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A54095	An account of W. Penn's travails in Holland and Germany, anno MDCLXXVII, for the service of the Gospel of Christ, by way of journal containing also divers letters and epistles writ to several great and eminent persons whilst there.	Penn, William, 1644-1718.; Penn, William, 1644-1718. To the churches of Jesus throughout the world.	1694 (1694)	Wing P1244; ESTC R18015	98,942	298

Jesus said Fear not for it is my Father's good pleasure to give you a Kingdom And to be of this Flock you must become as Sheep and to be as Sheep you must become harmless and to become harmless you must hear and follow the Lamb of God as he is that blessed Light which discovereth and condemneth all the unfruitful Works of Darkness and maketh harmless as a Dove which word All leaveth not one Piccadillo or Circumstance undiscovered or unjudged and the word Darkness taketh in the whole Night of Apostacy and the word Vnfruitful is a plain Judgment against all those dark Works Wherefore out of them all come and be you separated and God will give you a Crown of Life which shall never fade away O! the lowness and meanness of those Spirits that despise or neglect the Joys and Glories of Immortality for the sake of the things which are ●een that are but Temporal debasing ●he Nobility of their Souls abandoning the Government of the Divine Spirit and embracing with all ardency of Affection the sensual Pleasures of this Life but such as persevere therein shall not enter into God's Rest for ever But this is not all that hindereth and obstructeth in the holy Way of Blessedness for there is the World's Fear as well as the World's Joy that obstructeth many or else Christ had not said Fear not to his little Flock The Shame of the Cross is a Yoke too uneasy and a Burden too heavy for Flesh and Blood to bear 't is true but therefore shall Flesh and Blood never enter into the Kingdom of God And not to them that are born of the Flesh but to those that are born of the Spirit through the Word of Regeneration is appointed the Kingdom and that Throne which shall judg the twelve Tribes of Israel and all the World The Lord perfect what he hath begun in you and give you Dominion over the Love and Fear of this World And my Friends if you would profit in the Way of God despise no● the Day of small things in you● selves Know this that to desire an● sincerely to breathe after the Lord i● a blessed State you must seek befor● you find Do you believe make no● haste extinguish not those small Beginnings by an over-earnest or impatient desire of Victory God's time is the best time be you faithful and your Conflict shall end with Glory to God and the Reward of Peace to your own Souls Therefore love the Judgment and love the Fire start not aside neither flinch from the scorchings of it for it will purify and refine you as Gold seven times tried then cometh the Stamp and Seal of the Lord upon his own Vessel Holiness to him for ever which he never gave nor will give to reprobate Silver the state of the Religious Worshippers of the World And herein be comforted that Sion shall be redeemed through Judgment and her Converts through Righteousness and after the appointed time of Mourning is over the Lord will give Beauty for Ashes the Oil of Joy for Mourning and the Garment of Praise for the Spirit of Heaviness then shall you be able to say Who is he that condemneth us God hath justified us there is no Condemnation to us that are in Christ Jesus who walk not after the Flesh but after the Spirit Wherefore my dear Friends walk not only not after the fleshly Lusts but also not after the fleshly Religions and Worships of the World for that that is not born of the Spirit is Flesh and all Flesh shall wither as the Grass and the Beauty of it shall fade away as the Flower of the Field before God's Sun that is risen and rising but the Word of the Lord in which is Life and that Life the Light of Men shall endure for ever and give Life Eternal to them that love and walk in the Light And I entreat you by the Love you have for Jesus have a care how you touch with fleshly Births or say Amen by Word or Practice to that which is not born of the Spirit for God is not to be found of that in your selves or others that calleth him Father and he hath never begotten it in them that Latitude and Conformity is not of God but secretly grieveth his Spirit and obstructeth the growth of the Soul in its Acquaintance and intimate Communion with the Lord. Without me saith Jesus you can do nothing and all that came before me are Thieves and Robbers If so O what are they that Pray Preach and Sing without Jesus and follow not him in those Duties but even in them crucify him O that I may find in you an Ear to hear and an Heart to perceive and embrace these Truths of Jesus And I can say I have great cause to hope and patiently to wait till the Salvation of God be further revealed to you and the whole Family with whom I must acknowledg I was abundantly refreshed and comforted in that God in measure made known the Riches of his Grace and Operation of his Celestial Power to you and his Witness shall dwell with you if we never see you more that God magnified his own Strength in our Weakness With him we leave our Travels affectionately recommending you to his holy Spirit of Grace that you may be conformed to the Image of his own dear Son who is able and ready to preserve you O stay your Minds upon him and he will keep you in perfect Peace and abide with you for ever The Almighty take you into his holy Protection now and for ever I am Your true Friend ready to serve you with fervent Love in the Will of God William Penn. My dear Companions G. K. and B.F. do with me give you the dear Salutation of unfeigned Love and those in the Family that love and desire to follow the Lord Jesus in Sincerity and Truth without wavering P. S. We are this Evening bound towards Manheim the Court of the Prince Palatine and travell'd about twelve English Miles on foot That Night we lodged at Franckenthall and go● the next Morning being the seventh Day of the Week to Manheim but were disappointed of our Design which was to speak with the Prince for he was gone the Day before to Heydelb●rgh his chief City about fifteen English Miles from that Place and considering that by reason of the Meeting next Day with Friends at Crisheim already appointed we could neither go forward nor stay till he returned and yet being not clear to come away as if we had never endeavoured to visit him it was upon me to write him this following Letter to let him know we had been there and briefly our End in coming To the Prince Elector Palatine of Heydelbergh Great Prince IT would seem strange that I both a Stranger and a Subject should use this freedom of Address to a Prince were he not one whose Actions shew him to be of a free Disposition and easy Access to all

would to God all Princes were of that mind But I have not chosen this way of Application I am driven to it by the disappointment thy absence from this Court gave me and the necessity I am under to expedite my Return And though I cannot so fully and consequently not so clearly express by Letter the Grounds inducing me to attempt this Visit yet this being all the way that is left me I shall declare them as well as I can In the first place I do with all sincere and Christian respect acknowledg and commend that Indulgence thou givest to all People professing Religion dissenting from the National Communion for it is in it self a most Natural Prudent and Christian thing Natural because it preserves Nature from being made a Sacrifice to the savage Fury of fallible yet proud Opinions out lawing Men of Parts Arts Industry and Honesty the grand Requisites of Humane Society and exposing them and their Families to utter Ruine for meer Nonconformity not to Religion but to Modes and Fashions in Religions Christian since the contrary expresly contradicteth both the Precept and Example of Christ who taught us to love Enemies not to abuse our Friends and triumph in the destruction of our harmless Neighbours He rebuked his Disciples when they called for Fire from Heaven upon Dissenters it may be Opposers Certainly then he never intended that they should kindle Fire on Earth to devour Men for Conscience And if Christ to whom all Power was given and his Apostles refused to employ Humane Force and Artifice so much as to conserve themselves 't is an Arrogancy every way indefensible in those that pretend to be their Followers that they assume an Authority to supercede controul and contradict the Precepts and Examples of Christ and his Apostles whose Kingdom not being of the nature of this ambitious violent World was not erected or maintained by those Weapons that are Carnal but Spiritual and Intellectual adequate to the Nature of the Soul and mighty through God to cast down the Strong-holds of Sin and every vain Imagination exalted in Man above the lowly meek Fear of God that ought to have the preeminence in the Hearts of the Sons of Men. Indulgence is Prudent in that it preserveth Concord No Kingdom divided against it self can stand It encourageth Arts Parts Industry to show and improve themselves which indeed are the Ornaments Strength and Wealth of a Countrey It encourageth People to transplant into this Land of Liberty where the Sweat of the Brow is not made the Forfeit of the Conscience And lastly it rendereth the Prince peculiarly Safe and Great Safe because all Interests for Interest-sake are bound to love and court him Great in that he is not govern'd or clogg'd with the Power of his Clergy which in most Countries is not only a Coordinate Power a kind of Duumvirateship in Government Imperium in Imperio at least an Eclipse to Monarchy but a Superior Power and rideth the Prince to their Designs holding the Helm of the Government and steering not by the Laws of Civil Freedom but certain Ecclesiastick Maxims of their own to the Maintenance and Enlargement of their Worldly Empire in their Church And all the Villany acted under the sacred peaceable and alluring Name of Christ his Ministry and Church though as remote from their Nature as the Wolf from the Sheep and the Pope from Peter The next thing I should have taken the liberty to have discours'd would have been this What Encouragement a Colony of vertuous and industrious Families might hope to receive from Thee in case they should transplant themselves into this Country which certainly in it self is very excellent respecting Taxes Oaths Arms c. Further to have represented the condition of some of our Friends and thy own Subjects who though they are liable to the same Tax as Mennists c. not by part the Case of other Dissenters yet the Vaught of the Town where they live came yesterday to forbid all preaching amongst them which implies a sort of Contradiction to the Indulgence given And in the last place for as much as all Men owe their Being to something greater than themselves to which 't is reasonable to believe they are accomptable from whence follow Rewards or Punishments I had an earnest desire to have spoken of the Nature of Truth Use Benefit and Reward of Religion and therein as to have discours'd what is Christian Religion in it self freed from those unreasonable Garbs some Men make it to wear so justly offensive to wise and thinking Men so to have proved the Principle and Life of the People in scorn called Quakers to have been sutable to the true Followers of Holy Jesus But as the Particulars would swell a Letter to a Book I shall take the Freedom to present thee upon my Return with some Tracts treating upon all these Subjects Prince my Soul is filled with Love and Respect to thee and thy Family I wish you all true and lasting Felicity and earnestly desire that you may never forget your Afflictions and in the remembrance of them be dehorted from those Lusts and Impieties which draw the Vengeance of Heaven upon the greatest Families on Earth that God may look upon you with the favourable Eye of his Providence And blessed is that Man whose God by profession is the Lord in reality viz. that is ruled and governed by the Lord and that lives in subjection to his Grace that having a Divine Sense of God in his Heart delights to retain that Sense and Knowledg of him and be meditating in his Noble Royal Law that converts the Soul to God and redeems Man from the sensual Pleasures of this World to the true Satisfaction of the Intellectual and Divine Life O the meanness and lowness of their Spirits that abandon themselves to the Government of Sense the animal Life thereby debasing their Natures rejecting the Divine Light that shineth in their Hearts saying Let us eat and drink for to morrow we shall die forgetting whence they are descended and not considering the Peace and Joy of the Vertuous I desire that the Lord would put it into thy Heart to think of thy latter End and with the Light of Christ in thy Conscience examine how it stands with thy Soul that thou mayest know and diligently watch to do those things that belong to thy eternal Peace One thing more give me leave to recommend to thee and that is to be very careful of inculcating generous free and righteous Principles into thy Son who is like to succeed thee that when thou art gone the Reputation of the Country may not sink by contrary Practices nor the People of divers Judgments now thy Subjects be disappointed distressed or ruined Which with sincere desires for thy temporal and eternal Good conclude this Thy unknown but sincere Friend William Penn. From Manheim 25th of 6th Mo. 1677. Which being done and having refreshed our selves we returned that night by the Rhine