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The royal law of God revived wherein you may see that all nations of men may keep in it a royal society ... / G.F.
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Fox, George, 1624-1691.
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Again you would have none to kill you or to covet your Goods or to steal from you you would have none to commit Adultry with your Wives or defile your Children which things are an Abomination unto the Lord therefore do not you so to any others but mind the Righteous Law that answers the Righteous Principle of God in you that keeps you in Holiness and Righteousness that is good and in this you will have esteem of God and his Royal Law and will have an esteem of your Souls and bodies which are the Lords that they may be kept holy that so they may be an acceptable Offering unto the Lord who is holy whose they are for Christ came to destroy the Devil and his Works who had sowed the evil Seed of Discord among the Children of men who are the Creation of God his Creatures And Christ that came to redeem man and save him sayes Love your Enemies and love one another for that is of God then Hatred and Enmity is not of God so here they were to love the Creatureâ— but not the Evil for the Creatures were of God's Creation for Christ came to destroy the Devil and not Man-kind but that onely which would destroy them This is the General and Universal Love for God so loved the World in sending his Son into the World when Jews and Gentiles were concluded under Sin to be an Offering and Sacrifice for the sins of the whole World And therefore Christ Jesus saith Love one another and love Enemies for that shews and answers the Mind of God and of Christ who lays down his Life for Enemies and dies for Sinners and so loved the World though they were Enemies that he sent his Son into the World that the World through him might live and so God was in Christ reconciling the World unto himself and God causeth his Son to shine upon the Just and the Unjust and the Rain to fall upon the Good and the Evil Mat. 5.44 45. So here is the Universal Love of God to Man-kind his Son shines upon the Unjust Man's Field as well as on the Just Man's and his Rain falls upon the Unjust Man's Ground as well as on the Just Man's And therefore you should be of the same mind with Christ for that was the end of his speaking those words that so you might go and do likewise If your rain do not fall upon the Unjust Man's Field as upon the Just you are the wandring Clouds that are said to have no Water in them and so deceive people and your Sun is turned to Darkness that think it shines upon no Body but your selves So you be out of Christ's Doctrine that do not practice his namely to love Enemies and to have your Rain and your Sun if your Rain be from God and your Sun be from God it will shine upon the Unjust as well as upon the Just even for their good and it will fall upon the Unjust and the Just I mean the Rain now they that have not this let them profess what they will God's words and Christ's words they are Hypocrites and are blind Guides that lead into the Ditch Now the Lord saith Thou shalt love thy Neighbour as thy self and so commands his Law Mark Thy Neighbour thou shalt love as thy self for all Nations of men hath God made of one Blood and one Mould to dwell upon the Face of the Earth So mark they are made of one so there is the Natural Affections out of that one to the one all men made of one and there comes the love to his Neighbour of the same Blood and Mould as himself and there comes the Royal Law to be received to do to all men of the same Blood and Mould of the Lord 's making as he would have them do unto him And whosoever professeth godliness and christianity or God or Christ or whatsoever other Religion in the whole World and do not love their Neighbour as themselves and all being made of one Blood and Mould on the face of the Earth they are all Breakers of the Law of God and Dishonourers of God and are Hypocrites that do profess the Law and Gospel that come short of this and do not practice that is to say love your Neighbours as your selves and are out of the Royal Society and the Royal Law And whatsoever Religion Way or Worship people have made and are out of this that is to say Love thy Neighbour as thy self and do unto all men as they would have them do unto them their Religion Way and Worship is no Religion it is but Vanity and their profession of God and Christ is but Vanity and Hypocrisie and do call upon God with their Lips and their Hearts are far off from him and his Royal Law and such destroy Natural Affections and Nature it self for they that love their Neighbour as themselves which is above all the Religions in the World of mens making do shew forth Natural Affections if they love their Neighbours as themselves which is the general Command And in this here is a general Unity a general Concord a general Commerce and Correspondency with all their Neighbours in the whole World neighbour Nations neighbour Countries neighbour Towns And 1 Pet. 2.13 Honour all men love the Brother-hood fear God honour the King Now to honour all men is to have all men in esteem as you may read and if I esteem all men I shall certainly hurt no man neither would I have any other to hurt any man or to hurt one another for I esteem and honour them Why Because they are of God's Creation and God's Creatures and made after the Similitude of God and therefore I am to honour them all 2d To love the Brotherhood those that are Brethren born again and begotten again of the immortal Seed which are living Stones and made a Spiritual Houshold of Brethren 3d Fear God Honour the King so there 's none can honour the King but those that fear God and none can fear God who live in Evil and in Sin And in Heb. 12.14 the Spirit of God by the Apostle commands us To follow Peace with all men and elsewhere saith he Seek the Peace of all men and the Good of all men So now mind this All men must seek the Good of one another one anothers Peace which is in Christ Jesus not in old Adam and in his Royal Law in which they may come to a Concord and demonstrate a Natural Affection and divine Affections to all men who seek the Peace of all men And they that seek the Peace of all men they will not seek their Trouble nor Captivity nor their Slavery nor their Hurt but their Eternal Good and Eternal Peace and this is that that is wanting among them that have been Professors of Christianity So they that have profest and not in the Possession of this in not seeking the Peace of all men are Hypocrites to seek the Peace of Jew Gentile Heathen
Righteousness there is Peace one with another and with Christ who is our Righteousness And so give over Envying Hatred and Persecution and Imprisoning Murdering and Killing one another about these outward things which the Kingdom of God stands not in for it stands in Righteousness Faith and in Love and Joy in the Holy Ghost And come all of you to the Light of Christ that you have hated and to the Spirit of God in you that you have vexed grieved and quenched and the Grace of God that you have walkt despightfully against and turn'd unto Wantonness that by it you may come to see your Salvation and cease from Evil and learn to do well from the Evil I say that you have done in times past and do not do so any more for the time to come but as God has given his Spirit to profit withal obey it that so you may profiâ— in Truth and Righteousness and the Love of God that edifieth the Body and which Love fulfils the Law the Royal Law which is To do unto all as you would have all do unto you then you will come to a holy Society a good righteous and just Society and then you will have your equal weight and measure to weigh and measure withal for such as transgress the Royal Law of God did and do unto others as they would not have others do unto them and upon such the Royal Law of God takes hold and judges them yea upon all Jews Christians Turks and Heathens it doth not take notice of their Profession nor respect them for their Profession but it respects them if they love their Neighbours as themselves and do unto all men as they would have all men do unto them then it shews that they have a Profession of Righteousness that is good that which is just and holy which is the Law of Liberty which gives another Liberty if he would have Liberty himself in this Royal Law which is answered by the Spirit in every man and the Royal Law answereth it And this Royal Law takes hold upon all Men and Women in the whole Earth let their Profession be what it will be if they grieve the Spirit of God it judges all that walk not according to the Spirit of God in them that brings them to the Royal Law in which they have Liberty and then they come to confess the one Legistator or Law-Giver one Lord Jesus Christ by whom is all and one Lord who is over all So then let this be read seriously with the Spirit of God in every Male and Female that they may answer the Royal Law of God in which they may all have Liberty Unity Commerce Fellowship and a Society a holy a just a righteous one in which all do to others as they would have them do to them and they come to love their Neighbours as themselves And in this all Nations of men may keep a Society a Unity a Trade a Traffick and a Communion and Commerce and hold a Correspondency one with another and this will preserve him in a natural Affection And as they all keep in this Royal Law that answers the Spirit of God in them all and his Light and Grace in which they will have a Unity and by it to be kept above all the Religions and Worships they have made with that peevish spirit that hath led to disobey the Spirit of God from which they have not natural Affections who cannot do to others as they would have others do to them that cannot bring you to the Royal Law of God This Royal Law will slay that peevish spirit in you all and that being slain and fallen then falls all Religions that you have set up together in the whole World And the Spirit of the Lord turns you to the Royal Law whereof God is the Donor and judges them that transgress it And so in this Royal Law you keep dominion and you keep your Love to your Neighbours as to your selves and the Royal Law keeps you in that Spirit To do unto all as you would have all do unto you If any man Jam. 1.23 heareth the Word and declareth not the same by his Works he is like unto a man beholding his natural Face in a Glass for as soon as he looks on himself he goes his way and forgets immediately what fashion he was of But who so looks into the perfect Law of Liberty and continues therein if he be not a forgetful Hearer but a Doer of the Work this man shall be blest in his Deed. Now consider this all ye that profess God and Christ you Christians Jews and others for is not this your Condition Have you lookt into the perfect Law of Liberty and if so With what have you lookt into it Is it not by the Spirit of God and the Light of Christ which when you have lookt into by the Spirit and Light of Christ Jesus and not done the same you may read your selves as in a Glass that you look into and after forget what manner of men you are And so are not all that look into this perfect Law of Liberty whether they be Jew Christian or Heathen who look into this perfect Law of Liberty and doth it not are like unto the natural Man or Woman that look into a Glass and after that forget what manner of Men and Women they are of and so they that look into the perfect Law of Liberty and do it not are not blest nor happy in their Deeds though they may be Hearers of this perfect Law of Liberty and yet not Doers they are like I say unto the Natural Man and Woman that looks as saith the Apostle into the Glass and after know not what manner of Men or Women they are though they see themselves when they look into the Glass But they that look into the perfect Law of Liberty and do the same do not forget what manner of men they are but see what manner of men they are and what manner of men they have been And so by the perfect Law of Liberty looking into it and doing it they mend so that they who have been without Natural Affections it brings them to Natural Affections who have not loved their Nighbours as themselves it brings them to love them as themselves who have not done to all men as they would have all men do to them this perfect Law of Liberty looking into it and doing of it will bring them to do unto all as they would have all do unto them So look upon all Christendom and all that profess God and Christ in the whole World and those also that do not who do grieve and quench and vex the Spirit of God and hate the Light of Christ and walk despightfully against the Spirit of Grace though these have the Word of God sown upon all their Grounds and if they hear it and declare it not in their Works Lives and Conversations they are like a natural man beholding his