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A60851	Some breathings of life, from a naked heart presented in love to the honest, vpright, and single-hearted, that they, with me may wait to feel the imediate drawings, and leadings of the Holy Spirit in all things ... so that they need not any man to teach them, 1 Joh. 2. 27., with an epistle for peace and unity.	Salt, William.; Fox, George, 1624-1691.	1663 (1663)	Wing S460; ESTC R17566	16,219	20

serving in the Spirit and walking in the Spirit or else be still Did Israel trust upon God and rest wholly upon him they would find him their rest And good it is to be found faithfull in what they are called of God And so in their Callings to abide with God and then is man in his place one day as well as another for there hath been a time of shewing these things unto many and there may be a time of practizing the same what they have seen and that from the Lord concerning their coming out of observation of dayes and though they cannot act therein so inoffensively as they would in respect of them without yet to do it as inoffensively as they can Now who have believed do enter into rest and he that is entred into his rest he also hath ceased from his own works as God did from his And such a one his Servant shall rest as well as him and his Cattel likewise for a good man is merciful to his Beast And if any more publiquely hath a testimony to bear against their day and that from the Lord let none be offended but all Israel keep in keep coole and quiet And that is the way to keep safe and not to strive to go forth that day more then another If that there was formerly Collection for the Saints on the first day of the week must there needs be meetings on that day whether the Spirit of the Lord move or not For as to time I know it from the Lord that there is none more holy then other For the Seed of God being come up sees over time and beyond and as it is kept in the Dominion over things in time and keeps open and single unto God which is the blessed Seed or that in which the blessing is and seeth all time in the Fathers hand For feast-days holy-dayes or Sabbath-days what were they more then Shadows of good things to come but the Body is Christ whose day is holy and his rest is Everlasting For all Shaddows were to terminate in something be they what they would Christ the end of all things in whom all Types Figures and Shadows end the restorer of the Creation the Rest that God hath prepared for his People in whose Arm of Power the weary Soul finds rest And the resting in any outward Observation or Thing could not give rest to the Soul therefore was there a necessity of bringing in that which was more perfect the better hope by which we draw nigh unto God And when that which is perfect is come then that which is imperfect comes to be done away So each thing was to be done as under the Covenant in which it was and according to its appointment but the first gave place unto the second and was changed then there must be also a change of the rest For the Priest-hood being changed there must be also a change of the things that were done under it A change of their offerings which Christ the one Offering ends and the end of their Law by which they took their Tithes Christ within the hope of Glory the Mystery hid but now revealed praises be to his Name who liveth for ever who is the Souls Bishop who watcheth over and taketh the Care of his Flock for had his Compassions failed we had not been a People whose Love hath overcome my heart therefore have I a Zeal for him and for his People And it is his blessed appearance that is to be waited for that blesseth you the Glory of the Lord to fill his own Temple which appearance many have waited for For of old they were to go up by appointment and do things in its Order And we are now to receive an appointment before we do and to do things as under that Covenant in which we are not according to the Letter of a dispensation as they that were ordered according to the Law of the Carnal Commandment which was to come to its end but in newnesse of Spirit to receive the Commandment new and in all things to be ordered according to the power of the endlesse Life For it is the New Testament to which we are come where are new and fresh discoveries and leadings according to his will that we are Children of He made known his Will unto the Children of the first Covenant which they were to obey and do and he maketh knows his mind by putting his Law into our minds that we might serve and obey him likewise not as they did in the oldnesse of the Letter but in newness of the Spirit And this is that which we are to keep on in the New and Living way that leadeth unto the Living God wherein is found the Daily Bread for that which I Received Yesterday will not serve me to day nor that which I have to day will not serve me to morrow but I must have it fresh and new and then it is good So that this I find according to the mind of the Spirit of God in me to be the time under which we are as New-Covenant Children to Act in newnesse to walk in newnesse of life marke new for the ●ords have an import in the very sound of the Covenants the first could not continue which was old and ready to vanish away but the second is new and everlasting and abides for ever and is a Covenant of life and peace to all that stand in it or live answerable to it So that this is according to what Moses Prophesied of Christ that 〈◊〉 was to be heard in all things And said the Minister of Christ whatsever ye do in word or deed do all in the Name of the Lord Jesus or in his power that the power may stir first then in the name of Jesus which is the Saviour there is safty And so he may be called a spirituall man that doth all in the spirit and with it and a good understanding wherein the true worshippers worship the Father in spirit in truth And this will be a Dread among People that they see we serve God indeed with Reverence and Godly Fear not in our own Time nor Will nor their Will but when he pleaseth or stirreth and not till then And this is that which is acceptable not Customary Formally or by Tradition as others have done which the Lord hath cast out before us And the Lord knowes I am even sick with love therefore beare with me and overcome with the goodnesse of the Lord which my soule hath felt and it is the life of love that I breath after to see brought forth among us to know the depth thereof gifts may cease and tongues may cease but love abideth which is most excellent And this when even tyred and wearied in my mind the Lord fixed me upon his spirit of love which he hath born up in me which I prayed the Lord and supplicated him for as seeing a beauty in it which the Lord will bring his

which somthing was answered Therefore let none proceed in a forward zeal or a hasty rash Spirit to Judge lest the Lord rebuke it nor to be high-minded but fear Remember Vzza who put forth his hand as he thought to stay the Ark and yet was smitten And with whom was he grieved was it not with them whose Carcasses fell in the Wildernesse who strived against his good Spirit temped and provoked him and so fell short of the promised Land and that is not a Serving or worshiping for God is a Spirit and will be worshiped in Spirit and truth to resist and grieve his Spirit or provoke it or is not he to have the sole or absolute Authority and Preheminency over his own handy-worke and is not every Creature to bow unto him if he say unto him go is not he to do it and if he say ●●th the same come is not he to obey and so to be Subjected to his ●●●●enly will in all things whether it be to go or come or stand 〈◊〉 therefore good it will be for all the tender-hearted to eye the ●●●ings of the Lords good spirit in all things to look over all forms or 〈◊〉 appeareances though sometimes the spirit of the Lord 〈◊〉 have appeared in them yet he is not limited unto that therefore 〈◊〉 is not to be sticked in but to be pressing forward looking unto 〈◊〉 that was in the beginning Christ the Alpha and Omega the be●●●ing and the end whose name is called the word of God which 〈◊〉 before Shadows Formes or Visible things were So that if the Creature be not by him led into those let him let them alone as things below the life that there may not be a striveing in any or provoking for that is not a serving but the Will subjected unto his pure and holy undefiled Spirit whereby man may come into life no live in God and not to have a life in any outward Visible thing which may pass away and perish with the useing and so the outward thing is to be used as if men used it not and so will the heart be kept single and dis-intangled to Follow the Lamb wheresoever he ●●●●deth which all the Lambs of Christ are needfully to mind wherein stands their safty in this day My Dear Friends somthing hath been upon me to write unto you which in the Spirit of Love let me be felt and received FOllow Peace with all Men and have peace one with another This hath been the Language of the Spirit of Truth in dayes past and he that hath an ear to hear let him hear what the Spirit ●ith unto the Churches And this is the Language of the same Spirit this day unto you his People to follow peace with all men and Holiness without which no man can see the Lord. Mark without Peace be followed with all men no man can see God Least there spring up any Root of bitternesse and trouble you and many thereby be defiled and so they were to follow peace the Blessed Thing whereunto they were called and God is the Author of Peace and not of Confusion therefore the Lord keep us all out of that that runs into Strife for that goes into Confusion I have found something in severall putting it self forth unto peace and I say Blessed are the peace-makers for they shall be called the Children of God And doubtlesse as we abide in the Power we abide in the Peace for it is the Gospel of Peace and if we abide in the Covenant we abide in the Peace for t is the Covenant of Peace and Christ saith In me ye 〈◊〉 have Peace but out of him in the Worlds Spirit is the Tribulation and the Sorrow and our fellowship is in the Peace and in the Power the Gospel-Fellowship where the Saints were Follows together and of the Houshold of Faith all walking in the same Spirit and here was not any Mastering or Lording it over one another in the Gospel-fellowship where they were as a Family So did they Prophesie one by one and as the Lord did give forth his Gifts so did they Minister every one according to what they had received and being come to the Living Thing in themselves the Principle of Life in that they did go forth and one had a Doctrine another a Psalm another an Exhortation another a Revelation c. 1 Cor. 14. And this was done with Acceptation and mutual Consolation in the Church for the edifying of the whole where every member was kept in its place in the body and all members one of another and so in the Gospel of Christ which is the Power of God as the Saints had so they have their Fellowship together the Saints or Sanctified ones Holy Men and Women in the Power of God and this is according to the true Church Order wherein all might speak one by one and having all Fellowship in the body Living in the Power which crusheth down the Enmity wherein all comes to be Learned Consolated and Edified this is that Fellowship that stands over the World in which the Lambs and Tender-hearted ones can skip and rejoyce wherein they feel strength in the Power which is the Gospel Fellowship and keeps Lively And Youth being turned from the Darkness to the Light and trayned up in the Living Way and kept to the Life Praises will be felt to arise in Families and Places through which the Praise is given to the Lord and then all Foolish Laughter Idle Talking and Jesting will be avoided as the Pure Innocent Life comes up and the Power is harkened unto wherein is the Fellowship and in this will you have Fellowship one with another and every one be refreshed and praise the Lord. So Young Men and Maids Old Men and Children all Praise the Name of the Lord for his Name alone is Excellent in all the Earth the Living it is that praiseth him and till this be come unto all i● not well that whether we eat or drink or whatsoever we do al● may be done to the Praise and Glory of his Name then all must 〈◊〉 done from the Life and in it and this one thing here mentioned I 〈◊〉 not omit for the Childrens sake that all might become the People of his Praise And this further as to your selves tending to the Peace and Furtherance therein I have to say In the Worship or Service unto God mind not Jestures Postures or Outward things but the Spirit in which it is to be performed that all may be Spiritual if it be in Humility Contritenesse of Spirit and Brokennesse of heart that sacrifice God will not despise and he will keep the Creature low that he him self may be exalted and the Saints exhorted to passe the time of their Sojourning here in fear and to work out their Salvation with Fear and Trembling and this is in my heart to mind you that you following the thing that makes for Peace and whereby to edifie one another you will flourish and

people to more and more love generall universal to live in it and bring them over all straitnesse and narrownesse Amen saith my spirit Which I hope as the Lord hath brought me to see it so he will enable me to abide in it And as touching them who have declared among us and do goe forth as they stand in their places and are serviceable to the Lord in the moveing of his spirit to reprove sin and teach transgressors the way of God and keep to their first principles walking in the light of the Lamb it is lovely but not to meddle in what concernes them not vaileing the mans part that the Lord alone might have all the glory For thus it was said by them who were in the spirit of truth and of love who is Paul and who is Apollo but servants by whom ye have believed for neither is he that planteth any thing nor he that watereth but God that giveth the increase mark not any thing but God and this farther ran through me from the spirit of the Lord neither are they to be as Lords over Gods heritage but to be Examples to the flock And the Apostle who was not inferiour to the chiefest Apostles yet he said he was nothing And that the Lord might be all and his truth all they were content to abase themselves and such the Lord will 〈◊〉 And that whereby I have been preserved this day hath been onely in the name and power of the Lord his arme that hath upheld me but I see siftings and winnowings must come and good it will be for many And as the Lord hath tryed all other professions so he will try this that they that are approved may be made manifest And this I see Forms will be broken the customary Observasion of dayes and Friends preserved as the spirit of the Lord is harkened unto and obeyed and goes before in all things And that which I have come to see and feele into this day and to have my heart fixed yea that I can say my heart is fixed I can sing and rejoyce hath been through the travell of my soule and prayers and supplications to the Lord that heares in secret who hath had regard unto my low estate whose mercy indureth for ever and to see his people in the spirit of love and the Imediate movings in it and from it indeed I should be Answered And I hope it being from my very Soul that I have defired it that I shall see it and be satisfied And I know he that dwelleth in the Love of God dwelleth in a safe place for He that dwelle●● in Love dwelleth in God where Storms Tempests nor Pushings cannot come nor hurt The Creature may be hurt if he go forth or let his mind forth but keeping within he is safe the mind out of the Creatures or any visible thing up to the invisible God And the Lord hath brought me to a State that I see over the Visibles and where they are in their place and man standing in his place and the Creatures used in their place in Gods Covenant of Light are very good So there is a necessity of perfecting what is begun or bringing forth that which many are yet out of Even perfect Love that thinks no evil nor rejoyceth in Iniquity wherein we may see one another and serve one another and not be smiting without cause not to have the pure Life and Motions of the Spirit of Truth it self judged by them that are Professors thereof because it came not forth according to their Mind Form Time or Way even as others have done ready to judge all out of their own way when as it is evident the Lords way is not as mans wayes and no man is to have Dominion over another faith but to be helpers of each others joy if they cannot help then they are not to hinder But the Lord will have all to bow and be●● 〈◊〉 him be they never so strong there is need of a continual De●●●ance and eying him even as the Servant of Christ of old De●●ld without him he could do nothing but in him he could do all things 〈◊〉 have been brought to see my own weaknesse and my own ●●●gth and in that could do nothing and when I have been weak●● then have I been strongest and the Lords strength is pretious And as it hath been so it is Every mans way hath been right in his own 〈◊〉 but the Lord pondereth the Steps And in him was no Form nor ●●linesse nor nothing to be desired Mark here did not appear Form nor Comlinesse but a man of Sorrows and acquainted with Griefs So who stands in the Holy Mountain will see and walk over all these Forms Outward-appearances and Comliness and know the Kings Daughter that is all glorious within And this would not leave any at a loss or uncertainty to be guided and led by the Spirit of God in all things and if guided then that to go before or be directed by it for there is no other way whereby the Lord will carry on his own work Not by Might nor by Power but by my Spirit saith the Lord And the Spirit is not to be tyed or bound unto mans Conveniency or limited to the narrow compass of his occasions to serve him when he hath leasture but the Creature is to ●●ve way unto him So that a man going without his guide may ea●●●● loose his way and that imediately to see or to hear it otherwise he goes but uncertainly And where Friends have provided a 〈◊〉 or others have given up their House as to a Meeting-Place it may be made use of when they feel stirrings in the life both in respect of time and place as they see or are moved by the Eternal in which they stand over all the Earth and there will be safety whatsoever may come either to dye or to live even in and through the Eternal Spirit to offer up themselves And such that are Simple-hearted and go in simplicity of their ●●arts to such Meetings directed or led into by the Spirit of the Lord 〈◊〉 his own Seed-sake them the Lord may preserve but to do the 〈◊〉 clearly in the Life and imediate movings of the Spirit towards 〈◊〉 a thing is sure and safe it would be disobedience if not answered if required for it is the Lord that is to be hearked unto and his 〈◊〉 obeyed and the Creature not to go forth into any thing any ●ther then that leadeth but to be kept in subjection for if you 〈◊〉 to feel the thing in your selves and it be not hearked unto 〈◊〉 shall go on any in a Formality or Customarinesse out of the ime●●ate Leadings and Guidance of the Spirit of the Lord The thing will come over you and overtake you and some will be burthened thereat untill they do declare against it Publickly And so walking in the unity of the Spirit and keeping down the mans part then unity would be preserved and

strengthned for if the Spirit be stopt or quenched then the unity is quenched that is plain And this would put a stop quickly to all Customary and Formal proceedings all to do and every one to do as they are moved of the Spirit by the Lord which is Holy Just and True And thus I have born forth my Testimony as moved of the Lord and in Love to you all wherein let me be Received William Salt And these two things feel me in and therein abide with me My heart fixed in the Spirit of Love wherein I am to keep for ever And drawn and guided by that Spirit which way he pleaseth and I passive therein which will never deceive any of you to abide in Love and know the Imediate motions of the good Spirit to guide you Thus it was well with Israel as they were kept by day and by night to the Conduct of the Pillar of Fire and the Cloud and had this in their sight through all their Journeyings to be kept in a continual Subjection and Dependance upon God And at the word of the Lord they travelled and at the word of the Lord they stood still or abode in their Tents whether two Dayes or a Month or a Year as the Cloud tarried or remained upon the Tabernacle the Children of Israel Remained still and Journeyed not So as this is to be Read by each in Particular so it is in the General At the Commandment of the Lord they rested in their Tents and at the Commandment of the Lord they Journeyed and rose up and sate down with Holy Breathings in their mouths Arise O Lord and let thine Enemies be scattered and return unto the many Thousands of Israel And the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord went before them in their Journeyings holding forth at that time what the Spiritual Israel were to have to go before them in ages to come even him who was given for a Leader and Commander to the People And what is it can help out of the Apostacy heal any of their Backslidings or save any from the errours of their way but th● unerring Spirit of the Lord to know its Motions and Leadings And whereas it was said by one speaking concerning the Raging of the Sea and casting up its Mire and Dirt yet said he We must 〈◊〉 through it yea but the Lord must lead first otherwise Creatures may quickly sink and where the Lord leads there any are to follow but for otherwise And another speaking to this effect To heed the Power and Spirit of the Lord which was before Storms and Tempests was yea so to heed it as to be guided by it So that this brings still unto the thing that hath been spoken of to feel the Lord present or to see the Living going before if that move not then to be still So let all Flesh be silent before the Lord and all fleshly reasonings for the Lord is risen of a Truth whom we are to follow and let the sound thereof go forth to the utmost ends of the Earth This then in short what the tendance of my words hath been not to appear in any thing but what the Spirit of the Lord moves unto directly for had that been still I had been still in this matter neither having regard to one time or place more then another but Spiritual all in the Spirit to be performed or as that makes way or bows the hearts of any which is to be waited for In the mans day things hath been done in the mans time and according to his will but in the day of the Lord all is to be done in his time and according to his will who hath all times in his hand which the Creature is to eye diligently in this mighty day of the Lord wherein man is wholly to be ceased from for ever So to visit one another any as they are moved and speak one to mother and meet together as they are moved for if two or three shall agree on Earth as touching any thing that they shall ask it shall be done for them of my Father which is in Heaven saith Christ For where two or three are gathered together in my Name there am I in the midst of them And so daily to exhort one another as they see cause or are led thereunto by the Spirit of the Lord where there is any Buffettings Temptations or things of that kind And where any more generally shall assemble themselves together and find leadings thereunto in the Spirit of Love let them do it even as that puts forth it self in the thing otherwise it were better to be still and not to do it because it hath been done and others have exhorted thereunto and so to be tyed to the Letter of a dispensation for there is a time for all things and to every thing there is a Season saith Solomon there may be a time to go forth and there may be a time to keep still a time to speak and a time to be silent or is the spirit of the Lord to be limited about any of these things as that he shall not have the liberty left him to require what or when he pleaseth And may not some as contentedly be brought to sit in silence or to be taught as formerly to be Teachers of others and may it not be 〈◊〉 Convenient And did not the Prophet of the Lord Declare their strength was to 〈◊〉 still may there not be a time for sitting still now as well as then and is not the Creature Man and Woman to be held in subjection to the Creator and did not the Saints sit at his Feet to hear the word at his Month which is the thing that is so desirable now and the matter contended for to receive the Word at his Mouth which the Holy men of old well knew and more desired it then their necessary food yea it was sweeter to them then the Honey or the Honey Comb. But the Flood is come and what shall I say even to be still This then is my exhortation unto all in the fear of God and in Love and as moved thereunto by his blessed Spirit every one as Members one of another to answer his place in the body The Wise mans eye is in his head and sees what he requires and to answer his requirings or what may be laid before one another in meeknesse and in Love as they feel the thing in their own Life to answer it that there may be no drawings back for such the Lords Soul hath no pleasure in And this which I have here in the beginning written is what in time past hath risen in me from the moveings and openings of the spirit of the Lord which I now think meet to commacate When I was in deep distress and sorrow of spirit concerning the ark of our God and the cause of his truth and something concerning the condition of others when I set my face toward them to both