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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54225	Tender counsel and advice by way of epistle to all those who are sensible of their day of visitation and who have received the call of the Lord by the light and spirit of His Son in their hearts to partake of the great salvation, wherever scattered throughout the world : faith, hope and charity which overcome the world be multiplied among you / by William Penn.	Penn, William, 1644-1718.	1695 (1695)	Wing P1377; ESTC R28424	17,575	47

embrace it and will be led by it For it teacheth such as it did the Antient Christians to deny all ungodliness and the world's lusts and to live soberly and godlikely in this present evil world looking for that blessed hope and glorious appearing of the great God and their Saviour Jesus Christ who hath given himself for them to deliver them from all sin and to redeem them from all iniquity You know that you are bought with a price now you feel it and in measure discern the preciousness of that Price which hath bought you namely the Life of the Dear Son of God Grieve not his Spirit that is ready to Seal you to the Day of your perfect Redemption But give up your Bodies Souls and Spirits to his service whose they are that they may be order'd by him to his Glory I write not to you as to the World for you are called out of the World by him that hath overcome the World that as he is not of this World so you may not be of this World Come then out of it more and more out of the Nature out of the Spirit out of the Fruits and out of the Fashions of the World They are all for the Fire Christ said the World loveth its own Search with the Light of the Lord Jesus what there is in you that the World owneth and loveth For that is its own And consider what it is that the World is offended with Not that that cometh from it self of its own making and inventing but that which crosseth its Inventions that is of another Nature and springeth from another Root O be not conformed to the Fashions of this World that please the Lust which grieveth the Spirit of God but be ye renew'd in your Minds and being so within you will be as a new People without They that have been truly with Christ are quickly discovered they cannot be hid So it was of old the Jews said of the Disciples these men have been with Jesus their Speech and Carriage bewray'd them their outsides were not like the outsides of other Men they were not currant with the Fashions and Customs of that time Nor can they that have been with Jesus conform to the vain Fashions and Customs of this World wherefore be not you in any sort of this World but give diligence to make your holy high Calling and Election sure For many are called and few are chosen and the reason is they are slothful Servants they hide their Talent in a Napkin neglect the Day of their Visitation and work not out their Salvation with fear and trembling And then the Night overtaketh them in which they can never work the works of Repentance and the things that belong to their peace are hid from their Eyes for ever But the Lord forbid that it should be so with any of you No no I hope yea I believe better things of you And I am assured that as you keep your Hearts chastly to the Light and Grace that with which you have been visited of the Lord you shall be kept to Eternal Salvation For they are saved that walk in the Light Into the Light the Enemy cannot come for the Light is Christ Jesus and the Enemy hath no part or place in him he is driven out from the holy place by transgression and he is now a fugitive from Heaven but he goeth up and down the Earth seeking whom he may devour whom he can catch and carry away with his baits and Snares Wherefore Wo to the Inhabitants of the Earth that is the earthly Inhabitants such as love and live in the earthly Nature for all such shall be a prey to him he shall have power over them and keep up his Kingdom in them But those that receive and abide in Christ Jesus the Light Life and Truth are out of his reach they are in the munition of Rocks under the pavilion of the Lord and in the safe Ark of the most High God However he is permitted to tempt try till the time shall come that he is not only trodden under Foot but also bound and cast into the Lake that burneth with Fire and Brimston And he is the greatest Enemy to those that turn their back upon him wherefore he watcheth to surprize them that he might take them at unawares and triumph over their failings And for that reason Christ Jesus preached the Watch earnestly and with repetition to his Disciples Now my dear Friends there be several things or the Enemy in several Appearances will attend you in this holy march you are making to the Eternal Land of rest of which I would caution you that you may none of you make Shipwrack of any of those holy beginnings you have experienced by the Light and Spirit of the Lord. Beware of vain thoughts for they oppress and extinguish the true sense These vain thoughts arise from the Enemy's presentations of objects to the mind and the Mind 's looking upon them till they have made their impressions upon the mind and influenced the mind into a love of them This is a false liberty a dangerous ye a destructive liberty to the holy Sense that God hath begotten in any For as that is not received but hindered by such thoughts so it is not improved but destroyed by them The divine Sense in the Soul is begotten by the Lord 'T is his Life and Spirit his holy Breath and Power that quickneth the Soul and maketh it sensible of its own state and of God's will and that raiseth fervent desires in it to be Eternally blessed This is that which Satan rageth at he feareth his Kingdom he findeth that he is come that will cast him out of his possessions He cryeth out Why art thou come to torment me before my time He is the Father of vain thoughts he begetteth them in the mind on purpose to draw off the mind from that Sense and to exercise it in variety of conceptions in a self-liberty of thinking and imagining concerning Persons and things Here he offereth his Baits and layeth his Snares and never faileth to Catch and defile the unwatchful Soul Now if you should say what are these vain thoughts I tell you my Friends All those thoughts and conceptions that either bring not Real Profit to the Soul or that Grieve Hurt or Oppress that holy Sense which is begotten of God in the Soul And that by which Thoughts are to be examined is the Light of Christ Jesus For as whatever may be known of God is manifested within man for there God hath shown it him as saith the Apostle Paul to the Romans So what ever is reproved is made manifest by the light for whatever maketh manifest is light saith he to the Ephesians By this Light of Christ Jesus examine your own Thoughts see whence they rise from whence they come and what they tend to O Friends here is a Mystery and the Evil One worketh here in a Mystery For where he cannot

TENDER Counsel and Advice By Way of EPISTLE To all those who are Sensible of their DAY of VISITATION And who have Received the Call of the Lord By the Light and Spirit of his SON in their Hearts to partake of the Great Salvation wherever scattered throughout the World Faith Hope and Charity which overcome the World be multiplied among you By William Penn. The Second Edition LONDON Printed and Sold by T. Sowle near the Meeting-house in White-Hart-Court in Gracious-Street 1695. TENDER Counsel and Advice By Way of EPISTLE To all those who are sensible of the DAY of their Visitation c. My Dearly Beloved Friends WHO are sensible of the Day of your Visitation by the Light of the Lord Jesus in your Hearts and who have gladly received the holy Testimony thereof by which you have beheld the great Apostasy that is in the World from the Life Power and Spirit of God and the gross Degeneracy that is amongst those called Christians from the Purity Self-denial and holy Example of Christ Jesus and his Primitive Followers and how Pride Lust and Vanity reign and how Christendom is become a Cage of Vnclean Birds Who have mourned under the sence thereof and have cried in your Souls How long how long how long O Lord God holy and true will it be ere thou takest to thy self thy great power and reignest To whom the World is become a burden and the Vanities and Glory of it but vexation of Spirit Who despise the things that are seen which are Temporal for the sake of the things that are not seen which are Eternal Whose Eyes look through and beyond Time and Mortality to that Eternal City whose Builder and Maker is God Whose daily Cries and Travails are to follow Jesus in the way of Regeneration to live as Pilgrims in this World for the sake of that Glory which shall hereafter be revealed that can never fade away that you may attain unto the Eternal Rest of God To you my dear Friends to you it is that the God and Father of him that was dead and is alive and liveth for evermore Christ Jesus the faithful and true Witness who hath loved and visited my Soul hath now moved upon my Spirit to write and visit you with this Epistle Receive it then and with it the endeared Salutation of that Love and Life which are not of this World but overcome the World Great and frequent are my Travails for you that you may persevere and not faint but endure to the end that you may obtain that glorious Salvation and Redemption that is in Christ Jesus Yea for this are my Knees bended before the God of the Spirits of all Flesh that you may be entirely kept that you may so run as you may obtain and so fight as you may overcome that an Immortal Crown and Kingdom may be your Portion when all Sins and Sorrows shall be done away And that this you may do hear my Exhortation to you in the Spirit of Truth Dwell in the sense that God hath begotten in your Hearts by the Light and Spirit of his Son who is now in his Son in you reconciling you unto himself Watch that this blessed sense be preserved in you and it will preserve you For where the holy sense is lost Profession even of the highest Truths cannot preserve against the Enemies Assaults but the Gates of Hell will prevail against them and the Enemy's Darts will wound them and they will be carried again Captive by the Power of his Temptations Wherefore I say again live and abide in that Light and Life which hath visited you and begotten an holy sense in your Hearts and which hath made Sin exceeding sinful to you and you weary and heavy-laden under the burden of it And hath raised in you a Spiritual Travail Hunger and Thirst after your Saviour that he might deliver you that ye might be filled with the Righteousness of his Kingdom that is without end Dear Friends God hath breathed the Breath of Life in you and in measure you live for dead Men and Women do not Hear or Hunger or Thirst neither do they feel Weights and Burdens as you do The Day of the Lord is dawned upon you and it burneth as an Oven you know it and all Works of Iniquity are as Stubble before it You feel it so they cannot stand before the Lord His Judgments take hold of them and consume them O love his Judgments that with those of Old you may say In the way of thy Judgments O Lord have we waited for thee the desire of our Soul is to thy Name and to the remembrance of thee With our Souls have we desired thee in the Night yea with our Spirits within us will we seek thee early For when thy Judgments are in the Earth the Inhabitants of the World will learn righteousness Part part with all My dear Friends that is for Judgment let him arise in your Hearts that his and your Enemys may be scattered That you may witness Him to be stronger in you then he that is in the World If the desire of your Soul be to his Name and the remembrance of him you will love his Judgments and abide there the days he alloweth for your purification Behold his blessed Visitation is upon you His Angel hath Saluted you and his holy Spirit hath overshadowed you he hath begotten holy desires in you I pray that they may never be extinguisht and that you may never faint Wherefore look to Jesus that is the Author that he may be the Finisher I Testify for God he has appeared to you yea he hath said to you as to Andrew Philip c. follow me And I say unto you follow him Come and see where he dwelleth do not lose Sight of him let him be lifted up in you and your Eye be to him Who whereever he is lifted up draweth all such after him And this is the reason why People are not now drawn after Christ because he is not lifted up in their Hearts he is not exalted in their Souls he is Rejected Opprest Crucified and Buried yea they have Rowled a Stone upon him and set Guards that he should not rise in them to Judge them But blessed are you whose Eyes have seen one of the days of the Son of Man Blessed are you at whose Doors he hath knocked to whose Heart he hath appeared who have received his holy Visitation who believe it is he and not another and therefore have said in your Hearts with Nathaniel of old thou art the Son of God thou art the King of Israel and with Thomas my Lord and my God O what have you my dear Friends to do but to keep with him for ever For whither should you go the words of Eternal Life dwell with him He is full of Grace and full of Truth and of his Fulness ye have received Grace for Grace And this is that Grace which bringeth Salvation to all that receive it