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A90427	To the churches of Jesus throughout the world. Gathered and setled in His eternal light, power, and lpirit [sic], to be one holy flock, family, and houshould to the Lord, who hath redeemed them from among all the kindreds of the earth.	Penn, William, 1644-1718.	1677 (1677)	Wing P1387A; ESTC R187052	10,523	14

minds in any wise to please the lusts of the Eye the lusts of the Flesh and the Pride of life which are not of the Father but of this World lest any be exalted in a liberty that maketh the Cross of Jesus of none effect and the offence thereof to cease For such will become as Salt that hath lost its savour and at last will be trod under the Feet of God and Men. For the Lord will withdraw his daily presence and the Fountain will come to be fealed up and the Well of Salvation be stopped again Therefore as all would rejoyce in the joy of God's Salvation let them wait for the saving Power and dwell in it that knowing the Mystery of the work of Regeneration Christ formed in them the hope of their glory t ey may be able in the motion of him that hath begotten them through death to life to go forth and declare the way of Life and Salvation And all you that are young Convinced of the Eternal Truth come into it and then you will feel the Vertue of it And so you will be Witnesses otherwise Vain Talkers Wells without Water Clouds without Rain for which state is reserved the Blackness of Darkness forever Wherefore gird up the loyns of your minds and be sober and Tempt not God but receive the Day of your Visitation and walk worthy of so great love and delight to retain God in your Knowledge and grieve not his holy Spirit but joyn to it and be led by it that it may be an earnest to you of an eternal Inheritance And take up your daily Cross and follow Christ and not the Spirit of this World He was meek and lowly he was humble and plain he was few in Words but mighty in Deeds He loved not his Life unto death even the reproachful death of the Cross but laid down his life and became of no Reputation and that for the Rebellious O the height and the depth the length and the breadth yea the unsearchableness of the love of God in Christ Jesus Wherefore while it is to day hearken to his Voice and harden not your Hearts and make no bargains for your Self neither consult with Flesh and Blood But let the Lord be your Light and your Salvation let him be the strength of your life and the length of your Dayes And this know assuredly that none ever trusted to the Lord and were confounded Wherefore hold up your Testimony for God as ye would enjoy the Increasings of his Life and love And let your Light shine and confess him before the whole World smoother not his appearance neither hide thy Candle God hath lighted in thee under a bushel For Christ walketh among his Candlesticks of pure and tryed Gold Wherefore set thy light upon a Candlestick and shew forth thy good Conversation in meekness and godly fear that thou mayst become a good Example and others beholding thy good Works may glorifie God But for the Rebellious the Fearful and the Unbelieving the Day hastens upon such that the things that belong to their Eternal Peace shall be hid from their Eyes forever And all you my dear Friends and Brethren who are in Sufferings for the Testimony of Jesus and a good Conscience look up to Jesus the Author and Finisher of your Faith who for the Joy that was set before him endured the Cross and despised the shame and is sate down at the Right Hand of the Father in the heavenly Place into which if you faint not you shall all be received after the Dayes of your Pilgrimage shall be at an End with a Well done good and faithful Servant And though these afflictions seem not joyous but grievous for the present yet a far more exceeding weight of glory stands at the Door Wherefore count it all Joy you fall into these Tryals and persevere to the end knowing that he that shall come will come and will not tarry and that his Reward is with him Remember the Martyrs of Jesus that loved not their lives to the death for his Names-sake that had called them And Jesus himself that made a good Confession before Pontius Pilate who hath consecrated through his Blood a new and living way for all that come unto God by him who is made a high Priest higher then the Heaven one that can be touched and moved and is daily touched and moved with our Weakness and Infirmity that through him we may be made strong in the Lord and more then Conquerors through him that hath loved us Wherefore let it not seem as if some strong thing had happened to you for all these things are for the Tryal of your Faith which is more precious then the Gold that perisheth 'T is the old quarrel Children of this World against the Children of Lord those that are born after the flesh warring against those that are born after the Spirit Cain against Abel the Old World against Noah Sodomites against Lot Hagar against Sarah Ishmael against Isaac Esau against Jacob Egyptians against Israelites the false Prophets against the true Prophets as Isaiah Jeremiah c. The Jews under the Profession of the Letter of the Law against Christ that came to fulfil the Law and all his spiritual followers and Disciples And all the false Apostate Christians against the true and Spiritual Christians and Martyrs of Jesus So your conflict is for the spiritual Appearance of Christ Jesus against those that profess him in words but in Works and Conversations every day deny him doing Despight to the Spirit of grace in themselves and those that are led by it But though Gog and Magog shall gather themselves together to lay waste the City of God yet the Lord hath determined their destruction and he will bring it to pass Wherefore rejoyce O though little Hill of God and clap thy Hands for Joy for he that is faithful and true Just and Righteous and able to deliver thee dwells in the midst of thee Who will cause thee to grow and increase till thou become a great Mountain till thou becomest the praise of the whole Earth and the whole Earth be filled with thy Glory And to you all who are the followers of the Lamb of God who was dead but is alive and lives for evermore who is risen in your Hearts as a bright shining light and is leading you out of the Nature and Spirit of this World in the Path of Regeneration I have this to say by way of holy Encouragement unto you all the Lord God eternal that was and is and is to come hath reserved for you the glories of the last Dayes and if so be that the Followers and Martyrs of Jesus in Ages past when the Church was going into the Wilderness and his witnesses into Sack-cloth were notwithstanding so Noble and Valiant for the Truth on Earth that they loved not their lives unto the Death and suffered joyfully the Spoiling of their Goods for the Testimony of Jesus how much more ought you all to be encouraged unto Faithfulness who are come to the Resurrection of the Day which shall never more be ecclipsed in which the Bride-groom is come to fetch you his Spouse out of the WILDERNESS to give you Beauty for Ashes and the Garment of Praise for the SPIRIT of HEAVINESS who will cover you with his Spirit and adorn you with his fine Linnen the Righteousness of the Saints lean upon his Breast forever And know your joyning in an Everlasting Covenant with him that he may lift up the Light of his Countenance upon you and delight to do you good that in blessing he may bless you increase you and multiply you in all spiritual Blessings now and forever that to God through him you may live all the days of your appointed time to whom be Glory and Honour Praises and Thanksgivings in the Church throughout all Ages and forever I am In the Faith Patience Tribulation and Hope of the Kingdom of Jesus your Friend and Brother VVililam Penn. MY Companions in the Labour and Travail of the Testimony of Jesus G. Keith and B. Furley salute you all in the Love of our God We have passed through several Cities of Germany and are now at Franckford where the Lord hath given us Three blessed Opportunities with a Serious and Seeking People whereof as in other places of this Country many of them are Persons of great Worldly Quality blessed be the Name of the Lord to whom be Glory forever Franckford the 22th of the 6th Moneth 1677. W. P. THE END

TO THE Churches of Jesus Throughout the VVORLD Gathered and setled in his Eternal Light Power and Lpirit to be One Holy Flock Family and Houshould to the Lord who hath Redeemed them from among all the Kindreds of the Earth Godly Zeal Wisdom Power Perseverance and Victory with all heavenly Blessings be multiplied among you in the Name of the Lord. DEAR Friends and Brethren who have been visited with the fatherly Visitation from on high and have received God's eternal Word and Testament in your Hearts by which you have been gathered home to Christ Jesus the true Shepherd from all the Idol-Shepherds and their barren Mountains and unprofitable Hills where you have been scattered in that dark and gloomy Day of Apostacy and by his Light Spirit and Power have been convinced of sin righteousness and judgment and can say The Prince of this World is judged by his holy righteous and powerful Appearance in you unto whom all Judgment in Heaven Earth is committed who is the blessed Lamb of God the Light Saviour of the World who is King of Salem and Prince of Peace My Soul loves you with everlasting Love even with the Love with which my God and your God my Father and your Father hath loved me and visited my Soul and your Souls in this do I dearly salute and embrace you all in this the Day of the fulfilling of his glorious Promises to his Church in the Wilderness and Witnesses in Sack-cloth And O magnified be his Name and everlastingly praised and renowned be his holy Power and Arm by which he hath reached unto us and brought Salvation near us For he hath found us out and hath heard our solitary Cryes the deep and mournful Supplications of our bowed Spirits when we were as the little silly Dove without its Mate and the lonely Pelican in the Wilderness when we were ready to cry out Is there none to save is there none to help O when shall the Time Times and Half a Time be finisht when shall the One Thousand Two Hundred and Sixty Dayes be accomplisht and when shall the Abomination that stands in the Holy Place be cast out when shall the Captivity of the People be turned back O when shall Babylon come into Remembrance before God Dragon Beast and False Prophet be cast into the Lake And when shall the Law go forth out of Sion and the Word of the Lord out of Jerusalem When shall Sion become the Joy and Jerusalem the Praise of the whole Earth And when shall the the Earth be covered with the Knowledge of the Lord as the Waters cover the Sea Friends The Lord of Heaven and Earth hath heard our Cryes and the full time is come yea the appointed time is come and the Voice of the Eternal Spirit in our Hearts hath been heard on this wise many a time Awake thou that sleepest and I will give thee Life arise out of the Dust and shine for thy Light is come and the Glory of the Lord is risen upon thee And the Lord God hath given us that Light by which we have comprehended the Darkness in ourselves and in the World and as we have believed in it dwelt in it and walked in it we have received Power to overcome the Evil one in all his Appearances in our selves and faithfully and boldly to testifie against him in the World And the Blood of Jesus in this holy way of the Light have we felt in our Souls to cleanse us from all Unrighteousness and given us to know the Mystery of the Fellowship of the Gospel one with another which stands in Life and immortality And here we become an holy houshold and family unto God that live in his Presence Day and Night to do his Will as becometh his redeemed and ransomed Children by the most precious Blood of his Son and no more to return to Folly And Friends Let it never pass out of our Remembrance what our God hath done for us since he hath made us a People Hath any Weapon formed against us prospered hath he called us and not protected us hath he given Power to conceive and not to bring forth hath he not sheltered us in many a Storm did he ever leave us under the Reproaches and Contradictions of men nay hath he not spoken Peace to us were we ever cast out by men and he forsook us no the Lord hath taken us up were we ever in Derision and he visited us not hungry and he fed us not naked and he clothed us not or have we been sick and he came not to see us when were the Goals so close that he could not come in and the Dungeons so dark that he caused not his Light to shine upon us O nay he hath never left us nor forsaken us yea he hath provided richly forus he hath brought us into the Wilderness not to starve us but to try us yet not above our measure For he sed us with Manna from on high with pure Honey and Water out of the Rock and gave us his good Spirit to sustain us By Night he was a Pillar of Fire to us to comfort us and by Day a Pillar of Cloud to hide and shelter us He was the Shadow of a mighty Rock that followed us and we never wanted a Brook by the way to refresh us Was God good to Israel outward much more hath he abounded to his spiritual Israel the proper Seed and Off-spring of himself O the noble Deeds and valiant Acts that he hath wrought in our day for our Deliverance He hath caused One to chase Ten and Ten an Hundred and a Hundred a Thousand many a time None hath been able to snatch us out of his Hands who abode in his Truth For though the Winds have blown and the Sea hath raged yet hath he rebuked the Winds and the Sea for his Seed's sake he hath said to the Winds Be still and to the Sea Thus far shalt thou come and no farther He hath cast up a high Way for his Ransomed to walk in so plain that though a Fool he shall not err therein This is the Light in which all the Nations of them that are saved must walk forever And therefore Friends Let us stay our Minds in the Light of the Lord forever and let the Awe Fear and Dread of the Almighty dwell in us and let his holy Spirit be known to be a Covering to us that from the spirit of this World we may be chastly kept and preserved unto God in the holy Light and self-denying Life of Jesus who hath offered up himself once for all leaving us an Example that we should also follow his steps that as he our dear Lord and Master so we his Servants and Friends and Children might by the eternal Spirit offer up our selves to God in Body in Soul and in Spirit which are his that we may be his Workmanship created in Christ Jesus unto good Works to the Praise of him that hath