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truth_n	heart_n	spirit_n	word_n	8,255	5	4.2520	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40340	Honest, vpright, faithful, and plain dealing with thee O army of the common-wealth (so called) without flattery, in true unfeigned love to thee with something more particularly unto the officers of the army, and those that join with them in the outward government of this nation : wherein truth, uprightness, and equity is declared for, and deceit, wickedness, oppression, and tyranny is declared against / by one who loves the prosperity of truth, and the good and well-being of all creatures, George Fox the younger.	Fox, George, d. 1661.	1659 (1659)	Wing F2005A; ESTC R37833	11,867	16

establish yourselves in the honor fulness of this World but poor creatures ye could not settle your selves in a peace there for your Enemies daily plotted against you had it not been just vvith the Lord to have suffered your Enemies to have destroyed you because of your grievous back-slidings and wickedness O consider it consider it while ye have time and prize the Lords loving kindness that he should yet spare you and yet give you time to repent And seeing the Lord hath shewed you your backslidings with his eternal Witness in you and hath begun to frustrate the designs of those that vvould have cut you off in your backslidings and ye confess some of you that you are vvilling to take shame also to your selves wherein you have back-slidden therefore seeing it is thus all mind that of God in you which sheweth you your back-slidings and believe and wait in that to feel that nature judged and destroyed in you wherein all this Wickedness and Deceit hath lodged and keepe in the fear and dread of the Lord God that so ye may receive his pure Wisdom whereby ye may be ordered in the particular that ye in Gods Wisdom and Fear may come to rule in your places for God to be a terror to evil-doers and an encouragement to them that do well And take heed of a selfish earthly spirit in the particular and of the honor and glory and gain of the World for that the Lord is against Oh! there is a strong deep root of it in many of you which the Spirit of Judgement and burning and the Ax of God is to destroy therefore wait to feel its Work in you O ARMY in thee was I several years together in which time I saw the mighty appearance of God with thee even in the time of the outward War and when the War vvas ended I left thee in obedience to the appearance of the living God unto me who called me out of thee by his powerful Word in my heart through which he hath sanctified me and hath brought me into the life of that truth which I and many of you in the Army professed in Words And I can truly say in the fear of the Lord That my love hath been and yet is tender towards you for the good of your souls and I have seen your conditions and hath considered them in the spirit of the Lord and I cannot flatter any of you but must deal plainly and and truly with you and all people Truly in many of you there is an exceeding lofty proud covetous deceitful nature and in others of you there is a lofty proud lustful devouring wanton vain nature though many of you I know have felt a measure of the power of God yet verily ye have so back-slidden that iniquity hath gotten a strong hold and root in most of you that so ye must keep down to the Witness of God in you which searcheth your hearts and will let you see what is there that so the Lord 's righteous Judgement ye may all feel it and own it upon that nature in you which is contrary to the living God for if ye keep not to the spirit of Judgement I know whatever ye have declared in words that a selfish spirit will get up more and more to act in you and verily friends if you keep not your minds to the measure of the pure God in you a secret boasting will be ready to get up in you of what you have done and then you will soon forget where you are and your minds will run further and further into your Commissions and into your great Houses and Lands which many of you have got and others minds will run into your Souldiers places and ease and idleness and these things will beguile you if you take not heed you will soon forget the oppressions then that others suffer under and if ye should do thus verily the Lord God would soon overturn you break you to pieces Therefore all wait in the light which shews you sin and evil that so by it ye may be brought to deny your selves and to come out of the loftiness that ye have been in into the true humility which goes before the true honor and come into moderation both in your Dyet and Apparel in all things this would answer the Witness of God in people and that being answered it would beget again a love in them towards you which you lost when you went into the excess Therefore be sober and watch in the light of the Lord Jesus Christ which he hath enlightened you withall and believe in it that so ye may be preserved by it out of the deceitfulness of this World and that ye may be kept faithful in your places for the preserving of the outward peace and liberty of the Nation while ye feel a freedom in that which convinceth you of evil for the bearing a carnal Weapon know the manifestation of God's Spirit in you and wait to feel the motions of it and be obedient thereto and this will bring you to do violence to no man nor to accuse any falsly but it will bring you out of all such things if you keep to it and it will make you to be content with such wages as may find you food and rayment and things necessary and convenient for your places and this you would then be worthy of So know the Lord hath a mighty Work to do therefore wait in his light that ye may be kept truly sensible of your places and go not beyond them but keep in the fear of the Lord and wait to know what God requireth of you in your places lest the Lord cast you out So remember you are warned and it is in tender love to your souls This following more particularly concerneth the Officers of the Army 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Rulers of this Nation then the Army in general Take heed of raising or continuing War with other Nations in your own wills for to get your selves a Name and to get their earthly Treasures as some of you have been instruments to do for the Lord's hand hath been and yet is against that and he will not prosper you therein therefore be you warned and know that this is a warning unto you from the Lord God and seek peace and eschew evil and learn to do well that the blessing of the Lord ye may come to feel and that this destroying of creatures about Religion and the honor gain of this World may cease And take heed how ye meddle with Religion for that hath split broken many Rulers before you therefore set not up one sect and throw not down another by an outward law force for that is wrong the Lord is against that but wait in his light to receive his counsel that so ye may be kept in Gods Wisdom that therein ye may be instruments in the hand of the Lord for the keeping

have been stopped at that time for speaking the truth yet notvvithstanding the truth hath prevailed over all and shall prevail And if that can be proved against us truly that we plot at our Meetings or at any other time against the outward Governors to overturn them by an outward power or force then let us also suffer as I said before by a just Law And if he that sends us forth will not provide food and raiment for us then let us want and if we cannot live of our Gospel which we preach without an outward Law to compel us an outward maintenance if our Ministry will not stand without it then let us want whereon to live let our Ministry fall And let none be compelled to uphold another's Meeting-place concerning their Worship for that is oppression but let every one uphold their own and that sort of professors that will not uphold the place where they meet to worship let their house fall and then it will appear where the earthly spirit lodgeth for they that compel others to uphold another's place of Worship doth but cover and strengthen the earthly spirit therefore let there not be such havock made of peoples goods as hath been of late upon many who could not give to the upholding another's Meeting-house for this is out of the equality in the oppression and tyranny So come into that which is equal and keep in that and that will bring you to act that which is equal and just unto all and to break all outward Laws that are not equal and just but tends to tyranny and oppression and truly there are many Laws and Customs in this Nation whereby the innocent are opprest so wait to feel the power of God that ye may rule and govern in that for the Lord and feeling the power of God and keeping to that it will bring you out of all deceit and transgression in the particular and so to stand over all deceit and transgression in the general and it will also bring you to judge righteously without respect to persons and this will reach to the Witness of God in all consciences So wait to feel the higher power to rule over the evil doer in the particular to know feel the Authority of God there then ye wil come to rule over all evil doers in the higher Power even in the Authority of God then that of God in all consciences where ye come to rule shall answer to your government But if ye give way to the evil-doer in the particular and let him have the liberty there mark that then that will cause the Just to suffer in the particular and then the same will give way and liberty to evil doers without whereby the Just without will come to suffer also Therefore keep to the power of the Lord in your own particulars you who have felt it and that will bring ye to do Justice unto all without partiality this will make you honorable in the hearts of the people and then shall righteousness Truth Equity Mercy Justice prosper over all and be exalted all deceit unrighteousness unrighteous vvays shall be confounded So remember He that ruleth over men must be just ruling in the fear of God Something after AND all ye that are Officers and Rulers now who have tasted of the pure power of the Lord God and hath felt it stirring in you against all oppression and tyranny whereby also ye were made to witness against the back slidings of others even to the losing of your places some of you some being turned out and others that could not stay for conscience sake VVell keep to the power of the Lord which ye have felt and do not abuse it but wait in it that ye may be kept low in his fear that so those who are come to see their back-slidings and do repent them may come to have unity with you and you with them in that which kept you in any measure out of the back-slidings and which hath also brought them to see theirs and to repent of it for that is but one in you both it is even the measure of the pure God which is given you to profit withall therefore in that all wait to receive the wisdom which is from above that in it ye may all be preserved and kept in enity together and that therein ye may be instruments for the setling and preserving the outward Peace and just Liberties of the people of these Nations which are under your charge But verily much of the wars which hath lately been entered into hath not been for the peace safety and well-being of these Nations for the power being lost pride and lust was the ground of them Therefore all mind the Lords wisdom and counsel that peradventure ye may find and see a way how to stop them least ye bring enemies upon heaps both upon your selves and these Nations for yet verily breaking breaking overfurning and yet overturning will be among all those that will not submit to the counsel of the Lord and wait in his light to be led and guided in his wisdom for he will be known to rule in the kingdoms of men and he will exalt his own Name over all Many are your Enemies within and without therefore be not high-minded but fear least they prevail over you The Lord is near unto all those that fears him and trusts in his Name to deliver them but those that go out of his fear and trusts in the wisdome or arm of flesh they shall be broken the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it Given forth in the former part of the 3d. Month 1659. THE END