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enemy_n	witness_n	world_n	worthy_a	13	3	6.3117	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86652	This is onely to goe amongst friends.	Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669.; Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662. To the camp of the Lord in England.	1656 (1656)	Wing H3182; Thomason E868_8; ESTC R207708	16,096	23

name publish his eternall truth which shall stand for ever Eternall life is come glory to him for ever Silence all Disputers and Diviners for ever trample upon all the chaff and dung and mire for ever which all the wisedome of the World feeds upon Greater is he that is in us then he that is in the world Oh my beloved ones although I am the lowest and weakest among many of my brethren yet the eternall power of God is my shield for ever the Lord of hosts 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 say that we fished and catched nothing for many vessels are full nor we have not travailed and laboured and brought forth wind as the false Prophets doe for we have the seales of our Ministry which shall be Witnesses for the Lord in Generations to come Not unto us O Lord but to thy name be glory for ever who hath done and doth all for us and in us who is our strength our glory our Crown of rejoycing all the day long for his hidden treasure is brought forth and made manifest in earthen vessels unto him be eternall living praises for ever And so all dear brethren members of the same body of Christ Jesus by which we are set free from sin in the liberty life and power in which you are made free stand as vvitnesses for the Lamb and for the holy Nation for the Royall seed of the true Israel of God that it may be brought out of Captivit● to serve the Lord in the Land of the living and the eternall God of povver and life of endlesse rich love and mercy be vvith you all and prosper his ovvne vvork in your hands that he alone may be glorified unto vvhom be eternall infinite praises vvho is our life our King God blessed for ever and ever And to you all my dear brethren and sisters vvho suffers in bonds and prisons and dens and holes and suffers the Enemy to plovv long furrovves upon your backs in patience and suffers stocking vvhipping buffetting beating and cruell mocking and stripes and chaines and fetters vvhom the World is not vvorthy of even as they did unto our Master of vvhom vve bear witnesse of and hath the witnesse in our selves even so doe they unto us But the servant is not greater then his Lord and therefore we that are baptized for the dead and stand in jeopardy of our lives often we have a cloud of Witnesses which endured the same and therefore the same baptism and the same cup must be drunk by all that follow him Well my dear brethren your sufferings I know and I know he of whom you bear witnesse bears up your heads who hath called you thereunto above all that which is done unto you as you stand in his will and councel well as dear brethren and companions in the same tribulation and Kingdome and patience of the Saints as witnesses of the same faith as they were which are gone before you you are made partakers of the same it is made manifest and revealed in you by the same God in which faith they had power and you have power and indures as they did and as he did even the contradiction of sinners Well our God is on our side and takes our part and therefore my own bowels in patience endure God will bring forth your righteousnesse as the Sun and your enemies shall be ashamed and I know and you also know it is for the advantage and the furtherance of the Gospel of Christ and endure in patience and long-suffering and look not out and the Lord in due time will enlarge your border and the eternall God of power be with you chosen ones for the Lords work you shall have your reward nay he is come and his reward is with him I know you have it and witnesse his power and his presence with you so my dear ones in that which limits all and chaines all and keeps under all deceit dwell and abide for ever in the living power which makes the strong man bow downe and the Devils tremble and the unclean spirits roare and the power you know where is your life that all the powers of death cannot reach and therefore doth the potsheards of the earth strive in vaine to set briars and thorns in battel against him in vaine doe they rage for notwithstanding all that God hath set and will set his owne Son upon the holy hill of Sion glory unto him for ever shout out for joy Oh yee sufferers for him who are set free by him and your freedome can none take away for he is greater then all even him in whom yee have believed standing in his power wisedome and councel who is neer you that none is able to pluck you out of his hand for he hath the keyes of David who opens and none shuts and binds and none can loose even he who rebukes the winds and seas and they obey him and causes a great calme and causes the waters to abate nay to stand of a heap and dryes up the tongue of the Aegyptian sea that his ransomed ones may goe over into the rest and he that hath and doth believe in him is entred into the rest 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 who walk in unrighteousnesse for ever and ever For with the pure and upright he dwells and his Throne is established in righteousnesse for ever and ever and unto our God who lives for ever shall all the powers of the Earth bow to whom be glory and eternall praise of all his redeemed ones for ever and ever F. H. O All yee Sons of Sion 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 sitten in a solitary place and have been as a silly Dove without a heart and hath been as a widow desolate and as a parched Heath you that hath wandred up and downe in the long night of darknesse and knew no rest but were as one cast off by all and all that passed by you laughed at your sorrow you have been as a hissing and as a Proverb to all and as a mark to shoot at by all your faces have been as the Tents of Kedar parched and your skin withered for want of refreshment and as a dead Tree that bears no fruit Oh yee who have come through great tribulation and have suffered the losse of all the spoyling of all even the greatest riches the chiefest Jewels who have lost all your knowledge and wisedome and become fooles for Christs sake and hath parted with all and hath suffered the indignation of the Lord to passe over

understanding and of glory which no mortall eye can behold and of life which no flesh can live in Oh my beloved come up hither and I will shew you what God hath done for you he hath rebuked the Sea and driven back the floods of waters which compassed you about and he hath scattered your Enemies with a whirlwind and he hath given you to feed upon the flesh of Kings and of Captaines Can you call to mind the doings of your God and his marvellous works brought to passe and not cry out in praises for evermore O drink and be refreshed and eat and be satisfied for ever and let your soul delight it self in fatnesse the planting of the Lord you are and his own purchased possession he hath separated you from the womb and hath called you out of kindreds and ye are the Royall seed of the off-spring of the Lord Almighty and all Nations shall call you blessed And O thou North of England who art counted as desolate and barren and reckoned the least of the Nation yet out of thee did the branch spring and the Star arise which gives light unto all the Regions round about in thee the Son of Righteousnesse 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 most High which uttered their voyces as thunders and laid their swords on the neck of their Enemies and never returned empty from the slaughter Though I be as by the waters of Babylon in a strange Land and as a Pilgrim and stranger destitute but not forsaken 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 seed which in my eye is precious no man can hinder my boasting of thee for I am sealed 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 stands with you in the love and life which never changes and you are my Mother and my Brother and Sister who doth the will of my Father Our God is a consuming fire and his habitation is compast about with dread and terror The Heathen shall see and fear and the inhabitants of the Earth shall tremble our God is everlasting burnings and it is tempestuous round about his Throne and he Raignes for evermore and though thou be despised and set at naught and counted as the off-scouring of all things and the scorn of the Heathen yet thy King Raignes upon Mount Sion and if he utter his voyce all flesh shall tremble and before him thy Adversaries shall fall and thy persecutors shall be confounded for thou shalt never be forgotten of thy God but with his arm will he defend thee and compasse thee about and thy seed shall be encreased and thou Jerusalem shalt be made the praise of the whole Earth for among you is laid the sure foundation and the tryed stone Christ Jesus the light of the world upon whom you have believed which unto the Nations is a stumbling-stone but unto you precious bring in your testimony and set to your seale is there salvation 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 chosen Generation and of the Royall Priesthood a people Redeemed unto whom there is none like among the thousands of Israel and Judah whose God is the Lord whose Saviour is the Prince of Righteousnesse who covers your heads in the day of battel and smites your Enemies in the hinder parts and wounds them in the forehead And now my beloved let his name be had in remembrance for evermore and let his praises be declared throughout Ages to come and walk you worthy of his everlasting love wherewith he hath loved you more then your brethren let his name be exalted by righteousnesse by purity and by a blamelesse life and bring forth the fruits of righteousnesse and peace and let your light shine forth into the world and your good works abound plentifully for you are as a City set on a hill and as a lighted candle to shine abroad and are created unto good works Let faith hope love and Unity be encreased among you and let mercy and judgement and equity flow down and be establisht for ever never to be removed Let joy and long-suffering and meeknesse and temperance spring out and be you perfect as your heavenly father is perfect Stand upon your watch Tower and be not shaken nor drawn aside to follow any other Gods nor to bow to any other Image nor joyn your selves to strangers and mingle not your seed with the adulterous Generation nor take not nor give not in marriage with them but keep your selves from the Idols of the Heathen be not defiled with them but abide in your strength you know where it lyes by which you may work good and be preserved from evill and you need not that any man teach you for you are taught of God and are far from oppression Ye Children of light worship your God for ever who is light and in whom is no darknesse at all who is the same and changes not whose mercy endures for ever Be followers of the Lamb as undefiled Virgins and let your soule scorn the glory of Babylon and Aegypt for ever for you are not your own but are bought with a price no more to serve your selves but the Lord God of Israel for ever Put on your Armour and gird on your sword and lay hold on the spear and march into the field and prepare your selves to battel for the Nations doth defie our God and saith in their hearts Who is the God of the Quakers that we should fear him and obey his voyce Arise arise and sound forth the everlasting word of War and Judgment in the ears of all the Nations sound an Alarum and make their ears to tingle Our Enemies are whole Nations and multitudes in number of a rebellious people that will not come under our Law which ariseth up against us and will not have our King to Raigne but tramples his honour under foot and dispises his Law and his ●tatutes and counteth his subjects as slaves 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 stroke of your hand cut down on the right hand and slay on the left and let not your eye pitty nor your hand spare but wound the lofty and tread under foot the honourable of the Earth and give unto the great Whore double and give her no rest day nor night but as she hath done so let it be done unto her and give her double into her bosome as she hath loved blood so give her blood and dash her children against the stones and let none of the Heathen Nations nor their Gods escape out of your hands nor their Images nor Idols but lay wast the fenced Cities and tread down the high walls for we have proclaimed open War betwixt Michael our Prince and the Dragon Your Captains are mighty men and your Leaders are skilled to handle the sword and they are riding on before you Arise Worm Jacob and fear not but thresh the mountaines to dust for God hath given thee the power of thy Enemies to tread upon and they shall fly before thee and shall fall by thy sword there is none too strong for thee nor no inchantment against thee but thou art blessed blessed world without end Therefore all ye Lambs of my father and ye Camp of the Lords Host wait upon him to fulfill his will for he hath put it into your hearts to make War in righteousness against the Beast and the false Prophet and cursed be every one that riseth not up to the help of the Lord against the mighty the Beast is mighty and the false Prophet is great and they keep the Nations under their power but O thou Beast and thou false Prophet you shall be tormented together thou Beast upon which the false Prophet sits whom thou upholds by thy Law and defends by thy unrighteous power thy power is limited and it shall be taken from thee and thou shalt be overcome and the Lamb shall get the victory and into the pit and lake of fire shall you be turned to have your resting-place And thou false Prophet which hath deceived the Nations and scattered the inhabitants thereof and builded by fraud and daubed with untempered morter thy judgement is past upon thy head already and the Decree of our God is sealed against thee thy smoke shall ascend for ever and ever and of thy sin there is no forgivenesse nor of thy torment no remission Over you doe we and shall for ever rejoyce and sing and over your God and your King the Dragon that old Serpent cursed be he and his memoriall for ever Ye Lambs of the true Shepheards fold with whom my soule resteth 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 shadow of the Rock upon the Mountain which the Beast cannot touch where we are safe 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 Edward Burrough Written at Dublin City in Ireland To the Camp of the Lord in England LONDON Printed for Thomas Simmons at the signe of the Bull and Mouth near Aldersgate 1656. FINIS