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Show ( 278 ) the Blelling ; for the Blefling is to the Seed, the Plan£ of God's Renown, which he hath regard unro, for it is of his Nature and Image, and proceeds from him who is Meek. and LowJ~, and eafy to be entreated by the Upnght, for hts Ear is open to their Cry, who Hun!?er and Thirfi after his Prefence, w refrefh thetr Souls. So, dear People, lie no longer in Death, ~ut come out of the Grave of Carnal Securuy, wherein you lie, that your Souls may live, then will you prize wich me the Love and Prefence of rhe Lord above all Things : But unlefs that be refiored ro Life in you, which lies in Death, ym:r cannot prize the Love of God, for you do not feel his Prefence ; and this you know by Experience, that a dead Child js not fenfible of Wanr, neither doth it hunger afier the Breafi; but a living Child, that is Born imo the World, is foon fenfible of Want, and in ic is a hunger raifed after the Milk, which comes from the Breaft, to refrefh it withal, for ic cannot live without ir, or fome ocher Food like umo it; and this a rrue Figure to you, and aJI, and thorow it you may read your felves, and how your Conditions are every one in particular, that fo you rna y no longer be deceived, nor refi in a falfe Hope, which will fail you ; and even fo it is wirh you all, who never found a true Hunger raifed after the Lord, and after his Prefence, to refreih your Souls ; but you who can live Content, and refi farisfied without Nourifhmenr from him, you are as a dead Child, which feels neither Hunger nor Wanr; and this is the Truth to you all, the Lord revive your Senfes, and quicken your U nderfiandings, that you may be fenfible how your Conditions are, which is the defire of my Soul, that fo you may not Perifh in ( 279) in your Gain-fayings; and for this very end is this wriuen to you, as I was moved of the ~ord, in Bowels of Compaffion to you, knowI~ g. that you are, where I once was, jn the penfhtng State, , like lhe Prodigal from the fa .. ther's Houfe,. in the far Counrry, feed ing upon the Husks wu~ .the Swine; and this was my S!ate and ~onduton for many Years; but in the ume appom!ed, the Lord looked upom me with an Eye of Puy, and called me Home to himfeJ£ out of the far ~ouncry, _where I was feeding ?n the Husks wnh the Swme, inro the BanquetJ~ g- houfe, where my Soul is refrefhed, nounfhed and fed with the hidden Manna and Bread of Life, which is prepared for the Hungry and Feeble-minded to Feed upon. So, all dear People, mrn in your Minds, and read within, I fpeak not to the Thing without, for all they that go from the Lord, they go inro the firange Land, into the far Coumry, and all fuch are Adulteres, .thar fp:nd their Porrion upon Harlots, ~nd htde theu Talenr in the Earth, which was gtven them to profit wicha1 ; and all fuch are ~an~erer~ and Vagabonds, which have not ~ Habu~tiOn ~n the Lord, in . Cain's Nature; and tho they may be Builders of Ciries as Cain was, yet being from God, as he was, ·:hey are Strangers and Wanderes, being feparated from the Lord, who hath prepared a Reft for his ~eople, where they are fafe, and feed together, m. the g~od Land, where they are at Home W!th th.etr Maker, who fills Heaven and Earth wuh hts Prefence, Glory unto. his Name for ever more. So, all People, turn Home into your own Tems, that you may fee where you are, and what you are feeding upon, and wander no longer abroad wilh your Minds in the Earth, |