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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57212	Abstracts of some letters written by Mr. Robert Rich treating mostly of spiritual matters and here transmitted to posterity and recommended to the sober and serious enquirer for promoting of universal love amongst all sorts of people without respect of persons, parties, or sects : together with a friendly letter of Dr. Jer. Taylor to the said R.R. in answer to one of his / published by J.P.	Rich, Robert, d. 1679.; Pennyman, John, 1628-1706.	1680 (1680)	Wing R1354; ESTC R26429	24,390	27

through the fellowship of his sufferings despising the shame of being cast out of your Synagogues and of being disown'd of their Mother's Children who in Patience and great Tribulations will follow the Lamb and possess his Crown And these are the true Tribe of Joseph or Jesus that are fit to make Princes in all Lands And whereas one of you asked me Whether I would have you one with the World and turn Drunkards Cheaters c. I replied Canst thou not see a middle Path to walk in betwixt these two Extremes of open Prophaneness and close spiritual Wickedness in high places nor put a difference between the true Christ that filleth all and is the First-born in every Creature and the false Christ that is only here or there in that Mountain or in this secret Chamber covered over with appearing righteous before Men yet inwardly ravening and with Simon Magus in the bitter Spirit giving Wormwood with Gall to drink pushing with the side and shoulder and piercing all those innocent Ones that can call neither you nor no Man Master of their Spirits save God only nor receive your Mark nor yet the Number of your Name And is not this the Abomination that maketh desolate and standeth in the holy Place the Heart where Love and Innocency should dwell And Proselytes thus begot and made tho appearing never so righteous whether such be not seven-fold more the Children of Hell than before let the wise in Heart judg Well my Friends when you come to understand how an Habitation may be built for the Devil by your Anger Wrath Backbiting evil Surmises c. and by your hearkening to and following after Men observing of Days and appointed Meetings together with other Traditions and outward Observations which the Power of Love leads not to but are begotten and continued either by the Letter or else Man's vain Philosophy or Example in which having once lost your Guide viz. the pure and single movings of the Lord as by a great and strong Wind ye are whirled about and left to your own Thoughts and Imaginations where the Lord is not felt so you run again into those outward Observations where once his presence was and there are struck blind as the Assyrians Egyptians Israelites c. were and as Saul was that ye utterly lose the Door and Way that leads to Life Read that can understand And here in this Spirit is the silly Woman led captive ever learning and talking of Truth Light and Love to Enemies and brotherly Kindness Meekness Gentleness and of patient bearing and suffering of all things but never able to come into the things talked of no nearer than in shew or in self-imagination and outward appearance only And in Truth I have been oft made to cry out amongst you how that I saw Christ must suffer and that he must die or disappear and then afterwards rise and enter into Glory Which thing I now see you have not rightly understood And if these my words seem to you as a Dream yet why are you angry with me for my Dream's sake But these things I leave to the Judgment of the Great Day near at hand wherein many will be smitten with Sickness VVeakness and the Sleep of Death because they discerned not Love to be the Lord's Body and could not patiently wait for the Resurrection thereof but have set up other Idols in their Hearts instead of him yet as for the innocent harmless merciful meek loving and kind hearted amongst you and of every Nation such shall obtain and inherit the Blessing of Peace Plenty and Rest which none can disturb but not till the last Enemy or Enmity which is the Sting of Death be destroyed and put underfoot Thus by the Life of Love Death loseth its Sting the Grave its Victory the Law its Strength and all resigned to the Conquest of Love unfeigned Then are the Kingdoms of this VVorld become the Kingdoms of our Lord and his Christ and he alone reigneth Go ye with all Sects and learn what this meaneth Oft-times many amongst you in much contempt have asked me Whom I have coverted and where the Fruit of my Ministry is To whom I now answer That my Work is with the Lord having delivered up my Kingdom unto him my self can do nothing but as Love moveth so I either go or come speak or am silent And I am not sent to call the Righteous or to gather into Sects or Opinions nor is it the ground of my rejoycing to have a Multitude follow me or to flock about the outward Court or that Devils themselves are made subject no I know no true Happiness nor a Kingdom everlasting in these things neither see I any reason to prefer one Sect above another only such whose Names are written in the Book of Love and by it are gathered into the Life thereof those to me are most choice and precious My Ministry is neither Lo here nor Lo there I am not so sent to preach but as a Light to the Gentiles and to open Mysteries interpret Dreams and hard Sayings that have lain hid ever since the World that lies in the Apostacy began that so the blind in Heart may see the things that belong to their Souls Peace and VVelfare that so every one in all Forms may sit under his present Attainment as his proper Vine and drink VVaters of Life from his own Cistern without the least spot or defilemenr of Enmity in their Feasts of Charity both with the Lord and with one another And who will be offended at the foolishness of this Preaching except it be the Scribes and Fair-sayers in every Sect that are highly exalted in themselves and in others because of their Gifts both in praying and speaking and in their Zeal earnestness and fervent working of their own Spirit where sits that painted and well-favoured Harlot upon all Waters or Sects speaking as with the Tongue of Men and Angels the Words of Truth and of the Fame of Life and Love but from that Principle which leadeth into the Chambers of Death in all which things the Good Man not being at home nor endowing with Power from on high great Abominations Murders and Adulteries are committed in Spirit and Heart as in the matter of Peor in the days of Balak and Balaam Figures of this untoward Generation whose Ear being once opened heard the words of God and with the single eye saw and knew the secret Counsel of the Most High but afterwards falling into a Trance mark into his own Imaginations he then opened the double Eye for he had two and this saw Evil and loved the Wages of Unrighteousness yet nevertheless what he had once seen with the single Eye he could talk of as you do and so speak of exceeding high and great Mysteries as one having all Knowledg mark that puffs up so could speak of the Seed of God its beginning and end and of the Light or Way through which it passeth and that it should

of Truth such he will save and preserve as his Jewels in the hollow of his hand Wherefore to your Tents O Israel you that are circumcised in Heart and Ears enter ye into your Master's Joy the Love of God shed abroad in your Hearts the Ark and Tabernacle which God not Man hath pitched in all the Sanctified and be therein at Peace with that of God in all his Creation So will you come to the everlasting Sabbath of Rest which God hath prepared for all that love him and wait for his Appearance An. 1678. More Abstracts of Letters to particular Friends I Received yours which I accepted as an ample Testimony of your endeared Union with the Bridegroom of our Souls in which I greatly rejoice to meet you one in the footsteps of his Companions enquiring where He maketh his Flocks to rest at Noon as not willing to shade your self under any false Rest or Security but waiting in the Patience and Faith of the Saints till his Power of Grace from on high more abundantly shines forth and overshadows the whole Earth with the Glory of his Immanuel This Spirit of Love is the Tree of Life whose Leaves are for the healing of the Nations and under the infinite spreading Branches thereof we may all of every Nation Sect or People sit down together the Wolf with the Lamb in safety and peace In the humble expectation and patient waiting of my Spirit for the full manifestation of this all-saving Grace I dearly salute you together with all Saints in whose Bodies as in the Clouds I see the Lord coming to reconcile all things to Himself through the death of Sin by nailing the Enmity to his Cross which is the Power of Love and by that Life swallow up Death into Victory As for my self it hath pleased the Lord to lead me through various Changes and Operations shewing me the Wonders of his Power Many years since I heard a Voice in the Wilderness preaching Repentance for the Remission of Sins and to prepare a Way for the Lord by putting off the Old Man with his deeds under which Dispensation of the Quakers as that of Elias and John I was baptized in that Cloud and there abode till Judgment was brought forth into Victory Afterwards being called up higher by receiving a double measure of the Spirit sate down in Heavenly Places with Christ Jesus whence I heard a Voice saying In whomsoever I saw the Spirit descending like a Dove and abiding viz. the Spirit of Meekness of Innocency and of universal Charity that this was and is the Son of God in whom He is always well pleased And Him not my self I preach for Salvation to the ends of the Earth Him who was before Abraham was and is now and for ever the same throughout all Generations From which root of Jesse did proceed the Salutation of me R. R. to the seven Churches of Christendom that all of every Form or Sect of People in the World might cease from Man and all other Idols look up unto Him and be saved I see the Multitude of all S●cts standing at this day with Moses in the Mount each under their proper Attainments contending with one another and condemning all others both Persons and Things that suit not with their Laws and legal Discoveries of Truth every one in their Tribes highly pretending to the Glory of God but in truth only tending to crucify the Son of God afresh and put him to open shame c. July 2. 1670. To another Friend WHerefore ye Sons and Daughters of Sion ye Inhabitants of the New Jerusalem blow ye the Trumpet of God say ye The Lord reigneth make ye a joyful Noise that the whole World and all therein may ring and sing forth his Praise whose Name Worship and Nature is one and the same most excellent yea whose Name is also Truth in the inward parts the Word in the Heart that whosoever walketh in the Truth and Light manifested in every Conscience of all or any Religion shall be saved To other Friends Dear Hearts I Lately saw you sent forth as Sheep amongst Wolves therefore be ye as wise as Serpents and as innocent as the Dove In the Power that sends you forth stand and for it wait then as any thing is to be done it will arise And when you are before those that would rule over your Conscience take no thought neither be at all careful what you shall speak for it shall be given you at that instant Thus will you come to witness the Lilly which is more glorious than Solomon Behold I go before you into Galilee of the Gentiles whither our Lord the Power is gone to gather all things into Himself for out of Egypt will he bring his Son But wait you at Jerusalem the Mother of us all for the Power which is the Father that begat us of his own good will and pleasure into which and by which the gathering of the People will be and not by Words or Sounds neither into Sects or Opinions but whosoever is Servant to the Power will be accepted of what Nation Kindred or People soever he be This is a true and faithful Saying blessed is he that can receive it such an one comes to cease from his own Labours and hath rest and peace in God to which I commend you and in it abide Your Brother R. R. These are the Days of Vengeance wherein none can live in Peace that cannot pass by an Injury love their Enemies and reward Evil with Good The END Pag. 11. lin 30. for were read was P. 16. l. 25. for our read your

be glorious and inherit the Blessing and could wish his last end in it Mark O Balak and Balaam who are but one from thy own Mouth and Practice is thy Condemnation Thus Man's Spirit the Witch of Endo● being raised to its height and received into the Consciences of others and upheld there first began the Apostacy and in this Spirit doth the Apostacy still stand and subsist even to this very day in every Sect and if any one of them could obtain their Will they would be as great as the Pope and make all others bow and come in to them else neither buy nor sell nor live in Love and Peace with any But this bitter envying is not so with the God-like and true Christians such bless and not curse Nothing will be acceptable but what proceeds from the Root of Jesse and is the Off-spring of the pure Movings of Love all else is but as the Offering of Cain and as the Repentance of Esau which must be rejected and cannot inherit the Blessing And now Joseph being delivered out of Prison and the deep Pit wherein his Brethren had put him where he passed through divers Trials and Temptations both of Soul and Body I say being now risen with Christ and made Lord over that Earth which held him can with boldness speak what he hath seen and heard And considering how contrary to my Life which was Peace and good Will to all I have been acted in Strife and Contention for near these seven years ever since the difference first brake forth betwixt G. F. and J. N. the which I call my strange Work as to Man and to my self But the Lord who doth in Heaven and Earth what he pleaseth in that day shewed me that was the least able for this Work of War of all my Brethren Many things that began to appear and to wax strong which were for destruction and the one thing needful viz. Love in Truth even amongst Brethren much neglected so as the Lord commanded I sold my Coat of Peace and good Will to all and bought a Sword the which I girded upon my Thigh and in the strength of God's Command drew it and therewith spared neither small nor great yet my chief Aim ever were against Agag the fat and fairest the King and Head of that bitter Spirit Amalek which would not suffer them to pass peaceably through his Land whom the Light guided out of their received Traditions and notwithstanding their Talk of Light and Love such soon selt and found the Dragon's Power and Herod viz. G F. with his Men of War to stand in the cross Ways ready to cut off all the Innocent that would not own him King and call him Master receive their Mark and Number of their Name against which Spirit the Sword of the Lord hath been sharp and will most certainly chop the same in pieces as Herbs for the Pot. And though this was War indeed yet forasmuch as the ground and root thereof had the Command of God and Love to Truth such Weapons are Spiritual I say it was a War in Heaven Well Friends Joseph hath been with the Lord in the Deep and hath there seen his Wonders wherefore receive these things kindly and friendly from his Treasury they may prove a supply to you in this Day of Famine not of Bread but of the Loving-kindness of the Lord towards one another And be not offended at what is spoken tho it tend to the throwing down of Man into the Dust yet if God and his Grace be hereby exalted give up Self to the Death of the Cross It is good to die with the Lord tho Flesh and Blood see not this Neither be you troubled nor offended at him that declares these things tho he seems sometimes to appear as a Man walking on the Sea which is rough foaming and tempestuous Joseph is now out of Prison and hath no more Conscience of an Idol to him no Idol is anything neither Paul nor Apollos no nor Christ after the Flesh he knows no more neither their Circumcision nor Baptism nor any outward thing nothing but Grace that works by Love I have no dependence nor Worship nor Fear nor Care for any thing save that I worship the only alone true LORD GOD who is Love any thing acted out of that I value not And I clearly see that such a People the Lord will bring forth as the praise of his new Creation that in the quietness and stilness of their Spirits which is Jacob's Ladder do patiently wait for the immediate Movings of Love which is Joseph's Cup wherein he prophesied freely resigned to the Will of God in all things relying on his Grace for their only Guide and not so much as lift up a Tool or make any Noise or Complaint in his Work nor with Vzzah hold up a hand of Fear or Care that it should fall or that his Will should not be accomplished and brought to pass in its due time and season No Friends those that have hitherto attained are not of them that look back to see what others will do but have pressed on to the Mark Christ the Love of God in their Hearts his Stature and Fulness where they see their Souls saved and have learned always to pray Thy Will be done whose Will is their Sanctification Salvation and Glorification c. An Abstract of some of R. Rich's Letters to G.F. J.C. and several others IT is written of Jeroboam that he set up two Calves much like Thee Thou and the Hat putting also a necessity of bowing down to them and worshipping as ye do saying These are thy Gods which brought thee out of Egypt that so the Kingdom might not return to David which is the Love of God I urge not this by way of Censure as rashly judging any even the meanest appearances which God draws out the Spirits of his People in but rather to shew you the Idolatry of such Limitations which in these outward things you lay upon the boundless variety of that unspeakable Spirit of Truth for I have heard some of the chief Rulers amongst you say That if any return to the Hat again meaning putting it off in Salutation then all their Profession is lost as if this or such like were the God that redeemed them And indeed who is there upon the Face of the whole Earth that fears God and worketh Righteousness if he receive not your Mark of Thee and Thou and the Hat may be accepted or owned as a Brother amongst you And what is your Form of Words in Thee and Thou but a customary Singularity in Speech another Mode of speaking than is commonly used which no way respects the Truth of what is spoken Pray tell me is not Truth where understood the Language of Canaan in what Speech or Dialect soever exprest Or did the Disciples of Christ in their Declarations of Truth to every Man in his own Language refuse the Dialect either of the Medes Persians Egyptians or