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A few lines in true love to such that frequent the meetings of the people called Quakers and love to hear the sound of truth but are not yet come to obey the testimony of it, that they may also hear and learn to read at home : with a second addition as a confirmation of what the Lord requires at your hands.
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Fisher, A. (Abigail)
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1694
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Wing F984C; ESTC R32818
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which there is a Separation in all Mankind from God and from the comfortable Enjoyment of his pure Divine Presence in which there is Life administred to the Soul Take you special Notice of the daily Call and Invitation of the Spirit of God that is wonderfully extended to you and doubtless in you for that very Reason that you may all be gathered near to the Lord to whom with many more that are sensible of his Love and do daily demonstrate the same by their faithful Service to and amongst you with whom according to that measure of the Grace and Spirit of God received I do find my Spirit drawn forth with and in the uniting property of it thus to demonstrate that my true Desires with theirs are for all Israel that they may be Saved in the Day of the Lord which is approaching and it is nothing less my Friends than the Love of God that hath inlarged my Heart to you knowing that you will find it no less than Meat and Drink as you come to do the Will of God whose Will is Mans Sanctification Wherefore it behoves all Men to seek the Lord and make their Peace with him that therein they may be preserved when the Lord shall suffer Trouble to come upon the Wicked and Rebellious for resisting the Spiritual appearance of Christ Jesus in their Hearts to whom I pray we may all be gathered in him settled and on him established who is the Rock of Ages and sure Foundation of all the Righteous Generations from Abel to this very day and blessed be the Lord there are some in our day through a measure of true Experience can give this Testimony that there is no other place of safety But as our hiding place is in the Lord in all Storms and Tempests of what kind soever and not only so but that we may also see the many dangers that Man is liable to in times of Fair Weather And therefore Dear Friends let me tell you for you Incouragement it is a blessed Benefit and will be to all as they retire in Humility and in the Love of God dwell which is a place of Safety where you may daily drink of the Streams of that never-failing Fountain which can never be drawn dry but doth and will run to refresh the Inhabitants of the Rock that being refreshed we may all be still enabled to walk in the way of Righteousness which brings Peace and gives an Assurance of the Love of God for ever in which Love you will feel his Power to be as a strong Tower from the Assaults of the Enemy Into which Love let every one haste to be gathered and then it will not only Edify but build up all the Lords People to be as a strong House to retain his Glory in which hath and shall shine through all Blackness and Darkness till the Light thereof go forth as as a Lamp that Burneth which being fed with Oyl never goeth out with which Oyl I pray all our Lamps may be furnished our Lights burning that the Glory of our God may still be shining in and over all the Assemblies of his People hear and every where For it is the possession of it must weigh down all the profession in the World without it And therefore Friends to God who is the giver of every good and perfect gift let me recommend you to ask in Faith of him that you may all receive from him that thereby we may all be filled as with the new Wine of the Kingdom with which the Lord is filling the new Bottles that are prepared to receive from his Bountiful Hand by which he hath and will communicate from Vessel to Vessel till all be filled and every thirsty Soul replenished by the virtuous incomes of it through which they must acknowledge it is the Lords doings and it is and will be marvelous in the Eyes of all who are the Beholders of it with that invisible Eye that God hath opened to behold his Glory far surpassing all the glory of this fading World Therefore dear Friends be not satisfied with Hearing but come now and behold him who is near you and will tell you all that ever you have done is not this the Christ the Messiah or Son of the Living God or Saviour of Mankind yes verily this is he believe in him fall down and worship him who will be worshipped in Spirit and in Truth And all other Worships will be as vain Oblations before him And therefore all seek the Lord retire to your Closets and wait upon him and in your Spirits wherever you are gather to him who is always near you even in you and always present with you which is a great priviledge you will find it so as you come to be acquainted with him as it is left upon Record Acquaint thy self with the Lord and be at Peace into which Peace I pray the Lord to gather and preserve all his Faithful Children together that as so many shocks of Corn we may all be ready to be bundled up and gathered into the Lords Gardner who hath said he will burn up the Chaff with unquenchable Fire Written in true Love by your Friend and Sister who desires your Prosperity in the blessed Truth A. Fisher London Printed by T. Sowle at the Crooked-Billet in Holy-well-Lane Shoreditch 1694.