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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58213	A real demonstration of the true order in the spirit of God and of the ground of all formality & idolatry, with a few words unto such as are concerned in it.	Smith, William, d. 1673.	1663 (1663)	Wing R456A; ESTC R31776	9,666	13

as from your deadly enemy that so you may obtain favour with the Lord whilst his love is to you which we tenderly desire that so it may be with you Nottingham the 11. mon. 1663. John Reckless Martha Plats Sarah Watsone Hannah Reckless Prudence Harding GOd in his everlasting love to man in the Fall hath sent his Son Christ Jesus and hath made him manifest in man to be the Light of man and to lead man out of the Fall up to God and this Son of God is the second Adam the Lord from Heaven who is the quickning Spirit by which eternal Spirit the souls of his people are quickned made alive unto God it is by the same Spirit that they are fed and nourished kept alive unto him in his own righteousness this holy Spirit is their guide leader into all truth whatsoever this Spirit leadeth into therein they are justified of God not in any other thing when this Spirit leadeth the birth of its own begetting to appoynt a meeting it is for God in what place soever it doth appoynt a meeting it is lawful for the people of God who live in this Spirit to go thereunto or for any others if it be day after day or time after time it being appoynted by the Spirit of the Lord it is justified by the Lord the Power holy Life which is in Jesus doth accompany such meetings for they meet in the Name Truth of the Lord. These are those who are born of the Royal Seed and God is feeding them with the holy Bread of life and if any find but so much as a hunger or desire in their souls after the living Bread they are to go to that blessed assembly where the living Bread is broken where the Lords people is met together for that Life which is manifested in them cries come to all the thirsty all that come in-no-wise will he turn them away unsatisfied So all that come although they be but weak the Lord will strengthen them or hungry yet he wil feed them or thirsty he hath water to give unto them for unto such his cry is And when the Lord doth satisfie the soul in the assembly of his people and meeting then thy soul will be zealous for that meeting because thou hast met with the Lord to satisfie thee And it is not the outward place or time or days that thou wilt cry up but thou wilt cry up that which hath answered the desire of thy soul and that meeting in which God is so much manifested for thy meeting is in the Spirit Truth which was before days or time or place was yet thou cannot be against the time or days or place where the people of God meet because they are in the Fathers hand and the people of God who are led by the Spirit of God they know the place and day which God hath appoynted for them to live walk assemble in and this is the heavenly place in Christ Jesus and they who live in this they have the refreshing presence of God with them at all times and in all outward places wheresoever their gathering is and this is that standing meeting which none who knows it are to withdraw from And now Friends you that know the travel of your souls have a sense feeling that Christ is formed in you dwell and abide in him who is formed and in this form the Life and Power of God dwels and abides for ever for as every one doth know Gods righteousness to be put on so as that they feel themselves to stand in it and it to cover them here they are in the thing formed and so take the form upon them which is godliness and the power of God is with them and doth uphold them the Spi it of God is in them and justifieth them in this form and in this you will know what Christ took upon him while he was in the flesh and thou must not be greater than thy Master but thou art in all things to obay him and to do his will So wilt thou feel the mind of Christ in thee to lead thee into that form and path he walked in for he went to one place several times to preach and teach and this was not a dead form but that form in which the power of God was manifested And therefore dost thou not know that these backsliders who now cry against our meetings as formal though the power of God is with us would if they had been in Christs days have cryed against him when he took upon him the form of a servant And is not this the spirit of the Pharisees who condemn'd Christ and now his Disciples being they are turned against him would be set up themselves and this spirit is one with that spirit in the world against our meetings the one with reviling words and the other with wicked actions they are both one in the ground and sees no comliness in Christ the Truth because they are out of the Light in which he dwels but to all who dwell and walk in the Light he is very comly and beautiful and very glorious beyond what they can speak of him Therefore dear Friends whose being is in Christ with God unto you my love and soul is much oblieged and my desire it that you all may be preserved in the precious truth even to the end and that it may ever be unto you beautiful and delectable to your sight and that you may faithfully meet in his Name and feel the God of all consolation comforts amongst you daily to stren●then refresh you with his living mercies that you in his grace may grow as plants of his renown to bring forth fruit to the glory of God for ever and beware of that spirit which would draw you from meetings for it is an enemy to the Church of the first-born whose being is in God and in whom my habitation is who am Your Dear Brother JOHN MOON THE END

offer some other thing as more free or unlimited whilst in its very motion it hath an Idol in conception and cryes against that which is true to make way for its production for whatsoever is generated by Imagination in the airy contraction it is nothing but a dead Idol and can neither help it self nor those that trust in it and it is most certain that where the minds of any are carryed about by the motion of this spirit and sets up the thing which is generated and formed by it either inward or outward they set up an Idol and come into captivity under the power of formality though in that very state they may pretend the highest liberty Oh that all who are concerned in this matter would lay it to heart and ponder it seriously for certainly this information is tenderly manifested to you and happy will it be for such as take warning in time come to a due tryal examination in the true spirit of Judgment look not over things sleightly but sink to the witness of God which will distinguish the birth born of God from all Forms and Idols Friends A necessity is laid upon me to speak plainly to you in the counsel of the Lord for the plain simple birth cannot heal any thing but that which is of its own nature it can neither feignedly nor slatteringly please the false birth nor insinuate into the affections of any by an uncertain message of peace it is the alone healer of the bruised indeed but cannot strengthen that spirit by which the Seed is oppressed that which can do so is the man-pleaser and creeps into the affection through a seeming condescention to the poor and weak by which the false birth is more encouraged and the bruised more heavily oppressed and so the self-denial man is strengthned in his selfish conceit under a shew of self-denial This spirit hath not the line of true Judgment it cannot fathom the depths where the poor lies afflicted and the bruised distressed and the weak helpless nor hath no true oyl to pour into the wound of Israel but only helps the Beast to heal his wound which is to be wounded unto death Friends The end of my labour is to restore the lost Sheep of the House of Israel who are led astray by the fair shews of feigned spirits and whether you will hear or forbear I shall have a witness in you for nothing is in my heart but good-will to your souls and if so you can receive it and come to profit by it let God have the glory over all and the mans name be buryed in silence Therefore let your ear be open to that of God in you and consider is it not sad and grievous when the love of God is so much professed and that which is of it denyed and dis-owned and that which is contrary to it received and nourished I shall leave the particulars to be distinguished unto you by the witness of God in you but this is a certain truth concerning you that you are gone from the sure Foundation and are become as waves of the Sea which have their course and motion which way the wind bloweth What a sad captivity are you fallen into who are fallen from serving the living God in his own way to serve a painted Idol of your own making and gives the honour and renown unto it as if it was the only son when indeed it is nothing but an Idol born of the flesh and painted over with the choycest colours of that nature and being of that nature in the ground it is an Idol though it will not be limited to any outward observation But the birth of the Royal Seed is the Glory of the only begotten of the Father and in its order is without limitation though in practice it daily and hourly observes the same thing Well Friends I have great heaviness and sorrow in my heart concerning many of you who in the day of your visitation did begin well but how you are turned aside I believe you do not understand and therefore my compassion is much more towards you who in your simplicity are ensnared for the zeal of your affections ran you out of the stayedness and so you became enamoured with a fair shew and eagerly closed in with it as some higher manifestation and here your eye became darkned with the enamoured part and then the net you could not see and so was simply taken in the heat of your affections and it being so you must submit to the power of God in the silence of all flesh and if so you do the power will deliver you and again restore you into the fellowship of the Gospel So Friends this is the counsel of the Lord God unto you Make nothing to your selves but wait in stillness and quietness not out of words only but out of thoughts and imaginations also for there all flesh comes into silence and in so waiting upon the Lord God he will abolish your Idols with all their glory and root out the ground of their conception and if you so stand submitted to his power he will surely heal you and freely love you And be not so wise in your own eyes for you are below and your intelligence and motions are from that nature and the birth of life sits sorrowing as a Babe without comfort let it give answer and speak for it self and then shall these sayings be found true and faithful And Friends What would you do by the things that you hold forth would you shadow the Sun from shining or keep the showers from falling and the Seed from blossoming and the Vine from yeelding encrease would you so limit the life as the streams of it should not run or so enclose the love of God as that it should not break forth if you say nay these are the things that we would have to be then what means your crying out against the glorious dispensation of God and the order in it and what means all your reflections upon Gods chosen Heritage as if death had swallowed them all up and as if they had lost the compassion and tenderness and vertue which once they had and apprehends that you only have retained it Nay Friends that which was once in the Life of God is still the same amongst his children and in the resurrection of it they have a sweet increase and to that of God in all it is the same as ever and they are not seeking themselves and their own glory but are seeking the good of all and the Glory of God in all but you have lost your strength who are gone from the power of God and so you savour not the things that are of God that when compassion is manifested towards you yet you cannot receive it except it close in with you and so you turn away your ear from the counsel of the Lord as if no compassion or tenderness did remain in his children and thus you are