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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27398	A tender and unfeigned salutation of love and good-will to professors, or, A tender invitation and call unto all people in whose hearts there hath been, and still is, some true desiring and breathing after the Lord God ... from one whose tender soul (in spirit) doth travel for the prosperity of Sion ... / a friend to all people, William Bennit.	Bennit, William, d. 1684.	1664 (1664)	Wing B1894; ESTC R5155	19,011	34

is manifest in them and Paul says That the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal and the free Grace of God saith he Mark that bringeth Salvation hath appeared to all men teaching us that we denying ungodliness and worldly lusts should live soberly righteously and godly in this present world And the Saints they witnessed their reconciliation and were born again they felt and knew that in themselves of which they were born again even Christ in them the Seed incorruptible 1 Pet. 1. 23 24 25. the Word of God which lives and abides for ever by which they were begotten again unto God and quickened by the Word of life even they who were once as dead stones were raised up as living Children unto Abraham and so they came to taste that the Lord was good and gracious to taste and handle of the Word of Life and to 1 Cor. 12. 13. feed upon the Bread of Life and to drink of the Cup of Blessing and so by one Spirit were baptised into one body and were made to drink into one Spirit wherein they worshipped and served the Lord God and had Unity with the Lord in and through the Eternal Spirit and Unity one with another which united their Souls unto each other and unto the Lord God over all blessed for ever Ah dear people you in whose hearts there is true desires and secret thirstings after the living God where-ever ye are scattered among the many Sects and people towards you doth my soul doth my tender soul yearn and stream with love and good-will and for your sakes dear people doth my Soul travel in the womb of Supplication that you might come to enjoy that which you are seeking after and come to possess that you are thirsting for and for your sakes mostly is this written in tender bowells of unfeigned love and pitty to your souls And dear people you that have true desires in you after the Lord and hath been seeking of him where you cannot find him and hath been running from Mountain to Hill and from Hill to Mountain from one broken Cistern to another from one dead Form to another but still are unsatisfied and are sensible that you still notwithstanding your long profession and confession of God and Christ in words and notwithstanding your practicing somethings that you read of which the Saints once performed in obedience of the Spirit of Truth which led them thereunto want the feeling enjoyment of the Love and sweet Peace of God and go groaning daily under the burden of the bondage of sin and corruption and desires to be set free therefrom Oh dear people retire retire with your minds inward you who hath been seeking a God a far off and hunting after the Lord without retire to within and wait to know the Lord God near you to know his pure Truth in your inward parts his pure Spirit in you to lead and guide you teach and instruct you for God is a Spirit and his teachings are spiritual he must be known in Spirit worshipped in Spirit Joh. 4. 21 22 23 24. and in Truth not at the Mountain neither at Jerusalem not in this set Form nor the other Form As lo here and lo there but in the Spirit is the Lord God known and worshipped aright by them who are born of the Spirit And so the Spiritualized people who are born of the Spirit and lives in the Spirit and are taught and led by the Spirit of Truth these are the peculiar people who Worship the God of Truth who is a Spirit in the Spirit and in the Truth and these are acceptable Worshippers with the Lord who own no Worship but his own which he teacheth his people by his Spirit and they that is ignorant of the Spirit of God they are ignorant of the true Worship of God which is in the Spirit and although such may seem to Worship God yet their Worship is not of God nor accepted with God It is the purified Sons of Levy who hath passed through the fire that are purged even as gold is purged and tryed Mal. 3. 1 2 3 4. and as silver is tryed by him the Light of Israel who is as a Refiners Fire and like Fullers Sope that can offer unto God an Offering in Righteousness and their offerings is pleasant unto the Lord but the polluted Sacrifices the halt the blind and Isa 10 17. the lame is abomination unto the pure God of purity who is Blessed Blessed for evermore And dear People who have desires in your after the Lord towards you doth my bowels yearn whereever you are scattered among the many Sects and heaps this is a tender invitation unto you that hath been spending your money for that which is not bread and your labour for that which hath not yet satisfied your Souls but still you are a thirsty for want of drink and an hungry for want of food Oh dear people retire inward retire inward hunt no longer abroad run no longer from one broken Cistern to another wait no longer at the Wells that men have digged draw no longer at them for still you thirst again But oh retire to within turn your minds inward and wait to find and feel that in you which you so carefully with sorrow hath been seeking without you even to know Jacobs Well in you which hath been dammed up with Earth by the uncircumcised whilest you have been hunting abroad therefore turn your minds inward to feel the gift that Christ gives the Water that he gives saith Christ to the Woman of Samaria The water which I will give thee shall Mark be in the John 4. 14. a Well of water springing up unto Eternal life So the Water that Christ gives it 's within therefore turn inward to his pure Gift in your own Hearts to his pure Light in your own Consciences for that comes from him and leads unto him them that doth it love follow and obey the Fountain of living Water who satisfy the thirst of the thirsty and feedeth the hungry with good things Therefore retire inward in your minds and come unto him and learn of him who is meek and low in the heart to wit Christ in you except ye be Ma● 11. 28. 29 30. Isa 55. 2 3. Reprobates hearken diligently unto him and eat ye that which is good no longer feed upon the husks and let your souls delight themselves in fatness come unto him encline your ear hear and your Soul shall live and enter into Covenant with him who will be your God and you shall be his people And so dear people it is not enough for any to have a profession and a talk of God and Christ in words without the enjoyment and possession of him It is not enough to confess and believe that Christ died at Jerusalem for sinners and he hath done all for you c. for the drunkard and the swearer will say as much as this

Salvation which he is making bare before the Isa 52. 10. eyes of the Captives that they may see him and come unto him who is Mighty upon whom help is laid to deliver them and to save to the utmost them that come unto him this as I said is the hand of Gods loving kindness which in mercy is stretched forth towards you who cannot be satisfied with the husks shells and shadows but thirst and desire after him the Substance the living Bread which the living Soul feeds upon and lives and grows up thereby into Eternal life Ah dear People this is the Salvation of God whom I declare of and Salvation is not to be had in another besides him who is the Immortal word Luke 2. 29 30. of Eternal life which abides for ever which was in the beginning before the visibles were by whom all things were made whither visible or invisible Joh. 1. 1. an● so to the 9. 1● and without him was nothing made that was made and in him the Word was life and this life is the light of men and he is the true Light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world and was in the world and the world knew him not He came unto his own and his own received him not but unto them that received him he gave power to become the Sons of God Who had a body prepared him in which he suffered the Will of him that sent him who was born of the Virgin Mary whom King Herod sought to destroy who was Circumcised the eighth day and likewise baptised by John the Baptist who likewise eat the Passeover with his Disciples for he came to fulfil all Righteousness who was betrayed by Judas who was judged to die by Pontius Pilate who was Crucified without the Gates of Jerusalem who was laid in a Sepulcher who rose again the third day according to the Scriptures who ascended up into Heaven and sitteth at the Right hand of God who is glorified with the same Glory that he had with the Father before the world began who came again unto his Disciples according to his promise who said unto them I will not leave you comfortless I will come to you I will send you a Comforter that shall Joh. 14. 16 18 26. abide with you for ever even the Spirit of Truth I am the Truth saith Christ whom the world cannot receive because it seeth him not neither knoweth him but you know him for he dwelleth with you and shall be Mark in you yet a little while and the world sees me no more Mark this you who are so much gazing and looking for his coming without but still fail of their expectation that you know not his coming within you to be a Comforter But you see me and because I live you shall live also saith Christ to his Disciples and in that day you shall know that I am in the Father and you in me and I Mark in you and he the Spirit of Truth shall lead you into all Truth and shall teach you all things and shall shew you all things to come and bring all things to your remembrance that I have said unto you and shall reprove the world of Sin of Righteousness and of Judgement And his Disciples according to his Luke 24. 29. Acts 2. 4. command waited at Jerusalem until they were indued with power from on high and had received the promise of the Holy Ghost the Spirit of Truth which caused them to speak the wonderful things of God as the Eternal Spirit of Truth gave them utterance and then they were come to witness his Word fulfilled when he said He dwelleth with you and shall be in you and this is the immortal Word which was in the beginning which Paul who witnessed Christ the Son of God revealed in him and was by him the Gal. 1. 15 16. Eternal Spirit made an able Minister of him Preached to wit Christ within who said None should need to ascend that is to bring Christ down Rom. 10. 6 7 8 from above or to descend that is to bring Christ from beneath c. but the word to wit Christ is nie thee in the heart and in the mouth to be obeyed and done and this is the Word of Faith that Paul preached nigh in the heart Even Christ in them the living hope that was as an Ancor to their Souls sure and stedfast the hope of Glory And Paul exhorted the Corinthians to examine 2 Cor. 13. 5. themselves and to prove themselves whether they were in the Faith whether they knew not Christ to be in them except they were Reprobates And John in his writing to the Saints reminds them of that within which they had heard from the beginning and says to them Let that remain in you to wit The word which was in the beginning which you have heard from the beginning and if it shall remain in you ye shall continue in the Son and in the Father and tells them That they should not need that any man should teach them but as the anoynting which they had received of God abiding in them should teach them which was the Truth to wit Christ the Truth in them the anoynted the anoynting And as he had and did teach them so they were to abide in him so they knew Christ in them The Saints came to witness the Power of God within the Truth within the Word nigh in their hearts the Spirit of God in their inward parts by which they were led and guided taught and instructed For so many as are the Sons of God saith Paul are led by the Spirit of God and he that hath not the Spirit of Christ is none of his and this gave them an understanding in the things of God even the Spirit of God For no man knows the things of God saith Paul 1 Cor. 2. 10 11 12. but by the Spirit of God through which he was made an able Minister of the New Testament not of the Letter but of the Spirit which giveth life And he Preached the everlasting Gospel Christ the Power of God the Word nigh in the heart and said If our Gospel be hid it is hid from them that are lost in whom Mark in whom the god of the world the Prince of the power of the Air that wicked spirit that worketh in the hearts of the children of disobedience hath blinded their minds lest the light of the glorious Gospel Christ Jesus should shine in and unto them But God who commandeth light to shine out of darkness hath shined Mark in our hearts to give us the knowledge of the Glory of God in the face of Jesus and we have this treasure in the Earthen vessel that the glory may be of God and not of us so the Saints Preached up Christ the Word of Life the Light the Truth within and said That which Rom. 1. 19. 1 Cor. 12. 7. Tit. 2. 1● is to be known of God

and make a confession of Christ in words as many professors do who say They are justified by Christ and he hath done all for them and yet they are still in their sins in the pride covetousness vanity pomp and vain glory of the world in it's vain customs inventions and traditions seeking and loving it's honour and respect seeking and loving the praise of men more than the praise of God But dear people it is not enough to confess Christ without and say you believe in him c. except you come to know him made manifest in you to destroy the works of the Devil for your professing and confessing of Christ dying at Jerusalem c. doth not cleanse your Hearts nor sanctifie your Souls nor purge your Consciences from dead works to serve the living God in newness of life but still you see you are Bond-slaves unto sin and corruption and led captive with the lusts and desires of your own hearts and it will be so dear people until you turn your minds inward to the pure light of Christ in you that doth discover the sin and corruption of your own hearts and as you come to believe in that to love and follow that you will come to feel and find the working out of the old leaven of sin iniquity and corruption and working you into its nature and so come to see and feel and witness not only a talk of it your Regeneration wrought by Christ in you the Immortal Word to be born again of it the Seed incorruptible which must be known within to bruise the Serpents head the god of the world the wicked spirit that leads man into sin which hath been exalted in the heart of man and hath been Lord Head and King there and the holy Seed the pure life that hath suffered that hath been oppressed even as a Cart is oppressed with sheaves that hath been pierced wounded and crucified the Just hath suffered for the Unjust he hath long been a man of sorrows and largely acquainted with grief he hath been smitten and thou have esteemed him not but oh he hath been wounded for and by thy transgressions and bruised by and for thy iniquities he hath born thy iniquity whilst thou like a sheep hath gone astray and followed thy own way But oh now return unto the good Shepheard who lay down his life for his Sheep and gathereth the scattered into the fold of Rest where he feeds them and causeth them to lie down in the fresh Pastures of life where none can make them afraid and feed and sup with him who is their daily Bread their Life their Rest their Joy and Delight So dear people whose desires are after the Lord but are seeking for Salvation and after a God afar of I beseech you to return inward because I fervently desire that your Souls might come to taste of the love and sweet peace of my God which is that which would satisfie your Souls and to take heed to that in your hearts which as light shineth in a dark place discovering unto you the deeds of darkness and the works of the night to be evil and fear not that that will deceive ye for it is the sure word of Prophecy unto which you do 2 Pet. 1. 19. well to take heed until the day dawn in your hearts and light shine out of darkness and wholly extinguish the night and give no heed to them who speak evil of the way of the Lord and counts Truth to be error and Light darkness even as the prosessing Jews they boasted of Moses and of the Law and of the Prophets but when he whom Moses and the Prophets prophesied of whom the Law did figure out who fulfills the Law who was the life of Moses and the Prophets came unto them they hated him and said We know that God spake by Moses but as for Mat. 9. 29. ● 8. 4 8 the 24. 11. ch 19. this fellow we know not whence he is he is said they a Gluttoner a Wine-bibber a friend to Publicans and Sinners he through Beelzebub the Prince of Devils doth cast out Devils c. And truly I may say not out of a prejudice mind of Enmity towards any for my Soul bears love and good-will towards all men that it is as it were the same now with many of the Professors in this age who as the Jews made a large boast and profession of Moses the Law and the Prophets and hated him the life of them doth make a large boast of Christ in words and of his dying at Jerusalem which I believe he did according as the Scripture testifie and that he hath done all for them and if they can but believe it that is enough c. And yet whilest they are thus professing him in words behold many of them are enemies to his Life and so enemies to him whom they boast of who is the Word that was in the beginning in whom was life and his life is the light of men The true light saith John that lighteth John 1. 9. every man that cometh into the world which the Professors saith is a natural light that which convinceth wicked men of sin in their own hearts and judg them for evil doing it is a natural light say the Professors and so call the life of the Word which is the light of men natural it 's a natural conscience say some it 's an insufficient light it 's a common grace c. so common it is indeed that as Paul says it hath appeared unto Titus 2. 11 all men even that grace that bring Salvation nay some blasphemously will presume to say it 's a spirit of delusion a spirit of errour and these are under the wo vvho 5. 20. 36. call the Truth error and the Light darkness and the Good evil and these one day shall know their blasphemy and their words shall become their burden and these are in great darkness and ignorance indeed thick darkness fills their habitation even the darkness of Egypt that may be felt and it is hard indeed for such to be brought into the pure light and unchangable Truth of God although with the Lord God Almighty nothing is impossible and these like the Scribes and Pharisees who although they professed God in words and said they had one Father even God sought to shut up the Kingdom of Heaven from men and would ● 23. 13. neither enter in themselves nor suffer them that would and so these while they profess Christ in words they speak evil of his Light and Truth and will neither own it themselves nor suffer as much as in them lie them that would but cryes out take heed beware of the light the Quakers prate of it is darkness say they it will deceive you and delude you and lead you into Error c. But let all people know that the light which the people of God called Quakers speak of and in bowels of love direct peoples