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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91903	A compassionate invitation of Christian love to all tender-hearted people. Testifying unto [brace] God's free-grace. His spirit's teaching, and good end of man's creation. / By one that has tasted of the goodness of the Lord, William Robinson. London, the 25th of the 2d month, 1692.	Robinson, William, member of the Society of Friends.	1692 (1692)	Wing R1724; ESTC R182826	22,680	31

away one time after another and that Saying oftentimes did arise If the Blind lead the Blind they shall both fall into the Ditch Now Friends that we may never forget the love of our God herein that has reached to us Oh the great Concern that has been upon many and the Cries and Bemoanings that was in secret to the Lord that his hand might not spare nor his eye pitty until Judgment was brought forth into Victory We have cried to the Lord sometimes to bring us through Judgment that we might know a Victory and Freedom from Sin and Satan and also cry'd that others might come to be thus concern'd for I see many People very loose and unconcern'd and many days have passed over their Heads in a Profession and yet not truly concern'd as to Godward and Heavenward nor so as to yield Obedience to the Gift of God that will tell them all that ever they have done though it has made many to say Is not this the Christ Oh that all People would come to consider what Experience they have of the Work of Truth in their Hearts Truly Friends and People I could be glad to see my native Country-Men and Women to come to know the Work of the Lord for I do believe and therefore speak it that Christ Jesus who is the Truth is at work as he said I work and my Heavenly Father works also How work may some say It is by his Spirit and Power for he has Power so to do in Peoples Hearts a stony Heart is not made a Heart of Flesh without him who truly makes it so he who has all Power in Heaven and Earth committed to him can do whatsoever he pleases but truly this doth not please fallen Man that is out of the Truth so to come to please God the way is too narrow and too strait for them where the love of this World is not easily parted with nor the Delights and vain Fashions of the World not willingly layed aside nor indeed can they be laid aside or overcome without coming to the Light of Christ within to know his appearance within he is the Physician of value and the chief Corner-stone and the true Foundation that every one ought to have their Faith built upon or otherways they will want a Foundation and we know he that builds a House and has not a good Foundation to build upon he comes to Loss and suffers Loss and so hath many a one for want of Experience how to build they have been apt to trust to the Building of others and to the Knowledge of others in that they should see to and for themselves For Faith is the Gift of God to Mankind and Men ought to receive it so in themselves and know a growing in the Obedience of Faith from Faith to Faith that so they may come to arrive at the Haven of Rest and Peace with God It was said that there is no Peace to the Wicked therefore ought all men to fear before the Lord and know his righteous Judgments to be set up in their Hearts that through Judgment they may come to learn to fear God and keep his Commandments for this is the whole Duty of Man Oh that all men would love Judgment that every thing that has offended the Lord and grieved his righteous Spirit may be judged out that clean Vessels we may be in the House of the Lord for the Vessels of God's House are holy Vessels Holiness is written upon them Oh! that holy Principle of Truth that has been and still is at work has made them such clean Vessels purifying them purging out the old Leaven of Malice and Sin and has made many as a new Lamp to the Lord that has thus been at work by his Spirit to bring Men and Women out of the Fall out of the Disobedience and out of the Trasgression and this is Christ Jesus that works this Work he is the second Adam the Lord from Heaven become a quickening Spirit he is the Way the Truth and the Life he is that great Prophet that Moses spoke of and told us that we should hear in all things and whosoever will not hear this great Prophet must be cut off from amongst the People for we know that by hearing and lending an Ear to the voice of the Serpent came Death even that Death that the Lord said should come in the day that Man eat of the forbidden Fruit and so we also know to the Praise of God and his Truth be it spoken that by hearing the Voice of Christ Jesus that speaks from Heaven comes Life to be known again and witnessed and partaken of for in the Lord Jehovah there is everlasting strength and He gives Strength and Power to his Children to overcome and then to him that overcomes will I give to inherit all things I will be his God and he shall be my Son saith the Lord of Hosts But the Fearful and Unbelieving the Abominable and the Lyar is not to be numbred with God's Children but in the Lake that burns with Fire and Brimstone Rev. 21. 7 8. Now my dear Friends you that have travelled this way and have been exercised this way towards the Lord and towards his Kingdom which is not of this World you know how it has been what a Care there has been upon many lest they should miscarry and lest they should be mistaken for it may so come to pass if we sit down at ease and in a careless Mind let us remember there is a great Work to be done there are many Weights and Burdens to be done away Sin is a great Weight and a Burden and as a Partitian Wall that cannot be broken down but as we come to the Truth and know that to work in us and for us and set us free for we may remember the words of our blessed Lord to a People in former days If you know the Truth the Truth shall set you free and if the Son who is the Truth make you free then are you free indeed This is a Freedom indeed But said they we were never in Bondage to any man Ah! that all People did but know what great Bondage Sin is surely they would desire to be released out of such Bondage and Slavery if they had any regard to their poor Souls they would desire to be the Lord's Free-men and Women they would not plead for Sin and for its continuance any longer for it hath reigned too long if People were but sensible and well awake out of it Awake to Righteousness and sin not says the Apostle and awake thou that sleepest arise from the Dead and Christ will give thee light And we can have Life that is everlasting Life no where else but many People and too too many has had a Life in Sin to their great Sorrow and Lamentation and truly Friends Sin is always Cause of Sorrow it is Truths Enemy and Man and Womans Enemy also If this great Enemy of

placed a flaming Sword at Eden 's Gate that turned every way if a man had all false Coverings of Professions or the Fig-leaf Garments or all the changable ways of Religion that are in the World this flaming Sword still placed it turns every way against him that there is no way at all left for fallen Man to enter or find out for Life in a state of Sin if he chang'd his way never so often this still turns against him Now in this state we may truly say there was none to help but the Lord and What did the Lord say to this thing for he had warned Man and Woman and had given them a Command before and a very large Priviledge too if they would have been contented Of all the Trees of the Garden thou maist eat save that only of Knowledge of Good and Evil And yet after Transgression the Lord in his great Love that he had to the Workmanship of his Hands says on this wise That the Seed of the Woman should bruise the Serpent's Head here is the Promise of the Lord this is the way that God promis'd to restore Mankind And this Seed was Christ he is the Way to God again Now it is very like many will be ready to conclude that Christ is the way to God again but that they suppose they may do by Tradition and never come to know the Seed to bruise the Serpent's Head in them but until this is known Men may make a Profession of God and Christ and yet know little or nothing at all of the Work of that Eternal Power and Spirit of Christ to renew to break down Sin and Satan and to renew and restore them into the Image of God again Oh! what need have we all to wait as they did of old until we be endued with Power from on high But some may say they had a Command for so doing and doth not this Command reach to us I hope none will deny it for says the Prophet They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength these are all they that come to a true waiting State upon the Lord for he is worthy to be waited upon and he will be waited upon and sought unto by the House of Israel and truly if People had a true regard to the Spirit of Truth that Christ said the Father would send in his Name People would be more watchful and more concern'd in waiting upon God then they are for I cannot but take notice many times how loose and careless many People are though not in pursuing after the things of this World that pass away and comes to an end but very loose and careless in Religious and Heavenly Matters and Things of far more concern then the Things that are here which we can behold with our outward Eye for the things which we behold with our outward Eyes are Temporal but the things that are not seen thereby which we ought to behold with our inward Eyes are Eternal Oh! that all People might hasten out of Sin even as Lot hastened out of that sinful Sodom that the Lord was angry with in days past Come Friends it is the same in our day the Sins of the People of England cry aloud and the Lord has spared this Land of ours many Years though sometimes visited with Judgments Oh! that all People would lay to heart the great Mercy the continued Mercy of the Lord to this poor Land wherein we live and how the People have provoked the Lord with their Disobedience for Disobedience is as the Sin of Witchcraft and the Disobedient dwell in a dry Land they know not when good comes But the earnest Cry of my Heart to God is that all People may come to amend their Ways and amend their Lives by coming to Unfeigned Repentance and turn to the Lord to his Grace that has appeared to all Men Where has the Grace of God appeared In the Heart where Sin has appeared For what end but that Sin may be forsaken destroyed and wrought out and everlasting Righteousness brought in instead thereof For righteousness exalts a nation or a people but sin is a shame to any nation or people And why will People love that which is a Shame to them and a Disgrace to all that are found in it indeed we may say the Lord found many of us therein but there has been a day of Washing and a day of Cleansing known inwardly where this Pollution lay there has been the Word of the Lord as a Fire and as a Hammer to burn it up and consume it Root and Branch And thus Friends we have learned true Religion and to bridle our Tongues that we might not offend against the Lord and a Stay to our Minds that we might not wander any more nor be bewildred any more nor turn aside any more Oh! the Lord grant that all People may come to walk in the Light of the Lord and then we are sure they will walk in that which pleases God And the Prophecy of Isaiah will come to be fulfilled upon us That the time should come that they should say one to another Come and let us walk in the light of the Lord let us go up to the house of the God of Jacob and he will teach us of his ways and we will walk in his paths For how do People linger away their time in sinning against God How easily are they overtaken and perswaded to live in Sin term of Life but they are not so easily perswaded to forsake Sin although when a Sinner doth repent him of his Sins or forsake them he shall find Mercy the Lord will have Mercy he will abundantly pardon But now instead of Mens forsaking of it they are daily adding Sin to Sin and pulling it upon them as with a Cart-rope Men of perverse Minds of ill Minds and of ill Lives their Lives bespeak whose Children they are and whose Works they are a doing even the Works of the Flesh which is Sin the Works of the old Enemy that is shut out for ever he upholds his Kingdom in Disobedience and so do all that loves Sin and pleads for Sin there is nothing so hurtful as Sin is here Men has lost their Belief they have lost their right Senses talk of believing in God the Father Almighty and in Jesus Christ his only begotten Son and yet believe Sin must Reign as if there was a necessity for it so to do but we have learned better things Glory to God and things that do accompany Salvation we know that of whatsoever a Man is overcome of the same he is brought in Bondage I write said John unto you little children that ye sin not and to you young men because ye are strong and the word of God abideth in you and ye have overcome the wicked one then there was a possibility of Victory therefore let none be faint-hearted but look to Christ who has all Power in Heaven and Earth and is Alsufficient

Man and Womans Soul were but conquered and brought down then Truth would reign and Righteousness would reign but now these two cannot reign together in one Heart Righteousness and Unrighteousness cannot dwell together in one Soul the one is a man's Friend the other is his Enemy for a Man's Enemies are they of his own House Oh that I could perswade Men and Women to break off from their Sins or be an Instrument in the Truth to direct others thither also for the Lord promised to dwell in Peoples Hearts they that were of a clean Heart and feared the Lord he promised the Son of Righteousness should arise with healing Virtue under his Wings that was to heal those that wanted healing from this deadly Wound for all Nations have been wounded by it and it is a deadly Wound too without this healing Virtue be known Let us a little enquire into it how it comes to have a place in Man's Heart how it comes to be seated there it is not because it ought to be there but many loves to have it there take a Delight in it and it has got such a Root in them that they will plead for it and for its continuing as long as they live and more than so as if it were unpossible to be delivered out of it but blessed be God a Deliverer is come out of Zion to turn away Ungodliness from Jacob then Jacob shall rejoyce and Israel shall be glad because a Saviour is known they shall call his Name JESUS for he shall save his People from their Sins not in their Sins but from their Sins to be a People saved by the Lord. And these may indeed be called God's People because He has saved them and redeemed them There is none that can be truly called God's peculiar People and God's Children but those that receive him in his spiritual Appearance for to as many as received him to them he gave Power to become the Sons of God For as People cannot by all their Learning and Reading and all as they can do of themselves get Power over Sin so of themselves they cannot truly come to the Sonship and yet we may see there is a possibility through the Power that Christ gives to come to that Estate Now I hope we may also believe that it is as possible through this Power not without it to overcome Sin as it is to come to the Sonship seeing the overcoming of the one is the way to the other and the saving from one that is Sin that Power that saves also entitles to the Sonship and without all question it is as possible for Christ to save his People from their Sins as to give them an Inheritance with the Saints in Light and as easie because he gave himself for us to redeem us from all Iniquity and purifie to himself a peculiar People zealous of good Works I would have all People come to believe that all things is possible with God that cannot lye and He has said Be ye holy for I the Lord your God am holy and without Holiness no man shall ever see the Lord That is to his comfort This is a very weighty thing to be consider'd for I hope all men would be saved and therefore all men ought to consider what it is that shuts Men out of the Kingdom of God and keeps them out it must needs be granted that it is Sin This is that that with-holds Good things from sinful men that they cannot enter for Sin cannot enter that is certain There is no unclean thing can enter the Kingdom of God But it is as certain there is a Rest and a Kingdom prepared for the People of God this we will all grant But now to say or think that none can be or are prepared for this Kingdom will be great Folly then what was they prepared by but by the Power of God the Word of God which is one and nigh in the Heart And I hid thy Word says David in my Heart What to do that I might not sin against God And the Preparation of the Heart if it be prepared aright is of the Lord. Now Friends God prepares the Heart while we are in these Bodies that must needs be Well then we may say as it was said Let not Sin reign in your mortal Bodies These mortal Bodies Sin is not to reign nor dwell in them it is to be purged out that we may know the Leaven of the Kingdom that we may come to be Heirs of the Kingdom of God that Christ may come to rule and reign in us whose Right it is for there is no one has Right to rule in Man but he and as we know him to rule and have the Dominion of his Rule and Dominion there shall never be an end the Power and Rule of the Wicked one must come to an end where any come to be Witnesses in their own particulars of the Reign and Government of Christ Jesus who said Learn of me I am meek and lowly in Heart and you shall find Rest to your Souls He gives Peace to all those that truly learn of him and follows him in the Self denial and these can give the Praise of his own Works to him that has wrought such a Good Work in them and for them for the Gospel has been preached and is preached in our day for this end that all People might truly fear God and give Glory to his Name for the hour of his Righteous Judgments is come and is set up in the Hearts of many People to judge and condemn Sin in the Flesh in the Heart of Man where it has lodged and doth yet lodge and will continue there if the Judgments of the Lord be not known to break in and to be submitted unto for the strong man armed has kept the House long but when a stronger than he comes and is entertained he binds the strong man spoils his Goods and casts him out Now this strong man is the Enemy of all Righteousness is an Enemy to all Good and is that Spirit that rules in the Children of Disobedience and while he has ruled his Goods have been at Peace and What is his Goods but Sin and Wickedness Men and Women have been at peace with these Goods in their Errings and Strayings from God like lost Sheep and yet they have been at Peace such a Peace as it is it serves many People that takes liking to the Lust of the Flesh the Lust of the Eye and Pride of Life But now this Peace will not last it will soon come to an end there is a Judge that stands at the Door of our Heart and knocks he will soon break this Peace for he never sends Peace to People in that state and in that condition for we have his own Testimony for it I came not says he to send Peace on Earth but a Sword What Sword but the Sword of the Spirit which cuts down Sin Now we may read how God