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A31341 A salutation in the love of God and in the fellowship of the work of His blessed truth ... with a word of exhortation and counsel ... also a warning unto all them that have long known the truth but have not, neither obey it with all their hearts ... / by Samuel Cater. Cater, Samuel, d. 1711. 1672 (1672) Wing C1489; ESTC R36283 11,127 14

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A SALUTATION IN THE Love of God AND In the Fellowship of the work of his blessed Truth unto all the Faithful Brethren and Sisters in Christ Jesus our Lord who are Begotten by the Immortal Word of God unto a lively Hope which liveth and abideth for ever With A Word of Exhortation and Counsel unto all whose Faces are set Sion-ward and who have found the Narrow-Way that leads to Life whose hearts are tender of Gods Glory and desire to walk therein Also a Warning unto all them that have long known the Truth but have not neither do obey it with all their hearts that they may Redeem the time that yet remaines and prize the Day of their Visitation and while they have the Light walk in it lest utter Darkness come upon them and the Door of Mercy be shut By SAMUEL CATER Printed in the Year 1672. A Salutation In the Love of God and in the Fellowship of the work of his blessed Truth unto all the Faithful Brethren and Sisters in Christ Jesus our Lord c. Dear Friends Brethren and Sisters WHom God through the riches of his Grace and breakings of his blessed Light into our hearts hath thereby gathered us out of the dark world which lyeth in wickedness amongst whom we had our conversation in times past in which time we were Ignorant of the knowledg of the true God and strangers unto eternall Life which by his blessed Grace and heavenly Light he hath now brought us unto the knowledge of to the great Satisfaction of our hearts and comfort of our soules which peace and satisfaction the world could never give us neither can they now take it away from us blessed be the name of the Lord our God who speaks peace to his children and none can speake trouble but in his holy will we rest under the shadow of his winges where none of the instruments of cruelty can make us afraid for the Seed is known which is satisfied in the will of God and can and doth obey and follow the Lord as faithfully in adversity as in prosperity whereby we are fully satisfied thorow the work that God hath wrought in us by his unchangable truth and spirit that the day of his power is come in which day he hath made us willing to deny our own wills and to obey the will of the Lord God our maker and to take up the cross whereby selfe is daily crucified and to follow Christ Jesus and to keep the word of his patience whereby we are made pertakers of the fulfiling of his gra●ious promises who keeps and delivers his in the hour of temptation who saith to the Seed of Jacob Call upon me in the time of trouble I will hear and deliver thee and thou shalt glorifie me And now dear Brethren often hath the Lord made us Eie-witnesses and pertakers of this his love and mercy who hath preserved our feet from falling yea and hath delivered us out of many troubles and when we have seen none to help then hath he been a present help unto us both outwardly and inwardly So that the Lord hath not been wanting unto us blessed be his holy name who hath and doth hand forth his mercy as largly now to them that fear him as he did unto the generations that are gone before us Oh! the love of our God and how large it doth abound to us-ward even unto them that fear him so that I can say as the Prophet said Truly the Lord is good to Israel even unto such as are of an upright heart For Dear Friends who is their that can say they want any good thing that put their trust in the Lord and are given up to serve and obey him with all their hearts So that our souls can say to the glory of our God That Wisdom and grace nor any good thing doth the Lord withhold from them that obey him with an upright heart for in him all fullness dwels who feeds the hungry with good things and covers the naked with the garment of Salvation and beautifies his Elect with high praises the poor he maketh rich with durable riches and everlasting righteousness so that he raises the poor beggar from the dunghill of the worlds glory and sets him in heavenly places in Christ Jesus where his soul feeds quietly in the fresh pastures of love and life and drinks at the Fountain of living water which becomes as a well springing up in his soul to Life Eternall the lame also doth the Lord in this the day of his blessed power which he hath made us pertakers off make to walke thorow the virtue of his love he refreshes the soules and hearts of all them that wait upon him whereby their strength is daily renewed to run the wayes of his holy commandments which the Lord makes easie to all them that are of an upright heart the tongue of the dumb he loosed through the vertue of his Life and showering down his blessed dews of heaven into their thirsty Soules which causeth them to publish his praise and to set forth his glory So that we see his Promise fulfilled in the wilderness waters breake forth and streams in the desart and the place of barrenness is now become fruitful whereby praises is brought forth to the glory of the Lord our God So that his presence is with us as certainly now as ever it was with his Children in any Age who obeyed his holy will and stood in his councel who for their obedience to the Law of their God were sometimes cast into the Lions den somtimes into the fire sometimes imprisoned and others their goods spoyled and the Lo●ds presence was with them who upheld them and caused them to sing praises unto His name in the feeling of His holy Power which they injoyed when their bodies were lockt in the Prison and their feet in the Stocks Even so now He is known unto us that have believed in His name by the virtue of His love for He deals His bread of Life which is His flesh unto our Souls by the virtue of which our Souls live and receive strength to praise the Living God our maker and the misterys of Life and Godliness hath the Lord made known unto us who hath cleansed us and purged us by His blood and washed and Regenerated us by His holy Word So that there is a Remnant that can and do read in Gods blessed Light the misteryes of Life and these can say The bread which we break is the communion of the body of Christ and the cup which we drink is the communion of the blood of Christ For although we be many members and many miles distant outwardly separated one from another and have sundry gifts which God hath given us by His holy Spirit which He hath sent into our hearts by the which we are led and guided to exercise the same For the edifying of the body in the love of God which constraineth us so to do by which Spirit