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A35847 To all the faithfull in Christ who have stood in his council the light, to be led in the foot-steps of the flock of the companions, and to all that professe the light of Christ to be their guide ... Dewsbury, William, 1621-1688. 1663 (1663) Wing D1277; ESTC R16564 6,516 8

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To all the Faithfull in CHRIST Who have stood in his Council the Light to be led in the foot-steps of the Flock of the Companions and to all that professe the Light of Christ to be their Guide To you I write these following Lines to be seriously weighed in the weighty and ponderous Spirit wherein you may discern a Discovery of a false Birth in some that came forth with us as to own the Light in their Judgements and goe forth from us in rejecting the stroake of the pure judgements of God through the working of the mystery of iniquity and so become as the untimely Birth that doth not see the Sun in his glory nor the beauty of Sion who hath passed through death unto life in her comely unity in the Spirit and bond of peace He that can receive it let him now in the coole of the day when Council may be hearkened unto and rightly understood in the truth as it is in Jesus Printed in the year 1663. DEar friends Called and chosen of God in the eternal light and power of the most high who have been and are his living witnesses from the beginning of the dawning of his powerfull and glorious day of his dreadfull appearance which hath caused the earth to shake and the Keepers of the house do tremble in this day of your visitation from on high And all you that in true watchfulness wait on the Lord in the measure of his life you are sensible of what he did hath done and doth in the ordering of his dear and tender children as in the subjection both of the inward and outward man in every exercise of the Spirit as in exhortation prayer or praises which the most high God hath and doth accompany with his blessed presence in which he hath made all that hath kept their habitations in the powerfull life of the first Love to stand as Saviours upon Mount Sion to gather the scattered of Israel and to bring again the dispersed of Jacob And this is the work of all that are truly sent of the Lord to labour in his Vineyard who seeks not their own things neither sets up nor serves themselves with what the Lord hath given unto them but alone seeks the glory of God and serveth him with uprightnesse of heart in the exercise of all gifts and riches of his grace with which he hath cloathed them to the perfecting of his praise and glory and the comfort of his heritage for ever therefore do they shine as the Stars in the firmament of heaven in turning many souls to righteousness in which they enter into the heavenly habitation of the most high God where it is known the Lord to be one and his name one there alone stands the union of all the flock of the Companions who have been truly baptized and buried with Christ in his death where we could not cover our naked souls with a Fig-leaf garment of our own works or with any self-created gesture or posture of the outward man but in true obedience to the light waiting in the sence of our misery crying out of the great Deep to the God of mercy who in his appointed time in his tender compassions he casts the skirts of his garment over us and said unto us live In which life we in eternall unity bear our testimony to all the world in the the light of his Covenant sitting and feeding together at his Table cloathed with the wedding Garment where there never was nor ever shall be any re●t but eternal harmonious joyful unity in the everlasting felicity where every Child of this inheritance as moved of the Lord casts in their Mite in the returns of his spirit off ring up the sacrifice of high praises to the most high God over all blessed for ever Dear and tender friends This ariseth in my heart to exhort all that are convinced of the truth that every one with diligent watchfulness search your own hearts with the light and in it know your own estates and seriously know your own conditions and that you may certainly understand what spirits you are on and to have the seal of the spirit of God demonstrating to you in full assurance that you walk with him in true self-deniall according to your measures in uprightnesse of heart with all the flock of the Companions as before written then will the Lord give you a sound and perfect judgement to weigh and try all spirits and cast the breath from whence the words proceed and not to lay your hands hastily upon any what ever they pretend but in that which tries and weighs your own spirit in coolnesse and singlenesse of heart try and tast what spirits they are on that comes amongst you in this day wherein many comes forth with us as to the owning of the truth in their judgements and regulates the outward man in some outward gestures like to the children of the truth and some have felt the stroak of the judgement of the Lord which hath caused them to forsake some things which formerly they delighted in and in some measure of zeale have born a testimony to the light enduring both stripes and imprisonment both in this Nation and some beyond the Seas while they stood in the fear of the Lord who for his names sake hath delivered them from the winter stormes that they suffered under but they for want of watchfulnesse the Mystery of Iniquity hath wrought and drawn them from the light into the pride of their hearts to deck themselves with the jewels and gifts of the spirit God gave unto them whom they were humble before him but they departing from the redeeming judgement of God the Beast gets the deadly wound heal'd again and instead of giving glory to God for their deliverance they in this time of some measure of rest take their flight on the Sabbath day upon the Mountains of their high imaginations and sacrafices upon the high places and doth not regard to make their peace with Christ in them their Elder Brother and so to bring their gift to the Altar in the humble meek spirit which gathers into unity and answereth to the witnesse in every Conscience but though they pretend zeale and obedience to God in what they doe they being gone from the light they neither regard the glory of God nor the good of his people for all that they now doe is wrought in a self serving spirit where they enter into the mysterious working of the deceit of their hearts to set up and cover themselves with a voluntary humility and feigned love gathering all the eloquent and inticing words of mans wisedome with which they make a flourish in a discoursative spirit speaking high words of that they never did know to get entrance upon the affection of the tender-harted ones that are afraid to judge any but themselves with others that look more at high words then to feel from whence they come or to know the end for what