upon the Mountains publishing Peace binding up the Broken-hearted having Oil of Gladness for them that mourn And this is the Word of the Lord God to you keep ye a-top of the Heads of all the Mountains of Sin and Opposition in Innocency Meekness and true Humility in the Fear of God that in his Dread and Wisdom ye may all be kept Dwell in the Light and in the Fear of the Lord staied And dwell in the Light of Christ that doth Enlighten every Man that comes into the World that all through him might believe and bring all to believe in the Light to give them the Knowledge of the Glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ from whom the Light comes that they are all enlightned with and that they may come into the Covenant of Light with God and his People And so dwell in the Power of the Lord God that ye may comprehend the World and see over it all And keep ye over all the unclean Spirits and Execute true Judgment answering to that of God in every Man and here is the Saints Honour And this is the Word of the Lord God to you Consultings Enter not into consultings with the wrong Nature lest ye Consult with the Adversary whose Head must be bruised and lest in the mean time that blind your Eye and raise up a light Spirit in you and take you Captive But dwell in the Power Dread and Fear of the Lord God that ye may answer that of God in every Man and stop the Mouth of that which Opposes that ye may blind the Eye that will not see the Light and the Ear stop that will not hear it for that must be judged For that is it that keeps all from Conversion and that is the Seed of the Serpent which must be bruised with the Seed of the Woman yea the Head of it And keep a-top of the Head of it that ye may answer that of God in every Man and be kept a-top of the contrary and tread it under feet And so the Lord God Almighty keep you in his Power and Wisdom Bind the Vnruly and by it bind the unruly and when ye have bound them then ye may speak to them and by it to fetter them then ye may catch them when ye will when they are fettered And get the Yoke upon the wild Heifer then will ye save your selves from a Push The wild Heifer and bring them down and order them with the Power and reach to the Witness And see that ye keep the Bit in the wild Horses Mouth The wild Horse whereby his Head may be held down And howsoever see that he be bridled then with the Power he will be ordered though he Snuffs and Snorts the Bridle being kept in his Mouth he is held down by it Though he cries Aha aha that is above the Witness And when this is done being kept in the Power ye will know him that Rides meekly upon the Foal of the Ass the Colt the Foal of the Ass to Jerusalem the highest place of Worship who brings the Prisoner out of the Pit where there is no Water Christ The Foal of the Ass the same to day as yesterday and for ever And the Lamb gets the Victory he that sits Meekly upon the Colt the Foal of the Ass He it is that gets the Victory he by whom the World was made who is not of the World that treads upon the Highest Worship in the World Lay Hands upon no Man suddenly I warn and charge you all in the Presence of the Living God but touch the Witness of God in every one G. F. DEar Friends in Jamaica and else where Epist 195. who know the Truth of God and have been Sufferers for the same All live in it Live in the Truth which the Devil is out of that ye may all be preserved in Peace and Freedom For Truth brings to the Noble Mind Spirit and Nature and Seed which never will bend to Sin and Vnrighteousness nor Vngodliness whatsoever nor to the Author of it And therefore all walk in the Truth that ye may all come to honour the Lord God in your Lives and Conversations in your Words and Dealings Just Dealings doing Truly Justly and Righteously unto all People that God may be glorified amongst you And that ye may come to be as Lights to the World and the Countries about you so that by your Light they may come to walk out of their dark unrighteous ungodly and corrupt Ways which the Corrupt People walk in which the holy and the sanctified Ones are of a more Noble Nature and Seed than to tread in those Paths And therefore all mind that in which ye may honour God and his holy Name into which ye are called that ye may answer the Lord God for all his tender Mercies and great Riches that he hath plentifully manifested and inriched you withal The Love of God That the Love of God may fill your Hearts which hath abundantly been shed in you that so it may abound one towards another and to all the Creatures of God for their Good that they may come to the Way of Life and Peace and that they seeing your Good Works may Glorifie your Father which is in Heaven And so let Truth Righteousness Holiness Pureness and Justness be your Jewels and in your Eyes esteemed above all for Unrighteousness Unholiness and Ungodliness is but Dross and is not of God nor Christ And therefore Live in the Truth which the Devil is out of and in the Life which was before Death and the Devil the Power of it was and in the Light which was before Darkness was and the Devil the Prince of it and in this ye will have Fellowship with God with Christ and one with anothr And so no more but my Love Things here are well and Meetings are quiet and large in this Nation and this part of the World Farewell Ye may Write unto us and let us know how things are with you G. F. DEar Friends in the Power of the Lord dwell Epist 197. which will keep you all in Vnity dwelling in it and all be bold in that threshing down all Deceit and wait to have all your Minds guided with that which is Eternal up to God who is Eternal And walk wisely in the Wisdom of God I Charge you in the presence of the living God and take heed of acting in your own Wills Self-Will judged contrary to that which is pure of God in you And know the Power and Life of God in one another which gave forth the Scriptures which was before the Scripture was which Life the Saints had Vnity in one with another So in the Life God Almighty preserve you And Meet together every where I Charge you in the Presence of the Lord and wait together upon God to have your Minds guided by that which is of God up to him Vnrighteousnes with
Captivity that led you Captive into his Prison of Death Darkness and Corruption If Christ I say has led you out of that Prison and Captivity into the glorious Liberty of the Sons of God stand fast in the Liberty wherewith Christ hath made you free and be not entangled with any Yoke of Bondange to bring you out of that heavenly spiritual Liberty For in this you are free notwithstanding the Prisons and Captivity of Men and they are but small matters to it And therefore trust in the Arm of the Lord's Power who can lay the Mountains low and remove the Hills out of their Places and make his Lambs to skip over all And therefore mind the Lord and his Power Good effects may come out of Afflictions that is over all that that makes you to suffer Now your Sorrows and Afflictions may bring many to call upon the Name of the Lord when he has brought you low for God is Merciful and Gracious to the Righteous and his Mercies endure for ever And tho' Hunger and Thirst and Cold many times you are in and many Distresses yet the Lord is able to support you And now that you may mind the Lord in your Poverty and prize his Mercies and consider how that did not enough prize his Mercies and Liberty and Plenty And ye may read 107th Psalm throughout there ye may see how the Lord brought down such as contemned his Counsel and rebelled against his Words Well what can you tell but that this may be the Day of the Lord with you in your Captivity to bring down your Hearts and Spirits that with the Spirit of the Lord you may turn to him who is a God at Hand and that you may call upon the Lord in Truth and Righteousness that all your Sufferings Afflictions and Captivity may be sanctified to you So that you may say All things shall work together for good to them that love God And so with Job you may bless God who giveth and taketh away and that you may glorifie God in whatsoever Condition you may be that no Trouble may move you and that you may rejoyce in Afflictions Persecutions and Tribulations in the Lord through his Spirit that doth uphold you And as you do walk in the Light Grace Spirit and Gospel you may turn others to it That you may have Vnity with them in it and that they may come out of the spiritual Prison of Death Darkness and Corruption and Captivity into the Liberty of the Sons of God in Christ Jesus Amen So with my Love to you all in the Holy Seed Christ Jesus that Reigns over all from Everlasting to Everlasting The Lord preserve you all tender Vines in him Amen London the 17th of the 1st Month 1682. G. F. To Friends in Burlington West-Jersey DEar Friends Epist 367. The Lord by his mighty Hand and Power having brought you to that Place and now you are setled there my desire is That your Lives and Conversations may preach Righteousness and Holiness for without Holiness none shall see God And going into Unholiness that 's the Cause that none sees God and the Cause why there is not Peace among a Nation or People is because they do not live and walk in Righteousness but walk and follow the unrighteous Spirit which is out of the Truth And again Christ says Blessed are the pure in Heart for they shall see God For it is the defiled and impure Hearts that do not see God And therefore keep in the pure Spirit of God that does mortifie all Impurity and Unholiness which doth blind People from the Sight of the pure God And now my Friends Friends to be Circumspect The Eyes of other Nations will be upon you and now you professing Truth beyond them all but if that you don't exceed them in Truth in Righteousness in Holiness Justice and Equity and in the Wisdom of God that 's Pure Peaceable c. by which you may answer the Good in your Government and all Governments about you likewise which is my desire that you may that they may not see any Nakedness among you if you do not you will bring both the Judgment of God upon you and the Judgment of Truth that you and we profess For you know how that Friends in England and other Places have admonish'd the Governors and Rulers to do that which is Just and Right and therefore now you are come into Place Rulers must be Just have a Care that you do that which is Just and Right lest you come under the same Reproof by others And therefore have an Eye to the Lord in all your Actions For David saith 2 Sam. 23.3 The God of Israel said the Rock of Israel spake to me He that ruleth over Men must be just ruling in the fear of God and he shall be as the light of the morning that doth so when the Sun riseth even as a morning without Clouds as the tender Grass springing out of the Earth by clear shining after Rain Here you may see it must not be unjust Men and Men that do not fear God that must be Rulers for they do not receive his Wisdom to rule withal and such will be as Clouds without Water as in Jude and then they are not like to refresh the tender Grass but hurt it And Solomon saith As the roaring Lion and the ranging Bear Majestrates a Terror to evil doers c. so is a wicked Ruler over the poor People And therefore with the Spirit of God keep down the wicked Spirit in you and then you will keep down the roaring Lion and the ranging Bear with the Spirit of Meekness and Patience and Wisdom and Vnderstanding Prov 28.15 And the Apostle says Rulers are not a terror to good Works but to the evil Therefore both Rulers and ruled must be out of the evil Works And the Rulers cannot be a Terror to evil Works if they live in them themselves Therefore all ought to live in the Power of God which brings them out of the Evil to do that which is Good and then they will be an Honour to God and a Praise one to another both Ruler and Ruled Now the Lord said unto Moses Judges and Officers shalt thou make in all thy Gates so they was not to be made in Corners which the Lord giveth thee in all the Tribes and they shall judge the People with just Judgment Mark just Judgment Thou shalt not wrest judgment Not to wrest Judgment c. thou shalt not respect Persons thou shalt take no Gift For the Gift blindeth the Eyes of the wise and perverteth the Words of the righteous Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of the Poor in any Case Keep the far from a false matter The innocent and righteous slay thou not for I will not justifie the wicked That which is altogether just shalt thou follow that thou maist live and inherit the Land which the Lord thy God hath given thee
is not a Word in all the Scripture to hold up the Practice of Sprinkling Infants nor the Word Sacrament Sprinkling Infants c. nor to hold up an Hour-glass to preach by for an Hour's time in a place but the vain Mind doth hold up many things which Christ doth not command Earth maketh Masters amongst Earthly Men but let him that ruleth The Earth maketh Masters rule in Love for the Earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof And he that laboureth let him labour as to the Lord in love So let Love be the Head in all things and then the Lord is exalted then there is no Eye-service but Singleness of Heart then all that is done is done as as to the Lord. So be faithful in all things and keep from the World 's vain Customs Do not wear Apparel Apparel to gratifie the proud Mind neither Eat nor Drink to make your selves wanton for it was created for the Health and not for the Lust to be as Servants to us and we Servants to God to use all those things to his Glory To whom be Praises Honour and Glory for ever-more who hath created all things to his Glory and so to be used and spent Do not make Profession to be seen outwardly for Christ was Condemned by the World and the formal Professors and all his Followers are as Wonders to the World Therefore marvel not if the World hate you but rejoice Look not back but keep forward knowing that the World is Enmity with God Ye that know the Light love one another and dwell in it and know one another in it G. F. FRIENDS Make not Flesh your Arm by Carnal Reasonings Epist 59. Consultations and Disputings in that part An Exhortation to Friends not to make Flesh their Arm. which is above the Innocent Life for that needs none to plead its Cause but God its Father who will give you sufficient Strength and Wisdom at the same Hour the other shall and will fall before the Enemies of the Lord. G. F. To Friends to keep in the Fear of the Lord. FRiends Epist 60. Every particular mind that which is pure of God in you to guide you up to God and to keep you in the Fear of the Lord that ye may receive Refreshment from God alone in your selves and grow up in the Inward Man nourished and strengthned by that which is Immortal And delight in that which shews you the Deceit of your Hearts and Judges that which is contrary to God and be Obedient to that which is pure The Lord God a daily Help so ye will see the Lord God present with you a daily Help his Hand always ordering of you and as a Shepherd always keeping the Dogs from his Lambs whom he feeds in Green Pastures and waters with his Heavenly Dew of Mercy who makes them all fruitful The Cry of Want and Poverty shall be no more heard in the Land of the Living but Joy Gladness and Plenty The wearied Soul that hath lain in the Pit and in the Mire and lived in the Clouds of Temptation God is our King and cried out for want of the Lord shall cry plentious Redemption and say God is our King who fills Heaven and Earth and the Voice of our King is heard in our Land So Fare-ye-well in the Lord And the Lord God Almighty keep you and preserve you in his mighty Power G. F. FRiends Epist 61. dwell all in the Immortal Seed of God which is Heir of the Promise of God and doth inherit the same so every one of you know the Promise of God your Portion and the Power of God your Portion and the Kingdom of God that is everlasting without End and the Power of an endless Life being Heirs of that come to inherit it knowing it your Portion that ye may possess it and increase in the same Kingdom and Power and endless Life Here ye lay up Treasure in Heaven Lay up Treasure in Heaven where the Thief Moth nor Rust comes not And know the Seed of God in which is the Election that never altereth nor changeth which Seed never changeth neither doth it submit to that which doth change but standeth stedfast and distinct from all the Changables Which Seed endeth all Types Figures and Shadows and variable things and Typical things that do change which Seed doth not change which is Christ which keeps above all the Inventions Rudiments Traditions vain Talkers and Bablers that be in the World and standeth when they will be all gone and have an End In which Seed is Power Wisdom and Life Eternal that remains for ever and ever which hath the Dominion in the Life and Power The Vnchangable Wisdom of God and unchangable Wisdom of God which is pure and gentle from above and preserving above all the Destroying which keeps up the heads of the living to Life in that live Which Seed of God breaks the Head of them that go out of the Truth to wit the Serpent's And here Life goes over all in Renown and Dominion and the Top-stone comes to be over all laid So live in Life and the Love and the Power of God which was before Man and Woman fell in that Power ye are kept over all outward things that have been set up and are set up in the Fall which causeth Pride and Contention and Strife which if lived in keeps out of the Power in which is the Saints Everlasting Fellowship that stands and remains and is Everlasting for ever and ever In which Power the living Seed lives and the living Babes are preserved in which Power they have their Food from the God of Life which is living which nourishes the Immortal Babes up to the Immortal God with the Immortal Food through which they come to be the living Stones that build up the spiritual Houshold The Church is in God who are the Church in God who are brought out of the State where Adam and Eve with his Sons and Daughters is drove from God up to God again by Christ the Power of God who is the Way to God where the Church is in God that is the Pillar and Ground of Truth So all in that live which brings you up to God out of the State of Adam and Eve and his Sons and Daughters in the Fall In that Power as I said before ye will have an everlasting Fellowship with God and one with another which Power of God was before the Fall was In that Power ye will know one another and see one another in which ye shall ever be together in which ye shall see and know your Election before the World began So Fare-well G. F. ALL Friends be Low and in the Life of God dwell Epist 62. to keep you Low Ye are the Salt of the Earth to make it savoury unto God Ye are the Light of the World The Light Justifies walking therein Therefore walk in the Light of Christ
and Low that nothing may reign Keep Low but Life among you and unto the Power of God be Obedient And Friends the going from the Life and Power into the Changable things there is the Strife which the Life is over by which Power of God all things were made wherein Wisdom is received to order all things to his Glory So the Seed Christ in you all know which doth go over the Earth and inherits the Promise of God that ye may be all Heirs of the Promise of God And Cease from your own Words The Promise of God but in the Power live for it breaks down Rocks Mountains old and Sandy Foundations and the Bond of Iniquity and makes up the Breach between God and Man and breaks down that which made the Breach So the Seed know one in another which Seed is Christ who according to the Flesh was of Abraham and according to the Spirit the Son of God And this is the Word of the Lord God to all Friends and a Charge to you from the Lord God To live in Peace one with another and that the Peace Life and Wisdom of God may rule you all G. F. To all Friends to abide in their Callings TO all Dear Friends who are called who are enlightned Epist 79. whose Midns are turned from the World's Worships and Teachers having your Eye to the Light and Guide within which is leading you out of this dark World and your old vain Conversations towards God and the World which is without End Mercy and Peace from God the Father be multiplied among you Every one of you abide in your Calling waiting upon God where he hath called you And take heed of Reasoning with Flesh and Blood for there Disobedience Pride and Presumption will arise and there ye will grow up to be Trees Fruitless Trees that bear no Fruit and as a Fig-Tree which beareth Leaves and no Fruit and as Wells without Water Oh! Therefore mind the Pure which would lead you out of this Corruptible Heathenish dark World and its vain Ways and from Destruction and Death to Life And so the Lord God of Power bless you guide you and preserve you on in your Way towards the holy City being called out of the unholy City for he that hath called you is Holy Now many are called but few are chosen Oh! Therefore abide in that which hath called you which is Holy and Pure up to him who is Holy and Pure and let the Time past of your eil Ways be sufficient wherein ye have lived in Wickedness and in the Ways of this untoward Generation lest your Minds do turn back into Egypt and the World and so cause the Worthy Name of the Lord to be blasphemed which hath called you by turning aside and growing into Hardness of Heart and turning from a pure Conscience and making Shipwrack of it and of Faith For ye may see how far many may go and did go and were led out of many things yet did turn again into the World So mind your present Guide and your present Condition and your Call what ye are called from and what ye are called to for whom the Lord hath called and chosen The Lord's Free-Men are the Lord's Free-Men And so abide every one in your Calling with God where God hath called you and there walk in Newness of Life and not in the Oldness of the Letter for he that turneth from him that calleth walks not in the Life of God Therefore all Friends walk in the Truth and in the Love of it up to God and every one in particular mind your Guide that ye may grow up in Wisdom Improve your Talents and improve your own Talents and the Gift which God hath given you And take heed of Words without Life for they tend to draw you out of the Power to live above the Truth and out of your Conditions which Nature will not have Peace except it have Words But every particular submit to that which is of God in you to guide you to God And be ye all Servants to the Truth and diligent in your Callings and serve one another in Love in which ye can wash one another's Feet Serve one another in Love So serve one another in Love and do not lavish out your selves without the Fear of God such are Clouds without Water which have the Words but not the Power flowen up into the Air which have a Light and yet are as Wandring Stars which lead up into the Presumption and thou that art there thy Garments are defiled for thou goest from the Spirit which should sanctifie thee for ye are sanctified through Obedience to the Spirit Therefore every particular Walk in the Spirit and obey it then ye will have all Vnity one with another in the Spirit and ye will see Knowledge Tongues and Prophecies shall cease Prophecies scall ceafe but he that cometh to the End to him who openeth all Truth is blessed Therefore all Friends Obey that which is pure within you and know one another in that which brings you to wait upon the Lord that ye may all witness a living Soul and your selves to be come out of Death For these things ye must all find within there is your Peace and there Refreshing comes into your Souls from the Lord And standing still in the Light within and therein waiting ye will see your Saviour Christ Jesus raising you up out of Death by which Work he is glorified For the Works of the Lord praise him which are Wonderous to the World Now every one in particular mind the Pure in you The Chast Virgins for the Chast Virgins follow Jesus Christ the Lamb of God who takes away the Sins of the World and who are not Chast will not follow him For that in every particular of you which is not Chast will not submit to the Pure which would guide you to God but rather submit to their own Thoughts and follow them and run after them and their own Wills and seek to accomplish them and so run out into that Generation whose Thoughts were not as God's Thoughts nor Ways as God's Warys Therefore watch all and abide all in your Callings the Light is that which will let you see your Transgression and your Running aside and the By-paths and Crooked ways and the Generation of Serpents and Vipers And this Light is Christ which sheweth these things Now before these things be known and judged of aright Judgment must be brought sorth into Victory and set up in the Earth where this State is witnessed Now the Woman which is the Church must be subject to her Husband in all things Jesus Christ is the Husband The Woman subject to her Husband in every thing she must be subject to him Who are in the Flesh know nothing of this in the first Nature for it the Mystery which the Apostle speaks of and so it is a Mystery still but where it is
Spirit the Living God who is a Spirit the God of all Truth he hath his Glory and Honour from the Spirit of the Lord in every Heart And so keep in the Spirit and Truth and Power of the Everlasting God who is from Everlasting to Everlasting that you may know him Lord of the Earth and of the Heaven and of the Heaven of Heavens Ruling and Reigning whose Eye is over all his Works that you may glorifie him in his Power and Spirit and serve him in the New Life which will keep you over all Mens Fables and Devices Whimsies and Imaginations out of all Janglings and vain Disputes of Men of corrupt Minds And so it is good for you all to live in him which is the same to day as he was yesterday Christ Jesus the Power of God and the Seed of Life and Word which was in the Beginning So no new thing but that which was and is to all Eternity Let your Fellowship be in that and your Vnity and Communion be in that for this is seen by the Eternal Eye the Eternal Vnity and the Eternal God So hear his Voice every one of you that speaks from Heaven whose Voice shakes the Earth and not the Earth only but the Heavens also The Heavn imports Joys So all the false Joys the lifted-up Joys or exalted Joys and Joys in vain glory and Joys in the world or any outward thing or creature and Men or Women His Voice that speaks from Heaven shakes the Earth and the Heavens and this must be shaken and removed both the Heavens and the Earth before that doth appear that can never be shaken the Noble Royal Seed Elect and Precious before the World began being Heirs of Him come to Inherit Him In Him you shall know that which cannot be shaken and there is the true Joy in that which is from Everlasting to Everlasting who is the Beginning and Ending Here is not any either lifted up or fallen down to dispair So I say hear his Voice harden not your Hearts for not hearing the Voice you harden your Hearts and then you provoke God to Wrath and sore Displeasure Let Him have your Ear that speaks from Heaven that you may come to observe his Counsel Teaching Instruction and Direction for all the Prophets and holy Men of God and the Apostles were attentive and obedient to this Heavenly Voice who Witnessed to the Truth who had a Witness in Heaven also And such declared forth the Glorious Truth which they had from the Instructions of the Almighty as you may read throughout the Scriptures what glorious Expressions and weighty Truths they declared whose Ears were attentive to Him that spoke from Heaven and how also they declared against them that stopped their Ears and closed their Eyes and hard ned their Hearts Their Ears not being attentive to the Heavenly Voice but to the Earthly and so if the Earthly and the Sin and Evil have the Ear it will fill it with that which is bad and harden the Heart and choak the Good therefore the Lord must have the Ear who is the Ruler of Heaven and Earth And as your Ears are attentive to the Lord's Voice that speaks from Heaven Iniquity's Mouth is stopped in you the Throne of Iniquity is thrown down in you that is the Wicked Spirit and Power where Iniquity fits and the Chambers of Imagery are thrown down in you where all Thoughts and Imaginations are As the Ear is attentive to the Voice of Him that speaketh from Heaven you will come to the Throne of the Lamb who hath the Power who hath the Victory and the Dominion that all may live there in the Everlasting Power of God that goes over all Deceit which was before Deceit and Darkness was and always feel a growing in the Power of the Lord God that is Universal and Everlasting that you may all be Heirs of the Power of an Endless Life and come to Inherit it and possess it and sit down in the Possession of the same that every one's Lot may fall in the Land of the Living where the Lord hath his Glory and his Honour for ever and ever O the Glory Glory of the Lord that spreads it over all And here you have his Savour and can taste your Meat in the Power of the Lord God feeding upon every Word that proceeds out of the Mouth of God having every one's Ear attentive to his Voice In this you grow up in the Life that is Eternal G. F. OH Dear Friends Epist 246. Mind every one your Habitation in the Power of the Lord God that first Convinced you and keep your Possession in it in the sense of God's Love and Mercy to your Souls for your Vnity and Fellowship lies in the spotless Power Truth and Life of the Everlasting God of Life and Power and herein to you the Springs of Life will be opened through which you may be daily Refreshed up to the God of Life Oh be tender of the spotless Truth and Life through which you may come to answer it in all Friends that they may have Vnity with you in the same Life and Power through which you may be a good Savour to God and a Blessing to him in your Generations serving the Lord God in the Newness of Life as a Chast Spouse and Bride to him in Body Soul and Spirit having an Esteem of your Bodies which are for the Lord and to be his Temple not for Adultery or Fornication nor Idolatry Oh therefore mind and keep in the holy Life and feel the Moving and Counselling Power and Spirit of the Almighty in you directing you into the Ways of Truth and Righteousness Peace and Holiness without which none shall see God Live in the Peaceable Life and love it eye that which makes for Peace for God is the Author of Peace and not of Confusion So live all in the precious Truth of God feeling it in its Operation through which Vnity and the Peaceable Life may be preserved amongst you in Righteousness and Peace for Wars and Strifes and Troubles and Fightings comes by Unrighteous Actions which is below Truth and Righteousness for Truth leads into the modest decent and comely Life which is Honourable and Esteemable to God and in the Hearts of all his People So live in the Truth and the Power of it that you may all come to be Heirs of the Power of an Endless Life and to Inherit and Possess the Endless Life the Power of a World that hath no end And so keep your Eyes to your Possessions and to the Life that hath no end and herein you will encrease in the Truth in the Righteousness and Holiness and the Power and Virtue of the Holy Life and so sit down in your Possessions that you may all serve the Lord in a pure Mind Soul and Spirit and none to defile your Bodies but have esteem of them as Vessels of Honour and Vessels fitted to receive the Treasures of the Lord. 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this Immortal Word and so are of an Incorruptible Generation which is above the Corruptible and here is the hidden Man of the Heart that is Incorruptible known that hath an Everlasting Fellowship and hath an Incorruptible Crown and is an Heir of an Incorruptible Kingdom And now the God of this World and his Followers that abode not in the Truth in whom there is no Truth cannot endure to hear talk of the Order of Truth which is in the Light and Life and in the Gospel and in the Wisdom of the God of Truth For the World is full of Disorder and Confusion but the Living Eternal Immortal God of Truth is a God of Order and not of Confusion who hath sent his Son to destroy the Devil and his Works Blessings and Praises with all Glory and Thanks be unto him who hath all Power Might Majesty and Dominion now henceforth and for ever Amen G. F. DEar Friends Epist 357. All live the Life of the true Christians and not the Life of old Adam that went from God's Command and Voice nor like the Jews To live the Life of Christianity and such as have got the Name of Christians that say There is no hearing of God and Christ's Voice now which are out of the Life Power and Spirit Grace and Truth and Image of God that the true Christians were in and Adam and Eve before they fell so that none can live the Life of the true Christians and the holy Prophets and Apostles except they are in the same Power and Spirit Grace and Truth and Faith and Image that they were in which is a Life above the World and its God in whom there is no Truth no Life Light nor Power of the Living God abiding in them And therefore before any can live the Life of the Saints they must bow to the Name of Jesus their Saviour in his Light Grace and Truth and Power and Spirit which cometh from him who submitted himself to the shamesul Death of the Cross and destroyed Death and his Power who had no Sin nor Guile in his Mouth and is risen again for our Justification and so hath tasted Death for every Man and given himself a Ransom for all that all should now bow at his Name Jesus a Saviour and so to his Power and Authority bow who hath all Power in Heaven and Earth given to him So all Men have bowed under Death and Sin by Transgression Christ submitted to the Cross and Death for us And Christ hath submitted to the Cross and Death for them and hath born their Stripes for Sin and Iniquity who had no Sin neither knew any to bring us out of Death and Sin Therefore every one must bow at the Name of Jesus as before whatsoever they do in Word or Deed it must be done in the Name of Jesus and before that they can confess to Jesus Christ to the Glory of God the Father they must all bow at the Name of Jesus and bow to his Grace and Truth Light Spirit and Power that cometh by Jesus which they know Him the Fountain the Rock and Foundation to build upon who brings out of Death and Darkness into Light and Life and a Kingdom and a World that is Everlasting and there to have Food and Cloathing that is Everlasting G. F. DEar Friends With my Love to you in the holy Peaceable Truth that never changes nor admits of no Evil Epist 358. but makes all free that receive it and tht walk in it To live in Truth which admits of no Evil. and is over all the Clouds without Rain and Wells without Water and Trees without Fruit And from the Truth floweth Justice Equity Righteousness and Godliness Mercy and Tenderness that brings a Man's Heart Mind Soul and Spirit to the Infinite and Incomprehensible God and from it a Love flows to all the Univerfal Creation and would have all to come to the Knowledge of the Truth and it bends every one to their utmost Ability to serve God and his Truth and to spread it abroad and it brings their Minds out of the Earth which makes them brittle and changeable and uncertain for it doth not change neither doth it touch with that which does change As to Vnity It makes all like it self that do obey it Vniversal to live out of narrowness and self and deny it So it brings all into Oneness and answereth the good Principle of God in all People and brings into Humility and the Fear of the Lord which is the beginning of his Wisdom and it brings all to have a care of God's Glory and his Honour and watches over all the Professors of it for their good to keep within its bounds and walk within its order which he that is out of Truth leads into all disorder in whom there is no Truth and the Truth makes all its Children free from him and in it to reign over him Thanks Glory and Honour to the Lord God of Truth over all for ever Amen The Lord who is the God of all Peace and Order The Lord is the Protect or of his People alone Protects and Preserves his People with his Eternal Power for the Devil's Power is not Eternal it had a beginning and must have an ending for the Eternal Power limits that Devourer and Destroyer And therefore Friends Patience must be exercised in the Truth and keep to the Word of Patience which Word was before the World was and abides and endures for ever and it will keep Friends over and out of all the Snares of the World and its Temptations So with my Love in the Seed of Life that reigns over all and in it the Lord God Almighty preserve and keep you all to his Glory Amen G. F. An Epistle to be read amongst Friends FRiends You that are Believers in the Light Epist 359. which is the Life in Christ To Gather in the Name of Jesus and are grasted into him who is ascended far above all Principalities Power Thrones and Dominions by whom all things were made and created all the Children in the New Covenant do Gather together in the Name of Christ Jesus whose Name is above every Name under the whole Heaven and in whose Name they have Salvation and not by any other Name under the whole Heaven And at this Name must every Knee bow and every Tongue confess Christ Jesus to the Glory of God the Father and they that have bowed their knee to the Name of Jesus and do confess him to the Glory of God the Father cannot Gather in any other Name under Heaven below the Name of Jesus but Gather in the Name of Jesus which is above every Name under Heaven in whom they have Salvation and so cannot not Gather in any Name below Christ for they do know that they have not any Salvation in whatsoever Name that they do Gather together in below the Name of Jesus And being gathered in the Name of Jesus he