oh here is Love Love Love indeed Who can such Love er'e shun For when poor Souls begin to move the Father he doth RVN Yea not away but towards him as if it were a Bliss With arms spread out doth it receive and gives to it a Kiss And is not only here content with joy his House doth sound Because the dead is made alive his lost Son now is found And seemeth to be servile to beset with cares and fears Waiting for to be garcious on Israel forty years And when that we did wallow in the blood that was our own Vnsalted washt or pittied then was his strong Arm known Oh this was Gods own only Power that did Salvation bring Oh this was then a time of Love which makes us now to sing Salvation Glory and Power unto our God for ever Who is our present help at hand his Promise faild us never So all may see the ground-work then that solely doth us move In our affections to Love him ' cause first he did us Love For when that we ungodly were then he his own Son sent From sin and Satan us to free this was his true intent From Egypts darkness and Deaths bonds poor Souls he did set free This was Gods Love and the Sons Word in this both did agree This Truth also in many things illustrated may be That we no Independants are alone on God live we Though we as strong as Sampson were who the Philistines killd And heaps on heaps of them did bear yet he to Death must yeild Till the Lord cleave a hollow place where water did spring out In the same Jaw-bone of the Asse wherewith he made the Rout And when that he had drank thereof his Spirit came again And he revived also was though given himself as slain So of our selves no strength we have 't is in God we must hoast Who is our Captain Strength and Stay the only Lord of Hoasts Now by experience David may yet in Gods strength alone Declare how he by it had killd the great Philistian The Lyon Bear and through an Hoast gone by this strength he hath And he over a Wall hath lept that stood a cross his Path. This is the way that he did go and therefore Courage took ' Cause formerly God did him help and never him forsook Though then were some as there be now which unto him did say That in his God no help there was whereon his soul to stay This plainly then you now may see these cause mens hearts to faint Denying of Gods strength which he doth work in every Saint So putting them quite out of heart for ever to attain Over their hearts-lusts Victory or Ground on them to gain This Spirit you may also see in Israel of old Which did not the true Spies believe though they God Truth bâ— told For they the Sons of Anack feard that mighty were and tall So did not in Gods Power trust but fell a murmuring all And their false Spies to help forward their unbelief and spight Said They appear'd like Grashoppers in the Anakims sight None doubted then nor do they now but the Land it is good But how 't could then or now can be attaind the Question stood And notwithstanding God to them such Miracles did show And wonderfully brought them out of Egypt they did know Yet those false Spies did them perswade as Ministers do now Of Satan which do make a trade against God to avow That from their Masters Kingdom he poor Souls cannot set free Or that his Kingdom in this World diminished shall be Which is the cause of Vnbelief amongst us now at length But those that unto Sion come do grow from strength to strength And now as then the true Caleb do still the People tell The Land is good and to Conquer they able are full well And that the People should not fear unto them thus he sed Their Defence doth from them depart they are to us for Bread And that the Lord he was with them there was no cause to fear Yet they for all this did rebell for their words did not care For many false Spies still they had which brought an ill report So that the Congregation bad stone them with stones for 't Now if there be a Caleb that God follow fully will With other Spirit than they do they cry him stone or kill And yet for all this God will bring his Calebs to this Land They and their Seed shall it possess which to his Truth do stand Who do believe and so confess God by his Power can Bring his People out of Egypt to heavenly Canaan From this it may observed be The false spies they are many From which the ground of Vnbelief doth spring Truth scarce hath any Though in this work it is their share to suffer as men think Yet unto us it is our Joy of Christs own Cup to drink E'en as t was then so it is now Destructions way is wide And many follow in the same few from it turn aside These men that did Gods glory see and miracles also In Egypt and i' th Wilderness do tempt him ten times mo Than those that never yet did see Gods Power that 's Divine More tollerable it shall be for such who have no Sign These Miracles and Wonders great Advantages should be And in our hearts such Courage raise that we no fear should see This is the way David did go with confidence to Saul He took up Courage in his heart and told Israel all That in Gods strength a Lyon he had killed and a Bear And therefore this Physitian bold knew no such thing as Fear This Plea we ' gainst all those have that unto People preach Let God or man do what they can Man Canaan Land can't reach Something of the Cause of DARKNESSE IGNORANCE and PERSECUTION AS the dark Body of the Moon which in the Night is Light That it receiveth from the Sun by standing in its sight And then again by Reflection on us this Light doth cast While it thus governeth the Night no longer doth it last For when the Day-light doth appear it wan doth wax and fade ' Cause it retains no Life or Power nor hath it any Shade For that the brightness of
us still We could not rest but we must rise till we did know his will If for our zeal you us condemn Samuel must stand our Friend To speak for us when that God will to Jesses house him send Who there for us will make excuse for this our Ignorance When he did judge God annointed with his outward eyes glance For the Lord said he should not look on outward countenance Nor on the height of the stature though it was Jesses Branch For by that way God doth not look neither by it doth chuse For what accords not with his heart that still he doth refuse Here Samuel took the first-born Son for Gods Annointed sure But Countenance nor Stature doth answer to God the pure So second third and all seven past before Samuel But no answer from God he had of them as he could tell So being at a stand he said are here all thy Children David unworthy counted was to be with his Brethren Yet by the Lord annointed is whatere of him is sed For Gods Spirit on him is pourd Sure mercies of David Thus you see all the seven Sons disowned by their Maker But this same last Sheep-keeping lad because he was a Quaker All here may see that God doth chuse the heart that is upright Which tremble doth at his own Word is pleasant in his sight So we can say in truth of heart when God did first us call And we ran in the several wayes yea some have run them all In something we did answer him that pleasd him we do know That he never left calling us till his Truth us did show So the Last way some did profess was no Form but Seeking By Babylons fall they all did cease but now is found the thing The MESSIAH that doth restore Israel that was lost The which hath suffered much Shipwrack is cast upon our coast So the sure Mercies we have found the Christ the first the last The Spirit of the Living God which was in Ages past Christ by the flesh was Davids Son he being his Off-spring But yet in Spirit was Davids Root for David calls him King Here answerd is the great Question that doth with Truth accord How Jesus Christ not only was Davids own Son but Lord This is the King that God hath set upon his holy Hill That shall the Pot-shards of Earth break that bow not to his Will God being a Spirit his Son is so and so of right is Lord. Who was and is and ever shall be King with one accord His Day Christ said Abram did see tho some him for 't did scorn The Everlasting Father was though Isays Child new-born This was the Scepter which was not from Israel to depart The inward Israel indeed who 're Circumcis'd in heart This Law giver 'tween Judas feet yea nearer in his womb Who never shall from his depart until that SHILO come This was the Spiritual meat and drink this was the store the stock Of Israel that followed them to drink t is Christ the Rock Yea this the Rock of Ages is it was and shall be so Generations Foundation no other shall they know So now that former fickle State in which we wore wavering Being wholly unsatisfied until we had our King But now our Lord and King is come and in our hearts doth raign And hath our Enemies Sin and Death in 〈…〉 eat measure slain So I again to you do say do not upbraid us more With such a fickle wavering state as you have done before When in dead Forms and outward Priests which perish with using We neither handle touch or taste with you any such thing Wherefore your outward visible Signs must all of them give place According to your Liturgy 't is inward spiritual Grace The which now in the heart doth raign of many in this Nation For outward Shaddows were but till the time of Reformation But now the good things they are come Christ Body is discern'd And Gods Kingdom of Righteousness of Joy and Peace is learn'd The which in Meats and Drinks doth not consist as many think For in this Kingdom we afresh with Christ this fruit do drink And therefore all your Washings then that divers were and many With all your worldly Elements that doth not perfect any For the Body Christ hath prepard to do thy will O God For that thy People willing be in this days Power O Lord. And now may'nt I say Glory to as well as Englands Form The Father Son and holy Ghost in it I see no harm And that in the beginning 't was I also say the same So it shall be world without end Praise to his Holy NAME His Name 's but one and yet to him there many Names are given According as he Ministers to us here under Heaven And here on Earth Three record bear tho Three in ONE agree And answer Heavens record to as Branches of ONE Tree Some more SCRUPLES clear'd NOW for the opening of the Truth which is our strength c stay In answering of Objections to this same some may say Object Oh! here 's a Table richly deckt Oh here are dishes store Oh! is all this but one Small Mite and from a Widow poor Though here are many good Dishes they have not the right place Nor in good Order Vsherd in oh this doth spoile the Grace For there are sometimes Dishes come the which should last be brought And this Course will not it admit of this some will find fault Though we confess the meat be good and on the Table store But Sauce here is not sutable to sight it is but poor Answ My Answer this noâ—… â—…nquet is for them full Stomack have But bitter things for hungry Soules which newly come from grave But yet in it ought sweetness find O this is all my aim To praise the goodness of our God for his Love in the same And seeing meat is on the Board if it be'nt rightly set Let others take the pains that can the Dishes places â—…it Now for my part when I did taste any dish that was good I presently brought him to board to others for their food If in Feasts they first best Wine bring and after that that 's worst Yet Christ when he makes Water Wine the last's as good as first So these Traditions we do not in our minds much admire So hungry Souls with Righthousness be fed is our desire Object Tautologies O some may say be here I do them find Which are Dishes of one like meat this doth not please the mind Answ My Answer is 't was meat I lov'd that I often did eat And so for 't should not be reprov'd for giving of my meat This way Prophets and Apostles did use with Line on Line Thus putting Saints in remembrance by stirring their pure mine And that 't was not grievous to them the same thing for to write Yea those things which they did believe and had thereof the sight Object But now again for to return and