Lord so much the more as you see the day is approached and the Harvest is great and the Vineyard of the Lord is great and large and but few labourers yea the Lord is enlarging his borders and spreading forth his everlasting truth and stretching forth his eternal arm over the Nations and opening the treasures of Heaven and bringing rain out of his Treasury to water the earth that hath been parched and dry and to make his plants to grow And so all wait that you may see the power and presence of the Lord in all your assemblies and see that there be no strife nor contention nor exaltation amongst you but all in meekness and quietness and long-suffering and forbearance even as the Lord hath spared and forborn you one submitting unto another even as you have heard and received when the word of the Lord came first unto you and he that will be the greatest shall be the least but all in meekness and lowliness of minde serve one another in love even as you have received and the everlasting God of life and power be with you all and make you grow in the living power and virtue of God to order all things in his wisdom as good Stewards of the manifold mercies of the Lord which you are made partakers of that he alone may be glorified throughout all the Churches of Christ Jesus every where And to you my dear brethren and fellow-labourers unto whom the word of Reconciliation is committed and are in the work and Ministry of our Lord Iesus Christ and are made partakers of the everlasting Gospel of peace which unto you is given to declare Lift up your voyces blow the Trumpet sound an alarum out of the holy mountain proclaim the acceptable yeer and the day of vengeance of our God Gird on your sword upon your loins put on the tryed Armour and follow him for ever who rides upon the white Horse and is clothed with the same who makes war in righteousness Ride on ride on my beloved brethren and fellow-souldiers make all plain before you thresh on with the new threshing instrument which hath teeth beat the mountains to dust and let the breath of the Lord scatter it make the heathen tremble and the uncircumcised fall by the sword the Lord of hosts is with us and goes before us Spare none neither Ox nor Asse neither old nor young kil cut off destroy bath your sword in the blood of Amaleck and all the Egyptians and Philistines and all the uncircumcised and hew Agag to pieces break the Rocks cut down the Cedars and strong Oaks make the Devills subject cast out the unclean spirits raise the dead shut up in prison bring out of prison cast in your nets lanch into the deep divide the fish gather the good into vessels cast the bad away binde the Tares in bundles cast them into the fire the Angel with his sharp sickle is come the Angel of the everlasting Covenant is come thrust in your sickles reap the earth the word of God is come that divides let all flesh keep silence divide the Word rightly feed the Lambs and Babes fill the hungry stop the Lyons mouthes feed the fat and the strong with plagues and judgements declare his name publish his eternal truth which shall stand for ever Eternal life is come glory to him for ever Silence all disputers and diviners for ever trample upon all the chaff and dung and mire for ever which all the wisdom of the World feeds upon Greater is he that is in us then he that is in the World Oh my beloved ones although I am the lowest and weakest among many of my brethren yet the eternal power of God is my shield for ever the Lord of hosts is with us There is a Crown which none can take away to all who have denyed all yea it is on your heads the dread of God is with us and truly dear brethren we cannot say that we fished and catched nothing for many vessels are sull nor we have not travelled and laboured and brought forth winde as the false Prophets do for we have the seals of our Ministry which shall be witnesses for the Lord in generations to come Not unto us O Lord but to thy name be glory for ever who hath done and doth all for us and in us who is our strength our glory our Crown of rejoycing all the day long for his hidden treasure is brought forth and made manifest in earthen vessels unto him be eternal living praises for ever And so all dear brethren members of the same body of Christ Jesus by which we are set free from sin in the liberty life and power in which you are made free stand as witnesses for the Lamb and for the holy Nation for the royal Seed of the true Israel of God that it may be brought out of captivity to serve the Lord in the land of the living and the eternal God of power and life of endless rich love and mercy be with you all and prosper his own work in your hands that he alone may be glorified unto whom be eternal insinite praises who is our life our King God blessed for ever and ever And to you all my dear brethren and sisters who suffers in bonds and prisons and dens and holes and suffers the Enemy to plow long furrows upon your backs in patience and suffers stocking whipping buffetting beating and cruel mocking and stripes and chains and fetters whom the world is not worthy of even as they did unto our Master of whom we bear witness of and hath the witness in our selves even so do they unto us But the servant is not greater then his Lord and therefore we that are baptized for the dead and stand in jeopardy of our lives often we have a cloud of witnesses which endured the same and therefore the same baptism and the same cup must be drunk by all that follow him Well my dear brethren your sufferings I know and I know he of whom you bear witdess bears up your heads who hath called you thereunto above all that which is done unto you as you stand in his will and counsel well as dear brethren and companions in the same tribulation and kingdome and patience of the Saints as witnesses of the same faith as they were which are gone before you you are made partakers of the same it is made manifest and revealed in you by the same God in which faith they had power and you have power and endures as they did and as he did even the contradiction of sinners Well our God is on our side and takes our part and therefore my own bowels in patience endure God will bring forth your righteousness as the Sun and your Enemies shall be ashamed and I know and you also know it is for the advantage and the furtherance of the Gospel of Christ and endure in patience and long-suffering and look not out and the Lord in due time will
TO THE CAMP OF The Lord IN ENGLAND TO all you called chosen elected and beloved of the Lord who are of the circumcision made without hands of the feed of Abraham who are Jewes indeed nor after the flesh but in the spirit unto whom belongs the euerlasting promise and couenant whom God hath and is fulfilling in you so establishing with you We your fellow-Citizens of the heavenly Jerusalem which is the mother of us all and of the same body and of the same seed and same birth begotten and brought forth by the immortall word of life which lives for ever do send greeting and doe embrace you in the arms of our beloued who is and is to come God blessed for ever you who are called Quakers who are so not onely in word nor in shew but in life and in power whom God hath called and chosen to place his name in and to take up his habitation among above all the families of the Earth the Tabernacle of God is with you and his dwelling-place is among you and only among you is God known and his name is great in your Assemblies We who are of the same root and off-spring doth bring in our witness and doth set to our seale That God of a truth is with you and among you and he is the God of the living that answers by fire he is I am and there is none besides him the first and the last the beginning and the end of all things Praise him for ever yee redeemed of him lift up your heads your Redeemer is come clap your hands and shout for ioy and let the everlasting praises of God be in your mouths for ever and ever Exalt yee his name above all Gods and glorifie him in the sight of all the Heathen and let his marvellous works stand upon Record from generation to generation Wonderfull hath his work been among you and that my soule knowes right well You that were scattered in thecloudy and dark day and were a prey for the wild beasts of the Forrest and were driven away as lost sheep in the wilderness hath God gathered into the fould to lay down by the springs of living water in fat pastures for evermore Your bread is sure and your waters never failes a feast of fat things is made unto you of wines well refined the Lord is become the Lot of your inheritance and the portion of your Cup for ever Your Crowns have you laid down at the feet of the Lamb and your lives and liberties have not been dear unto you and let this never repent you for now the Lord will exalt you and Crown you with immortall glory The everlasting day star is risen among you which gives light unto the Nations and the light of the Sun is as the light of seven dayes and there is no need of a candle in your dwelling but the Lamb is the light thereof faire as the Sun and clear as the Moon yea it is he which was dead and is alive and behold he lives for evermore Praise him all ye people praise ye him ye holy Host let all that hath breath praise him for ever VVho can expresse his Noble acts and who can declare his wondrous works Oh my soule is ravished and my heart is overcome let me speak that I may be refreshed and let me declare his wonders among all people The Lord is our King our Judge and our Law-giver and our Rock of defence Just is he in his Judgements who hath avenged us of our Enemies Mercy and Judgement meet righteousnesse and peace doth embrace each other Rejoyce for evermore ye Saints of the most High and tell it to your Children that they may tell it to another Generation what hath the Lord wrought among you and what hath his hand brought to passe Salvation is come and plenteous Redemption and the dead hath heard the voyce of the Son of God and liveth Let sorrow and mourning fly away and be ye comforted ye that have mourned and be ye refreshed ye that have been weary for God hath opened the everlasting fountain and the streams runs pleasantly which refresheth the City of our God He is come and his reward is with him even he for whom we have waited this is he who is our life our peace and our exceeding great reward the light of the world our Saviour but the worlds condemner our peace but the worlds torment glad tidings glad tidings the acceptable year is come praise ye the Lord ye Sons and daughters of Sion beautifull is your dwelling place and aboundeth with pleasant fruit for you are digged and pruned and enclosed a Garden of lovely branches let the wonders of the Lord never be forgotten nor his works neuer passe out of your remembrance for he hath wounded and healed killed and made aliue raised the dead and slain the liuing brought out of captiuity and bound with chains gathered and scattered brought low and exalted saved and condemned all this hath your eye seen and your ear heard and the Heavens and the Earth hath been burned as a scroule and the indignation of the Lord you have born But the winter is past and the summer is come and the Turtle dove and the singing of Birds is heard in our Land O magnifie his name for ever you are made vessels of honour wherein the everlasting treasure abideth which never waxeth old the voyce of the Bridegroom is heard among you and how can you have any more sorrow instead of weeping reioycing and instead of heauinesse of heart fullness of euerlasting joy the Lord hath fulfilled his promise and made good his word and his Law and Couenant is with you and from you doth the Law goe forth and the powerfull word of life and death soundeth out of your dwelling and you are Gods only witnesses to testifie of him in the presence of all Nations some of you by suffering and some by declaring Oh endless loue and life and riches an eternall Crown is upon your heads and your suffering which hath not been a little is not worthy to be compared with the glory that is and shal be reuealed I speak to you who hath an ear to hear my soule and heart is comforted in you in the midst of my burdens and sufferings who is separated from you outwardly yet ioyned and united to you by the Spirit which is unlimited which all Nations doth comprehend yea I behold your beauty a far off and my heart is ravished withit and I am sick of love let his works praise him for ever which hee hath wrought for his dwelling is with you in the light unto which no mortall eye can approach The new Ierusalem is come down from Heaven and no unclean can enter but you are made white with the blood of the Lamb and purged as silver and purified as gold in the burning and unto you an entrance is given and the way is prepared and the marriage of the Lamb is come and his wife
the enmity which is against God and it slain in you daily that so you may see him that is the Saviour of the soul and take heed of rebelling against the Lord who hath given you a measure of his true light to lead you from sin if you love it unto righteousness from whence it comes even from the righteous Judge of all the world who judgeth every man out of the book of his conscience and so prize the everlasting love of God to your souls that you may see him who lives for ever And all Babes who are born again who have suffered the pangs of death and know the indignation of the Lord against sin and the terror of the Lord against the man of sin who have roared for the disquietness of your-hearts who have born the indignation of the Lord and are come to the giving forth of the Law where there is thundring and Earth-quakes and terror and great hail and fire and smoke even such as was not since the beginning in somuch that you could not hear his Voice and live nor see his face and live Stand still in patience and let it have its perfect work in you and bear the indignation ye that are in it if you endure the tribulation with patience hope you will see and a time of refreshment will come endure the cross that the mortal and earthly and carnal may be judged and the ground shaken and taken away and that you may see the liuing hope to stay your mindes upon And ye who are enliuened and doth witness the Law of righteousness set up in you which is a Schoolmaster and keeps in the fear stand in it and keep in the fear low in soberness and calmness and then you will see your hearts purified daily and the cursed nature judged which is out of its course and it bridled and subjected and the Law which is pure and holy and eternal which stands for euer in power and force against the transgressor to judge all Righteousness and so wait that you may see the Lyon tamed and the wilde Heifer yoked and the yoke of Christ born and the wilde colt tamed by him upon which never man sate before then and not till then is Hosanna sung And all wait in your measures dear Babes that the milk of the Word you may see and be nourished by it and grow up as living branches about the Table of the Lord And all you yong men and Virgins that know Virginity keep your Virgin you in whom the Prince of this world is judged and cast out and the righteous law of God revealed and given forth in which you stand and walk and hath peace from him who is the Law-giver and Judge who hath saved you from your iniquities and blotted out your sins for his own Name sake You who knows the living Water and Spirit of which you are born again and witnesses the birth which enters into the Kingdome of God where no mortal or unclean beast can come Keep in the life and power of God which limits all and chains all under that the life of the Son of God may live and speak in you and be bold In the dread of God stand and that which leads into slavery keep out And now being made partakers of his everlasting love walk worthy of his love and of the high calling whereunto you are called who hath created you in Christ Jesus unto holiness and righteousness for ever that to the praise of his grace which you are saved by by which you have obtained the remission of sins and an inheritance amongst them that are sanctified So wait in the living Hope and the living Faith in which God is well pleased in which you ask and receive of him and are accepted of our heavenly Father And this Faith ye know which is a present power and a shield against all temptations and a Helmet and as a Fortress by which you are preserved safe standing in it and putting it on in the day of trial My dear Brethren of the everlasting Kindred and Heirs of the everlasting Promise wait all in patience having received an earnest of the inheritance that never fades away to the end abide in the Fathers counsel and at Wisdom's gate Ye know what I say I write not unto you because you know not the truth but because you know and are made free in your measures by him who is the Truth and the Way in which all our fathers and you also have obtained a good Report even of all the houshold of Faith and take heed of the glory of the World and look not at hardship for verily all the suffering is nor worthy to be compared to that glory which is revealed and to be revealed unto all that wait and abide in patience and faithfulness unto the end but be ye as good souldiers endure hardship that you may receive the end of your hope and the euerlasting prize and the purchased possession and the Crown of glory which God will give unto you in his own day which is coming on towards you if you continue in the hope in the faith and in the love unfeigned which thinks no ill by which and in which love we have Victory ouer the Grave Sin and Death which he hath freely shedabroad in our hearts unto whom be everlasting Praise for ever and ever To him which was dead and is aliue and liues for euermore the Mediator of the new Gouenant of life and peace in which we haue access freely to the Throne of grace and are accepted in him who is the condemnation of all the World who hate the light but your life the light of the world God blessed for ever and ever And all you Fathers and Elders and honorable Women who are not a few whose bones and sinews are filled with marrow and fatness who wait at the Altar of the Lord and knows the Merey-seat which hath ouershadowed you and the golden Vessel in which is the hidden Manna by which all the children of the Lord are fed round the Table of the Lord out of the euerlasting treasure-house of my Father Watch ouer the Flock of Christ Jesus in euery place and region and quarter where the Lord hath set you and gouern them in all wisdom and righteousness that the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ may be adorned And take care of them willingly knowing this the Lord requires of you and hath called you unto and to nourish the plants and the young ones and the babes and that every one may know their place and watch and instruct in all wisdom and correct and reprove in the name and power of our Lord Jesus that no rebellious nor sloathfull may grow up nor be harboured among you but all in diligence may be kept in the fear of the Lord in their places that the Gospel of Christ Jesus be not evill spoken of nor the heathen blaspheme And therefore my dear brethren be diligent in the work of the