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A85131	VVritten by one, whom the world calls a Quaker, Joh.17.2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9. Verses	R. F. (Richard Farnworth), d. 1666.	1653 (1653)	Wing F472B; ESTC R229846	13,763	24

into all truth It will be a present teacher a present Law in all companies and upon all occasions yea in all thy wayes to be a light to thy Feete and a Lanthorne to thy pathes thou shalt finde the light love truth in obeying it continually manifesting it selfe unto thee and working thee into the experience of the Divine taste sight and apprehension of the exceeding love of thy Saviour that when thy carnall minde Dinah who would run forth to fetch in earthly profits or pleasures continually to crosse those desires and take away from thee that Scorpion which the Divell offers to take thy earthly minde with and so imprison thee and waiting in this light 1 Ch. 15 16 26 ver 1 Joh. 2. 2 Cor. 1 Heb. 1 15 16. 1 Cor. 13. 2 Cor. 16 17 ver Isa 12. ver 1 Pet. 3.20 Isa 29. ver The Lord will give thee an earnest peny even his precious love to nourish thy spirit even unto eternall life thou needest not run out for teaching If thou wilt but heare what the spirit speaketh to the Church in thy heart If thou hast an Eare to heare that Minister he hath the everlasting Gospell to Preach and he doth continually Preach and hand out the love of God to thee examine thine heart it is either an holy Temple where the Gospell is preached by the Spirit of God or the Temple of the Devill where the Devills doctrine is preached now mind his servant thou art to whom thou yeeldest obedience the Lord is setting up his Ministery in power in the spirits of his people to him be everlasting praise for ever Therefore cease from Man and from the teachings of Man heare what the spi●it speaketh to every disobedient spirit this is the Ministery of God that worketh faith that administers grace to the heaters The Lord complained of a people that drew neare him with their lips and that spoke of him in their mouthes but their hearts were far from him that had their feare taught to him by the precepts of men see if it be not even so now great runnings out for teachings after Man great professing God in words but whe●e is the power of godlinesse great speakings of Jesus Christ a Redeemer but when he comes the professing Pharises will not know him but lookes for an outward day of the Lord an outward Kingdome not knowing the voyce of the true Shepherd in the spirit not when he comes to take the Kingdome to himselfe will he suffer him If he be thy Redeemer see if he have redeemed thee from thy vaine conversation and if thou findest him not doing it in thine heart why dost thou call him Saviour or Redeemer and hatest to be redeemed and saved see your teachers they say unto you that you would not be proud nor covetous nor oppresse nor go to Law one with another nor contend for the goods of this World and say the Lord saith it but the Lord never said it so to them that live in those things 〈◊〉 7.15 17 18 20.23.28 to be your teachers feed no longer on wine least ye bring forth a whirle wind they sweare by my Name saith the Lord and yet they sweare falsely he that hath a Dreame tell his Dreame and he that hath my word speak my word for what is the Chaffe to the Wheare saith the Lord 〈◊〉 10.7 ● 10. ●0 7.26 28. 〈◊〉 4. and is it any thing else but to tell Dreames of their own hearts studyings and inventions to say and not to doe to professe to have the word of the Lord and under that colour to grind the faces of the poore Christ never sent any such be not deceived God is not mocked to day if you will heare heare the Voyce of the Lord 40.3 ● in your spirits and it will breake the Ceda●s of Libanon remove the Mountaines and cause the Hind to cast her Calfe it will breake down every high thought and remove every proud imagination and cause every wild lustfull desire to be abortive and it will give streng h to overcome the wicked one to deny that which tempteth to doe evill and b●ing you to John to be Baptized in Aenon into Repentance and newnesse of life it will not only shew you the way to the Father but it will bring you into the way to the Father Jesus Christ saving and taking away your sinnes and blotting out the hand-writings and into righteousnesse eternall Life it will let you see how the Lambe of God hath laid slaine in you from the beginning of the World in you by your lusts and corruptions viz. The resisting the love in convincings of evill ●●ch 12.10 and movings to good the sight of which will cause you to mourne over him whom you have pierced by your lusts and corruptions and no longer to allow the Jewes Act Now the Lord raise up the plant of his right-hand in all your spirits more ●nd more that there may be abundance of sweet Grapes ●hat he alone may be honoured Friends prize the love of God unto you Joh. 1.4 and mind ●he light of God in you that shewes you sinne and ●vill and your conditions and obey that which shewes ●ou the vanity of your own minds and the deceites of your own hearts the Lord calls for your hearts my ●●nne give me thine heart keepe my Commandements Prov. 7.2 3. Pro. 2. 1 2 3 4. Mat. 24 26 27 2 Col. 1.27 ●ind them about thy neck and write them upon the Tables of thine heart So shall they be health to your soules Harken diligently to the voyce of Christ and your soules shall live he is not without in formall hearing and formall praying and formall breaking of Bread and Wine he is not there he is risen looke not for him without but looke for him within and cease from man whose breath is in his Nostrills for wherein is he to be accounted of waite upon the Lord Jam. 5.7 and he will renew your strength and enable you to waite but it may be you will say I must use the meanes you must do so let me tell you you will find it hard to flesh to waite therefore use the meanes of patience Let patience possesse your soules let the light guide you 2 Cor. 4.6 7. that shewes you your wandering desires and vaine thoughts and wicked imaginations and if you be guided by it it will turne your minds within 1 Cor. 4. and bring you to Repentance and Repentance it will bring you to be loving and mercifull for God is so and it will bring you to be meek and lowly in spirit and being kept in the true feare it will cause you to lay aside all evill Acts 3.1 as the light makes it manifest and to waite upon the Lord in patience till an entrance be made to your soules and refreshment come from the presence of the Lord and saith Christ If yee love me keepe my Commandements let them be

into the fountaine of your Fathers love 1 Pet. 10 11. to rejoyce in him with exceeding joy and it will even take your affections into its own purity and excellency that the ●owings in of it will even breake your heart in peeces Cant. 4. 8 10 11. and overcome all things that are in enmity against it and take you up into rapture of Joy and Ravishment of spirit to have your soules bathed in that full fountaine of living mercies to delight in the Lords Love above all other loves whatsoever for the love of all things that are visible is but transitory and fades away but dwelling in that which is pure it will draw your affections into that which is invisible Cant. ● 1 13 14 ● to be comprehended into the excellency of the full fountaine of the free love of the Lord Jesus Christ which will comfort your hearts and cheare you up above all other comforts whatsoever Oh my deare hearts dwell wholy within and mind to be guided by that which kills all lustfull affections to outward and visible delights and pleasures which are but as drosse and dung in comparison of the eternall and invisible excellencies Oh waite still upon the Lord and be not hasty he is worthy to be waited for stand wholly in the Counsell of the Lord and your wills which would be delighting it selfe below will be kept in the Crosse which will cut downe all things which are Earthly and carnall in you and so abiding in the Crosse Heb. 4.13 and standing in the Counsell of the Lord it will keepe from hearkning to words without life and power to savour from what Genter they do arise for by standing in the Counsell of the Lord it will bring you to know the true Power of God in your selves and to know the living word which gives your soules refreshment which proceeds from the Divine Power and excellency of the Lords Love within operating and manifesting it selfe to you from the Lords owne free Love and eternall Excellency and knowing this within your selves 〈◊〉 13. ●●nt 7.6 ●0 9 10 12 ●● ver you will be brought to discerne the same power of life when it brancheth forth its selfe in others to have unity with it All words that are spoken without life and power arise from a vaine light mind and they draw out the mind to lightnesse and begets into the same nature of its selfe and there the will gets liberty and the old man is kept alive and gets words from the same Center that ariseth out of conceivings and imaginations to speake of but words without life destroy the Simplicity in you and hearkning to them it will draw you out of the love and sense of the Mercies of the Lord and the pure unity and tendernesse will be lost and the old nature will get up againe and take its liberty under other Colours and thereby the Grace of God will be turned into wantonness ●●h 15.5 ●●vers and so the Lord will be dishonoured Oh my deare hearts I beseech you for the Lords sake to walke worthy of your calling see that your mindes be kept within and guided by the pure guide and it will keepe you and lead you into purity it selfe and knowing the true Voyce and the true Power of the Lord Jesus Christ in your selves ●●h 10.14 ●● 28. it will bring you to know the same in others and that will beget into the same life to live in love and purity to have Union and Communion with that which is pure and holy and as words without life doe deestroy the pure ●●●plicity and vayle the pure giving heed to them 〈◊〉 words that are spoken from the will raise up the ●●●e and rent through the vayle of darknesse and ●ive light and refreshment to that pure seed which ●es low to nourish and revive it that it may get ●●rength and grow in purity and love oh looke ●ot out at words but know the power of words ●nd give up your selves wholly to the Lord that ●ee may guide and leade you into all truth but stand 〈◊〉 the Counsell of the Lord and so away will be ●ade beyond your understanding Jo. 14.16 17. vers 8 26. vers that the pure ●●ed may be raysed up in glory in you cease wholy ●rom all your Priests for they draw your mindes from the pure teachings within and so will leaven you with their dirty stuffe that is fetcht out of the ●●ld store house of their studyings 1 Joh. 2.2 Jer. 23 2● 26 27. v●● Jer. 23.25 Heb. 4.12 13. conceavings and ●maginations that they fetch out of old Authors ●nd Commentatours for they know not the word of God that studie for words to speake the Word of God is a living Word it is a powerfull Word 〈◊〉 will cut downe all lustfull desires in you that would runne forth into the earthly carnall delights And that which cutts downe the carnall desires in you will strengthen the pure desires that streames of living and fresh Mercies may come into your soules from the living Fountaine of the Lords eternall love and this is within Christ is within 2 Cor. 13.5 vers great is the mistery of Godlinesse Christ in you Col. 1.27 Know him there and the word is within you know it there Rom. 10.8 Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly in all Wisdome Teaching and Admonishing one another let the Peace of God rule in you Isai 9.6 7 which is Jesus Christ the everlasting Prince of peace know it all within you Col. 3.15 16. Come to know this Teacher within and looke after no other yee have an Unction and yee neede not that any Man teach you but that anointing 1 Joh 2.27 Know Christ within killing sinne and evill and reveailing and manifesting the hidden Riches of his Fathers Love to your soules Rom. 8. ●0 11. Cor. 1. ● 7.28 the mistery that hath beene hidde from Ages and Generations is God the Father now revealing in the hearts of a poore despised People Now if thou love the Lord Jesus Christ thou must not love the World for hee that loveth any thing more then Him hee is not worthy of Him and thou must deny thy selfe of all the delights of the flesh whatsoever thou cannot have the Love of God and the love of the World for the friendship of the World is enmity with God Joh. 2.15 〈◊〉 6.24 Oh love the Lord Jesus Christ with all your Hearts for there is no love like to his Love and waite wholy upon him for Teaching Now to waite is to have your mindes stayed off from all Thoughts Conceivings and Imaginations Pure and Free and then you will heare the voyce of the good Shepheard speaking to your Soules that are in Prison Therefore waite wholly and be not weary and waite within and when Troubles and Temptations doe arise doe not looke at them but minde that which doth discover them that is the love of God to

VVritten by one whom the World calls a Quaker Joh. 17.2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9. Verses In the time of Israels captivity bound under hard hearted Pharaoh that rules over the pure Seed the Israelite within Thus saith the Lord Therefore do I make my Power known that Israel may go free Read Scriptur see if can own same po●● that they that 〈◊〉 them for Read Job 8. c. 4.21.5 37 1. David Psal 10 3 4. Psal 38 7 8. Psal 1 120 Isal 66 5. Jer. 23. Hab. 3. Eze. 3 10. Dan. 11. Act 9 5 6. Thus saith the Lord we have heard a Voyce of Feare of Trembling and not of Peace Wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his Loines as a Woman in travell aske yee now and see whether a Man doth travell with Child and all Faces are turned into palenesse Alas that day is great so that none is like it It is even the time of Jacobs trouble but he shall be saved out of it And I will break his yoake from off his Neck and will burst his Bonds and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him but they shall serve the Lord their God and David their King whom I will raise up unto them Jer. 30.4 5 6 7 8 c. Eze. 12 18. D●n 10 The word of the Lord came unto me saying Son of Man eate thy bread with quaking c. So fearfull was the sight that I did exceedingly fear and Quake Heb. 12.21 Vers Printed in the Year ●653 One of Sions sharp Threshing Instruments with A Bunch of Sweet Grapes on the end of it FOr tender hearts which desire to know the way to Sion the City of the living God that they may minde the leadings of the Fathers love that sends his Son to them when they lie wounded halfe dead being falne amongst Theeves Jer. 23.3 Ioh. 10.8 those that steale their words from their Neighbours and have no Oyle to powre in neither do they take any care of them but leave them Ezek. 3.4 ver Jer. 5.3 31. ver and doe not shew any mercy to them at all looking lightly at them all that they looke after is that they may be Lords and Rulers over Gods heritage to make themselves great and rich and honourable in the World not knowing the office of a Physitian to dresse the wound and powre Oyle into it neyther do they know the office of a Shepheard but are more like Swineheards Ezek. ●● 2 3 ver all Baals Priests feeding their lusts faring sumptuously and living delicately in great parsonages and fat benefices fatting up themselves for the slaughter pushing the diseased and take no care but lose the sheepe feeding themselves and feed not the flock which causeth the Lord to complain of them and he sends his servants rising up early and lying down late to cry out of their carelesness Ezek. 3 5 6 7 8 9 10. ver and some of them they beat and some of them they stone and others they imprison to satisfie their lusts and lives themselves in pleasures and wantonnesse doing their own wills and not regarding the will of the Lord Therefore is he sore displeased with them and will turn them out with the unprofitable servant ●●e 34. ●● 17 18 〈◊〉 and reward them according to their workes even feed them with his sore judgements But as a loving Father 〈◊〉 ●● 10.9 11. 15 16. and a tender and good Shepheard doth he take care for his sheepe and sends his Son to fould them and lead them into fat Pastures even feeding them all along by the Rivers of his love ●●●e 34.11 13 c. where there is greene and fresh mercies for the soules of his distressedones to feed on 〈◊〉 15. ● 2 8 9. and he dresseth the Diseased ones pouring in the Oyle of Faith and Love and Mercy mixt together to heale up the wound and make them chearfull 〈◊〉 4.34 and profitable to bring forth fruit for his Fathers glory and his delight is altogether in doing his Fathers will H●b 10.7 8 9 10. Verses This was written by a labouring Man that sometimes Thresheth and sometimes Plowes and keeps with his Fathers sheep who is an Husbandman and his delight is altogether in the new Creation watering Plants and feeding Lambs and such work as his Father sets him about whose desire and delight is altogether in doing his Fathers will A Bunch of GRAPES AND An Iron ROD. ALL the Children of the Lord are taught of the Lord Isal 54.12 13 15. and are farre from oppression and they are established in righteousnesse The Lord alone is the Teacher of his people by his Spirit and they are made possessors of that which the World doth but professe All you that professe love to God and Jesus Christ see what you doe possesse of him Mat. 11 A great Fig-tree is sprung up out of the Earth full of flourishing branches and leaves but examine looke upon the Tree and see for fruit the Lord is comming to looke for fruits every one seriously consider where he stands what he professeth what he practizeth It is not be that saith Lord Lord that enters into the Kingdome but be that doth the will of the Father now there is no entrance into the Kingdome Mat. ●● 13 14. but through obedience and every one would gladly enter into the Kingdome of Heaven but they that will enter must enter in at the straite gate not through their own wills and lustfull desires but through the crosse in selfe-deniall in obedience to the Lord Jesus Christ The Lord hath commanded that thou shalt not be drunke nor proud nor covetous nor given to anger malice nor revenge nor to deale deceit fully with thy brother nor to see them naked and hungry and many other things thou shalt find commanded in thy spirit and thou wilt confesse it is truth now minde whether thou dost obey the Lord in temperance in all things in giving freely to thy poore brethren in feeding and clothing them in forgiving one another freely in speaking the truth to thy Neighbour c. or thy lusts and if thou dost thou shalt be beaten with many stripes Yea but thou sayest thou wantest power no thou slothfull servant thou hidest thy Tallent in the Earth 〈◊〉 4.7 ●●m 12.3 See if there be not the Talent given thee the Lord is convincing every one and hath set up his Ministery saying thou must not doe evill and hath written what it is to doe evill in thy heart and how to do well but thou disobeyest and calls God an hard Master Remember the slothfull servants portion but if thou wilt obey the Ministery of Jesus Christ minde imploy thy Talent 〈◊〉 3.11 ● 1 Ch. 〈◊〉 8.12 Pet. 1.19 he hath set a light in the World within thee convincing thee of every evill thought word and action be obedient to that and it will guide thee