who hath carried them over death, and their persecutors, and the spoiling of their goods.

And all my dear Friends every where, who have been moved of the Lord God to speak in steeple houses to the priests, or in markets to the people, or in courts, or fairs, or assizes, or towns ; let an account thereof be drawn up together in one book, with the substance of their words, that they spake in the power of God. This would be a book, that may stand to generations, that they may see their faithful testimony, and what strength God did ordain out of the mouths of babes and sucklings. And Friends that have been moved to go to the professors' meetings; that their testimony there may not be lost, together with all the examples that have fallen upon the persecutors.

And such testimonies of Friends as are deceased, let them be recorded, that so the testimony of the Lord through his servants may not be lost, that He raised up his people, and for which they were carried through great tribulations and sufferings; and many laid down their lives, and had their goods spoiled, and were persecuted to death, to keep

up their testimony: so that those words, that they were moved to speak forth by the Power, may not be lost; that the Power and Spirit of the Lord may be exalted. And so be diligent, and let those that can write, help those that cannot.

And all public ministers (if unknown) that pass up and down the country, and to other nations, must have a certificate from their meeting, where they are known, and all their practices are looked into; which will prevent any bad spirits, that may scandalize honest men. For they that do minister to others, must have a double diligence in virtue, and chastity, and patience, and carefulness, and watchfulness.

And dear Friends, live in the peaceable Truth, and keep in the heavenly order of the Gospel, and in the government of the heavenly man, of the increase of which there is no end; and walk in the pure and undefined religion, that keeps you from the spots of the world, and in the worship of God in the spirit and truth.

And so, the God of glory, who hath brought Christ from the dead, by Him are you

quickened and raised from the dead, tha henceforth you should not live to yourselves, bnt to Him. So walk in Him, who is the Amen, and over all—the First and Last.

Not to be over thoughtful of the things of this

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Did not God provide for man and woman before He made them? Did He not make all things in six days? And the sixth day He made man in the image of God, in righteousness and holiness. And therefore Christ, who is the Son of God, who came to restore man into the image of God, in righteousness and holiness—doth He not reprove such as take thought, and tell them of their little faith, and that they cannot add one cubit to the stature that God had made; and that it was the practice of the heathens and of the gentiles to take thought? So it is clear, before God made man, He took care for him; but after man was fallen from the image of God, and

his righteousness, he took care and toiled, though he cannot add one cubit to his stature in the Lord's work: for thou mayest sow thy seed in the ground or garden, thou mayest have much cattle, and other things, but yet there is no increase but by the Lord, neither of thy seed, nor of thy cattle; for is not the earth the Lord's, and the fulness thereof? Mark—and doth He not give the increase, who upholds all things by his Word and Power? who is the Creator of all, and provided for man before He made him, and set him in dominion over all the works of his hands; which dominion man lost. Man lost righteousness and holiness, in his disobeying the command of God, which Christ came to restore man to, and set him above all again, as he was in the beginning, and up to his own state beyond Adam before he fell, to Him that never fell. And so all that believe in the Light, as Christ commanded, in the Light they see they cannot add one cubit to their stature; and so they come to grow in the faith in Christ and in God. And so herein hath the Lord the praise of his works; and all things praise Him, who hath created them all to his honour, and to his glory, and to his praise; and man to glorify Him in righteous-

ness and holiness, in the image of God and of Christ Jesus, above all other creatures, in the covenant of God, in the covenant of light and life in Christ Jesus, Him by whom the world was made; by Him they praise and please God; and in their pleasing God, they honour God and Christ.

Friends,

G. F.

NUMBER CCLXX V.

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Dwell in the Living Spirit, and quench not the motions of it in yourselves, nor the movings of it in others; though many have run out, and gone beyond their measures, yet many more have quenched the measure of the Spirit of God, and have become dead and dull, and have questioned through a false fear; so there hath been hurt both ways. Therefore be obedient to the power of the Lord, and his Spirit; war with that Philistine that would stop up your wells and springs. And the belief in the power keeps the spring open, and none to despise prophecy, neither to quench the Spirit; so that all may be kept open to the spring, that every one's cup