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<HEAD>A TENDER GREETING AND SALUTATION OF Perfect Love and Life of truth, to the Children of the Kingdom. From a Brothe<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> and living Witne&s;s, and fellow-&s;ervant and companion of the Election, and of the Churches of Chri&s;t ga|thered by and through the Power and Mini&s;tration of the Eter|nal Spirit of the Lord Je&s;us, out of the World, into Covenant with God and his Chri&s;t, over all ble&s;&s;ed, over all for ever, <HI>Amen.</HI> In which Grace and peace be multiplied and abound to every mem|ber of the infinite Body of which Chri&s;t is Head. <HI>Amen,</HI> for ever.</HEAD>
<P>M<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> Friends, ye Babe<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> and Children of Life, of pure innocency, of immortality brought to light, that's clear and marvellous in our eye, that's &s;ingle, pure holy, unchangeable (without variablene&s;s) in which the perfect love of the eternal riches of the everla&s;ting Go&s;pel, and glorious power of an end|le&s;s Life, and its perfect, un&s;peakable, ble&s;&s;ed unity and fellow&s;hip of us with the Father, with the Son, and one with another, in one and the &s;elf-&s;ame holy Spirit of Faith, and Vertue, and Sanctifi|cation &s;tandeth well, entire and compleat in the plea&s;ure of the Lord God, according to the proportion of the faith of <HI>Abraham,</HI> in the election di&s;pen&s;ed to us, and in every of us received unto &s;alvation, unto whom the Heavenly Divine Power from on high is come and given (even unto us) bountifully, with the precious things or riches that's durable and unvaluable, trea&s;ures which pertain to
<PB N="2" REF="2" MS="y"> life and godline&s;s more or le&s;s, according to the wi&s;dom of God the Father of our Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t, and through the manifold di|&s;pen&s;ations of his eternal loving-kindne&s;&s;es hath he manife&s;ted him&s;elf, and made known the good plea&s;ures of his Will to us|ward, in, by and through the <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">evelatio<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">, manife&s;tation and mini|&s;tration of his un&s;potted Lif<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> which well witne&s;&s;eth and beareth record both of the Father and of the Son, in one Word that chan|geth not in us, but is the &s;ame as in the beginning, and before all things, and cannot alter or vary, but remaineth in its own entire, unfathomable, unlimited, boundle&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> goodn<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;s and fulne&s;s which endureth forever, <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ho hath called u<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> with this Eternal Word of Life, of Holine&s;s, and by the &s;ame hath wounded and killed, quick|ened and made alive, to his glory and virtue, with endle&s;s prai&s;es in perfect love, in which is no fear that worketh evil or torment but that which worketh good unto edification and perfection. And on how hath the &s;ame abounded towards you my dear Friends! And how hath the di&s;tillings from God's right hand (of mercy and good|ne&s;s) where the Son is, that hath made your very hearts glad in the &s;avour of his holy Spirit (the Comforter) &s;o that it hath been unexpre&s;&s;ible to demon&s;trate the truth of this what your immortal &s;ouls have met with, and been made partakers of under the perfect &s;ence of his un&s;peakable love, by his righteous Judgements and Mercies, who hath &s;ought and called, and found you that were gone a&s;tray and even lo&s;t in ob&s;curity, as 'twere without hope of any re|covery, in the alienation from the Life of God; yea even as exhiled captives, aliens and &s;trangers, from the unchangeable Covenant of promi&s;e that's &s;ure to the Seed of the eternal inheritance of the pur|cha&s;ed po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion, the &s;ame that was fore-ordained for you that be|liev in the Name of the Lord God of immortality before the founda|tion of the World, to the end that ye may be heir<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> together with him that is one with the Father, who hath drawn with the Cords of his Love, by which the bonds of wickedne&s;&s;e have been bur&s;t a&s;&s;under, and the Cords of your &s;ins which have entangled you in captivity, the&s;e have been broken, and iniquities that are pa&s;t have been fini&s;h|ed and blotted out by the ari&s;ing and coming of the ju&s;t one, with his un&s;peakable refre&s;hings of his glorious power, even as the morn|ing-light of a clear day; yea with &s;uch like healings and vertuous refre&s;hings of the Son of Righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e hath he come, that expels the corruptible darkne&s;&s;e that hath oppre&s;t and covered the earth, &s;o that by its divine, pure and powerful operation, in the &s;tilne&s;&s;e
<PB N="3" REF="2" MS="y"> of your &s;ubject on to the &s;ame Ordin<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">nce that's of God Eternal which he hath ordained to &s;ubdue contrarieties, and they come to be done away hereby the Cro&s;&s;e that extends pence, as a River of flowing &s;treams to the poor, to the needy, the hungry and thir&s;ty, to revive &amp; repleni&s;h the cont<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ite in he<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">rt by the very &s;ame which &s;heds its &s;aving health <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">nd &s;an<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">tifying virtu<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> to every plant and green thing, to every Tre<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> tha<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> buds and blo&s;&s;omes, and bears fruit, according to the goodne&s;&s;e and plea&s;ure of the end of the good Husbandman, that well rejoiceth over the choice Vines, and Vin|yards, and Gardens of the plea&s;ure of his right hand, where the River &s;treams that makes gl<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">d the beloved City of my God, and his plea&s;ant Plants add no &s;orrow unto his &s;oul, but he well-delighteth in them, and taketh plea&s;ure in them that fear him, and keep their habitations in the fir&s;t love, and behold his mercy and goodne&s;&s;e is over them as a lovely banner, and comely Ornament of prai&s;e; and his fear &s;eated in your hearts yet more abundantly manife&s;t in the &s;ight of the Nations, the &s;ame &s;hall be a &s;ure defence to pr<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;erve you unto his Heavenly Kingdom of all fulne&s;s (without limitation.) What if I &s;ay to &s;ome, My Babes (and univer&s;ally to all, My Friends, my Brethren, my Si&s;ters) to you are the&s;e &s;ayings &s;poken? And what if I &s;ay of the Loveling of my heart, Verily mine eye hath wel af|fected mine heart, and I am in perfect love and unity with every of you that love the Lord, and obey his unchangeable truth and name, and &s;uffer for it more or le&s;s? Well, J cannot but tel you on this wi&s;e, that J heartily love you in the &s;ame, in no other thing, or name, or word, or life, or what el&s;e, but in the very thing in which we are Witne&s;&s;es of in its di&s;pen&s;ations, not only of &s;alvation, but al&s;o of condemnation, in their time and &s;ea&s;ons; and becau&s;e the &s;ame love with which the te&s;timony of my Con&s;cience giveth a good evi|dence to my under&s;tanding that J am beloved of my God, the &s;ame well aboundeth in my very heart to ye, ye faithful of the Lord; therefore do J &s;end you here with the greetings of the &s;ame kind|ne&s;s to your edification, in the &s;ame love by which your mo&s;t holy Faith worketh, that together with me herein your pure minds by way of remembrance may be &s;tirred up in one &s;pirit to ble&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> and prai&s;e the living Lord, as it becometh Saints in Light; and hereby to be the more abundantly quickened unto all wel-plea&s;ing in the pure pre&s;ence, in his Light of his countenance that &s;hines over you for good; and J &s;ay and exhort you in the very &s;elf-&s;ame Spirit of faith and love, to lay a&s;ide, and put far away from you what&s;oever would
<PB N="4" REF="3" MS="y"> vail or &s;eparate from this unvaluable love and goodne&s;s, virtue and peace of Chri&s;t which pa&s;&s;eth knowledge, and with all readine&s;&s;e of mind, as it becometh the Election, under the perfect &s;ence of this un&s;peakable love and ble&s;&s;ed fear of the Lord, to give all diligence to meet in the &s;ame power of life and virtue, and keep to meetings in the Heavenly Order, to wait upon the Lord in his mercy &amp; fear only over&s;hadowing of you, that the holy eternal &s;trength &amp; come|line&s;s of the Lord's beauty may adorn you, thereby to be revived in the loveline&s;s of your &s;ouls &s;hining upon you, and &s;urrounding your Tabernacles; and that the comfort of the ble&s;&s;ed &s;tedfa&s;t Spi|rit of Truth in the Life of the Cro&s;s of Je&s;us, together with the re|newings of the Holy Gho&s;t, you may receive the &s;ame in all your Meetings, to every of you, your particular and everla&s;ting &s;atisfacti|on, and a&s;&s;ured confidence in the holy faith and patience of the Saints in Light (without doubting) and &s;o your fruit may abound unto holine&s;s, and the end of the &s;ame ye may receive even imme|diately from the right hand of God, which is eternal life, and this is the end of your ble&s;&s;ed confirmation of your mo&s;t holy Faith in every particular, and in your ble&s;&s;ed A&s;&s;emblies, &s;o that ye know the Way and the Truth undoubtedly, wherein ye may preciou&s;ly receive of his fulne&s;s from the bountiful hand of Eternal Life, which is not hid from you (as in times pa&s;t) the which comes imme|diately from God, the clear and unfathomable Fountain of all ful|ne&s;s, and lives for ever in the holy Seed of la&s;ting righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, which is revealed and come very nigh us, the which breaths and maketh interce&s;&s;ion in the acceptation of that which is holy and &s;piritual, without &s;pot to God.</P>
<P>To this end my very dear Friends, my tenderly beloved in God, the Spirit of Love and of the fear of the Lord is upon me to put you in remembrance of the&s;e things that are one and the &s;ame with the beginning of your Faith, in the Truth and Love that's perfect, &s;ound and pure, that neither thinketh nor worketh evil; behold this is the excellent Way that tends to edifie the whole Body, and every particular Member receiveth &s;trength, life and virtue, in unity with the Head Chri&s;t, the Seed, the Stone that's precious, the Rock and &s;aving-health, even the Foundation of God that &s;tandeth &s;ure, and is over his own Hou&s;e al&s;o in the great My&s;terie of God, who&s;e Hou&s;e are we, if immovably we abide faithful, holding fa&s;t the good be|ginning of our confidence in the Head Chri&s;t, firm unto the end: However we know God's Foundation it &s;tandeth &s;ure; and this ye
<PB N="5" REF="3" MS="y"> know that if we &s;hould deny him either in the fellow&s;hip of his &s;uf|ferings unto which we have been called with holine&s;s, and &s;o not to confe&s;s him (through the &s;ame) before men; yet he without doubt|ing or controver&s;ie in any wi&s;e cannot deny him&s;elf, albeit a Cloud receives him out of the &s;ight of many, who &s;hall not &s;ee his face till they &s;ay (who have pierced him) <HI>Ble&s;&s;ed is he that cometh in the Name of the Lord;</HI> yea, and my Spirit &s;hall gladly &s;ay, Even &s;o <HI>Amen:</HI> Come Lord Je&s;us, come quickly, that the afflicted and upright in heart may langui&s;h no more, but triumph in glory, and be filled with gladne&s;s of heart in perfect quietne&s;s in their expected end, for which my &s;oul (as a Dove) often mourneth, travelling in love through di&s;tre&s;&s;es, often di&s;tre&s;&s;ed for thy &s;ake, oh thou who&s;e Re|nown is from everla&s;ting, and thy memorial &s;hall never end, that thou mai&s;t be rai&s;ed upon high over all, to be a Royal Diadem in the hand of thy mighty God; my &s;oul longeth for this with ma|ny Brethren; lo we travel in pain often for thy &s;ake, thou Royal Seed of Nobles, the loveline&s;s of thy Progenitors, the Heavens are di&s;&s;olved with un&s;peakable love, and the Heavenly Ho&s;ts, behold how they travel in order for the brightne&s;s of thy ri&s;ing over all Nations, that thy Dominions, and the largene&s;s of thy unlimited extent thou mai&s;t po&s;&s;e&s;s, as is meet, that the &s;ons of Nobles, and Daughters of eternal Renown, with Kings in glory may rejoice in thy fame, and feed thee with the pure&s;t of good things, even the Heritage of <HI>Jacob</HI> thy Father; and for thy &s;ake, oh thou loveline&s;s of my heart, how often am J undone for thee! The Brethren and &s;trip|lings of my Father's Hou&s;e, how dearly do they love thee! how wil|lingly are we overcom with thy loveline&s;s to &s;uffer even for thy &s;ake! Shall J break forth in mourning? or &s;hall J take up a doleful lamen|tation for many that have loved thee a little &s;ea&s;on, till &s;omewhat ob&s;cured their eye, and their back parts is towards thee? Oh! alas! alas! yea wo and alas for them! Oh! J have travelled in pain night and day for their &s;akes, in&s;omuch J could even cry aloud and ro<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">r as a Lyonne&s;s bereaved of her young; the eccho might reach th<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> Heavens to be a&s;toni&s;hed at this, as in the ancient days when <HI>I&s;rael</HI> him&s;elf wrought folly, and hewed out Ci&s;terns imperfect, being de|parted from the Fountain. Wherefore let all hear and fear, becau&s;e the mighty day of the Lord is great, and the tryal and travel of the Lot of his inheritance is no le&s;s, and the &s;ence and weighty &s;ence of the&s;e things boweth my heart and &s;oul even to death before the Lord often, &s;o that J know many brethren on this wi&s;e travel, and
<PB N="6" REF="4" MS="y"> pure innocency is ready to cry out, being di&s;&s;olved into pure virtue in its travel, &s;aying, Lord, how long? how long Lord? &s;hall it be always thus? Surely no, &s;aith the an&s;wer of my God; the many days of thy travel and mourning &s;hall have an end, and thy Work &s;hall be rewarded; neither &s;hall the renown and &s;ame of my people be extingui&s;hed, but encrea&s;e as the Sun and Moon in their cour&s;e and order, from generation to generation; and J am the Lord their God in faithfulne&s;s and truth, without variablene&s;s, and &s;o they are, and for ever &s;hall be my people, their Dominion from &s;ea to &s;ea &s;hall extend without limitation, and the borders of wickedne&s;&s;e as cha&s;t and du&s;t under the &s;oles of their feet, &s;hall not hurt them; the pure Breath of Life Eternal hath &s;poken it, by the living Word of the Lord that &s;hall &s;tand for ever. Wherefore be not di&s;mayed nor ca&s;t down with over-much &s;orrow, though thy travels be not a lit|tle; in the mighty &s;trength of thy God, oh thou afflicted and be|loved of my &s;oul, thine eye &s;hall perfectly behold <HI>Jeru&s;alem</HI> (the <HI>Mount Sion</HI> of my God) with her free-born compleatly e&s;tabli&s;hed, the lovely and de&s;irable prai&s;e of the whole earth; yea, and more then is lawful to be uttered. Wherefore yet be bold and valiant, and put on courage, with the lovely Armor of eternal &s;alvation, ye &s;ons, ye harmle&s;s &s;ons and daughters of <HI>Sions</HI> Lamb, that bears the weighty iniquities, and fini&s;heth the &s;ame, and takes them a|way; and cloaths his people with his Name, and with the lovely Garments of Prai&s;e, and opens the healing Fountain of Wi&s;dom from above, in the holy Spirit of the Lord's fear, which pre&s;erves through many tribulations; and then he like a good &s;hepherd leads to the living Fountains of Water, where the weary and thir|&s;ty are wel &s;atisfied under the light and &s;hadow of his countenance that &s;its in the mid&s;t of the Throne, who &s;aith, <HI>I will give freely to him that is a thir&s;t;</HI> therefore the Spirit and the Bride &s;aith, Come, with him that heareth and is a thir&s;t, as is the Me&s;&s;age of the Angel to the Churches, and not to the fearful and unbelieving; and to you ye beloved of the Lord that retain your fir&s;t Love, is my very heart open in the &s;ame, and therefore the more am J enlarged: Where|fore my dearly beloved, be like-minded; let the &s;ame unchangea|ble mind be in you, and abound, that dwells in the holy Seed with|out change or &s;hadow of turning, that's both &s;ure and peaceable, without fraud or guile, and is watchful for good, and not for evil, that in his &s;trength who wi&s;ely maketh all Grace to abound in every good word and work, ye may &s;tand firm and unblameable, and com|pleat
<PB N="7" REF="4" MS="y"> before him in love, which is the end and beginning of all Mini&s;trations that ac|companieth the Divine Power which God Eternal hath made known to you; and the holy and effectual operation of the &s;ame Go&s;pel of peace more or le&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">, my God that liveth for ever hath made known, and honored you withal, what if I &s;ay more over and above all the Families of the Earth?</P>
<P>Wherefore, oh ye ble&s;&s;ed of the Lord, forget not his pure &s;ayings in the ancient days, &s;poken by the &s;ame Life, to the &s;ame Seed, of which you are united and made partakers, ye that tremble at his Word; your brethren that hated you, that ca&s;t you out for my Names &s;ake, &s;aid, <HI>Let the Lord be glorified;</HI> but he &s;hall appear to your joy, and they &s;hall be a&s;hamed; while ye may &s;ay, Oh Lord, I will prai&s;e thee; though thou wa&s;t angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comforte&s;t me <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> Behold, God is my &s;alvation, I will tru&s;t, and not be afraid; for the Lord Je|hovah is my &s;trength: &amp;c. Wher<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">fore with joy &s;hal ye draw water out of the well<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> of Salvation. Oh how h<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">s your Light ari&s;en out of ob&s;curity! you who&s;e &s;oul ha<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> been revived and drawn out to the hungry and to the afflicted &s;oul, has been well &s;atisfied with thee and thy bountifulne&s;s, thou ble&s;&s;ed Seed of the Lord's annoint|ing; he &s;hall guide thee continually, and &s;atisfie thy &s;oul in drought, and make fat thy bones, and thou &s;halt be like a watered Garden, who&s;e waters fall not; for your &s;ake are the&s;e who are arrayed in white, having pa&s;t through many tribulations, fol|lowing the Lamb (through the &s;ame) then he leads to living Fountains opened for the Hou&s;e of <HI>David,</HI> who&s;e Tabernacle is rai&s;ed up for the tribes of the Lord's an|nointing, and the di&s;per&s;ed of <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> the inhabitants of <HI>Sion,</HI> the Mountain of holi|ne&s;s in <HI>Ieru&s;alem;</HI> that's free, with her inhabitants, true <HI>I&s;raelites</HI> indeed, in who&s;e mouth is no guile, my &s;oul i<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> knit unto ye. Well, I have much within my heart to &s;ay of the goodne&s;s, and mercy, and righteous Judgements of the Lord God of truth, which are more precious then fined &s;hining Gold, &amp; ble&s;&s;ed is the man that's made a partaker hereof, and keeps them, the fear of my God as a beautiful Crown of Wi&s;dom's Life, &s;h<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ll be his goodly trea&s;ure, to pre&s;erve him from the power of the &s;word, which &s;h<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ll devour the Adver&s;aries that refu&s;e and rebel again&s;t the Light and Coun&s;el of my God. His &s;aving-health &s;hall not be hidden from thine eye, O thou tender, upright, mourning Plant, and branch of Righteou&s;ne&s;s, the days of thy mourning &s;h<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ll have an end in thy beloved, thy expected end, and his bowel<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> of mercy and tender pity &s;hall not be e&s;tranged any more at all from thee, thou be|loved &s;eed of pure innocency, that has heard the joyful &s;ound, the voice of thy be|loved, Lo, thy Companions, the Children of thy Father's Hou&s;e &s;hall joy in the Lord, and well rejoice in the Holy One of <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> becau&s;e of thee and thy faith|fulne&s;s to thy mighty God, and tell of his wondrous works, and talk of the power of his might, in who&s;e mouth never any guile was found; &s;uch a true <HI>I&s;raelite,</HI> &s;uch a High Prie&s;t becomes us, who is holy, harmle&s;s, undefiled, &s;eparate from &s;in and &s;inners, that offered up him&s;elf without &s;pot to God through the eternal Spirit of &s;anctification. Let every member feel and partake of the &s;ame virtue in the Electi|on; feel and &s;avour the &s;ame dwell in them, and run through them, to the purifying of your hearts, as is meet in the Lord, that &s;pirit; the eternal riches and ble&s;&s;ings h<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">s been hid in the &s;ame from ages and generations; my heart wi&s;heth they may all abound with the mercies of God the Father of our Lord Je&s;us, to every of you in his life, who is ri&s;en from the dead, and from their Congregations, and lives and reigns in the lively Witne&s;&s;es of his death and re&s;urrection, to whom with the Fa|ther be eternal glory and reverence, power and might, with endle&s;s prai&s;es and ever|la&s;ting
<PB N="8" REF="5" MS="y"> Dominion in all, and through all that love his appearance in the un|<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">hangeable Light of his countenance; and &s;o over all be thank&s;givings, <HI>Amen.</HI> And let the upright in heart &s;ay &s;o; and behold they, even they that are yet afar off, &s;hall come up to <HI>Sion</HI> the holine&s;s of my beloved, with &s;ongs of deliverance, making me|lody becau&s;e of the perfect beauty and glory of my God, which hath &s;hined upon them that fear him, and behold him face to face; yea, and the loveline&s;s of my heart, the Seed of the ble&s;&s;ed, the joy of many generations, and the de&s;ire of the Nati|ons of peace and plenty, he &s;hall come that will come, and not tarry, with his re|ward in his right hand in the bright Heavenly Clouds, and lo they &s;hall di&s;til and drop down new Wine, with the early and latter rain of vertuous righteou&s;ne&s;s upon the tender plants and trees of virt<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">, planted and &s;eated within the Garden of im|mortality; and the tender Babes and Children of the Kingdom of eternal life &s;hall with joy un&s;peakable rejoice in the abundant fulne&s;s of the glory of the Lord, that's King of <HI>Sion,</HI> in <HI>Ieru&s;alem</HI> that's free from above, becau&s;e of the abundance of peace and truth, and unutterable virtue, and &s;anctifying riches of the everla&s;ting Foun|tain of Eternity that's opened in <HI>Sion</HI>'s holy Hill, and its &s;treams purely de&s;cend and i&s;&s;ue forth to the ends of the earth, to fetch thy &s;ons from far, and thy daugh|ters from the Lyons dens, &amp; from the Mountains of the Leopards, to wor&s;hip the Lord the King, the Holy One of <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> who teacheth his people, children that will not lye; and they that are not, &s;hall &s;ay as in the ancient days, Come oh Hou&s;e of <HI>Jacob,</HI> come let us go up to the Mountain of the Lords Hou&s;e, he wil teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths; and lo their faces &s;ha<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">l &s;hine with pure innocency that come to live under the hiding of his power, under the &s;hadowing of the &s;tedfa&s;t &s;pirit of glory, of the fear of the Lord, which &s;hall cover them as a very lovely garment of prai&s;e without, but the glory &s;hall excel within; where uprightne&s;s, in|nocency and pure integrity to its fir&s;t Love liveth &amp; is pre&s;erved in the inner Court, (which looketh Ea&s;tward towards the &s;un ri&s;ing) of the beauty of holine&s;s, with|out guile, in the plea&s;ure of the Lord, at who&s;e right hand the River &s;treams, and &s;o the lovely &s;eed of his annointing &s;hall flouri&s;h and bear much fruit, and &s;hoot forth its branches, and &s;pread abroad its faithful fruitful bows over the lovely Walls of &s;al|vation of the City of my God; &s;o he that overcometh, &s;hall inherit all things. And &s;o ble&s;&s;ed and holy is he that has part in the fir&s;t re&s;urrection over &s;uch the &s;econd death &s;hall have no power, as faith the Angel to the Churches; The&s;e &s;ayings are faithful and true, and holy; and ble&s;&s;ed is he that reads and lives in the integrity and faithfulne&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> of the God of <HI>Abraham,</HI> to the end, and in the &s;ame do I commend every of you to whom I write, in the Covenant of Eternity to be pre&s;erved &s;tedfa&s;t and entire to the beginning, the &s;ure Foundation of God Eternal, who is the Light, and Life, and glory, and everla&s;ting &s;trength and beauty of the Election, in whom from everla&s;ting to everla&s;ting he is to be glorified; and &s;o let him be prai&s;ed who is that eternal unchangeable &s;pirit of pure and matchle&s;s &s;ub&s;tance and virtue Divine, even God ble&s;&s;ed for ever, <HI>Amen</HI> and <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Worce&s;ter</HI> City-Gaol for the Te&s;timony of Je&s;us, and Word of God, and his pure way of Wor&s;hip, a Pri&s;oner <DATE>this third Month, the 12th day, 1663.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Daniel Baker.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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