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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56011	A general epistle to all the called and chosen of God with all such as make a profession of the blessed truth as it is in Jesus every where : wherein is comfort to the feeble-minded, support to the weak, and reproof to the unruly and disorderly walkers : with several who[l]som exhortations and admonitions, according to the conditions, states & growths of such as profess the truth of God, for the rooting out of that which is bad, and the stirring up of the pure mind in all, that God may be glorified over all / written in the movings of the spirit of life and love from God in me, who am resolved by the power of his might, with you that abide faithful, to follow the Lord fully, James Parke.	Parke, James, 1636-1696.	1676 (1676)	Wing P369; ESTC R40058	15,597	29

Disappointments from men and Perils amongst men but he hath stood by us and strengthened us that have been given up to wait upon him and trusted in his Name and fled thither that hath been our Safety in the Time of Trouble and the greatest Perils we have had looking to the Lord God we have Joy in abundance and Encouragement enough to go forwards in the Way of God to walk without any Wearisomness and to run without Fainting in our Minds or being stopped in our Progress which we have made in following the Lord Now he goes before us he hath led us on by the Right Hand of his Power that we might not faint in any Tryal or Suffering inward or outward and have we not felt the Lord to uphold us by his free Spirit O! have we not felt the Lord at our Right Hand so that we have not been moved when sorely beset on every side and Enemies within and without strove against us very much and cannot you all say who have been kept faithful to God That the Right Hand of the Lord hath brought mighty things to pass it hath turned back the Power of the Oppresser and broken his heavy Yoak from off our Necks and brought you out of Thraldom and Captivity into the glorious Liberty of the Sons of God and in this we are to stand fast out of all Entanglements and Yoaks of Bondage whatsoever that would any wayes Imbondage the pure Seed or Spirit of God in us which ought to have its Liberty in Male and Female as the Power thereof is felt to stir and work in them that believe obey the Truth it ought to have its Liberty in what Diversities of Gifts or Operations soever it comes forth and manifests it self in it ought not to be quenched or stopped in any of the Lord's People so will the Love of God in and amongst us increase and the heavenly Rejoycing be witnessed in the Hearts of the Upright that truly seek the Advancement of the Gospel and the flourishing State of the Church of God O Dear Friends let Brotherly-Love continue let nothing in that would hinder your Love Dearness and Nearness in the Truth which is so precious and of such exceeding Concernment to us that we cannot be well without it nor safe out of the Love of God and we do not manifest our selves to be Disciples of Christ but by loving one another and being tender over one another Watching over one another for Good and the keeping down all that which is contrary as it appears and would get up under any Pretence to hinder the pure and precious Unity of the Spirit which hath been and is the Bond of our Peace as any thing of that would arise that would hinder Brotherly-Love give not way to it but by the Power of the Lord God keep it down as that which is not for the Well-fare of the Body but brings Suffering upon the Members thereof and so a Suffering may happen to the whole Body if there be a Decay of Love or want of Love in some of the Members of the Body one towards another Iniquity will be let it and from thence cometh Whisperings Back-bitings Tale-bearings Complainings and Murmurings and Harbouring of Evil one against another which ought not to be for these things stir up Strifes and unprofitable Contentions whereby the Weak may be hurt and the Lame turn'd out of the way rather then restored and all are not of a like Strength or Stature Some are but weak in the Faith and very little whose weak hands had need to be strengthned and their feeble Knees consirmed yet Babes in Christ and know the Father and their Sins forgiven them for his Name 's sake others are come further to the State of Fathers not only begotten to God themselves but Begetters of others to God also by the same Spirit and Power by which they were begotten who are come to know a larger Measure of Faith given to them of God through which they are made strong and able to bear Burdens and to bear with the Weak the Weak must be born with you that are strong ought to bear with the Weak not lay heavy Burdens upon them to ease or please your selves for then you are out of the tender Care of Fathers I have alwayes found the Love and Tenderness of a Father towards me to work most in me and reach the Good and get up the Good most in me and draw me nearest the Lord yet I have sometimes used the Rod and come to some with the Rod as there was need for it and as God's Wisdom leads to it and I found Love was effectual generally in my own Experience of the Work of God or as a Workman for him many have found that to be the strongest and best Weapon to war with against Sin and Evil that hath wrought in our Members and warred against the Law of the Mind to lead us captive to that which was not allowed by us in the Warfare and a sore War we have had betwixt Flesh and Spirit before we knew how to perform or were skilled in the performance of that which is good in Words and Actions There is a Time of Weakness Inability and Feebleness before we are Fathers or grown to a Young-man's State in Christ Jesus there is much to dye unto there must not only be a dying to open prophane gross Evils those must not only be slain but spiritual Wickedness in High Places the Rulers of Darkness and every thing that would exalt it self against the Appearance of God in us must be warred and wrestled with and it must be conquered and slain then we appear as strong in the Lord and know the Wicked One overcome then the Proud Man dyes to his Pride the Covetous Man to his Covetousness the Self-conceited Man dyes to his Vain Self conceits he hath had of himself then the Strong Man will not glory in his Strength nor the Rich Man in his Riches nor the Wise Man in his Wisdom And they that come to the Truth and grow in it the Power of Truth will quench the Fiery Passions of such as are soon Angry And Friends as you grow in the Truth Weakness Childishness and Imperfection you will all come out of you will all grow out of and wholely dye unto and the Tossings will be over and the Tempests will cease and you will all come to and be established in that Rest that is glorious and be kept in perfect Union with God and one with another And let all Raisers of Evil Reports and Broachers of them be found out and checkt so far as it tends to stir up Strife and cause Division in the Church let such be marked and avoid them as not worthy of having Fellowship with that they may be ashamed that are found to raise up an Evil Report against any of God's People or sowing of Discord amongst Brethren busying themselves in hearing Evil and speaking Evil Do not judge

come to hurt or loss as to thy immortal Soul the Salvation thereof certainly is our greatest Interest and ought to be preferred before and far beyond all outward Interests or Advantages in this present World whatsoever So we all ought to seek that most and first which is of greatest Weight the setting up and Establishment of the Kingdom of God O to know that it 's come with Power and to be kept in Subjection to the Power of it that 's more then all Friends being in this none is lifted up above his Measure nor puffed up in high Conceits of themselves that they are what in Deed and in Truth they are not for as every one knows the Kingom of God come in Power and the Mind being purely subjected to the Rule and Government of the Spirit and Power of God come and set up within us so the Loftiness of Man comes to be laid low and every high Thought and vain Imagination brought down into Subjection then not Flesh but the Spirit and Power of the living God hath the Dominion Thus when the other Lords that formerly had Dominion over us and that dark Power whereby they ruled in us comes to be subdued the Lord alone is exalted in that Day O dear Friends this is an acceptable Day this is a Day of Salvation and pure Rejoycing hereby you know your Marriage-Union with the Lord God and being joyned to him in a perpetual Covenant that cannot be broken but stunds sure firm in all Points as you who are saithful do witness it and it is you only that can say experimentally David wants not a Man to sit upon his Throne for your Eyes have seen the King in h●● Beauty even the Lord of Hosts the Righteous branch God promised to raise up unto David that should rule and prosper and execute Judgement and Justice in the Earth and the Eccho and Cry of your washed and purified Hearts is Glory Glory to him which was is and is to come because he hath taken to him his great Power and reigns in Power Glory and Majesty in you whilest the World and Professors thereof please themselves with a Talk of his Coming without them putting afar off his Appearance and Coming in his Kingdom in them they will not have him to rule in them but will suffer the Devil and Sin to rule and reign rather then Christ Jesus whose Right it is to rule and reign in every Man and VVoman's Heart and such are kept afar off from God and not made nigh unto him and they are far from the Kingdom of his Dear Son Christ Jesus But dear Friends who are begotten to God and have been kept faithful to the word of God's Power in its Appearance nigh in your Hearts and Mouthes and have in unfeigned Love and out of a pure Heart obeyed and done it you are made nigh to God through the Death of his Son Christ Jesus you have suffered and known a Dying with him you have born in your Bodies the Dying of the Lord Jesus therefore you must reign with him and sit upon the Throne of Glory and Majesty on high with him O you faithful Followers of the Lamb in the Regeneration you Conquerers and Overcomers of the Power of the Devil and the Sin that did beset you in times past you already feel a Reward in your Bosoms for your resisting of Sin to the Death of it and for your resisting of the Devil in the Spirit and Power of God so that you have known him put to flight from time to time when he hath come to tempt you to Sin and Evil you that have not entered into temptation but have kept pure clean and undefiled the Reward you have received already and are receiving your hundred-fold here in this VVorld is but little to what God hath in Store for you and promised to give unto you in the VVorld to come you Overcomers and Conquerers through God's Everlasting Power you shall all sit with Christ on his Throne of Glory and Majesty on high as he overcame and sate down with God the Father on his Throne here is Preferment and Honour that comes from above for you have humbled and abased your selves and have been abased by Men but God will raise you up and is setting the poor on high O what greater Dignity can you have then come to sit with Christ on his Throne when others content themselves with a Talk of Christ with a formal Profession of him without Life and Power or leaving any thing for Christ you have seen it your Duty incumbent upon you to leave and forsake all Sin and Evil for Christ's Sake and to dye to your own Wills and Righteousness for Christ's Sake that you might be made conformable to him and be dead and buried in Baptism with him and so through the Death of the first Earthly Adam you have obtained Life in the second Adam and so serve obey and live unto God by a daily dying to Sin and its Law that warred in your Members against the Law of your Minds whereby in times past you were led captive and could not do the things you would but now Glory to the Lord God forever you Conquerers by Christ Jesus Victory is given unto you over Sin with its Law and Death comes to be swallowed up of Life so by a faithful Continuance in the Lamb's VVar against Sin the certain Knowledge of a real Victory over Sin Hell Death and the Grave comes to be witnessed And you are of the Host of Heaven listed in the Heavenly Army under the Banner of Love and Standard of Righteousness which is lifted up to which many yet shall be gathered and Nations shall flock unto So you whose Names are written in Heaven under the blessed Conduct of Christ Jesus the Captain of our Salvation O follow him fully follow him whithersoever he goes if he cause thee to go through the Vail of Tears or Death pass on thy Journey with him be not weary of the Journey which the Lord of Life leads thee in and he will remove every high Mountain in thy Way that stands before thee and make it a plain and bring thee to the End of thy Journey and if thou meet with Frowns or Hatred from Professors or prophane men of this World thy Neighbours Acquaintance or Kindred in the Flesh it is but that which Christ Jesus the Captain of our Salvation met with when he came in that Body prepared for him to do the most great and Noblest Act of Love that could be done to Mankind in laying down his Life as a Ransom for all How was he frowned upon and hated of the World And he said his faithful Followers should be hated of all Nations for his Name Sake How was he hated in his taking Elesh upon him and in that Appearance by the chief Priests and zealous professing Jews who were zealous for the Law and Letter so much that they thought to have Eternal Life in

one another upon Reports before the Report be fully sought into and found out to be true then let Judgment go forth according to Gospel Order that Sin may not remain upon thy Brother nor thou to put a Stumbling-block in thy Brother's way to cause him to stumble by the reporting that which is false and judging him thereupon That Judgment passed upon False Reports will return back upon such as give it The Judgments of the Lord are true and there is no Unrighteousness in them he judges nothing but what is for Judgment and that which is for Judgment ought to be judged where ever it appears I would not have that spared in any particular which causeth Division in the Church of God for that weakens themselves and hurts others Tale-bearers work against the Truth and may weaken some Members in the Church but that Work communicates no Divine Strength to the Body nor any Member thereof for my own particular I never could well digest such since I had any Knowledge how to put a Difference betwixt Good and Evil. Therefore Dear Friends and Brethren I exhort you as a Brother in Love All to follow the things that make for Peace follow after Righteousness and feel the Righteous Judgments of God to take place upon all that which is contrary to God in every particular O live in Love be at Peace one with another Love thinks no Evil speaks no Evil carryes no Tales or Evil Reports it suffers long and hopeth all things and beareth all things and vaunteth not it self nor is easily puffed up God Almighty keep you all stedfast in the Love of God and one another You know Love is of God and that you ought to dwell in it O! dwell in Love then you dwell in God and cannot hurt one another nor can do nothing against the Truth but for it then there is not many Masters nor striving for Mastery nor many Minds but all in the one Mind of the Lord and he alone exalted and of one Heart in the one Spirit minding the same things and cleaving to and following whatsoever things are lovely honest and of good report then thou wilt be one with the Flock of God in all these things that tend so much to the Honour of God and keeping all sweet and savoury and wilt mind the Foot-steps of the Flock of God and follow the Lord fully And Dear Friends every where Keep up your Meetings in the Name and Power of the Lord God who hath owned us and been with us in all our Sufferings for his Name 's sake let none deny his Name nor bring a Reproach upon his Name by any Unfaithfulness in any part of your Testimony which you are called to bear for his Name and Truth O meet together as your former manner was although ye should meet with greater Tryals and Sufferings then formerly look not thereat but look at that Arm and Power of God which formerly saved and delivered us and is able to save to the uttermost from whatsoever the Devil and all his Agents can do against us For O how hath the Arm and Power of the Lord prevailed against the Power of the Devil and his working through many of his Instruments that have appeared against the Truth of God and our meeting together in the Name Power of the Lord And how have we witnessed Christ Jesus in us and amongst us greater then he that is in the World who as a strong man armed hath wrought in many Professors Prophane and Apostates against the glorious Truth of God and our meeting together in his Name which we have owned believed in and born witness unto above every Name and which we know every Knee must bow unto Therefore have many been angry with us and with great Madness and Enmity have endeavoured our Overthrow and Ruin and to hinder us from meeting together as our former manner hath been to wait upon God and to serve and worship him in Spirit and Truth as he requires of us for this have many been enraged against us and set themselves against Christ's Appearance in us and our worshipping of him in Spirit and Truth but many of their wicked Devices which they have devised against us hath God confounded and brought to nought and this our Eyes have seen brought to pass to the Wo and Torment of many of the Adversaries of Truth and us the People of God who meet together in it Therefore Dear Friends be you all incouraged to meet together in the Fear of the Lord sitting down together in the Heavenly Places in Christ Jesus so as you have felt you will more and more feel his Name as precious Oyntment poured forth and he will anoint you with fresh Oyl and you will be made Partakers with him of his Joy and Gladness and let no Backwardness or Carelesness nor a sleight Esteem appear in any of you in meeting together For that Spirit that would cool thy Love to or any wayes lessen thy esteem of the Meetings of the Saints and People of God where they meet together in his Name and to do his Will this spirit is not of God but it is of this World and is for Condemnation wherever it appears So be you Stedfast alwayes abounding in the Work of the Lord that you may stir up the Gift of God in one another and edifie one another and help to build up one another in the most holy Faith and so ye will confound the dead Faiths and be Instruments in the Hand of the Lord to make void the Evil glorying of them who are in the dead and unholy Faichs that work not by Love nor do not stand in the Power of God but are made up by the wisdom of Man and stand therein all such will be manifest more and more and their works of Envy and Opposition to be for the Fire a Dreadful Consuming Fire is kindled to the utter consuming of the Dead Unholy Faiths that men have devised with the Fruits thereof and the living Faith that was first delivered to the Saints and the Fruits and Works of Righteousness wrought in God must come over all the Dead Faiths and Works of Unrighteousness of the Man of Sin the bad Worker that works in all the Children of Disobedience and the Beast with his many Heads and Horns and the False Prophet that stirs up the Beast with his Horns to push at the faithful Followers of the Lamb must be taken and given to the Burning Flame and the Lamb and his true Followers shall have the Victory over the Beast and over his Mark and the Number of his Names and the Lord that hath begun this great Work and carried it on blessedly and succesfully will compleat and finish it to his own Glory and Praise To whom be all Glory Honour and Praises for he is worthy for ever and evermore And my dear Brethren Si the state of Fathers and Mothers in Israel Keep up your Men and Women's Meetings that were set up in the Power and Wisdom of God to keep all that profess the Truth of God in the Savoury Life of it and in the Order of the Gospel and stand up for God and the wholsom Order of the Gospel against all that that would lay it waste and let in Vnfaithfulness and the Wor. ld's Disorderly Spirit that you all may be Helpers together in the Work of the Lord against that which causeth Divisions or which any ways would let or hinder the Prosperity of God's blessed Work which he hath begun in this Glorious Day of his Power that the Truth may rule and reign in every Heart and amongst us over that which is contrary so Peace shall be within our Walls and the Truth and Power of God will go over all that which opposeth and exalteth it self against the spreading of it These things lay as a Necessity upon me to put you in mind of and to stir up your pure Minds by way of Remembrance of them though you know them already that you all might be Doers of that which is good be justified of the Lord when be judgeth And I was constrained to be large in this Epistle because in the writing of it much of the Love of God I felt and my Heart much opened towards the whole Family and Flock of God every where and for their Concord Peace and Prosperity for which Cause I have travelled endeavouring every where where I have come to bring all to the Measure of the Stature of the Fulness of Christ and to a perfect man in him in whose precious Love I remain Your Dear Friend and Brother JAMES PARKE