Stubbornness all Ambition all self Exaltation and Worldly glory let that spirit and nature bow down at the Footstool of the Lamb and come bending unto him as Joseph's Brethren to Joseph Oh how then would his Bowels break and weep over its neck as Joseph over his Brethren and the Father over his prodigal oh how willing is he to receive such and love them freely therefore all keep near the Lord and wait to feel universal Love in the universal Spirit of Jesus that it may fill all possess all and mutually flow through all that your first love may be strengthened even the love of your espousals whereby you were first espoused to God and united one unto another this will renew you again oh the comliness and the beauty of this first love how precious and sweet it was many of us may yet remember how it drew our Souls to God and one unto another oh what a Heavenly harmony what a Heavenly oneness this love this first love did beget how it wrought all into concord and unity as one Body one Heart and one Spirit to hold the same Testimony and speak the same Thing in the one pure Language out of the many Languages and out of all Division the root and spring of it oh the amiableness of that first love the love that thinks no evil how precious and sweet a thing it is to behold and to see Brethren dwell together in it it truly preaches for God and is one infallible signe of a Disciple of Jesus Christ as by himself lay'd down by this shall all Men know that you are my Disciples because ye love one another for love is of God So if any have turned aside if any one be hurt if any one be wounded here is their balm retire to their Primitive purity to their first Zeal to their first fervent desire to their first love and tenderness that which is stronger then Death which many waters cannot quench nor floods wash away Oh that all would be stirred up to wait upon the Lord to feel the renewings of it that in tenderness of Spirit we may serve one another and provoke one another to love and good works and in that dwell together and watch against Division and the author and maintainers of it and the God of Peace and Love will be with us and he will delight to dwell amongst us and he will cause his that abide in his Love to revive as the Corn and to blossom as the Rose and their comliness will appear again as the morning Sun upon the Mountains so every particular retire retire to your first Love to your first Integrity to your first Zeal for God let not that be lost as the Church of Ephesus did least the Lord the Just and Righteous God remove the Candlestick out of its place so all do your first Works and keep your first Testimonies unviolated in Doctrine Life and Practice for this Preaches much for God And truly Friends this is a searching Day though a Day of outward ease yet a Day of inward trouble to many a sifting trying Day the Day of Satans transformings who goes subtilly about to deceive and with his Tail would sweep down a third part of the Stars and cause them to fall to the Earth therefore my dear Friends keep low and humble before the Lord within the Sanctuary of God and lay timely hold upon the hornes of the Altar thereof for the Day of sifting is begun and the Day of winnowing is at hand wherein our God will sift the Nations and winnow the People he will fan them yea he will fan them and thorowly purge them he will take away the chaff from the wheat and purge away the dross from the silver in his refining Fire and who shall stand when he appears who shall dwell with devouring Fire or who shall dwell with everlasting Burnings only he that walketh Righteously and speaketh Uprightly who abhoreth the gain of oppression and shutteth his eyes from seeing Evil. And truly Friends our God is come and comming to execute Justice and Judgment in the Earth I have seen it yea in the Light of Jesus I have beheld the Lord for several years past how he hath been searching out the Sins of the Daughter of his People and bringing to Light the hidden things of dishonesty yea how hath the Lord sought out the hidden things of Esau so there is nothing covered but he can reveal it nor nothing hid that he doth not know his Eye sees all and his Ear hears all his Justice he will Execute upon the head of the Transgressor and he will wound the hairy scalp of the Head of the Evil doer whether professor or prophane let none think to escape Wealth nor Wisdom he will not regard neither Mountains nor Hills can preserve or cover any of the Workers of In quity in this searching Day the Righteous God of Heaven will not be bribed he will not be mocked nor dissembled with though prophane Men Johanan like may dissemble with one another and may for a time appear like Pharisees Tombs with a fair smooth polished Face in the sight of Men and may subtilly cover their Sin and keep their deeds of deceipt and darkness hid from the Eye of Man for a time and like a painted Harlot wipe their mouth as though they had done no Evil flattering themselves with their own crafty Wit making lyes and falshood their refuge yet the Just and Righteous God who judges Righteously he will find out such he will discover their skirts and uncover all their nakedness to their shame and utter confusion Therefore all take heed of maintaining any thing hiddenly in the dread of the Lord God I warn you but mind the Light of Jesus and the leadings of it in your own Hearts and live in that walk with God in that as Enoch did of old and then you need not fear the Tryal of the Day though your Deeds be revealed upon the House top your nakedness will not become your shame you will need no deceitfull coverings nor aprons of Fig-leaves so to the Witness all retire it will dissemble with none it will truly discover your present estate and condition before God and the nature and propertie of every thing you undertake I know the experience of it not a foot can turn aside out of the narrow way of Life but being waited in it will certainly discover the worth and preciousness of it let no one ever despise Oh my dear Friends embrace it take heed of riding over or trampling on its reproofs or of thinking to smother and quench it in your selves no no its mouth can never be stoped nor its judgment ever perverted it will be as Ten thousand Witnesses it will one Day be too hard for all that now rejects it And will put the World the Flesh and the Devil to silence So let none be puffed up with any thing trust not to Egypts help nor to the Worlds wisdom for
Tree of Life that is in the midst of the Paradise of God and their names shall be written in the Book of the Life of the Lamb from henceforth and for ever It being my aim and intent at this time to present unto publick view and to the manifested Light and Judgment of all pious and sober Men not only my discent state and condition from my Childhood but rather my estate and condition in Spirit in all the gentle leadings drawing and carryings on of my Soul by the Lord from the day of the dispensation of the tender Mercy and Love of God by his light dispensed and made known in me unto this present day of my Sufferings for his Name and Gospel and also to give a Relation of the ground and cause of my Sâ—fferings the Person by whom and the manner how with a breviate of my Testimony and Judgment in the matters of this Treatise in as much brevity as possible whereby to clear my Conscience and answer the witness in others in the sight of God AS for my discent to speak after the manner of Men I sprang of mean though honest Parents according to the Flesh my Father being a Husbandman in the County of Cumberland I according to his pleasure was educated sometimes at School sometime with Herding and tending of Sheep or Cattel sometime with the Plow Cart or Threshing Instrument or other lawfull Labours according to the manner of that part of the County in which I lived yet such was the love and tender mercy of the Lord who always had respect unto the meek and lowly in heart and dwells with the the contrite and humble in Spirit and shews kindness and mercy to them of low degree that he was pleased to visit me with his everlasting Love which often presented unto me my state and manner of Life and by the same Love and Light he made known unto me that his Way and Worship was a purer holier Way and cleaner Life then yet I had attained unto and withall gave me to see the evils and miserable effects of that state and condition in which I lived according to the Fashions Customs Ways and Worships of the formal World which secret drawings I felt time after time as a small still Voice inwardly calling for Righteousness and Holiness of Life and as it were saying This is the Way walk in it Read your own States for thus I was induced to seek after the Lord and to make further enqâ—iry into the Way of God out of which I perceived my self and then not knowing where the Lord was to be found nor that it was he that stirred and drew by his Love in me I gave my self to Reading and searching of the Scriptures which was then Preached by the Man made Ministers and also generally believed by the People they taught to be the Word of God and the alonâ— way to the Kingdom and to the knowledge of God his Way and Worship and believing their Doctrines I did with much diligence and zeal press after the knowledge of the Scriptures giving up my self to Hear Sermons learn Catechisms and the like after the manner and general Practise Taught by the then Preachers sometime more Strickt then the rest whose comliness seemed to Transcend the precedent Generation of Priests and their way of Worship yet it pleased the Lord not only inwardly to break my rest in spirit but also outwardly to afflict me with Bodily afflictions for I was afflicted from my youth up and from my Childhood the rod of Correction was upon me inwardly and outwardly inwardly known to my self alone and outwardly apparent to most or all that knew me after the flesh some concluding I was in a Consumption some in one Disease some in another and then by the advice and will of my Father according to the flesh I sought to and proved many Doctors and Physitians for the restoration of the health of my Body but they like the Priests were all Physitians of no value for none did remove the cause nor take away the effect which still remained with me and upon me as a motive spur or whip to drive me forward to get an interest in the Lord who through the riches of his Love did spiritually apply my Bodily afflictions for the Health and Salvation of my Soul inwardly drawing my affections and desires after Him still presenting to my view and raising in my unerstanding a way more Holy and Pure and more agreeable to his Will then the way I was in drawing me from one degree of Grace to another and from one Dispensation to another according to his good Pleasure and Wâ—ll then I began to affect those that separated from the formal Worships and pubâ—ick People who sâ—emed to be a People of more reformed lives and judgments and of more circumspect Conversations and chused rather to settle and joyn with those called Independants who at that day were beautiful and glorious to that glimmering Twilight estate that I was in they being then pretty tender and low I often adjudged my self inferiour unworthy and undeserving the Fellowship and Society of such a People yet still I pressed forward desiring to attain unto that state which was before me which by the eye of Faith I saw and to apprehend that for which I was apprehended in the Love of God yet was I often tossed in my self like restless waves in a troubled Sea not feeling peace nor stability with the Lord I often besought the Lord in secret in the brokenness and contrition of spirit to clear my understanding and judgment and make me to know his own Living Way Truth and People Sects and Opinions then abounding one saying this is the way anâ—tâ—er saying that is the way one saying lo Christ is in this or here another saying He is in that or there thus every Denomination and Judgment construing wresting and interpreting the Scriptures to their sundry Tenents and forcing meanings from them to answer their Principles and to maintain every of their interpretations as authentick Truths in all which I was as one without Foundation tossed with every of their windy Doctrines iâ— stâ—ll rested with me Man was created for Gods glory I being ever and anon judged and condemned in my self for Sin and Disobedience for the Law was come by which is the knowledge of Sin and the Commandment being come Sin revived and I died and having as it were wrought Death in me by that which was good then Sâ—n by the Commandment became exceeding Sinful and then was I driven to seek for Peace night and day early and late in publick and private Fastings or Feastings or Family Devotions whatsoever running from one House to another and from one Town to another from one Assembly and Worship to another even as it were from Sea to Sea seeking the Word of the Lord as Amos said Amos 8.12 in all their Sabboths Lectures Humiliations or Thank givings diligently observing every Ordinance so called in which
Tabernacle of clay is undemolished for he alone is worthy of all Glory and Thanksgiving from me for evermore For he brings to nought the understanding of the Prudent and turns the wisdom of the Wise men backward and confounds the Wisest Ahithophels so that their vain hope perisheth and their Expectation is cut off Now all this he hath wickedly done against me and that for no just cause as in the sight of the Lord nor no cause pretended save some small Tythes as Hens Easter-Reckonings c. which was no doubt very inconsiderate in comparison of what he hath done for I have been much perswaded that when he begun with me he could no way reckon Five shillings for his Collectors took in kind that which was most material as Corn and Hay as I have before related and for Wooll and Lamb I had none and for other Goods I had but a few it may be a Cow or two but seldom if ever three which things could amount to no great value suppose it were for two or three years an account whereof I have often required of him I have also written to him for an account also my Relations have desired an account of him but to this day none could I have from him also I have written to him that we might fairly and soberly Discourse of the Title of Tythes profering if I were convinced that they were Lawfull to pay them without all that to do and withall warned him â—o cease from his wicked proceedings being perswâ—ded they should not go unpunished by the Lord a true Transcription whereof hereafter follows as they were sent him in several Papers at several times which I have inserted for the Readers better satisfaction LEwis I am informed there is a design in thy Heart to deprive me of mine inheritance left me by my Father Is this the fruit of thy Ministry and in this dost thou do as thou wouldst be don unto Hath Satan filled thine heart and rooted Covetousness so deep in thee Take heed to thy ways search and see what spirit thou art of and what spirit it is that suggesteth this in thee enter into consideration with thy self and commune with thy own heart whether thou wouldst be done unto so yea or nay or whether it be thy place to covet thy Neighbours Goods or Inheritance methinks thou shouldst not be ignorant what became of that Woman Jesabel for coveting Naboth's Vinyard and what the reward of Covetuousness is the Scriptures are full observe the words of the Wise Man that said lay not in wait O wicked Man against the dwelling of the Righteous spoil not his resting place enter not into the Fields of the Fatherless c. and whatsoever is written is written for our Learning thou hast often repeated that Command that saith Covet not thy Neighbours Goods nor any thing that is thy Neighbours and is thy heart now going after thy Covetousness Weigh these things with thy practise Why shouldst thou destroy thy own Soul thou that holdest Scripture for thy Rule will it justifie thee in this thing Or where hast thou any such Rule in it amongst all the Conversations of the Saints And do not think but thou must be brought before the Tribunal of God there to give an account of all thy deeds done in thy Body and there thy person will have no more respect then mine though now it may all thy Pomp thy Dignity and Riches will stand thee in no stead neither justifie thee in his sight who hath said The wicked shall not go unpunished thou hast deprived me of my just Liberty already and if that cannot content or satisfie thee surely no more will mine Estate for the more thou obeyest that envious and covetous spirit the more it will draw thee on untill thy Soul be shut up in the Grave out of which there is no redemption So I desire thee have respect to thy Souls everlasting health for these and such like as thou art often found in are not the fruits of a Gospel Minister for Christ and his Apostles never taught any such Doctrine and truly whilst thou art of this spirit and conversation thy Ministry will not profit to wards God nor thou canst never turn many unto Righteousness its true thou mayst make some Proselytes but I think few Converts it appears thou came not to seek nor gather us but ours so that thy end is thy own and therefore accursed so unless thou repent thou shalt certainly bear the indignation of the Almighty for little or nothing hast thou Ministred unto me either in Doctrine or Practice but that which savours of Death and such Ministration deserves no maintenance So I desire thee as one that respects thy Souls everlasting welfare and in love thereunto I send this unto thee and not in any respect to my own interest as the Lord whom I serve knoweth in whose presence I am but that thou mayst cease to bring so deep guilt and weight upon thy Soul but rather repent of thy wicked purposes and seek unto the Lord if peradventure the thoughts of thine heart may be forgiven thee for according to outward appearance one would think thine Estate were sufficient to satisfie thee that thou shouldest not reap where thou sowedst not and covet my penny that hast so many pounds remember the Parable of Nathan to David But thou may object and say there is a reason thou hast a proper right and due unto it To this I answer as I have formerly done if thou or any of thy Function will appoint the time and place where I or some other of my Companions in bonds may meet with you and according to Scripture sound Doctrine and the Spirit of Truth convince me or us that such things is just and due and properly belong to your Ministration or that Christ and his Apostles did ordain constitute or allow any such Ministry or Maintenance after he had offered himself a perfect Sacrifice having thereby abolished all Types and the Law that made nothing perfect I say if thou or any of you can or will convince me or us of the lawfulness of paying Tythes we should neither suffer Imprisonment loss of Estate or Goods nor the Execution of any Law to pass upon us for denyal of Tythes but rather pay them as conscientiously as any one whatsoever And this were but the place and duty of your Function and indeed if it were not matter of conscience to me I could not have suffered such detriment loss and imprisonment in the patience and content as I have done by thee and I am yet resolved to suffer more before I offend Gods Witness in my Conscience And further I demand of thee what the sum or value is that thou claimest of me being reckoned up together for I have been deprived of my just Liberty a full year and upwards which is a penalty beyond my offence or any pretence of offence that thou hast shewed me So that I think thou needed not
a proceeded to have damnified me any further So seeing thou yet intendest to add weight and oppression to the afflicted and oppressed little enough if thou give me a true account of my supposed transgression which I expect thou wilt forthwith do by this Bearer either in word or writing without any further deferring for sure thou hast not gone about to impose all this upon me that thou hast done and yet intends to do by adding affliction to my bonds but thou canst and will give a reason in every particular wherefore which I expect of thee without any further evasion or otherwise I may conclude thou canst not So that I say again in tender love to thy Souls eternal Peace do I desire thee to ponder well these things and receive the Advice of thy Friend herein for I know there is a Witness in thy Conscience that will receive me from which thou canst not flee nor hide thy self Day nor Night to it I appeal and know thou that it s not that I am weary of Sufferings or am so married to the World that I cannot part with it for though the Devil may have power to Dispossess me of an External Inheritance as he hath had power to cast into Prison yet will I wait upon the Lord knowing he is able to subdue Satan under his Feet and thou could have had no power against me if it had not been given thee so if thou willt not be advised for thy good do what thou hast power to do as for me I have so much Faith as to Trust in the God of Jacob and Patience to endure all these things knowing the Captain of my Salvation was made perfect through Sufferings who will be Glorified in the Sufferings of his Saints whom my Soul honours and glorifies above all So be Exhorted and Warned in time lest this stand as a Witness against thee in the Day of the Lord's Indignation for this was in my heart from the Lord to warn thee of so I shall be clear of thy Blood Carlile the place of my outward restraint and inward peace the 14th of the 9th Month 1664. By one that desires from my heart the welfare of thee and thine and to be found in the exercise of love to Enemies Tho. Carleton This second I sent to him after I was Outlawed L. West HEar and understand let thy patience shew forth it self a little to hear read and receive home this herein inserted directed to thee how long will it be ere thou cease to add oppression to the oppressed Wherefore hast thou Outlawed me when in Prison Hadst thou no way to accomplish thy design and obtain thy covetous desire and end but by Treachery and Deceit and by stealing Law against the Innocent Oh how eager hath thy desire been after the dwellings of the Righteous and that without any just cause for which thou hast often refused to give a reason or shew the cause Thou knowest on the day of my Commitment I asked thee what thou couldst demand before many Witnesses also I writ to thee for an account and my Relations desired an account of thee but none yet wouldst or rather couldst thou truly and justly give Oh! be ashamed be ashamed and blush that ever thou should profess a Priests Function and deal so Treacherously as thou hast done was thy cause so evil and thy plea so bad that thou must steal Law to obtain thy greedy desire Is thy love so much professed to my Fathers Children at an end and is envy wrath and malice crept in instead thereof Oh! the Heathen shall condemn thee for this yea the Earth shall open her mouth and the very Beasts of the Field and Fouls of the Air shall abhor and be astonished to hear and see thy proceedings herein The Tribe of the Priesthood will be ashamed of thee and all such Sons of Levi well did Jacob say Instruments of Cruelty was in their hands yea I may say Cruelty in the highest degree pride tyranny and oppression is their way and path well speak the Prophets that which is now come to pass yea seen and felt Micha 3.5 11. Ezek. 13.18 19 22. and chap. 22.25 26 c. Isa 56.11 Oh the oppression of the Priesthood of England the Earth can scarce bear them and among them all canst thou produce a president for Covetousness Cruelty and Oppression surely thou knowest not what spirit thou art of but thy fruits will discover thee by and by if a Man should tell of thy dealings to thy Function how thou hast beat me with the fist of Wickedness persecuted with all thy might sworn or caused to swear deceitfully and how illegally thou hast done and that for filthy lucre sake to obtain the gain of oppression would they tollerate thee and not be ashamed Oh blush to hear of thy corrupt Conversation thy own hand shall witness against thee and thine own heart shall condemn thee for these things thou hast not only dealt Treacherously with me but with the Kings Officers also by causing them to return I could not be found when thou hadst me in Prison and they had me in Custody surely thy Master will deceive thee and thy nakedness treachery and deceit is and will be laid open and made more publick then thy Proclamation was that I might either render my Body or be Outlawed which thing was done in obscurity and deceit but I must be more publick and plain with thee it may be to rip up thy skirts that thy nakedness may appear thy filth and putrifaction though as a chief Priest yet one of the Whores Children for the light manifests thee so to be and all thy crooked deceitful serpentine paths and by the Children of Light thou art seen and shalt be made apparent to them that is yet under the yoke of oppression thy Name shall rot and the memorial of thy Seed shall stink in thy Generations to come a Testimony I have to bear against the workers of Iniquity and for that end the Lord hath called me forth and brought me not only to believe but also to suffer for his Name which Name I have as a Rock a Shield and Helmet of Salvation in this day of great Tryal and in the Strength of the Lord am I resolved to hold forth my Testimony valuing all with it as dross and dung and doth believe that through it I shall undergo all and be able to make War in Righteousness and by his Power shall tread upon the neck of the Scorpion and Adder and on the crown of the head of thee and all the Oppressors of the Lords Seed who at this day is made objects of your Cruelty yea by the Power of the Living God we both do and shall tread you as chaff in the Streets So take heed how thou proceedest least Gods witness in thy own heart break thy rest for the first Priest that imprisoned for Tythes in Cumberland was made a spectacie of his wrath and he is the
they will be as a broken Reed but all keep low and mind the narrow Way that leadeth unto Life the self denying way 't is but a few that find it yea peradventure but a few of that few that professes to walk in it The broad way the way of the World lies very near on every hand it is soon stepped into if once ones Eye be turned aside then it appears delightfull and hath a show of Beauty in it but it leads to the chambers of Death And my Friends those things I laid before you in my former Epistle I hope I need not here reiterate or make repetition of but as I was enjoyned by the Lord to deliver them unto you so I would have all Male and Female to ponder them in your Hearts that all may be clear and I clear of all And Friends keep your Hearts clear of the spirit of this World of all the Ways Fashions Pleasures and Alurements thereof shake your selves from them live loose to them for things may be Lawful to them and by their Law that may not be Lawful to us by our Law The Law of the spirit here is our rule so take heed of measuring by their Rule for our Rule being spiritual exceeds all their carnal Rules and our Righteousness must exceed theirs also so all minding the Rule and minding the Line none needs go out of their Way for it exceeds all the Lines and Rules of Mans making so come to the just measure the measure of Truth for unjust measures are abomination in the sight of God And all shake your selves from all the Whorish Babilonish brats from all her Customs from all her Ways and Worships partake not of them come away come away hasten hasten out from among them bid adieu to all her Glories and escape for your lives as Lot did out of Sodom before Gods destroying Angel go forth for his Wrath is kindling and his Fury is coming up into his Face and who shall stand before him Oh therefore come come away linger not hasten hasten to little Zoar the City of our Refuge which God hath appointed for us come give up give up all in pure obedience follow the Lamb even the Lamb of God that takes away the sin and finisheth Transgression and breaks the bonds of Death oh give up leave all and come away and wait to feel the Blood of sprinkling the Blood of the Lamb to sprinkle the posts of your Doors that the destroying Angel may not enter but may pass over you as he passed over his Israel of old for I know it from the Lord and can declare it unto you that God hath a Remnant at this Day as he had in that that are in Covenant with him And those are they that hath obeyed Truth in their inward parts and hath kept their Garments unspotted of the World and hath walked with God in the simplicity of their Hearts they are his he hath Chosen them out of the World he hath called them by his Name and espoused them to himself and whosever toucheth them touches the apple of his Eye God will take care of them and will be their munitioned Rock he will pass by them and spare them as a Man spareth his onely Son that serveth him oh therefore retire retire to the Lowly Meek and self-denying Spirit of Jesus live in the possession of it so shall you be Heirs of Life and Glory in and through Christ Jesus and Citizens of the New and Heavenly Jerusalem whose Walls is salvation and Gateâ— praise and though fear may surprize the hypocrite and astonishment cease upon the Disobedient and Rebellious yet you shall â—â—and as Mount Zion that cannot be moved the Lord God Almighty will strengthen your stakes so that not a stake of Jerusalem can be removed nor a Cord of Zion ever â—e broken the Mouth of the Lord hath said it Oh therefore all sink down sink down to the pure Principle of God in the inward Man the just Mans path the shining Light of Jesus Christ oh let that Guide all and Order all and then may we say with David thy Word o Lord is a Light unto my feet and a Lanthorn unto my paths indeed and so in the Light feel the Love the first Love renewed and strengthened again oh strengthen strengthen that little that yet remains that it may grow warmer and warmer and not colder and colder for where iniquity abounds there Love grows cold and undoubtedly in such the Life declines therefore feel universal Love to grow to fill to run through all for Love worketh no ill to his Neighbour it is the fulfilling of the Law as faith the Apostle so if any one Male or Female have declined have walked disorderly have turned aside from the holy Commandment from the Footsteps of the flock of God from the holy Order of the holy Life and Gospel of Jesus Christ it stops the Currant of Love both in themselves and others oh let such return return repent and amend and bow to the Righteous Judgment of him to whom all Judgment is committed and at the Footstool of Jesus truly humbled in true Tenderness and Contrition of Spirit wait to feel the Currant and Streams of Love from God the Father to flow in and heal again and to restore again that so the heavenly sap vertue and universal love may be felt to spring run and ascend again through every member or branch that love and good will in all may grow and increase and the contrary nature may decline and that root in which enmity self-self-love pride and contention stands may be daily subdued and slain that all may bow to the Cross and be subject to the Power the heavenly Power of God oh feel it feel it in your Souls to live oh let none resist it in themselves nor in others for whoever resists the Power resists the Ordinance of God so prise it prise it my dear Friends retain the sense and savour of it in your selves let not that be lost in any high nor low rich or poor old nor young there is a living Beauty and Comliness in it still it is beyond all professions or prescribed Forms or imitations of Mans making there can no form nor likness be made of it so the nature and work of the Power being possessed and lived in it will preserve all in Love Unity and Peace and Heavenly fellowship and spiritual oneness out of all jars strifes discords or divisions And the God of Peace and Love will be with us and delight to do us good and will undoubtedly cherish and maintain his own heavenly Birth and righteous Seed which by the over shadowings of his heavenly eternal Power he hath begotten and raised in all his regenerated ones So to the pure gift of God I Recommend you all my dear Friends Brethren and Sisters that in it we may all hold the mistery of Faith in a pure Conscience even that Faith that gives Victory and Dominion over the