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A85258 An exhortation, by way of epistle to the friends of Christ, every where. Field, John, 1652-1723. 1696 (1696) Wing F863A; ESTC R177041 7,654 38

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AN EXHORTATION By way of EPISTLE TO THE Friends of Christ Every Where Jesus said My doctrine is not mine but his that sent me If any man will do his will he shall know of the doctrine whether it be of God or whether I speak of my self Joh. 7. 16 17. Where two or three are gathered together in my name there am I in the midst of them Matt. 18. 20. If ye keep my commandments ye shall abide in my love even as I have kept my father's commandments and abide in his love Joh. 15. 10. London Printed for T. Northcot in George-yard in Lombard-street 1696. AN Exhortation c. DEar and tender Friends Brethren and Sisters whom the Lord in his tender Love hath visited in these latter Days and after a long and tedious Night of Darkness and Time of Apostacy wherein the saving Knowledge of the glorious God and our blessed Saviour Jesus Christ hath been but little known and livingly experienced to you who are now visited with the bright-shining Light of his glorious Day that hath sprung up in this latter Age and are called by his blessed Grace and quickned by his living Spirit raised by his eternal Power to be a People to the Praise of his Grace and to the Honour of his everlasting Name and through the Revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ are made Partakers of God's saving Knowledge in a good degree and in whom the Almighty God our Heavenly Father by his powerful Word hath began his glorious Work of Righteousness Redemption and Eternal Salvation To you O my Friends I feel the Love of God flow and thereby am drawn to send these following Lines not only as a Salutation of endeared Love but as Counsel and Advice on the several Heads following viz. I. To be diligent in waiting upon the Lord. II. And frequent in that Christian Duty in meeting together for that End That you may renew your Acquaintance with him and your Strength in him and be enabled by him in Faithfulness to follow him and may feel your Hearts filled with Love to him Fear towards him Zeal for him and a godly Concern for his Glory the Propagating and Spreading of his precious Truth the Exaltation and Renowning of his excellent Name and in Plainness and Simplicity may be found bearing your Testimony for him in all Respects and not decline it in any That you may have his Blessings enjoy his Presence and be more abundantly made Partakers of the Comforts of his Holy Spirit and Joy of his Salvation And for this End I do in brotherly Love exhort all to be inward in their Minds and to have their Hearts exercised in that Light in which they have believed and that Spirit by which they have been quickened And then you will see your selves know your States be sensible of your Weaknesses and Wants and of the need you have to watch unto Prayer and to wait on the Lord and frequently to meet with his People for that End and to be diligent when met in attending upon the Lord in his Holy Fear that you may feel his Presence renew your Strength and know his Work to prosper and be carry'd on in your Souls But if you neglect this Duty and are not diligent therein altho' you are called you cannot be faithful nor become his chosen People but will grow cool in your Love to God and will slack in your Obedience and will not partake Altho' you may hear of the GOOD of his Land but will become dry baren and unfruitful unto him and altho ' you may retain a Profession of the Truth and confess thereunto yet the Love of the Word and the Cares of it will grow and the Spirit of it will prevail and into the Evil that 's in it you will be drawn and under Condemnation you will fall and be in Danger to bring Reproach upon Truth Dishonour to the Name of God and Scandal upon the Christian Religion and your Holy Profession in your Lives and Conversations and to decline your Testimony for the Lord both in Words Habit and Conversation Oh! therefore my dear Friends prize the great Love of God to you in visiting and calling you by his Light and Grace and consider the End thereof which is that you might be a People to his Praise and to the Honour of his Name and might shew forth the Vertue of him that hath called you out of Darkness into his marvellous Light 1 Pet. 2. 9. to serve him with Reverence and godly Fear and to be found diligent in that Practice of Meeting often together and Speaking often one unto another and thinking on his Name Mal. 3. 16. as those that feared him did in the Ages past of whom the Lord said these shall be Mine Oh! that 's precious to know and comfortable to experience that we are HIS his People his Children his Servants his Sons and Daughters then we shall have his Blessing enjoy his Presence know his Care to be over us and feed at his Table partake of his Bread be nourish'd by the Milk of his Word grow in his Grace and the Knowledg of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and our Souls will be filled with Love to him Joh. 15. 10 12. and we shall manifest it by our keeping his Commandments and be enabled by him to keep our Testimony unspotted and in Truth and Faithfulness stand Witnesses for him against the World all its corrupt Ways Fashions Customs Religions and Traditions and be preserv'd from touching the unclean thing then the Lord will receive us 2 Cor. 6. 17. and own us stand by and preserve us protect and defend us support and sustain us in and under all we may meet with for the faithful Discharge of our Duty to him and keeping our Testimony for him Then oh then neither the Frowns nor Flatteries the Threats nor Entreaties the Favour nor Displeasure of Men will prevail upon us to decline our Testimony or neglect our Duty But the faithful Discharg thereof above all other things by us will be preferr'd and our Love to Christ thereby manifested as it ought to be for you know he hath said If any man love any thing more than me he is not worthy of me Therefore let us look to him and wait on him and pray to him to carry on to prosper and compleat the Work of Righteousness Redemption and Salvation in our Hearts and Souls And be watchful against all that which would draw away your Hearts and Minds from the Lord into the Earth and earthly Things and the Love and too eager pursuit thereof for that will cooll your Love to God and chill your Zeal and cause a Slackness to your Christian Duty of meeting together to wait upon God and will have a Tendency to bring you into a cold dead formal State and to make you like the Tree that had Leaves only and no Fruit to which Christ said Let no fruit grow on thee And presently it withered and came to