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<HEAD>To the Camp of I&s;rael, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></HEAD>
<P>MY dearly beloved Friends, Brethren and Si|&s;ters, who are of the &s;took of <HI>Abraham,</HI> and Seed of <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> who are brought, and bring|ing forth of the Land of darkne&s;s, and hou&s;e of bondage, by the out-&s;tretched Arm of the Almighty <HI>Jehovah,</HI> to follow him who is an everla&s;ting Light, into the Heavenly Land of re&s;t and peace, which endureth for ever; who are of <HI>Caleb</HI> &amp; <HI>Jo&s;hua's</HI> &s;pirit, whol|ly re&s;igned to do or &s;uffer the Wil of God in all things in your generation, who are the true I&s;raelites indeed, without guile, partiality or hypocri&s;ie, the <HI>cho&s;en generation,</HI> the Royal Prie&s;t|hood, zealous for God &amp; good works, &amp; valiant for the Truth upon earth, who can for&s;ake all to follow the Lamb in his foot|&s;teps of patience, long-&s;uffering, love and meekne&s;s, wi&s;dom and fear, bearing all things, enduring all things, hoping al|ways in God, and rejoicing in tribulations, glorying in no|thing &s;aving in the Cro&s;s of our Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t, re&s;olving in his &s;trength with purpo&s;e of heart to cleave fa&s;t unto the Lord, though your outward man peri&s;h or be offered up as a living &s;acrifice for his holy Name and Truth: I &s;ay, that you truly are my brethren and &s;i&s;ters; I have no greater joy than to &s;it down with you, and feed with you at your Table, which indeed is no le&s;s then the Table of the Lord which he hath &s;pread for us; yea, even when we were in the Wilderne&s;s did he give us Manna from Heaven, Angels food, and water out of the Rock which then followed us; ble&s;&s;ed for ever be the Lord and the remembrance of his Name. And when I call to mind the&s;e things, and the multitude of his mercies and endle&s;&s;e compa&s;&s;ions which he &s;hewed towards us in the days of our in|fancy, when he took us by the hand, and taught us to go; my
<PB N="2" REF="2"> bowels are turned within me, and I am melted before the Lord. O <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> what hath thy God done for thee! Stand &s;til a little, and con&s;ider how he hath dealt with thee in the days pa&s;t; whether he hath dealt &s;o with any Nation; how he hath made Rivers in the De&s;art, and the dry Land to become &s;prings of Water: How hath he filled the hungry with good things, and &s;ent the rich empty away! He hath brought down the mighty from their &s;eats, and exalted them of low degree: He hath made the Wilderne&s;s a fruitful field, and turned the fruitful Land into barrenne&s;&s;e, becau&s;e of the iniquity of them that dwelt therein. He hath divided the &s;ea, and made it &s;tand on heaps while his cho&s;en Remnant pa&s;&s;eth over, He hath overthrown the hor&s;e and his Rider; he hath pierced Le|viathan, and brui&s;ed the head of the crooked Serpent, and broken the great teeth and jaws of the wicked; he hath deli|vered from the mouth of the Lyon, and from the paw of the Bear, and from the uncircumci&s;ed Phili&s;tins: He hath made the Lame to leap as an Hart and the Tongue of the dumb to &s;ing. He hath &s;et the &s;olitary in Families, and is leading <HI>Jo&s;eph</HI> like a Flock, and making him Ruler over <HI>Egypt,</HI> the Land of darkne&s;s. O magnifie the Name of the Lord all ye children of <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> and let the inhabitants of the Ro<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">k &s;ing for joy, for great and marvellous things hath the Lord done for his peo|ple; he hath rai&s;ed the dead, and brought <HI>Lazarni</HI> from the grave: He hath opened the eyes of the born blind; he hath clean&s;ed the Lepers, and ca&s;t out Devils, and they are gone into the Herd of Swine. He hath fed a great multitude with a little portion, and yet much remains. He hath cured the daughter of <HI>Abraham</HI> which was bowed down many years. He hath &s;topt the running i&s;&s;ue, which all the Phy&s;icians of no va|lue could never do. He hath made a Hedge about <HI>Job,</HI> and deli|vered ju&s;t <HI>Lot</HI> out of <HI>Sodom,</HI> and brought him to <HI>Zoar.</HI></P>
<P>The&s;e things hath the Lord of Life done among us, of which we are eye-witne&s;&s;es; and his own Arm, hath brought &s;alva|tion, and hath wrought all our Works in us, and for us, which none other man could do. O prai&s;e the Lord for ever, all ye that have breath in the Land of the living, and let the &s;ons of <HI>Jacob</HI> have him and his works in everla&s;ting remembrance. If we forget his mercies &s;hewed unto <HI>Zion,</HI> and his wonders in
<PB N="3" REF="2" MS="y"> deep, let our right hand forget her cunning: If I forget thee, O <HI>Jeru&s;alem,</HI> and what thy God hath done for thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth: But how is my &s;oul become as a watered Garden, in brokenne&s;s and humility be|fore the Lord God of our &s;alvation, when I call to mind his tender mercies and dealings of old; and when <HI>I</HI> remember the Wormwood and the Gall, and how there was none found worthy in Heaven nor Earth to open the Book, and to loo&s;e the &s;eals, neither to look thereon, but the Lamb which had been &s;lain; then was the time of weeping and of great mourn|ing, as in the Valley of <HI>Haddadrimmon;</HI> yea even apart in the Wilderne&s;s and &s;olitary places. O Lord God, &s;hall thy people ever forget the&s;e things, and thy wonders upon the Land of <HI>Egypt,</HI> which thou wroughte&s;t for thy Seeds &s;ake, and the great &s;alvation which thou ha&s;t &s;hewed to <HI>I&s;rael?</HI> Shall there ever be an image made, or the likene&s;s of any thing in Heaven or in Earth, to be bowed down to, but thy Name alone, which is and &s;hall be exalted above every Name, in which thy babes and children have found comfort, &s;trength and &s;afety to this day? Or &s;hall any thing &s;it in thy Judgement-&s;eat with thee, but that which overcometh, and is thy Son? is not all power in Heaven and Earth, and all Judgement committed to him in who&s;e mouth is found no guile, who is meek and lowly in heart, who loo&s;ed the &s;eals, and opened the Book, and did prevail, and hath prevailed over the Dragon and his Angels; who makes war in righteou&s;ne&s;s, and in it goes on conquering and to conquer: who hath the Keys of Death and of Hell. Therefore let your eyes be alone unto him, O ye followers of the Lamb, and fear not man, neither look unto man who&s;e breath is in his no&s;trils; but be valiant for the Truth upon Earth, which endureth for ever. Follow your Captain, even of your &s;alvation, ye White-Hor&s;e-men, who are of the Ar|mies that are in Heaven, who&s;e clothing is white and clean, and your Armor the whole Armor of Light, having on the or|nament of a meek, quiet and patient &s;pirit, which is of great price in the &s;ight of God, though in it you appear as fools in the &s;ight of men: You are of that Troop which &s;hall over|come at the la&s;t, though you &s;eem as to the outward appear|ance,
<PB N="4" REF="3"> to be overcome and trampled under foot for a &s;ea&s;on, for the exerci&s;e and trial of your faith and patience, through which God is bringing his Lambs nearer to his bo&s;om, though their face is marred more then any mans, and their form more then the &s;ons of men. But the Lord of Ho&s;ts is with you, and the &s;hout of a King is among you, which &s;hall make Nations to tremble, and the bea&s;ts of the field to flye before him. The Lyon of the Tribe of <HI>Judah</HI> hath roared out of <HI>Zion,</HI> and hath uttered his voice from his holy Temple <HI>New-Jeru&s;alem,</HI> and he it is that mu&s;t get the victory, and have the dominion and reign, til all his Enemies are become his foot&s;tool. This is the Lords doing, and this Work he wil accompli&s;h by his own arm; therefore lift up your heads ye babes and &s;uckling children of the mo&s;t High, and be bold in the &s;trength of the Almighty, and in it be very couragious in this the day of his power: Feel <HI>Caleb</HI> and <HI>Jo&s;hua's</HI> &s;pirit &s;tirred up, which &s;aith, <HI>We will go on, the Lord will go before us, and he will fight our battels, and we &s;hall prevail:</HI> For the Battel is the Lords, the Work is the Lords, and he wil accompli&s;h it; the day is his, the &s;et-time is come, and the vi|ctory is and mu&s;t be his: Here you dwel in the pure &s;ence and feeling of the noble Plant of renown, the right Seed, which wil wholly follow the Lord; this his &s;oul takes plea&s;ure in, and he wil never for&s;ake it, though a Woman may for&s;ake her child; this will never draw back becau&s;e of per&s;ecutions, threatnings or fiery tryals, Fornace or Den of Lyons; but puts on the whole Armour of God; and is clad with zeal as with a Cloak, and &s;ets its face like a Flint, becau&s;e of truth, and becau&s;e of righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e. This is the Royal birth which God hath rai&s;ed and wil rai&s;e, to whom the Kingdom and Dominion belongs forevermore; it's again&s;t this the enmity is; the Devil and the Dragons malice is again&s;t this Child, af|ter its Blood the Whore, Bea&s;t, Dragon and fal&s;e Prophet have thir&s;ted from <HI>Cain</HI> unto this day: This is the Lamb that hath been &s;lain from the foundation of the World. This is the ho|ly Child again&s;t whom <HI>Herod</HI> and <HI>Pilate,</HI> and all the <HI>Rulers</HI> took coun&s;el in all ages again&s;t the holy Child; not &s;o much again&s;t Profe&s;&s;ion is their aim, but at the Life and holy Birth it &s;elf, which is born and manife&s;t in fle&s;h, which hath been the my|&s;tery
<PB N="5" REF="3" MS="y"> hidden from ages and generations, but now is, and &s;hall be manife&s;t more and more through all the&s;e tryals and &s;ha|kings, to the ends of the earth. This is he who&s;e Ve&s;ture is dipt in blood, whom the Armies in Heaven follow; in heaven, not in earth, or of the earth are his Armies; but in heaven, making War in righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e and holine&s;&s;e, patience &amp; long-&s;uffering: This is his heavenly Army that &s;hal overcome with him, and get the victory over the Bea&s;t, the Dragon, the Whore and the fal&s;e Prophet; the Lord God that lives for ever hath &s;poken it: The Lamb mu&s;t overcom, and the Kingdom, and the greatne&s;s of it &s;hall be given to the Saints of the mo&s;t high, and they &s;hall po&s;&s;e&s;s it even to the end.</P>
<P>Therefore fear not ye little Flock, who&s;e breathing hearts are upright before God, Angels and men, who have the wit|ne&s;s in you, that you &s;eek nothing but Truth, Righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e and Peace with God and Man, and have no end but the glory of God and the exaltation of his Name, by the rai&s;ing of his Seed, and the &s;alvation of the &s;ouls of the children of men, who&s;e feeding is in the green pa&s;tures, which lie in the low Valleys by the &s;til Waters of <HI>Shiloh</HI> which run &s;oftly. The Lord is with you, though you are as Worms in your own eyes, and are ready to &s;ay with <HI>Mary, How can this be, &s;eeing I know not a man!</HI> I have no might, power, wi&s;dom, &s;trength or ability of my own. Be but the Virgin, wholly re&s;igned into the Wil of God, with thine eye &s;ingle, fixt in thy head, &amp; the power of the Mo&s;t High &s;hall over&s;hadow thee: And the Kingdom of God con&s;i&s;teth in power righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e and joy in the holy Gho&s;t, into which the wi&s;e Virgins enter, who are the followers of the Lamb (in who&s;e mouth is found no guile) through the great tribulations; the&s;e are the true <HI>I&s;raelites</HI> indeed, not only in word, but in deed and in truth. The&s;e follow him in the re|generation, and have the white Robes and the Palms given unto them. The&s;e &s;ing the new &s;ong which no man could learn but they that are redeemed from the Earth. The&s;e &s;it in the heavenly places with Chri&s;t Je&s;us, upon tvvelve Thrones judging the tvvelve Tribes of <HI>I&s;rael.</HI> The&s;e are they that are beheaded and &s;uffer for the Word of God, and the Te&s;timony vvhich they hold: Mark, they <HI>hold</HI> it, and do not let it go, but
<PB N="6" REF="4"> let go the Earth with the glory, trea&s;ures, delights and plea|&s;ures of it; but holds the Te&s;timony of Je&s;us, and have cho|&s;en the good part with <HI>Mary,</HI> which endures for ever, and lets go the cumbrings with the many things, for the one only needful thing, the Word of God, which is the Word of Pow|er, of Life, of Patience, of Reconciliation, and of Wi&s;dom, which &s;aves the immortal &s;oul, which is but one Word which was in the beginning, with whom <HI>Enoch</HI> walked, and was tran|&s;lated, which is God the Judge of all, unto which we are come, and to the Heavenly <HI>Jeru&s;alem,</HI> the City of the living God, and to the &s;pirits of ju&s;t men made perfect, where is no occa&s;ion of &s;tumbling, but God is the Judge of all, who brings the hidden things to light; but before this is witne&s;&s;ed, there may be &s;tumbling and occa&s;ions of &s;tumbling, and a Judge|ment may be given (before the Lord come) in the unju&s;t mans &s;pirit, which is for Judgement. But take heed of this thing, I charge, and al&s;o be&s;eech thee, O <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> in the Word of the Lord that liveth and abideth for ever, as thou love&s;t his holy Name, the peace and pro&s;perity of <HI>Jeru&s;alem,</HI> and the welfare of thine own &s;oul: But live in the Word of Wi&s;dom and true Authority and patience of the Lamb, and dwell with God the Judge of all, in who&s;e righteous Judgement, and before who&s;e Throne judge thy &s;elf, and let the beam be plucked out of every eye that would pre&s;ume to judge before the time; and let the dread of the Lord be before it; for it is a fear|ful thing to u&s;urp Authority over Chri&s;t Je&s;us, which is the man that mu&s;t judge the World in righteou&s;ne&s;s, and the peo|ple with Truth, who &s;aith to his Di&s;ciples, <HI>Be ye merciful as your heavenly Father is merciful:</HI> And they who are children of their Heavenly Father, are not apt to judge ra&s;hly before the time, out of his coun&s;el, truth, power, wi&s;dom and fear; but rather wait in patience until the Time comes (even the Lord) who bringeth the hidden things to light, having an eye to the glory of God, and the good part in all people, as well as &s;a|lute the people: The&s;e have no re&s;pect of per&s;ons, neither admire mens per&s;ons for advantage &s;ake. The&s;e are not in pre|judice or evil &s;urmizings again&s;t any, knowing God's hand is going over all the&s;e things, who is the Judg of all; for where any
<PB N="7" REF="4" MS="y"> prejudice, re&s;pect of per&s;ons, with the beam in the eye, lodg|eth in the heart of any man, in that &s;tate that man's Judge|ment is unju&s;t and unrighteous, who ever he be; (J &s;peak from God without partiality:) He hath not the mercy that God hath to the unju&s;t; and the very Sun in the Firmament will teach that man wi&s;dom.</P>
<P>Therefore my dearly beloved Friends, Brethren and Si&s;ters, with whom I am bound up in the bundle of Life, to live and to dye in, and for the righteous Cau&s;e and Work of God, which is his Truth that endureth for ever; this is my exhorta|tion unto you all from the lea&s;t to the greate&s;t, without re&s;pect of per&s;ons or things outward: In the bowels of unfeigned love look all at the good part which is of God in your &s;elves, and dwel in the good part, in the remembrance of his mer|cies and loving-kindne&s;s which he hath &s;hewed unto you; and &s;hut your eyes from &s;eeing of evil, and look only at the good part in all; then wil you an&s;wer the good part in <HI>Jew</HI> and <HI>Gen|tile,</HI> and the Church of God. Here you &s;hall be able to dwel with everla&s;ting burnings, and in the Munition of Rocks. Here ye dwell with God the Judge of all, and the &s;pirits of ju&s;t men. Here's every high imagination and every thought that would exalt &s;elf, brought down through the Judgement of God, into the obedience of Chri&s;t. Here's that unju&s;t &s;pirit judged which would take the neighbour or brother by the throat, or lay hands &s;uddenly on any, which <HI>Paul</HI> charged <HI>Ti|mothy</HI> not to do.</P>
<P>Therefore all ye dear children of God, keep out of that &s;pirit, and let it not have place in you, no not for a moment; but dwell in the life and wi&s;dom of God the Judge of all, where you wil feel the ju&s;t man's &s;pirit, which can judge and try all things, and be e&s;tabli&s;hed in it; for I have con&s;idered that this is a day of great trials and temptations on every hand, and of the making manife&s;t them that are approved in God's &s;ight. It is a day which requires retiredne&s;&s;e, fear, watchfulne&s;&s;e and diligence, which wil keep out of being ea|&s;ily moved or provoked: But your hearts will come to be e&s;tabli&s;hed in power, love, and a found mind, in which
<PB N="8" REF="5"> your compa&s;&s;ions will flow forth towards your brethren, and towards all men; and ye will feel mercy ari&s;e, and pitty towards Enemies: Dwelling your &s;elves alwayes in the &s;en&s;e and feeling of God's Mercies, Compa&s;&s;ions and Long-&s;uffering towards you. I &s;peak what I know through the exerci&s;e of my faith and patience concerning the&s;e things; and I have found, That the thought of preju|dice and evil &s;urmizing again&s;t any man or creature what&s;oever, is judged with the Life of the true Seed (which lives in the bo&s;ome of God, the Judge of all, which can &s;tand upon the Sea of Gla&s;s mingled with Fire) to be of the Enmity which came of the old crook|ed Serpent, the beguiler and &s;eparater from the Tree of Life; Here you'l &s;ee the Tale-bearers, which &s;epara|teth very Friends, of which Wi&s;dom &s;pake to be very near.</P>
<P>The Lord open your under&s;tandings (my dear friends) for my bowels and very heart is open towards you, with de&s;ires and prayers to God for all <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> That they might be &s;aved from the Wrath which is to come as a Flood upon the ungodly and rebellious generation.</P>
<P>And the Lord God of Mercies and Ble&s;&s;ings keep us all in meekne&s;&s;e and fear, in his Spirit of Lowline&s;&s;e, Love and Forbearance, in tenderne&s;&s;e, forgiving and for|bearing one another, as God for Chri&s;t (his Seed's) &s;ake hath forgiven us; &s;hutting that eye that looks af|ter the Moat, for that is the evil eye, the Hypocrite gone out from, and exalted above the Heir, the Life of God, to which the Judgement and the Power is committed: This &s;hall never inherit true peace with God or Man in that &s;tate: For evil thoughts lodging, and being joined unto, defile a man, and &s;huts that Kingdom again&s;t him, into which no unclean thing can enter.</P>
<P>So my dear Friends, and all you who&s;e faces are turn|ed toward the Paradice of God, from the Earth, into which ye were driven by tran&s;gre&s;&s;ion: Mind the&s;e things, and let this remembrance be alwayes fre&s;h in
<PB N="9" REF="5"> you, that you bear not the Root, but the Root bear you: And this will keep you, that you &s;hall not be high-minded, but fear; and to be little in your own eyes, as the little Child, unto whom the King|dom of God belongs.</P>
<P>And this Spirit (before-mentioned) of forgivene&s;s, mercies and long-&s;uffering, love unfeigned, gentle|ne&s;s and patience, dwelling in the watchfulne&s;&s;e for good (in the Wi&s;dom of God) and not for evil, is the Spirit of the Lamb, whom the Lord hath &s;aid, (and fully determined) That it &s;hall pro&s;per and &s;pread through Nations, and it &s;hall have dominion over them, and they &s;hall bow to it, and it &s;hall be a ble&s;&s;ing unto many people and Nations afar off; and the everla&s;ting pre&s;ence and ble&s;&s;ings of the Almighty &s;hall accompany it for ever; and the Gates of Hell &s;hall not prevail again&s;t it: But that which is ra&s;h, high, heady, proud, wilful, fooli&s;h and &s;tubborn (in which the Leven of the Phari&s;ees lodgeth) God will lay low, and aba&s;e before him; and all Judgement which is not his Sons (in whom he is well-plea&s;ed, to whom all Judgement is committed and belongs) he will judge and condemn: And he that judgeth before he is to me, who is Lord and Judge of all (and without him) God will judge.</P>
<P>So in the Spirit of the Lamb, dear Babes and Children of Light, go on and pro&s;per, and be faithful and va|liant for the Truth upon the Earth, keeping low in your own mea&s;ure, every one marching in his own path; then your Ranks will not be broken; for thus is it written of the Camp of the Lord which mu&s;t get the victory; for the Enemy is very bu&s;ie, &s;triving every way to draw forth your &s;imple minds from the &s;trong hold of the Pri&s;on of Hope. Therefore ble&s;&s;ed is he that watcheth and waiteth alway at Wi&s;doms gate, for there is the &s;imple pre&s;erved in meekne&s;s and fear, love and patience, godline&s;s and brotherly kindne&s;s, which is the
<PB N="10" REF="6"> mo&s;t excellent way. This is the path where the Lyon cannot come, nor any ravenous Bea&s;t can touch this Mountain, but hee'l be &s;truck through with the &s;ling|&s;tone of <HI>David,</HI> or a Dart of God's righteous Judge|ments: Here's no de&s;troying nor hurting in all this holy Mountain, but bearing all things, enduring all things without murmuring, complaining or envying, dwelling in that love which thinks no evil: This is that Spirit of the Lamb of God which &s;aveth &s;ouls, and overcometh or taketh away a Multitude of &s;ins, wherein is no delight to lay open the Brother's naked|ne&s;&s;e (for that's of <HI>Ham</HI>'s &s;tock, which God hath cur|&s;ed for ever) but rather a &s;ecret crying to the Lord concerning &s;uch things, (O that thy Name might not &s;uffer nor be reproached through any who profe&s;s thy everla&s;ting Name and Truth) and can &s;ay as <HI>Mo|&s;es</HI> did, <HI>Blot out my Name, rather then thy Name &s;hould &s;uffer, or be ju&s;tly reproached or di&s;honored among&s;t thy people.</HI> This is that which is rai&s;ed in many, which they love more then Father, Mother, Wife, Children, Hou&s;e or Lands, yea, or their own Life, as God is witne&s;&s;e. Here's a pa&s;&s;age through the daily Cro&s;s, the &s;trait gate into the place of broad Rivers, where goes no galley with Oars, but a &s;tretching forth and &s;wimming in the Eternal Will and Obedience of God.</P>
<P>So lift up your Heads, all ye tender Plants of my Heavenly Fathers own planting, from the virtue which you receive at the Root of <HI>David,</HI> from which the branch of Righteou&s;ne&s;s &s;prings; and dwell in the &s;til|ne&s;s and patience, in which ye will feel the bowels of God's Love and Mercies opened in you like a Fountain, at which ye may drink and be &s;atisfied, and rejoice in God your Saviour, in the mid&s;t of all Tryals and Tri|bulations, wherein ye wil have &s;trength and boldne&s;s to confe&s;s his Name before men, even to the death, in the day when many &s;hall hide them&s;elves for fear, and for looking at the things which are &s;wiftly coming
<PB N="11" REF="6"> upon the Earth. So dear Babes of God, and Children of the Stock of <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> put on the whole Armour of Light, and make War in Righteou&s;ne&s;s, in the Spirit of the Lamb, in who&s;e mouth guile is not found; this is the Captain of our Salvation, who hath left us an example, that we &s;hould follow his &s;teps, vvhom looking to, and o|beying, the Lord God that made Heaven and Earth wil be with you, and pre&s;erve you all his dear children in and through all your tryals and tribulations, which may be &s;uffered to come upon you for the tryal of your faith and patience; and for the purifying and clean&s;ing his &s;an|ctuary: And this Man wil be your hiding place from the &s;torm and from the rain, even the &s;ame which was found, the Rock, in a weary Land: And this is he that vvil &s;tand the la&s;t upon the Earth, and get the Victory and Domini|on over and through all, of who&s;e Dominion and King|dom &s;hal be no end.</P>
<P>So in this the Lord God of Life, of Heaven and Earth, keep you all by his Eternal power, and e&s;tabli&s;h you on the unmovable Rock of &s;alvation, that &s;o with one heart, mind and &s;oul, we may glorifie the holy Name of our God in this our Day and Generation, and right walking before him, that &s;o we may give up our account with joy, and not with grief, and have the Witne&s;s in us and for us, that we are vvel-plea&s;ing in his &s;ight; in which whether vve live or dye, vve &s;hal have peace, and joy un&s;peakable and ful of glory.</P>
<P>The Lord God of Life, Love and Peace; Wi&s;dom and Righteou&s;ne&s;s, be vvith you all my dear Brethren and Friends, and pre&s;erve you all in his Eternal povver unto his Heavenly Kingdom, there to remain, and in it to re&s;t, when this World &s;hall be no more.</P>
<P><HI>This is given forth in the movings of the Bowels of God's Love, unto his people I&s;rael, and in the remembrance of his mercies of old, and of his daily compa&s;&s;ions towards them, which is as an entreaty thereby, that we may all remember and lo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">e his mercies, walking
<PB N="12" REF="7" MS="y"> humbly before him all the dayes of your life. And to be read in your Meetings as in wi&s;dom and conveniency of time ye have meet opportunity.</HI></P>
<P><HI>By a Companion of them that follow the Lamb through the great tribulations, for who&s;e &s;ake he can &s;ay he loves not his life to the death, enjoying that Love which is &s;tronger then death: Ble&s;&s;ed be the Name of the Lord forever,</HI> Amen.</P>
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