and who go from that, pluck down with enmity and discord, and wrangling, and quarrelling and disputing; and are puffed up with high swelling words, and are large in their worldly wisdom and earthly knowledge in a show, to tread upon the simple; and are of the great comprehension. Therefore keep over that spirit, for it will not stand to the end, although it would be lord; it is scorched when the heat of persecution comes.

Robert Hodson, William Robinson, Marmaduke Stevenson, Peter Pearson, William Brend, William Ledra, and the rest of Friends in New-England and Virginia, be faithful to the Lord in the truth of the Lord God, and in his power and wisdom be valiant for it upon the earth, and spread it abroad, and confound deceit. And go on in peace, and love, and unity one with another, and keep in the wisdom of the Lord God; that ye may be

answerable to the witness in every one to whom ye preach. And to all nations of mankind the everlasting Gospel, the power of God, is to be preached, through which life and immortality shall come to light; in which power is the fellowship. Therefore this is the word of the Lord God to you all, those that are convinced by the power of the Lord God, and the light, let them dwell in it, in which they may have unity. For the Lord. hath a Seed that ways, if ye in patience all of you wait, and do not matter the weather, the storms, the winds, the hail, the rain, wherein ye are to sow the seed, nor the rough ground, that is to be tilled. For the husbandman waits patiently, after the seed is sown; there is a winter, before the summer comes. And there must be a great work, before the misty heathen be cleared in their understandings, (that are so naturally,) and the dark air be driven back, and the Prince of Life and Light be witnessed. So, live in patience and in peace, and in the weighty wisdom of God, and then ye will see the end of all frothy spirits, that will not abide the trial.

G. F.

P.S. The Lord is king over all the earth, and Christ hath all power in heaven and in the

earth; and He is King of kings and Lord of lords: let Him rule and reign in all your hearts by faith, and exalt Him in the land, and in your assemblies.

Dear Friends,

NUMBER CXCIV.

1660.

Who have found the better part, and chosen the better thing, the one thing, which lasteth for ever, which is the ground of all true rejoicing and joy, in whom ye have all riches and life, and the blessings, and the immortal power to be your crown and covering. And it may be, there will be a time of shearing and clipping; but the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof. So, mind Him to be your portion, and the Seed Christ your all, and your Life; and fear not losing the fleece, for it will grow again. And keep in the worship of the Father in the Spirit and in the Truth, which the devil is out of, and in that ye will live in the Truth and Spirit in yourselves, and walk in unity in the same; and then ye. are over all the will-worships in the fall of Adam. And as the outward Jew suffered by

the outward Egyptians and Babylonians, and they persecuted them, and killed their children; so the spiritual Egyptians and mystery Babylon persecute and would kill the Jews in spirit, that worship God in the spirit, whose praise is of God, and not of man; and such have none from fallen men, but by them are persecuted. But all such go, as dumb before their shearers; for He that gave his back and his cheek to the smiters, overcame and reigns, and hath the victory and the honour, who is Christ, the Amen, the First and Last, the Top and Corner-Stone; in Him sit down in life, and peace, and rest.

G. F.

NUMBER CXCVI.

Dear Friends

1660.

In Jamaica and elsewhere, who know the Truth of God, and have been sufferers for the same, all live in it, that ye may all be preserved in peace and freedom. For Truth brings to the noble mind, spirit, and nature, and Seed, which never will bend to sin and unrighteousness, nor ungodliness whatsoever, nor to the author of it. And therefore all

walk in the Truth, that ye may all come to honour the Lord God in your lives and conversations, in your words and dealings, doing truly, justly, and righteously unto all people; that God may be glorified amongst you. And that ye may come to be as lights to the world, and the countries about you, so that by your Light they may come to walk out of their dark, unrighteous, ungodly, and corrupt ways, which the corrupt people walk in. And therefore all mind that, in which ye may honour God, and his holy Name, into which ye are called; that ye may answer the Lord God for all his tender mercies and great riches, that He hath plentifully manifested and enriched you withal. That the love of God may fill your hearts, which hath abundantly been shed in you; that so it may abound one towards another, and to all the creatures of God, for their good; that they may come to the way of life and peace, and that they seeing your good works, may glorify your Father which is in heaven. And so, let truth, righteousness, holiness, pureness, and justness be your jewels, and in your eyes esteemed above all; for unrighteousness, unholiness, ungodliness, is but dross, and is not of God nor Christ. And therefore live in the Truth; and in this