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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47171	A salutation of dear and tender love to the seed of God arising in Aberdeen in two epistles : directed unto friends of truth in that place whom the Lord hath called ... to bear their testimony for his glorious truth (against an evil, adulterous, and persecuting generation) ... / writ by George Keith.	Keith, George, 1639?-1716.	1665 (1665)	Wing K202; ESTC R24137	7,780	9

A SALUTATION OF Dear and tender Love to THE Seed of God Arising in ABERDEEN IN TWO EPISTLES Directed unto Friends of truth in that Place whom the Lord hath called and is calling forth to bear their Testimony for his Glorious Truth against an evil adulterous and Persecuting Generation with others their dear Friends in these Nations Writ by George Keith Prisoner for the said Testimony in the Tolbooth of Aberdeen Isa. 60. 22. A little one shall become a thousand and a small one a strong Nation I the Lord will hasten it in his time Isa. 30. 17. One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one ●t the rebuke of five shall ye flee till ye be lest as a Beacon upon the top of a Mountain as an ensign ●n a hill Isa. 62. 1. For Zions sake will I not hold my peace and for Ierusalems sake I will not rest untill the Righteousness thereof go forth as brightness and the Salvation thereof as a Lamp that burneth Isa 62. 10 11 12. Go thorough go thorough the gates prepare you the way of the People cast up cast up the high way gather out the stones lift up a standard for the Peop●e B●hold the Lo●d hath p●ocla●med to the end of the wo●ld say ye to the Daught●r of Zion b●hold thy Salvation cometh behold his reward is with him and his work b●fore him And they shall call them the holy People the redeemed of the Lord and thou shalt be called sought out a City not fo●saken Printed in the Year 1665. To Friends in ABERDEEN Dear Friends THere is a precious Seed among you in love to which several of the Lords Servants have been drawn to come and visit the Seed preach the Everlasting Gospel thereto which is the power of God unto Salvation and the Seed hath been reached and we have been made manifest in your Consciences the witness of God in your Consciences hath answered our Testimony that we are of God and that which we declared unto you was not a cunningly devised Fable but the living Truth of the Living God which hath been revealed to us and which we have learned from the Spirit of Truth and our Testimony among you hath been that the Son of God is come and his Kingdom revealed with power and great Glory even the Kingdom of God which is Righteousness peace and joy in the Holy Ghost and now hath the Sun of Righteousness arisen with healing under his wings and the glorious light thereof hath shined forth upon the Earth and the Inhabitants thereof after the long dark night of Ap●stacy that hath been wherein many poor things who have had true breathings and desires after the Lord have lamented after him and sought him whom their souls loved and longed for but could not find him and the thick Egiptian darkness hath choaked them and the living breathings in many hath been suffocated and killed and Babylon the mother of Fornications hath bewitched the whole Earth with the cup of her Sorceries who hath given her self forth to be the Church and spouse of Christ but indeed a Harlot and her Merchants who have handed forth the Cup of her abominations have past in this time of darkness and ignorance for the Ministers of Christ and Pastors of the flock now it pleased the Lord out of his rich mercy and love a hundred years ago or thereby to send forth some beams of his Heavenly light into the Souls of people whereby the more gross abominations of the Whore were disc●vered and quit and no question many have been accepted of the Lord in that day according to their faithfulness But alass there hath been a great backsliding and defection since which some of the Lords servants then saw that it would come and that Christ should be again crucified in Scotland and now it s my Testimony and the testimony of hundreds and thousands that he is again arisen in this Island and in other parts of the Earth and all the wit and policy of Sathan and his Instruments shall not be able to hold him from the setting up of his Kingdom in the Earth Truth is planted and taken root in the Earth yea even in Scotland and it shall grow and prosper and spread and fill the Earth and every Plant which is not of the Lords planting shall be rooted out and their folly shall be made manifest to all who set themselves against the truth And Friends think it not strange that truth hath such opposition from many who have even had a great profession thereof this day hath abundantly discovered them that their glorying hath been but in the flesh and that they are not come to live in the truth but have had the form of Godliness and denyed yea been altogether strangers unto the power thereof now they not being in the truth which is living and gives the discerning but in the form of it which is but a dead thing how could they but misken truth in its appearance and the children and vessels thereof and yet there is a pretious seed even in many hundreds which the Lord will raise up in his own appointed time who may be for the present through ignorance and their being deceived with false appea●ances enemies to truth and reproachers of it Now the faithful testimony of such whom the Lord hath gathered and is gathering into the truth shall have a shril and loud sound even to the awakening and quickning of such and they shall be made to build up that which once they were endeavouring to destroy And therefore dear F●iends be faithful to the Lord God in your testimony for his truth in every particular according to the knowledge thereof which ye have received from God for thereby ye shall both save yourselve a●d others having the eye of your souls continually fixed upon the Lo●d to see whither he will farther lead you being res●lved and re●●gned up to him even to follow whethersoever he leads though it may be much in the cross to flesh and blood for this I testifie unto you that its such and such only who are of that spirit whereof honest Ioshua and Caleb were to follow the Lord fully even in all things to the least circumstance of his requirings who shall get an entrance into the blessed Land of promise whereinto many can set to their seal and witness it that they have entred among whom I am one even into that good Land that floweth with milk and honey yea with streams of joy peace and consolation from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power and this you shall all come to witness in your selves in the Lords good time as you keep faithful to him and grow up more and more in a resignation to his will in all things sparing nothing against which the Lords controversie and indignation is but giving up all to a hope that 's contrary to his will that it may be burnt up and slain by the judgment of the

even to all that is of the World and alive to him ceasing from my own works not being able to do nor daring to do any thing without him which is not only my testimony but the testimony of all that are come to live in any measure of truth And dear Friends keep to any measure of testimony ye have attained unto for I can say it the Lord regards the same and it hath a good savour before him and grow up in faithfulness and resignation to the Lord in all things for this is it which makes your testimony strong and valid and acceptable to God that it be universal in every circumstance that the enemy have nothing wherewith to charge you and this is it which will make you able to stand it out in the day of tryal the having your loynes girded about with truth having truth to encompass you round you being found in the truth in all things but who are out of truth in any thing though never so small heere there is an open to let in the enemy and it will be hard for such to stand And Friends let not the terror of your enemies afright you from keeping your Meetings but sanctifie the Lord God in your hearts and let him be your fear and this will put away the fear of man that shall die and become as the dust of the earth and as you assemble together in Gods fear and name and in true love one with another the Lord will be among you and ye shall be made to feel his living presence and he will shew you where he feedeth his flock and makes it rest at noon-day and he will bring you into the banqueting house and display the banner of his love over you and make you a terror to your enemies And I have felt the sweet blessing and presence of God among you and I can assure you his Salvation is near to come and his Righteousness to be revealed to the upright and single hearted And keep your Meetings in the silence of all flesh and the shout of the King the Lord of Hoasts shall be heard among you and he will give in due time the opening of the mo●th in the midst of you And dear Friends my love in the bowels of Jesus Christ is towards you all and with a sweet measure of his blessed presence have I largely written unto you and the Lord is with me by night and by day and makes my Prison very acceptable to me Farewell dear Friends From the Tolbooth of Aberdeen the 9th of the 10th Mont. 1664. Your very dear and loving Friend George Keith As it may conveniently be done I am willing that this be read among Friends met together For Friends in Aberdeen to be read in their Meeting Dear Friends BLessed blessed is the opportunity the Lord is putting in your hands to bear a Testimony for his Name and living glorious Truth in this day O be faithful to him and rich shall be your reward rich unspeakably rich even beyond what eye can see or ear hear or the heart be able to comprehend the love of God which passeth knowledge the peace that passeth understanding the joy unspeakable and full of glory the por●ion of such the joy as in the time of harvest or as when the strong divide the spoile Oh who can declare the blessed lot and inheritance that shall be given them who give up all sparing nothing nothing to a hoof or Pin point which the Lord requires to be delivered and parted with assuredly they shall obtain an hundred fold in this life and life eternal for ever more Dear Friends thus I write who in this day and dayly do witness the hundreth fold do possess it even the love the joy the peace of God which is my strength my portion my crown which none can take from me so that I am made to sing in a Prison even in a Prison the Lines are fallen to me in a pleasant place I have a good heritage And this is the doing of the Lord and it 's wondrous in mine eyes I am even as one that dreames Glory to his Name for ever for his unspeakable gift and rich mercy and free love which hath visited my poor soul shut up in the blackness of darkness the region and shadow of death the Pit wherein is no water the hand of love hath reached me and brought me out of the woful Prison and loosed my bands and delivered my soul and given me to drink of the Cup of Salvation and now hereto do I set my seal worthy worthy is the Lamb to suffer for ignominy reproach hatred even of the dearest relations persecution prisonment killing tortering or what ever the cruelty of Man can be permitted to inflict Worthy is he for his sake to be killed all the day long and counted as Sheep for the slaughter his Love will sweetly recompence all and worthy is he to be waited for to be credited and trusted and believed in and in and through the faith and hope which entreth through the dark and thick vail which may be over for the time so that little or no sensible enjoyment is pe●ceived yet even then in and through the faith the believing when there is not a seeing or possessing to adventure upon the Lord and to follow him car●ying his Cross and his reproach The Lord is neer to such with invisible insensible support and refreshment which though t●e Vessels feel it not yet the seed doth and light is sown which shall spring up and in due time become a Founta●n a Well-spring of endless joy and consolation the glorious Lord a place of broad Rivers this I do declare for the comfort of the single simple upright hearted The Child of Light walking for the present in darkness the Seed having sore and grievous travel through the many impediments and lets in its way to the God of its l●fe O trust in the Lord trust in his name trust though shut up in the Caves of the Earth trust though hedged up as it were with hewen stone trust trust though in the belly of Hell the Whal●s belly poor distressed Ionah shall come to land the Seed shall be redeemed that which mourneth shall obtain joy and gladness and come to Zion with Songs of deliverance and sorrow and sighing shall flee away Yea let the single-hearted trust in the Lord be strong be strong strengthen the weak hands confirm the f●eble knees hath the God of my life said unto me and given a word in season to the weary distressed Soul Even God who hath shewed my self sore and great trouble and new hath raised me up from the gates of death and girded me with gladness and comforted me on every side t●at with the comfort wherewith I am comforted of him I may comfort others that t●ey may therein partake with me And dear Friends as far as in you lies remove every heavy burden that lies upon the seed in your own particulars if ye any of you be found in the least jot or circumstance in any thing which the light of Christ in its manifestation in the heart discovers to be sinful Oh this will be a mountain on the seed yea the being but found in whatsoever ye do not know your app●obation justification of God in the manifestation will lie upon the seed as a talent of lead therefore come into obedience in all things come into forbearance come into the cleanly well ordered conversation come into a final total d●c●sion of all particula●s betwixt God your souls I can assure you his Salvation is neer to such his righteousness and the Kingdom which comes with power and great glory is at hand even at hand to be revealed unto them This from your dear Friend George Keith The 22 of the 11 month 1664. ‖ Or not Know.