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A32862	The memory of the righteous revived being a brief collection of the books and written epistles of John Camm & John Audland, those two faithful and honourable servants of the Lord, who were called to the work of the ministry in the morning of Gods blessed day dawned in this generation, and, with other brethren, bore the heat and burden of the day faithfully, to the end and finishing of their course, being entered into the joy of their Lord : together with several testimonies relating to those two faithful labourers / published for the service of truth and friends, by Thomas Camm & Charles Marshal.	Camm, John, 1604?-1656.; Audland, John, 1630-1664.; Camm, Thomas, 1641-1707.; Marshall, Charles, 1637-1698.	1689 (1689)	Wing C390; ESTC R22076	130,282	441

able many times to get on or of his Horse without help through all which the Lord brought him his faith being fixt in his power and his life and whole delight was in the prosperity of Truth and Righteousness in the Earth amongst the Sons of Men. He was a Man that was richly furnished with the gifts of the holy Spirit always patient in his great exercises and weakness of a noble Spirit and exceeding grave in his carriage and deportment profound in judgment and of a quick discerning a sharp reprover of the World and the Wickedness therein as also all deceitful Hypocrites with disorderly walkers who made profession of Truth but walked not according to the Rule thereof Unity of the Brethren was his joy and Souls delight and therefore whatever appeared to break the same his Sword was keen upon to Wound his Ministry was weighty and deep and very powerful not pleasant to the itching Ears that loves smooth words but reached to the witness of God and tended to the refreshment of the Seed of the Kingdom where it was growing and springing up in the Hearts of Gods People also to the weary tossed and afflicted he had often a word in season to their Consolations being very tender over the good in all he had openings and sights of many things to come and he would often say there would come a day of Famine and that in that day many that had made a great shew would but be like the stony Ground or the broken Bow in the day of Battel he would also often say that his other Son my Brother would be an Esau a rough Man and not love the Truth but be a Grief and Exercise to his Mother but she would have Comfort of her other Children all which is fulfilled when he grew near his end his weakness encreasing he had great joy as he always had in the company of Friends that were faithful of which many came to visit him and many times he would have been wonderfully opened with the Power of the Lord and overcome with the sence of his Love and Peace and a fresh Testimony thereof he would often bear to the great refreshment of Friends and his Family when he lay in great weakness upon his Bed. His great care in all his Travels was that the Gospel of Christ which he had to publish might be without charge for all he had or enjoyed of outward things was freely given up to the Service of Truth so that he was willing to lay out part of the same in his Travels also his Heart and House was open to entertain all Friends that came in Truths Service having a great Comfort therein he was a pattern of faithfulness in suffering for Truth 's Testimony though never much in Prison yet his Goods were often spoiled or taken away which he suffered joyfully in Truth 's Testimony against Tythes in which Testimony and all other relating to Truth he was ever firm and never shrunk in the least his frequent Exhortations was to all Friends and his Family to be valiant and noble for Truth and to keep their Faith in God's power and never to look out or consult with the Wisdom of the World. He did often call his Children and Family together and exhort them with much fervency of Spirit to fear the Lord and walk in holiness of Life as becomes the Gospel that they had believed in and would often pray to the Lord for us and bless us in his Name some Months before he died he would often call for me to be with him for he loved me entirely and it was my joy and delight to serve and obey him in all things and many times he would wonderfully extol the Name of the Lord and praise him for his goodness and great mercy counting his bodily weakness a happiness being sanctified unto him by that Word eternal which had sanctified his Soul and made him an honourable Vessel to the praise of his God under the sence of which he would say How great a benefit do I enjoy beyond many who have such a large time of preparation for Death being dying daily that I may live for ever with my God in that Kingdom that 's unspeakably full of glory my outward Man daily wasts and moulders down and draws towards its place and center but my inward Man revives mounts upward towards its Place and Habitation in the Heavens in the sence whereof his Soul would often wonderfully magnifie the Lord. That very Morning that he departed this Transitory Life he called my Mother the Children and Family unto him gave us many good and seasonable Instructions to fear the Lord love his Way and Truth and walk in it with upright Hearts charging us to be kind and loving one unto another telling us that his Glass was run the time of his Departure was come he was to enter into everlasting Ease Joy and Rest charging us all to be patient and content with our parting with him as to the outward and so presently fainting passed quietly away into a sweet Sleep whereupon we were all so overcome with Sorrow and Weeping some of us aloud as one out of Sleep he was again a wakened and desired to be a little help'd up in his Bed speaking to this effect My dear Hearts you have wronged me and disturbed me for I was at sweet Rest you should not so Passionately sorrow for my departure this House of Earth and Clay must go to its place but this Soul and Spirit was to be gathered up to the Lord to live with him forever where we should meet with everlasting Joy so again taking his leave of every one of us and charging us to be content with his Departure lay down and we being troubled and reflecting upon our selves for the disturbance we had given him through our Impatience endeavoured Contentedness and in a little time he departed as to the outward but lives with us in the Spirit and being Dead his Life Preaches and is a sweet savour to the Lord and his People His Distemper was a Cough and Consumption And he departed this Life in 1665. being the seventh day of the Week and the next day was his Body laid in Friends Burying Place at Birk-rigg-Park he being the first that was Buried in that Place John Audland was Born in the same County not above a Mile from Camsgil his Parents and Kindred of good Repute who when he was but a Child was of a very ripe and quick wit of Understanding and Apprehension though somewhat inclineable to youthful Play execept which never addicted to any Vice about the Age of seventeen or eighteen Years the Lord inclined his Heart to Sobriety and reading the holy Scriptures and to be very Religious in what was then manifested so that he chose the Company and Society of the best and most Religious in that day and having a large Understanding and great Memory he became able in the Knowledge of the Scriptures and could

mighty Power of the Lord will apear amongst you meeting often together and faint not neither be weary the Lord God will appear amongst you and terrour shall smite your Enemies so in the Name of the Lord do we exhort you and charge you to abide in that which you have received from the Lord waiting upon him in meekness and lowliness and the humble shall know his way So keep low and learn and Grace will be given unto the humble my Life reacheth to you my Soul is poured forth to the Lord for you that you may grow and increase in the unsearchable Riches of Christ and the mighty Power of the Lord God be among you and in you to carry you through that you may Inherit all things I Salute you all in the Bowels of love and am your Servant for Jesus sake and am with you in Joy and in Tribulation John Audland John Audlands Letter from Kendal to Friends at Bristol June 1655. DEarly beloved in the Lord Jesus Christ Grace Mercy and Peace be multiplied in you and among you that in it you may all be established and grow as living Plants and be fruitful in him that hath called you to Grace and Vertue that you may live in it and abound in every good work to the praise of the Lord whose love hath been manifested amongst you and you have heard his Voice and been Witnesses of his Power and his eternal Love hath been abundant towards you Therefore all Friends of your high calling walk worthy and press hard after the Mark so runing that ye may obtain every one of you in particular abiding in the strait way and in the Cross daily which is the delight of the Just and peace and refreshment to the Just in you all that in the Just you may all dwell and then the earthly comes to dye and judgment is executed upon the wicked and the Famine comes on all the Gods of the Earth and the day of separation and sorrow upon all the Lovers and the Mortification of the old Man and as that dies the Spirit is quickned and waiting on the Lord every one your strength comes to be renewed and your Life refreshed So to you all Friends Lambs and Babes of God whose minds are staid upon God their Food you will receive from the living God and grow every one in your Measure walking as you have received and prising the love of God unto you which hath been and is large and bountiful who hath searched you out who was scattered in the cloudy dark day and found no rest to your Souls but wandered from Mountain to Hill and laid dissolate and barren in a waste howling Wilderness and no eye pitied but he alone who is mighty to save hath visited you and your time was the time of love and he hath loved you with an everlasting love and drawn you in much tender mercy and given his Son for a Light that you might all walk in it and have fellowship in it And now my dearly beloved ones stand fast in that which brings eternal Freedom and makes free and be faithful every one in your measure to you all I speak as to one that you may grow in love and walk in love and in it be established for it will endure for ever oh let it be your joy to do the will of God in all singleness and to dwell in his fear and abide in the daily Cross reason not nor consult not for the mystery is hid from that eye but dwell low and learn there that subject to the Yoke every one of you may be and wait upon the Lord meeting in his fear watching one over another and abiding in the Light that your fellowship may stand in that which is the Worlds condemnation my Soul is poured out to the Lord for you and my Bowels runeth freely to you in pure love and singleness that you may all be preserved in the pure fear of the Lord out of the snares of the Enemy that in the eternal Counsel of God you may abide and be stedfast in the hour of Temptation Dear Hearts keep every one to your own measure which from the Lord is given unto you that you may witness the presence of the Lord amongst you and find his Power and hear his Voice that your Hearts may be kept open to receive the living Mercies from the living God that in the day of tryal you may stand and in the time of Famine your Soul's may be kept alive and when the Lord takes account of you you may give it with joy and be found faithful and fruithful in him This charge do I lay upon you from the Lord that you dwell and abide low in the Fear of the Lord in love to God there walking every one in the living as examples that the Lord alone may be exalted no Pride no Strife but in the Cross abide which judgeth that and takes away the occasions of Wars and the eternal everlasting powerful Presence of the Lord keep you all and be amongst you and go along with you for evermore I am your dear Friend and Companinon in joy and Tribulation John Audland My dear Brother John Camm doth dearly Salute you all in that which is eternal and never changeth he is pretily recovered and to you his love is exceeding great The School-Master Disciplin'd Or a Reply to a lying Paper Entitul'd the Gadding Tribe reproved Put forth under the Name of George Willington School-Master in the City of Bristol in which he is proved to be the gadder and lyar which with the Light is for condemnation Also an Answer to a Scandalous Paper put forth by William Prynne entituled The Quaker unmasked and clearly detected wherein his Slanders are made to appear and he clearly detected being taken with a lye in his mouth Whereunto is added a Reply to an additional Paper put forth by William Prynne in his lying inlarged Edition of his scandalous Paper aforementioned in which he is more unmasked and proved to be spawned from the father of Lyes whose refuge is sweeping away WHereas there is a Paper lateput forth intitul'd The gadding Tribe reproved by the Light of the Scriptures by one who writes himself George Willington School-Master in the City of Bristol whose Book is very silly and vain but that Fools love to be medling and in it there is much railing lying and false accusing against those people called by the Scorners Quakers I shall say something as to it for the Truths sake that the lyes may rest upon his own head from whence they came Whereas thou sayest A word from the Word to the Serpent generation called Quakers especially to the conniving Seducer John Audland and the rest of his Brethren in iniquity who have of late set forth a malicious Pamphlet against our godly Magistrates and faithful Ministers intituled The innocent delivered out of the snare and the blind guide fallen into the Pit. Reply The innocent delivered out of the snare

that makes truly Rich and everlasting happy and Truth in the inward parts the Lord loves and every one to speak the Truth from his Heart to his Neighbour and to his Friend watching over one another for good in Truth and Uprightness then there will be no treacherous dealer in the Assembly nor none that lies in wait to hurt the Poor and Harmless nor none to Exalt themselves above their measure in the knowledge which puffeth up and despiseth the Lowly and the Poor such will the Lord God throw down therefore all fear before the Lord and none be high-minded if any man boast he beareth not the Root every one keep in the Pure life in the true love and fellowship of the Gospel of Peace and all look to the Author and the Finisher of your Faith which in Truth stands in the Power of God then you all keep your Habitations your walking is in steadfastness and your going comes to be established Let all be warned and awaked for the Lord is at hand who will bring every mans work to the tryal and happy for evermore are all they who are found faithful when they are weighed in the Ballance of Equity and true Judgment Sow in Patience press on in the way of Righteousness serving the Lord with one consent calling upon his Name with one accord keeping the Unity of the Spirit in the Bond of Peace so will you rejoyce in the Lord alone who is the Succourer of the Poor and the Refuge of the Needy in the Day of distress Let all that know him praise him and fear him and in singleness of heart wait upon him whose Mercy endureth for evermore Let nothing draw you from your holy calling and stedfast waiting upon the Lord nor separate you from the Love of God in Christ Jesus our Light our Life and our Redeemer So the Lord God Almighty multiply his Grace Mercy and Love his Life Light and Power in you and amongst you that you may be grounded rooted builded established and in the everlasting Covenant of Life find Peace where you may rest in the City of God whose Gates is Praise and hath Salvation for Walls and Bulwarks where no Weapon can prosper that is formed against you glory and honour and living Praises be unto the Lord our God from all who know him now and for evermore I am your Friend who truly desireth after your Prosperity in the Life that shall never dye John Andland To Friends in Westmorland who Love the Truth and in Cumberland Bishoprick c. An Epistle to Friends DEarly beloved in the Lord Jesus Christ Brethren and Sisters in the Eternal Spirit Members of the Body of Christ Grace Mercy and Peace from our God be multiplied in you that every one of you in particular may grow in your measure and encrease in the unsearchable Riches of our God Oh! ye Plants of Gods renown planted into the true Vine by the true Husbandman dear and precious are you to us as you abide in the Vine and grow in the Vine there you are our joy and we are refreshed continually in the Unity of the Spirit for in it are you present in us and we in you in our Hearts are ye written by the Spirit of the Living God and we read you daily our Life is one our Joy is one our Sufferings are one and our Victory is one Oh! Dear Hearts our love reacheth you and our Bowels are shed towards you our Hearts are broken when we know of your faithfulness and stedfastness in the work of the Lord waring against all Deceipt and watching every one in your measure to be serviceable in the calling whereunto you are called we speak the Truth in Christ we lye not it is like precious Ointment shed abroad in us which gives a sweet smell unto us that we are much refreshed by it to know of your faithfulness and boldness to know of your labour and carefulness and tenderness towards one another in the Lord it is like Balm upon our Head in rememberance of you our hearts are broken and we rejoyce to behold your order in the Lord dwelling and abiding in him who is our Head and therefore in the Name of the Lord Jesus do we exhort charge and command you every one to abide in your measure in the true Vine and to dwell and walk in the Light which is Eternal by which you will judge all double minds who talk of the Unity of the Light but do not walk in the Light and abide in the Unity such are not of the Body who do not abide in the Vine but you who do abide in the Vine try all such and have no fellowship with unfaithful Workers for such are unfruitful who do not abide in the Vine such are they who mind earthly things who are Enemies to the Cross of Christ who walk not in the Light with the Light of God all such are seen abiding in it you will separate the clean from the unclean and true Judgment from the Life which is pure will be given upon the impure none can judge but he that is pure thou that judgest another and dost the same things thou art for Judgment let all Flesh be silent before the Lord God and dwell all in the Life of the Son of God in which you will comprehend all busie minds and forward minds who abide not in the Life who are not to judge but to be judged with the Life so in the Life dwell every one and there you have all one Life and we are with you in the Life which was before the World was in that which was before time which in time was made manifest which brings up out of time in that have we Unity and there we behold you ye faithful Ones ye Sons and Daughters of the Lord unto whom the Promise is made manifest which is Yea and Amen to the Seed which Seed is but one unto which shall all Nations bow and they that set themselves against you shall surely fall before you the Lord hath blessed you and you are blessed by his own right hand hath he planted you and the shout of a King is heard amongst you and his Voice is terrible to the Nations and dreadful to the Heathen round about cursed are they that curse thee happy art thou O Israel a People saved by the Lord the Lord of Hosts is with you and there is no Inchantment against you no Weapon formed against you shall prosper the Mouth of the Lord hath spoken it Therefore in the Name of the Lord and in his fear abide every one for the Voice that is heard amongst you gives Alarm to the Inhabitants of the Land and because of the Man-Child that is born in you are the Nations troubled rejoyce for evermore ye Saints of the most high God for Power is given you to be avenged of all your Enemies yea even to War against the Beast and to make the Whore Desolate the Fire that is kindled

amongst you torments all her Lovers Praises Praises Eternal to the Living God who appeareth for us and gives us Victory over our Enemies Dear ones the mighty Power of the Lord is with us and our Bow abides in strength and terror takes hold upon our Enemies here are multitudes Convinced of the Etornal Truth and the Witness of God is raised and judgment is begun to the terror of many this is the Day of Sions deliverance Glory to our God for ever for he spreads my Table and makes my Cup overflow the Mighty God of Power keep you my care is for you and God is my Witness I cease not daily to make mention of you in my Prayers O! prize his Love for evermore you who were sometime afar off but now are made nigh by the Blood of Christ walk in his Fear Holiness becomes the House of the Lord for ever Farwell Your Dear Brother in the Eternal Spirit of God. John Audland John Audlant's Letter to Friends DEarly beloved in the Lord Jesus Christ Grace Mercy Peace be multiplyed in you and among you that in it you may all be Established and grow as living Plants and be fruithful in him who hath called you to Grace and Vertue that you might live in it and abound in every good Work to the praise of the Lord whose Love hath been manifest amogst you and you have heard his Voice and been Witnesses of his Power and his Eternal Love hath been abundant towards you therefore all Friends of your high Calling walk worthy and press hard after the mark so runing that ye may obtain every one of you in perticular abiding in the straight Way and in the Cross daily which is the delight of the Just and Peace and Refreshment to the Just in you all that in the Just you may all dwell and there the Earthly comes to dye and Judgment is executed upon the wicked and the Famine comes upon all the Gods of the Earth and the day of Separation and Sorrow upon all the Lovers and the Mortification of the old man and as that dyes the Spirit is quickned and waiting upon the Lord every one your Strength comes to be renewed and your Life refreshed So to you all Friends Lambs and Babes of God whose Minds are stayed upon God there Food you will receive from the living God and grow every one in your Measure walking as you have received and prising the Love of God to you which hath been and is large and bountiful who hath searched you out who was scattered in the cloudy dark day and found no Rest to your Souls but wandered from Mountain to Hill and laid desolate and barren in a waste howling Wilderness and no Eye pittied but he alone who is mighty to save hath you visited and your time was the time of Love and he hath loved you with an Everlasting Love and drawn you in much tender Mercy and given his Son for a Light that you might all walk in it and have fellowship in it And now my Dearly beloved Ones stand fast in that which brings Eternal Freedom and makes free and be faithful every one in your Measure to you all I speak as to one that you my grow in Love and walk in Love and in it be Established for it will indure for ever Oh let it be your Joy to do the Will of God in all Singleness and to dwell in his Fear and abide in the daily Cross Reason not nor consult not for the mystery is hid from that Eye but dwell low and learn thee that Subject to the Yoke every one of you may be and wait upon the Lord Meeting in his Fear watching one over another and abiding in the Light that your Fellowship may stand in it which is the Worlds Condemnation my Soul is pouned out to the Lord for you and my Bowels run freely to you in pure Love and Singleness that you all may be proserved in the pure Fear of the Lord out of the Snares of the Enemy that in the Eternal Counsel of God you may abide and be stedfast in the time of Temptation Dear Hearts keep every one to your own Measure which from the Lord is given unto you that you may witness the Presence of the Lord amongst you and find his Power and hear his Voyce that your Hearts may be kept open to receive the living Mercies from the living God that in the Day of Tryal you may stand and in the time of Famine your Souls may be kept alive and when the Lord takes account of you you may give it with Joy and be found faithful and fruitful in him this Charge do I lay upon you from the Lord that you dwell and abide low in the Fear of the Lord in Love together walking every one in the Living as examples that the Lord alone may be exalted no Pride nor Strife but in the Cross abide which Judgeth that and takes away the occasion of Wars And the Eternal everlasting Powerful Presence of the Lord keep you all and be amongst you and go along with you for evermore I am your Dear Friend and Companion in Joy and in Tribulation John Andland My Dear Brother John Camm doth Salute you all in that which is Eternal and never changeth he is pretily recovered and to you his love is exceeding great John Audland's Letter to a Priest concerning Tythes INstance if thou canst of one out of the Scriptures that ever came in at the door that did ever sue Men at the Law for Tythes Wages or Easter-Recknings if thou canst not prove it by the Scriptures thou art Antichrist that doth not abide in the Doctrine of Christ and no Minister of Christ but one of Baal's Priests if thou be a Minister of Christ and come to my House what I have I will set before thee and thou shalt freely Eat but to give my Corn and Hay Calves and Foles Wooll and Lambs Geese Hens Piggs Eggs and other things to be carried to thy House Christ gave no such Command that People should bring such things to his Disciples but said Freely you have received freely give Eat and Drink such as they set before you And so if you be sent out by Christ to Preach the Gospel which Gospel thou canst not receive of Man but by the Revelation of Jesus Christ and if thou come to my House and freely minister unto me Spiritual things I will freely minister unto thee Carnal things But the Apostles who were sent into the World to Preach the Gospel which Gospel they received not at Oxford and Cambridge nor by Studying Authors but spoke forth that which they were partakers of which was contrary to the Will of Man they did not enquire out a great Benefice or a Personage and there set themselves but went up and down Preaching the Gospel freely and did not make it Chargable to any but said We have coveted no Mans Silver nor Gold God is our Witness and you your selves

of the great Travel that was upon them because of the mighty Power of the Lord which was made manifest in them for the bringing down of that which had been exalted against him and for the restoration of the oppressed Captive that deliverance might be known from the power of Satan and from the bondage of Corruption that we being set free wherein we were held might serve the Lord in Truth and Singleness of Heart and wait upon him and follow the leadings of his Spirit in the exercise of our Hearts and minds in Serving and Worshiping the Lord our God And so the God of Heaven hath revealed and made manifest the Way of Life and Peace the Way wherein Comfort and Satisfaction to the Soul is found the Gate of Mercy even the entrance to the everlasting Kingdom of Rest and Joy for evermore which although it be strait and narrow and a cross to the fleshly part and earthly ground and wisdom yet it is easie pleasent and delightful living in the Spirit and becoming little even as a Child for so must he become that enters in at the strait Gate to eat of the Tree of Life which is in the midst of the Paradise of God So we have found the way of everlasting Peace through the rich Mercy and tender Visitation of the Lord walking in the Spirit and living in that which mortifies the deeds of the Flesh being subject to the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ Here is rest to the Soul here is the sweet Visitations of the Lord known which are as the former and latter Rain to refresh the lowly in Heart and Poor in Spirit Here waiting upon the Lord the strength is renewed and here the Lord speaks Peace to People even as they are in Christ the Power of God growing up in him who is the Truth and the Life they are possessors of lasting Peace which God speaks not to the wicked which is the Portion of the upright in Heart and as the Lord hath made manifest the way of Peace Life and everlasting Happiness he hath also discovered the contrary even the way of misery darkness and destruction the way which is broad and many in the lusts of the Flesh take pleasure in it following the motions of the Flesh and the desires of the carnal mind resisting the motions of Gods good Spirit and hating the blessed Light of the Lord Jesus Christ and so spend away their precious time and in this state that is to say in the Flesh resisting the Spirit of the Lord they cannot serve God nor please him nor worship him in Truth though they may profess him in words and draw near him with their Mouth yet being in the Flesh contrary to the Spirit of Truth the Ear turned away from hearing of God's Law their Prayers are Abomination their plowing is Sin their sacrifice is as Cain's not accepted by the Lord no Peace from God no ture Rest no Satisfaction no beholding the Countenance of the Lord nor no assurance of the Eternal Inheritance which never fades away but an earnest of wrath pain misery anguish and trouble which will come upon all who live and dye in Disobedience of the Glorious Gospel of Jesus Christ And so we see the Way of Life to all that believe in the Name of the Lord Jesus and the way of death to all who live in unrighteousness and are not changed by the power of God and translated from Death to Life and from the Kingdom of darkness into the Kingdom of the dear Son of God. And these things are of great concernment unto us and we see it is very needful to wait upon the Lord and to follow the motions of his Spirit that we may feel his Power to preserve us in his Will out of the evil of the World that so in the Power of the Lord our God we may war a good Warfare and finish our Course with joy And verily this a matter of great weight unto us even to have our hearts exercised towards the Lord in obedience to his Will in what he requireth of us that we may have a Conscience void of offence towards him And so the Day of the Lord God being come and his Eternal Power made known in many hearts by which many are raised to serve him and obey him yea to worship him according to his own Will and the leadings of his good Spirit We are even constrained by the Power of the Lord to meet together in his Name and Fear to wait upon him and to worship him and also to exhort one another in his holy Power as the Spirit of the Lord directs yea and so much the more as the day appeareth And this we find also to be according to the Scriptures of Truth and practice of the Servants of the Lord in former dayes who did not forsake the assembling of themselves together but met often and sometime in one place and sometime in another as they were directed in the fear of the Lord And they that feared the Lord spake often one unto another and the Lord hearkened and heard it and a Book of Remembrance was written for them that feared the Lord and that thought upon his Name And they shall be mine saith the Lord in the day that I make up my Jewels and I will spare them as a man spareth his own Son that serveth him And this was in a time when the proud were called happy and they that wrought wickedness were set up and they that tempted God were delivered yet even in such a time did they that feared the Lord speak often together and also in the time when the Gospel of Christ was published by the Apostles and Ministers of Jesus many were brought into the obedience of the Truth and were gathered from the Jews Worship and way of service and they to wit the Jews could plead more justly for the Antiquity of their way of Worship and their order in their Worship then many who this day profess themselves to be Christians and a reformed Church and in that time did they meet together sometime in a Chamber sometime in an House and sometime in an upper Room as the Lord directed them and as they had opportunities and gathered Churches which met at Houses and waited upon the Lord and exhorted one another and might all speak one by one as the Spirit of the Lord led them that all might hear and all be comfored And we do not read that the Jews made a Law or the Romans either who at that time had the Principality that they should not meet above four together or if they meet five or above they should be fined Indeed the Jews who believed not were bad enough and persecuted the Saints from City and haled out of Houses they that professed the Name of Jesus and sometimes scourged them but they are evil examples to be followed and its pitty that any who profess themselves Christians should do the like to any that meet

World departed Oh! the strippings of all needless Apparel and the forsaking of superfluities in Meats Drinks and in the plain self-denying Path we walked having the fear and dread of God on our Souls that we were afraid of offending in word or deed our Words were few and savory our Apparel and Houses plain being stripped of superfluities our Countenances Grave and Deportments Weighty amongst those we had to do with Indeed we were a plain broken-hearted contrite spirited self-denying people our Souls being in an unexpressible Travel to do all things well-pleasing in the Sight of God for our great concern night and day was to obtain through Jesus Christ the Great work of Salvation and thereby an assurance of the everlasting Rest and Sabboth of our God and in those days Oh! the unexpressible Labour Travels and spending of the Strength of these Servants of the most high God in great Assemblies in that City and Countries round about our Meetings were so large that we were forced to meet without doors and that in Frost and Snow In which Meetings Oh! the extending of Voice of these Servants of God to reach over these great multitudes when several thousands have been assembled together and as the Work of the Lord increased so the Enemy was at work in Priests and People in those dayes who stirred up the Youth of the City into a tumulting like the men of Ephesus and once we had a very great tumult that the Streets were crowded and these two Servants of the Lord were seized upon by the multitude and were in great hazard But the Lord signally delivered them as in dayes past he had done his Servants on such occasions and all came to be quieted and our Meetings peaceable and many grew in Grace and in the Knowledge of God and Christ Jesus which is Eternal Life much more of particulars I might write but affecting brevity for several reasons I say in short such was the effectual working of the Almighty Power of God and makings bare of his Arm of Salvation that attended those Servants of the most High and the great work of our Gospel meeting with the various Trials and exercises that attended them and us that were the fruits of their Labours in the Lord that my Tongue cannot express what I was an eye and ear witness of and a Soul sharer in Therefore to the God of this bright Morning of our day of Visitation ariseth springs up as in Covenant with himself through Christ Jesus holy heavenly high Praises Might Majesty and Dominion is ascribed to the Lord God and the Lamb. So let it be saith my spirit in fear and trembling through Ages and Generation for ever and evermore Ameu And now dear Friends every where but more particularly in and about the City of Bristol who have seen the Morning of the day of God break forth in our Age as aforesaid and by the divine Light thereof have seen the darkness that has covered the people expelled in which darkness people have been Ignorant of the true and living God and his precious work of Salvation in which ignorance they have performed their worship even in the same nature that they are sinning and rebelling and grieving the Good Spirit of God which all ought to be subject too now it pleasing the divine Being in his infinite love and tender pity and compassion to look down upon us whilest in the Land of Egypt and House of Bondage spiritually and to send forth his Light and Truth to give us a sence inwardly of the deplorable states of our Souls in the separation from and depravation of the enjoyments of the Lord which sence and sight begat in us living Breathings and a holy Cry after the knowledge of him we saw our selves ignorant of and he in the fulness of the Dispensation of time visited us as afore mentioned of which dear Friends we were right glad although when the Lord discovered our states he laid Judgment to the Line and Righteousness to the Plummet and gave to us the Cup of Trembling in which was the Wine of Astonishment which was in mercy to our Poor Souls that could not be redeemed but by Judgment poured on the nature that had separated us from God and on us as joyned thereunto and here although Sin revived we begun to dye to it O Good day and precious season worthy worthy both to be remembred by us and our Off-spring through Generations for although it was the season of the Administration of Condemnation yet was it glorious and in this season the Almighty God by his spiritual Trumpet sounded to us that the end of this his spiritual Appearance was to root out lay waite and utterly destroy the nature of Sin and Iniquity that had divided and separated us from God and hindred the good things from us of his Heavenly power and Kingdom and we were perswaded the set time was come for clensing and sanctifying the Temple and fitting it for the pure immortal God and did not we begin inward as in the day of Hezekiah that the Temple might be clensed throughly in every part for in the outward Temple they clensed first the inward part of the House of the Lord and so came along to the Porch until the Temple was throughly clensed Indeed in the Morning of our precious Day of Visitation the Ax was laid to the Root of the corrupt Tree and the Hammer to the hard Rocky Heart and the spiritual Fire kindled in the Stubble Now dear Friends in the Word of Truth I say unto you search with the holy Light of Christ Jesus how this work has prospered in your Souls see whether you that knew a right beginning first in the inward part have come along faithfully in the work of Sanctifying the Heart and the Temple from the inward part to the outside see whether the Root has not escaped the Ax the rocky Heart the Hammer and the Chaff the Fire for if it has the cause is not in the Lord nor in his Power but in your disobedience and negligence going from the Ax Hammer and Fire and so sparing the best as disobedient Saul and Israel did so the Root of bitterness sprang up against the work of God and bringings forth of his heavenly wisdom To the holy plain speaking Witness of God I speak earnestly desiring and entreating all to have a single regard to that which will duely and rightly apply these things and let all see whether that nature be alive that the holy Power of the Lord did work against in the beginning and if so see the cause which being seen will deeply humble and seize on the spirits of all concerned Oh! what a day have we had how has the good Husbandman been at work in his Vineyard how did he plant in a fruitful Hill with the choicest Vine he digged pruned and gathered out the Stones and Hedged and Walled about and after all he looked for good Fruit but where the unspeakable

which they ought to have done so are breakers of their Covenants and Vowes made in their Baptism which promised that they would forsake the Devil and all his Works the Pomps and Vanities of this wicked World and all the sinful Lusts of the Flesh c. And that they would keep Gods holy Will and Commandments c. But now they offend grievously Gods holy Laws and leaves that undone which they should do c. And their Teachers tell them they connot forsake the Devil and all his works but their best Actions and their Prayers are Sin while they live and all Sin is of the evil One Therefore we dare not joyn with them to commit Sin But if it be said these are but humble Confession to God laying our selves low and confessing our Sins which we ought to do when we pray to him Answer either your Confessions are true or a lye If true then you are breakers of your Vows and in the Unconverted state yet therefore not the true Church Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not Inherit the Kingdom of God 1 Cor. 6. 4 10 11. Be not deceived neither Idolators nor Thieves nor Covetous nor Drunkards nor Revilars nor Extortioners can Inherit it in that state And said the Apostle to the Saints Such were some of you but you are Washed but you are Sanctified but you are Justified in the Name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God And if your Confession be a lye then you are also manifest to be a Company of Dissembling Hypocrites and to be of him who was a Lyar from the Beginning and not Members of the Church of Christ Thirdly because the People there met together have no health in them therefore we are not perswaded in our Minds that we ought to joyn with them no health in them Christ is the saving Health of all Nations who believe in him therefore Christ is not in them so Reprobates concerning the Faith and not the Church of Christ nor Congregation of the faithful People but are disorderly out of the order of the Gospel and we are commanded to withdraw from all such as walk disorderly So we meet together in the Fear of God according to the Practice of the Saints and come not to these places which were the old Mass-Houses to Worship amongst those People which have no health in them and these are three Principal things upon which many more things will follow wherefore we do not go to these Places aforenamed J. A. The Coppy of a Letter sent unto two or three Persons in a Family Dear Hearts IN the Light of the Lord wait upon the Lord in his Fear to have your Minds stayed in his Will that you may walk in Obedience Uprightness in the Presence of the Lord to see him amongst you and in his Counsel abide every one faithful in the Calling and Measure which you have received and are called unto that orderly and in order you may wait and walk every one in particular and one towards another in Soberness and Wisdom that in Love you may be preserved and Truth adorned which you profess that God alone may be exalted I warn you and charge you that in Faithfuluess every one of you walk and in Diligence and Love that there be no Disorder Sloathfulness nor Carelessness but every one mind the Presence of him whose Eye is over you before whom all is naked and bare that you may walk in the Light and the pure Fear of God which will keep you Watchful and Sober in all diligence as unto the Lord knowing you must give an account to him And none be high minded but fear and be Low and Humble and take up the Yoke of Christ and learn there And take heed of your own wills which would lead you into the by-Parths But stand single in the Will of God waiting upon him continually that you may receive the living Mercies from him that your Souls may be nourished with the Food that is Immortal and this I lay upon you all that you be faithful and Diligent that all may be kept in Order and Love that the Family may be guided in Wisdom So my Dear Hearts in Love do I Salute you all and I remain your Dear Friend in that which endureth forever John Audland These following Epistles were found in Manuscript after the foregoing Books and Epistles were Printed To which is added George Fox's Testimony concerning John Camm and John Audland Dear Friends BRethren and Sisters Babes and Lambs Plants of my heavenly Fathers Planting my dear Love in that infinite unchangable Love of God doth my Soul Salute you all yea truly my Bowels of tender Love and Compassion unto the Seed of God in you all that you may be kept pure and blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and travel in pain until Christ be formed in you until the Babe be born in you which is Heir of the immortal Inheritance which never fades away Dear Hearts in the pure Light of Christ all dwell and abide which leads up into the pure Life where there is no Death where we shall all meet together and feed together at one Table and all Eat of one Bread of Life and Drink of one Fountain of living Water which nourisheth all up to the Everlasting Life where we shall meet together and sit together in heavenly Places in Christ Jesus where all Sorrow and Sighing shall fly away and there no Thief can come to rob us of our Crown Therefore in the Bowels of tender Love as a Brother I beseech you all to walk worthy of your Calling for holy is he that hath called you and holy is your Calling unto an holy Life and godly Conversation are you called and to a Separation from the World and to a daily dying to it and to a forgetting of all things which are behind and to walk up to those things which are made manifest in you by the Light which comes from Christ which being obedient unto it it leadeth up to Christ your Head and Example in all things and he was obedient unto the Death of the Cross and being faithful to the Light which comes from him it will lead you to the Death upon the Cross and Crucifie you unto the World and wordly things and raise you up into the pure Life to follow the Lamb whether soever he goeth and if you suffer with him you shall reign with him for he was perfect through Sufferings and through Sufferings and many Tribulations must you enter And therefore all come to the Cross and love it and rejoyce in it that you are counted worthy for his Name sake and take heed that none suffer as Evil-doers for there is no Joy for that nor no Crown nor Reward for these suffers not on the Cross and these Sufferings do not Crucifie but the Condemnation upon all such is Just by the Light which never changeth which comprehends all such hasty Spirits which run