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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41056	An evident demonstration to Gods elect which clearly manifesteth to them I. How necessary and expedient it is for them to come to witnesse true faith, II. That after they have attained to the faith, it must be tried as gold is tried in the fire, III. It shews how many have departed from the faith and denied it, IV. That the standing of the saints is by faith in the Son of God, V. How strong Abraham was in the faith and how all that believe are to look unto him / by Margret Fell.	Fox, Margaret Askew Fell, 1614-1702.	1660 (1660)	Wing F630; ESTC R36425	11,187	17

speaks of many and sundry that fell away and lost their first love and did not keep their first estate as you may read And therefore did he exhort them that they should earnestly contend for the Faith which was once delivered to the Saints And so Friends this is the very end of my writing that you even would contend for the pretious Faith in every particular and also in the general And call to mind how that God after he had brought the Children of Israel out of Aegypt yet they fell in the Wildernesse because of unbelief Therefore fly all ungodliness and follow after Righteousness Faith Love and Patience fight the good fight of Faith and lay hold on eternal Life Consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession Christ Jesus who was faithful to him that appointed him as also Moses was faithful in all his house as a Servant and Christ as a Son over his own house whose house are we if we hold fast the confidence and rejoycing of our hope unto the end here will every one be preserved clear in his condition who through the Spirit wait for the hope of the Righteousnesse of Faith and take heed there be not in any of you an evil heart of unbelief departing from the Living God for we are made partakers of Christ if we hold fast the profession of our Faith without wavering And unto us the Gospel is preached as well as unto them but the word preached did not profit them not being mixed with Faith in them that had it Therefore did he swear in his wrath that they should not enter into his rest they entered not because of unbelief Now this being so fully proved and manifested to you lay aside every weight and run with patience the Race that is set before you looking unto Jesus the Authour and finisher of our Faith who is the Corner stone and Rock of Eternal salvation who is rooted and grounded on him will not be shaken though the storms and tempests beat Consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners least you be weary faint in your minds For all the promises of God in him are Yea and in him Amen in whom we have boldnesse and accesse with confidence by the Faith of him who worketh all in us and for us For none are Justified by the works of the Law but by the Faith of Jesus Christ and by Faith you stand For God hath put no difference betwixt the Jews and the Gentiles if their hearts be purified by Faith whose eyes are opened and who are turned from the darknesse to the ligbt from the power of Satan unto God that they may receive the forgivenesse of sin and an Inheritance among them that are sanctified by Faith in Christ even the Righteousnesse of God which is by Faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe For there is no difference for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God For if the first fruit be holy the Lump is holy also and if the Root be holy so are the branches and if some of the branches be broken off it is because of unbelief and thou standest by Faith be not high-minded but fear Oh Friends consider that your standing is by Faith in Christ Jesus even we have believed in Jesus Christ that we might be Justified by the Faith of Christ For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the World and this is the victory that overcometh the world even our faith who is he that overcometh the world but he that believeth that Jesus is the Christ here shall we be more then Conquerors as we abide and grow from strength to strength and from Faith to Faith building up one another in our most holy Faith till we all come in the unity of the Faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God unto a perfect man unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ that we henceforth be no more Children tossed to and fro and carried about with every winde of Doctrine by the sleight of men and cunning craftinesse whereby they lye in wait to deceive but speaking the Truth in love may grow into him in all things who is the head even Christ that so we might make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery which from the beginning of the World hath been hid in God who Created all things by Jesus Christ in whom we have boldnesse and accesse with confidence by the Faith in him that so Christ may dwell in your hearts by Faith and you being rooted and grounded in love may be able to comprehend with all Saints what is the height breadth length and depth and to know the Love of God which passeth knowledge unto whom be eternal glory honour and dominion for ever Now dearly beloved Friends and Brethren be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might take unto you the Armour of Righteousnesse that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the Devil For now you come not to wrestle with flesh and blood but with principalities and powers and against the Rulers of the darknesse of this World and against spiritual wickednesses in high places Wherefore let your clothing and Armour be Light that you may be able to stand in the evil day and above all take the shield of Faith in this will you quench the fiery darts of the wicked Stand fast in one spirit striving together for the Faith of the Gospel and in nothing terrified by your Adversaries which is to them an evident token of perdition but to you of Salvation and that of God For unto you is given in the behalf of Christ not onely to believe on him but also to suffer for his sake and that you holding fast the Word of Life may cause us to rejoyce in the day of Christ that we have not run in vain neither laboured in vain Yea if I were offered upon the sacrifice of your Faith I could joy and rejoyce with you all And now that you may come to the soundnesse of the Truth of the Gospel of Christ who is the beginning the first born from the dead that you being rooted and grounded in him and that through the spirit you may wait for the hope of Righteousnesse by Faith and so grow up as living plants which are called Trees of Righteousness the planting of the Lord. And truly Friends there is none that believes but he knows that God is nor there is none that believes but he hath the witnesse in him that he is in the unity of the Faith and he that believes hath his heart purified by faith he that believes is entered into the rest and he is sealed with the spirit of promise So Friends search your selves for a sinner in Zion will be afraid and fear will supprize the Hypocrite and truly none can dwell with the everlasting burning but he that worketh Righteousnesse and every mans work must be

AN EVIDENT DEMONSTRATION TO Gods Elect VVhich clearly manifesteth to them I. How necessary and expedient it is for them to come to witnesse true faith II. That after they have attained to the faith it must be tried as gold is tried in the fire III. It shews how many have departed from the faith and denied it IV. That the standing of the Saints is by faith in the Son of God V. How strong Abraham was in the faith and how all that believe are to look unto him By Margret Fell. That the trial of your faith being much more precious then of gold that perisheth though it be tried with fire might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ 1 Pet. 1.7 And this is the victory that overcometh the World even our faith LONDON Printed for Thomas Simmons at the signe of the Bull and Mouth near Aldersgate 1660. Friends of God and of the Living Truth as it is in Jesus who are called to be Saints and to live godly in Christ Jesus as becometh Saints THere is something upon me as from the Lord to write unto you concerning the precious Faith which was once delivered unto the Saints which may be you may be called to contend for times of tryal thereof seeming to approach but the the onely intent and desire of my soul is that you may be brought into it in the Truth and soundnesse of it which indeed is a mystery and cannot be held but in a pure conscience void of offence towards God and towards man And being that it is so that without faith it is impossible to please God and that whatsoever is not of faith is sin This being weighed and read in the pure eternal Light which every one hath a measure of to try withal it will nearly concern every one to search and try narrowly and throughly whether they be in the faith which is of Gods Elect yea or no This may be lightly looked upon with many as though it were needlesse and below their condition and state as if it were easie to be in the faith of God yea the very World the Apostatized Christians will talk of a faith though it be dead and they yet in their sins But truly Friends I see in the Eternal that it is a great mystery to be made partaker of the precious faith which gives the victory over the World and faith is the gift of God And I find in the Scriptures of the Prophets that there was few that witnessed and spoke of Faith though there was many faithful men which by faith obtained a good report and died in the faith by which they did the Commandements of God according to his Eternal purpose yet the Fathers were under the cloud and the appearance of God in their day was in a cloud and all passed through the Sea and were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the Sea and they did drink of the Rock which followed them which Rock was Christ while Moses is Read the vail is over the heart which vail is done away in Christ When God called Moses and Aaron and Miriam he said Hear now my word if there be a Prophet among you I the Lord will make my self known unto him in a vision and speak unto him in a dream This is the state which we must passe through but the Lord said with Moses my servant it is not so who is faithful in all my house with him I will speak mouth to mouth even apparently and not in dark speeches Here Moses was faithful to God as a servant and his ministration was glorious yet this glory was to be done away by reason of the glory that excelled which glory remains where the spirit of the Lord is the covering And so Friends come into the Light of the Son of God which gives the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ the brightnes of the Fathers glory which Moses could not see and live And here you will come to see to read through the mystery of the faith of the Gospel in the ministration of the spirit And now that none may think of themselves above what they ought to think let every one with the light of Jesus seriously and singlely search and try your standing for it may be that times of tryal of faith may come The Apostle bad the Corinthians examine themselves whether they were in the faith prove your own selves saith he know you not how that Christ is in you except you be Reprobates This he said to the Corinthians who were a gathered people And to the Galathians saith he If a man think of himself to be something when he is nothing he deceives himself but let every man prove his own work and then he will have joy in himself and not in another Friends be not offended that you are put to a search and warned before-hand that your foundation and standing may be sure when the day of tryal comes for the Lord hath said Zech. 13.9 I will bring the third part of them through the fire and will refine them as silver is refined and try them as gold is tryed And they shall call on my Name and I will hear them I will say it is my people and they shall say the Lord is my God And Peter saith Ye who are kept by the power of God through the faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time wherein ye greatly rejoyce though now for a season ye are in heavinesse through manifold temptations that the tryal of your faith being much more precious then gold that perisheth though it be tried by fire might be found unto the praise honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ O blessed will ye be if you be found here for then will you not think it strange concerning the fiery tryalls which are to try you but you will even rejoyce inasmuch as you are partakers of the sufferings of Christ Truly Friends my care is with the desire of my soul that you might come into the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ and that the same mind may be in you that was also in Christ Jesus who made himself of no reputation but took upon him the form of a servant and was made in the likenesse of men and being found in fashion as a man he humbled himself and became obedient to the death of the Crosse and through that he is exalted And this is the path that the faithful in Christ Jesus must walk in wch may be found strait and narrow to the first man which is rough and hairy Esau-like And though as I said before you may think strange that you should be exhorted to come into the faith of the Lord Jesus Christ yet this is above the Disciples condition for they were often reproved for the want of this of their Lord and Master when he was exhorting them to take no thought for