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peared to all men, and in his spirit which he hath poured on all flesh, the light, which is the life in Christ, which enlightens every man that comes into the world, all men and women are to have their liberty in Christ Jesus, in which they all have unity, and an everlasting liberty and unity, and fellowship in the everlasting son of God, in Christ the head; and in Christ the head they are joined together by his light, life, and spirit of grace. And all that walk contrary to the light, life, and spirit of grace, let them profess what they will, they are not in the true liberty and true freedom, nor in the true fellowship with the Father and the son, and his people; for the true liberty and unity are in the spirit, light, and life of Christ, to which all men and women, from the first have been directed, that in it they may all live and walk in the true freedom, liberty and unity, and fellowship with the Father and the son, and one with another. And the true freedom and liberty are in the gospel, in the glorious gospel of life, peace and salvation;' which gospel is the power of God, preached to, and in every creature under heaven.' And every one's conversation must be according to this glorious gospel of life, peace and salvation. For they who order their conversation aright by the gospel, do see and receive this gospel of peace, life, and salvation. And in this gospel, the power of God, is the true, glorious, peaceable freedom and liberty in the life and salvation in Christ Jesus. And all that do profess the gospel of Christ, the power. of God, in words, and do not live and walk in the gospel the power of God, they are in bondage under the power of darkness, and are out of the peaceable free liberty of the glorious gospel of life and salvation, like the raging waves of the sea, casting up mire and dirt, as I said before; and in their vain janglings and disputings, and false jealousies, murmurings and complainings, revilings, railings, defamings, unstablished, and to every good work and service of God reprobate. And from such spirits and leaven God Almighty keep and preserve his people in his light, truth, and spirit of grace and holy faith in Christ Jesus, who is the holy and heavenly rock and foundation; in him they have life and peace with God, and are in the holy liberty and freedom. And in him, namely, in Christ Jesus, my desire is, that all his true and faithful followers may stand fast, in their holy and pure liberty, in him who is holy and pure, who was first, and is last, and now is the rest of his people, the Amen.

London, the 12th of the 8th month, 1685.

G. F.

How the unchangeable God is, and how all people may know him, and in what he is worshipped and served. By G. F.

THE Lord hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand.' So the Lord, the incomparable God knoweth the measures of the waters in the seas, brooks, rivers, wells, and ponds, for he hath measured them; so they are measured in the hollow of his infinite hand, and the incomparable God with his infinite hand, hath meeted out heaven with his span,' (mark, he hath meeted it out,) so he knoweth the breadth and the compass of it with his infinite span of his great hand, and the Lord hath comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure.' So the incomparable God knoweth the measure of the dust of the earth, and the Lord hath weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance.' So the Lord who hath weighed them, knoweth the weight both of the hills and mountains. Behold, the nations are but as the drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the earth. Behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing. To whom then will ye liken God, or what likeness will ye compare him to,' who is the infinite incomparable God, as in Isa. xl. In the Lord's hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.' Job xii. 10.

So here you may see and feel the Lord's hand is nigh unto all men and women in the whole world, and in them, if their soul and breath be in his hand. Here you may see the eternal, infinite hand of the incomparable God, in whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind' in the whole world; for God breathed into man the breath of life, and he became a living soul.' God, who is immortal, hath the breath of all (and all immortal souls) in his hand, and none can fall out of his eternal hand.

The spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.' Job xxxiii. 4. And Daniel told Belshazer the king how that he lifted up himself against the Lord God of heaven, ' in whose hand is thy breath.' Dan. v. 23.

And the apostle saith, God that made the world and all things therein, (he is Lord of heaven and earth,) dwelleth not in temples made with hands, neither is he worshipped with the works of men's hands, as though he needed any thing; and hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell upon the face of the earth, and he giveth to all life and breath, and all things, &c. that they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him and find him, though he be not far from every one of us, for in him we live and move and have our being.' Acts xvii. 24 to 28.

Here again you may see how God gives life and breath unto all, who

hath it in his hand, and he would have all to know him and serve him, and that he is nigh unto them all, who hath their breath and soul in his hand; so then he is nigh unto all that they might know that they live, move, and have their being in the Lord, who poureth out of his spirit upon all flesh, that all flesh might see his glory, and see the salvation of God.' Isa. xliii. Luke iii. 6. Acts ii. 17. For the Lord poureth out of his spirit upon all flesh, that in his spirit and in truth all might know God, and serve him, and worship him in his spirit and truth, for such spiritual worshippers God, who is an infinite holy spirit, seeks to worship him. Now it is and hath been often said by the priests that are bred up at schools and colleges, that 'the priest's lips should preserve people's knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth." I answer, that these were the Jews' priests that were made by the law of a carnal commandment in the old testament and old covenant; but 'Christ was made a priest after the power of an endless life' in the new testament and new covenant, who came of Judah, and is called the lion of the tribe of Judah, and not after the order of Aaron, who offered rams, and lambs, and bullocks, and other creatures, but after the order of Melchisadeck, from Melech a king, Tsedech, just or righteous, so a just and righteous king. Of whom we do not read that he offered up outward creatures as Aaron's priests did, though he offered up praises to God when he met Abraham.

But Christ hath changed the priesthood of Aaron, and the law by which they were made, and disannulled the commandment which gave him tithes; as you may see in Heb. vii.

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Now you that do say the Jews' priests that are made by the law, their lips are to preserve people's knowledge, and they are to receive the law at their mouth,' this law served until Christ the seed came, (Gal. iii. 10.) who is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believes.' Rom. x. 4. And in the old testament and covenant God gave the Jews a law in tables of stone, but in the new testament and new covenant, God saith, I will put my law in their minds, and write it in their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people, and they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, know the Lord, for they all shall know me from the least to the greatest, saith the Lord.' Heb. vii. 10, 11.

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So you may see here is no need of the Jews' priests lips, &c. to preserve people's knowledge, and to receive the law at their mouths, and to give them tithes for receiving the law, for Christ hath changed the priesthood and the law by which it was made, and disannulled the commandment that gave them their tithes, and saith in his new testament to his ministers, 'Freely ye have received, freely give.' And in the new covenant and new testament the Lord puts it in their minds, and writes

it in their hearts, that they shall not need to teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, know the Lord, and Christ Jesus the treasure of wisdom and knowledge, for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest, saith the Lord.' So this law that God writes in their hearts and puts in their minds gives them knowledge to know the Lord; so this law they receive from the Lord, and not from the college priests, and the Jews' priests in the old testament.

And the Lord poured his spirit upon the house of Israel and the house of Judah in the old testament, but it is said in Joel ii. that God would pour his spirit upon all flesh,' &c. And after Christ was risen, the disciples and the believers were met together, and the Jews came gazing upon them, and 'others mocked and said they were full of new wine;' and Peter and the eleven told them that they were not drunk as they supposed, seeing it was but the third hour of the day; but this is that which was spoken by Joel the prophet, It shall come to pass in the last days, saith the Lord, that I will pour out of my spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams, and on my servants and on my handmaids, I will pour out of my spirit in those days, and they shall prophesy.' Acts ii. 13 to the 18th.

Here you may see the spirit that God poureth upon all flesh, gives people knowledge of prophecies, and of dreams, and of visions; so the spirit of God, that God poureth upon all flesh in the new testament and new covenant gives them knowledge, that they need not the priests' lips in the old testament to preserve their knowledge, and people will not perish for lack of visions, if they mind the spirit of God that he hath poured upon them, and the spirit of truth will lead them into all truth.' But if sons, and daughters, and handmaids, and servants, and old men, do rebel against the spirit of God, that he poureth upon them in the new testament, as the Jews did in the old testament; for God gave them his good spirit, but they rebelled against it; then those go from the key of knowledge, both Jews and christians, and all flesh. And the Jews' priests when they went from the spirit of God, they neither preserved the people's knowledge nor their own, and became deaf and blind, and turned against the prophets, Christ, and the apostles, though they might make an outward painting of the sepulchres of the righteous, in an outward profession of words, and turn against the righteous. So now all flesh, Jews and Gentiles, and all Christendom whom God hath poured out of his spirit upon, if they rebel against God's good spirit, and err from it, and quench it, and vex it, they are gone a whoreing from God and Christ, and his spirit, and have neither true visions, nor true prophecies, nor true dreams, and are as Babylon, all in heaps and confusion, and cannot worship the eternal God in his spirit, and in

his truth, and are out of the unity and the fellowship in the spirit, which is the bond of peace; and so have not fellowship with the Father and the son, nor fellowship one with another,' but are broken into sects and heaps one against another, whereas the spiritual, that walk in the spirit, are in the spirit, the bond of peace, and are in fellowship with the Father and the son, and one with another, and worship and serve the living God in his spirit and truth. G. F.

A true account of the sensible, thankful, and holy state of God's people; and of his speaking to them, both in the Old and New Covenant. By G. F.

HERE you may see that all God's people were a living and a sensible people, and did always, for all things, give thanks to God the Father, in the name of Jesus Christ.

And such as were unholy, past feeling, and insensible, having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof, were unthankful, and to be turned away from, and that such went in Cain's, Corah's and Balaam's way, who did feed themselves without the fear of God, and were like the idolatrous Jews who forgot God, and eat and drank, and rose up to play; and how God destroyed such who were unthankful and insensible of his temporal and spiritual mercies.

The Lord said unto his people that were acquainted with him, and knew him, 'that when they gathered together their corn and their wine, &c. they should eat it and drink it in the court of my holiness, and praise the Lord.' Isa. lxii. 8, 9.

So here you may see, they that gathered together that which the Lord gave the increase of, they were to eat it and drink it in the court of the Lord's holiness, and praise him; and they that gather the increase of the Lord's fruits, and do eat them, they should be sensible of the holiness of his courts, who filleth heaven and earth, who is worthy of all praise and glory for all his mercies. And they that eat and drink that which the Lord, who hath made them, hath provided, are to be sensible in his spirit that he is worthy of all thanks and praises, and so are not to be like the idolatrous Jews, who forgot the Lord and his great power and mercies, who had done such great things for them, both in Egypt, and in delivering them out of Egypt, who after 'sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.' 1 Cor. x. 7. Numb. xxv. 9.

And there you may see what became of all those who did not eat and drink in the courts of God's holiness, and praise the Lord; and they that did, and do forsake the right way of the Lord, and do go into the