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A85324 An epistle in the love of God to Friends, with a little chiefly to their tender children. : To which is added a few lines to such that may be farther grown in the truth. Fisher, Abigail. 1696 (1696) Wing F984A; ESTC R177065 7,168 24

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AN EPISTLE IN THE LOVE of GOD TO FRIENDS With a Little Chiefly to their Tender CHILDREN To which is added a few Lines to such that may be farther grown IN THE TRUTH The Lord gave the Word great was the Company of those that Published it Psal 68. 11. London Printed and sold by T. Sowle in White-Hart-Court in Grace-Church-street 1696. TO THE READER Dear Friends ACcording to the Gentle and Friendly Dealings of the Lord to my Soul whose Love I feel hath a Constraining Vertue in it therefore as he hath set before all Men Good and Evil my Desires are That all may make the better Choice and as there is Diversity of Gifts and Operation by one and the same Spirit Likewise I do believe there is a service for all the Gifts of God as they are improved to the Honour of the Giver who is God over all in his unchangeable Power blessed for ever AN EPISTLE In the Love of GOD to FRIENDS c. Dear Friends IN that True and Universal Love which God hath begotten in me this is with me to send amongst you feeling the Spring of Life to be opened from an Inward sence of the Word of God's Immortal Divine and Quickening Power by which Power and Word all things were made and created in the Beginning by which and taking heed thereto the Lord hath made many of you Living Witnesses of that saying and it is fulfilling in this our Day Behold saith the Lord I Create a new Heaven and a new Earth wherein dwells Righteousness for which the Lord is only and alone Worthy of all Praise and to him be it given from all you who are made living Partakers of this his Everlasting Kindness And Friends we have all good cause to wait for the Lord 's Teaching who Teacheth his People to Profit as he hath done many that are gone before in those things that belong to their everlasting Well-being through believing in Christ Jesus who is the Wisdom of God and the Power of God by which many know as sure as ever it was spoken that Faith is the Gift of God begotten through the Divine Influences of his Blessed Spirit a measure of which is given to every Man to profit withal and there is not another Way or Name given under Heaven by which Lost Man can be saved and brought back again out of the Fall to God his Maker and Creator but by the Name and Power of Jesus You know dear Friends who have felt his Restoring Arm to be at work in you by which you can testifie it is that alone which brings Salvation and therefore this is no new thing to you who also know God's Arm is not shortened neither is his Word or Power lessened but through the same saving Word of Power you with me and I with you may admire the Virtue that is through it manifest in this our Day by which the Blind Eye hath been opened the Deaf Ear unstopp'd the Lame not only to walk but leap as an Hart through the safe Conducting Power that is in it and therefore Friends let us all go Hand in Hand together in this the Good Old Way which is also livingly renew'd in you that walk in it day after day in the sence of which let our Spirits bless the Lord together and all go forward towards the Lord 's Holy Mountain for you know Holiness becomes his House for ever you to whom the Gospel Sun hath so clearly shined which will yet more and more by which many will yet see the Glory that is in it and flock to the arising of it for the Lord hath not left himself without Witnesses having brought many to a right Understanding of the Blessed way to the Kingdom of Heaven which many are yet seeking which is Christ Jesus who gave himself a Ransom for Mankind that he might redeem them from all Iniquity and that is the Universal Love of God for all to Receive who hath sent his Son to bless us in turning every Man from the Evil of their ways for many we know have been turned to God and made partakers of that great Blessing and I would to God that there were many more in this our Nation brought out of the Fall of the first Adam through believing in Christ Jesus the second Adam the Lord from Heaven who is a quickening Spirit who said I am the Resurrection and the Life he that believes in me though he were dead yet shall he live and blessed be the Lord Dear Friends he hath made you living Witnesses of many of those Blessed Sayings Recorded in the Scriptures of Truth by the Inspiration of the same Holy Spirit that gave them forth and I know it is your desires with mine that all who have believed in the Spiritual Appearance of Christ may so wait upon him as to know the end of his coming in them that thereby they may come to know the only true God and Jesus Christ whom to know is Life Eternal which Life Men cannot enjoy while they are dead in Trespasses and Sin whatever they may talk of read or hear of God and Christ or the Scriptures which they call their Rule But how few walk according to the Directions thereof which directs them to him who saves his People from their Sins You also know who are the saved of the Lord who is of Purer Eyes than to behold Iniquity with Pleasure therefore I think it great pity that any that come amongst us should give or take liberty to such Loosness and Evils that others were Strangers to before they knew the precious Truth as it is now made manifest Therefore to such this Word of Counsel is in my Heart that they may now consider ●hat the Lord is calling all Men every where to Repentance and that it is also Cause of Grief to all those tender Hearts who receive the Truth in Love and for the Purity of it and love the Truth because of the true Edification that is in it and it is you my Friends I know that feel the Love of God reaching in you to encourage others to love him and that which is good and embrace the Testimony of Truth in their own Hearts although some in our Day have turned their backs upon the Truth and embrace those things which once they were led out of by it and others through an evil surmising and prejudicial Spirit put a slight esteem and value upon it But blessed be the Lord I am throughly satisfied there are many that retain their first love to it and abide in that Charity which becomes all that have the true Knowledge of it and you my Friends feel the Sweetness and Comfort of the Truth And you I know cannot but love all that truly love the appearance of Christ Jesus although his Visage is more marr'd than any Man's in and amongst too too many But you Friends who have seen him as he is the express Image of his Father's Substance to you he is most Lovely