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To the camp of Israel (whom He hath brought up out of the land of Egypt by a mighty hand and outstretched arm) called Quakers in England (or elsewhere upon the face of the earth) a visitation and dear salutation from the breathings of the life of a true Jew ... / by William Bayly.
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Bayly, William, d. 1675.
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Wing B1541; ESTC R18148
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and can say as Moses did Blot out my Name rather then thy Name should suffer or be justly reproached or dishonored amongst thy people This is that which is raised in many which they love more then Father Mother Wife Children House or Lands yea or their own Life as God is witnesse Here 's a passage through the daily Cross the strait gate into the place of broad Rivers where goes no galley with Oars but a stretching forth and swimming in the Eternal Will and Obedience of God So lift up your Heads all ye tender Plants of my Heavenly Fathers own planting from the virtue which you receive at the Root of David from which the branch of Righteousness springs and dwell in the stilness and patience in which ye will feel the bowels of God's Love and Mercies opened in you like a Fountain at which ye may drink and be satisfied and rejoice in God your Saviour in the midst of all Tryals and Tribulations wherein ye wil have strength and boldness to confess his Name before men even to the death in the day when many shall hide themselves for fear and for looking at the things which are swiftly coming upon the Earth So dear Babes of God and Children of the Stock of Israel put on the whole Armour of Light and make War in Righteousness in the Spirit of the Lamb in whose mouth guile is not found this is the Captain of our Salvation who hath left us an example that we should follow his steps vvhom looking to and obeying the Lord God that made Heaven and Earth wil be with you and preserve you all his dear children in and through all your tryals and tribulations which may be suffered to come upon you for the tryal of your faith and patience and for the purifying and cleansing his sanctuary And this Man wil be your hiding place from the storm and from the rain even the same which was found the Rock in a weary Land And this is he that vvil stand the last upon the Earth and get the Victory and Dominion over and through all of whose Dominion and Kingdom shal be no end So in this the Lord God of Life of Heaven and Earth keep you all by his Eternal power and establish you on the unmovable Rock of salvation that so with one heart mind and soul we may glorifie the holy Name of our God in this our Day and Generation and right walking before him that so we may give up our account with joy and not with grief and have the Witness in us and for us that we are vvel-pleasing in his sight in which whether vve live or dye vve shal have peace and joy unspeakable and ful of glory The Lord God of Life Love and Peace Wisdom and Righteousness be vvith you all my dear Brethren and Friends and preserve you all in his Eternal povver unto his Heavenly Kingdom there to remain and in it to rest when this World shall be no more This is given forth in the movings of the Bowels of God's Love unto his people Israel and in the remembrance of his mercies of old and of his daily compassions towards them which is as an entreaty thereby that we may all remember and loâ—e his mercies walking humbly before him all the dayes of your life And to be read in your Meetings as in wisdom and conveniency of time ye have meet opportunity By a Companion of them that follow the Lamb through the great tribulations for whose sake he can say he loves not his life to the death enjoying that Love which is stronger then death Blessed be the Name of the Lord forever Amen THE END
the Judg of all for where any prejudice respect of persons with the beam in the eye lodgeth in the heart of any man in that state that man's Judgement is unjust and unrighteous who ever he be J speak from God without partiality He hath not the mercy that God hath to the unjust and the very Sun in the Firmament will teach that man wisdom Therefore my dearly beloved Friends Brethren and Sisters with whom I am bound up in the bundle of Life to live and to dye in and for the righteous Cause and Work of God which is his Truth that endureth for ever this is my exhortation unto you all from the least to the greatest without respect of persons or things outward In the bowels of unfeigned love look all at the good part which is of God in your selves and dwel in the good part in the remembrance of his mercies and loving-kindness which he hath shewed unto you and shut your eyes from seeing of evil and look only at the good part in all then wil you answer the good part in Jew and Gentile and the Church of God Here you shall be able to dwel with everlasting burnings and in the Munition of Rocks Here ye dwell with God the Judge of all and the spirits of just men Here 's every high imagination and every thought that would exalt self brought down through the Judgement of God into the obedience of Christ Here 's that unjust spirit judged which would take the neighbour or brother by the throat or lay hands suddenly on any which Paul charged Timothy not to do Therefore all ye dear children of God keep out of that spirit and let it not have place in you no not for a moment but dwell in the life and wisdom of God the Judge of all where you wil feel the just man's spirit which can judge and try all things and be established in it for I have considered that this is a day of great trials and temptations on every hand and of the making manifest them that are approved in God's sight It is a day which requires retirednesse fear watchfulnesse and diligence which wil keep out of being easily moved or provoked But your hearts will come to be established in power love and a found mind in which your compassions will flow forth towards your brethren and towards all men and ye will feel mercy arise and pitty towards Enemies Dwelling your selves alwayes in the sense and feeling of God's Mercies Compassions and Long-suffering towards you I speak what I know through the exercise of my faith and patience concerning these things and I have found That the thought of prejudice and evil surmizing against any man or creature whatsoever is judged with the Life of the true Seed which lives in the bosome of God the Judge of all which can stand upon the Sea of Glass mingled with Fire to be of the Enmity which came of the old crooked Serpent the beguiler and separater from the Tree of Life Here you 'l see the Tale-bearers which separateth very Friends of which Wisdom spake to be very near The Lord open your understandings my dear friends for my bowels and very heart is open towards you with desires and prayers to God for all Israel That they might be saved from the Wrath which is to come as a Flood upon the ungodly and rebellious generation And the Lord God of Mercies and Blessings keep us all in meeknesse and fear in his Spirit of Lowlinesse Love and Forbearance in tendernesse forgiving and forbearing one another as God for Christ his Seed's sake hath forgiven us shutting that eye that looks after the Moat for that is the evil eye the Hypocrite gone out from and exalted above the Heir the Life of God to which the Judgement and the Power is committed This shall never inherit true peace with God or Man in that state For evil thoughts lodging and being joined unto defile a man and shuts that Kingdom against him into which no unclean thing can enter So my dear Friends and all you whose faces are turned toward the Paradice of God from the Earth into which ye were driven by transgression Mind these things and let this remembrance be alwayes fresh in you that you bear not the Root but the Root bear you And this will keep you that you shall not be high-minded but fear and to be little in your own eyes as the little Child unto whom the Kingdom of God belongs And this Spirit before-mentioned of forgiveness mercies and long-suffering love unfeigned gentleness and patience dwelling in the watchfulnesse for good in the Wisdom of God and not for evil is the Spirit of the Lamb whom the Lord hath said and fully determined That it shall prosper and spread through Nations and it shall have dominion over them and they shall bow to it and it shall be a blessing unto many people and Nations afar off and the everlasting presence and blessings of the Almighty shall accompany it for ever and the Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it But that which is rash high heady proud wilful foolish and stubborn in which the Leven of the Pharisees lodgeth God will lay low and abase before him and all Judgement which is not his Sons in whom he is well-pleased to whom all Judgement is committed and belongs he will judge and condemn And he that judgeth before he is to me who is Lord and Judge of all and without him God will judge So in the Spirit of the Lamb dear Babes and Children of Light go on and prosper and be faithful and valiant for the Truth upon the Earth keeping low in your own measure every one marching in his own path then your Ranks will not be broken for thus is it written of the Camp of the Lord which must get the victory for the Enemy is very busie striving every way to draw forth your simple minds from the strong hold of the Prison of Hope Therefore blessed is he that watcheth and waiteth alway at Wisdoms gate for there is the simple preserved in meekness and fear love and patience godliness and brotherly kindness which is the most excellent way This is the path where the Lyon cannot come nor any ravenous Beast can touch this Mountain but hee 'l be struck through with the sling-stone of David or a Dart of God's righteous Judgements Here 's no destroying nor hurting in all this holy Mountain but bearing all things enduring all things without murmuring complaining or envying dwelling in that love which thinks no evil This is that Spirit of the Lamb of God which saveth souls and overcometh or taketh away a Multitude of sins wherein is no delight to lay open the Brother's nakednesse for that 's of Ham's stock which God hath cursed for ever but rather a secret crying to the Lord concerning such things O that thy Name might not suffer nor be reproached through any who profess thy everlasting Name and Truth