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A general epistle to all the saints being a visitation of the Fathers love unto the whole flock of God ... : to be read in all the assemblies, of them, that meet together to worship the Father in the spirit and truth ... / E.B.
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Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.
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and Salvation hath the Lord sent abroad plentifully in this Nation and you have received it and believed the report though many have rejected it unto their destruction whose Iudgement will be upon them but you haue tasted handled and felt of the Word of Eternal Life by which the Lord hath wounded you and healed you again and many hath he slain and made them alive even through his Word and Power which hath entred into many hearts which killeth the enmity and quickneth the Seed and which breaketh off from all the worlds fellowship both in Transgressions and Righteousness and makes all void all Covenants with Death and Hell and marryeth unto the Lamb and the marriage of the Lamb is come unto many even unto all in whom his innocent and heavenly nature is begotten and brought forth for this is of his flesh and of his bone and here is his wife that hath made her self ready and is prepared for the Bridegroom and blessed are ye if ye know these things and be witnesses of them even the marriage of the Lamb and the making ready of his Elected in you even the reviving and quickning of his flesh and of his bone for this is the Virgin unto whom he is joyned that hath put away all other lovers and loveth the Lord with all the heart and with all the Soul who is cloathed with perfect beauty and innocency and covered with Divine Righteousness in which there is no spot being delivered out of the wilderness and freed from her mourning state and is no more separated from her husband but she again quickened into Life and adorned with beauty and married to the Lamb to live with him for evermore Oh Friends wait upon the Lord that ye may possess these things for to know them and be in them is Everlasting Treasure and Riches the possession of them are Riches to the Poor Bread to the Hungry and Cloathing to the Naked and Life to the Dead And if ye know these things lay them up in your hearts as your most pretious Treasure and let none spoil you of it And if ye are married unto the Lamb then are you the True and onely Church even his Body and living Members of it for such onely are the True Church that are married to Christ and Vnited to him in his own nature and all such are false Churches and are even of the great Whore that hath taken upon them the name of Churches of Christ but were never lawfully married unto him and such are deceived and Deceivers of others with the very Name of Christ calling themselves by the Name of his Church while they are in the nature contrary to him nor they ever lawfully married unto him and this is the great Whore who commits lewdness through Nations in all false worships and Idolatrous practices and Ordinances and in her false Ministry and false Doctrines and she was set up in Nations by the force of cruel and violent Lawes and men and is upheld by Oppression and Injustice at this day and yet all this she doth under the Name of Holy Church and useth the Name of Christ as if she were his Wife and yet hath other Lovers and by such means hath this great Whore deceived the world But now the Day of the Lord is come upon her and the hour of her Iudgements is at hand and all that have taken pleasure with her shall mourn and bitterly lament because of her Judgements which cometh in a day but we are delivered from her Iudgements because the Lord hath called us from her abominations and we can no more drink her Cup of false doctrines and Practices all which are Idolatry and to be Judged of the Lord though she should drink our blood as she hath done the Saints before us But I say the Lord hath led us out of this Babylon He hath delivered us from this great City and made us Spiritually free from its abominations and Idolatries though not outwardly free from her oppressions and cruelties And though this great City hath Ruled over the Kings and great men of the earth and subjected many Nations through its wickedness and violence yet certainly its ruine is near to come Else my Hope is lost my Life is smitten and the Lord hath not spoken by me And the Lord will Reward this false woman this false Church that hath deceived the Nations even according to her deeds as she hath done to others so shall other 's do to her measure for measure and much more might we say concerning her but the Lord hath opened our eyes and we see her abominations and she cannot deceive us And this is the loving kindness of the Lord unto us for which he is worthy to be praised by us for evermore And in that ye have received the Truth and do know the Truth live in it and walk in it in all faithfulness and be not fearful and unbelieving as though the Lord were not with you though ye suffer much for his Names sake for he is not wanting unto that man that doth fear his Name and that walks in his Way but for the deliverance of all such will he appear he will free the oppressed and the afflicted people he will save even by his out-stretched Arm Wherefore let our eye be unto the Lord in all estates and conditions whether of sufferings or otherwise for from him Salvation cometh and not from the Mountains of the earth and keep your Meetings in your several places and be faithful in all things that your Consciences may be kept void of offences both towards God and men that no disobedience nor load of iniquity may be upon you but that in the sight of God you may feel clearness and freedom of Soul and Spirit from the burden of all transgression that you may know the Remission of all sin and all iniquity may be blotted out and no guilt of transgression may lye upon you but you may enjoy Peace in your Consciences in the Sanctification and Iustification of the new man and this is the heavenly Life even upon earth And when you are met together in the Name and Power of the Lord mind his presence amongst you for that is life and will make your Meetings profitable and full of Vertue to your Souls and the Lord will instruct you in all that which is good and Christ will be your Minister of Peace and Comfort and his Spirit will lead you into all Truth and by his Word even the speech of God in your hearts you will be quickned in Spirit and your strength and Peace in God will be renewed day by day and walk in all Wisdom and in the fear of the Lord one towards another and towards all people that your Righteous and innocent life and your Holy Wayes and Works of Truth may have Evidence in the hearts of your Enemies that you are of God by the shining forth of your light before them and that the Devil nor all your
A General Epistle TO ALL THE SAINTS BEING A VISITATION OF THE Fathers Love Unto the whole Flock of God who are called and gathered into the Spiritual Kingdom of Righteousness and Peace To be Read in all the Assemblies of them that meet together to Worship the Father in the Spirit and Truth in the silence of all flesh E. B. LONDON Printed for Robert Wilson at the Sign of the Black-spread-Eagle and Wind-Mill in Martins l'Grand 1660. live unto God in all that which is answerable unto him and your words and works will be accepted of him and well-pleasing to him even because it is him that worketh in you to will and to do all good things and he alone exalted in you and you subjected and the Maker is become the Husband and you married unto him and he lives in Power and Rule and Command and you live in subjection unto him and in fulfilling his Will in what he guideth in by his Holy Spirit And this life is very pretious Oh Friends live in it and dwell in it alwayes and then your Ioy and Peace will be with you over all this world and you will be Comforted when Fear and Terrour comes upon all men for the Lord God whom we serve and worspip in the Spirit will cause his Enemies to know his Power and that he doth and can do whatsoever he Will and will smite his Enemies and wound them in their Consciences for all Power Dominion and Authority is with him he is mighty to save and mighty to destroy and his Reward is to every one according to their deeds and this is the God whom we fear and worship and all flesh must bow before him when he shews his presence though men be high and lifted up and go on in Rebellion against him without fear yet the hand of the Lord will be upon them and he shall smite them with the Rod of his mouth Wherefore all Friends have respect unto the Lord in your hearts in all things that you do and in all things that cometh to pass for that is blessed in a people and they shall prosper their Souls shall be nourished and their lives refreshed with the mercies of the Lord even all they that do wait upon the Lord and have respect unto him and his Eternal Power which doth and suffereth all things that be In which Power you must dwell and walk and feel it in your hearts and it will be your Armour and Defence in all things and it will carry you through all that which worketh contrary And it is very pretious to be Armed with the Armour of God in the Day of Temptations and Tryals that you may not be overcome of the wicked nor spoiled of the heavenly Inheritance Oh Friends put on strength that you may stand and never be moved from the hope of Eternal Life and feel the renewing of your inward man even the increase and growth of the immortal Life in you that you may live in that unto the Lord God and Covenant with him may be preserved whereby you may be a praise and a glory to him in your Generation in the sight of the whole world even all you who have tasted of the Presence and Power of the Lord and who have known his Mercies and Iudgements and been acquainted with him that you may be kept faithful unto the end and not be subverted by the wicked one nor drawn from the Obedience to the Truth nor loose your Crown of Immortality neither by the flattery nor terrour of the ungodly but that you live in the Dominion of Immortal Life which keeps above all Mortal Temptations and Mortal Terrour and gives Authority over all And this Life is blessed where the Glory and Peace of this world the Troubles Sorrows of it also are seen over felt beyond nothing of it can move the Heart nor disquiet the Spirit nor work any Separation from the Fathers Love and in the Seed of God where it lives above mortal is this enioyed by us and all the faithful But if the mans part live above the Seed of God that will be drawn aside by the love or by the terrour of this world for that is changable and the evil one hath a part in it so that part is to be kept in subjection in you under the Seed of God and it must bear the Cross of Christ alwayes else you will be overcome of the wicked for in that part the mans part which is of this world the Devil hath something a place to receive him and a part to obey him but in the Seed of God he hath nothing neither place nor part And so Friends live in the Seed of God for in that is your Victory and heavenly Dominion and also your Election and your Assurance for ever even in the second birth begotten of the Father for that is the Heir of God and therein doth man inherit Eternal Life and Rest and Peace to his Soul and therein is Blessings and Peace and life inwardly and outwardly and all fulness is enjoyed where the Lord is the Teacher the Father the Shepheard the Master the King and Iudge and he is become to us the all in all and the Kingdom delivered to him and all subjected under him even God with us the substance of all the end of all and all the contrary put under even the Lyon and the Lamb laid down together and man lives in Peace according to the Promise and the Mountain of the Lords House is established on the top of all in which nothing can destroy or hurt the pure Life but life is in Dominion over all and Death is swallowed up of it Oh Friends this is the mark that is before you press on towards it that you may obtain the final end of all your travel and waiting of your obedience and suffering and the end of your hope and patience and the very end of the message sent of God and delivered to you by us The end of all is this That you may dwell in God and he in you and be gathered up to him to be ever with him and that he may be your all in all and you may be to him an honour and praise throughout the world in your Generation even he your onely God and you his onely people And Friends certain it is that the way of life and peace and of Salvation is made manifest unto you and you know wherein Everlasting peace and reconciliation with God standeth and you also know what the cause is of all trouble and sorrow and condemnation the Lord hath opened many hearts and given unto many a good understanding And seeing you know this live in the way of peace and escape the other that you may not come into condemnation for it is a fearful thing to fall into the condemnation and wrath of the Almighty And for this cause that men should be saved from wrath and have peace with God the message of Life