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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56574	A testimony to the Lord's power and blessed appearance in and amongst children wherein is expressed the great love of God to them, who, as young and tender, have tasted of his good word & heavenly life. Published for the use of Friends, and to prevent various reports, that they may have a true account in the following testimonies, given forth by faithful witnesses. Here are also added to what was before printed, several pretious testimonies and epistles, which are as the effects of the appearance and opperation of that great power & wisdom of God in and amongst them.	Taylor, Frances, d. 1685.; Paterson, A., Quaker, attributed name. aut; Taylor, Christopher, ca. 1615-1686, attributed name. aut; Matern, John, 1639 or 40-1680. aut	1679 (1679)	Wing P683B; ESTC R217119	22,314	71

Springs were opened in dry places and the very Depth did utter forth its Voice I my self was so overpowered and overcome with this heavenly Life Virtue and Power of God that I did shake and tremble before Him the mighty God of Heaven and Earth who by his quick and powerful Voice shaketh the Wilderness and breaketh the Cedars of Lebanon at whose appearance and look the Earth Trembles and at whose touch the Hills Smoke This his great Love and powerful Operation upon my Heart and Spirit being livingly refreshed and comforted by it did cause my Soul to magnifie the Lord and my Spirit to rejoyce in God my Saviour singing and making sweet Melody in my Heart to the Lord because he did so graciously answer the Desire of our Souls and powerfully break in upon the Hearts and Spirits of our Children revealing himself in his great and Almighty Power among them in and through which their Hearts were broken their Spirits melted and their Souls humbly-bowed before him as the alone searcher of the Heart and tryer of the Reins making known to every one his state and condition and bringing to Light the hidden things of Darkness and Counsels of the Hearts which brought Sorrow and Trouble upon them and caused many of them to lament and cry out before the Lord. Oh! who can appear and stand before the great Judge of the Quick and Dead and not Tremble at his Word and not Howl and Cry as under the Sense of his Judgments till they be brought forth unto Victory and the Soul comes to feel Redemption from Sin and Iniquity through the Blood of Jesus Christ We are living Witnesses of this great and powerful Work of the Almighty God in and amongst the Children of our Family by which he hath begun to work out their Salvation with Fear and Trembling and to turn their Minds from Darkness to Light and from the Power of Satan unto himself that they may receive Forgiveness of Sins and Inheritance amongst them which are sanctified by Faith in Christ Jesus to the great comfort and satisfaction of our Souls who was thus graciously pleased to appear and reveal himself in and among us in his heavenly Power and Authority for my Soul hath often been poured out before the Lord on their behalf that he would be pleased to reach unto their Hearts in his heavenly quickening Power that at length they might come to experience in themselves what hath-often been declared to them by others that so in the sense of this Heart-breaking Power they might learn to fear him their Creator in the dayes of their Youth and their Souls might be engaged and constrained to love and obey him Now the Lord hath heard our Cry and answered our Desire he hath manifested his great Love Favour and Mercy unto them and us in the sense whereof my Soul did and doth rejoyce praising and glorifying his Name on their and our behalf I can bear my witness in Truth that the sense of the goodness of the Lord did rest upon my Spirit all the Night long that after I awaked my Eyes were full of Tears and my Soul full of holy Praises and Thanks-giving unto the Lord because of his tender Mercies and great Love towards us breathing to the Lord that he in his heavenly blessed Power would carry on his great Work of Regeneration that he hath begun in and upon our Spirits and to Bless us daily more and more with all Spiritual Blessings in Christ Jesus to the Praise and Glory of his Grace wherein he hath made us accepted in the Beloved according to the Riches of his Grace wherein he hath reached and abounded towards us to declare unto our Souls that he has pardoned our Sins and received us into his Fatherly Love and Care What shall I say of the next following Meeting I am not able to express the sweet refreshing Life Virtue and Power of our heavenly Father arising in us with healing under his Wings For as the Evening before Fearfulness and Trembling came upon many and Horror had overwhelmed them so now at this time the sweet Love of a most tender and merciful Father embracing their Spirits did sweetly and livingly refresh and comfort their Souls he healed the broken in Heart and bound up their Wounds with the Balm of his heavenly Life Virtue and Power to the great comfort and satisfaction of our Souls who partook of the Water of Life that the Lord poured forth and made us to drink of in and through which the Spirit of the Humble was quickened and the Heart of the Contrite Ones revived Now as the Lord in those two Meetings hath appeared and revealed himself in and to us in a most special gracious and powerful manner so his Sweet and Heart-melting Love and tender Mercies have hitherto followed us from Meeting to Meeting sensibly and livingly Refreshing Comforting Strengthening and Confirming our Souls in his Love Life Vertue and Power until this very Day Praises Praises Praises Glory and Honour be to our God henceforth forever and forever Moreover it is sealed to my Spirit by the holy Spirit of the Lord God That We shall be Monuments of his Tender Mercies and Fatherly Love and Care These are the Words which livingly arose in my Heart as we were lately gathered together and arise again as I am writing this Testimony for God I say We shall be Monuments of his tender Mercies and fatherly Love and Care if we keep Low Humble Meek and Tender before him he will instruct us and teach us in the Way which we shall go and guide us with his Eyes if we alwayes Fear and Dread his holy powerfull Name which he hath revealed unto us and poured forth in and among us as a good and precious Ointment which causes us to be glad and to rejoyce in him and to love him with all our Heart Soul and Mind In the sense of this great Love and tender Mercies of the Lord God my Soul desires that I and every one of us especially our dear Children that have with us tasted of the good Word and Power of the World to come by which our Souls have been quickened and livingly refreshed and comforted may be alwayes kept in a living sense of the Lovingkindness and Goodness of the Lord towards us that so we may walk in Humility Righteousness and Holiness before him who hath reached to our Souls and made us sensible of our inward State and Condition and also of his Love Grace and Mercy that we may walk worthy of this his great Love and Dread and Fear him in our Hearts alwayes having the Eyes of our Mind towards him that in his Light shining in our Souls we may see even the least appearance of Evil waiting in it we may receive Power to be kept and preserved out of it lest by entring in or consenting to it we should offend the Lord and cause him to with-draw his sweet Love and to hide the Light and Favour

out of the Full unto Christ Jesus that never fell that they may feel themselves growing up in his heavenly Life as living Members of him the blessed Head then will they come to understand that these Things are from the Lord when the inward Eye and Ear is opened they will with me hear their Testimony That these things are of the Lord. The 6th day of the 5th Moneth 1679. G. LAWRY A Copy of a Letter to A. P. DEar A. P. c. I cannot omit but certifie some-what of our last Nights's Exercise in our Meeting in our Family how mightily the Power of the Lord appeared amongst us first breaking in upon Two Young Lads and so passed through the rest with such Dread and Power that there was an exceeding great shaking and tenderness amongst them rather more than on that notable Fourth day so that it was not without difficulty to bring several of them into stilness again But at the last it being late they went to Bed and there many of them lay Crying Weeping and Lamenting for two or three Hours together Others in a diverse Exercise some who had been sober and formerly good conditioned meek and gentle the Power was meek with them and overcame them in a most blessed manner so that they were filled with heavenly Praises uttering such words as sweet-conditioned Souls are wont to do when they are sealed by the Lord's Spirit Others most bitterly Lamenting their Conditions especially one of the aforesaid Lads for about three Hours together in his Bed exceeded and cryed out for Mercy so Dreadfully that I never as I remember heard a more Terrible Exercise from small or great When I told him how patiently his Bed-fellow lay besides him he answered The reason was because he had not been so Wicked as himself had been If I could but write down the Speeches of the poor Children under their various Exercises I may well say it would be as a wonderful Thing and such a Lesson as many Hearts would be broken to read but what shall I say but admire the Love and Mercy of the Lord in these Things C. was blessedly disposed on and was truly refreshed in his Soul and with him and several others there was a secret inward Harmony from a feeling Sense of God's pure Visitation and some more dreadfully feized on and broken in upon by the Authority of the Power so that it was admirable to behold the varity of the Exercises suitable to the subject Matter Condition and Disposition of every Child This is a hint to thee of the matter who I know dearly loves us and will be refreshed at any time to hear of our Wellfare So leaving the rest to W. C. who was with us in the Meeting if thou pleasest to enquire of him with mine and my Wife 's dear Love to thee and thy dear Wife c. I rest thy dearly loving Brother in the Fellowship of God's Truth Waltham-Abby the 24th of the 4th Moneth 1679. C. Taylor A Copy of a Letter to T. T. DEar Brother c. the 24th of the 4th Moneth 1679. we sitting towards Evening with the Family and Children being in all about Fifty the Lords sweet and tender heart-breaking Power was with us in a shower of abundance of Love Mercy and Gentleness thorowout which caused abundance of melting Tears and great Soul-gladness like unto the Love and Tenderness of a most tender Father in Forgiveness and Mercy after Correction and Submission under the same I mean especially as to such who had been more stubborn And the more mild and gentle-conditioned were under the pure sense of the same Power in pure Love and sweet Tenderness with an encrease of what had been poured out before at the other Meetings so that the whole Meeting and Family at that time was as I may truly say overpowered with Divine comfort in the sense of God's pure Love nothing else from God declared to them but that they should admire his sweet Love and Mercy and how good the Lord was how gentle kind and most tender over them together with the great admiring of the same Love being filled with it so that the heavenly Flame of it drowned all manner of Sorrow at that time and conquered all sense of Terror and Judgment nothing but Love at that time and Mercy appearing and overcoming all so that it was wonderful to behold the great Gravity and Sense of the Children in such an Exercise there being such a general Heart-breaking Power over powering them in such a manner with Gods blessing throughout declared amongst them all And now I may say that there is not one who hath been of the worst Temper and Disposition hore at present but in pleading with them about their Conditions in the sense of God's Truth have been broken into a sensible acknowledgment with weeping Eyes so far hath the most blessed Power of the living God appeared in this place a Day much groaned and longed for to see Glory to the Lord forever And certainly the living God will bestow more of his heavenly Blessings upon us by the still pouring forth of his heavenly Spirit as we are dear and tender before him and of his Glory Amen So dear Brother admire with us the excellency of God's pure Love and pray with us that we all may be kept in the sweet and humble acknowledgment of all his most tender Mercies And oh that we may never give the least occasion whereby the Lord may with-draw the sense of such great Love and Mercy from us Amen Amen So dear Brother if I could tell thee I would how full of sweet Melody my Soul is at present from the sense of this his pure goodness and how full of Joy and Gladness and heavenly Praises Oh! the glorious heavenly Power of the Lord God how when he pleases it most wonderfully overcomes the Hearts and Souls of his beloved and tender Children Oh dear Brother feel feel what my Soul can admire but my Tongue far unable to utter neither lawful for any man to do in this earthly Tabernacle in which we reach unto thee dearly and to thy dear Wife And I am thy dear Brother C. Taylor The following Testimonies are from the Teachers of the Children A testimony concerning the Goodness and Mercy of God our heavenly Father in Christ Jesus manifested to the Children of our Family IN the sence of the great Love and tender Mercies of the Lord God who hath often graciously visited and livingly refreshed my Soul in our Evenings or Family's Meetings I can and do bear this living and faithful Testimony That at a Meeting the 23d of the 4th Moneth called June in the Evening the great God and Father of Mercy in a special and wonderful manner did abundantly pour forth of his good and holy Spirit of Life and Grace upon our Spirits through Jesus Christ our Saviour by which our Souls and Spirits were broken and melted before him That Waters did gush out of of the Rocks