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An epistle to all the called and chosen of God by William Smith.
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Smith, William, d. 1673.
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the weighty savory words of Life that with the Life every one may be truly refreshed comforted and stablished Oh Friends Be ye all watchful to the Heavenly Light to be preserved in the feeling of Eternal Life that ye may all follow the Lamb in his goings and not go into any thing that is contrary to him for that draweth a vail over the Life and obstructeth the Vertue and then the pettish part is ready to be exceptious and streighten the Life and the Unity in it and so the evil Eye comes to be opened and the Whisperer and Reporter to be let at liberty and then the Enemy works into parties to spoil the Heritage of God and it is set much upon me by the Spirit of the Lord to warn and exhort all Friends To be very circumspect in all their wayes and to keep to the Light by which they were first convinced and in which true Love aboundeth that none may run out and grieve the Spirit of the Lord and bring Grief one upon anothet but all keep in the good Unity of the Spirit which is the Bond of Peace and so all will understand what to joyn unto and what to stand at a distance from for a good Understanding keepeth good Order and they that have attained to it they speak with the Spirit and with an Understanding and pray with the Spirit and with an Understanding and sing with the Spirit and with an Understanding and with the Spirit and with an Understanding God is glorified and unto his Blessed Name and Power be Glory forever Amen And Friends Be very mindful in all things wherein you are concerned to answer the Lord in Obedience and Faithfulness to the End that your Hearts and Minds may be constant to persevere in the Way of Godliness that in the Light you may feel the Strength and Power of Life to do the Will of God and so the Lord will keep you in his Way as a People that are ordered and disposed in his Counsel and you will be as a Holy Generation and a Royal Priesthood to offer a living Sacrifice of Praise upon his own Altar For the Lord is exceeding good to all that faithfully love him and serve him he is nigh to help them wherein his Name and Truth is concerned for his Power is as the Wings of an Eagle and where his Power beareth up there is no fainting but a Faithful Continuing with Joyfulness to serve Him unto the End Therefore all keep in the Light which the Messengers of the Covenant first preached unto you and by which your Hearts were touched and turned unto God abide in that as being the one and only in which the Love Life Spirit Power and Wisdom of God resteth for all resteth in the Light and in the Light all comes to be witnessed in one Nature and Beeing and whatsoever would draw your Minds from the Light under any Colour or Pretence let it not prevail over you but stand in the Light and resist it as your Enemy For as the Light is only true so there is to be an abiding in it for all that go from it to find any thing true above it they err from the Faith and wrong themselves or who go from the Light to embrace the World they enter into the House of Bondage and where the Enemy so prevaileth over any it is because there is not Faithfulness to the Light For if there be Faithfulness to the Light the Wiles of the Enemy are discovered and Dangers prevented for the Light lifts up it self as a Standard against the subtil Worker And so with the Light the Faithful are preserved in their Faithfulness to walk with God and do his Will and there they grow in Grace and Godliness by which the Truth is Honoured And herein the great Love of God is manifest to all the Faithful who are indeed his Chosen and unto whom his Arm is stretched forth for their Preservation he only is the God of their Salvation and in his Life he causeth all his tender Plants to grow and with his Vertue he gives them Nourishment to make them live and be fruitful yea it is He and none Else he whose Name endures forever and all that wait upon him his Grace falls upon them Therefore trust ye in Him whose Name is I am The Lord Strong and Mighty The Everlasting Immortal God The Power that is able to subdue all things to it self by which ye may all feel the Resurrection of the Immortal Seed and of the Seed to be born again and so as Heirs of Life to inherit Life and in Life to live that the Alpha and Omega the Beginning and Ending may be your Rest And as ye all dwell in the Light you will be sensible of the Drawings and Leadings of his Hand since the Day in which he first Appeared to you and how he hath driven back Enemies before you and brought you forward into a Wealthy Place yea a Place where ye have found durable Riches and keeping in the Weighty Power you will have a weighty Life and so be found as such that walk worthy of the Vocation unto which God hath called you and there you will know the goings on from one degree of Godliness to another unto the Perfect State in Christ Jesus and so you will not hastily flye up into the Air but learn your Goings by degrees and walk safely and there your Way will be pleasant to you and your Reward a Crown for who overcometh the Lord will Crown the Overcomers must wear the Crown as a Token of their Victory over all things contrary to Truth and Purity and also as their Glory before him who sets the Crown upon their Head and such Honour have all the Saints And so in the Power of God all get Victory and Overcome that ye may wear the Crown And all be mindful wherein ye are concerned one towards another in all things that the Peace of God in all your Hearts may rule and that the pure Movings of God's Power ye may all know in your Understandings that every one may know their going forth and coming in as the Power ordereth and then the Order will be kept and not broken for if the true Power be not understood in its Movings but that another thing moveth and acteth that thing breaks the Order and none do keep the Order of the Gospel but who live in the Power and understandeth the Motion of it and so all are to wait upon God to understand his Counsel and do his Will and not follow their own Counsel and do their own Wills for if any do so they will run into Confusion aud come to nothing but who stand in the Counsel of the Lord and do his Will they serve him in the order of his own Life by which he hath Glory And so all is to be kept down with the Power that nothing may be seen or heard but the pure Seed in its own pure Life and then you
Light and keep your Possession and be not drawn out with any Whimsical Fancies and Conceits to lose your Possession it is the Word of the living God unto you all For the Lord hath shewed great Kindness unto you that ye might glorifie him in your Bodies Souls and Spirits as being his and so to Honour the Lord in all things for the exceeding Riches of his Kindness towards you for it is required of all unto whom the Lord hath shewed Kindness that they be found faithful and so to behold the Lord in his goings and go with him then all will know the things that concern their Peace and things by which they may edifie one another and so be a Help and Comfort one to another even as God is a Help and Comfort unto them For how wonderful is the Work which the Lord hath wrought for you in Egypt and bringing you out of Egypt and carrying you through many Tryals and delivering you from many Enemies for the Deliverer is come to open the Prison Door and set the Captive at Liberty yea he is come who hath all Power in Heaven and Earth Christ Jesus the great Deliverer the only Saviour Preserver Sanctifier and Justifier and ye that know his coming ye are Witnesses of the greatness of his Work and of his Power Might and Strength in working and so ye are sensible into what Root ye are planted by the Right hand of the Almighty and ye know that ye spring up in his Life as his Off-spring and that the Pluckers cannot pluck you out of his Hand for all have been plucking at you but cannot pluck you out of the Hand of your Planter and so he that hath planted you into his Life he keeps you from being pluck't out of it and it is his great Mercy unto you in that he hath planted you into such a blessed Root and raised you up into it and keeps you from being plucked out of it here he gives unto you eternal Life that ye should no perish but live forever and so he hath chosen you and ordained you to bring forth Fruit and that your Fruit should remain for Christ Jesus keeps you by his Power in your Plantation and none can pluck you out of your Plantation Therefore all abide in him who is not of the World but hath chosen you out of the World yea I say abide in him and your Fruit will remain and will not be shaken and spoiled with Storms and Tempests and so you will flourish like the Palm Tree and grow like the Cedars in Libanon for you that trust iu the Lord and whose Hope the Lord is you are as Trees planted by the Waters and that spread out their Roots by the Rivers and shall not see when heat cometh but their Leaf shall be green and shall not be careful in the Year of Drought or in the Year of Restraint neither shall cease from yielding Fruit And so the Almighty God hath chosen you in this day to bear the fruits of Righteousness in his Righteous Life and by that Fruit ye honour the God of your Salvation who keeps you in his Life from being plucked out And so all live in the Faith which in the Power of God ye have received keep in the Power that is able to keep you unto the End and so by Faith get Victory over the World and please God and add to your Faith Patience that ye may not think the time long in which your Faith is trying for the trying of your Faith worketh Patience to bring forth Fruit therefore let Patience have its perfect work that ye may be entire lacking nothing and as ye have purified your Souls in obeying the Truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned Love of the Brethren so let your Love be continued as in the beginning for Brethren that keep the Faith they labour in the Love which edifies the Body and as ye love the Brethren that keep the Faith there will be no entertainment for the Grudger and Evil Surmizer for where that spirit is entertained it corrupts the mind with Evil Thoughts and Self-Conceits and that runs into Self-Separation Division and Distraction but as ye walk in the Light you will feel the Love over all such things and so love the Brethren and one another unfeignedly and that is your Strength by which the Power of Darkness is to be overcome for Unity in the Unfeigned Love is the Strength of the Body and so it is a compleat Body under the Rule and Government of Christ Jesus the Head and he in all things hath the preheminence unto whom all belongs And all walk worthy of the tender Mercies which God hath largely manifested unto you and take heed of giving or taking any Occasion of Offence but all mind your own Conditions and Concernments and let none be Wise in their own Eyes but look upon themselves with that Eye which can prefer another for the lowly Mind that keeps in the Light is preserved in the Love that thinketh no ill and in Love is ready to serve and doth not seek to be a Master for if such a thing doth at any time arise Offences are at hand and that doth much hurt as it is put in practice therefore all avoid such things by living in the True Simplicity and Peaceable Wisdom that ye may all keep the Faith that works by Love and edifies the Body and so all will live as Brethren in a faithful Testimony to God's Glory and there his Presence will be with you and your Joy will be full And all keep down to the Power that keeps in the Life that all your words may savour of Life for the words of Life are Gracious words by which Grace is ministred to the Hearers but where words swell above the Life they only influence upon the Affections which draweth out of the Peaceable and Quiet Habitation and from feeling the weighty Life in its Resurrection and all such Motions run whirling about in the Air and that stirreth up Tempests where all are tossed about with Wind and Waves Therefore all wait to be stayed with the Power of God which is the Anchor of the Soul both sure and stedfast For when the Life rises it rises with weight and all that rise in the Life they are sound and weighty for they stand in the center of Life and are moved by the motion of it and there all are preserved in Wisdom and Understanding and are alwayes nourished with the Nourishment that in the Life is present and so are alwayes living and fruitful in a certain state and here all come to be kept in the true Tenderness and Sweetness out of all Flattery and Feignedness for the Affections move uncertainly and never do establish any in their goings but sometimes will appear as living in the highest degree and then again will fall and dye and be as nothing and that is an uncertain State where none can stand sure therefore all mind the Life and