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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57212	Abstracts of some letters written by Mr. Robert Rich treating mostly of spiritual matters and here transmitted to posterity and recommended to the sober and serious enquirer for promoting of universal love amongst all sorts of people without respect of persons, parties, or sects : together with a friendly letter of Dr. Jer. Taylor to the said R.R. in answer to one of his / published by J.P.	Rich, Robert, d. 1679.; Pennyman, John, 1628-1706.	1680 (1680)	Wing R1354; ESTC R26429	24,390	27

of Truth such he will save and preserve as his Jewels in the hollow of his hand Wherefore to your Tents O Israel you that are circumcised in Heart and Ears enter ye into your Master's Joy the Love of God shed abroad in your Hearts the Ark and Tabernacle which God not Man hath pitched in all the Sanctified and be therein at Peace with that of God in all his Creation So will you come to the everlasting Sabbath of Rest which God hath prepared for all that love him and wait for his Appearance An. 1678. More Abstracts of Letters to particular Friends I Received yours which I accepted as an ample Testimony of your endeared Union with the Bridegroom of our Souls in which I greatly rejoice to meet you one in the footsteps of his Companions enquiring where He maketh his Flocks to rest at Noon as not willing to shade your self under any false Rest or Security but waiting in the Patience and Faith of the Saints till his Power of Grace from on high more abundantly shines forth and overshadows the whole Earth with the Glory of his Immanuel This Spirit of Love is the Tree of Life whose Leaves are for the healing of the Nations and under the infinite spreading Branches thereof we may all of every Nation Sect or People sit down together the Wolf with the Lamb in safety and peace In the humble expectation and patient waiting of my Spirit for the full manifestation of this all-saving Grace I dearly salute you together with all Saints in whose Bodies as in the Clouds I see the Lord coming to reconcile all things to Himself through the death of Sin by nailing the Enmity to his Cross which is the Power of Love and by that Life swallow up Death into Victory As for my self it hath pleased the Lord to lead me through various Changes and Operations shewing me the Wonders of his Power Many years since I heard a Voice in the Wilderness preaching Repentance for the Remission of Sins and to prepare a Way for the Lord by putting off the Old Man with his deeds under which Dispensation of the Quakers as that of Elias and John I was baptized in that Cloud and there abode till Judgment was brought forth into Victory Afterwards being called up higher by receiving a double measure of the Spirit sate down in Heavenly Places with Christ Jesus whence I heard a Voice saying In whomsoever I saw the Spirit descending like a Dove and abiding viz. the Spirit of Meekness of Innocency and of universal Charity that this was and is the Son of God in whom He is always well pleased And Him not my self I preach for Salvation to the ends of the Earth Him who was before Abraham was and is now and for ever the same throughout all Generations From which root of Jesse did proceed the Salutation of me R. R. to the seven Churches of Christendom that all of every Form or Sect of People in the World might cease from Man and all other Idols look up unto Him and be saved I see the Multitude of all S●cts standing at this day with Moses in the Mount each under their proper Attainments contending with one another and condemning all others both Persons and Things that suit not with their Laws and legal Discoveries of Truth every one in their Tribes highly pretending to the Glory of God but in truth only tending to crucify the Son of God afresh and put him to open shame c. July 2. 1670. To another Friend WHerefore ye Sons and Daughters of Sion ye Inhabitants of the New Jerusalem blow ye the Trumpet of God say ye The Lord reigneth make ye a joyful Noise that the whole World and all therein may ring and sing forth his Praise whose Name Worship and Nature is one and the same most excellent yea whose Name is also Truth in the inward parts the Word in the Heart that whosoever walketh in the Truth and Light manifested in every Conscience of all or any Religion shall be saved To other Friends Dear Hearts I Lately saw you sent forth as Sheep amongst Wolves therefore be ye as wise as Serpents and as innocent as the Dove In the Power that sends you forth stand and for it wait then as any thing is to be done it will arise And when you are before those that would rule over your Conscience take no thought neither be at all careful what you shall speak for it shall be given you at that instant Thus will you come to witness the Lilly which is more glorious than Solomon Behold I go before you into Galilee of the Gentiles whither our Lord the Power is gone to gather all things into Himself for out of Egypt will he bring his Son But wait you at Jerusalem the Mother of us all for the Power which is the Father that begat us of his own good will and pleasure into which and by which the gathering of the People will be and not by Words or Sounds neither into Sects or Opinions but whosoever is Servant to the Power will be accepted of what Nation Kindred or People soever he be This is a true and faithful Saying blessed is he that can receive it such an one comes to cease from his own Labours and hath rest and peace in God to which I commend you and in it abide Your Brother R. R. These are the Days of Vengeance wherein none can live in Peace that cannot pass by an Injury love their Enemies and reward Evil with Good The END Pag. 11. lin 30. for were read was P. 16. l. 25. for our read your

through the fellowship of his sufferings despising the shame of being cast out of your Synagogues and of being disown'd of their Mother's Children who in Patience and great Tribulations will follow the Lamb and possess his Crown And these are the true Tribe of Joseph or Jesus that are fit to make Princes in all Lands And whereas one of you asked me Whether I would have you one with the World and turn Drunkards Cheaters c. I replied Canst thou not see a middle Path to walk in betwixt these two Extremes of open Prophaneness and close spiritual Wickedness in high places nor put a difference between the true Christ that filleth all and is the First-born in every Creature and the false Christ that is only here or there in that Mountain or in this secret Chamber covered over with appearing righteous before Men yet inwardly ravening and with Simon Magus in the bitter Spirit giving Wormwood with Gall to drink pushing with the side and shoulder and piercing all those innocent Ones that can call neither you nor no Man Master of their Spirits save God only nor receive your Mark nor yet the Number of your Name And is not this the Abomination that maketh desolate and standeth in the holy Place the Heart where Love and Innocency should dwell And Proselytes thus begot and made tho appearing never so righteous whether such be not seven-fold more the Children of Hell than before let the wise in Heart judg Well my Friends when you come to understand how an Habitation may be built for the Devil by your Anger Wrath Backbiting evil Surmises c. and by your hearkening to and following after Men observing of Days and appointed Meetings together with other Traditions and outward Observations which the Power of Love leads not to but are begotten and continued either by the Letter or else Man's vain Philosophy or Example in which having once lost your Guide viz. the pure and single movings of the Lord as by a great and strong Wind ye are whirled about and left to your own Thoughts and Imaginations where the Lord is not felt so you run again into those outward Observations where once his presence was and there are struck blind as the Assyrians Egyptians Israelites c. were and as Saul was that ye utterly lose the Door and Way that leads to Life Read that can understand And here in this Spirit is the silly Woman led captive ever learning and talking of Truth Light and Love to Enemies and brotherly Kindness Meekness Gentleness and of patient bearing and suffering of all things but never able to come into the things talked of no nearer than in shew or in self-imagination and outward appearance only And in Truth I have been oft made to cry out amongst you how that I saw Christ must suffer and that he must die or disappear and then afterwards rise and enter into Glory Which thing I now see you have not rightly understood And if these my words seem to you as a Dream yet why are you angry with me for my Dream's sake But these things I leave to the Judgment of the Great Day near at hand wherein many will be smitten with Sickness VVeakness and the Sleep of Death because they discerned not Love to be the Lord's Body and could not patiently wait for the Resurrection thereof but have set up other Idols in their Hearts instead of him yet as for the innocent harmless merciful meek loving and kind hearted amongst you and of every Nation such shall obtain and inherit the Blessing of Peace Plenty and Rest which none can disturb but not till the last Enemy or Enmity which is the Sting of Death be destroyed and put underfoot Thus by the Life of Love Death loseth its Sting the Grave its Victory the Law its Strength and all resigned to the Conquest of Love unfeigned Then are the Kingdoms of this VVorld become the Kingdoms of our Lord and his Christ and he alone reigneth Go ye with all Sects and learn what this meaneth Oft-times many amongst you in much contempt have asked me Whom I have coverted and where the Fruit of my Ministry is To whom I now answer That my Work is with the Lord having delivered up my Kingdom unto him my self can do nothing but as Love moveth so I either go or come speak or am silent And I am not sent to call the Righteous or to gather into Sects or Opinions nor is it the ground of my rejoycing to have a Multitude follow me or to flock about the outward Court or that Devils themselves are made subject no I know no true Happiness nor a Kingdom everlasting in these things neither see I any reason to prefer one Sect above another only such whose Names are written in the Book of Love and by it are gathered into the Life thereof those to me are most choice and precious My Ministry is neither Lo here nor Lo there I am not so sent to preach but as a Light to the Gentiles and to open Mysteries interpret Dreams and hard Sayings that have lain hid ever since the World that lies in the Apostacy began that so the blind in Heart may see the things that belong to their Souls Peace and VVelfare that so every one in all Forms may sit under his present Attainment as his proper Vine and drink VVaters of Life from his own Cistern without the least spot or defilemenr of Enmity in their Feasts of Charity both with the Lord and with one another And who will be offended at the foolishness of this Preaching except it be the Scribes and Fair-sayers in every Sect that are highly exalted in themselves and in others because of their Gifts both in praying and speaking and in their Zeal earnestness and fervent working of their own Spirit where sits that painted and well-favoured Harlot upon all Waters or Sects speaking as with the Tongue of Men and Angels the Words of Truth and of the Fame of Life and Love but from that Principle which leadeth into the Chambers of Death in all which things the Good Man not being at home nor endowing with Power from on high great Abominations Murders and Adulteries are committed in Spirit and Heart as in the matter of Peor in the days of Balak and Balaam Figures of this untoward Generation whose Ear being once opened heard the words of God and with the single eye saw and knew the secret Counsel of the Most High but afterwards falling into a Trance mark into his own Imaginations he then opened the double Eye for he had two and this saw Evil and loved the Wages of Unrighteousness yet nevertheless what he had once seen with the single Eye he could talk of as you do and so speak of exceeding high and great Mysteries as one having all Knowledg mark that puffs up so could speak of the Seed of God its beginning and end and of the Light or Way through which it passeth and that it should

the Saints my love to that Testimony made me willing to stand by him in his Sufferings and to bear his Cross for which Testimony the World the Powers of darkness then ruling my Kindred and my Brethren the Quakers sold me into Aegypt by their many false reports yet there the Lord my God appeared to me and finding me in my Innocency wherewith he had clothed me hath ever fince become my exceeding great Reward Nov. 30. 1678. BY what I have formerly and now sent for England you may see how I have bin acted for many years Lately I have heard a Voice from Heaven saying Turn thy Sword into Plowshares and into Pruning Hooks stay at home Dress and keep clean the Garden of Eden thine own Heart that no root of bitterness spring up there I also now begin to feel an inclination to write out fair that which long since I have prepared and to present each of the seven Churches of Christendom with an Epistle I formerly intended them Then will many come to see beyond the Letter of that * Viz. the Gift of 210l. to the 7 Churches An. 1666. Action and not the sound of Words only nor from Mount Sinai but from Sion where it is written In the Mount of the Lord it shall be seen and heard by all that have an Ear to hear what the Spirit saith at whose Voice of Love our Friend Lazarus will awake and rise out of his sleep In truth I thought the Epistles promised would soon have followed my Gift but in short time after I came to see that the day was not for Unity and Amity but for biting and devouring one another so that instead of raising our Brother Lazarus we had our hands every one against his Brother two against three and three against two which work tended to the Crucifying of the Lord of Life afresh but I hope the day is dawning that after Ages or next Dispensation will speak more reverently of Unity and Amity I have bin made contrary to my Nature a Man of Contention and strife to all the World one that at the command of the Lord hath sold my Coat made of Love and Good-will to all and bought a Sword with which I have fought a long and tedious Battel of about ten years standing against all Professors of Moses and of Christ which War I believe will go on throughout the whole World to the destruction of all Idols in all Religions and to the setting up of Christ Jesus God's Word in the Heart his Priest and Prophet King over all the Earth His Fan is in his hand and he will throughly purge his Floor even all the Children of Light that they may offer to the Lord in a clean Vessel of His own an Offering in Righteousness Wherefore be ye clean pure Virgins that bring forth the Birth of God and bear the Vessels of the Lord. Thus all that are baptized into this one Spirit of Love to Truth and Righteousness stand as Saviours on Mount Zion with the Trump of God in their Hearts to judg and save the Mount of Esau not in a wrathful bitter Spirit but in the same loving-kindness wherewith God hath judged and saved us for so will the Kingdoms of this World become the Kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ and he shall and must reign for ever and ever I confess formerly for a long time I have had Conscience of an Idol and contended only for one sort of People but now an Idol to me is nothing and my present state is to own that which is of God in any sort of Men and to become all things to that of God in all Men that is not of Sin that so I may reach save and unite in the Love of God all Men to each other in all Religions which Love shed abroad in our Hearts is God's Salvation to all Men even to the ends of the Earth I have here sent my Epistle to the Roman Catholicks that by this you may see the Patern of the rest which Patern I received some years since from the Mountain of God's Love not from Mount Sinai but from Mount Sion the Habitation of the Blessed the New Jerusalem who is Father and Mother Brother and Sister of all God's Children who are regenerate and born again of the Seed and Spirit of Grace God's Sons and Daughters At the revelation of which when I saw and considered the end of the Lord in that my saluting of the seven Churches my Heart did leap and skip within me like to a Roe or young Hart upon the Mountain of Spices I say in this Mountain of God's Love the sanctified Heart stands the Saviour Christ our Lord the Spirit of the Father who saves his People from their Sins the which sanctifies and redeems them from all Iniquity Who is who was and who is to come one and the same through all Generations from everlasting to everlasting An. 1677. And now I shall settle to write out fair what I have prepared for the remaining seven Churches That already sent I think hath no contention or strife in it if you see any thing of that Nature I pray take it out of the way My Mind is directed in this Testimony of the universal Love of God to the World to receive and treasure up as in Joseph's Store-houses all that which is of God in every Religion and to hand it forth in this time of Famine of Love to God and our Neighbour which is seen to break in as an overflowing Scourge over all Christendom not only in Egypt amongst the Prophane but amongst Professors of all sorts who account themselves the Sons of Jacob And what I see to be false and reprobate Silver the Inventions Traditions and Impositions of Men to return that back again as their own Money in their own Sacks And in so doing I hope none will be offended thereat You need not be careful or sollicitous in publishing what I send only when you feel your Mind in frame whether as in a Cloud or Pillar of Fire fitting and preparing to such an end gently follow after it as it leadeth for they that are come into the Faith of God's Elect the second Covenant do not make haste but are entred into their Rest even into God's everlasting Sabbath of Rest where in the new Covenant of Grace in Matters Spiritual they cease from their own Works from labouring and toiling in the first Covenant of Works as He did from His. The Days approaching are evil to all Worshippers in the outward Court Lo here and Lo there where the Potsherds of the Earth will dash one against another and bring all into Confusion This is the portion of the Ungodly that have not the Birth of God in them In this time of Trouble will God build his Church and Temple the New Jerusalem in the sanctified Hearts of his People wherein he will place his Name for ever And as for those that worship God in the Spirit