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 Maâ— 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
minds unto is the Life of the Word which is Immortal Eternal Permanent â— 1. 2 3 9 Divine and Immutable and not Natural Thou who ever thou art and whatever by men thou be accounted of that doth make a large profession of God Christ and the Scriptures of Truth in words and doth hate and speak evil of the Light the true Light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world thou art a hater of God and of Christ and art of Antichrist against Christ although thou profess him in words and say thou art saved by him and justified by him c. yet if thou hate his light in thy own Conscience which doth check thee for evil doing and prick thee for thy sins in secret thou art in enmity to him and condemned by the Light and not justified and thy confession of Christ in words will not save thee from his Righteous Condemnation whilst thou hate his pure light in thy Conscience and thy profession is for the fire and unto the Light thou must come before thou canst find true peace with the Lord God Yea what ever thou art who art climbed and a climbing up thy Imaginations and a soaring up aloft with the god of the world the Prince of the power of the Air above the light the door into the fold striving to enter into the fold and not by the door to wit the Light thou art the Thief and Rober Joh. 10. â— who run before Christ the Light the Door into the Fold and thou must come down come down to that which appears a small thing in thy eye who art swell'd big in thy fleshly wisdom from which the things of Gods Kingdom is hid even to that which 1 Cor. 1. 2â— 29 30 31 19 20 21 thou counts a foolish thing a weak a poor thing not worth the minding or heeding but this is it the foolish thing in the eye that is to confound thy wisdom and turn it into foolishness that so thou becoming a fool may be made wise in it This is the weak thing in thy eye which is to confound thy strength and make thee weak that thou may be strong in it and the poor thing in thy eye which is to rob thee of all thy Riches that thou becoming poor in it may be made Rich so where is the Wise the Rabby the Scribe the Disputer of this world Hath not God made foolish the Wisdom of this world for the world by wisdom know not God and so the boaster is excluded that God may have the Glory and all flesh abased and silent before him who of God is made unto his Saints that love his Light and are led by his Spirit Wisdom Strength Power Righteousness Justification and Redemption who have the heavenly Treasure in the Earthen vessel that the glory may be of God who is worthy of all Glory and Praise for ever So heed not dear people you who have any desire in you after the Lord what this man or the other saith of the Light but love the Light and take heed â— 3. 20. unto it for that which judge and condemn sin in you which is that which separate you from the Lord and hinders your peace with the Lord and is the cause of your burden and sorrow this you shall not need to fear will delude you That is a spirit of delusion that leads into sin and evil beware of that but that which reproves you for evil in your own hearts and manifest the deeds of darkness take heed unto it for that is the â— 5. 13 14. Light that doth make manifest darkness that which is reprovable is made manifest by the Light for what ever make manifest is Light and that will not onely make manifest the sin and evil but as you come to turn your minds in unto it and love and follow it it will save you from your sins and redeem your minds and souls unto God for who receive his Light his pure Grace in them they receive power through it to become the Sons of God for through his Grace doth he manifest his power in them that believe in the Light to the drawing of their hearts and minds out of the ungodliness and worldly lusts and to the teaching of them to live soberly and righteously and godly in this present world and thus the free Grace of God bring Salvation to their Souls And so dear people thus you who come to believe in the Light to love and obey the Light in your own Consciences will come to feel and witness the work of the Lord God in your hearts the working and opperation of the Word of Life to the casting out of the Bondwoman and her son which is not to inherit to the binding of the strong man and casting of him out yea the Old man with his deeds Eph. 4. 20 2â— 22 23. is to be put off and you renewed in the spirit of your minds and the new Man is to be put on who after God is created in Righteousness and true Holiness to put him on and to bring him forth before all men the only begotten Son of God who is full of Grace and Truth Mercy and Love Pitty and Compassion Purity and Holiness and Good-will towards all who love his Enemies and do good to them that hate him c. So coming to the Light Christ Jesus you come to the Substance to him in whom the Figures Types and Shaddows end in and so come to witness him in you who fulfil all Righteousness he who is the end of the Law for Righteousness sake unto them Col. 2. 11 1â— that believe in him and to be Circumcised in him with the Circumcision made without hands by the putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the Circumcision of Christ which the outward Circumcision was a figure of and to witness the Baptism of Christ which is with the Holy Ghost and with fire which Johns Baptism with water outward was a true figure of and he bore Testimony unto Christ the Light of the world who said I must decrease but he must increase I indeed baptise you with water but he Christ 3. 30. Jesus who was before me shall baptise you with the Holy Ghost and with Fire whose fan is in his hand 3 11 12. and he shall throughly purge his floor the Wheat he shall gather into his garner but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire So the outward water was but a type the outward washing a type of the inward washing and inward cleansing and inward purging and purifying by the Water of Life or the Blood of Jesus that cleanseth from all sin which is felt thus to work in them who believe in the Light and walk in the Light and they come to know that begotten in them that feeds upon the flesh of Christ which is the living Bread upon which the living Soul feed and is the Substance which
beauty is given them for ashes and the oyl of joy for mourning the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness and are become Trees of Righteousness the Lords own planting bringing forth fruit to his glory and praise who hath thus set them free from their sorrow and trouble These can say Good it is to wait upon the Lord God â—1 26. 8 23 9. in the way of his Judgments Lo this is the Lord whom we have waited for this is our God we have waited for him come let us rejoyce in his Salvation wherewith he hath saved us he hath redeemed us out of the horrible Pit out of the miry clay hath he brought us and set our feet upon a Rock and doth establish our goings who filleth our Souls with the fatness of his house and causeth us to drink of the River of his Pleasure and to suck and be satisfied with the Consolation of the Brest and to milk out and be delighted in the abundance of the sweetness of its vertue Oh what what shall we render unto the Lord unto the Lord our God for his benefits oh what shall we render unto him for his Mercies what shall we render unto him for his loving kindness Oh! let us take the Cup of his Salvation and drink thereof abundantly and in the strength of the vigour of its vertue let us in the meekness of our hearts and and in the lowliness and contriteness of our Souls praise praise the Name of the Lord our God who is worthy of all Glory and Praise for ever and for evermore A few words more unto you dear people who desire more after the love and peace of God then the glory and pleasures of the world Dear people take heed unto that which discover unto you what are your thoughts whither they be good or evil for that is it which must redeem your minds unto God and wait to come to know it to be a stay to your minds and a stop to your thoughts and a bridle to your tongues and to cause a watch before your mouth and to raise a holy fear in your hearts of offending the Righteous God of Righteousness in thought in word in deed And dear people you have so much depended and relyed upon man for teaching retire with your minds inward to the manifestation of the Spirit of God in your own hearts and wait in it to come to know the Lord God to be your Teacher that if you should be separated from those that hath been your Teachers and put into a Hole a Dungeon or Cave of the earth for your Consciences towards God and so be separated from all teaching outward you may then feel find and witness the Lord to teach you to instruct you counsel and direct you comfort and refresh you even by his pure Eternal Spirit in you for all the children of the Lord shall be taught of the Lord and established in Righteousness and great shall be their peace in the God of their Salvation unto whom unto whom be glory glory honour and praise for ever and evermore for he is worthy he is worthy worthy saith my soul unto whom be glory in the highest Amen So dear people for your sakes mostly was these foregoing lines written in obedience to the tender spirit of love in my heart which drew me thereunto and in tender unfeigned love and pure good-will to your souls who have had and still have true desires in your hearts after the Lord and hath been and still are thirsting and hungering after the way of Truth and Righteousness and hath been and still are seeking and hunting among the husks shells and shadows for to find the substance but still fail of your expectation and cannot find true and perfect satisfaction but secretly in your hearts are panting and thirsting after the living water and are weary of feeding upon the husks and begin to say within your selves to each other Come we have been long wandering abroad hunting after the Lord afar of seeking of him in this Form and the other Form running from Mountain to Hill from one Man to another to enquire for him whom our Souls long for but we still want the true enjoyment of him And although man hath told us we should find him there in this Way and in the other Way in this Form and in the other Form in this Ordinance and the other Ordinance wherein we have been tossed about and turned from one broken Cistern to another but still we want true satisfaction for our souls for we want the true enjoyment of the assurance of the Love and Peace of God wherefore come let us no longer hunt abroad nor run any longer from one man to another But oh come let us retire our minds inward and in stillness and quietness in sollidness and seriousness let us wait upon the Lord and he himself will teach us of his wayes and lead us into the path of Righteousness where we shall meet him whom our souls hath long panted after even as the Hart panteth after the water Brooks wherefore let us wait upon the Lord for the Lord is good to the man Lam. 3. 2 that waiteth for him to the Soul that seeketh him Therefore come let us both hope and quietly without hunting any more abroad wait to finde and feel in our selves the salvation of the Lord that so we may in truth come to find and to say He is come he is come and made manifest in us whom our souls longed after and behold his reward is with him even joy comfort peace rest and satisfaction to our souls Lo this is the Lord we have waited for him Lo this is our God whom we have waited for now let us rejoyce and be glad in his salvation and praise his Eternal Name I say dear people towards you is the opening and yearning of my bowels in the casting of this my Mite amongst you in the meekness and humility of my soul and the God of Heaven for his own Seed sake make it a service of good to you And then will the onely end of my soul herein be answered thereby who am your friend and one who desires that you of the barren mountains may be gathered and brought down into the low valley into the fresh pastures of life where you may feed with Gods Babes and Lambs and lie down in the fold of rest and peace that you might finde bread in your own houses and water in your cisterns the oyl in the Cruse that will not fail but will satisfie your souls in drought and make fat your bones that you might become like a watered garden and like a spring of water whose waters fail not Take this as a Salutation of the love good will of my soul to you who am a friend to all people one that owns and desires to tender nourish and strengthen the least appearance of God in any A lover of honesty and uprightness in whomsoever I finde it
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. anâ— so to the 9. 1â— 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. 1â— 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. â— 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 â— 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
the Bread and Wine outward did figure out which the Manna that God gave the Israel of old in the Wilderness was a pure type of the heavenly Manna the living Bread which the birth that is born of God feed upon and lives thereby and grows up into Eternal life The day of gathering is come wherein the Lord God of everlasting bowels of Compassion is a gathering the dispersed and seeking that which was lost â—ek 34. 12 〈◊〉 14 15 16. and bringing back that which was driven away and healing that which was sick and binding up that which was broken but the strong and the fat he is feeding with Judgement The Lord is a gathering people out of the Forms Shells and Shadows wherein many hath long stuck and is bringing of them to the Substance and life its self out of the many Sects and heaps and divers ways into the one pure path into the one way of Life Light Peace Truth and Righteousness who by the one Spirit hath and is 1 Cor. 1â— baptising them who believe in the Light into the one body wherein the unity the ownness and the fellowship is witnessed blessed be his Name The way of the Lord is pure and righteous and unchangable I am the Way the Truth and the Life John 14. Rom. 10. John 12. the 8 châ— saith Christ the immortal Word which saith Paul is nigh in the heart to be obeyed and done This is he the Light the Salvation of God the true Light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world who saith None can come unto the Father but by me I am come a Light into the world saith Christ that whosoever believe in me shall not abide in darkness but shall have the light of life Therefore dear people love the Light and believe in the Light while ye have the Light that so you may become children of the Light and become heirs of an Inheritance incorruptible that will never fade away There is no obtaining the Crown but through the Cross and this you will come to know who come to love the Light Mat. 11. 29. â— 6. 13. thâ— 10. 38. and to be taught of him and to learn of him who is meek and low in the heart and to follow him in the strait and narrow way that leads to life which few there be that finds it and vvalk therein He that will be my Disciple saith Christ must deny himself and take up his daily Cross and follow me This you will come to feel and witness if you be followers of the Light a daily denying of self you will know a denying of your own wills your own desires your own thoughts your own affections your own words and works your own wisdom and righteousness and a dayly taking up the Cross an hourly living in the Cross through which you must come to be crucified to the â—6 14. World its Vanity its Pomp Pastime and Pleasures Sins and Iniquities vain Words Works Fashions and Customes Inventions and Traditions so coming to be crucified with Christ unto the world and to be Baptised into death with him unto sin you will come to live with him unto God in the life of Righteousness in whom then you will find that Rest Satisfaction Joy Comfort and Peace which no man can give unto you So dear people who are seeking and desiring after the Lord God to find peace and comfort to your souls this I leave with you flie not from that which doth judg you in your own hearts for sin and evil and bring trouble upon you and sorrow upon you and woundeth and peirceth you in secret because of Transgression I say love that flie not from it for oh dear people how many is there that when they have been judged and Gods pure light in their hearts for their sins when trouble and sorrow and distress hath seized on them because of their sins which Gods Witness hath set in order before their eyes then hath they run unto vain helps and run unto men for help even to those that could not speak a word in season to them but hath daubed them up with untempered Morter and hath endeavoured to heal their wound deceitfully and hath Preached peace to that which is for judgment and so thereby they have gotten some kind of satisfaction for a time until the Lord wounded them again with the Sword of his Righteous Judgments and then their seeming rest fled away as smoak before the wind and sorrow and trouble took hold on them again as pain on a Woman in travel and then they have run again unto that which could not remove the very cause of their trouble and sorrow they have run to the Scriptures of Truth and therein hath found a promise and this they have applied to themselves for to get peace and rest thereby when alas poor hearts they have not been in that state and condition which that promise which they applied to themselves was unto and so not for them and then they have read what the Saints once did and performed and they set themselves to do the like and to imitate them and so hereby for a time they have gotten some satisfaction some kind of rest and peace until the Lord God did thunder again with Dread and uttered his Voice with Terror which caused the Earth to tremble and their habitation to fall and then dissolation came upon them again and their Fig-leave garment came to be rent and their wound greater then ever it was before and thus they have run from Mountain to Hill from one Physitian to another for healing but they were unto them as Physitians of no value for none of them could rightly heal their wounds until at last they said in their hearts We will seek no more unto man for vain is the help of man But we will return unto the Lord God who hath wounded us and he will heal us who hath broken us in peices and he will bind us up and so returning to the light of Christ Jesus in their own hearts with which the Lord hath wounded them for their sins and brought trouble and sorrow upon them for their iniquities waiting therein in patience upon the Lord God in the way of his Righteous Judgments which was set up in their hearts they came to feel through their believing in the Light and loving the Light by which they were wounded for sin the cause of their sorrow and trouble and wounds taken away by the Blood of Jesus which is his life which they came to feel in them cleansing of them from their sins and washing of them away and so the very cause of their wound being taken away and the corruption purged out then he the tender pitiful compassionate God of Mercy that in mercy towards them had wounded them healed them with the sweet Oyl of joy peace and gladness and now these that were mourners doth rejoyce and they that were heavy-hearted are made glad and