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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85176	The new non-conformist; who having obtained help of God, doth persist unto this very day; witnessing, both to small and great, some of those glorious things which the Apostles, the prophets, & Moses, did say should come to pass. Or, the voice of a careful shepherd, crying from his watch-tower at W.C. unto his little flock at W.L. with a loud voice.	Feake, Christopher, fl. 1645-1660.	1654 (1654)	Wing F571; Thomason E737_1; ESTC R202090	39,800	63

distance as well as man yea on the other side I am full I am rich I abound the Lord is with me most graciously most gloriously Friends if you knew what it is to lose all or to be willing to lose all for Christ in the light and power of the Spirit of Christ you would be more couragious forward and zealous in this noble Cause in danger to be starved but it shall not miscarry by the policy and private interest of men of corrupt minds and destitute of the Truth and of the Spirit Brethren I must break off I am as much imployed as when I was in London for the most part and am put to it to write my Letters to you while company is in my chamber and so swiftly write what the Lord dictates without study for I want opportunity and the messenger now staies Therefore remember what I have taught you publickly and privately from house to house it is for the substance of it such Doctrine as I dare through Grace and the assistance thereof seal with my blood I can boldly say The Lord is my helper I will not fear what man can do unto me be ye strong quit your selves like men fear not the power pride lusts threatnings of man walk as becometh the Saints let brotherly love continue be not ashamed of my bonds nor of my keeper Expect glorious revolutions to make way for the desire of all Nations Blessed are they even all those that wait for him and love his appearing My heart is inlarged surely prayer is made for me I finde so much incoms from heaven The Lord be your exceeding great reward who wrestle for me Salute every Saint especially those who are most full of the Spirit and most useful for Christ and his people Eternal grace and glory be every ones portion henceforth and for ever Amen The 18 of the 12 Moneth 1653. From my strong Tower and place of sure defence Your faithful Shepherd although absent and in bonds Christopher Feake My dearly beloved Brethen in the Lord ACcording to that talent which I have received from the Lord I desire to be found fruitful and faithful to the Lord Jesus and his people for it would be a most sad thing for my Master to finde his servants either idle or ill-employed And seeing dear Brethren that ye look for such things as the Apostle Peter doth speak of in 2 Epist 3 chap. Be diligent that ye also may be found of him in peace without spot and blameless Questionless when he comes that shall come he will finde but little faith on the earth and if he finde it so you and I may readily conjecture how all other graces will be wanting insomuch that the righteous will scarcely be saved and the wise Virgins will do no more then enter in I fear there will not be an entrance administred unto them abundantly into that everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ because but even then they will be slumbering and sleeping and so cannot have their sences exercised and in a meet posture to keep him company as those who have watched with the Bridegroom and come along with him You see I am careful to stir up your pure mindes by way of remembrance at this distance it is altogether from love and for your edifying It may be some of you may be willing I should receive advertisements of your best things of your faith and hope and love and humility c. but not of your weaknesses of any omissions or neglects of any whisperings or evil surmisings or such-like unseemliness but let such remember that the whole Scripture being given by divine inspiration it is not onely profitable for doctrine but for reproof and for correction and instruction in righteousness Therefore if any of you finde any discontents or swellings in your own Spirits which you indeavour to hide but yet they are clearly discerned by experienced Saints for one word is enough to the wise let such an one know and remember that it is not a Gospel-frame of heart the Corinthians indeed were puffed up for one against another but the Apostle reckons it a great uncomliness in that body of Christ I write not these things to shame you but as those who are dear to me I admonish you lest Satan should get an advantage of you and so occasion your adversaries and his instruments to blaspheme the people and waies of God Oh! Brethren make it each of you for the Lord Jesus Christs sake your business that your love your holiness your meekness moderation or evenness of Spirit be known unto one another and unto all men that you may rejoyce exceedingly and I may rejoyce exceedingly when we shall meet together again not on●ly in this world but in that which is to come when all the faithful shepherds with their flocks shall be gathered together before the great Shepherd of the sheep and receive from him a crown of glory that fadeth not away reserved in heaven for us who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation Finally Oh ye dwellers upon mount Sion take heed to your steps to your goings out and your comings in let your words be seasoned with salt which may minister grace to the hearers and not grief The bridling of the tongue is an heavenly art and faculty we count him a perfect man who is very skilful this way Be swift to hear and slow to speak and be sure to remember That our adversary the devil goes up and down like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour like as the Lord said of Behemoth He trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth so this crooked and piercing serpent hopes to swallow up whole Churches into the gulph of his belly which is this present evil world Oh therefore let your eyes be in your forehead to foresee the dangers of the present juncture of time The Lord fill your souls with Himself and Son and Spirit that there may be no room nor place in your hearts for any sublunary interest whatsoever The time is short the path is untroden snares are multiplied the service is hot the victory is impossible to flesh and blood but easie to faith Wherefore my beloved in the Lord be ye stedfast and unmoveable alwaies abounding in the work of the Lord forasmuch as you know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord in whom I salute every Saint in Christ Jesus throughout the whole Congregation both those that were in Christ before me and those whom the Lord hath revealed himself to of later yeers the weak and the strong the rich and the poor great and small who are beloved of Christ to him be glory and dominion in this and in the world to come Amen From my pleasant prison-house this 24 of the 12 Moneth 1653. Your careful shepherd in bonds for the testimony of the kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christopher Feake Dearly beloved in the Lord HOw

the Lord Jesus in the light of his own Spirit found it a blessed imployment to be inquiring and hearkning where the signe of Gods presence was and upon which of the Congregations or assemblies I could finde the most glorious demonstrations of the power of godliness and where the Lord was pitching his Tents and revealing himself to his Beloved Ones This is also my work at this day to contemplate and consider what posture the Saints are now in and to watch that I may know where the glory of the Lord is revealed and where or from whence it will break forth at the approaching revolution In time past before the New Model was in being or extant in the world it was in the scattered Saints yet gathered together in several meetings kept in the City Army and Countries to finde out a right way from Babylon to Sion You remember what distress the Lords people were in at that time when that Tyrant had the North and West at his devotion when Essex his Army was beaten and degenerate when we were betrayed and forsaken by the old Souldiers of Fortune when the King and his Princes were victorious and rampant after the sacking of Leicester And when the new Model was despised in almost all mens eyes It was commonly called in reproach and scorn both by the King 's and Essex his souldiers The New Model save a small remnant of praying and believing Saints where was the presence of God then who could declare before whom the pillar of fire did shew it self as the token of Jehovah's presence It must not be forgotten but remembred with renewed thankfulness even at this day That it did break forth and manifest it self most gloriously from Nazeby-field even every day more and more Then the Lord began to use the new Army as One of the weak foolish despised Things of the world Then the Council of War used to aske counsel of God and God was with them wonderfully to direct them to bless them with victorious success abundantly Then the Head-quarters were famous and amiable even as the Tabernacles of the Lord of Hosts Then the Spirit of Glory and of God rested upon them and marched before them everywhere yea it was as a wall of fire round about them and the glory in the midst of them Zech. 2.5 And so it continued from year to yeer to the astonishment of the wicked and to the triumphant rejoycing of the righteous At length after some dangerous Temptations were overcome as the Armies trinkling and tampering with and for the King Queen and their Issue which afterward in their straits they bewailed in Windsor Castle the presence and Spirit of the Lord ingaged them also to execute judgement and justice upon the grand murtherer and persecutor of the Saints not to mention other strange and great enterprizes so as that the whore of Babylon and the Kings of the earth had cause to be exceedingly afraid Ireland was reduced also with a high hand especially at the beginning and the Lord was gloriously present still with the General and his Army onely some intelligent self-denying souls did discern plainly that divers Officers began betimes even too too early to minde the prey even before the work was done and it cost many of them very dear Let us remember also the expedition into Scotland and the high Appeal made by our Presbyterian-Brethren and the Army with their friends nights and dayes were spent in earnest prayer on both sides the Lord appeared in terrible Majesty at Dunbar About that time the Cause of Christ the Interest of Christ the work of God the downfal of Babylon and such-like language sounded from the Head-Quarters from the great Officers of the Army My soul was ravished to see and observe the spirit of prayer at White-Hall in those dayes among many of the chief Commanders as if they had loved none but Christ as if they cared for none but Christ and his Interest as if they would never have endured any King but the Lord Jesus or any Laws but his or any Ministers but his We who through grace were plain-hearted thought there were not such another people upon the face of the earth for love to Christ to the glory of Christ that he might be magnified and exalted as were the conducting and commanding part of the Army But Oh! Oh my Bowels my Bowels The gradual declension and defection since Worcester with what words shall I bewail it how have all the things of Christ been neglected how hath that most noble and glorious Cause of the Lord Jesus been forsaken by those who ought by manifold obligations to have promoted it to the utmost there was a price put into their hands and power was in their hands Oh this spirit of Baruch to seek great things for our selves when Jehovah saith Seek them not Behold that which is built God will pull down and that which is planted He will pluck up The Lord Jesus is making great hast to break in pieces all these Kingdoms both new and old and yet men are busie in seeking their own things and not the things of Jesus Christ I cannot but speak I must open my heart to some who love the Lord Jesus in sincerity my lise is not dear to me in this Cause If the Powers of the world and Rulers of the people have a minde to take away my Life as they have done my Liberty behold here it is in a readiness If the Lord give the word I am willing through grace not onely to be bound but to die for the Name of the Lord Jesus and for the Gospel of the Kingdom I am free to give directions to my worst enemies were they may make inquiry after all my wayes from my childhood to this day and if they finde I have committed any thing worthy of death or of bonds let them take their advantage but to keep me a Prisoner seven or eight moneths and not bring me to the place of hearing that I may know what my crime is and who are my accusers and the witnesses this is not fair dealing I am loth to aggravate things but the manner of the Romans was more according to justice expressed in Acts 25. Brethren I desire to keep in memory the Cause of our dear Lord so do you and know them who are of this Spirit through the Nation provoke one the other to wrestle with God to cry unto our Father If his children cry unto him he will not he cannot long forbear he will return and have compassion on the Remnant of his Heritage for mercy pleaseth him The Grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with all your Spirits in the glorious ministration of Grace Mercy and Peace continually Amen From my house of bondage this 31 of the 6 month 1654. Yours for the Lord's sake to do or to suffer on your behalf Christopher Feake FINIS For the well-beloved CHURCH of Christ meeting in Colemanstreet Swan Alley My dearly beloved

pray for me This 1 day in the morning the 5 day of my most comfortable confinement 1653. An unworthy worm desirous to serve the Lord Jesus and all his Saints Christoph. Feake POSTSCRIPT I and my yoke-fellow salute every Saint in the Lord. My Wife a dear comfort to me desires the prayers of the Church particularly for her and we both desire you to bless the Lord joyntly for his wonderful goodness to us he is verily a God hearing prayer For the well-beloved CHURCH of Christ meeting in Colemanstreet Swan-Alley My dearly beloved in the Lord WHo in the Lord Jesus are builded together for an Habitation of God by the Spirit This is the fourth time I have in much affection written to you saluting you again in the Lord as a holy people peculiar to Christ our Head in the light and power of whose glorious Spirit you every one walking shall certainly come up to those attainments and enjoyments which will render you truly honorable in the eyes of your very adversaries Blessed be the name of our God for ever who hath translated us from death to life some time since who is also transforming us from glory to glory as by the Spirit of the Lord. Brethren know That the Messengers of the Church together with the loving Epistle which they brought with them were exceeding welcome and acceptable to the Lords Prisoner who was and is still filled with comfort from the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort yea I do not know of any one minute wherein dejectedness of Spirit hath been my portion yea on the contrary a cheerful lightsome frame and temper is my lot from my tender Father night and day My care for you which is my greatest exercise ending in faith and joyful confidence that the Lord is doing good to you as unto me and those that are approved will be made manifest in these tr●ing times and seasons Wherefore I befeech you all again and again by the mercies of God by the meekness and gentleness of Christ that you walk very circumspectly in these evil daies that you set the Lord alwaies before you resolving in the sense and remembrance of those first loves that were mutually between the Lord and each of your souls at your first conversion and believing and when you were first sealed after that you believed by the holy Spirit of promise out of faithfulness and love to Christ to follow the Lamb on Mount Sion whithersoever he goeth first in paths of holiness then upon the Mountains of Israel in fresn green Pastures where He I say He leads you then to Prison through Fire through Water anywhere every-where the Lord being in the midst of you and with you Ah my dear brethren the Lord Jesus being with us bonds are not bonds reproach is not reproach enemies are no enemies death it self is not death My heart is inlarged I could wish my self among you that I might pour out my soul before you The Lord is good his mercy endureth for ever The brethren you sent to me have reported the presence of the Lord in the midst of you your purpose of heart to cleave to the Lord and to one another My counsel for the present is as followeth though they be the same things that I write over again now as before yet consider them Paul did so 1. Now that ye are come together in the name of the Lord Jesus let every member of the Congregation consider what they are obliged to Is it not to continue together with the Church walking in all the waies and Ordinances of Jesus Christ Did they not consent in the hearing of Angels and men to do their duties which are Commands of Christ as well as to receive of the priviledges of the Gospel Those that from respects of their particular spiritual profit do omit their duty as in the publick capacity of the members of the body of Christ without the consent of the whole upon Scripture-grounds will finde themselves in a snare ere they are aware 2. Being all together before the Lord as His peculiar people desire earnestly to know of him whether or no there be not some of your number whom he intends to set apart as a Teacher in the Congregation for the carrying on the work of the Lord in the Congregation and then if so to beg to know who he is if not to intreat him to furnish you with helps this way as it were from heaven that so you may not onely be edified among your selves but be ●eet like a golden Candlestick with burning and shining lights in it to give light to the dark world and so serve the Lord in your generation upon the best account 3. I desire you to consider that the more my coming among you is and shall be a fruit of your prayers in faith the more we shall all rejoyce together when we meet And therefore I desire you to spread my condition before the Lord that I am sent hither by an arbitrary power no accusers brought face to face no witnesses produced but in a private Juncto determined to commit me and Brother Simpson to this Castle In Order to the preservation of the peace and safety of the Nation these are the words of the Mittimus no crime laid to our charge their own fears and jealousies are the cause of this unrighteous dealing with us to rend and rear us violently from our Congregations and here not to suffer us to preach the Gospel to the poor people that they may be saved while they are eating and drinking and rising up to play Mr. Jenkins when he was banished by the old Parliament from London had free liberty to preach as often as he would The Lord beholds all these things and I write not this by way of complaint the Lord knoweth for my life is comfortable without intermission and the Lord hath sent me hither for some glorious end I am verily perswaded 4. I intreat you looking upon each other as the sons and daughters of the living God to grow in love in brotherly love in love in the Spirit to abound in love as the Apostle speaks toward each other and toward all men as by the rich grace of God I finde I do towards you and this you will finde that loving the Lord Jesus more dearly you will be the more tenderly affectioned each toward other This is the distin●uishing character of the Disciples of Christ this is the primitive Spirit and Philadelphia of all the Churches in Asia which signifieth brotherly love was not reproved but incouraged by Jesus Christ Oh! be you that Churches Sister 5. Beg in stead of all the rich glorious effusions of the Spirit of Christ that would render you a happy holy heavenly people a spiritual zealous faithful fruitful people I finde I finde Brethren that the excellent Spirit is rising returning revealing it self in the world though the world cannot will not receive it Walk in the Spirit live in the Spirit

MY hearts desire and prayer to God for you all is that as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord so you may walk in him rooted and built up in him and stablished in the faith as you have been taught abounding therein with thanksgiving for otherwise Satan will get an advantage against you and prevail upon you so as to put you to shame and me also in the sight of this present evil old world Oh! how will it tend to the glory of our God and Father and of our Lord Jesus Christ for you to remain unmoveable and unshaken in the midst of all the present temptations both on the right hand and on the left considering that the subtil old Serpent hath doubtless a most mischievous designe against you as you are the Temple and Habitation of the living God Oh! how shall we rejoyce together when we meet to bless and to praise the Lord for preserving us unto his heavenly kingdom notwithstanding the strong endeavours of all adversaries to keep us asunder to scatter us and so to rejoyce and glory in our desolation But our God will come and will not keep silence yea he will come with vengeance and make a most wonderful discovery of that notorious falsehood and hypocrisie of that prodigious perfidiousness whereof this adulterous generation is so deeply guilty before the Lord and his people In the interim possess your souls with patience watch and pray lest you also enter into temptation lest you also being led away with the error of the wicked fall from your own stedfastness Remember it is Jeho●ah your righteousness who is able to keep you from falling and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy Great are my hopes many are my fears concerning you and especially concerning those among you who shall think within themselves when they hear this You are more fearful or he is more fearful then he needs to be we shall do well enough let such an one think if any such there be that such thoughts nourished and cherished in his heart are certain symptomes of an uncertain Spirit and of a treacherous heart Oh consider consider what relicks of unbelief what remainders of lusts what members of the old man are yet unmortified in the best of us Who made us to differ from the World Oh lean lean upon your Beloved that hath made a difference between you and those poor creatures that are yet in their blood yet in their sins Are you not believers are you not Disciples of the Lord are you not Saints by calling have not you every one seen the Lord have not you as others beheld as in a glass with a face unveiled the glory of the Lord then Brethren why are we not transformed from glory to glory why are our hearts narrow cold heavy why are our Spirits carnal earthly and staggering why do not our souls mount aloft Great is my boldness in writing as it used to be in speaking to you I have a great interest in you and among you I have a great part a large share in the good or evil that befals you your comforts are my comforts also your discomforts are my discomforts also Oh that I might warm your hearts at this distance by the power of God! setting these expressions of love and truth strongly and effectually upon all your hearts How doth the inward pulse of your hidden man beat what secret workings walkings and communications in the inmost holy place Do you can you set your feet upon the necks of your wost enemies the cursed corruptions of your nature Verily Christians if you do not grow into intimate acquaintance with the Almighty if you attain not to holy familiar communion with the Father and his Son Jesus Christ you will be of little use in the publick service of the Lambe against the Dragon the Beast and the false Prophet Beg with ardent supplication to live and to be kept under the glorious ministration of the Spirit Do not so minde the work within doors as to neglect the work abroad Do not give up your strength and the might of your Spirits for the carrying on the publick work of Christ abroad to the disadvantage of the concernments of your souls but as I have formerly advised you touching the graces and the gifts of the Spirit so I perswade as to this matter carry on the great affairs within and without In conjunction and in proportion But remember as I have told you often Therefore doth the Lord dispatch the business of your salvation and particular happiness giving you a full assurance of eternal life that so his people having their own inheritance secured to them for ever they may be capable of serving the Lord Jesus in their generation upon the most noble account Now my Beloved I shall conclude with a few words unto you as you are assembled together in the Name of the Lord ponder your paths study the duty of your relations Consider what families you live in and what eyes are upon you let the believing Husband endeavour to gain the unbelieving wife and the believing wife the unbelieving husband by a holy wise loving dutiful conversation both in word and deed let parents and children that fear the Lord carry themselves as becometh the Gospel so masters and servants that was the great care of the Apostles in the primitive Churches Study the Epistles that were sent to all the Congregations You have lately testified your love to me beyond my expectation accept of this and such-like tokens of my love to you Oh that I might finde you when my God brings me among you a people mightily improved in holiness and purity in brotherly kindeness and love in self-denial and heavenly mindedness in zeal and spiritual magnanimity in every grace in every gift walking in the most excellent waies of truth and peace that God in all things might be glorified by us through Jesus Christ to whom be glory for ever Amen This Epistle and Salutation is sent in much affection unto you From my prison-house this 4 of the 1 Moneth 1654. From your faithful shepherd through grace still in bonds for Christ Christoph Feake POSTSCRIPT My fellow-prisoner and my yoke-fellow salute you and we earnestly desire a continual mention in prayers and supplications before the Lord withal desiring that the Lord may be magnified in the Congregation for all the loving kindnesses and tender mercies wherewith he hath crowned us since we were made the prisoners of Jesus My dearly Beloved BEhold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us that we should be called the Sons of God! If the Lord Jesus will confess us to be such before his Father and the holy Angels yea and before the faces of our proudest adversaries What ground of joy unspeakable and full of glory will be hereby administred unto us even in the midst of all those reproaches and slanderous reports that the men of the world who minde

writing and hearing of the sweet and precious Name of the Lord Jesus It is most pleasant to ponder and to meditate upon the mystery of God even the Father and of Christ When once we have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts thereof when we are by means of walking with the holy One become spiritually minded then Oh then we suck sweetness out of bitterness and can turn water into wine then we finde meat in the eater then we enjoy liberty in bonds and life in death then we feel the Lord blessing when men are cursing Christianity is a mystery throughout yea the managing of the most easie and obvious affairs in the Churches of the Saints is to be in a mystery All your things are to be spiritually ordered It 's a most glorious sight to me to see every debate every consultation every resolution all your ordinary matters beautified and adorned with that holy gravity and seriousness of language gesture method with that sweetness of love humility mutual condescention with that meekness of wisdom in the Elders of attention and reception and consent in the Brethren that may render you amiable to the Lord Jesus and his elect Angels being in the midst of you formidable to wicked men and the evil Angels that observe you and watch for your halting and would rejoyce to espie among you any uncomliness or absurdity this would be an excellent means to help you to set the Lord alwaies before you to have fresh and new thoughts of Gods Omnipresence of Christs walking in the midst of the golden Candlesticks this used to over-awe my disorderly Spirit when I was among you I hope I shall learn as Timothy how to behave my self in the House of God which is the Church of the living God in this short time of banishment better then formerly I believe the Lord intends a manifold benefit by my absence to you and many others as well as to my own soul I rejoyce exceedingly in spirit to consider We do not live in the declining age of the Church but in that season when the Lord will adde abundantly more of his Spirit then in many generations formerly Wherefore let me beseech you to gird up the loyns of your minde put on your sandals walk climbe up to the top of Pisgah look over Jordan behold the Land of promise the Land of rest the Land flowing with milk and honey look beyond the downfal of Babylon the marriage-supper of the Lambe the great battel of Armageddon look beyond the victory over the Dragon the Beast and the false Prophet to the binding of Satan look beyond the binding of Satan to the coming down of the new Jerusalem to the spiritual glory of the City whose name is Jehovah-Shammah to the peaceable reign of our Solomon there remaineth a rest for the people of God Believe and live to enter into that rest Let the word of Christ dwell richly in you the Lord make you all mighty in the Scriptures wiser then your teachers wiser then your enemies and then nevertheless the more humble and lowly and lovely in the possession of your attainments The Lord fill the great vessels and the small vessels brim-ful of grace and peace and truth and love and spiritual understanding in a word fill you with his Spirit as with new wine the Lord make you drunk with his Spirit Oh that every one in the Congregation had a high Spirit for Christ a mighty Spirit for Christ I would to the Lord you had each of you the Spirit of David's Worthies in a spiritual sence that a few of you even two or three of you were able to break through the host of the Philistines for our Davids sake Be of good comfort There is work to do for the Lords young Disciples that are in their first love and their love to their Saviour and his interest will be tried There is business also for the Lords old Disciples that have been tried already and have overcome let them continue faithful to the death and they shall receive a crown of life a crown of righteousness which the Lord is preparing for them that love his appearing Brethren I have received your Messengers with gladness and we do mutually refresh each other the Lord be with your Spirit I shall further enlarge my thoughts the next opportunity pray and strive in prayer for a poor worthless creature the Lord is good to me in abundance I long to appear with joy in the great Congregation From my captivity in Windsor the 15 of the 1 Moneth 1653 4. Your faithful Shepherd in bonds Christoph. Feake Dearly Beloved in the Lord Jesus THe desire of my Soul on your behalf is this That the Lord would so communicate himself to you that ye might be like the Saints at Rome in Pauls time full of goodness filled with all knowledge able also to admonish one another and in that case I should rejoyce with you all abundantly for my chains and bonds would be lighter and easier to me by many degrees Whereas now I must ingenuously confess before the Lord and unto you that the care that cometh upon me daily because of you is more unto me then all the cruel mockings and scourgings with the tongue yea even then my bonds and imprisonment which I indure at this day The honour of our dear Lord is so much concerned in your walking and comunion together in your sweet gentle meek and holy behaviour in the ordering and managing of the affairs of Christs spiritual Kingdom through him set up by you that still at every turn you come into my thoughts How do they walk do they walk orderly do they please God do they edifie one another in love have the adversaries no cause to speak reproachfully hath their adversary the Devil no advantage to speak against them do they pray in the holy Spirit Is there a high and a mighty Spirit for God and for Christ and for his Cause in the midst of them Ah! Brethren I think with my self how shall I finde you when I come unto you again Have you increased with the increasings of God are you more and more strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man do you live by the faith of the Son of God I would to God I might finde you less luke-warm and more zealous for the Lord then when I left you more in the Spirit and less in the flesh and in self and in this world Do none of your eyes begin to dazzle at the glory and splendor of the Court as do the eyes of others Come Brethren a day in the Lords Courts is better then a thousand in any Princes Court upon the face of the Earth and for my part I had rather be a door-keeper or sit at the threshold of the Lords House then to dwell in the Tents or Palaces of wickedness It may be the Lord hath called me aside for a short space for this very purpose to tempt you