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A27894 A few words in true love written to the old long sitting Parliament who are yet left alive, and do sit there now in the Parliament House at Westminster Bache, Humphrey. 1659 (1659) Wing B253; ESTC R2665 10,183 12

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was not yours yet in consenting with them in it which did till you declare to the Nation whom you wronged therein your disprovement of their so doing the sin will lye at your doore and be charged upon you when God appeares with his terrible out-stretched arm of judgement to give unto each of you according to the deeds done in the body whether good or evill which hastens a pace therefore read through your selves with the Light which I have written that you may be converted and healed that your sins may be blotted out confessing and forsaking of them and a time to you of refreshment may come from the presence of the Lord which would be more sweet to you to feel and enjoy then now you can be sensible of And now I could even freely unbosome my heart to you further how the Lords presence hath gone along with me since even to this present time That you might see that the same g●ace of God which hath appeared unto all men and Checks for sin is sufficient to save from sin as I being brought by the power of it waiting in it to deny self in that particular have Experienced For I being turned to it it wrought in me an awe and dread of God least at any time I should offend with my tongue or do any evill action and so thereby came under Gods displeasure so reading some books of those peoples putting forth who are called Quakers I could not find any thing in them contrary to truth so speaking with one that had heard those people he asked me what I thought of them for his part he said he did beleive that what they declared would stand when all else would fall and he asked me if I believed that thee and thou to one perticular Person was truth I said yea said he then if I did not come into obedience to what I was convinced of to be Truth I must come under condemnation I said it was truth So then knowing a stay to my minde the Light it became a bridle to my tongue and preserved me in the word Thou in heart and tongue single to the Lord and redeemed me out of the Worlds words into Truths Word which is was from the beginning Thou to one perticular person Then loving the Light bringing my deeds to it to prove them whether they were wrought in God or not I saw that I was in respect of Persons Which whosoever doth respect persons commits sin in that foolish thing putting off the hat to some and not to others according to a vain custome of the World which is evill in the sight of God So then the same Grace taking heed to the Light which is the Grace I knew the crosse to my carnall minde to give me dominion over that evill and to redeem me out of that likewise and this was the day of small things with me which none is to d●spise for it was pretious then a strong Enemy appeared which warred in my members to bring forth fruit unto Death and had been of long continuance in me which vvhilst I looked to the Light I had power over but when a Temptation to it appeared I looking to the Temptation that which my carnall minde led me into leaving the Light which should have preserved me single in the sight of God in the crosse to my carnall minde there I fell into Temptation and then the swift Witnesse of God in me pursued me with Judgements and the Lords anger was kindled against me so that I became again a terrour to my self and seeing what I had done I said in my heart in zeal for the Lord whom I had greatly displeased Yea I said cursed be that hand that lifteth it self up against the Reign of Christ in my soul for loving the Light though it did condemne me knowing that in it was my life it discovered to me wherein my heart was adulterated from the pure God and Woe there was my portion and the curse came on both my hands with which I had been in Rebellion th●ough disobedience as again●t the pure God of my life but waiting in the Light I was born up in Patience to wait in the Light to receive power to st●nd in the hour of Temptation against the Fiery Darts of the Adversary then further I saw into several things in my calling in the outward that I was not a servant to the Lord Ch●ist in who had enlightned me with h●s true light and that improvision of Rings and toyes to sell to proud and vain people I was a servant to the Divel in the hearts of proud and vain people that came to my shop to buy such things which by the power of the same grace of God that discovered them to be evil and my service evil there in selling them I say by the sam-power I am ransomed and redeemed out of ●h●● service and this I have been made free in to relate to you that you may come to own Christ Jesus the Light of the World through h●s Grace which hath appeared to all men to be taught to deny ungodliness whereby each of you might come to witness in truth redemption out of a vain conversation having escaped the corruptions that are in the World through the knowledge of him whom to know is life eternal Ah friends when you went out from the truth which would have made you and the Nation free from guilt and condemnation and preserved you free had you stood in it so that you might have felt the blessing and presence of God with you and so to have been a blessing and good savour to the Nation whereas now the ill savour that went from you spread over the whole Nation and many poor Soldiers I heard sold their Debentures for six pence in the pound some for one shilling some for two shillings in the pound and some with that money by the report doubling of the Debentures purch●sed Kings Lands for what the wood was worth upon the ground and this surely should have been seen too better by you when this poor Nation groaned under such a weighty bu●then and poor souldiers defrauded of their right for the eyes of sober people looks upon these things I mention it to provoke you to a deep sense of it that your hearts might be broken and you might consider for then when I heard it I remember it was a great grief of heart to me and as you may truely tast them words true to you that sin is a reproach to any people so that now longing desires might spring up in you to tast the other words true to you that righteousnesse exalteth a Nation by the Righteous working of Gods grace and power in you making you willing to deny self and to stand in the dayly Crosse to your carnall minds that iniquity may be rooted out of you by it and you through it be guided into equity whereby Gods presence you may come to feel in the blessing of Peace to your own particulars and may become a refreshment and blessing to the Nation which is the desire of him who in true love flowing towards you had it in his heart to write these lines unto you Humphery Bache Tower street London 13. d. 3d. month 1659. London Printed for M. W. 1659.
spots and defilements and once it was in my heart to have informed the Commissioners with what I had done inacting unfaithfully and to cast my self at their feet to deal with me as they would Another time it was in my heart that it was suitable to my unfaithfulness to get the Pillory set before the Exchange and there stand voluntarily with the Money that I had taken unjusty that I might there have stood an example to be a warning to others never to do the like wickedness another time it appeared good to me to have passed to the Custome House at the 12th houre when many people would be there and then declare to them there the evill of my doings and there to return the Money I had badly received that they all there might take Example my me But after a long season I was wearied with my wickedness and through judgements was broken off from receiving moneys any longer when any one offered it unto me for the space of about a yeer before I left that Imployment About the same time there came to London some young Men out of the North which were called Quakers one of my acquaintance askt me if I had heard them I said I had heared them once yea but said he hear them five or six times and then judge whether it be not truth that they declare I said to him it is like I should or to that effect So I passed to one meeting or two but I had not received any thing that reached my h art but going to another meeting at the Place called the Bull and Mouth in Martius London There were three of the Servants of the Lord Ministers of the Everlasting Gospell George Fox Francis Howgill and Edward Burrowghs and one of them was speaking of the Crosse of Christ which whosoever will be Christs Disciple must deny himself and take up daily Said one of them that vvhich crosseth the Carnall minde is the Crosse of Christ the Carnall minde said he is Enmity against God as any one comes to stand in the Crosse which crosseth the Carnall minde which is the Povver of God the partition Wall of Enmity comes to be broken down and reconsiliation witnessed the Enmity being slain by the power of God which is said he that spake that which crosseth the carnall minde which the Light Now I hearing these wo●ds spoken the Witnesse of God in my heart answered that this was true for thought I in my self the light which discovers sin and checks for it checks for that which the Carnall minde would run into now as the reproof of Wisdome there is hearkned to and turned at vvhich is the Light which vvord is a light to the feet of the soull as it is taken heed to to guide out of the paths of Death and Condemnation which the Carnall minde would go out from God which is light into to do the deeds of Darkness I knew as the light which is the Crosse to the carnal minde is taken heed to and stood in the Death must needs come upon the carnall minde and the sin cease to be committed and so the partition wall of Enmity would be broken down by the Crosse to the carnall minde so then an entrance into Gods Kingdom was ministred to me and plainly discovered before me and my eye vvas opened to see the working of the Mistery of Iniquity in me My heart being in Measure turned to the Lord desires vvere raised up in me to vvait upon the Lord in the light vvhich I knew then had often convinced me of sin that I might feel the power God breaking down the Partition wall of Enmity in my ovvn particular vvhich through sin and transgression I saw was standing in me So the first great sin mine Enlightened Eye fixed upon was unfaithfulness to my Trust And my trouble began afresh in remembrance of that and Gods Witnesse arose in me to testifie aginst me that the partition Wall of Enmity was not broken down in me in the sin of unfaithfulness to my Trust and that I vvas not cleer in his sight in that particular Though the Judgements and Terrour of the Lord had rooted out and driven me from the Practise of such vvickedness yet somewhat did still remain to be removed in that particular and it vvas made plain to me vvaiting in the light that it vvould be good in the sight of God To deny my self and to give up to the death of the Crosse the ground of the Partition vvall of Enmity vvhich vvas Covetousness in me and to give in freely vvhat I had unjustly received to the Commissioners of the Excise in Broadstreet under vvhom I had been imployed at the Custome-house that it might be given out by them with the rest of monies that vvas there received for the service of the Common-Wealth vvhose it vvas and not mine so having much trouble upon me being loath to part vvith so much vvhich truly then vvas neere if not full half I had in the Outvvard having a vvife and five children to provide for and not freedome to keep my Imployment any longer being convinced it vvas oppression the Excise then an no necessity of it And that I ought not be a servant to any in oppression So the tryall of my faithfulnesse to stand in the Crosse to my carnall minde and deny self in this thing vvas great and much trouble I vvas under for some time through my unvvillingness to give up self to be slain on the Crosse to my carnall minde and then a servant of the Lord George Fox coming to my house I told him in part how it was with me and he said to me he that confesseth and forsaketh his sin shall finde mercy and I saw his heart was lifted up to the Lord in prayer for me which was heard and my groaning was not hid from him so the Lord reached down hi● right arm of Power and touched my heart with his grace and long suffering and made me willing to submit to his will deny my self and give up to the Commissioners for Excise the sum of money I received unjustly vvhich vvas made plain to me waiting in the light to be neer one hundred and fifty pound but it lay on my heart to restore more rather then lesse and so I was made free by the power of the Lord and did give back at the Excise Office London one hundred and sixty pound So then I felt the Truth of the words George Fox spake to me he that confesseth and forsaketh his sin shall finde mercy For much ease peace and ref eshment I received into my soul from the Lord in my obedience to the power of his Grace in the cross to my will in that thing Giving praises to his pure holy Name for evermore Now knowing the terrours of the Lord for unfaithfulness to my Trust which let that of God in your consciences answer if you many or all of you are not guilty if not in giving and taking that which