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An epistle of love and good advice to my old friends & fellow-sufferers in the late times, the old royalists and their posterity and to all others that have any sincere desires towards God.
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Docwra, Anne, 1624-1710.
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have regard to the Commandments of God to keep them that would make them wiser than their Teachers that have been the chief cause of sowing Discord between the King and People and between one sort of People and another which have strengthened both Faction and Atheism and will do more and more if it be not prevented Let these things be weighed in a sincere humble Mind which is a true Ballance left any be deceived by the false Weights and Measures of those that make a Trade of Religion which are the Buyers and Sellers of the Souls of men these have been the chief cause that Hell hath enlarged it self abundantly of late years to the great Grief of all sincere true Christians for since this Day-spring of divine Light and Love that hath appeared so effectually to all those that have waited in Faith and Patience to be Partakers of it the old Enemy of Mankind which is the great Accuser of God's People in all Ages hath raged more abundantly seeking by Persecution Slanders and Reproaching the Children of Light to remove all that may obstruct his Kingdom of Darkness and Delusions but the Lord God Everlasting will more and more break forth by his Almighty Power to blast the Expectations of all those his Agents Instruments that have strengthened man in his Wickedness to prevent or hinder the Prosperity of Peace and Truth in this Land of our Nativity whether they be Professors of Religion or Prophane loose Persons O Eternal Powerful Lord God! hasten this thy Work that all Mankind may fear and tremble before thee Then shall the works of Darkness be destroyed and thy holy Power will be adored more abundantly in the Hearts and Consciences of the Sons and Daughters of Men to thy Everlasting Praise and Glory for evermore Amen Written in the Year 1683. Anne Docwra THe Mystery of God's Love to all Is Light within Now since the Fall Vain man that 's rock't asleep in Sin Sees not the Day-Star coming in The fond Desires of Vain Delight Brings Sorrow and Eternal Night Awake Awake come to the Light Which shews thy Deeds that are not Right Why shouldst thou sleep the Sleep of Death And lie in Sorrow down Beneath When Light is given thee for thy Guide To bring thee from thy Life of Pride The humble lowly Truth invite All men to stoop to it unite That thou mayst know a Resting-place With God that will the Proud debase This Testimony of God's Love The Light descending from above That shines into the Hearts of all For to Redeem out of the Fall It shews to man how to begin The Work of God that Conquors Sin Discovering Vice and Vertue clear To all that will to it adhere That ev'ry man may see his Sin Ev'n by the Light that shines within Which shews to ev'ry one his Deeds Spring from the good or evil Seeds This Light is for the Righteous sown The Iust mans Path where God is known Sons of Corruption come not there No Vipers in this Path appear This troublesom Insect that Aspires To Rob man of his good Desires To Iustice Mercy Love and Peace That no true Vertue may increase Their Sun will set and Storms will come A Bed of Sorrow is their Doome Though in the Sun these Vipers play And think not of a Reckoning day Awake my Friends come and behold This Light divine will not be sold Nor bought for Money 't is too dear And pretious as it does appear Our bounteous God he hath sent forth His Proclamation of great worth Which calls to all to come and buy Of him that will not Life deny Wine and Milk without Coine Both heavenly pure and divine All those that freely feed on it In heavenly places they shall sit Anne Docwra THE END BOOKs Printed and Sold by Andrew Sowle at the Crooked Billet in Holloway-Lane in Shoreditch NO Cross No Crown Or a Discourse shewing the Nature and Discipline of the holy Cross of Christ. An Answer to a foolish Libel called The Quakers Opinions England's present Interest discovered with honour to the Prince and safety to the People An Epistle to the Churches of Jesus throughout the World An Epistle to the Children of Light An Address to Protestants upon the present Conjuncture A brief state and exmination of Liberty Spritual Wisdom justified of her Children Reason against Railing and Truth against Fiction The Invalidity of I. F's Reply Innocency with her open face An Epistle containing a solemn Farewell c. All writ by William Penn. The Christian-Quaker and his divine Testimony vindicated by Scripture Reason and Authorities in two Parts Writ By W. Penn and G. Whitehead A Lamentation over England and faithful Warning to the Inhabitants thereof By William Bingley Due Order of Law and Iustice pleaded against Irregular and Arbitrary Proceedings By George Whitehead The Real Quaker a Real Protestant By G. W. The Religious Assemblies of the People call'd Quakers vindicated A legal Examination of Abuses of Law Concerning 1. Forcible Entry 2. Imprisonment without Warrant how contrary to Law 3. Riots Routs and Unlawful Assemblies 4. The publick Peace and Breach of it 5. Oppression and Duress by Goals and Goalers and what Priviledge the Law allows to Prisoners The Prisoners Vindication with a sober Expostulation and Reprehension of Persecutors By Iohn Gratton Lawson's Treatise concerning the seven Liberal Arts. Something in Answer to them that say the Quakers are no Christians By G. F. Universal Love By W. Smith The great Case of Tythes once more revived By Fr. Howgill 2 Cor. 4.6 2 Tit. 2 11 12. 1 John 2. 27. Psal. 68. 18. John 4. Acts 2. Gal. 3. 28. 1 Cor. 11. 14. 34. 1 Tim. 2 11 12. Gen. 3. 15. Mat. 13. 31. Zach. 4. 7. 10. 2. Cor 4. 4. Isa. 57. 15. Psal. 50. 23. Prov. 27. 5 6. 2 Cor. 2. 24. Heb. 11. 1. Psal. 119. 6 98 99 100. 1 Pet. 1. 19. Ephes. 5. 13 14 15. John 3. 19 20 21. 2 Cor. 4. 6. Psal. 97. 11. Prov. 4. 8 9. Isa. 55. 1. John 7. 37 38 39
AN Epistle of Love AND Good Advice To my Old Friends Fellow-Sufferers in the Late TIMES The Old Royalists And their Posterity And to all others that have any sincere Desires towards GOD. There was a Man sent from God whose Name was John the same came to be a witness to hear witness of the Light John 1. 6 7 8 9. My Friends ALL you that lay under the Lash of the late Times I cannot forget our Sufferings nor the Mercies of God to us but must needs put you in mind to be weighty and serious in improving your Deliverance to better ends than many of you have done hitherto that ye may come to know the things belonging to your Peace before they be hidden from your Eyes that whatsoever happen ye may be fitted and prepared for it so that ye may escape the Snares of the old Enemy of Mankind who is profound in Subtilty and hath his Agents about in all places to promote his Kingdom of Darkness and Delusions which are discovered only by the true Light that enlightneth every man that cometh into the World which shineth into the Heart of man to give him the Knowledge of God for as the outward Sun in the Firmament is not to be seen but by its own Light that shines from it so God that is a supernatural inward Light is not to be seen or known but by his own Light that shines into the dark Heart of Man that is gone out from him into the fallen state and as you do watch and wait for this Light you will see your Redemption and will be fenced from the Power of this crooked Serpent and his jealous Whisperings and detracting Insinuations that have made all the Broyls in this Nation from time to time to this very day and mostly upon the account of Religion Happy had it been for this Nation if Religion so often pretended to had been real without any mixture of mans Invention but God that saw that Men were not fitted and prepared for it through their own neglect and carelesness in not being faithful to what they knew was their Duty towards him and their Neighbours upon this account hath the Lord with-held this great Blessing from many of the great Pretenders and Sticklers in matters of Religion as well as others so as they have missed of the real and Spiritual Knowledge of this Ministration of the glorious Gospel of our Lord Saviour Iesus Christ which is Peace on Earth Good Will towards men this is truly preached by some both in their Doctrine Lives and Conversations in this day spring of divine Light and Love which hath appeared in a large measure to all those that have been faithful to what they knew of God in their own Hearts and Consciences whose Hearts are tender and brought low before him and have given up all their Concerns to him and can part with all for him These I say are the Plants of Renown and no others neither can any come to be grafted into this Stock by any outward Rule or Observation of mans contrivance the divine Vertue must be in our selves it is not in the Power of Man to put it into us it is the Gift of God in our own Hearts that inward Principle that leads to the divine Life which is the blessed Grace of God that bringeth Salvation which hath appeared to all men as saith the Scriptures and those that are taught by it they do deny all Ungodliness and worldly Lusts and do live Soberly Godlily and Righteously in this present World these are they that are brought out of the Vanities and Deceits thereof and have received the Anointing that teacheth them of all things so as they need no man to teach them But how this will relish with those that keep People alwayes in teaching that they may alwayes be paying them I know not neither am I concerned for that the Gift of God in our own Hearts is not to be denyed nor concealed this Gift is given to all mankind even to the Rebellious that the Lord may dwell amongst them as saith the Psalmist it shows to man his Rebellion against God and exhorts him to come out of it it teacheth Humility of Mind and all other Moral Heroick and Divine Vertues This Light Power and Spirit of the Lord God is tendred to all mankind as well Women as Men if they do wait in Faith and Patience to receive it this may be easily proved first by the believing Woman of Samaria that carried the Tidings of the Messiah to the Samaritans whereby many of them were converted And also after the Resurrection of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ he appeared first to two Women and sent them to carry the Glad-tidings of his Resurrection to his Disciples The Apostle Peter in the Acts preached out of the Prophet Ioel to those People that said the Apostles were drunk with new Wine and shewed them their mistake that they were not drunk as they supposed but it was that which was spoken of by the Prophet That should come to pass in the latter dayes saith God that I will pour out of my Spirit upon all Flesh your Sons and your Daughters shall prophesie and on my Servants and on my Hand-maids will I pour out of my Spirit and they shall prophesie This hath confirmed that saying of the Apostle Paul That there is neither Jew nor Greek Bond nor Free Male nor Female but are all one in Christ And the same Apostle in one of his Epistles to the Corinthians speaks concerning Womens Service in the Church both of Praying and Prophecying and in some other places in the Scripture he forbids some Womens teaching and usurping Authority over the Man all which do no ways obstruct nor contradict what is formerly declared concerning such Women as have received Power from God to Pray Prophecy or declare the Glad-tidings of the Light of the Glorious Gospel of Christ Jesus Much more might be said in this case which I do forbear this being sufficient The Protestant Religion forbids expounding one place of Scripture to make it repugnant to another see that remarkable Article of the Church of England called the Twentieth Article It is the Subtilty of the Serpent to expound one place of Scripture to make it repugnant to another to uphold such Formalities as he can creep into although the Scriptures of Truth be all an equal Truth yet they are not all of an equal weight the Substance declared therein is of more weight than the Forms and Circumstances thereof Our Lord Jesus Christ the God of glory hath visited People under several Forms and hath left them again desolate and empty of his presence when their Forms come once to be admired or adored then they are no better than an Idol and a cover for Hypocrites Also this I have seen in my time of understanding things of this nature which is above forty Years although the Lord Christ hath