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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25352	A visitation in love to those of the people called Baptists, with whom the Lords Spirit yet ceaseth not to strive, that have not slain the witness by making war, and contending against the light ... by one who travels in the Spirit for their souls good ... J.A.	Anderdon, John, 1624?-1685.	1660 (1660)	Wing A3084; ESTC R35	11,450	16

A Visitation in Love To those of the People called BAPTISTS with whom the Lords Spirit yet ceaseth not to strive that have not slain the Witness by making War and contending against the Light who although they may think themselves Rich and increased with much goods yet are found to be Wretched and Miserable Poor and Blind and Naked With Councel from the Lord that they without delay before a farther day of Misery and Calamity overtake them come away from all blind Leaders and unprofitable Teachers who keep them alwayes learning but never bring them to the knowledge of the Truth unto the spirit of the living God the everlasting Teacher of his People that so they may cease from all their own works and labours and stand still and wait to know and feel the Lords work wrought in them by the Arm of Gods Salvation Christ Jesus the Light of the world the only way to the Father That they may no longer feed on words and seek after that food that perisheth But that they may all come to feed on the Word of Life on that Bread which came down from God out of Heaven That they may know the fountain of Life set open in themselves that out of their bellies may flow forth rivers of living Waters to the refreshment of their immortal Souls and the Heritage of God By one who travels in Spirit for their Souls good and by the everlasting Light of the Son of God is come to see and know that though Johns Ministration once committed to him in its time was Excellent and Glorious and he the greatest born of a woman yet a greater than John is come and that the least in the Kingdome is greater than John J. A. LONDON Printed for Robert Wilson at the Black-spread-Eagle and Wind-mil in Martins le Grand 1660. IN LOVE A Visitation to those of the People called Baptists with whom the Lords Spirit yet ceaseth not to strive that have not slain the Witnesse by making War and Contending against the Light c. Truly Friends HAving wandred in times past from Mountaine to Hill to find pasture and refreshment for my soul which is immortal and will not be satisfied but with that Food which Perisheth not when it was the earnest desire of my very heart to be delivered from the bondage of corruption and to be brought into the Liberty of the Sons of God for which the whole Creation groans daily panting and breathing after the waters of life that in the living Truth of God I might be set free to serve the living God And in this though my desires were pure yet I labouring for the accomplishment thereof in my own strength and way in all my performances and duties as I judged in imitation of what others hath done and performed in dayes of old and months past in the Power of Gods Spirit But I being not in and guided by the same spirit all my labour was in vain it being not in the Lord though in never so like imitation from the Letter of Scriptures wherein I strove long to overcome but in vain is salvation expected from the Hills or from the Mountains but from him who is mighty to save the Arme of Gods Salvation the Word of God which is nigh in the heart and in the mouth In him alone I found everlasting strength which giveth Victory and Dominion over sin and corruption which lodgeth in the heart of every man by nature wherein he is a child of wrath Out of which estate I verily believe it is the desire of many souls amongst you to know Gods Salvation and Redemption and that you might yet at length after a cloudy and dark day which hath been over you come forth to the new and living way to the glorious Light of the Gospel which is the Power of God unto Salvation that you henceforth might serve him no longer in the oldnesse of the Letter but in the newnesse of the Spirit which is only accepted by the Lord In whom my soul hath often travelled and seriously weighed your condition of Bondage under such Elements as must passe away and be consumed with the Spirit of burning which must passe upon all flesh that shall be saved Verily touching you I have had often thoughts of heart who sometime were a people that in a measure and in some things did run well but who hath bewitched you I may say that begun in the Spirit that now ye should think to be made perfect in the flesh in which ye will certainly end unless you come in every particular to be witnesses in your selves of the new Birth in the new and living way Christ i● you the hope of Glory And all your Ordinances as you call them and performances shall not cover you nor stand you in stead in the day of the Lord when nothing but the covering of the Lords Spirit shall hide you from the wrath of the Lamb Truly Friends my bowells yearn towards you knowing that there is a right Seed in some of you that groans to come forth out of the prison from under the bonds of the cruel Oppressor the enemy of your immortal soules Oh! that you would yet at length learn to be wise unto Salvation and no longer lay out your money for that which is no bread but that you might all come to him who is the way the truth and the life Christ Jesus the light of the world through the Cross to the Crown from things that fade and perish even with the use thereof unto that which is everlasting and never shall fade away Verily I have felt and born the burden of your Apostacy which hath grieved the good Spirit of our God that on the 14th day of the tenth month 1659. in the time of the late revolutions as I was passing on my way towards London this was the Lords complaint touching you in these words They have betrayed me into the hands of Sinners when you had a day time and opportunity put in your hands to do service for the Lord but you like fools had not hearts to make use of it And I know that you are not in the way that shall prosper neither are your Sacrifices or services accepted by the Lord you being gone back from that pure principle that sometime called you to repentance and to come out of the world and are gone after your own inventions and Imaginations from the Letter which killeth and come not to the Spirit which giveth life You cannot chuse but confesse that that savour that sometimes you might be sensible to be in your services is gone from you and what meaneth your stay any longer in that place or thing where God is not to be found And of this be assured the more you strive in your vaine minds to build up that which God pluck down and disownes the farther you go from the way of rest and peace and unless you repent and return you shall lye down in sorrow yea the

some of you after the living God that you may yet at length be turned from darknesse to the Light that so you may be brought from under Satans power into the power of God that you may no longer lye under that Yoak and spirit of Bondage which by your leaders is begotten amongst you and laid upon your Consciences to keep you from the Covenant of Light and Life but that you might come forth in the freedom of the Lords Spirit out of the house of Bondage into the liberty of the Sons of God in newness of spirit to worship and serve him all the dayes of your life It 's a strange doctrine that you must believe as your Teachers believe and do what they do as infallible whilst they themselves know not but deny the immediate or present teachings of Gods infallible Spirit amongst them and come not to feel and know in your selves the true Teachers the living Hope and the true Faith of Gods Elect which purifyeth the heart which God requires even truth in the inwards parts what are your Teachers more than others of the world that you should be so in bondage to them as to fear their threats of death and destruction or the like of that whilest they themselves are under the power thereof to whomsoever shall separate from them and turn from their pernitious wayes That many poor souls that have entred themselves in Covenant as it were with death under their beggarly and unprofitable Rudiments are affraid of their big-swelling words and excommunications to come our from amongst them and because of the Flood that proceeds out of the Dragons mouth against the woman that travells to bring forth the man Child that shall Rule the Nations you come not up to the war of the Lamb Though you may see and believe in your Consciences that there is a more excellent and living way known and set before you and are not satisfied with that food which perisheth but groan in your spirits for the bread of life And were it not for fear of persecution which follows the righteous Seed and the shame of the Cross on the one hand and the fear of your Teachers on the other hand would you not come out from amongst them Deal faithfully with your own souls and Gods witnesse in you and confesse the truth to Gods Glory and come away out of all that 's dead and carnal unto the living truth of our God For truly Friends this I verily believe as Gods witnesse comes again to be raised in you in whom he is not yet slain as some have done by warring against him that there will not be a time of disputing and halting left you but you must either come away to follow the Lamb the Light of the world or take your portion in that lake that burns with fire and brimstone where you shall know that worm that never dies that fire that never shall be quenched and there shall not be peace again saith my God to the wicked but torment day and night distraction horror and confusion shall be their portion that comes not out of Babylon at Gods Call which hath reached unto you therefore hasten to come away and follow the Lamb whithersoever he goes that with him you may reign in glory on Mount Sion for ever and ever And whether you hear or forbear whether ye believe or not this again I truly say and testify that in bowels of tender love to your pret●ous souls and the seed of God in discharge of my Conscience towards God and you that I may stand clear of your blood have I written knowing that the day of the Lord hastens wherein he will render to every man according to his deeds done in the body whether they be good or evil when many shall cry and call to the Rocks and to the Mountains to fall upon them and cover them But in that day none of your Coverings but the Covering of the Lords Spirit shall hide you from the wrath of the Lamb. And you shall certainly know that I speak the truth in Christ Jesus and lye not Bridgwater the 10th of the 5th month 1660. John Anderdon