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A85324
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An epistle in the love of God to Friends, with a little chiefly to their tender children. : To which is added a few lines to such that may be farther grown in the truth.
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Fisher, Abigail.
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Wing F984A; ESTC R177065
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day have known whose desires are that you may also come to behold the Glory of the Son of Righteousness to shine in and through you that thereby others may be invited to come and taste and see how good the Lord is and therefore Dear Children all hasten from off the Borders of Rebellion and be faithful to God that you may be Partakers of his everlasting Blessing and learn Submission with humble and due respects to God and your tender Parents in which mind you will all be ready to return Thanksgiving to the Lord and them for his Love their Care and wholsome Advice to you for your true and everlasting well-being Then you the Golden Age may see As in the Truth you grow And in the Love and Fear of God His Secrets you may know Therefore dear Children seek the Lord And love his Holy Truth Be Meek be Sober and be Grave This will become the Youth And then the Lord will Riches give Durable you shall see Heavenly Treasure from above To you will opened be As you do prize the chiefest good And from all bad refrain And shun all evil to do good God's Favour you 'll obtain In order unto which seek God With broken Hearts this day And love his Light and Truth and walk Vndefiled in the way That so his wrath may not break forth But he may stay his Hand And in the room of Judgments may Send Blessings on our Land So in true Love unto you all I bid you all farewel And recommend you to God's Fear Where you and I should dwell That we may be preserved From all presumptuous things And in true Love to God submit On Earth to Heavenly things That all may find the peace Which in true Love doth flow For God is Love and no other Can the Devil overthrow And therefore Children all Grow in Love and good Will That your Age may Excell God's Royal Law fulfil These following Lines are to you my tender Friends who may be counted of the Yonger Generation that are already sensible of the Love of God manifest thro' the appearance of the Son of his Love the Hope of that Glory which is revealed in you Dear Friends the Bowels of true Love yearns towards you with many desires to the Lord that you may all be preserved near to him by a daily waiting upon him that so your strength may be more and more renewed in him for the Enemy of all Righteousness will endeavour by one means or other to draw your Minds from the true and safe Center where you may be preserved Close and Inward with the Lord for he hath many ways to deceive Sometimes he may be endeavouring to hurry your Minds and lead you too fast and other times he may be seeking to hinder you from walking in the strait and narrow way which leads to Life Eternal therefore dear Friends as my experience in that and other things let me tell you there is no safety in any state that I have yet seen but as the Watch is kept diligently waiting upon the Lord by which you may come more and more to know his Mind and Will and then all be careful how you perform it and in the Love of God all be careful that you go not from that measure of his Spirit given you to profit withal But all wait more and more to be taught by it that more advantage by the Grace of God you may all receive to your Immortal Souls as you continue in the self-denying way in taking up the Cross to all those things that may present or are of a contrary nature to the plain and moderate way that Truth leads in for the Lord is the same as ever he was and all that come to him must come by the same Door of entrance into the Sheep fold of Eternal Rest for there is no other way but by Christ Jesus whose Appearance is still the same as ever although thro' the Faithful Sufferings of many Faithful Friends there was gained Outward Liberty which blessed be the Lord is yet continued amongst us by which the way is made more easie Yet my Friends there is the same grand Enemy of Truths Prosperity to encounter withal but blessed be the Lord Friends you do know your Weapons are not Carnal but Spiritual and Mighty through God and therefore keep on your Spiritual Armor that you may be able to quench all the Fiery Darts of the Wicked One which may be many as you walk in your Spiritual Travel the same way that the Lord hath led and brought many out of Spiritual Aegypts Darkness and through the Waters who hath also fed them in the Wilderness by whose Care and Kindness blessed be his Name many have been and are as the good Spy ready to give Testimony of the good Land that flows with Milk and Heavenly Divine Sweetness which is the Spiritual Honey by which the Spiritual Man is nourished and good Will daily increased which through the Love of God will more and more be manifested therefore Friends be all incouraged to go on in the Light of the Lord where you may see the Enemy in all his approaching that you may be safely conducted in that way that the Lord would have all his People to walk in that by walking in Christ the way you that are of the Younger Generation may partake of God's everlasting Blessing which he promised to Abraham his Servant when he said In blessing I will bless thee and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed For the fulfilling of which Dear Friends let us all wait upon the Lord that thereby we may receive Grace for Grace from him that in the receiving of his Grace and Mercy our Hearts may be more and more bowed and Spirits broken that a Sacrifice of Praise and Thanksgiving may be offered unto him of his own preparing who is worthy of all Praise Glory and Honour to whom be it given at this time henceforth and for ever saith my Soul your Friend Sister and Fellow Traveller in Spirit for Sion's Prosperity A. F. THE END