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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81402	Several letters written to the saints of the Most High, to build them up in the truth, as it is in Jesus. By William Deusbury. James Nayler. George Fox. John Whitehead	Dewsbury, William, 1621-1688.	1654 (1654)	Wing D1272; ESTC R202145	8,486	22

Lord wil bring down all Heights and Mountains into the valleys for in the valley of Jehosaphat will plead with all flesh which hath scattered the seed of the Covenant And now dear Friends here is your peace and blessednesse that you silence all flesh and cease from your own wisdoms give over your imaginations about the things of God come out of the love of the world and arise out of all visible things and prepare to meet the Lord cast off all your idols that have had your hearts put the stumbling blocks off of your iniquities from before your faces and give up all that will not that he should raign over them that his enemies may be your enemies for in judgment and righteousness is he come out to be avenged upon the unrighteous seed and now stand in the light that a separation may be made in you the precious from the vile that a true savour may arise that you may know your calling and election what is called and what you are to come out of left you stay in any of that to which the plagues is for this is the cause of your suffering not discerning in the pure wisdom what that Antichrist or exalted spirit is that is got into the Seat of God and shewes himself to be as God whose Kingdome stands in the wisdome glory and riches of the world where at all that knows not the true God in Spirit ask couusel therefore dear friends look not out into the visible things for there he is ready to present to you false voices and visions lying-wonders to lead out the vain mind into the liberty and boasting of high things in words without power but while such speak of liberty they are in bondage in mind to corrupt and fading things and while these are head in the creature there is not redemption but the bonds of iniquity are unloosed and the pure seed is oppressed and the plagues must pass upon that nature therefore sink down into the sufferings and death that you may find the door where at to enter for their is a vale of tears to pass thorough you shall find your well-springs in him where you shall drink of the water of Life and find refreshment and grow from strength to strength till you come up to Sion Stand take heed of word without spoken from the comprehensions for that feeds not the pure seed but feeds the wisdome which is above and the itching ears and so the pure is covered with earth and the fowls of the ayr is fed and no fruit is brought forth to perfection and take heed of that nature that would know more then God is willing to reveal for you shal find that unwilling to obey what it knows and take heed of that which desires to appear before men to be commended for that seldom deserves praise of God and let a godly conversation declare what is within and know one another in spirit and not in word and meet often together and wait upon God for his teaching alone in a cross to your own wils for therein is the secrets of God revealed Let love abound in you one towards another without being partial and I beseech by the love of God that you halt not between God and the world but as you profess that you are not of the world so let your conversation be out of its fashions customes and traditions and covetous practises that it may appear you are marked out for the Lords and that you are not ashamed to own that which differs and so walk as not to cast an offence on the Gospel that you become not a scorn to fools but let wisdome be justified of her children and take heed to that which would be exalted above others teaching and talking of things without life and you that would be counted somebody let such first learn to wash the feet of them they would be above and he that would be greatest let him be servant to all for it is the humble and not the high spirits that are taught of God and such so walk as their lives and practises teach and judge all vain light and heighty spirits and mind how you grow out of the earth and you own that which is the enmity and until you be brought out of the love of all visible things and wholly infolded into the love of God you cannot witness redemption nor receive the true joy that ariseth in the manifestation of the Love for it is only he that is brought up out of the death to raign over it whose heart is come out of the unrighteous Mammon who is entred into the Kingdome of righteousness joy and peace and as you arise out of the earthly bondage you shall witness the glorious liberty and so come to know your own measures every one in particular to improve it and not to boast above it another mans line and so you will come to see by what power you stand in your warfare how far you are Conquerors and who is your enemy at present and so be able to give an account in your selves of your faith and how you grow from faith to faith and dear friends watch over one another exhort reprove admonish in pure love and meekness of spirit least you also be tempted and all know that you are set as a City on a hill as signs to this Generation therefore lift up your light to all the world that all mouths may be stopped and hearts convinced so that all that see you may see you to be children of light and being judged by you may be ashamed of their deeds of darkness for great is the work of the Lord and blessed are they that are found faithful in it in what is committed to them Farewel deare hearts and the Lord God Almighty bless prosper and preserve you pure and clear unto his Kingdom Amen My love in the Lord salutes you all and if my Father please I shall be glad to see your faces in the flesh but his will is my peace who is blessed for evermore To all dear Brethren and Friends in Holdernes and in the East parts of Yorkshier and a lover of your souls Written from Nuby in the seventh month the last day JAMES NAYLER The Work of the Lord is great in those parts and he carries it on with a high hand hath got himself the Victory Praise the Lord with us all that know him who is worthy even him alone for ever DEar Brethren and Sisters you who are begotten again of the Word of Truth my bowels of love in the Lord Jesus runneth forth to you all and beware every one of you of lusting after the flesh pots of Egypt Earth end earthly things or after the Merchandise of Babylon the intising words of mans wisdom from whence the Lord in his eternal Love hath called you by revealing his Son in you who is the living Bread which came down from Heaven Dear Brethren forsake not this living Mercy for

SEVERAL LETTERS Written to the Saints of the Most High To build them up in the Truth as it is in JESUS By William Deusbury James Nayler George Fox John Whitehead LUKE 10. 2. The Harvest is great but the Labourers are few pray ye therefore the Lord of the Harvest that he would send forth Labourers c. LONDON Printed in the Year 1654. Dear Friends I Suffer with the imprisoned seed in you to which I was sent to preach unto the everlasting Gospel to the opening of your blind eyes that you might see your lost estates how your immortal Souls lie in the pit wherein there is no water and to bring it forth that it might stand in the liberty of my Fathers love in the free Covenant of Life in the Lord Jesus which Covenant is to the seed which is pure and holy and inlightens your understandings and lets you see every by-path and broad way and cries behind you This is the way walk in it when you turn from the pure light which is in your Consciences and to the light in your consciences I speak which shal eternally witnesse me you have not been faithfull many of you in walking with the Lord since you heard the Gospel of your Salvation I charge you in the presence of the Lord God Almighty and by his Power every one of you examine your Consciences which wil witnesse with me for I am with you though absent in body and see you with the invisible and eternal eye which nothing can be hid from in the measure which the Lord hath opened I suffer amongst you for the immortal and eternal Seed that suffers in you I charge you slight not the examination of your hearts every one of you in particular I see you who you are in whom the Seed suffers in some under one deceit and some in another and to the all seeing Eye that light in your Consciences I direct you which is the Eye with which I see you and every one of you dwel in the pure light which is in your Consciences and you will see your selves and witnesse these lines and from the mouth of the living God before whom all is naked and bare I charge you by the Lord hasten every one of you to meet the Lord in speedy reforming your ways Thou that art slothful harken to the light in thy Conscience and it wil waken thee thou that art flown up into the ayr to speak of that thou livest not in harken to the light in thy Conscience and it wil stop thy mouth and cause thee to lie low before the Lord and thou that art exalted above thy brother harken to the light in thy conscience and it wil pluck thee down and cause thee to serve him in love and thou that art delighting in the earth more then in the Lord thy God harken to the light in thy conscience and it will bring thy earthly mind to Judgement and rend thee from the Earth and thou that art a Self-lover and if thou have thy self and regard not thy Brother harken to the light in thy conscience and it wil bring thee to Self-denial and to love thy brother to watch over him suffer with him in all his sufferings I charge you in the presence of the eternal and ever-living God that every one be faithful according to the measure or light of the Lord hath given to profit withal in the exercises of your conscience towards God and men Let the light guide you all in your ways and it wil purge away all the filth of the flesh so wil the old man be put off with his deeds and the imprisoned seed wil be set at liberty in you and I shal not come to you any more with a rod as I am constrained at this time through your foolishnesse who have departed from the pure Wisdom to look abroad in the counsel of your own hearts for the rod is prepared for the back of a fool but the wise mans eye is in his head which eye is the light in your consciences being guided by it it will lead you to Christ who is your Head the Fountain of Wisdom and knowledg Now al of you that walk in him I have union with every one of you denying your selves freely and be faithful in your measures that you may grow up together in the Lord Jesus a peculiar people a holy Priesthood to offer up your souls and bodies a living sacrifice unto the Lord our God to guide you by his power to his own praise and glory who alone is worthy to be feared and obeyed of all his Saints for ever and ever With bowels of love I salute you all in the Lord into his Power I commit you and the Lord God Aimighty enlighten your understandings and blesse you and guide you in wisdom to watch over one another in love that the God of love may be exalted in all of you December 1653. This was the Copy of a Letter that came from William Deusbury DEar Friends I rejoice in you as you are entred into the love of the truth and have owned the Voice that cals out of the darknesse that is over all the Earth to set your faces towards Sion the City of everlasting Light and now mind your way and the light that is given to guide you in the way to keep your eye to the light that it may lead you through al the visible things of the world and as you passe through you may stand single in the mind unto God not turning to the right or left hand where lies the temptation nor looking back which lays you open to be assaulted afresh by those evils you had once escaped from but keeping the eye towards the mark passe on leaving and forgetting what is behind and treading and trampling under your feet what the enemy shall lay as stumbling blocks in your way which your carnal eyes or ears or hearts would be closing with for the temptation lies in the carnal things and there is the bondage of the creature to things that are corrupt from which bondage from sin corruption the Lord is now appeared that in the light he may redeem and lead out of it all that will own and follow him and this Light and Redemption is in his Son whom he is about to exalt in which exaltation a strange and mighty Work is to be brought to passe whereat al that stand not in his counsel fear and to whom he shal not reveal his secrets shall be offended for all that is exalted shall be laid low and debased the wisdom of the wise shal come to nought and the understanding of the prudent ones shall be hid riches and honors shal fal to dust from whence they came and the worship of the world shal become filthinesse the gods of the Heathens shal be famished with looking for worship but shal get none and the strongest of them shal not be able to deliver himself for the