thereby from under the heavens, and appoint you your portion amongst the hypocrites, who are gone into everlasting burning, under the vengeance of eternal fire.

Therefore, let a search pass through all families : and where any have continued unto this day, thus displeasing the Lord Almighty, and working the destruction of their own souls, I say unto all such, in the name of the Lord, haste, haste, haste out of the darkness; give ear; the trumpet of the Lord giveth a certain sound ; therefore obey from the heart, that ye may yet, before your day go over, be translated out of the kingdom of Satan, which is darkness, into the kingdom of light of the dear Son of God, Christ Jesus the Lord.

And all Friends everywhere, that have the sealing of God's Eternal Spirit, that you have obeyed from the heart, and to this habitation and dwelling-place of light are come; in the sense of the unutterable loving-kindness of the Lord Almighty, and the work of his glorious gathering arm, continue, and keep your habitations; for the angels that kept not their habitations are reserved under the very chainings of darkness, to the judgment of the great day.

And Friends, in all the hurryings of men and nations, look ye not out, but dwell in the habitation aforesaid; and in times of distresses and amazements, in the fulfilling of the word of the Lord, this to you all

is

an universal word of counsel from the Lord,-be still, be still, be still, and know that I am God, saith the Lord; and stir not out of my counsel in any thing, nor take counsel of your own heart :-keep the eye of your minds to the heavenly, spiritual oracle of wisdom, and you shall have counsel from the Lord to your satisfaction; but if ye look out, ye will be darkened, and may fall with them that fall.

And all assemblies and families of the Lord's people everywhere, watch unto prayer, that ye may feel the spirit of prayer and supplication poured forth upon you and as drawn thereunto, sit before the Lord in the deep sense of the great work of the destroyer, who is stirring up the nations to destroy and devour one another; and is seeking an entrance, as a roaring lion, to destroy some of the Lord's people, called in the morning of the day of his love. Oh! cry, cry, cry mightily unto the Lord, for yourselves, your friends, and your enemies, and for the poor land of our nativity, which is heavy laden with the iniquities of the inhabitants thereof; over whom the piercing eye of the Almighty looks in great displeasure. Oh let your supplications be, that the Lord Almighty would arise in his great strength, and so judge amongst the nations, that their swords may be beaten into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks; that the nations may learn war no more one with another: and that this expedient for universal peace may be upon the hearts of princes and people, namely, that all people might leave off warring with, and destroying one another; and all come into the spiritual warfare in their own hearts, with the spiritual weapons, against the common enemy of mankind, the devil; that so they all might experience the end of the coming of Christ Jesus, namely, to destroy the works in every man, of the great Abaddon, Apollyon, the destroyer. And may the living God be pleased to hasten his great work, of putting to an end the sin of this age, and iniquity of this generation; and so bring in everlasting righteousness, [and cause it] to flow as a mighty river of sweet refreshment; that this poor land with others might enjoy its sabbaths; that He who is King of

Salem, Prince of Peace, may rule in the hearts and souls of princes and people; so that the great, universal, omnipotent God may have his honour, and the princes and people of all lands their comfort, in the sweet, inexpressible enjoyment of his omnipresence, and blessing of sitting under their own vine and figtree. So shall all fear be removed out of the nations, but the fear of the Lord God Almighty; which would make all rulers and people happy, both in this world, and that which is to come. Amen, Amen, Amen, saith the tribulated, travailing soul of your friend and brother,

Tetherton, Twelfth Month 13th, 1678.

C. M.

CHAPTER XI.

A Tender Visitation of Love, to the called of God everywhere; being a testimony to the precious, ancient, sweet, living power of the everlasting God.

DEAR FRIENDS,

GATHER you everywhere inward, into a feeling of, and continuing with, and subjecting unto, the glorious, precious, ancient, living and mighty power of God; and let all diligently attend its teachings, leadings, openings and operation; that by it a search may go through all hearts, all families and assemblies; that all that grieves his Holy Spirit, and is offensive in the pure eye of the Lord, may be sought up; and every garden viewed to see what grows there, that every plant that is not of the Lord's right hand planting, may be discovered and pulled up. For, Friends, under the weighty dread of the Lord God Almighty is my soul exercised at this time to say unto you, the Lord is arising to prove, to try, to fan, to purge and refine; for the day grows on, that will burn as an oven: but what shall abide? and who may abide? let this be the examination: for the lead, the tin, yea, also the reprobate silver, will pass away in this refining fire. And that which may have the likeness of gold, and is not of a pure, enduring nature, will vanish, and leave all poor that possess not the gold.

So dear Friends, everywhere, I say unto you, in the dread, awe, fear, and name of the Lord, haste,

haste out of all that is not weighty, out of the nature that keeps the soul in any bondage and distance from the Lord. Yea, hasten out of the state of professing the truth, in a nature and spirit contrary unto it, which grieves the Spirit of the Lord God. Dear Friends, the pure eye of the Lord that runs to and fro, beholding the evil and the good, sees all states and conditions, all false ways and false births; all that run from the daily cross, all that lose the sweet lovely image of God, and are growing up in another image in the house of imagery, and walk in the land of graven images; and all that depart out of the swee', tendering, heavenly wisdom, into that which is earthly and sensual, wherein there is a priding in the openings opened in the day of tenderness, and an increasing in that knowledge which will bring increase of sorrow, a growing into the state of being fat and strong, that must be fed with judgment; and sees all that know the truth, its way and work, and come not into obedience unto it: I say, the pure, immortal eye of the eternal, ever-living God, sees all these states and conditions, and all the by-paths and crooked ways the soul's enemy leads into; and his holy power is arisen to bring them all to judgment. Therefore hasten, hasten, [ye] who are concerned herein, to meet the Lord God Almighty in the way of his judgments. Bow, bow unto the pure power of the Lord ; feel it in its burning and consuming, where there is matter that hurts the soul, that bondageth the soul, and darkeneth the understanding; that so all may be comprehended down under the dominion and reign of this glorious power, through its consumings, utter destroyings and burnings up all that is contrary unto the divine nature thereof. In this power immortal, peace is known with the Lord, through his blessed work of