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A40137 A collection of many select and Christian epistles, letters and testimonies written on sundry occasions, by that ancient, eminent, faithful friend and minister of Christ Jesus, George Fox ; the second volume. Fox, George, 1624-1691.; Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723. 1698 (1698) Wing F1764; ESTC R15883 725,753 580

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Hypocrites and Sinners may fear but they that fear the Lord and wait upon him shall be as Mount Sion that cannot be removed for the Lord's Power is over all by which he keeps his People to the day of Salvation And therefore all you that have this Keeper Let the Lord be your Keeper the Power of the Lord through Faith unto the Day of Life and Salvation need none of the slumbering Keepers or Watchers for the Lord was the Keeper of Israel who neither slumbered nor slept till Israel forsook the Lord and then they set up slumbering and sleepy Watchers and Keepers like the Apostate Christians who have forsaken the Power of God to keep them and then they are soon forsaken And therefore Friends you that do know the Power of God in which the Kingdom of God stands you know your Keeper through the Faith which Jesus Christ is the Author of which stands in his Power and not in Words and so your Faith standing in his Power it will keep you out of the Words of Mens Wisdom and above them And the golden Lamp in your Tabernacle all are to have to burn with the heavenly Oil Heavenly Oil. which you have from Christ your High Priest being returned to him the great Shepherd and Bishop of your Souls who will bring you his Sheep into his safe Fold who gives unto his Sheep eternal Life and his Sheep shall not perish neither shall any pluck them out of his Hand Though Men may pluck Hypocrites and Apostates one from another Feel the Hand that preserved you but Christ saith No Man is able to pluck his Sheep out of his Fathers hand And therefore all feel the Hand that hath brought you out of Spiritual Egypt where Christ hath been crucified to Christ in his new Covenant of Light and Life as the Jews were brought out of Egypt in the Old Covenant which Christ hath abolished and makes all things new so that all may be grounded on him who was the Foundation of all the holy Prophets and Apostles and of all the holy Men of God to this day And therefore consider who it is that abides in the Tabernacle of God and dwells in his Holy Hill it is the Faithful and the Vpright which Holy Hill is a safe place for all the Upright As the Lord said In the last days the Mountain of the Lord's House should be established on the top of the Mountains and should be exalted above the Hills and all Nations should flow unto this established Honse And here the Lord does teach his People that comes up to the Mountain of the House of the God of Jacob So all Mountains Houses Hills and Teaching will be shaken but the Mountain of the Lord's House shall be established in the last Days as the Prophet said which is the Days of Christ Is not this the Stone that became a great Mountain and fills the whole Earth which smote and broke to pieces the Iron Clay Brass Silver and Gold Image or Monarchs which were as Mountains And this Stone which becomes a great Mountain The Stone that became a great Mountain sets up a Kingdom which shall never have an end Is not this the Kingdom of Christ which Christ saith Except a Man be born again he can neither see the Kingdom of God nor enter into it And therefore Friends all you that do know his Kingdom that stands in Power in Peace and Joy in the Holy Ghost over the Power of the Evil and all the unclean Ghosts which keeps them in their first Birth and leads them into all Evil as the Holy Ghost leads them into all Truth And so dear Friends and Brethren know this Rock this Stone this Foundation the House of God that is established upon the Lord's Mountain above all other Houses Hills Mountains and Teachings in the World where God doth teach his People and establish them upon Christ Jesus the living Rock and Foundation and living Way And so though there may be troubles without and troubles within yet if you wait upon the Lord he will renew your strength And the Children of God they are set for Signs and Wonders for as it is said Lo the Children that thou hast given me they are for Signs and Wonders And therefore Friends keep your Habitation in Christ Jesus Keep to Christ out of vain jangling in whom you have Peace for all the rude Talkers and vain Disputers and Janglers which cankers and rusts goes out of the peaceable Truth and that which is torn and dies of it self must not be fed upon but the Life must be fed upon which gives you Life Eternal And the Lord did not build his Zion and outward Jerusalem with Blood in the Old Covenant for they that did build their Zion and Jerusalem with Blood made their Zion a Field and their Jerusalem an Heap so if this Practice was forbidden in the Old Covenant much more in the New Zion not buil with Blood who think to build Zion and Jerusalem with Blood and Iniquity for such has not been Zion's Children nor Jerusalem's that is from above who shed Mens Blood concerning Religion Church and Worship for Christ rebuked such that would have had Mens lives destroyed and told them They knew not what Spirit they were of so they that do not know what Spirit they are of they are not like to build up God's Zion and Jerusalem For Christ said He came to save Mens Lives and not to destroy them for the World 's God was the destroyer of Mens lives but Christ came to destroy Him and his Works and to save Mens Lives and Souls also And so dear Friends let the Love of God which is shed abroad in your Hearts cast out all Fear And keep in the Name of Jesus in which you are gathered which is above every Name under the whole Heaven in whom you have Life and Salvation and his Presence among you whose Name is a Strong Tower and Christ is a Rock to hide your selves in and his Spirit to cover you which is a Covering sufficient enough for you and Wo will be to that Spirit which is covered but not with his Spirit they may fly to the Rocks and Mountains to cover and hide them No help in Egypt which will not be sufficient for the Rocks will rend and the Mountains will be removed such may run down into Spiritual Egypt for strength where Christ was crucified like the Jews in the Old Covenant that ran into outward Egypt from his Spirit but all was in vain And therefore trust in the Lord who has preserved you by his Glorious Light and Power to this day that you may be settled upon the Seed Christ Jesus which is over all that within and without that is contrary to it and bruiseth the Head of the Serpent that hath been between you and God So that in Christ the Seed you have Peace with the Lord God Life and Dominion and Election and
all have Life in him live And so Farewell that you may have the Blessings of the Lord come upon you And Dear Friends keep your Hands Tongues Feet Bodies and Hearts clean and open out of all Polutions and Vncleanness for blessed are all you whose Feet are guided in the Way of Peace which is in the Way of Righteousness through which the Immortal Life is lived in And light Words and Jesting all avoid and Fables and foolish Talk but live in the Power of the Lord that 's over all through which you follow Godliness and Holiness without which none shall see the Lord God And blessed be God the Father who hath set Christ over all who is the First and the Last the Beginning and the End God's faithful and true Witness the Amen in him have you the Book opened and in him you see all things unsealed in him manifest in you who is your Life who was with the Father before the World began the Amen For in this Night of Apostacy from the Spirit and Power that the Apostles were in hath all things been Sealed up and no Man could open but now is the Lamb come again that opens the Sealed Book And all Friends keep out of all the vain Fashions of the World and over that unchast Spirit that invents new Fashions daily both in Apparel and Diet. Therefore keep Chast in the Power of God over them all that your Lives and Conversations may Judge them in such things who devour those things upon their Lusts which God hath given to the service of Man G. F. The Second EPISTLE FRiends this is the Day of the Trial of your Faith Epist 233. and therefore be faithful for the Faith is it by which you have Victory and Access to God by Faith all the Fiery Darts of Satan are quenched and by Faith the Mountains are subdued and removed and in this Faith all your Sacrifices are accepted of God and that gives you Victory and Access to God and in this Faith you please God and that gives you Victory over that which displeased him and in this Faith you have all Vnity which is the Faith of God's Elect the One Faith which keeps you in the Oneness and all the Sacrificers and Worshippers and Religions that is not in this Faith they are not One their Sacrifices nor Offerings God hath no respect to but it is like Cain's that went from the Presence of God and Persecuted about his Religion who built a City in the Land of Nod which signifies Wandering to and fro and unsettled and tossings to and fro up and down And this is the City that all that Persecute about Religion lives in the Land of Nod tossings wanderings to and fro let them be of what Profession or Religion soever Heathen Jew or Christian if they be Persecutors about Religion with carnal Weapons they are in Cain's Land of Nod wandering out of the Faith of Abel of the Elect in which Faith God accepts the Sacrifice and these be in the Land of the Living but the Cain's Land of Nod where the envious Ones are Persecuting others about Religion in that Land God has no respect to none of their Sacrifices nor Religions The outward Jew had outward Weapons to hold up their outward Services for which they had a Command from God but the Heathens had no Command from God to hold up their Inventions and Christ Jesus came to end the Jews Law and Commandents that held up their outward Services together with their outward Weapons and all outward things And he who is the Substance reigns for all the Types and Figures and Shadows was given to Man after Man fell which Christ that comes to redeem Man out of the Fall to the State that he was in before he fell ends them all and in him there is no Shadow So he sets up a Spiritual Mininstry and Spiritual Worship and a Spiritual Fellowship and a Church that 's without spot or wrinkle and a Religion that 's pure from above and this Religion is ruled with Spiritual Weapons And now Friends here you may discern what is set up by Christ and his Spirit and what is set up by Man For Christ who ended the Jews Law and Commandments who preached and taught his Disciples who was to go into all Nations to Preach the Gospel to gather People unto him and to Establish Churches he gave forth no Command nor Order that them that would not hear them nor receive them his Law his Commandment his Doctrine that they should be Persecuted Imprisoned or Banished though he suffered and was Blasphemed and Persecuted and his Apostles for publishing forth the Truth and he rebuked them that would have had Mens Lives destroyed and said that He came to save Mens Lives And the Apostles and the the true Church in the Primitive Times before the Apostacy that were in the Spirit of Christ Jesus walked in the Doctrine of Christ and his Commands and did not Persecute any about Religion nor Imprison among themselves nor others about Religion tho' they had Ordinances and Commands amongst them for the utmost and if they did reject the Churches Counsel they was to be left as Heathen which was the utmost Penalty And so here you may see the Spirit of Christ did not Persecute any for not observing that which it gave forth and set up which it received from God Now here 's a distinction betwixt the Spirit of Christ and the Spirit of fallen Men for that which Man 's fallen Spirit sets up which he hath invented and if others will not fall down to it and worship it they Persecute them This is the Practice of the Heathen and the Jews that transgressed the Law of God and followed their Inventions who persecuted the Prophets and killed the just One. And this is the Practice of the Spirit of all the Apostatized Christians from the Primitive Spirit which was among the Christians which was the Spirit of Christ So that Spirit that does set up Ordinances Commandments Ways Religions Worships and Persecute others because they will not observe them this is the Spirit of the World that lusts to Envy and not the Spirit of Christ And also those are the Works of Men which they Persecute about and not the Works of Christ which neither he nor his Apostles persecuted about And so here 's a clear distinction to you that you may know what leads to the Spirit of Christ and what lusts to the Spirit of Envy for the Spirit of Christ does not Persecute any that does not receive that which he sets up but the Spirit of the World doth persecute them that will not receive that which it sets up And in this you may try both Fruits and Spirits as the Rod of Moses devoured up all the Magicians Serpents of the Lying Signs and Wonders so shall the Rod of Christ who has all the Power in Heaven and Earth given unto him who will rule all Nations with his Rod
triumphed in the Lord over that which was against the Lord for by Faith Abraham forsook his Country and his Father's House and his National Worship And by Faith was Abel's Offering accepted of God unto whom God had respect Therefore did wicked Cain persecute and kill him about his Religion And this was not long after Man was fallen from the Righteousness and the Power and the Image of God which Man was made in And by the Faith and the Power and Wisdom of God did Moses go down and speak to Pharaoh the King of Egypt and through the Power and Hand and Arm of God he led them out of Egypt which signifies Misery Thraldom and Bondage though afterwards when they were come out and had tasted the Power of God many fell And Moses saw Christ the great Prophet that was to come which was to build his House as Moses by the Wisdom of God had done his in the time of the Law with Types Figures and Shadows and so look upon Moses how he conquered all the Magicians and comprehended all the Sorcerers and Southsayers and Pharaoh's Religion and their Worship and could not bow nor bend unto it Look upon Joseph who through the Enmity in his Brethren was sold into Egypt who underwent Reproach and Imprisonment unto whom God gave Power over all at last and confounded all the wise Men and the National Worshippers in Egypt and came in Favour over them all by the Power of God And remember Abraham who was in the Faith and the Fear of God and how Abimalek's House for his sake God plagued Therefore keep in the Faith of Abraham then who wrongs you the Hand of the Lord will turn against them And whilst they stood in the Power of God what Victories they had over their Enemies As instance Sampson David and Saul But when any went from the Command of God how under the Heathen they fell So now ye who are come to God's Power which goes over the Power of Darkness and before it was in that stand tuiumph nad trample who are come to the End of Carnal Weapons and striving with outward Arms And ye may lood upon them how Valiant they were over the Philistines both Sampson and David and his mighty Men when they were in the Power of God and how David's three mighty Men broke through a whole Host to fetch Water to refresh David Therefore now ye in the Power of the Lord the mighty God go over all the Philistines of the Earth and their Carnal Weapons as there they in the time of the Law did with Carnal Weapons And how often Jacob's Well was stopped up the beloved of God the Second Birth by the Philistines but Jacob did thresh the Mountains as he did arise and drove them away by which he might drink again So read this in the Substance who are come to the Second Birth which goes over Esau and the Philistines both which was before they were And also remember how the Prophets were Imprisoned and put into Dungeons and Stocks c. As in particular Jeremiah and how they were mocked and scoffed at and reproached for declaring against the Sins and Wickedness of the Times both by Rulers Teachers and People and yet by the Power of God they were carried through and over all And the Cry was then Cursed is he that puts his Trust in Man or feared Man or the Arm of Flesh c. So remember Daniel and the Three Children though Prisoners yet could not bow to the National Worship and so were cast into the Fiery Furnace and the Den of Lions unto whom the Lord God gave Dominion over their Enemies and confounded the National Worshippers with all the Magicians and made the King to change his Decree and Law And this was in the Babylonish Monarchy and when the Medes and Persians got up the Power was changed then they cast Daniel into the Den of Lions because he prayed to his God contrary to the King's Decree to whom God appeared again and confounded them all and made the King or Emperor to change his Decree Therefore keep Faith in the Power of God for that is it by which the Elders of old obtained a good Report And consider Mordecay who stood faithful and could not bow to proud Flesh though it was in danger of destroying all the Jews over whom through Obedience to God he gave him Victory by which he came to answer the Good in all People Now consider they that came to profefs Christ who was the Substance before the Types Figures and Shadows which were held up by the Jews in the Law and first Covenant and Priesthood and Ordinances which Christ the Substance came to end how that I say the Christians of Old by that kind of People the Jews as you do now suffer the most and have done by them that are the greatest Professors of Christ's Words but out of the Life and Power of Christ which the Apostles and Saints were in in the Primitive Times So it is no new thing and as Solomon saith Here is no new thing under the Sun for it is not a new thing for the Birth that is born after the Flesh to persecute the Birth that is born after the Spirit And look upon the Apostles and consider how they suffered and by whom that bore Testimony to the Substance their Sufferings were by such as were in the Husks Shadows Inventions and Rudiments of the World and such as were fallen from God's Righteousness Image and Holiness and not in the renewed State And consider how that the Hebrews suffered the spoiling of their Goods by the Hebrews who were called Jews as you may read in the Epistle to the Hebrews for ye read in few of the Epistles that the Gentiles suffered the spoiling of their Goods or the Christians by the Gentiles but mostly by the Jews the great Professors as you do and have done in these Days And consider how the Witness hath been slain and the true Church the Woman fled into the Wilderness who was persecuted and how she hath been fed there of God and how since that time the Beast and Dragon's Worship hath been up and the false Prophet and the Whore the false Church which hath riden on the Beast in the Dragon's Power whom the People have Worshipped who hath caused all Nations to drink of the Whore's Cup of Fornication Now you that have come to the end and beyond all the Worships of the Beast and after the Worship of the Dragon who comes now to fathom the Whore the fale Church and the false Prophets and comes to see the Power and to be in it that takes them and and casts them alive into the Lake of Fire which hath been Worshipped and burns the Whore's Flesh with Fire which Power gives them Dominion over them all and to see to the very Apostles Days what they were in and what hath got up since then for it is Sixteen Hundred Years since the false Prophets and
Seed of God and feedeth upon the Milk of this everlasting Word which liveth and abideth and endureth for ever and was in the beginning by which Word you have Wisdom and Salvation by which Wisdom all God's Children are justified The Lord God in his Immortal Power preserve you out of all Evil and out of the Earth and over your Enemies within and without in his everlasting Seed Christ that is over all to his Glory for ever Amen G. F. To Friends at Dantzick DEar Friends Epist 336. in the Love of God and the Lord Jesus Christ look above all your outward Sufferings and him that is out of Truth that makes you to suffer and let nothing separate you from the Love of God which you have in Christ Jesus by whom all things were made Not to be moved from the true Foundation Christ Jesus I say let not the Birth of the Flesh with all his carnal Weapons Goals and Prisons Threats or Reproaches move you nor separate you from the Love of God nor from your Foundation the Rock of Ages Christ Jesus But feel the Well of Life springing up in you to nourish the Plant that God has planted in you of his Renown that that may grow up within his Hedge his Power which will keep out the Devil and all the Venomous Beasts from entring into God's Garden or Kingdom And therefore let your Faith stand in the Lord's Power which is your Hedge and Defence and which is your Keeper and will keep you safe that you need not be afraid of your Enemy your Adversary for the Lord's Power is over his Head and you within his Power then nothing can get betwixt you and God and in the Power of the Lord is the City set upon his Hill where the Light shines and the heavenly Salt is and the Lamps burning and Trumpets sounding forth the Praise of God of the Eternal Joy in his Eternal Word of Life that lives and abides and indures for ever And so to the Praise and Glory of God you may bring forth fresh and green Fruit being grafted into the green Tree that never withers Oh be valiant for God's Glory and his Truth upon the Earth To be valiant for the Truth and spread it abroad and spread it abroad answering that of God in every Man and Womans Conscience knowing him that hath brought Everlasting Peace into the Earth So that the Songs of Salvation may be in your Mouths for it is said With the Heart Man believes and with the Mouth Confession is made to Salvation So every true Believer will confess to Christ his Salvation their Way Light and Life out of Death and Darkness their Prophet to open to them their Shepherd to feed them and their Bishop to oversee them their Captain and Commander to command and to lead them their Counsellor for to counsel them and their Priest who hath offered himself for them and also sanctifies them and offers them up to God To whom be all Praise and Golory for ever Amen I writ something to the Magistrates which is in Print in England which if you have it not to give them you may send into Holland and let it be translated into your Language and given to them and spread it up and down in your Country And as for Truth in this Part of the World and in America Truth prospers it prospers and spreads and goes on and by it many Men and Women are made God's Free Men and Women being redeemed from him that is out of Truth that they may serve God in the New Life in Christ Jesus out of the Old Life in Adam in the Fall and so come to live in the heavenly Vnity Wisdom Love and Dominion So in that Love that bears all things and keeps your Hearts Minds and Souls up to God which comes from God through which you come to love God and Christ and one another in that live and dwell Swarthmore the 17th of the 3d Month 1676. G. F. To Friends in Holland DEar Friends To whom is my Love in the Seed of Life Epist 337. that bruises the Head of the Seed of Death and through him you have all Life Eternal who is the Foundation of the Prophets and the Apostles and all God's People in all Ages their Rock to build upon that will stand the Waves of the Sea and all Storms and foul Weather who is the Horn of your Salvation to push down all that stands in your way to God and to push down him that has led Man and Woman from God So that you may all sing of your Rock and the Horn of your Salvation as the Holy Ones did in Ages past and Christ who is your Foundation the Lamb of God who hath been slain from the Foundation of the World Christ overcame the World and is ascended far above all things but now he has overcome the World and is risen and ascended far above all Principalities Powers Thrones and Dominions and is razing down to the Ground the World's Foundation from which Foundation he has been slain and is setting up himself the Living and Everlasting Foundation for all his to build upon and therefore because the World and its Foundation Christ is razing down they are are offended and angry and the Heathen Rage and take Counsel against the anointed but it 's to no purpose for he will shake the Foundation of all false Religions Ways Worships Churches and Teachers and will make the Pillars of them to totter and they must be at their wits end before they see another Foundation for God shook down the Four Monarchies the great Empires of the World and scattered them abroad with his Wind as the Chaff of the Summer Floor all those great Persecutors and the little Stone that 's cut out of the Mountain without Hands The Stone out of the Mountain without Hands c. that no earthly Man has the glory of is becoming a great Mountain and will fill the whole Earth Glory to God for ever and it will dash down all Mens Glory and Pride let them soar as high as Nebuchadnezzar and shelter as many under them as he did in their Sects that he may make them to know that the most High rules in the Kingdom of Men and that his Kingdom is an Everlasting Kingdom And therefore all Friends that know the Light which is the Life in Christ be faithful in the Truth and spread it abroad answering the Light of Christ in every one for Christ bid his Disciples go preach the Gospel unto all Nations And since that was done are many gathered into the Fellowship and Order of it but since the World has worshipped the Beast and given their Glory and Honour to him instead of God and Christ which Beast is out of Truth and had his Power from the Dragon and the Whore which all Nations has drunk of her Cup and she has rid upon the Beast and now the Everlasting Gospel must
therein are his and he gives the increase thereof And therefore be not over eager after outward things but keep above them in the Lord's Power and Seed Christ Jesus that is over all in whom you have all Life Election and Salvation And write over Yearly from your Meetings how you are settled and how your Affairs go in the Truth and how your Men and Womens Meetings are settled And my Desires are That we may hear that you are a good Savour to God in those Countries So that the Lord may Crown all your Actions with his Glory So with my Love to all Swarthmore the 4th of the 1st Month 1676. G. F. MY Friends Epist 341. All you that do know God and Christ your Teacher and are come to be the Sons and Daughters of the Lord God and are in his New Covenant in which you all do know the Lord and need not any Man to say unto you Know the Lord And are Heirs of the Gospel of Peace and Salvation that hath brought Life and Immortality to light and that by the Power of God the Gospel you do see over him the Adversary and the Destroyer that hath darkned you And so doth know that the Power of God is the Authority of your Mens and Womens Meetings in it keep them and all other Meetings and all such as be Heirs of Grace and Heirs of Life and Heirs of the Gospel keep your Mens and Womens Meetings in the Power of God the Authority of them and they that crieth against them or you strive not with them for they will in God's time die of themselves and wither away but keep your Testimony of the Life and of Grace and of the Gospel and of the Order of it and your Faith in him your Teacher who bruises the Head of the Serpent the Author of all Disorder and ill Government even Christ the increase of whose Government in his Truth and Power and Righteousness there is no end Glory to the Lord God for evermore And so all strive to be of one Mind and Heart and Soul and Spirit To live in Vnity in the Love of God and Faith living together in Vnity and in the Love of God all drinking into one Spirit by which you are Baptised into one Body having one Head who is Heavenly and Spiritual and in the one Spirit by which you are Circumcised which putteth off the Body of the Sins of the Flesh So as you do keep to the Spirit of Christ it will keep you to be one Body and to him the one Head Christ Jesus the Amen G. F. MY Dear Friends and Brethren Epist 342. That Faith which is the Gift of God which all the Saints lived in and by which they pleased God and had Victory by which they had access to God and by To live in that Faith wherein the Ancients pleased God and in which Faith they did walk And all the Just in all Ages and Generations did live by the same Faith Do you all live and walk now in your Age I say walk in that Faith by which Enoch the Seventh from Adam was translated and by which he had this Testimony that he pleased God And also keep in that Faith by which Noah built his Ark wherein he and his Family were preserved and the old World that grieved God and his good Spirit were drowned And also walk in that Faith by which Abraham forsook his Father's House and Native Country and their Idolatrous Religion And live in that Faith by which Moses forsook Egypt and refused to be called the Son of Pharaoh's Daughter and chose rather to suffer Affliction with the People of God than to enjoy the Pleasures of the World for a season And by this Faith which is the Gift of God he saw God who is Invisible And by this Faith was Rahab the Harlot saved and her Family And by this Faith the Walls of Jerico fell down without any outward Instrument of War And by this Faith Jacob went down into Egypt and his Children and by this Faith he knew they should return again And the Jews that did not keep in this Faith their Carcases fell in the Wilderness but they that kept in this Faith entered into the Land of Promise And by this Faith had all the Valiants of God the Victory and his holy Prophets and Prophetesses as you may read all along in the Scriptures And by this Faith were they kept in the Fire and by it the violence of the Fire was quench'd and by it the Mouths of the Lions were stopped So by this Faith they had the Victory And by this Faith was Elijah taken up to Heaven And so as Christ Jesus saith Faith saves and makes whole To look unto Jesus And all are to look unto Jesus the Heavenly and the Spiritual Man the Second Adam the Lord from Heaven by whom all things was made and created who is the First and the Last to be both the Author and Finisher of their Faith Now Christ said When the Son of Man cometh shall he find Faith in the Earth For all both Jews and Gentiles were concluded under Sin and Vnbelief so Sin and Vnbelief was over them and they shut up under it So whosoever hath this true saving and justifying Faith Christ Jesus hath been the Author of it and is the Finisher of this Divine and Precious Faith So all Eyes must look unto him for he is both the Author and Finisher of this Living Precious and Divine Faith And this is the Faith of God's Elect by which Faith they have access to God and know their Election by which Faith they are translated from Death to Life and from the Darkness to the Light and from the Power of Satan unto the Power of God and from the Corruption to the Incorruption and from the Mortal to the Immortal and from the Natural to the Spiritual And by this Faith By Faith the Devil is resisted the Devil the Destroyer is resisted who abode not in the Truth and by this Faith the Fiery Darts is quenched of Satan the Adversary of Man and he thereby is overcome So by this Faith you come to know the Partition Wall broken down that hath been betwixt you and God So in this Faith are all the Houshold of Faith to build upon Christ Jesus who bruises the Serpent's Head who is the Author and Finisher of Faith and this is called the Holy Faith and the One Faith and by this one Faith which Jesus Christ is the Author and Finisher of by whom all things was made and created by it we do understand the Worlds were made by the Word of God and this is the Faith which all the Houshold of Faith are to contend for That Faith which Christ is the Author of this One Faith which Christ Jesus is the Author of which Faith is the Gift of God and is held in a pure Conscience And it is called the Mystery of Faith for no