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Show ,. 016 'Art 'A p P EN']) I X to Vo·L. 1. No. XXVII. Strvice of Love, f.bo feek not your Own Thing•, but the Things of Jefus ~ Chrift, in this your Solemn General Murmg. . t: T · .And Dear Brethren we muft relJ you, here :s Room enough 1or rue Labou;ers in God's Vi;1ey:ud, and cannot welJ forbe11r to re~ommr.nd. tbe Ser\'ice of Truth in this Nation, to your Se_rious Confide~auon, if hoplj the Lord may put it into the Hearts of an) Faithful and Weighty Brethren, to vifit it in tbe Word of Eternal Life; Jor we cannot. but fay, ~be H:l,Sveft appears 10115 10 be great, and rbe Labourers in Compa!ifon but a 1etll: o 111 that Love which many Waren cannot quench, nor Dijltmce we•r //' Lf J."-1r Remembrances and ;11 which tot Jefire to be remembred of )Oil IO t e or o 0111 Houjhold, Tve Dearly and Tenderly Salute and Embrau you, and remain Your Loving and Faithful Brethren, William Penn, John Everott, Thoma/ Story. p 0 S T S C R I P _T.. . . .. Friends here have been Zealous and Liberal in Pnmmg and Re-pnnung, . 2nd freely difiributing great Quantities, and to very good Purpofe) of .fe,. .. , ,eral Books and Papers writ in Defence ofT RUTH, and for ~nformauon of the Simple and Mif-informed, which we hope will alfo fall under your Confideration. ~o.xxvm. An EPISTLE of Farewell, to the People of G 0 D ~ called Q u A ll E R s, where ever Scattered or Gathered, in England,, Ireland, Scotland, Holland, Germany, or i» ""1 otber Parts of EUROPE. An Epiffl• of My Deuly Beloved, and Highly E!\eemed in CHRIST, our HeaFueW( Uto tile venly Head; the Living a11d Good Shepherd of the Sh~ep, by whom PeopleofGoi we have been found out (Olle of a Family, and Two of a Tnbe). ~nd made k~: ~.a- One Holy Flock and Family unto Him, in this Day of. his Sptrlt~al and Life, p.14~· Glorious Appearance: Grace, Mercy and Peace, yea, Hu .Peace, whr~h ~he World can neirher give you nor td.e from you, be plenufully multiplied amongtt you from Day to Day; that an h~ly, liar.mlefs, and faithful ~eople you may be,.Jielding to the Lord' the FruH.s of h1s Goodnefs, by a Crrcumfpe8 and Self-denying Converfation to the End. And now, .iUy Dear Fricndt, whom I know and love, and you alfo whom I truly love, tho' I do not know Perfonally, nor. may be fo known of fome of you fince it has pleafed the Good and A1l-w1fe God to order my Courfe .from y~u. fo that I cannot Vifit you, as I have ofcen defired before I left you, This therefore is to he my Brotherly Faretcell unto you. And fur~l~ my Soul is bowed. in humble ~etitions to lfrae~'s God, the True, and La• ing, and Powerful God, Tbm ll may be well wrth yl)u all here and for e~ur. And, my Dear Brethren, this is cenain, if you Do Well, you fhalLce.rtaml.Y Fare Well· and in the End of all your Trrals, Troubles, and TemptatJons, 1t fhall be raid unto you, mJ.lr.U EDont, Good .and Faithful Servants, Enter Y' into the Joy of the Lord. 0 it is that which Crowns the Work: Not Saying but Doing: We mutt not only Begin, but End Well; and hold ~ut to the End: Not be of thofe who are weary ofWell-doing, but who {oll?w the Lord fully, as Ctlleb and ]ojhua did in Old Time, and are famed. (or lt. .So th.at tho' God has appeared to us, and given us many and undeQJable Teihmon1es that it was lie, and n:Jt another, who reached our Heans, and touched our Confciences, and brought us to Confeffion, yea, and forfaking roo, of th:lt which offended him, in gre:n Meafure, Blefl'ed be his Name, yet we are not to fiop, or take up our Refi here: We mufl Watch flill, Pray flill, Fight fliO, that Good Fight Of Faith, till we have overcome the E11tmy of our Soult: And even then mufr we Watch and Prny, and that to the End of our Days; that we may not lofe that Crown of Gldry, which God the Righteous Judge, }htdl givt to all thofc that love his .Appt'arancel overcome, ond pe,jcvere.to t~ef End : For be aifured we !hall Reap if we faint not: But we ihall fount, 1 we wait not upun God, who alOne is the Strength of his People. Thii VoL. I. TEe A it i l! o R 's L I F E. This) My Dfar Friends, .is- that whi~h lies with gre,ateft Srrefs upon iny Spirit; Watch. to yo11r Datly Prifervatton, and be nor fatisfied unlefs you feel it. Sufficzent is the .Day for the Evil thereof, faid our Hlefi'ed Lord. God is not wanting : He that long fiood at the Door of our Hearts, under our lmpenitency in Times pafi, till his Lotks wert wet with tht DeUJ and bis Hair with the Drops of the Night, ti11 We were wakened out of our'Carnal Security, and came to Judgment in ou'r felves, unto 'llnfefgned Repen• tance, .to be fure he is not weary of waiting to be Gracious now to his poor People; efpedally if they are Poor in Spirit, tn"rd h~tngring and thirfling ofter R1ghteoujntjs; and are not fill'd) overlaid, and choak'd wirh the Cares and Incumbrances of this World. No) He wt:U ever Good unto Ifrael, )'Cfr; 11nto all that are of an Upright and C!etm Heart : Wherefore, Brethren, let your Ey.e be. to the Lord, .and wait often upon him; walk with him, and dwell wuh h1m, and he will walk and dwell with you: And then n.o Wea~ pon form'd again/1 you, be it in Particular, or in General, jhall profper; that IS, not fina1ly. It may perhaps Tty you, and Bruife your Heel, as it did your Lord and Maflcr's,. but it fhall never finally Prevnil againft you, if you keep the Eye of your Mmds to him, and have Faith in him, who faved D_aniel in the Lyon's Den, and Shadrn~h, Mrjhach, and .Abedntgo, in the F1ery Furnace, and has upheld us to rh1s Day under various AffiiElions. And tho' Balaams there are, that may be hired by the Bala/u of otlr Age~ to Curfe our !Jraei-Family of God, of which fome of us have been very fenfi~ le, yet this we know, The Son of God is among us, who commands the Fire and the Water, and I he Wmds as well now a1 rhen: And there is no In• chantment againft Jacob, or Divination againft ifrael, that c:tn prqfpcr. And who knows but even fome of thefe prefent Ba/{lamr may yet live to fay~ before they dye, as others of them have done fince \~e were a People, How Goodly are t~yTents, 0 Jacob! How Pleafant is thy Dwelling·Pince, 0 Ifraell But then Frtends, we muft keep our Tents, we muft be a Redred. and a Peculiar People! ~nd d~ell alone. We mutt keep above the \Vorld, :ind clear of the Spult of tt, and thofe many Trifles, C:ues and Troubles that :abound in ir, wirh which but too many have vifibly wounded and pierced their own Souls. B:ware of this in th7 Name of th~ Lord. and do not Tempt God~ it is in Chnfi ye have Peace, tn the World IS the Trouble : Keep therefore in him who has called himfelf (and we have,found him fo) tb' W,ry, Truth, and Life; and you f!tall live becaufe he lives: He rhe Root, you the Branahet, by whom you w1ll be ~~Pt. Green and F~uitful, bringing forth the Fruits and Graces of the ~oly Spm~, m .an your Converfe, and Commerce, that it may be fe~n and fatd, God rs wztb J.Oll, a~d amongjl you. 0 I Let Humility, Char!ty, M~e!mefs, a'!d .S~/f·Dem.al,. !hm~ amongfi you; fo will you come to Sa, as d1d the Pnmmve Ch~libans, m Heavenly Places in Cbrifl Je(u.ri' and be preferved through the Notfe, Snares, and Hurry of this prefent 'Evil World. Much I could fay, for my Heart is open, and full roo of Divine Love and Matter to you; but Time fails me ; therefore feeL me My Dear Friends in that Love of God which is over Sea and Land; where Diftance cannot feparate, or Time decay, nor many Waters quench. In which Lol'e I Em.brace and Salute you all, with the Kifs of our Heavenly Fellowfbip, WhJCb the Lord hath given us in the Bl•lfed TRUTH. And my 1\rong Defires are to him, that we may maintain our Ble.ffed Relation by the fame Means, by which we carne at firft into it, viz. The True Fear and Love of Got! i which did not only make us Careful not to offend him but alfo ro be willing to For fake all Things that came in Competition with' him, Or our ~m~ . . Oh let this Cbajl Fu~ nnJ Fir[/ ~ove abourtd :rmong!\ you, my Beloved, In Chnft, our Bldfed L1ght and Ltfe; or you will Decay, Wirher, and D)'t t>o God, and your Good Beginnings; which God Almighty forbid. I know there is a Serious dnd Dilitent P6uple amongft yoa, who do not onlr know when Good comes frpm the Hand of the Lord, but rot~it upon hi11t for 1t, and that Daily; tb.~t their Souls may be ftrCngtben~d in the Way an4 i37 l'to. xxvnt: ~ |