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A30549
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To the beloved and chosen of God in the seed elected particularly in London and elsewhere, who have seen the day of Christ, and received the message of peace and reconciliation in these last dayes of his glorious appearance.
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Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.
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1660
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Wing B6036; ESTC R13767
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TO THE BELOVED AND CHOSEN of GOD IN THE Seed Elected Particularly in LONDON And elsewhere Who have seen the day of Christ and received the Message of Peace and Reconciliation in these last days of his Glorious appearance THe dear Salutation of my life salutes you all in the most pure and dearest love with which I am beloved of the Father and with which also at this present my heart is filled and issueth forth towards you and the whole body of elected ones and the remembrance of you in the Lord is very precious unto me as I see and behold you and hath fellowship with you in the Immortal life which the Father hath begotten in you and in me and in which my knowledge is of you and my unity with you and therein onely is the remembrance of my dearest love unto you and in which I hope I am also known and remembred of you even in the spiritual relation and heirship of Immortality being fellow Citizens of the heavenly Ierusalem and children of her conception and bringing forth Now my dearest friends seeing you have believed in the light life of men even in him that was and is and is to come and have also tasted of that all fulness that is in him you have a witness in your selves even of the Spirit of the Father which is greater then all and you need no other testimony but that of the Spirit That the Lord is good and full of Grace Truth Mercy Peace and Joy even the full Fountain and Treasure of all vertue and blessednesse in this present time and hereafter I say if you have tasted and felt of Immortal life and if the fountain hath been opened in you and you have seen his glory and received of his treasure then the evidence dwells in you of eternal blessedness and no man needs to teach you of these things nor to say unto you know the Lord if you dwell in him and go no more forth yet bear with me a little that I may speak and be refreshed not to deminish from what testimony you have in you but the rather to add towards it for my witnesse is not another but the same which ye enjoy which is faithful and true And this I say Oh how great how mighty and powerful is the Lord our God everlasting and infinite He is that eternal spirit that filleth all the Creator and being of all things that are the life and virtue in all and the invisible substance greater then all he is in himself the immesurable and infinite fulnesse the Fountain of Life of Mercy and Righteousnesse and Peace and of all virtue and of every good thing who can declare his beginning or end he is without time place or thing yet gives being to all and is present in all yet not known saving of himself and by his own spirit yet he effecteth all things and worketh whatsoever he will Who can utter his wonderous Works Who can number his Mercies Who can account his infinitenesse Who can behold his Invisibility Who can reach his endlesse being He filleth Heaven and Earth and of his fulnesse every Creature in Heaven and Earth receiveth and by him doth subsist though it is onely given unto mankinde to behold and perceive of him it is onely his gift unto his Saints that fear him to understand of his ways and in us he hath opened of his fulnesse and treasure even in our hearts and the divine mistery of this infinite God is revealed and discovered in the hearts of the sons of men whom he hath chosen and he hath given us to enjoy and possesse in us a measure of that fulness that is in himself even a measure of the same love and life of the same mercy and power and of the same divine nature and a measure of the same heavenly quality and property which is in him in all fulnesse dwelleth in us his Saints by measure even in all that are born of him in whom the immortal birth is brought forth which is of his own nature and is Immortal Spiritual Holy Meek Merciful even as the Father for the quality of him that hath begotten is in us that are begotten of him we bear his image and are of the Father partakers of his substance Immortal and Infinite and are one with him in nature and fellowship and perfect through him that dwells in us and hath changed us into his likenesse these things ye know if ye be born from above and if the immortal birth live in you and ye be constant in the faith then are ye heirs through it of the everlasting inheritance of eternal life and already have received the earnest and assurance thereof and all are yours because you are Christs and he is Gods and you have the Father and the Son And this life and immortality is brought forth in us and infinitenesse it self dwells with us and eternity possesseth us and fulnesse it self is shed abroad in our hearts and we have the treasure of Life of Wisdome of Knowledge and of Divine fulnesse in our Tabernacles of clay which also are sanctified by his Word and Power to be fit habitations for the Eternal God to dwell in And oh what love is this with which we are beloved by him Oh what mercy is this of which we partake from him Who are become the Sons of God and Children of the most high in whose earthen vessels dwells Immortality and Life and infinite Substance being gathered into his shepheards fold of defence where we have immortal food and are established on the Holy Mountain where nothing can destroy and are at rest and peace under the shadow of the Rock of Ages that hell nor death nor wrath of man can terrifie Oh what eye hath seen this what ear hath heard it and what heart hath perceived it and not admired the loving kindnesse of the Lord who among you are witnesses of this that sayes not great and Infinite is the Lord and Immeasurable in Mercy and Truth and Righteousnesse Oh Friends if ye know these things and if ye receive daily of this fulnesse and if the measure of that immortal life be risen in you and hath raised up you with its self into its own fulnesse which once was descended out of its own fulnesse of Eternal Rest and strength and was manifest in its measure in poverty and weaknesse in your hearts in the feeling of afflictions and wrath because of sin but it descended to suffer all and to bear transgression that you might be raised with it into its life and glory and fulnesse and if this be finished and effected in you Oh then how shall you not live to his glory and praise in your Generation and in love and peace and unity with himself and one with another and magnifie him in Soul and Spirit that hath called you and chosen you and now works all your works in you and for you and you live by him because he lives in you