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A29604	Silent meeting, a wonder to the world, yet practised by the apostles and owned by the people of God, scornfully called Quakers	Britten, William, d. 1669.; Fox, George, 1624-1691. Concerning gathering in the name of Jesus.	1671 (1671)	Wing B4826; ESTC R9144	10,828	17

the Letter avails little without us for the Letter of former Scriptures the Scribes Pharisees and persecuting Priests had who crucified Christ as many now have the Letter also yet to little purpose whilest they seek to destroy the works of the Spirit Nor doth Christ say That there is Eternal Life in the Scriptures John 5.39 but reproves the Jews who thought so yet would not own him who was the substance of all Look therefore by the Light of Christ within you unto whom ye yeild your selves in your members to obey as eyes to see ears to hear tongues to speak hearts to think c. for therein you are servants Rom. 6.13 16. whether in power for doing good or under the Devils power by living in sin and whether you live after the flesh in the Devils power or after the Spirit in Gods power may be easily known by the mind within of each man and woman for upon what the mind is carried with most eagerness joy and delight in earthly things or upon heavenly things in that estate you are at present of flesh or Spirit either for Heaven or Hell Rom. 8.5 6 7. Yet I advise you not to take up this or that outward Form but to seek for that Pearl and sell or part with all earthly affections to buy or obtain it Mat. 13.45 even that Kingdom of God to be within your selves which is in the Sanctified ones for God manifests himself in the Creature Luke 17.21 making his People Partakers of the divine nature 2 Pet. 1.4 causing things invisible to be understood even his Eternal Power c. So that he leaves man without excuse Rom. 1.20 and for that Spirit which leads into these Truths we silently wait And this was Practised by the Apostles Who had from Christ two distinct Commissions for going forth to preach The first from Christ in the flesh before his death Luk. 9.1 10. which lasted but a time for although they could cast forth devils while it held yet being ended they could not do it Luke 9.40 and in this they went only to the Jews Mat. 10.5 The second Commission was to all Nations Mat. 28.19 both to Jews and Gentiles given them by a risen Christ and confirmed by the Holy Ghost or Christ in Spirit about Fifty dayes after Act. 2.1 during which time although thay prayed yet they did not go forth to preach unto the people until they had that Spirit which they were commanded to wait for Act. 1.14 Ephes 1.13 as the Seal of their Commission Acts. 1.4 So they were silent as unto Preaching wherein they waited for that which should lead them into all Truth John 16.13 Whence note It was not the Letter or Christ in the flesh that Jesus said should do it but him in Spirit who promised his Disciples to come again unto them John 14.28 John 16.22 and although he came again to them after he was risen from the dead yet in the several Promises we may see how it was the Holy Ghost or Christ in Spirit should lead them into all Truth and bring all things to remembrance and make them able Ministers of the Spirit John 14.26 2 Cor. 3.6 And such the Holy Ghost teacheth Luke 12.12 yea it is said The Holy Ghost speaketh Mark 13.11 And the Spirit speaketh in them Mat. 10.20 And what injuries are done to them is taken to himself Matth. 25.41 Thus being at Jerusalem all in one place with one accord as they were commanded to wait Acts 1.4 Acts 2.1 in that Silent Meeting they received what they had waited for which made them able Ministers of the Gospel and then Peter began to speak Verse 14. This being the order of their second Commission and is to hold unto all that look for Christs spiritual coming into their flesh to make them able Gospel-Teachers and their bodies a habitation and temple for the same Spirit 1 Cor. 6.19 Ephes 2.22 Therefore it is not Christs spiritual coming in another Saints flesh which I feel that gives me comfort but when the same Holy Ghost even Christ in Spirit dwelleth in my Body I then can witness it by his Eternal Power within who is my Light and my Saviour But this is a strong Lesson to the world who cannot receive or know this Spirit promised to be in the Saints John 14.17 Yet this remember that who hath not Christ in him he is a Reprobate 2 Cor. 13.5 Which Scripture-Truth and Gospel-Practice is Owned by the People of God scornfully called QVAKERS Who coming like Solomon Eccles 2. unto self-experience in seeing all our joyes pleasures profits or other things delightful to the flesh to be but vanity and vexation we become silent thereunto not answering to obey the lusts of the carnal mind but as dead to the world that we may live unto God Even then humane Prudence in things of the Lord is laid in silence and fleshly glory is emptied forth leaving off to love the world or the things of the world 1 John 2.15 as formerly being as the great dung-hill for the true Convert to keep under his feet and not magnified in his heart knowing that every work and secret thing both good and evil must come to judgement Eccles 12.14 In which holy silence although the tongue speakes not yet the Spirit helpeth Rom. 8.26 which the heart-searcher beholdeth the Body in Silent-Meeting resting from labour which is all the rest in a carnal mans worship but we go further with a heart striving to rest from sinful Imaginations and entering upon a true rest in God of which we feel see and taste in its beginnings as an earnest of our blessed Inheritance Rom. 8.23 desiring Christ may take the whole Dominion in us to deliver from that bondage of corruption by redeeming the Body from the same which in part is begun and shall be finished when Christ is formed Gal. 4.19 and the strongest takes the whole possession but a time we must wait for this as at Bethsaidas Pool until the Lord by his healing-water cures his poor wounded Creatures In consideration of such a spiritual Ministry note three Things 1. The work of Moses 2. Of Christ in the Flesh 3. Of Christ in the Spirit First Moses believed and obeyed seeing things afar off yet drank of the spiritual Rock that followed but his work was not to hold unto the end in a Levitical Ministry and paying of Tithes with material Temple-worship c. for he shews how the Lord would raise him another Prophet to be heard and who would not hearken to that Prophet Christ Jesus in all things the Lord would punish Deut. 18.15 19. of whom Peter and Stephen spake the same Acts. 3.22 Acts 7.38 Secondly Note Christs work in the flesh who had a glory with God before the world was John 17.5 but now assumed a body to satisfie for sinners and preached in that body to be the Light for enlightening the world to make them ain●s not as if they were such

they are pure or impure Thirdly Use the Spiritual Scales to weigh ponder or consider all things to be spoken or done before they pass from thee for man durst not let so many filthy words drop from his tongue if first they were weighed and considered within at the Heart Yea and Nay Yes and No must be the same as they are spoken and so speak the same thing intended and pretended for otherwise you are Lyars and Lyars are for the Lake Rev. 21.8 Rev. 22.15 to be amongst Doggs and Whoremongers without Yet with many Lying is common who have not learned to speak the same thing intended as if you ask them to eat to drink to tarry c. they will say No yet desire them again and they will accept it so here they are Lyars Some in Scoffs and Mocks think it is witty to speak a Lye in Jest others being asked the truth of a thing will sometimes flourish and enlarge it making the same too much or too little as in Praising or dispraising in buying or selling and account themselves expert dealers and cunning Chapmen because they can use their tongues for advantage whereas they are but Lyars in it and such know not what a Spiritual Watch meaneth Therefore know that in all such estates ye are quite out of the good old way or way of truth and remember If any such seem Religious yet they are not so seeing their tongues are unbridled not brought to the truth and their Religion is vain or empty Jam. 1.26 Yet because you are such I do not say you are damned but declare your being captive in fleshly Babylon shewing from the Spirit of God what must be done by you if ye are saved If any are in Christ they are New Creatures and there is a new Heaven and a new Earth in them for all the parts members faculties and abilties are put to a new use the new heart and new spirit is in them so they speak and act new things from that law of God written in their inward parts and such dare not vent their frothy words as flesh did formerly but now there is a killing of that as Paul died dayly 1 Cor. 15.31 so the New Creature dies dayly to sin he is dead as to act in sin but lively to Righteousnesse whereas the Sinner is quick to sin but dead and dull in the things of God So thou shalt see the difference of these Two Estates betwixt Darknesse and Light when thou comest to use the Spiritual Watch Spiritual Touchstone and Spiritual Scales according to thy measure in the growth of Grace to know the power of an endless life within thee working and effecting these things and then thou mayest say I now see what pure silence is yea then thou shalt benefit by Silent Meetings And those that are come to the pure silencing of flesh to bridle the tongue to wrestle with the spiritual wickedness in the high place of the heart Ephes 6.12 2 Cor. 10.5 1 Cor. 10.31 that each thought may be brought into obedience unto Christ and whatsoever they act do all to the Glory of God such can witness the power of Christ in them and when he pleaseth to call them by his Eternal Spirit to go forth as Ministers they can best declare what God hath revealed unto them As the Man having the Devils cast forth published in Decapolis how great things Jesus hath done for him Mar. 5.20 wheareas they that preach by hear-say and humane study shew they speak not as the Spirit gives them utterance but with the tongues of flesh from carnal Apprehensions So that when they preach unto the people it might be objected Jesus I know hath the Spirit and Paul I know had it Act. 19 15. but who are ye upon what account would ye conjure forth sin out of others who have not the True Spirit your selves Therefore let none assume or own any other Gospel-Ministers than those called forth by the Spirit of God as Christ in Spirit after his Resurrection and Ascension confirmed the same to lead them into all truth and bring all things to their remembrence as able Ministers of the Spirit and not of the Letter 2 Cor. 3.6 as Carnal men do who teach one another Humane Learning and then sell it for Divinity forcing many to pay for it at a dear rate even to spoiling of Goods Imprisonment and cruelty But some will Object their Non-Scripture Distinctions of Mediate and Immediate Ordinary and Extraordinary c. saying That although the Apoctles were so called of God yet they ordained others not so called and so out of their carnall Inventions they undertake to consecrate or make Steeple-houses Masse-houses High-places or the Tower-houses to be Churches and to be Holy-places and fit men by their Arts and Degrees to preach in such places c. Answ All their pretences can no more make such Places holy than a heap of stones nor add any more vertue thereby into the Pulpit than into a Tub For God is worshipped in Spirit and Truth Gal. 1.18 John 4.23 24. 1 Tim. 1.3 Mat. 16.17 Nor are true Teachers to deliver any other Doctrine than what the Apostles did Therefore see what Qualifications they were to have 1 Tim. 32 c. Tit. 1.6 c. Now it is not flesh and blood that reveals this unto them nor the Tongues of Humane Learning which qualifies men thus for the Ministry but the same Spirit of God Therfore it is common to see those having much humane Learning to be Great Persecutors and will not take up the Crosse to follow Christ and so crosse their own Lusts Pride Covetousness Envy and Filth but give way unto it by which means we find so many cruel Priests for there is scarce any Persecution of Saiants but the Priests are chief Actors therein either by instigating or acting Now consider Friends it was that charged on Thyatira for suffering Jezebell who called her self a Prophetesse to teach and seduce the People Rev. 2.20 So these Nationall Ministers call themselves Divines and Gospell Ministers yet lead the People in Error which we now seeing by the Light of Christ if we do not discover reprove and oppose them therein God will lay the same thing to our charge as he did unto Thyatira For now Jesus Christ will set up his own Ministry And although he forbad not his Disciples to hear the Scribes and Pharisees Mat. 23.3 when the Law-Ministry was not ended yet now having finished that work in his flesh his Spiritual Ministry he hath set up to continue unto the end and no other are we to hear And this is the Testimony which the Lord hath called me to hold forth Therefore hearken unto it The 23d Day of the 8th Month 1660. William Britten Concerning Gathering in the Name of Jesus CHrist Jesus the Second Adam who came amongst the Sons of Fallen Adam you may see the beginning of his setting up his Meetings when he saith Where two or three are gathered together in my Name I am in the middest of them so you see here Christ begins with a few two or three for there was the gathering of the Jews Scribes and Pharisees their Temple and Synagogues and likewise there was the gathering of the Heathen to Dianas Temple And all them that gathered in the Name of Jesus came from the Jews Synagogue and Temple and likewise the Gentiles into the Name of Jesus for they who are gathered in the Name of Jesus whose Name is above every name and there is no Salvation by any other name under the whole Heaven but by the Name of Jesus into which the gathering is where all know their Salvation and so who are gathered into the Name of Jesus are gathered into the Power and Authority For you know when a Tax or Assessment is gathered in the name of the Head or Heads of a Nation it comes in Power and Authority that you obey it either actively or passively And so who are gathered in the Name of Jesus they are gathered in the Power the Second Adam whose Power and Authority is above the Power of the first Adams Sons and Daughters by which Power and in whose name their People are gathered But Christ whose Name is above every name and there is no Salvation by any other Name under Heaven but by the Name of Jesus and they that be gathered in this Name of Jesus by the Power in which they know their Salvation and they do see there is no Salvation by any other Name under the whole Heaven nor gathering by which they gather they bid farewel to all other names and gatherings under Heaven as knowing there is no Salvation but in the Name of Jesus And this fulfils Jacobs Prophesie who saith The Law shall not depart from between Judahs feet until Shilo come and the gathering of all Nations shall be unto him So then its clear if the gathering of all Nations be unto Christ they must forsake all that into which they were gathered And therefore that makes all the Heads of the National Wayes to be angry that holds them up and therefore with such The Lamb makes War in Righteousness going on Conquering and to Conquer that he may Rule whose Right it is that he might subdue all things to himself in whose Name all things are to be done and in whom all People are to be gathered whom God hath given for Salvation to the ends of the Earth And likewise this doth fulfil Moses Prophesie who said Like unto me will God raise up a Prophet whom in all things the People shall hear who is the Salvation to the ends of the Earth to whom the Gathering of all Nations must be And they who be gathered in his Name do and must hear him in all things by whom all things were made and created who was glorified with the Father before the World began G. F. THE END

Silent Meeting A WONDER To the VVORLD Yet Practised by the APOSTLES And Owned by the PEOPLE of GOD scornfully called QUAKERS Printed in the Year 1671. Silent Meeting A WONDER to the WORLD c. READER HAving formerly passed through a twofold Ministry First As a Gifted man in the National Secondly As a Baptist and now brought to wait on God in silence it is a wonder to many upon which the Lord hath led me forth to publish this Paper and make it a free gift unto those who desire some satisfaction concerning Silent Meeting in which I wait on God for a Purer Ministry if he please to bring me unto it or if I fall short like Moses to dye in Mount Nebo Deut. 32.49 and only see it afar off his blessed will be done I preaching first in the National Ministry for hire selling my Sermons at my best Market and afterwards being took off from that Merchandizing becoming a Baptist and preaching freely without selling did now think my spiritual condition to be very good but the Eternal God Jer. 48.11 who empties from vessel to vessel to take away all the carnal taste did not suffer me many years in this estate who by a further discovery of himself brought me back to silence that I should wait with the despised remnant called Quakers And as one alone from the tumult or outside of a wood can easily hear the clamours and outcries within so I being come forth of the Forms and Forests of the world unto a holy silence by the power of Jesus Christ within me could the better discern to see and view the various Sects and Forms in their Congregations how unlike the most part were unto the true spouse of Christ which with a heavy burden on my spirit I beheld their Parochial Assemblies to appear something like Nebuchadnezzars Image in the golden head Dan. 2. but upon a through observation in the Life Fruits and Conversation as the iron and clay barren fruitless and empty having the imitations and forms of Godliness but denying the power of Christ in leading forth the Creature When thus like the returning Prodigal Luke 15.17 I came to look on my self within I saw how I had sed on husks but God my Father had bread enough And al hough Arts Sciences teaching for hire getting of mony with such carnal delights quieted flesh a while as a Rattle or Pipe doth a Child for a time without the breast yet now that immortal part seeing its emptiness and coming to the true hunger and thirst after righteousness nothing but an eternal God would satisfie to give that bread flesh and drink of Life John 6.51 53. whereby a poor soul may grow in grace and in the knowledge of God But those that live and depend only upon outward Forms and visible Things the same deceive thousands who thereby fall short of what they imagine I now see that he is no true Minister of Jesus Christ but who is led forth by his Spirit and such we rejoyce to hear declaring the things of God Otherwise upon meeting we sit silent with the tongue yet having a heart full of praises where we worship God in Spiri and in Truth John 4.24 2 Cor. 6.16 who makes our bodies Temples for the same Spi it not speaking by hear-say and humane Ar●s but lay all that down when earthly thoughts ear hly words and earthly works are all laid aside and the Temple within us is ready the Light of Christ shining in it and the Lord with a further manifesta ion of his Love enters it by his Eternall Power whereupon we can truly say That the Lords presence is amongst us feeding of his Flock and making us feel the power of an endless Life As one must come forth of the house which intends to see it round about so we in obedience to God being separate and come forth from the world can the better see how the major part of the People come o their Wo ship as to a Market 2 Cor. 6.17 drest up in their fashions with their tongues in carnal discourse both going thither and returning back the eye gazing upon vanity and filth the ear ready to receive such stuff as defiles and the heart as an Anvil to forge within whereby they come not enquring like the Sspouse of Christ Cant. 1.7 or as a People to do the work of God as a true Wise to rejoyce in her Husband but as an Harlot that wantons and sports her self yea if they stay a while for their coming together what scoffing playing quarreling carnal talk unseemly behaviour and sinful actions are taken up amongst them woful experience can testifie And among such People I poor wretch did once spend some time seeing them words which they paid for but did not keep them using pleasing expressions and speaking by hear-say as others did and not upon experience from Christ within me but by imitation as Players on a Stage assume the Name and act the Persons of Princes Nobles c. but being come off and unmasked they are no such men yea I was perswaded ●hen that flesh must sin and have its lusts fulfilled while I wa● in the body not seeing that all filthiness of flesh and spirit must be cleased or else holiness cannot be perfected in the fear of God 2 Cor. 7.1 and with comfort I write this Truth That I have found and felt more of the Lords presence in one Silent Meeting than I have done in a hundred Sermons preached by me in times past and though then I did deliver them with much zeal But this is A WONDER TO THE WORLD Who have given their money for that which is not bread Isa 55.2 buying the Letter of their P iests that chide them for sinning yet say They must continue sinner while they are in this Body telling the People that God must do all for them and in them yet bid the same People to get Faith get Repentance c. so that the new Creation in making a New Creature is a Mystery unto them that are thus ignorant 2 Cor. 5.17 which affirm that People must live in sin until they die as if God had laid a necessity upon the Creature to offend him therefore they own no Light within nor Power of Christ within 2 Cor. 10. v. 5. whereby to bring each thought in obedience but rather like the Athenians they mock at what they understand not Acts 17.18 Take heed therefore both you that sell Scripture Letter for money and you Hearers which think you buy it for thus Simon the Sorcerer thought with his money to purchase the Gift of God but his deceit deceived himself and he went without it Acts 8.20 And do not think that speaking hearing and reading the Scriptures sufficeth to make you wise unto Salvation 2 Tim 3.15 but consider how it must be by faith in Christ Jesus So except Christ in Spirit be within to work Faith and Obedience the seeing hearing or reading