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A Testimony to the Lord's power and blessed appearance in and amongst children wherein is expressed the great love of God to them ...
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and upon our Spirits and to Bless us daily more and more with all Spiritual Blessings in Christ Jesus to the Praise and Glory of his Grace wherein he hath made us accepted in the Beloved according to the Riches of his Grace wherein he hath reached and abounded towards us to declare unto our Souls that he has pardoned our Sins and received us into his Fatherly love and care What shall I say of the next following Meeting I am not able to express the sweet refreshing Life Vertue and Power of our heavenly Father arising in us with healing under â—is Wings For as the Evening before Fearfulness and Trembling came upon many and Horror had overwhelmed them so now at this time the sweet Love of a most tender and merciful Father embracing their Spirits did sweetly and livingly refresh and comfort their Souls he healed the broken in Heart and bound up their Wounds with the Balm of his heavenly Life Vertue and Power to the great comfort and satisfaction of our Souls who partook of the Water of Life that the Lord poured forth and made us to drink of in and through which the Spirit of the Humble was quickned and the Heart of the Contrite Ones revived Now as the Lord in those two Meetings hath appeared and revealed himself in and to us in a most special gracious and powerful manner so his Sweet and Heart-melting Love and tender Mercies have hitherto followed us from Meeting to Meeting sensibly and livingly Refreshing Comforting Stregthening and Confirming our Souls in his Love Life Vertue and Power until this very Day Praises Praises Praises Glory and Honour be to our God henceforth forever and forever Moreover it is sealed to my Spirit by the holy Spirit of the Lord God That we shall be Monuments of his Tender Mercies and Fatherly Love and Care these are the words which livingly arose in my Heart as we were lately gathered together and arise again as I am writing this Testimony for God I say We shall be Monuments of his tender Mercies and fatherly Love and Care if we keep Low Humble Meek and Tender before him he will instruct uâ— teach us in the Way which we shall go and guide us with his Eyes if we always Fear and Dread his holy powerful Name which he hath revealed unto us and poured forth in and among us as a good and precious Ointment which causes us to be glad and to rejoyce in him and to love him with all our Heart Soul and Mind In the Sense of this great Love and tender Mercies of the Lord God my Soul desires that I and every one of us especially our dear Children that have with us tasted of the good Word and Power of the World to come by which our Souls have been quickned and livingly refreshed and comforted may be always kept in a living sense of the Loving kindness and Goodness of the Lord towards us that so we may walk in Humility Righteousness and Holiness before him who hath reached to our Souls and made us sensible of our inward State and Condition and also of his Love Grace and Mercy that we may walk worthy of this his great Love and Dread and Fear him in our Hearts always having the Eyes of our Mind towards him that in his Light shining in our Souls we may see even the least appearance of Evil and waiting in it we may receive Power to be kept and preserved out of it lest by entring in or consenting to it we should offend the Lord and cause him to with draw his sweet Love and to hide the Light and Favour of his Countenance from us which would bring Sorrow Anguish and Destruction upon our Souls Oh! let us walk worthy of this great Love let every one of us be circumspect in our Lives and Conversations that our Enemies who Reproach and Blaspheme the holy Name and powerful Work of the Lord God who hath graciously and gloriously appeared in and among us may behold our Holy Innocent Upright Life and Conversation and by it may be reached and convinced that not the Devil but the Lord God in his holy Life Vertue Power and Spirit hath appeared in and among us by which he hath wrought a new Heart and renewed a right and holy Spirit in us the blessed Effect whereof is Holiness and Righteousness which Work is not of Man muchless of the Devil but of the Everlasting Pure and Holy God who in his Everlasting Holy Pure and Quickning Power hath begot us again into the heavenly Image of his dear Son Christ Jesus which consists in Holiness and Righteousness and Truth which the Devil is out of Having therefore received Grace and Mercy Life Vertue and Power of God let us cleanse our selves from all Filthiness of the Flesh and Spirit perfecting Holiness in the Fear of God that we may shew forth the heavenly Vertue and Power of him that hath called and translated us from Darkness into his marvelous Light and turned from Satans Power to his own Holy Pure and Living Power in which we are enabled to do good Works new created of God in Christ Jesus unto good Works that we may walk therein in which if we are sound walking and doing the Works of God we shall never fall again for so an entrance shall be ministred unto us abundantly into the Everlasting Kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ who is the true Light which lights every man that comes into the World in which heavenly and divine Light we daily receive Life Vertue and Power to escape the Corruption that is in the World through Lust and to live Soberly Righteously and Godly in this present World to the Honour and Praise of him that hath called us to Glory and Vertue For this is the very end of the heavenly living powerful Appearance of our God in the midst of us that in and through the heavenly Power of his Son Christ Jesus revealed in us in his divine heavenly Light Life and Spirit he might redeem us from all Iniquity and purifie unto himself a peculiar People zealouâ— unto good Works and that so out of the Mouths of Babes and Sucklings he may perfect Praises for his Name Let us therefore always be found in Well-doing that our Light may shine before men that they may see our good Works and glorifie our Father which is in Heaven who dwells in the Light and is Light in which if we walk therein we have fellowship with him and one with another and the Bloâ—d of Jesus Christ his Son which cleanses us from all Sins is inwardly known and felt and the true Fellowship with the Fâ—â—her and his Son Jesus Christ comes to be witnessed Righteousness and Holiness is shewn forth in our Lives and Conversation by which our heavenly Father comes to be praised and glorified For herein is our heavenly Father of his Children glorified when they bring forth much Fruit of the Spirit which is in all Goodness and Righteousness
and Truth always proving and doing what is acceptable unto the Lord to whom be Glory and Honour Praises and Hallelujah Wisdom and Dominion from my Soul in the living Sense of his great Love and tender Mercies now henceforth forever and ever Amen Amen Testified by me J. M The 5th of the 5th Moneth 1679. WHen I consider the Goodness Mercy and Love of Almighty God to the Sons and Daughters of Men so largely manifested and suited to every Capacity and Condition to this end and purpose that all even from the least to the greatest may be made sensible and living Monuments of his wonderful Work which he hath been carrying on in all Ages lesâ— or more but now in this latter Age of the World is cutting the Work short in Righteousness I see it clearly in the Light of the Lord for which my Sâ—ul and Heart is overcome with Praises and Thanksgivings to him who I see takes pleasure to dwell with the lowly in Heart and that are willing to follow him whithersoever he in his Requirings may lead Glory to his blessed Name forever I say the consideration of the Lord 's wonderful Dealing with people but more especially with the Young Ones in our Family constrains me at this time to open my Mouth in my small Measure to declare of his Wonderful and Soul-ravishing Virtue livingly witnessed to in my Measure and also am an Eye and Ear-Witness but which is more I find it sealed in my heart that the Lord hath begun a blessed Work in and among the Younger sort so that I can say in Truth The Lord hath been here the blessed Effects whereof do sufficiently declare it Oh! how is my Soul overjoy'd when I see that wild Nature which bore rule in some changed and brought under so that I may justly say with the Prophet and do witness the same both in my own particular as also I declare it on the behalf of the Children That in some I see instead of the Thorns comes up the Fir-tree and instead of the Bryar comes up the Myrtle tree and it is for the Lord a Name for an Everlasting Sign that shall not be cut off This hath been the End and Tendency of all the Upright hearted Ones in their Labour and daily Exercise in this Family who are more nearly concerned in them And Oh! let all Heart joyn with me at this time and at all times to Praise and Extol the God of all Goodness who in his Love hath given us an Earnest of our Desires which is more to us than Thousands of Silver or Gold This the Lord hath been bringing to pass for several years past by his Almighty Power and Out-stretches Arm invisibly in the Hearts of the Young Ones and now is more maniâ—estly begun to shew forth his Power to the melting of the Rocky-hearted and tendring of them into Tears which was livingly witnessed to by many who felt the Power of the Almighty to overshadow them in a Wonderful and Soul ravishing manner at our fourth day's Meeting in Waltham Abby so that in the Sense of the goodness of the Lord tendred to my Soul the Souls of the Children there present I was broken into Tears having a deep sense of the Work of the Lord in my own particular to work in my Heart as also I was overcome with Joy to feel the Lord's Power so wonderfully to work on the Children Minds that they were melted and broken to the Amazement of many there present who never saw such a Day nor witnessed the Lord's Power to change them in their Minds Oh! but what Joy what comfort what Satisfaction unutterable was ministred to them who waited upon the Lord for this to see their Expectation answered in this Matter what greater Joy could be afforded surely none I can truly say it was more to me I hope to my dying Day never to forget it then all Visible or Created Comforts whatsoever And so as the Lord did in a wonderful manner break forth in his Living Power upon the 4th day being the 4th day of the 4th Moneth so we have witnessed since and do witness daily Praises to our God for it the same Arm of Power to work in our Family-Meetings so that forsome Nights we have gone to Bed with the Tears in our Eyes being filled with the Love of so tender and merciful a Father who thus had visited us in his love and filled our Hearts with unexpressible Joy And this I say more on the behalf of the Children that some have been so livingly refreshed in our Evening-Meetings that after they have been in Bed their Sleep hath been taken from them for several hours together and their Souls have been filled with Praises and Thanksgivings more then could be uttered This I was constrained to say for the Lord that he is no hard Master that he takes no pleasure in the Death of Sinners but thus even in our day as of Old so fatherly tenderly and condescendingly he deals with People even with the tenderaged as to accommodate himself in his appearance to their Capacities that they may feel him at work in their inward parts who worketh all his Childrens work in them and for them to the everlasting renown and praise of his worthy Name forever Now let all be invited hereby to bow and submit their Necks to the Yoke of Christ and let them be made willing to take it upon them for truly it is light to them that are made willing in the day of his mighty Power Further let me intreat all who have been sharers with me in this late and continued Heart-breaking-Power to walk worthy of the same that we together may pass the time of our sojourning here in fear that in the end when we shall lay down these Tabernacles we may be admitted unto the full Fruition and compleat Enjoyment of his favour who hath called us and that very early whose favour is better then Life whereof of late we have had a larg earnest to the refreshing of our Souls and the establishing of them in his fear Everlasting Praises Glory and Renown be sounded forth unto our bountiful Lord and Master Christ Jesus World without End Amen A. PATERSONE THE END