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truth_n	spirit_n	teach_v	worship_v	1,936	5	9.0220	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66856	An epistle to all Friends that be travelling towards the holy city and rest that is in the everlasting life, that they may not over-charge themselves, nor burden themselves in their journey. With a visitation of pure love to all such as have err'd in their hearts from the holy commandment, that to the Lord, who is very gracious and merciful, with all their hearts they may be turned, and so be by him saved.	Wollrich, Humphry, 1633?-1707.	1674 (1674)	Wing W3291; ESTC R224071	10,182	15

AN EPISTLE To all FRIENDS That be Travelling towards the Holy CITY and REST that is in the Everlasting Life that they may not Over-charge themselves nor Burden themselves in their Journey WITH A Visitation of Pure Love To all such as have Err'd in their Hearts from the Holy Commandment that to the Lord who is is very Gracious and Merciful with all their Hearts they may be Turned and so be by him Saved DEar Friends that have a Love to the Lord in your Hearts that would enter in at the Straight Gate and Narrow Way that is holy and undefiled forever but its End is Peace and Everlasting Life They that will so fight the good Fight of Faith like the good Souldiers of Christ as to take hold of Eternal Life they must not Over-charge their Hearts and Minds with the Affairs and Things of this Life which if they do they cannot please their Captain that chuseth them to be his Souldiers They must not Entangle themselves nor Load themselves with the many Things for that will hinder them in the Way and Work of God which Way is Holy and Work Honourable and Glorious So dear Friends this is the Work of God in all we do or put our Hands unto to believe in him whom God hath sent a Light into our Hearts to lead out of all that which would darken your Understandings and shut the pure Eye with which the Lord may be seen going before you making your Way perfect and plain This is he that is not of this World that leads man out of the Evil of the World in the VVay of Righteousness not to do his own Will or seek his own Glory for he that seeks the Glory of him that sent him and doth his Will he sanctifies all that stand therein Him ye may trust and believe in and commit your Way unto that he may bring it to pass for the same is true and there is no Unrighteousness with him and so doing all your things in him who is meek and hath Salvation they are done in the Name and Power of the Lord which the Family of God and Houshold of Faith know to be their House eternal to work all their Works in and so they be done to the Praise and Glory of the Heavenly Father and in the Victory over the VVorld and its Spirit and such in VVell-doing shall not be weary nor faint in their Minds for their Faith stands in the Power and the Power keeps open the Eye of their Understandings and they see him that is true with whom there is no Unrighteousness And he is their Tower and strong Hold in the Day of Trouble their Shield and their exceeding great Reward And this is that Invisible and Holy One who is full of Grace and Truth whose Day of Glory Moses and Abraham saw and it made them willing to deny themselves and the Pleasures of Sin that are but for a season their own Country and all Egypt's Treasures and Glory And this is he whom we in our Day and Age have seen or else we should have been weary by reason of Unreasonable Men their Cruel Laws and Precepts they have prescribed to weary us out and make us deny our Just and Holy Principle in which we be established as Mount Sion that cannot be removed and taught of the Lord in the Spirit and in the Truth and in the Beauty of Holiness to worship the Lord and not after the Precepts and Commands of men by whom we have deeply suffered who have been stirred up by the Hirelings and Deceivers of the Nation that have turned about like the Wind and have been given to change with the many Changes of Government and they that do so serve not the Lord Jesus but their own Bellies But He is become our Salvation our Light our Life and Glory and as we in him abide he makes us Triumph in every place and he leads us into the strong City and Country that hath Foundations whose Builder and Maker is God and we therein do Bless and Laud and Praise him that lives forever And they that will so run the Race that is set before them as to obtain the Price even this Inheritance that never fades away and Kingdom that cannot be shaken must cast off every Weight and the Sin that doth so easily beset them mark that the Sin that easily besets that must be cast off also and every thing that brings a Vail or a Burden on God's Spiritual and Holy Day that so the Just may be Ruler in you all and as a Morning without a Cloud or else ye cannot enter in at the Everlasting Door and Gate of the Heavenly City and Holy Place there to minister before the Lord in the Holy Robe and Garment of Righteousness to do the Work of his Sanctuary and Tabernacle that he hath set up and pitched amongst us And this is that Gate where be the pleasant Things and City into which Job whose Glory was fresh in him with his Garment of Righteousness that was to him as a Robe and Diadem entered where the Rock poured him out Rivers of Oyl For Friends where the Righteous dwell and reign there is great Glory and the Secret of God is upon their Tabernacle there is Oyl and a Treasure to be desired which the Wicked One will consume and devour if he be not watched against But the Way to attain these things will be too straight and narrow for them who do not take up a Daily Cross and walk in the Foot-steps of the Flocks of the Companions casting off the Weights and the Burdens and the many things which in the true Light that shines in the Heart be seen to hinder the Eye to guide man's Feet out of all the Sin that darkens him into the Way of Peace the Way and Everlasting Door will not be lifted up nor exalted in them but be rather shut against them who be in the Bond of Iniquity and in that which brings the Vail and Gall of Bitterness over them and such had need to Repent and wait for his Judgments to put away their Sins and Iniquities from their Tabernacles that hath put them far from the Lord and made them to wander in a barren Wilderness where no plain Way is and in a Land of Fear where no Peace is like Cain to whom the Lord has no Respect for he was not of that Righteous One as Righteous Abel was in which Righteousness he had the Living Record in Heaven and Witness That he pleased God So to such I say Before ye pray put away your Idols and put down the Altars of Baal and the Images of the Sun that ye may know the Golden Altar which the Apostles had right unto thereupon to minister before the Lord for it is raised and builded in the Fear and in the Name of the Lord. So Friends wash ye in Innocency that ye may compass this Altar of the Lord with your holy Offerings for all that be round