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A40937 A loving salutation with several seasonable exhortations contained in two general epistles sent unto all the saints and persecuted people of God in the houshold [sic] of faith to be red [sic] among them before they be banished as bond-men and bond-women out of the land of their nativity for their religion and righteousness sake. R. F. (Richard Farnworth), d. 1666.; Salthouse, Thomas, 1630-1691. 1665 (1665) Wing F491; ESTC R16033 8,192 14

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A Loving SALUTATION With Several Seasonable Exhortations Contained in two General Epistles Sent unto all The Saints and Persecuted People of God in the houshold of Faith to be red among them before they be banished as Bond-men Bond-women out of the Land of their nativity for their Religion and Righteousness sake Blessed are yee when Men revile you and persecute you and say all manner of evil against you falsly for my name sake Rejoyce and be exceeding glad for great is your reward in Heaven for so persecuted they the Prophets that were before you Matthew 5.11 12. They wandred in Sheep Skins and Goat Skins in Desarts in Mountains in Dens and Caves and Holes of the Earth for their God hath prepared for them a City Heb. 11. Printed in the Year 1665. A Loving Salutation c. Dear Friends WHom I dearly love and not I only but the Lord also whose love is largely manifested unto you and whose Fatherly care is over you all dwell together in a spiritual communion that yee may be partakers of the Tree of Life and feed of the hidden Manna come down from Heaven as you sit together at the Table of the Lord who are admitted as well as invited to come unto him who easeth the weary hearted and overcharged in Spirit by giving of his strength unto them to ease them that are both weary and heavy laden for in him the weary finde rest peace and ease who are returned out of the way and spirit of the World and are entred into and entertained of God who filleth the hungry Soul with good things when he sendeth the Rich wise self conceited ones empty away and lets them not tast of his Eternal virtue and sweetness it was David that tasted of the virtue and sweetness of God who was of the Seed of Faith when his heart was fixed upon God then it indited that which was good and meditated upon the Law of God who tasted of the switness of the Eternal Word and power of God and David had received a spirit of Faith or power of believing whereby he gave Testimony to the Truth and bore witness for God for he said I believed and therefore I spake and the Davids of God or true Israelites after the Spirit have declared of the goodness of God which they have tasted of who had tasted how good and gracious the Lord was as now he is unto us who are of the Seed of Election and in their Declarations they related unto David and said of him I believed and therefore I spake and concerning themselves who were of the Seed of Faith they said we having received the same Spirit of Faith as David did receive of the Law we believe and therefore we speak or bare witness for God and it was given them on the behalf of Christ Jesus not only to believe on him but also to suffer for his Names sake and so it s now given to us the true Spiritual Israelites who are of the Seed of Abraham which is the Seed of Faith who have received the Spirit of Faith or power of believing to carry us forth to give Testimony to the Truth and speak on the behalf of the Lord not only to believe on Christ Jesus but also to suffer for Righteousness sake and as none can believe to Salvation but they who are of the seed of Faith which is the seed of Election to whom the Spirit of Faith is given so none can stand in a trying time to endure to the end in every trial that attendeth them under a suffering condition but them to whom eternal life is given for it s given to them that suffer to whom the spirit of Faith is given so that the seed of faith is attended with sufferings for the seed of Faith is that which doth the will of God with delight and therefore God grants unto it the desire of its heart and it endureth for ever because they who are of the seed of faith are they that do the will of God power is given unto them to do or to suffer according to his good wi●l and pleasure and they are known to be of the seed of Faith and Christs true and loving friends because they abide in his Spirit love one another and obey his commands and because they who are of the seed of Election which is the seed ●f Faith do receive the spirit of faith to believe on Christ and be obedient unto him therefore are they attended with a suffering condition and such are the sheep of Christ who are of the seed of faith and he giveth to them eternal life which is a mark of Christ set upon his sheep or character that they shall never perish Oh my dear Friends who are of the seed of Abraham after the Spirit you have received the spirit of Faith which God gives to them that are of that seed and because they are true Believers you are true subjects unto Christ and because you cannot deny the faith of Gods elect which purgeth and purifieth your hearts nor withhold your obedience but do love the truth and give your obedience to the spirit and power of Christ Jesus Therefore you are hated without a cause and persecuted by the Spirit of the World because your Mother is not Jerusalem from beneath but Jerusalem from above which is the mother of us all that are of the seed of Election which is the seed that is appointed and ordained of God to inherit the Kingdom of Heaven to you its given to know the mysteryes of the Kingdom but to others in Parables that hearing they might hear and not understand and seeing they might see and not perceive least at any time they be converted and healed So though many hear the everlasting Gospel preached yet the seed of Faith are the receivers thereof into a good ground and right understanding and those Divine Mysteries or glorious Truths are made plain unto them which others understand not to whom the gift of understanding is not given who are Sons of the Bondwoman and live after the flesh to whom the Divine Truths are as Parables and though they may see what a great work of Reformation is wrought in the Nation yet they perceive not the mind of the Lord nor receive not the people of God in whom that work is wrought but reject them and cast them out as it was then so it is now he that was born of the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit whereby it is evident that the Regenerate are not persecutors nor ever were such in any age that we read of but they were and are persecuted and that by the degenerate and such as live after the flesh who daily erre and go astray from the wayes of God and are persecutors of them who are born of water and the spirit who live a new life in Christ Jesus Therefore all you that live in the spirit walk in the Spirit be not desirous of vain