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<NAME>John Latta</NAME>
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<HEAD>A Tender Salutation to the SEED.</HEAD>
<P>_FRom the breathing of my life which I feel opening in the bowells of my Fathers love flowing forth to you, that we may be refre&s;hed one in another; O thou Seed, thou Heir, thou beautifull branch and plant of the Lord for the healing of the Nations which &s;hall flye and flock unto thee, as the Doves unto the windowes; O thou beautifull Bride, embrace thy Beloved, who &s;tands ready to adorn thee, and to put his Comline&s;&s;e upon thee to purge and purify, and make an everla&s;ting Covenant with thee to be e&s;pou&s;ed to thee for ever: this is the Lamb, the dread of all Nations, the Lamb of God, oh ble&s;&s;ed are they that receive him in the way of his Coming, it is through the &s;uffering, put it not afarre off from you, pri&s;e the day of <HI>Sion's</HI> vi&s;itation; oh my &s;oul! prai&s;e thou the Lord for ever, who hath hid the&s;e things from the wi&s;e and prudent, and revealed them unto Lambes who love thy Law, and delight in Judgement, O let it be our delight for ever there to be found, in the fiery tryall and furnace of affliction, till the Rebellious be de&s;troyed, thy wrath and fury pacified, and thy indignation pa&s;&s;ed over, and thy &s;eed brought forth through the great tribulation, where the wicked cannot pa&s;&s;e: oh the mournful Seed of the Kingdome! ari&s;e, ari&s;e, &s;hake off the du&s;t and clods of the earth, let the grave clothes fall off which oppre&s;&s;e the ju&s;t; pre&s;&s;e forward, forget what is behind, &s;hine forth for the glory of the Lord is ari&s;en upon thee; thou art the Lady of King|domes, and the de&s;ire of Nations &s;hall be after thee, and all &s;hall bow and be wearied out before thee that is not of thee, it is the word of the Lord God that ari&s;eth in my heart unto thee; for the banner of Gods Righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e &s;hall be di&s;played through thee, and in patience thou &s;halt overcome, for thou art the Cho&s;en of the Lord, the burthen&s;ome &s;tone; he that &s;miteth at thee &s;hall be broken, he that &s;miteth &s;hall be &s;mitten, he that hath led captive is the Lord leading into captivity; for this is the &s;tone cut out of the mountain without hands, that let us &s;ee our enemies to be they of our own hou&s;e; oh you &s;piritual plants feel me, you who know from whence warres and fightings comes, who are exerci&s;ed in the &s;piritual warfare, follow, follow, follow the Lamb who leads out of &s;trife through death to life, through judgement to mercy, through the daily Cro&s;&s;e to the Crown; this is Je&s;us manife&s;ted in our mortall bodies, prai&s;es for ever, prai&s;es for ever, oh feel the rayes and overcomings of his life, that my &s;oul is overcomed with that which flowes to you, for my &s;oul is poured forth in the remembrance of you which abide in your places; keep in the Cro&s;s, dwell in the power, &s;tand in the Authority of the Lord, a witne&s;&s;e living, pure, &s;imple, &s;ingle hearted before God and man, &s;o keeping peace with all, in the indwellling life with the Lord, where none can make you a|fraid, and keep your meetings in the fear, dread, and power of the Lord God, be not afraid of the threatning of the wicked, nor overcome with their flatteries, but &s;tand a witne&s;&s;e for the Lord, and he will plead your Cau&s;e in their hearts, and deal with them in his own time, oh let bowells of pity flow forth to them, for they know not what they doe, the Lord forgive them, if it may &s;tand with thy glory, and bring them into Covenant with thy &s;elf; And</P>
<P>Dear friends abide in the Covenenant, keep in the Fathers hou&s;e, look not out, let nothing &s;hake your confidence, keep to your fir&s;t love, in which you were gathered, in the light which is eternal and un|changeable, and &s;hall remain and abide for ever, though Gods enemies may be &s;uffered to remove us into holes and pri&s;ons for the tryal of our faith, but the Teacher hath manife&s;ted his love unto us, through the anointing, that teacheth us, that &s;hall never be removed into a corner: So dear Lambes learn of him, who careth for you, who will in&s;truct and direct you by the pourings forth of his holy &s;pirit upon you; And</P>
<P>Dear friends, turn in, &s;ee the end for which the Lord hath cho&s;en you and your &s;tanding in him, who hath all time in his hand, Center not below him, but follow him, for great is the Call and high, wherewith the Lord hath called us, &s;eek not to be at ea&s;e, join not to the oppre&s;&s;our, keep to that which divides and &s;eparates, &s;o &s;hall you be made a ble&s;&s;ing in the hand of the Lord, and not look down, but dwell in the long|&s;ufferings, in the patience, and God will give you the heathen for your inheritance, and the uttermo&s;t parts of the earth for the po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of the Righteous Seed in you, and you &s;hall be made the prai&s;e of the whole earth, and your enemies &s;hall become your friends, as in &s;ome mea&s;ure they are &s;een in this trying day in the hand of the Lord, doing &s;ervice for him; &s;o be not troubled at them, for the Lord hath the di&s;po&s;ing of them, amd what they have done, the work laid out for them to doe, the Lord will either bring them in, or lay them a&s;ide, for all power is in his hand; good is the name of the Lord, it is as precious ointment poured forth to us who feel the drawings of the cords of his love, oh let our &s;ouls delight to dwell with him, in whom there is no wearine&s;&s;e, nor &s;hadow of turning, but we may runne the race with patience, in the wayes of his Commandements, there to delight our &s;ouls in the ocean of his life, to drink of the river of his plea&s;ure, that we may live and grow and &s;hine forth, &s;erving the Lord in fear, and our generation in faithfulne&s;&s;e, quitting our &s;elves like men walking clear of all, that the bloud of none may be required at our hands, not loving our lives to death to do his will: This is the de&s;ire of your &s;uffering brother, we may all here be found a &s;weet &s;avour to the Lord, and one unto another, unto the end, and in the end.</P>
<CLOSER>Amen.</CLOSER>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Written in <HI>York</HI> Castle,</DATELINE> <SIGNED>by your dear Brother, and lover of your &s;ouls, known unto you by the name of
<HI>Samuel Thornton.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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