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Crums of comfort for the mournful babe of hope from one that condoleth the distresse of the daughter of Sion ...
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in the ear preached on the house top but until he appear to be my life I must suffer with him waiting for a further manifestation of his glory and the appearance of the Son of God therein And so for reports alass thou canst not but know more of thy self in the root and ground of things and that to the light and heart-searching spirit art come than men can have to accuse thee and now being come to know nothing by thy self yet thou art not thereby justified what therefore is in this more than to manifest the frame and temper of such spirits that yet have a root of the same hidden that in thee hath broken forth and thou art therefore like to come first to the day of healing for their covering and false healing is the same that was thine and thus have they been daubing and are daubed with untempered morter as thou wert in that the same that hath been upbraiding when it is displeased will flatter when it is pleased and is it that is flattered deceiving and being deceived Therefore whatever they threaten and wait to see concerning thee wish not the same to them no not in thy heart because of him that seeth its secrets but wait on the Lord for preservation and the end of that spirits woâ—k thou shalt see manifest before thee and shalt be made able to judge of it And then as to thy state thou wilt see there is no need of a second offering or attonement for the offering is through the eternal Spirit once for all and the atonement for ever perfecting in the sanctified life and in thy going from that Spirit and the sence therein and thereof begotten the life of God hath been brought into a suffering state and to be afresh crucified which thou being again returned to and with the Spirit that manifesteth the cause thereof come into unity feelest the atonement makeâ— and the atonement making to be for ever then what the many offerings under the Law of works where was the blood of Bulls Goats of a year old sprinklings of an Heifer could not do in that they make nothing perfect â—s pertaining to the Conscience thou being come to that which manifesteth the nature that the Bull was a figure of and also the Goat at left hand that being offered up and slain on the Crosse all sufferance to the Lamb that went before for a peace-offering and is the atonement maker ceaseth and so the offering is but one and once for all that being offered to God which his Spirit hath begotten and wrought and the kindling and inflaming being of that nature and so no false fire put into thy Sensure Object 2. All this I confesse very true to my condition concerning the cause and ground of the apostasie and back-sliding and falling away from the truth of God in the prodigality of that mind a part and nature in the creature that could not be content to trust the Father withall and to have the portion in his hands and now I plainly see that the Apostate and Backslider and Prodigal is not so much such a Sect or Opinion and Perswasion and People of such a different Judgement from me though I confesse in these different Perswasions some are more deeply tainted with this apostatizing spirit than other-some as the spirit and nature of a part in all that hath backsliden from the Law and Commandements of God and in the adulteration of that mind hath been caused the breach that is yet standing between God and his Creture untill the spirit of atonement and reconciliation be so received and adhered to that it make up all again And seeing thou art not in Pauls state of unconversion from the ignorance of a blind zeal that persecuted and spoke evil of that he knew not when concerning the Law he could say he was blamelesse yet was one at whose feet was laid the garments of the witnesses neither art crying Lo here or Lo there or I am of Paul or Apollo c. but art found comforting the Babe and partaking with the afflicted in their way and as one that hath passed through the state and condition I am in and that would not have sin and wickedness countenanced under any pretence whatever but the creature of God pityed in every state betrayed under the enemies power and yet the Axe of God layed to the root of the tree and the root of the matter relating to the cause and ground of the apostasie and backsliding from the truth of God seen into that it may be removed and taken out of the way of God utterly the conditions of many being concerned herein I further query how and when it came in and how it may be removed again perfectly seeing it is generally the voyce and cry of the world it came in but just now and that the deceiver entred but as in their dayes and yet excuse themselves of his entring of them that they may lay the burden heavy on others Answ The first Apostate was old Adam that went from the guidance and government of the Spirit of God and as all have taken a nature and part from him who was of the earth earthly and as was the earthly so are they that are earthly though he was made a living soul nevertheless the soul that sinned having dyed in the day he eat of the forbidden fruit and so death having past over all from Adam c. all are to wait again for and in the power of the second Adam a quickning spirit and yet as to the first man as he was and is a natural man he was betrayed under and into this state and is not properly reckoned for the sinner and offender and transgressâ—r as to the natural part further than creatures in it are so joyned and united to the cause thereof that they neglect the work of that and him who gives the sight of the misery of such state and so in the end comes to sleight and dis-regard the remedy out of it for the mistery of iniquity that hath wrought and yet works in the hearts of many oppâ—sers of the work of the Spirit of Truth there is spiritual wickednesse in high places so that though death came on the bodyes of all as by one man that sinned they have taken a nature and part from for the souls sake that is immortal whom the tribulation and anguish hath rested on as a death that came by reason and means of sin yet the feeling of a remedy to the one to wit the soul once relapsed and fallen under the power of a second death is through the begettings and working up of a faith in the spirit of him that endured the one for the conquering the dominion and power of both Thus is there a man of sin or man by whom came sin whom God will destroy by the breath of his lips and nostrils and brightnesse of his appearance with an everlasting destruction and yet not properly the first
temptation of Satan through a sence of forgiveness that came up in the manifesting cause to look at mens hardnesse and ruggednesse and want of love and mercy and pity and forgivenesse is not at all my work but is beneath me and out of my way I walk in for it is not as I would be done by in that God who hath healed my backsliding freely for his own name sake hath made me of the same mind to others knowing that he is blessed that covereth and hideth sin and transgression by converting a sinner to God where a multitude of fauls are blotted out and for me to uncover what God hath hid and reveal and diâ—close anothers shame and nakedness would get me but an ill name that cannot delight in the destruction of any as God doth not neither have I any joy to hear and see any ones backslidings but must pity them with my heart and pray for and wish their returne again unto God else I should degenerate from what God hath made me and change from my natural disposition And this is Because God hath proved the good Physitian and doth heal perfectly he is the good Samaritan that binds up the wound and in the day that I was cast out in the open fields when no eye pityed me but I was naked as in the day that I was born neither salted nor swadled at all neither was I washed in water to supple me nor any garment put on and over me to cover and hide my deformity but I was in my blood then did God pity me and in my blood said Live and hath done all these things for me though the Priest and Levite passed by and there was no bowels among men of that spirit and he being come to the lost sheep of the House of Israel and to gather a remnant of the out-casts of such and to call the sinner to repentance and not the righteous and to the sick and poor and needy and weary and maimed having lift up his voyce and stretched out his hand what shall I turn my back against such a work shall I be offended because he talks with the Samaritan woman because she hath no fellowship with the Jewes and that because he asketh her for water or that he hath entred the house of a Pharisee and there hath been found eating with the Publicans Oh! no such work is not the work of God in me but Gods work hath confounded it all of this nature and the upbraider cannot stand here in that I am come to the liberality of God to the inlargednesse of heart to him and to be upheld and sustained and supported by his free spirit by the work of the Spirit of Truth that makes free indeed and to use my liberty as an occasion to the flesh or cloak of maliciousnesse I cannot nor dare I be so imbondaged to Jew or Greek Barbarian or Scythian bond or free male or female Samaritan or Pharisee that I should forget that love that would do good to all and thinks well of the work of God towards all So that concerning the Apostate and Back-slider and Prodigal I dare not accuse any particular sect or opinion or perswasion or person of men in such perswasions as that you or thou art the only Apostate and Backslider but I doe see a part in all as it hath been and is wrongly perswaded and opinionated that until the creature be again returned in it and from the cause of its digression degeneration and depravation is that Apostate Back-slider from the Commandements of God and prodigal from the Spirit of truth the Fathers house and dwelling place to wit the flesh and it was and is the cause of the breach between God and his creature which no upbraidings can heal neither is the Spirit of God even it and him that God was in before the world began reconciling it to himself but that all might be laid wast of this nature 〈…〉 in and over all these things hath bâ—â—â— suffered even breach upon breach and devotion upon devotion and in the midst of heapes of confusion is God come to and bringing up order who must be and himself is come to be the healer and repairer and restorer thereof ere the healing can be perfect and by his Spirit that many are come to they see into the cause and ground of all these things and of all botches and boyles and putrified sores and breakings out in the particulars of persons or in any particular people gathered into a body infected with the deadly wound of an imposterous nature under mens daubings with untempered morter that cry peace while their mouths are put into and such patched up health could never long continue in a common-wealths body but since God is come to do the work and hath undertaken the cure that will be the teacher of his people himself their Councellour Judge Law-giver Instructor Correcter Physitian and All in all I question not a perfect cure of all that is amiss that such are witnesses of that come unto him through faith in the life of forgivnesse the Sons life that is the repairer of all breaches and the restorer again of a path to dwell in and then out of all the self-boastings and confidence in and of the world And thus though sin hath abounded yet grace hath much more abounded but not that we should continue in sin God forbid but all having sinned and come short of the glory of God thou that art brought into the sence hereof art not in the worst state neither is there any ground of despondency and doubtings to thee of Gods favour of thee thus returned into a sence of the work of God and into faith in the workers will and good pleasure whatever hard judgment and usage thou meet with among men of different judgments and opinions for thou art not left alone and let them upbraid and mock on be thou still and wait in patience out of the grumbling murmuring complaining nature and thou wilt come over it all and grow through all reproach of this nature untill thou come to leave such works withering and dying as untimely fruit but look thou at God in the midst of all and let them taunt on they cannot hurt and stop thy glorying in a life that is out of the worlds reach to hurt though in this life of the â—â—â—sh and 〈◊〉 â—â—â—yings they may think they hurt thee but thou art as willing to dye from that as all things else and thy repute is not a creaturely esteem but through bad reports hast learned to passe as well as good reports and canst say If my hope was in this life I was of all men most miserable but Christ in me is the hope of my glory with whom my life is hid and in him is hid all my treasure c. And when he my life appears I shall appear with him in glory And that which hath been done in secret shall be manifest openly and what spoken