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A new years-gift, or A token of love to all persons of what perswasion soever. By a Friend, and lover of all men.
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Friend and lover of all men.
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this my Talent by the Blessing of God upon it and your Prayers may be encreased to two at the last Day when the Lord shall say Well done good and faithful Servant enter Mat. 25. 21. into the joy of thy Lord. Amen Lord so be it Hallelujah What shall I say to you my Fellow Christians and Men of Good Will who truly fear God tho you differ in Judgment and what shall I wish you this New Year but that you may all agree in one to serve the Lord in Spirit and in Truth and Rom. 7. 6. not in the oldness of the Letter that you may be all built up into an Holy Temple for Christ to dwell in and become a Royal Pristhood partakers of the Blessings of the Priests and Levites of Old in the Spirit And herewith I shall end this my New Years Gift turning these my Wishes into Prayers to God for you all Deut. 33. 11. Bless Lord his Substance and accept the Work of his hands smite through the Loins of them that rise against him and of them that hate him that they rise not again The Lord hear thee in the day of Trouble the Name of the God of Jacob defend thee Ps 20. 1 2. send thee help from the Sanctuary and strengthen thee out of Zion O England live for ever but let no more Enmity live in the midst of thee Behold how good and how pleasant it is for Brethren to live together in Unity Ps 133. 1. This is the way to bring that Blessing upon thee mentioned by the Prophet when he saith Surely his Salvation is nigh them that fear him that Glory Psalm 85. 9 10 11 12. may dwell in our Land Mercy and Truth shall meet together Righteousness and Peace shall kiss each other Truth shall spring out of the Earth and Righteousness shall look down from Heaven Yea the Lord shall give that which is good and our Land shall yield her Increase Amen Lord let this be the Portion of England yea of thy whole Church all the World over Amen Hallelujah A NOSEGAY presented by the Hand of Love to all the Well-wishers of ZION WAlking in the Paradisical Garden of the Scriptures I have gathered here and there several Flowers to present to you that are Well-wishers of Zion and that prefer Jerusalem above your chiefest Joys Psal 137. 6. Mic. 6. 8. 2 Pet. 1. 5 6 7. 1 Cor. 13. 4 5 6. Gal. 5. 22 23 24. James 3. 17 18. Cant. 1. that you may all this New Year and many more smell the most sweet and refreshing Odour of this Nosegay of Divine Graces which the whole Scripture especially those places in the Margent point to springing up in you in the life and power of them But above all those other Flowers which breath sweetness and life let me recommend to you and my self the Rose of Sharon and the Lilly of the Valleys These are the Flowers that will revive and quicken you in the time of Deadness refresh and comfort you in the time of Trouble and sweeten you in Bitterness and Anguish This Rose will tincture all the Faculties and Powers of your Souls with its Holy Fire and Redness and this Lilly of the Valley will perfume you throughout with its sweet Meekness and Innocence the one will make you all flaming with the Divine Love the other will procure you the ornament of a meek Spirit and deep Humility which in the sight of God are of great price 2 Pet. 1. 4. In a word they will make you Partakers of the Nature of Christ the Rose representing his Divine Nature and the Lilly his Holy Humanity Surely Beloved you that ask the way to Zion with your faces thitherward who take pleasure in her Stones and favour her Dust Jer. 50. 5. Ps 132. 14. will fall in love with this Nosegay as soon as you begin to perceive the sweet Odour of it the Power and Spirit thereof will transport you so as that you will hardly know where you are by reason of the surpassing sweetness and comfort this Rose and Lilly will afford you If that Woman in the Gospel receiv'd Vertue from a Touch only of Christs Garment for the cure of her inveterate Malady what will not your Souls find in this sweet Rose of Sharon in this humble Lilly of the Valleys What Diseases what Evil can stand against this powerful Antidote this Divine Mixture and Composition of Red and White of the Divine and Humane Nature The Divine conveighing the strong force of Love and the Humane sweet Meekness and lovely Humility Strong Faith and earnest Longing after this Divine Nature will make all that is his to be yours For he is made unto us Wisdom and Righteousness and Sanctification and Redemption Hear therefore ye that go from strength to strength in Zion Ps 84. 7. the Voice of your Beloved calling upon you Rise up my Cant. 2. 10. Love my Fair One and come away Come away from Vanity come away from Gain and Profit yea come away from all things that steal away thy heart from me and bid an eternal Farewell to all the love of the World and let me see Cant. 2. 14. thy countenance and let me hear thy voice for then sweet shall be thy voice to me and thy countenance comely Yea I will never leave thee nor forsake thee I will be unto thee All Things Hebr. 13. 5. Thou shalt taste of my sweetness and be refreshed with the water of life which I will give thee if thou wilt continue and persevere Mat. 10. 38. Mark 8. 34. Hebr. 12. 5. 10. Luke 22. 30. Rev. 3. 21. in my ways Denying thy self and taking up thy Cross daily and following me and taking patiently my fatherly correction of thee seeing that my only aim therein is to make thee Partaker of my Holiness And after I have thus fitted and prepared thee thou shalt eat and drink at my Table in my Kingdom For to him that overcometh will I give to sit with me in my Throne even as I also overcame and am set down with my Father in his Throne PRAYER O Sweet Rose of Sharon that hast been dyed in thine Isaiah 63. 1. own Blood to take away the Spots of Sin that had stained all Mankind have mercy on my Soul that is all over defiled by Original and Actual Sin and wash me in that pretious Blood of thine wherewith thou wast cover'd all over in the Garden and on the Cross O let me never forget that inconceivable Love of thine which made thee willingly to bear the Cruelty of Man the rage of Hell and the Rom. 6. 14. wrath of thy Father to deliver me from the Infernal Pit and from the slavery of Sin which is the worst of the two for sin is the cause of Hell Oh what shall I say of thy Love Oh that I might express it in my whole life O Lord thou knowst I can do nothing