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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60626	An epistle to all the called and chosen of God by William Smith.	Smith, William, d. 1673.	1672 (1672)	Wing S4297; ESTC R32688	10,262	20

AN EPISTLE To all the CALLED AND Chosen of God BY William Smith Printed in the Year 1672. An Epistle to all the Called and Chosen of GOD. Dear Friends IN the deep Sense of that living Voice which hath called you out of Darkness to the Light of Life there is something upon me to communicate unto you for the furtherance of your Faith and mutual Joy and for the Settling and Establishing your Hearts and Minds in the Power of the Gospel of Christ which hath been and still is preached unto you for Life and Salvation that as the Lord hath called you by his Heavenly Voice so you may all obey from your Hearts that blessed Doctrine which by his Holy Spirit hath been plentifully held forth amongst you unto Conversion Edification and Comfort that through your Obedience you may witness the Lord to make choice of you as a peculiar People to shew forth his Praise and so make your Calling and Election sure For though many may be called yet if they do not obey from the Heart that Spirit by which they are called they may not be chosen and so a Profession of Truth may be held out of the Life and Power of it and you cannot but know what all Professions are out of the Life and Power of Truth For when you were seeking after God in bare Professions you could not find true Satisfaction to your Souls but were cumbred about many things and wanted One Thing that was only needful and now the Lord in his Mercy hath enlightened you with his true Light in which you see the many things and their emptiness and are come to know One Thing which is the Fulness and in which ye have all Life Power and Blessings and so far as ye are come to witness the Substance ye have the true savour of good Things in one Thing where all is contained and it is the Love of God unto you that hath so disposed your Hearts towards himself and as a Cord hath drawn you out of things below which are changeable to a feeling of that which is Immortal and never changeth and as the Love of God is the ground of your change from things below into things that are above so it is a safe and sure Foundation for you to stand upon for in it self it doth not admit of any Alteration but is alwayes firm and sure in its own Nature and Life and as ye are fastened to it and stand upon it you will find it to be a Rock of Strength unto your Feet And what can be more desirable to you then the Thing that ye have sound the Thing which in it self is of an Immortal Nature and yieldeth Immortal Riches can you fix your Eye upon any thing among the many things or upon all the many things to desire after any one or all of them Can you part from your Foundation which is sure and safe and is a Rock of Strength to your Feet to joyn or close with any thing or things which are of a lower degree in nature and quallity Oh! no my Friends your Safety is to stand in that which is safe in it self yea to stand in the Light where the Love of God first reached unto you and by which ye have felt the greatness of his Power working in you in that is your safety as being safe in it self For you may be tried with an Hour of Temptation but as you stand in the Light and Power of God ye will overcome it and so you will feel the Rock to be Strength to your Feet that they may not 〈◊〉 and by the mighty Power of God you will be kept as ye stand and abide in it and the Hour of Temptation wil pass over and so you will not fall into Snares to be entangled but walk in the pleasant Path of Life to you endless Comfort For what were your dayes when ye were cumbred about many things Were they not full of Trouble Grief and Sorrow Did not the Seed Mourn whilst ye were professing God in that nature which gloried in Appearance only And did you not ten go a a People bowed down under the Bondage of Corruption And were not many of you in that time cast down as a People without Hope and were you not brought to lay your Hands upon your Loines for very feebleness And was there not a secret Cry That the Lord would appear and shew you his Salvation and that he would guide and direct you in the Way where you might find his Presence And how wonderfully did God appear for you in that great Streight as having regard to the Cry of the Poor and the Sighing of the Needy And how did he manifest his Light in you to give Light unto you And did he not then send forth the Messengers of his Covenant in the Spirit of first born among many Brethren And did not those Messenger declare the Way of God's Salvation to you and sounded Glad-tidings in your Ears Did they not instruct you into the Way of Life Peace and Truth and preach the Light to be the Way that leadeth unto God And was not their Message a faithful Testimony that reached the Faithful Witness in every Conscience and so laboured to bring all to the Witness in themselves And when this Glad-tidings was sounded in your Ears and that your Ears heard and your Hearts believed did you not begin to see the emptiness of all other pretended Messengers and came to a feeling of God's Witness in your own Consciences and so came to know the Thi 〈…〉 reprovable and to learn of that which reproved And did not the Lord herein shew great Kindness unto you that when you were as a People without Hope in a wearied Condition then to appear to manifest the Way of Life wherein you might find Rest to your Souls And hath not the Lord now shewed you a pleasant Path where Mercy and Truth meets together and where Righteousness and Peace embrace and kiss each other Oh! never to be forgotten Mercies but worthy to be had in Everlasting Remembrance And ye are happy that keep in remembrance the Days and Times past wherein God hath shewed you Favour for thereby you come to feel his Love Mercies and Favours to be more enlarged unto you and as ye are come out of the many things and have found One Thing to be the chiefest so all mind to keep it as a Pearl of great Price For ye have found the Lord's Christ and the Lord 's Christ is become your Strength and Stay and Salvation and this is very weighty to be felt upon every ones Heart That the Living God hath revealed his Son in you and that ye know him to be the Lord 's Christ this is that alone in which your Peace and Felicity standeth immutable and is of far greater worth and value then the many things And as in the Light ye have found the Riches and Treasures of an Endless Life even so to keep in the