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world_n	deny_v	live_v	ungodliness_n	2,303	5	11.2667	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36213	An epistle of love and good advice to my old friends & fellow-sufferers in the late times, the old royalists and their posterity and to all others that have any sincere desires towards God.	Docwra, Anne, 1624-1710.	1683 (1683)	Wing D1778; ESTC R17010	7,092	14

AN Epistle of Love AND Good Advice To my Old Friends Fellow-Sufferers in the Late TIMES The Old Royalists And their Posterity And to all others that have any sincere Desires towards GOD. There was a Man sent from God whose Name was John the same came to be a witness to hear witness of the Light John 1. 6 7 8 9. My Friends ALL you that lay under the Lash of the late Times I cannot forget our Sufferings nor the Mercies of God to us but must needs put you in mind to be weighty and serious in improving your Deliverance to better ends than many of you have done hitherto that ye may come to know the things belonging to your Peace before they be hidden from your Eyes that whatsoever happen ye may be fitted and prepared for it so that ye may escape the Snares of the old Enemy of Mankind who is profound in Subtilty and hath his Agents about in all places to promote his Kingdom of Darkness and Delusions which are discovered only by the true Light that enlightneth every man that cometh into the World which shineth into the Heart of man to give him the Knowledge of God for as the outward Sun in the Firmament is not to be seen but by its own Light that shines from it so God that is a supernatural inward Light is not to be seen or known but by his own Light that shines into the dark Heart of Man that is gone out from him into the fallen state and as you do watch and wait for this Light you will see your Redemption and will be fenced from the Power of this crooked Serpent and his jealous Whisperings and detracting Insinuations that have made all the Broyls in this Nation from time to time to this very day and mostly upon the account of Religion Happy had it been for this Nation if Religion so often pretended to had been real without any mixture of mans Invention but God that saw that Men were not fitted and prepared for it through their own neglect and carelesness in not being faithful to what they knew was their Duty towards him and their Neighbours upon this account hath the Lord with-held this great Blessing from many of the great Pretenders and Sticklers in matters of Religion as well as others so as they have missed of the real and Spiritual Knowledge of this Ministration of the glorious Gospel of our Lord Saviour Iesus Christ which is Peace on Earth Good Will towards men this is truly preached by some both in their Doctrine Lives and Conversations in this day spring of divine Light and Love which hath appeared in a large measure to all those that have been faithful to what they knew of God in their own Hearts and Consciences whose Hearts are tender and brought low before him and have given up all their Concerns to him and can part with all for him These I say are the Plants of Renown and no others neither can any come to be grafted into this Stock by any outward Rule or Observation of mans contrivance the divine Vertue must be in our selves it is not in the Power of Man to put it into us it is the Gift of God in our own Hearts that inward Principle that leads to the divine Life which is the blessed Grace of God that bringeth Salvation which hath appeared to all men as saith the Scriptures and those that are taught by it they do deny all Ungodliness and worldly Lusts and do live Soberly Godlily and Righteously in this present World these are they that are brought out of the Vanities and Deceits thereof and have received the Anointing that teacheth them of all things so as they need no man to teach them But how this will relish with those that keep People alwayes in teaching that they may alwayes be paying them I know not neither am I concerned for that the Gift of God in our own Hearts is not to be denyed nor concealed this Gift is given to all mankind even to the Rebellious that the Lord may dwell amongst them as saith the Psalmist it shows to man his Rebellion against God and exhorts him to come out of it it teacheth Humility of Mind and all other Moral Heroick and Divine Vertues This Light Power and Spirit of the Lord God is tendred to all mankind as well Women as Men if they do wait in Faith and Patience to receive it this may be easily proved first by the believing Woman of Samaria that carried the Tidings of the Messiah to the Samaritans whereby many of them were converted And also after the Resurrection of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ he appeared first to two Women and sent them to carry the Glad-tidings of his Resurrection to his Disciples The Apostle Peter in the Acts preached out of the Prophet Ioel to those People that said the Apostles were drunk with new Wine and shewed them their mistake that they were not drunk as they supposed but it was that which was spoken of by the Prophet That should come to pass in the latter dayes saith God that I will pour out of my Spirit upon all Flesh your Sons and your Daughters shall prophesie and on my Servants and on my Hand-maids will I pour out of my Spirit and they shall prophesie This hath confirmed that saying of the Apostle Paul That there is neither Jew nor Greek Bond nor Free Male nor Female but are all one in Christ And the same Apostle in one of his Epistles to the Corinthians speaks concerning Womens Service in the Church both of Praying and Prophecying and in some other places in the Scripture he forbids some Womens teaching and usurping Authority over the Man all which do no ways obstruct nor contradict what is formerly declared concerning such Women as have received Power from God to Pray Prophecy or declare the Glad-tidings of the Light of the Glorious Gospel of Christ Jesus Much more might be said in this case which I do forbear this being sufficient The Protestant Religion forbids expounding one place of Scripture to make it repugnant to another see that remarkable Article of the Church of England called the Twentieth Article It is the Subtilty of the Serpent to expound one place of Scripture to make it repugnant to another to uphold such Formalities as he can creep into although the Scriptures of Truth be all an equal Truth yet they are not all of an equal weight the Substance declared therein is of more weight than the Forms and Circumstances thereof Our Lord Jesus Christ the God of glory hath visited People under several Forms and hath left them again desolate and empty of his presence when their Forms come once to be admired or adored then they are no better than an Idol and a cover for Hypocrites Also this I have seen in my time of understanding things of this nature which is above forty Years although the Lord Christ hath