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A54448	Two epistles, written to all Friends in the truth the one touching the perfection of humility, written in Rome-prison of madmen, the other touching the righteous order of judgement in Israel, written at Lyons in France / by the servant of God, John.	J. P. (John Perrot), d. 1671?	1661 (1661)	Wing P1636; ESTC R3555	11,573	16

up the Weeds that the Plants may prosper in the ground and prune the Tree cutting off the unprofitable branches that the profitable may much more prosper yeilding abundance of fruit in due season unto the Lord of the Vineyard and not go too hastily and cut off a Twig because of a corrupted leaf thereon nor cut off a Limb of the Tree because of a withered bow on the Limb but rather learn the Judgment of Wisdom and Righteousniss of the Lamb in cases of sin and uncleanness to stoop down and write with the finger on the ground and when you have sufficiently written there as the Lamb stooped down twice in the Judgement of the cause of the Harlot then you will come to lift up the head also as he did and say Go thy way and sin no more for by stooping down and writing on the ground you will put many in the way wherein they will sin no more as the Lamb your Example did the Adulteress And there you will be known to be of His Spirit which taketh away the sin of the world and not made as Instruments to the cutting off of souls from holiness and righteousnesse causing them thereby to turn into all sin and uncleanness neither will the grief of the Just fall justly upon your heads nor the sore distractions of the oppressed become your Burthens but Peace will be with you for ever But until this order of the Judgement of Righteousness be throughly among you God will make Whips for the daughters of Judah and Scourges for the sons of Israel and in measure chastize His People until they are formed into the similitude of the brightness of His Glory in the true Knowledge of His Judgements and Mercies which go over all His Works to be made a perfect Inheritance unto Him for ever as He is their God and their Perfection But after Admonition upon Admonition Reproof upon Reproof if such a Person as is spoken of stoppeth the Ear and hardneth the Heart and despiseth the Way of the Lord and will not be Converted and Healed after all the gentle dealings of the Spirit of your Father and the Lamb in you Then it will appear just and righteous in any Sister or Brother that is moved of the Lord in his pure and holy Fear in the Spirit of Sobriety to Judge the evil of such a one in such severity as the Brother or Sister may be led unto by the Spirit of Widom to do and so the Judgement will stand true and sound never to be repented of for it will reach to that of God in all in relation to Truth both in matter time and manner And as this Order of Righteous Judgement is kept so Peace will be also kept in Israel and the Unity of Love in all his Tents for Ever And be it known unto you that Hastiness is not of the nature of my Father who wooeth sinners and correcteth gently in measure and stirreth up his Bowels of Love and Mercies again and again unto sinners and often wooeth a stiffnecked and rebellious enemy and winneth a treacherous soul by the power of his boundless eternal Love Wherefore all that are born of the Seed of his Kingdom must so grow into the Image and Similitude of their God in his Spirit of the glory of Love Meekness Long-suffering and exceeding Tenderness unto one another and unto all the Creation of Mankind made of His mighty hand as that their lives may shew forth the excellency of His Praise in their Generation even to the End of their dayes in the Tabernacle Again in Cases of Trespasses of Brethren against Brethren it ought to be looked into whether the Trespass was of a presumptuous Will finding it so the Trespasser may wisely be dealt withal as abovesaid but stil the Brethren in such cases must mind Forgiveness more than Judgment Because the exercise of Forgiveness in the glorious Power of Love and Mercies is able to overcome all the Trespasses and the strong Will in all men which works Trespasses Wherefore he that overcomes in this manner gains Victory in the Battel of the Lamb and so Conquers as to receive the Crown of Victory on his Head and also to see plainly how the Vertue of Love in him covers a multitude of sins and evils And may not I say unto you all without respect of persons if my Eternal Father of brightness gave you the Example of the Lamb of His Glory in taking away the sins of the World ought not ye to be careful followers of Him in all His steps pressing on in the growth of His Spirit as much as in you lies to do as he did And if He in the Love of the Father took away the sin of the World whilst yet it was in enmity to the Father and His own Life ought not ye therefore earnestly strive to be careful in seeking to remove the nature of a Trespasse from a Brother And know you not that the most Forgiveness is a ground and cause for the stirring up of the most Love and if Love be stirred up in this Principle of Life in the hearts of Trespassers through the obtaining from you the abundance of Forgiveness doth not this truly beget souls unto a nearness in God who is the Original and Fountain of Eternal Love and Forgiveness Surely yea And therefore this is Counsel to you all that you may be a pure and holy People to the Lord your God Learn the Life of the Lamb Follow Him wheresoever He goeth and you shall never want Wisdom nor Counsel in the Way And to the end that you may all bear in your faces the expresse similitude and Image of the Father mind the Word of the Lord to the Revolted People of Israel who thus spake unto them by his Prophet saying As I live saith the Lord God who is pittiful merciful and long-suffering slow to anger but ready to forgive I delight not in the death of a sinner but rather that he might turn from his sins and repent Unto which Repentance the Lord God of Grace hath often wooed as I have said perverse Rebels which have wilfully resisted his holy Spirit and sometimes hath smitten them with the Rod of his gentle Corrections and then hath wooed them again and said All the day long have I stretched out my hand to a gain-saying and rebellious People And Oh Jerusalem Jerusalem thou that killest the Prophets and stonest them that are sent unto thee How often would I have gathered thee as a Hen gathereth her Chickens but ye would not And which of us this day in Sion can say but that our God sent unto our souls Line upon Line and Precept upon Precept before we turned unto Him and whilst yet we were sinners He loved us and whilst we were Enemies He prepared the way of reconciling us unto Himself and whilst we were in our Blood He washed us and when none eye pittied us His Mercies covered us Now therefore if we should

beasts service to fowls service to fishes and service to worms all in the Love in which they were by the humble Spirit created to be served of the humble Spirit according to all their respective kinds So here you may see the Eternal Wisdom dwelleth in the low place where a friend in the pure Spirit of Humility which proceedeth out of the Eternal Bosom of Love which created all things for a service as God Almighty himself serveth all living creatures in the same Love and Lowliness oughteth to sweep his friend's house and to latch his shoes and make clean the way of his footsteps yea and to do it with the very sweat of his brow which I speak in God Almighty's holy Spirit to all without respect of persons For this will give all the Children true entrance and living ingress into the bowels of God's mercies that as they in the incomprehensible Love are come down to serve in the low house beneath all Earth and Waters under the Earth and there to give due attendance as God Almighty waiteth to serve all and thus are Ministers in the feeling bowels of the unlimited pitties and compassions to all distresses without respect of creatures or persons in this manner gathering all into the unlimitedness of their bowels of mercies So become they gathered into the inmost part of the Eternal Bosom and here the Life provoketh the Love and the Love stirreth up the Bowels and the Bowels of God are provoked to yearn in Himself which brings home the Oppressions of the Oppressed in a greater weight upon the Spirit of the Almighty God than if it were done to him alone and in particular for that they are the helpless Apple of his Eye which cannot help it self nor take out the pricking motes without the help of a careful and merciful hand And therefore the GOD of your Hope in the day of Affliction and Temptation will arise and roar as a Lioness which is robbed of her Whelps because her compassions go after her young and the Nations shall dread and tremble and the Host thereof shall fall by the high-way side for as much as they carried away the spoil which they should have left in the Land and have wasted the Tents of the Lord And the house of the Spoiler shall be made a spoil before Him and he which robbed the Labourer of his Hemp and Flax as he beareth the burden thereof from his Neighbours door it shall burn as a flame at his back Wo unto Egypt for the Lord is jealous Wo unto Rimmon for that the Anger of the God of Righteousness and Judgment kindleth Weep ye craggy Rocks and howl ye exalted Mountains and lament your part O ye lofty Hills round about the Cities of Tyre and Sidon For I will overturn saith the Lord God and it shall be a day of ratling even as if the Firmament were falling with Thunders Nations shall hear it and dread and I will have a Name of Righteousness saith the Lord Almighty even unto the ends of the whole earth Then shalt thou sing O Daughter of my own Beloved and gladness shall never depart from thy Scituation O Damsel of my hearts delight for I will be thine in an Oath and thou shalt be mine in a perpetual Covenant even for ever and evermore saith the God of eternal love In this Spirit therefore which is of Power Might of Truth and Faithfulness I have dearly to stir you up and exhort you to wait in the patience and content of the Life of the Lamb submitting in the will of the Father unto every yoak weight and burthen whatsoever may be permitted to be put upon your necks and backs and also in the true feeling of the Oppressions of every soul put your backs to their burthen whosoever they be without respect of persons for that Spirit is of God which is tender and enclineth unto a feeling of every mans Yoak for so did God Almighty feel and pity and compassionate them in their Sufferings and under their Oppressions which now do oppresse and make the others to suffer by whom they formerly were oppressed which the others should not have done then neither should these do so now Therefore do ye the Children of God even as your Father doth stand between them both in the Spirit which bears every man's Oppression and unjust load and so you shew your selves to be of the Image of your Father who thereby will enlarge his Glory very greatly in the whole Earth for God will have such a sound to go unto the ends thereof and gain himself a great Name of praise thereby And as for you in this Spirit your Reward shall be very great and your Redemption shall certainly come and therfore again I say let Patience have her perfect work for the black horse which is Coloured over with blood which now runneth the race was never truly ayred nor well breathed and the Course from the first start being a full loose upon switch and spur will surely sink before half the Race is run and he which comes gently after on the moderate speed will obtain the mark and the prize So though the little ones do eat their bread with the sweat of their brows for a season it is but to prepare them and their pure appetites to eat at a feast of fat things in the infinite worth and incomprehensible price of an everlasting life of thanksgiving and praise unto him which prepareth the Table To which purpose this the Lord God requireth of his People rent souls broken spirits contrite hearts breathing mindes fervent prayers and exceeding open bowels to God Almighty in all things of your souls desires for this is the Sacrifice which the Eternal Power requireth from All without respect of persons and he loveth the broken spirit and hath respect unto the contrite heart which I full well know by large testimony and experience and now the deeper I ponder it the more it rents my inward parts to consider the greatness of the Goodness of God which answereth the full streams of the broken spirit and contrite heart which I cannot but testifie that Israel may drink refreshment even at the brim of the Cup-ful of my Consolations and hold it as an exceeding Joy in his house to go down and humble himself before his God in the rent soul broken spirit and exceeding contrite heart to feel his Creator's acceptance of him in the day of his mourning before him Enter enter and feel your thorough ingress into this house in the contrite heart O all ye Children of the living God that you may know your Father's Life and bear his very Image and true likeness in all things for his Spirit is wounded and mourneth and grieveth in more contriteness than your eye can discern or reach bearing every man's oppressive burdens without respect of persons so you entring here into the deeps of the Spirit of God the humble spirit of contriteness you move the bowels of your

TWO EPISTLES Written to all Friends in the Truth The one touching the Perfection of HUMILITY Written in Rome-Prison of Madmen The Other Touching the RIGHTEOUS ORDER OF JUDGEMENT IN ISRAEL Written at Lyons in France By the Servant of God JOHN LONDON Printed for Robert Wilson at the sign of the Black-spread-Eagle and Windmil in Martins Le Grand 1661. CONCERNING HUMILITY JOHN the Prisoner to the Little LAMBS SALUTATION GOD Almighty is greater than the swelling and boyling Waves of a troubled angry raging Sea for though she rouls the unsetledness of her Outrage as the Tumblings of Mountain after Mountain yet He which ruleth on high ordering in his unsearchable Counsel all things for the Advantage of good Prosperity and Happiness of all the constant setled faithful-hearted whose Delight without wearisomeness is to trust in his Living Name and Eternal Supream Power can make all in a moment and turning of a short space become as standing Oyl Thus saith the Voice which is holy which is true which is living and faithful Who hath Power but the LORD Or where is there permission but of the Mighty One Where is Counsel but with the Eternal Wisdom who purgeth Jacob in his way and befooleth his Foes in the very open wayes and narrowest and secretest paths of their own Outgoings and Designs Who hath known the LORD and will not trust in Him for an Everlasting Good Who hath trusted in the God of Salvation that can say his Trust hath perished in the end and the peace of his soul is fled from him Or can his Servants say that He is as a man or like unto the son of man which remembreth not the way nor enclineth unto the Cry of the Just Verily the Seas may sink through the Earth and be no more as the Waters in her belly and the whole Earth become as a whirled dust out of a golden Ballance Yet is there Iudgment with the Lord for Worm Jacob and a Covenant of Righteousness for Israel Moreover Though Nature may degenerate from her proper kind the Cow nor the Asse the Camel nor the Old Lionness nay nor the Nurse nor the Mother have any more pitty or compassion to the fruits of their own bowels to suckle or nourish them in due season though they might harden their hearts and shut their ears from the Cryes of their own flesh and should loath and abominate their languishings unto death yet is there Compassion with the God of David for the humble and contrite-hearted and Deliverance with the God of Moses for the Seed of his own Host though they are straitned by the Red Sea-side Therefore lift up your heads O ye little Lambs and breath to your Keeper in the spirit of fear and reverence sanctifying his NAME in your hearts in the Life of Faith and Obedience until the Rod be stretched over the Floods for then shall you march with dry shoes through the mighty deeps with the Songs of Salvation in your Way But the joyning hands of the divided Waters will cover the running stones of the Defences of Egypt as Rocks that are cast to the bottoms doubled then shall your Psalms be Yea and trebly tuned unto the highest Land and Glory of Him which rules in the Heavens above This is the Day wherein God Almighty is trying and proving with what an eye you are enclined to look into the Life of his humility who shews himself as a servant unto Man walking his Corn-fields and attending him with Bread and all things who feeds the Worms of the workmanship of his hands and refresheth the creeping things with the lowly and humble Attendance of his own most infinit bowels of Mercies yea he walks in the deeps of the Seas amongst the Worms that creep in the bottom of her belly and womb watching and waiting as the diligence of all diligence to serve them in all wants Ah! what shall I say of the King of Glory to whom the Sun Moon and Stars are but as a shadow and the Firmament of the Heavens but as a dark and gloomy vail Surely when I consider the Glory of the most Eternally glorious full of Wisdom Strength Power Vertue Light and Brightness the height of whose Majesty in all things which glorious are there 's no end of space to reach how He hath humbled Himself to come down in the lowliness of his Life to serve me his dispised of man with the greatness and grace of His rich Compassions it moves and melts my heart before him and even now makes me cry in the Spirit saying Oh that the Wisdom of the most wise and humble would encrease with me for ever to the end instructing me to serve as He serveth in the humbleness of his wisest Life Children this is the deep place where you are to sink down into in this the day of the tryal of spirits to know of what nature they are So here try your selves and prove your selves and see if you can serve the Worms of God which creep upon the face of the Earth even as God serveth them according to the measure and proportion of the wisdom and knowledge which from God you have received search your selves and examine your selves whether in nature and true kind you can serve as God Almighty serveth the poor creeping things or serve Lazarus the poor man as God Eternal served him in Dogs and the World saw it not Yea and question your selves and try your hearts that you may know whether you can serve God in that lowliness in which He daily serveth you and so consider well how God Almighty provideth your food and rayment and puts the bread in your mouths and pours the water into your cups and arrays you and latches your shoes and makes clean the filthy way before your footsteps And if any among you have griefs or sores or botches or painful boyls God Almighty humbleth his compassionate Soul and cometh down from on high and stands exceedingly below you where you see him not and putteth out his tongue and licketh your sore places and so healeth the wounded and saveth the sick from the grief of the malady Oh my Beloved Ones and dearest little Children and Lambs of God I cannot tell you how infinitly you own tender and merciful Father standeth below you and round about you waiting and watching in grace and loving-kindness to serve you whose day this is which now is wherein you must be tryed and proved whether you bear the Image of his holy Spirit of Humility as did Jesus the Just and as you are found sinking down here into the low place even in admiration considering where before this day you dwelt in a house which had its Foundation above the Rocks of the deeps of the low places whereon the highest Heavens are pitched and therefore All must sink unto it and be firmly setled on it whereby ye may know the bosom of Love from which all pure service doth proceed service to God service to man service to