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A60656 The standing truth in which may be seen how every ones house is ordered and how their families are provided and what peace they have in their dwellings and whether they be Christians or infidels ... also a narrative of the some unjust and cruel dealings by William Pocklington of North Collington ... against William Smith of Besthorp ... / which are published in love to all people by William Smith. Smith, William, d. 1673. 1663 (1663) Wing S4334; ESTC R23653 28,425 37

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THE Standing Truth In which may be seen how every ones House is ordered and how their Families are provided and what Peace they have in their Dwellings and whether they be Christians or Infidels With some Directions to the Everlasting Rest ALSO A NARRATIVE OF Some Unjust and Cruel Dealings by William Pocklington of North Collington in the County of Nottingham against William Smith of Besthorp in the same County concerning Tythes And something touching Tythes in the Ground With several Cases stated concerning the Law and concerning the practice in the Law and how the innocent People of God called Quakers have and do suffer in some Cases contrary to the Law and in some Cases through the Illegal Practice in the Law And the Liberty of all that suffer in Bonds for Tythes justly claimed and demanded upon good and sound Grounds from the Law With many other Branches in Particular Cases Which are Published in Love to all People By WILLIAM SMITH LONDON Printed in the Year 1663. TO THE READER READER IN the first part of this Book thou mayest behold the Universal Love of God with the Work of his Power and thou mayest also behold how man comes to be regenerated and washed by the Everlasting Truth and what the state of man is in the Truth and what the state of man is out of the Truth and thou mayest see how Life is attained through Death and how Rest and Peace in Christ Jesus comes to be possessed In the middle part thou mayest behold a Testimony unto the Truth and Enmity and Deceit in opposition to the Truth In the latter part thou mayest behold divers Cases stated by which thou mayest perceive something of the Law and the practice in it and how deeply innocent people suffer for want of Right And these things thou reading over and diligently observing it may overcome thee to chuse the better part and in so doing thou wilt be kept out of all crooked and perverse wayes and not run with those that are wicked nor joyn hands with cruel men And as for the middle part of this Book coming to view it is through a necessity upon me to do good and that Warning may be taken by all who in such cases are concerned for I do not publish that part because I would lay open the faults of any neither to boast or glory over the weakness of any for I have received the Love of God and with that I can cover a multitude of Offences though in the same Love a Necessity is upon me to make such Practices manifest that whosoever is found in them may speedily repent and turn from them and that such as are yet free from them may be preserved out of them that so all may come to finde mercy with the Lord. And now let thy mind be to the Good in thy self and with the Light of Christ Jesus reade this Book thorow and learn of the meek Spirit of God for in that there is no envie so will it teach thee Truth and lead thee into all Truth where thou wilt feel the Everlasting Springs and the pure Streams of clensing and as thou waitest in the Spirit thou wilt feel the Effects of it to be Love and the Virtue of its nature Gentleness and Peace and if thou mindst it to obey it thou mayest do well in which my labour will be answered who desires the well-being of all men W. S. THE Standing Truth c. LOve is of God and by the Light of Christ Jesus the Love of God is shed abroad in the hearts of all that believe for the Light is a manifestation that beameth forth from the Love and in the Light the Love is tendered it is an universal Principle that in its own purity discovereth the world in mans heart for the uiniversality of its manifestation is not inclosed within the compass of any bounds but unto all men it giveth light and makes manifest with its light what is present in every man and in this manifestation the darkness cannot limit it for it is manifest in the universal love of God to give light to all that are in darkness that all in it might believe and come to everlasting Life Now here is the love of God first to man which love being received as in the Light it is manifested then man comes to be drawn with the love of God to love God again and this is perfect love with which love the sinner is sought and for sin reproved wherein the Lord God doth make known his own compassion to a sinner and doth manifest That he would not the death of a sinner but hath given his onely begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting Life And with this light of Christ Jesus is every man enlightened that cometh into the world and by it there is an universal manifestation of the love of God and though the Lord God doth thus manifest his love unto man and hath given to every man a measure of the Light of Christ with which he is enlightened and with which he sees his sin yet man not obeying the Testimony of it he abideth still in darkness and so he errs from the way of Truth and Life and is a wanderer in desart places and takes up his abode in the dark corners of the earth and there sits estranged from God and alienated from his Life and there man suffers bondage and affliction in himself his pain and his sorrow is daily upon him and his anguish and his grief is continually about him for no man can have true peace in his own house untill he come to the Light of Christ with which he is enlightened and after he is turned unto the Light and come into obedience then he hath a war to make and a great battel to fight before he can come to feel his peace setled and sealed for with the Light the body of sin and the body of death is discovered and then m●n comes to see how many enemies doth compass him about and how by them he is separated from God then he comes to see what he must war against and what armour he must put on to stand in the battel and what weapon he must take to make way thorow his enemies and by believing in the Light and following the Light he receives strength against his foes and having received the Light he hath received the Love of God and then he stands clad with the whole armour of God and takes the sword of God with which he smiteth to the heart of his enemies and wounds them to death so sees his enemies fall before him and when they are fallen he casts them out and cleanseth his house and then Christ Jesus takes the possession and he brings everlasting peace in with him and this is a wise man whose eye looks to his own house and takes care of his own family such a man loves peace at home and delights to see his family