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<HEAD>THIS IS ONELY TO GOE <HI>amongst</HI> FRIENDS.</HEAD>
<P>TO all the &s;eed of <HI>Abraham,</HI> who are <HI>Jewes</HI> indeed, and <HI>I&s;raelites</HI> in whom is no guile; who are of the true Circumci&s;&s;ion, made without hands. Who are of the off-&s;pring of <HI>David,</HI> and of the Church of the fir&s;t born, who are the fir&s;t fruits unto God; yee Royall off-&s;pring of the Rocke of Ages, who have come out of the everla&s;ting wa&s;hing; my deare Brethren called <HI>Quakers;</HI> who have eaten your bread with feare and trembling, whom your bre|thren hath ca&s;t out, Oh how I love you; my &s;oule is knitt un|to you, my heart and life breathes after you; I am one with you in &s;uffering, and in joy; ye are the choyce&s;t of the flock, yee are the faire&s;t of all the children which is brought forth; Oh my beloved ones, though I be among the Tents of <HI>Kedar</HI> as without where the Voyce of the Lord hath neither been heard nor known&punc; it you I forgett not, if I doe, let the tongue cleave to the Roofe of my mouth, and lett me never &s;peake more in the name of the Lord; who is my life and the porti|on of my Cup for ever. Oh what &s;hall I &s;ay unto you, none knows your beauty, nor innocency, nor glory, but them, who
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are redeemed out of Kindreds, and Nations, and tongues, and People, and Countries; <HI>Who follow the Lambe whither&s;oever he goes.</HI> For the name of my God and your God, who is li|ing and lives for evermore is in your foreheads, you are his off-&s;pring, and the fruit that came out of the eternall womb: begotten by the eternal word of life which lives for ever, and are nori&s;hed at the eternall table in the everla&s;ting man&s;ion|hou&s;e of my father which is in heaven; none &s;o faire, none &s;o beautifull, none &s;o glorious, none &s;o Rich, you are Crowned with love for ever, you are cloathed with righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e for ever, you eat of the tree of life which heales&punc; the Nations, and of the bread of life that nouri&s;hes you up for ever, and drinks of the living waters which runs fre&s;h, beautifull, and coole; in it you are bathed and &s;uppled, and made white; you are builded upon a Rock&punc; &s;torms cannot move you, tem|pe&s;ts cannot make you afraid; in this you have been and are like to be tryed; your Armour is righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e on the right hand, and on the left your City is free: the Gates &s;tand open day and night, and a Wolf, nor Lyon&punc; nor any Bea&s;t can enter, no not &s;o much as a flying Fowle. Oh how goodly is thy Tents O thou &s;eed of <HI>Jacob,</HI> the Elect whom he hath cho&s;en? O how plea&s;ant is your &s;cituation? the Tower of <HI>David,</HI> Mount <HI>Sion</HI> &s;tands &s;ure, and cannot be moved. Oh who is a people like unto you, &s;aved by our God that lives for ever? His love is large, he is kind, he is long-&s;uffering: he is faithfull and keeps Covenant, and his Promi&s;es are <HI>Yea, Yea:</HI> He is the <HI>Amen,</HI> the fir&s;t and the la&s;t. Come forth my dear brethren, &s;et forth his prai&s;e, de|clare his name among the Heathen, publi&s;h his name among the Congregations: let the Earth be filled with his love and power, that his Judgements may be declared, and his Statutes, that they &s;ound in the eares of Generations to come.</P>
<P>O yee that are convinced of the truth of our God, wait in that which doth convince, and keep your minds to it, and love it, and follow it whether it leads you, and it will lead you to know the gift of God which leads to repentance from dead works to &s;erve the living God, who dwells in
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the immortall light: and take heed of looking back at the plea&s;ures of &s;in you have formerly lived in, but wait upon the pure light of Chri&s;t Je&s;us in patience, that &s;o you may &s;ee the enmity which is again&s;t God, and it &s;lain in you daily: that &s;o you may &s;ee him that is the Saviour of the &s;oule, and take heed of rebelling again&s;t the Lord who hath given you a mea&s;ure of his true light, to lead you from &s;in if you love it unto righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, from whence it comes, even from the righteous Judge of all the world, who judge|eth every man out of the Book of his con&s;cience: and &s;o prize the everla&s;ting love of God to your &s;oules, that you may &s;ee him who lives for ever.</P>
<P>And all Babes who are born again, who have &s;uffered the pangs of death: and know the indignation of the Lord again&s;t &s;in, and the terrour of the Lord again&s;t the man of &s;in, who have roared for the di&s;quietne&s;&s;e of your hearts, who have born the indignation of the Lord, and are come to the giving forth of the Law, where there is thundring and earthquakes, and terrour, and great haile, and fire, and &s;moke, even &s;uch as was not &s;ince the beginning, in &s;o much that you could not hear his voyce and live, nor &s;ee his face and live.</P>
<P>Stand &s;till in patience, and let it have its perfect work in you, and bear the indignation, ye that are in it; if you endure the tribulation with patience, hope you will &s;ee, and a time of refre&s;hment will come: endure the Cro&s;&s;e that the mortall, and earthly, and carnall may be judged, and the ground &s;haken and taken away, and that you may &s;ee the living hope to &s;tay your minds upon.</P>
<P>And yee who are enlivened, and doth witne&s;&s;e the Law of righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e &s;et up in you, which is a Schoolma&s;ter, and keeps in the fear, &s;tand in it, and keep in the fear low, in &s;oberne&s;&s;e and calmne&s;&s;e, and then you will &s;ee your hearts purified daily, and the cur&s;ed nature judged, which is out of its cour&s;e, and it bridled and &s;ubjected: and the Law which is pure, and holy, and eternall, which &s;tands for ever in power and force again&s;t the tran&s;gre&s;&s;our, to judge all unrighteou&s;ne&s;&s;e: and &s;o wait that you may &s;ee
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the Lyon tamed, and the wild Heifer yoked, and the yoke of Chri&s;t born: and the wild Colt tamed by him, upon which never man &s;ate before: then and not till then is <HI>Ho&s;anna</HI> &s;ung.</P>
<P>And all wait in your mea&s;ures, dear Babes, that the milk of the word you may &s;ee, and be nouri&s;hed by it, and grow up as living branches about the Table of the Lord.</P>
<P>And all you Young men and Virgins, that know virgi|nity, keep your virgin-you in whom the Prince of this world is judged and ca&s;t out: and the righteous Law of God revealed and given forth, in which you &s;tand and walk and hath peace, from him who is the Law-giver and Judge: who hath &s;aved you from your iniquities, and blotted out your &s;ins for his owne name &s;ake: You who knowes the living water and Spirit of which you are born again, and witne&s;&s;es the birth which enters into the Kingdome of God, where no mortall or unclean Bea&s;t can come. Keep in the life and power of God which limits all, and chaines all under, that the life of the Son of God may live and &s;peak in you, and be bould: in the dread of God &s;tand: and that which leads into &s;lavery keep out.</P>
<P>And now being made partakers of his everla&s;ting love, walk worthy of his love, and of the high calling whereunto you are called, who hath created you in Chri&s;t Je&s;us unto holine&s;&s;e and righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e for ever: that to the prai&s;e of his grace which you are &s;aved by: by which you have ob|tained the remi&s;&s;ion of &s;ins, and an inheritance among&s;t them that are &s;anctified: &s;o wait in the living hope, and the living faith, in which God is well plea&s;ed, in which you ask and receive of him, and are accepted of our heaven|ly father. And this faith ye know, which is a pre&s;ent power, and a &s;hield again&s;t all temptations, and a Helmet, and as a Fortre&s;&s;e by which ye are pre&s;erved, &s;afe &s;tanding in it, and putting it on in the day of triall.</P>
<P>My dear brethren of the everla&s;ting kindred, and heires of the everla&s;ting promi&s;e: wait all in patience, having received an earne&s;t of the Inheritance that never fades away: to the end abide, in the fathers coun&s;ell, and at
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wi&s;edomes gate. Yee know what I &s;ay. I write not unto you, becau&s;e you know not the truth, but becau&s;e you know and are made free in your mea&s;ures by him who is the truth and the way: in which all our fathers and you al&s;o have obtained a good report: even of all the hou&s;hold of faith: and take heed of the glory of the world, and look not at hard&s;hip: for verily all the &s;uffering is not worthy to be compared to that glory which is revealed and to be revealed unto all that wait and abide in patience and faithfullne&s;&s;e unto the end: but be yee as good &s;oul|diers, endure hard&s;hip, that you may receive the end of your hope, and the everla&s;ting prise, and the purcha&s;ed po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion, and the Crowne of glory which God will give unto you in his owne day: which is coming on towards you, if you continue in the hope, in the faith, and in the love unfained, which thinks no ill: by which and in which love we have victory over the grave, &s;in, and death: which he hath freely &s;hed abroad in our hearts, unto whom be everla&s;ting prai&s;e for ever and ever: to him which was dead, and is alive, and lives for evermore, the mediator of the new Covenant of life and peace, in which we have ac|ce&s;&s;e freely to the Throne of Grace, and are accepted in him who is the condemnation of all the World, who hate the light: but your life the light of the World God ble&s;&s;ed for ever and ever.</P>
<P>And all you fathers and Elders and honourable women, who are not a few, who&s;e bones and &s;inewes are filled with marrow and fatne&s;&s;e; who waite at the Altar of the Lord, and knovves the mercy-&s;eat, vvhich hath over&s;ha|dovved you; and the golden ve&s;&s;ell in vvhich is the hid|den <HI>Manna,</HI> by vvhich all the Children of the Lord are fed round the Table of the Lord, out of the everla&s;ting trea&s;ure-hou&s;e of my father.</P>
<P>Watch over the Flock of Chri&s;t Je&s;us in every place, and Region, and quarter vvhere the Lord hath &s;et you, and govern them in all vvi&s;edome and righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, that the Go&s;pel of our Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t may be adorned: and take care of them vvillingly knovving this the Lord re|quires
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of you, and hath called you unto: and to nouri&s;h the plants, and the young ones, and the babes: and that every one may knovv their place, and vvatch, and in&s;truct in all vvi&s;edome, and correct and reprove in the name and povver of our Lord Je&s;us, that no rebellious nor &s;loathfull may grovv up nor be harboured among you: but all in diligence may be kept in the fear of the Lord in their pla|ces, that the Go&s;pel of Chri&s;t Je&s;us be not evill &s;poken of, nor the Heathen bla&s;pheme.</P>
<P>And therefore my dear brethren be diligent in the vvork of the Lord, &s;o much the more as you &s;ee the day is ap|proached: and the Harve&s;t is great, and the Vineyard of the Lord is great and large, and but fevv labourers: yea, the Lord is enlarging his borders, and &s;preading forth his everla&s;ting truth, and &s;tretching forth his eternall arm over the Nations, and opening the trea&s;ures of Heaven, and bringing raine out of his trea&s;ury to vvater the Earth that hath been parched and dry, and to make his plants to grovv.</P>
<P>And &s;o all vvait that you may &s;ee the povver and pre&s;ence of the Lord in all your A&s;&s;emblies: and &s;ee that there be no &s;trife nor contention nor exaltation among&s;t you, but all in meekne&s;&s;e, and quietne&s;&s;e, and long-&s;uffering, and forbear|ance: even as the Lord hath &s;pared and forborn you: one &s;ubmitting unto another, even as you have heard and re|ceived vvhen the vvord of the Lord came fir&s;t unto you: and he that vvill be the greate&s;t &s;hall be the lea&s;t: but all in meekne&s;&s;e and lovvline&s;&s;e of mind &s;erve one another, in love even as you have received: and the everla&s;ting God of life and povver be vvith you all, and make you grovv in the living povver and virtue of God: to order all things in his vvi&s;edome, as good &s;tevvards of the manifold mercies of the Lord, vvhich you are made partakers of: that he alone may be glorified throughout all the Churches of Chri&s;t Je&s;us every vvhere.</P>
<P>And to you my dear brethren and fellovv-labourers, un|to vvhom the vvord of Reconciliation is committed, and are in the vvork and Mini&s;try of our Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t, and
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are made partakers of the everla&s;ting Go&s;pel of peace, vvhich unto you is given to declare. Lift up your voyces, blow the Ttumpet, &s;ound an Alarum out of the holy moun|tain: proclaime the acceptable year, and the day of venge|ance of our God. Gird on your &s;word upon your loines, put on the tried Armour, and follow him for ever who rides upon the white Hor&s;e, and is cloathed with the &s;ame: who makes War in righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e: Ride on, ride on, my beloved brethren and fellow &s;ouldiers, make all plain before you: thre&s;h on with the new thre&s;hing in&s;trument which hath teeth: beat the mountaines to du&s;t, and let the breath of the Lord &s;catter it: make the Heathen tremble, and the uncircumci&s;ed fall by the &s;word: the Lord of Ho&s;ts is with us, and goes before us.</P>
<P>Spare none, neither Ox nor A&s;&s;e, neither old nor young, kill, cut off, de&s;troy, bath your &s;word in the blood of <HI>Amaleck</HI> and all the <HI>Aegyptians</HI> and <HI>Phili&s;tins,</HI> and all the uncircumci&s;ed, and hew <HI>Agag</HI> to pieces: break the Rocks, cut down the Cedars and &s;trong Oakes, make the Devils &s;ubject: ca&s;t out the unclean &s;pirits, rai&s;e the dead: &s;hut up in pri&s;on, bring out of pri&s;on: ca&s;t in your nets, lanch into the deep, divide the Fi&s;h, gather the good into ve&s;&s;els, ca&s;t the bad away: bind the Tares in bundles, ca&s;t them into the fire: the Angel with his &s;harp &s;ickle is come, the Angel of the everla&s;ting Covenant is come: thru&s;t in your &s;ickles, reape the Earth, the word of God is come, that di|vides, let all fle&s;h keep &s;ilence, divide the word rightly, feed the Lambs and Babes, fill the hungry, &s;top the Lyons mouths: feed the fat and the &s;trong with plagues and judgements: declare his name, publi&s;h his eternall truth which &s;hall &s;tand for ever.</P>
<P>Eternall life is come, glory to him for ever: Silence all Di&s;puters and Diviners for ever: trample upon all the chaff and dung, and mire for ever, which all the wi&s;edome of the World feeds upon. <HI>Greater is he that is in us, then he that is in the world.</HI></P>
<P>Oh my beloved ones! although I am the lowe&s;t and weake&s;t among many of my brethren, yet the eternall power
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of God is my &s;hield for ever, the Lord of ho&s;ts is with us. There is a Crown which none can take away, to all who have denyed all: yea, it is on your heads: the dread of God is with us: and truly dear brethren we cannot &s;ay that we fi&s;hed and catched nothing, for many ve&s;&s;els are full: nor we have not travailed and laboured and brought forth wind, as the fal&s;e Prophets doe: for we have the &s;eales of our Mini&s;try, which &s;hall be Witne&s;&s;es for the Lord in Ge|nerations to come. <HI>Not unto us O Lord, but to thy name be glory for ever:</HI> who hath done and doth all for us, and in us: who is our &s;trength, our glory, our Crown of rejoy|cing all the day long; for his hidden trea&s;ure is brought forth and made manife&s;t in earthen ve&s;&s;els: unto him be eternall living prai&s;es for ever.</P>
<P>And &s;o all dear brethren, members of the &s;ame body of Chri&s;t Je&s;us, by which we are &s;et free from &s;in in the liberty, life, and power in which you are made free, &s;tand as vvit|ne&s;&s;es for the Lamb, and for the holy Nation, for the Royall &s;eed of the true <HI>I&s;rael</HI> of God&punc; that it may be brought out of Captivit<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">, to &s;erve the Lord in the Land of the living, and the eternall God of povver and life, of endle&s;&s;e rich love and mercy be vvith you all, and pro&s;per his ovvne vvork in your hands, that he alone may be glorified: unto vvhom be eternall, infinite prai&s;es, vvho is our life, our King, God ble&s;&s;ed for ever and ever.</P>
<P>And to you all my dear brethren and &s;i&s;ters, vvho &s;uffers in bonds, and pri&s;ons, and dens, and holes, and &s;uffers the Enemy to plovv long furrovves upon your backs, in pati|ence; and &s;uffers &s;tocking, vvhipping, buffetting, beating, and cruell mocking and &s;tripes and chaines and fetters vvhom the World is not vvorthy of: even as they did unto our Ma&s;ter of vvhom vve bear witne&s;&s;e of, and hath the wit|ne&s;&s;e in our &s;elves; even &s;o doe they unto us: But the &s;er|vant is not greater then his Lord, and therefore we that are baptized for the dead, and &s;tand in jeopardy of our lives of|ten, we have a cloud of Witne&s;&s;es which endured the &s;ame; and therefore the &s;ame bapti&s;m and the &s;ame cup mu&s;t be
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drunk by all that follow him. Well my dear brethren&punc; your &s;ufferings I know, and I know he of whom you bear wit|ne&s;&s;e, bears up your heads, who hath called you thereunto above all that which is done unto you, as you &s;tand in his will and councel: well as dear brethren and companions in the &s;ame tribulation and Kingdome and patience of the Saints, as witne&s;&s;es of the &s;ame faith as they were which are gone before you: you are made partakers of the &s;ame: it is made manife&s;t and revealed in you by the &s;ame God: in which faith they had power, and you have power, and in|dures as they did, and as he did, even the contradiction of &s;inners.</P>
<P>Well, our God is on our &s;ide, and takes our part, and therefore my own bowels in patience endure, God will bring forth your righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e as the Sun, and your ene|mies &s;hall be a&s;hamed: and I know and you al&s;o know it is for the advantage and the furtherance of the Go&s;pel of Chri&s;t: and endure in patience and long-&s;uffering, and look not out: and the Lord in due time will enlarge your border, and the eternall God of power be with you cho&s;en ones, for the Lords work you &s;hall have your reward: nay, he is come, and his reward is with him: I know you have it, and witne&s;&s;e his power and his pre&s;ence with you: &s;o my dear ones, in that which limits all, and chaines all, and keeps under all deceit, dwell and abide for ever in the living po|wer which makes the &s;trong man bow downe, and the De|vils tremble, and the unclean &s;pirits roare: and the power you know, where is your life, that all the powers of death cannot reach: and therefore doth the pot&s;heards of the earth &s;trive in vaine to &s;et briars and thorns in battel again&s;t him, in vaine doe they rage: for notwith&s;tanding all that, God hath &s;et and will &s;et his owne Son upon the holy hill of <HI>Sion:</HI> glory unto him for ever, &s;hout out for joy Oh yee &s;ufferers for him, who are &s;et free by him, and your free|dome can none take away: for he is greater then all, even him in whom yee have believed, &s;tanding in his power, wi&s;edome and councel, who is neer you, that none is able to
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pluck you out of his hand: for he hath the keyes of <HI>David,</HI> who opens and none&punc; &s;huts, and binds and none can loo&s;e: even he who rebukes the winds and &s;eas&punc; and they obey him, and cau&s;es a great calme: and cau&s;es the waters to abate, nay to &s;tand of a heap: and dryes up the tongue of the <HI>Aegyptian</HI> &s;ea&punc; that his ran&s;omed ones may goe over into the re&s;t: and he that hath and doth be|lieve in him, is entred into the re&s;t: where we all meet in one, in him who is the Judge of all the world: the light of the world, and our life who believe in his name: but the condemnation of all the world&punc; who walk in unrigh|teou&s;ne&s;&s;e for ever and ever.</P>
<P>For with the pure and upright he dwells&punc; and his Throne is e&s;tabli&s;hed in righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e for ever and ever: and unto our God who lives for ever, &s;hall all the powers of the Earth bow: to whom be glory and eternall prai&s;e of all his redeemed ones for ever and ever.</P>
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<P>O All yee Sons of <HI>Sion,</HI> and yee daughters of the King, who is glorious within, who is glorious within, who have waited for the Bridegroom: Oh my beloved ones, you who have long &s;itten in a &s;olitary place, and have been as a &s;illy Dove without a heart, and hath been as a widow de&s;olate, and as a parched Heath: you that hath wandred up and downe in the long night of darkne&s;&s;e and knew no re&s;t, but were as one ca&s;t off by all, and all that pa&s;&s;ed by you laughed at your &s;orrow: you have been as a hi&s;&s;ing, and as a Proverb to all, and as a mark to &s;hoot at by all; your faces have been as the Tents of <HI>Kedar</HI> parched, and your skin withered for want of refre&s;hment, and as a dead Tree that bears no fruit. Oh yee who have come through great tribulation, and have &s;uffered the lo&s;&s;e of all, the &s;poyling of all, even the great|e&s;t riches, the chiefe&s;t Jewels: who have lo&s;t all your knowledge and wi&s;edome, and become fooles for Chri&s;ts &s;ake; and hath parted with all, and hath &s;uffered the in|dignation of the Lord to pa&s;&s;e over all, and hath drunk of the cup of fury at the hand of the Lord, who have &s;uffered hunger, famine, pe&s;tilence, and earthquakes, and the dar|kening of the Sun, and the Moon lo&s;t her light, and the Stars have fallen, and the pillars of heaven hath been &s;ha|ken: the Earth hath been removed out of its place as a Cottage, and you have cryed out in the mid&s;t of all this, he hath forgotten to be gracious, and is his mercy come to an end? The womb hath been &s;hut up, de&s;olation and &s;orrow, lo&s;&s;e of Children and widowhood in a day, came upon you.</P>
<P>Oh yee to&s;&s;ed, afflicted, and not comforted, that have been as Eunuchs, dry and barren as in the drought of &s;um|mer, that have been as <HI>Pelicanes</HI> and as <HI>Doves,</HI> who have &s;orrowed for the lo&s;&s;e of her Mate, and as one in &s;orrow for the lo&s;&s;e of her fir&s;t born: who have been in bitter|ne&s;&s;e,
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and none could comfort you: I am one with you&punc; your &s;tate I know, I love you eternally: yea, yee are my brethren and &s;i&s;ters for ever, &s;ealed in my heart, and en|graven to be read for ever. I &s;ee you, I behold you, I ki&s;&s;e you, and embrace you with an holy ki&s;&s;e of everla&s;ting love, which overcomes death and hell, which love thinks no ill: yee that are made partakers of this love, knowes what I &s;ay: Yee that have waited for him, and wait and &s;uffer the &s;poyling of all, I am married unto you, I came forth of the &s;ame womb, which is eternity free for ever: free borne, not in bondage, becau&s;e the Prince of this world is judged and ca&s;t out, and the glory of the Lord revealed.</P>
<P>Come forth yee Sonnes and Daughters of <HI>Jeru&s;alem</HI> which is free from above: utter forth your voyce, &s;ing aloud, the Bridegroome is come and is coming, and yee that have &s;uffered the &s;poyling of all rejoyce for evermore: lift up your voyces as Trumpets, He is come, he is cove|red with Righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e as with a Robe, his countenance is as the morning, his eyes is brighter then the Sun, his voyce is life eternall, &s;alvation is round about him: he dwells in eternall life: life is in his right hand and joy is in his pre|&s;ence, and peace for evermore: he is a tryed &s;tone, he is a Rock which the righteous flyes to, he hides his under his wings, and covers them with his feathers. Beauty beauty, glory glory, eternity eternity, Almightine&s;s Almightine&s;s, power, riches, honour&punc; dignity and dominion, &s;trength, wi&s;edome and goodne&s;&s;e, fullne&s;&s;e, &s;atisfaction, eternall trea&s;ure, durable riches, infinitne&s;&s;e, is his name for ever: unexpre&s;&s;ible I am filled with his love and power: he opens the windowes of Heaven, he raines his &s;howres as &s;ilver drops and as fine Myrrhe, as &s;weet odours: he nouri&s;hes the young, he carries the Lambs in his arms of love: he drives gently them that are with young: he is true and faithfull for ever: he keeps Covenant: he is long-&s;uffering and kind: who can declare his power? I am lo&s;t in the incomprehen&s;ible being of eternall love.</P>
<P><PB N="13" REF="7">Oh my dear ones, come up hither, fellow Citizens of <HI>Jeru&s;alem</HI> which is from above, who is our Mother, which few know but you who are written in the Lambs book of life: found forth his prai&s;e, trumpet forth his power, de|clare his name among the people, that it may &s;ound into the eares of Generations to come, this is he we have waited for, this is he who hath begotten us to him&s;elf to raign with him the Lamb upon Mount <HI>Sion&punc;</HI> as Kings and Prie&s;ts, and Judges of the Prince of darkne&s;&s;e, death and hell for ever, &s;alvation, honour and glory be to him for ever: eternall infinite prai&s;es, prai&s;es to him for ever who was dead and is alive, and lives for evermore: King of Kings for ever: Maje&s;ty glory and power and eternall renown is in his right hand for ever: his redeemed ones lives for ever, dwells fol|lowes lives in him for ever: no Bea&s;t can touch the moun|taine where he dwells, but he dyes for ever.</P>
<P>Come away my beloved ones, drink abundantly and be refre&s;hed, and prai&s;e his name for ever, eternally I am &s;hed and &s;pilt among you never &s;o as now never to be &s;eparated out of the eternall onene&s;&s;e: &s;ound forth his prai&s;e&punc; de|clare his word, let it to goe forth as thunder, let the Hea|then bow, let the Princes of this world fall, and the Kings wor&s;hip at his feet for ever: let the di&s;puters tongue cleave to the roof of his mouth for ever: let all fle&s;h keep &s;ilence for ever. <HI>Babylon is fallen, and become the habitation of De|vills for ever:</HI> the Judge of all the world hath confounded and cur&s;ed her language for ever: God is ri&s;en and &s;its up|on his Throne, eternall wi&s;edome is come, and the Ancient of dayes all carnall &s;hall be confounded: &s;top all mouths in the du&s;t for ever, Eternity &s;hall &s;peak and judge for ever: whom he binds is bound for ever, whom he loo&s;eth he loo|&s;eth for ever: whom he remits are remitted, the Devil is chained, the grave gives up her dead, and the &s;ea and hell, all is judged by him that lives for ever.</P>
<P>O beloved ones, who are the children of my eternall fa|ther, who have eaten at his Table, and drunken of the new wine in the Kingdome of God, who are nouri&s;hed and dand|led
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upon the lap of everla&s;ting love, who &s;uck at the brea&s;ts of everla&s;ting con&s;olation: your beauty is comely, I am ravi&s;hed, I am filled, I am filled with love to you all, I am &s;ick of love: your beauty hath ravi&s;hed my heart: come &s;it down my dear&punc; Lambs together in the fold where no Wolf can come, and let us rejoyce together, and &s;ound forth his prai&s;e who hath wa&s;hed us and clean&s;ed us and covered us, and made us worthy to enter into the fold the Bride-cham|ber, to eat with him of the bread of life for ever, at the eternall Table of life: the Bridegroom is come friends, of him I know you rejoyce greatly, becau&s;e of his voyce. And now my dearly beloved ones, follow him for evermore in the eternall light and life where we were bred brought forth and nouri&s;hed, and are unknown to all the world: but me you know, and I know you in one who is the condemnation of the world, and in him I meet you, and leave you in his arms, I lye down with you in the bo&s;ome of eternall love, life, peace, joy and re&s;t for ever, where none can make us afraid.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Bandon</HI> in <HI>Irela:</HI> <DATE>the 7 Month, 55.</DATE></DATELINE> <SIGNED>My name yee know, my voyce yee know, this is to all my be|loved brethren who are re|deemed from the Earth.
Francis Howgill.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>TO THE CAMP OF THE LORD <HI>IN</HI> ENGLAND</HEAD>
<P>TO all you called, cho&s;en, elected and belo|ved of the Lord, who are of the true cir|cumci&s;ion made without hands, of the &s;eed of <HI>Abraham:</HI> who are <HI>Jewes</HI> indeed not after the fle&s;h but in the &s;pirit: unto whom belongs the everla&s;ting promi&s;e and Covenant, whom God hath and is fulfilling in you, &s;o e&s;tabli&s;hing with you: We your fellow-Citieens of the heavenly <HI>Jeru&s;alem</HI> which is the mother of us all: and of the &s;ame body, and of the &s;ame &s;eed, and &s;ame birth, begotten and brought forth by the immortall word of life which lives for ever, doe &s;end greet|ing, and doe embrace you in the arms of our beloved, who is and is to come God ble&s;&s;ed for ever: you who are called
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<HI>Quakers:</HI> who are &s;o not onely in word nor in &s;hew, but in life and in power: whom God hath called and cho&s;en to place his name in, and to take up his habitation among: above all the families of the Earth the Tabernacle of God is with you, and his dwelling-place is among you, and only among you is God known, and his name is great in your A&s;&s;emblies.</P>
<P>We who are of the &s;ame root and off-&s;pring, doth bring in our witne&s;&s;e, and doth &s;et to our &s;eale&punc; That God of a truth is with you and among you: and he is the God of the living that an&s;wers by fire: he is <HI>I am,</HI> and there is none be&s;ides him: the fir&s;t and the la&s;t, the beginning and the end of all things.</P>
<P>Prai&s;e him for ever yee redeemed of him: lift up your heads your Redeemer is come: clap your hands and &s;hout for joy, and let the everla&s;ting prai&s;es of God be in your mouths for ever and ever. Exalt ye his name above all Gods, and glorifie him in the &s;ight of all the Heathen, and let his marvellous works &s;tand upon Record from Generati|on to Generation.</P>
<P>Wonderfull hath his work been among you, and that my &s;oule knowes right well: You that were &s;cattered in the cloudy and dark day, and were a prey for the wild bea&s;ts of the Forre&s;t, and were driven away as lo&s;t &s;heep in the wilderne&s;&s;e, hath God gathered into the fould, to lay down by the &s;prings of living water in fat pa&s;tures for ever|more.</P>
<P>Your bread is &s;ure, and your waters never failes: a fea&s;t of fat things is made unto you, of wines well refined: the Lord is become the Lot of your inheritance, and the por|tion of your Cup for ever.</P>
<P>Your Crowns have you laid down at the feet of the Lamb: and your lives and liberties have not been dear unto you: and let this never repent you, for now the Lord will exalt you and Crown you with immortall glory.</P>
<P>The everla&s;ting day-&s;tar is ri&s;en among you, which gives light unto the Nations: and the light of the Sun is as the
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light of &s;even dayes: and there is no need of a candle in your dwelling, but the Lamb is the light thereof; faire as the Sun, and clear as the Moon: yea it is he which was dead, and is alive, and behold he lives for evermore. Prai&s;e him all ye people, prai&s;e ye him ye holy Ho&s;t, let all that hath breath prai&s;e him for ever. Who can expre&s;&s;e his No|ble acts? and who can declare his wondrous works? Oh my &s;oule is ravi&s;hed, and my heart is overcome, let me &s;peak that I may be refre&s;hed, and let me declare his won|ders among all people.</P>
<P>The Lord is our King, our Judge, and our Law-giver, and our Rock of defence; ju&s;t is he in his Judgements, who hath avenged us of our Enemies: Mercy and Judgement meet, righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e and peace doth embrace each other. Rejoyce for evermore ye Saints of the mo&s;t High, and tell it to your Children, that they may tell it to another Gene|ration, what hath the Lord wrought among you, and what hath his hand brought to pa&s;&s;e. Salvation is come, and plenteous Redemption, and the dead hath heard the voyce of the Son of God and liveth.</P>
<P>Let &s;orrow and mourning fly away, and be ye comforted ye that have mourned, and be ye refre&s;hed ye that have been weary; for God hath opened the everla&s;ting fountain, and the &s;treams runs plea&s;antly, which refre&s;heth the City of our God. He is come and his reward is with him, even he for whom we have waited; this is he who is our life, our peace and our exceeding great reward; the light of the world our Saviour, but the worlds condemner, our peace but the worlds torment: glad tidings, glad tidings, the acceptable year is come: Prai&s;e ye the Lord ye Sons and daughters of <HI>Sion,</HI> beautifull is your dwelling place, and aboundeth with plea&s;ant fruit, for you are digged and pru|ned and enclo&s;ed a Garden of lovely branches: let the wonders of the Lord never be forgotten, nor his works ne|ver pa&s;&s;e out of your remembrance, for he hath wounded and healed, killed and made alive, rai&s;ed the dead and &s;lain the living, brought out of captivity and bound with chaines,
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gathered and &s;cattered, brought low and exalted, &s;aved and condemned, all this hath your eye &s;een, and your ear heard: and the Heavens and the Earth hath been burned as a &s;croule, and the indignation of the Lord you have born: But the winter is pa&s;t, and the &s;ummer is come, and the Turtle Dove, and the &s;inging of Birds is heard in our Land. O magnifie his name for ever; you are made ve&s;&s;els of ho|nour, wherein the everla&s;ting Trea&s;ure abideth, which never waxeth old: the voyce of the Bridegroom is heard among you, and how can you have any more &s;orrow: in|&s;tead of weeping rejoycing, and in&s;tead of heavine&s;&s;e of heart fullne&s;&s;e of everla&s;ting joy: the Lord hath fulfilled his promi&s;e, and made good his word, and his Law and Covenant is with you: and from you doth the Law goe forth, and the powerfull word of life, and death &s;oundeth out of your dwellings, and you are Gods only witne&s;&s;es to te&s;tifie of him in the pre&s;ence of all Nations, &s;ome of you by &s;uffering, and &s;ome by declaring: Oh endle&s;&s;e love, and life, and riches, an eternall Crown is upon your heads, and your &s;uffering (which hath not been a little) is not worthy to be compared with the glory that is and &s;hall be revealed. I &s;peak to you who hath an ear to hear, my &s;oule and heart is comforted in you, in the mid&s;t of my burdens and &s;uffe|rings, who is &s;eparated from you outwardly, yet joyned and united to you by the Spirit which is unlimited, which all Nations doth comprehend: yea I behold your beauty afar off, and my heart is ravi&s;hed with it, and I am &s;ick of love: let his works prai&s;e him for ever, which he hath wrought, for his dwelling is with you, in the light unto which no mortall eye can approach.</P>
<P>The new <HI>Jeru&s;alem</HI> is come down from Heaven, and no unclean can enter: but you are made white with the blood of the Lamb, and purged as &s;ilver, and purified as gold in the burning and unto you an entrance is given, and the way is prepared, and the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made her &s;elf ready, and the way of the Lord is plea&s;ant to you, and his commands are not grievous: no
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unclean thing can pa&s;&s;e over, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> or no Lyons whelps can tread therein, but it is called the way of holine&s;&s;e&punc; where only the ran&s;omed of the Lord doe walk; even your mountain is e&s;ta|bli&s;hed upon the top of all hills, and all Nations &s;hall flow unto it&punc; Sing prai&s;es for ever, for the Kingdome of endle&s;&s;e peace is come, which pa&s;&s;eth under&s;tanding, and of glory which no mortall eye can behold, and of life which no fle&s;h can live in. Oh my beloved&punc; come up hither and I will &s;hew you what God hath done for you, he hath rebuked the Sea, and driven back the floods of waters which compa&s;&s;ed you about, and he hath &s;cattered your Enemies with a whirlwind, and he hath given you to feed upon the fle&s;h of Kings and of Captaines. Can you call to mind the doings of your God, and his marvellous works brought to pa&s;&s;e, and not cry out in prai&s;es for evermore? O drink and be refre&s;hed, and eat and be &s;atisfied for ever, and let your &s;oul delight it &s;elf in fatne&s;&s;e; the planting of the Lord you are, and his own purcha&s;ed po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion, he hath &s;eparated you from the womb, and hath called you out of kindreds, and ye are the Royall &s;eed, of the off-&s;pring of the Lord Almighty, and all Nations &s;hall call you ble&s;&s;ed.</P>
<P>And O thou North of <HI>England,</HI> who art counted as de|&s;olate and barren, and reckoned the lea&s;t of the Nation, yet out of thee did the branch &s;pring, and the Star ari&s;e which gives light unto all the Regions round about; in thee the Son of Righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e appeared with wounding and with healing: and out of thee the terror of the Lord proceeded, which makes the Earth to tremble, and be removed: out of thee Kings, Princes, and Prophets did come forth in the name and power of the mo&s;t High, which uttered their voyces as thunders, and laid their &s;words on the neck of their Enemies, and never returned empty from the &s;laughter. Though I be as by the waters of <HI>Babylon,</HI> in a &s;trange Land; and as a Pil|grim and &s;tranger de&s;titute but not for&s;aken; as dying but behold I live: yet if I forget thee let my right hand forget her cunning, and let my name be blotted out of the Book of life. O how I love the holy &s;eed which in my eye is preci|ous!
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no man can hinder my boa&s;ting of thee, for I am &s;ealed among you in the Record of Eternall life, to be read among you in the light where I am known to you, and where my unity &s;tands with you in the love and life which never changes, and you are my Mother and my Brother and Si&s;ter who doth the will of my Father. Our God is a con&s;u|ming fire, and his habitation is compa&s;t about with dread and terror. The Heathen &s;hall &s;ee and fear, and the inhabi|tants of the Earth &s;hall tremble: our God is everla&s;ting burnings, and it is tempe&s;tuous round about his Throne, and he Raignes for evermore: and though thou be de&s;pi&s;ed and &s;et at naught, and counted as the off-&s;couring of all things, and the &s;corn of the Heathen, yet thy King Raignes upon Mount <HI>Sion,</HI> and if he utter his voyce all fle&s;h &s;hall tremble, and before him thy Adver&s;aries &s;hall fall, and thy per&s;ecu|tors &s;hall be confounded, for thou &s;halt never be forgotten of thy God, but with his arm will he defend thee, and com|pa&s;&s;e thee about, and thy &s;eed &s;hall be encrea&s;ed, and thou <HI>Jeru&s;alem</HI> &s;halt be made the prai&s;e of the whole Earth, for among you is laid the &s;ure foundation, and the tryed &s;tone, Chri&s;t Je&s;us the light of the world, upon whom you have believed, which unto the Nations is a &s;tumbling-&s;tone, but unto you precious: bring in your te&s;timony, and &s;et to your &s;eale, is there &s;alvation in any other, but in him who is the light of the world, nay there is no redemption wrought but by him, nor no deliverance but through him: his is the Kingdome, the power, and the glory, and he is become all in all; and you are no more of this world, but are of the cho&s;en Generation, and of the Royall Prie&s;thood, a people Redeemed, unto whom there is none like among the thou|&s;ands of <HI>I&s;rael</HI> and <HI>Judah,</HI> who&s;e God is the Lord, who&s;e Saviour is the Prince of Righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, who covers your heads in the day of battel, and &s;mites your Enemies in the hinder parts, and wounds them in the forehead.</P>
<P>And now my beloved, let his name be had in remembrance for evermore, and let his prai&s;es&punc; be declared throughout Ages to come, and walk you worthy of his everla&s;ting love,
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wherewith he hath loved you more then your brethren: let his name be exalted by righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, by purity, and by a blamele&s;&s;e life, and bring forth the fruits of righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e and peace, and let your light &s;hine forth into the world, and your good works abound plentifully, for you are as a City &s;et on a hill, and as a lighted candle to &s;hine abroad, and are created unto good works. Let faith, hope, love and Unity be encrea&s;ed among you, and let mercy and judge|ment and equity flow down, and be e&s;tabli&s;ht for ever, ne|ver to be removed. Let joy and long-&s;uffering and meekne&s;&s;e and temperance &s;pring out, and be you perfect as your hea|venly father is perfect.</P>
<P>Stand upon your watch Tower, and be not &s;haken nor drawn a&s;ide to follow any other Gods, nor to bow to any other Image, nor joyn your &s;elves to &s;trangers, and mingle not your &s;eed with the adulterous Generation, nor take not nor give not in marriage with them; but keep your &s;elves from the Idols of the Heathen, be not defiled with them; but abide in your &s;trength, you know where it lyes, by which you may work good, and be pre&s;erved from evill; and you need not that any man teach you, for you are taught of God, and are far from oppre&s;&s;ion.</P>
<P>Ye Children of light, wor&s;hip your God for ever, who is light, and in whom is no darkne&s;&s;e at all, who is the &s;ame and changes not, who&s;e mercy endures for ever: Be fol|lowers of the Lamb as undefiled Virgins, and let your &s;oule &s;corn the glory of <HI>Babylon,</HI> and <HI>Aegypt</HI> for ever; for you are not your own, but are bought with a price, no more to &s;erve your &s;elves, but the Lord God of <HI>I&s;rael</HI> for ever.</P>
<P>Put on your Armour, and gird on your &s;word, and lay hold on the &s;pear, and march into the field, and prepare your &s;elves to battel, for the Nations doth defie our God, and &s;aith in their hearts <HI>Who is the God of the Quakers&punc; that we &s;hould fear him, and obey his voyce?</HI> Ari&s;e, ari&s;e, and &s;ound forth the everla&s;ting word of War and Judgment in the ears of all the Nations, &s;ound an Alarum, and make their ears to tingle. Our Enemies are whole Nations, and multitudes
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in number, of a rebellious people that will not come under our Law, which ari&s;eth up again&s;t us, and will not have our King to Raigne, but tramples his honour under foot, and di&s;pi&s;es his Law and his <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">tatutes, and counteth his &s;ubjects as &s;laves and bondmen. Stand upon your feet, and appear in your terror as an Army with Banners, and let the Nations know your power, and the &s;troke of your hand: cut down on the right hand, and &s;lay on the left, and let not your eye pitty&punc; nor your hand &s;pare, but wound the lofty, and tread under foot the honourable of the Earth, and give unto the great Whore double, and give her no re&s;t day nor night, but as &s;he hath done, &s;o let it be done unto her; and give her double into her bo&s;ome: as &s;he hath loved blood, &s;o give her blood, and da&s;h her children again&s;t the &s;tones, and let none of the Heathen Nations, nor their Gods e&s;cape out of your hands, nor their Images nor Idols, but lay wa&s;t the fenced Cities, and tread down the high walls, for we have proclaimed open War betwixt <HI>Michael</HI> our Prince, and the Dragon. Your Captains are mighty men, and your Leaders are skilled to handle the &s;word, and they are riding on before you. Ari&s;e Worm <HI>Jacob,</HI> and fear not, but thre&s;h the mountaines to du&s;t, for God hath given thee the power of thy Enemies to tread upon, and they &s;hall fly before thee, and &s;hall fall by thy &s;word, there is none too &s;trong for thee, nor no inchantment again&s;t thee; but thou art ble&s;&s;ed, ble&s;|&s;ed world without end: Therefore all ye Lambs of my fa|ther, and ye Camp of the Lords Ho&s;t, wait upon him to fulfill his will, for he hath put it into your hearts to make War in righteou&s;ne&s;s again&s;t the Bea&s;t and the fal&s;e Prophet, and cur&s;ed be every one that ri&s;eth not up to the help of the Lord again&s;t the mighty: the Bea&s;t is mighty, and the fal&s;e Prophet is great, and they keep the Nations under their po|wer: but O thou Bea&s;t, and thou fal&s;e Prophet, you &s;hall be tormented together: thou Bea&s;t upon which the fal&s;e Prophet &s;its, whom thou upholds by thy Law, and defends by thy unrighteous power; thy power is limited, and it &s;hall be taken from thee, and thou &s;halt be overcome, and the
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Lamb &s;hall get the victory, and into the pit and lake of fire &s;hall you be turned to have your re&s;ting-place.</P>
<P>And thou fal&s;e Prophet, which hath deceived the Nati|ons, and &s;cattered the inhabitants thereof, and builded by fraud, and daubed with untempered morter, thy judgement is pa&s;t upon thy head already, and the Decree of our God is &s;ealed again&s;t thee; thy &s;moke &s;hall a&s;cend for ever and ever; and of thy &s;in there is no forgivene&s;&s;e, nor of thy tor|ment no remi&s;&s;ion. Over you doe we and &s;hall for ever re|joyce and &s;ing, and over your God and your King, the Dra|gon that old Serpent; cur&s;ed be he and his memoriall for ever.</P>
<P>Ye Lambs of the true Shepheards fold, with whom my &s;oule re&s;teth, whether ever I behold you outwardly, yet my heart is with you, and I am one of your fold, and I lye down with you under the &s;hadow of the Rock, upon the Mountain which the Bea&s;t cannot touch, where we are &s;afe from all our Enemies, and am to you well known, to be read in your hearts, in the Record of the Lambs Book of life, and known only to the world by the name of</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Edward Burrough.</SIGNED> <DATELINE>Written at <HI>Dublin</HI> City in <HI>Ireland.</HI></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<TRAILER>To the Camp of the Lord in <HI>England.</HI></TRAILER>
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<P><HI>LONDON:</HI> Printed for <HI>Thomas Simmons,</HI> at the &s;igne of the <HI>Bull</HI> and <HI>Mouth</HI> near <HI>Alder&s;gate.</HI> 1656.</P>
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