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A Testimony to the Lord's power and blessed appearance in and amongst children wherein is expressed the great love of God to them ...
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tenderness of a most tender Father in Forgiveness and Mercy after Correction and Submission under the same I mean especially as to such who had been more stubborn And the more mild and gentle-conditioned were under the pure sense of the same Power in pure Love and sweet tenderness with an enerease of what had been poured out before at the other Meetings So that the whole Meeting Family at that time was as I may truly say over-powered with Divine comfort in the sense of Gods pure love nothing else from God declared to them but that they should admire his sweet Love and Mercy and how good the Lord was how gentle kind and most tender over them together with the great admiring of the same Love being filled with it so that the Heavenly Flame of it drown'd all manner of Sorrow at that time and conquered all sense of Terror and Judgment nothing but Love at that time and Mercy appearing and overcoming all so that it was wonderful to behold the great Gravity and Sense of the Children in such an exercise there being such a general Heart-breaking Power overpowering them in such a manner with Gods blessing throughout declared amongst them all And now I may say that there is not one who hath been of the worst Temper and Disposition here at present but in pleading with them about their conditions in the sense of Gods Truth have been broken into a sensible acknowledgment with weeping Eyes so far hath the most blessed Power of the living God appeared in this place a Day much groaned and longed for to see Glory to the Lord forever And certainly the living God will bestow more of his Heavenly Blessings upon us by the still pouring forth of his heavenly Spirit as we are dear and tender before him and of his Glory Amen So dear Brother admire with us the excellency of Gods pure love and Pray with us that we all may be kept in the sweet and humble acknowledgment of all his most tender Mercies And oh that we may never give the least occasion whereby the Lord may with-draw the sense of such great Love and Mercy from us Amen Amen So dear Brother if I could tell thee I would how full of sweet Melody my Soul is at present from the sense of this his pure goodness and how full of Joy and Gladness and Heavenly Praises Oh! the glorious Heavenly Power of the Lord God how when he pleases it most wonderfully overcomes the Hearts and Souls of his beloved and tender Children Oh dear Brother feel feel what my Soul can admire but my Tongue far unable to utter neither lawful for any man to do in this Earthly Tabernacle in which we reach unto thee dearly and to thy dear Wife And I am thy dear Brother C. Taylor The following Testimonies are from the Teachers of the Children A Testimony concerning the Goodness and Mercy of God our Heavenly Father in Christ Jesus manifested to the Children of our Family IN the sense of the great Love and tender Mercies of the Lord God who hath often graciously visited and livingly refreshed my Soul in our Evenings or Family's Meetings I can and do bear this living and faithful Testimony that at a Meeting the 23d of the 4th Moneth called June in the Evening the great God and Father of Mercy in a special and wonderful manner did abundantly pour forth of his good and holy Spirit of Life and Grace upon our Spirits through Jesus Christ our Saviour by which our Souls and Spirits were broken and melted before him that Waters did gush out of the Rocks Springs were opened in dry places and the very Depth did utter forth its Voice I my self was so overpowered and overcome with this Heavenly Life Virtue and Power of God that I did shake and tremble before him the mighty God of Heaven and Earth who by his quick and powerful Voice shaketh the Wilderness and breaketh the Cedars of Lebanon at whose appearance and look the Earth Trembles and at whose touch the Hills Smoke This his great Love and powerful Operation upon my Heart and Spirit being livingly refreshed and comforted by it did cause my Soul to magnifie the Lord and my Spirit to rejoyce in God my Saviour singing and making sweet Melody in my Heart to the Lord because he did so graciously answer the desire of our Souls and powerfully break in upon the Hearts and Spirits of our Children revealing himself in his great and Almighty Power among them in and through which their Hearts were broken their Spirits melted and their Souls humbly bowed before him as the alone searcher of the Heart and tryer of the Reins making known to every one his state and condition and bringing to Light the hidden things of Darkness and Counsels of the Hearts which brought Sorrow and Trouble upon them and caused many of them to lament and cry out before the Lord. Oâ— who can appear and stand before the great Judge of the Quick and Dead and not tremble at his Word and not howl and cry as under the senâ—e of his Judgments till they be brought forth unto Victory and the Soul comes to feel Redemption from Sin and Iniquity through the Blood of Jesus Christ We are living Witnesse of this great and powerful Work of the Almighty God in and amongst the Children of our Family by which he hath begun to work out their Salvation with Fear and Trembling and to turn their minds from Darkness to Light and from the Power of Satan unto himself that they may receive Forgiveness of Sins and Inheritance amongst them which are Sanctified by Faith in Christ Jesus to the great comfort and satisfaction of our Souls who was thus graciously pleased to appear and reveal himself in and among us in his Heavenly Power and Authority for my Soul hath often been poured out before the Lord on their behalf that he would be pleased to reach unto their Hearts in his Heavenly quickning Power that at length they might come to experience in themselves what hath been often declared to them by others that so in the sense of this Heart-breaking Power they might learn to fear him their Creator in the dayes of their Youth and their Souls might be engaged and constrained to love and obey him Now the Lord hath heard our Cry and answered our Desire he hath manifested his great Love Favour and Mercy unto them and us in the sense whereof my Soul did and doth rejoyce praising and glorifying his Name on their and our behalf I can beat my witness in Truth that the sense of the goodness of the Lord did rest upon my Spirit all the Night long that after I awaked my Eyes were full of Tears and my Soul full of Holy Praises and Thanks-giving unto the Lord because of his tender Mercies and great Love towards us breathing to the Lord that he in his heavenly blessed Power would carry on his great Work of Regeneration that he hath begun in
and upon our Spirits and to Bless us daily more and more with all Spiritual Blessings in Christ Jesus to the Praise and Glory of his Grace wherein he hath made us accepted in the Beloved according to the Riches of his Grace wherein he hath reached and abounded towards us to declare unto our Souls that he has pardoned our Sins and received us into his Fatherly love and care What shall I say of the next following Meeting I am not able to express the sweet refreshing Life Vertue and Power of our heavenly Father arising in us with healing under â—is Wings For as the Evening before Fearfulness and Trembling came upon many and Horror had overwhelmed them so now at this time the sweet Love of a most tender and merciful Father embracing their Spirits did sweetly and livingly refresh and comfort their Souls he healed the broken in Heart and bound up their Wounds with the Balm of his heavenly Life Vertue and Power to the great comfort and satisfaction of our Souls who partook of the Water of Life that the Lord poured forth and made us to drink of in and through which the Spirit of the Humble was quickned and the Heart of the Contrite Ones revived Now as the Lord in those two Meetings hath appeared and revealed himself in and to us in a most special gracious and powerful manner so his Sweet and Heart-melting Love and tender Mercies have hitherto followed us from Meeting to Meeting sensibly and livingly Refreshing Comforting Stregthening and Confirming our Souls in his Love Life Vertue and Power until this very Day Praises Praises Praises Glory and Honour be to our God henceforth forever and forever Moreover it is sealed to my Spirit by the holy Spirit of the Lord God That we shall be Monuments of his Tender Mercies and Fatherly Love and Care these are the words which livingly arose in my Heart as we were lately gathered together and arise again as I am writing this Testimony for God I say We shall be Monuments of his tender Mercies and fatherly Love and Care if we keep Low Humble Meek and Tender before him he will instruct uâ— teach us in the Way which we shall go and guide us with his Eyes if we always Fear and Dread his holy powerful Name which he hath revealed unto us and poured forth in and among us as a good and precious Ointment which causes us to be glad and to rejoyce in him and to love him with all our Heart Soul and Mind In the Sense of this great Love and tender Mercies of the Lord God my Soul desires that I and every one of us especially our dear Children that have with us tasted of the good Word and Power of the World to come by which our Souls have been quickned and livingly refreshed and comforted may be always kept in a living sense of the Loving kindness and Goodness of the Lord towards us that so we may walk in Humility Righteousness and Holiness before him who hath reached to our Souls and made us sensible of our inward State and Condition and also of his Love Grace and Mercy that we may walk worthy of this his great Love and Dread and Fear him in our Hearts always having the Eyes of our Mind towards him that in his Light shining in our Souls we may see even the least appearance of Evil and waiting in it we may receive Power to be kept and preserved out of it lest by entring in or consenting to it we should offend the Lord and cause him to with draw his sweet Love and to hide the Light and Favour of his Countenance from us which would bring Sorrow Anguish and Destruction upon our Souls Oh! let us walk worthy of this great Love let every one of us be circumspect in our Lives and Conversations that our Enemies who Reproach and Blaspheme the holy Name and powerful Work of the Lord God who hath graciously and gloriously appeared in and among us may behold our Holy Innocent Upright Life and Conversation and by it may be reached and convinced that not the Devil but the Lord God in his holy Life Vertue Power and Spirit hath appeared in and among us by which he hath wrought a new Heart and renewed a right and holy Spirit in us the blessed Effect whereof is Holiness and Righteousness which Work is not of Man muchless of the Devil but of the Everlasting Pure and Holy God who in his Everlasting Holy Pure and Quickning Power hath begot us again into the heavenly Image of his dear Son Christ Jesus which consists in Holiness and Righteousness and Truth which the Devil is out of Having therefore received Grace and Mercy Life Vertue and Power of God let us cleanse our selves from all Filthiness of the Flesh and Spirit perfecting Holiness in the Fear of God that we may shew forth the heavenly Vertue and Power of him that hath called and translated us from Darkness into his marvelous Light and turned from Satans Power to his own Holy Pure and Living Power in which we are enabled to do good Works new created of God in Christ Jesus unto good Works that we may walk therein in which if we are sound walking and doing the Works of God we shall never fall again for so an entrance shall be ministred unto us abundantly into the Everlasting Kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ who is the true Light which lights every man that comes into the World in which heavenly and divine Light we daily receive Life Vertue and Power to escape the Corruption that is in the World through Lust and to live Soberly Righteously and Godly in this present World to the Honour and Praise of him that hath called us to Glory and Vertue For this is the very end of the heavenly living powerful Appearance of our God in the midst of us that in and through the heavenly Power of his Son Christ Jesus revealed in us in his divine heavenly Light Life and Spirit he might redeem us from all Iniquity and purifie unto himself a peculiar People zealouâ— unto good Works and that so out of the Mouths of Babes and Sucklings he may perfect Praises for his Name Let us therefore always be found in Well-doing that our Light may shine before men that they may see our good Works and glorifie our Father which is in Heaven who dwells in the Light and is Light in which if we walk therein we have fellowship with him and one with another and the Bloâ—d of Jesus Christ his Son which cleanses us from all Sins is inwardly known and felt and the true Fellowship with the Fâ—â—her and his Son Jesus Christ comes to be witnessed Righteousness and Holiness is shewn forth in our Lives and Conversation by which our heavenly Father comes to be praised and glorified For herein is our heavenly Father of his Children glorified when they bring forth much Fruit of the Spirit which is in all Goodness and Righteousness