So, friends, keep your meetings; and as ye are moved of the Lord, be obedient to Him, and keep your habitations. And be not troubled: but look at that which giveth you to see over the world. Almighty preserve you

Amen.

So the Lord God

all to his glory!

G. F.

Friends,

NUMBER CIX.

1656.

Keep to patience, this is the counsel of the Lord to you. Do not judge one another behind one another's backs, nor speak evil one of another; for that it is which soweth enmity among brethren. And do not judge one another before the world, for that it is which is in the extremes, passion and hastiness; and there you do let in the world's spirit to rejoice over you, and that is out of the patience, and love, and wisdom, and fear of God and his Truth. And every one dwell in the seed and life of God, and in that know one another; and meeting together in that, ye may see the Lord Jesus in the midst of you. And friends, go not into the aggravating

part to strive with it, lest you do hurt to your souls, and run into the same nature; for patience must get the victory, and it answers to that of God in every one, and will bring every one from the contrary. So let your moderation and temperance and patience be known to all. And friends, keep out the worldly wise part, which enters into the earth, and the apprehensions of words; but let innocency be the garment, and truth and simplicity the covering: then in the innocency ye will have unity, where there is no evil thought, but love that thinks no evil. Therefore cover one another's nakedness; let all things be done in love, and that will edify and let the weight and preciousness of Truth be in your and esteemed above all things by you. eye, For here is my grief, when I hear any thing amongst friends, that hinders their unity, and makes a breach, whereby the wrong gets ground. Therefore all ye who have known the power of the Lord God, and have tasted of the Seed of God, live in that in which ye come to have unity; that that part may be kept down. And the wrong eye, that looks out at one another's weaknesses, that must be kept under, even that, where the heat, and the burnings, and the enmity is.

Therefore, if there be any nakedness in any, or among any, cover that, and come all to the Seed of God in your ownselves; for in that is the virtue to heal, yea, all nations. Slaughterings, wounds, and cuttings are the other weapons in the other part, which is out of that Seed of God, whose end is peace; in which is the unity, which is the top-stone over all enmity, and bruiseth it all down.

I am, a lover of your souls' eternal good, peace, and unity, in the kingdom that stands in that power which hath no end,

Mind the Lord, and stand in his will and counsel. Look not forth at time nor place, but at thy Father's house, wheresoever thou art. And dwell in the pure measure of God in thee, and there thou wilt see the Lord God present with thee. For the bringing forth many out of prison, art thou there set; behold, the word of the Lord cannot be bound.

The Lord God of power give thee wisdom, courage, manhood, and boldness, to thresh down all deceit. Dear heart, be valiant, and mind the pure Spirit of God in thee, to guide thee up unto God, to thunder down all deceit within and without. So farewell! God Almighty keep you all!

NUMBERS CXIV, and cx v.

Dear Brethren,

G. F.

1656.

In the mighty power of God go on, preaching the Gospel to every creature, and discipling them in the Name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. In the Name of Christ preach the mighty day of the Lord, to all the consciences of them who have lain long in darkness and under its chain, where the light shined, but the darkness could not comprehend it. Go on to plant a vineyard, and to plough, that ye may eat the fruit thereof; and to plant in hope, and to thresh in hope: that ye may be made partakers of your hope, and to thresh out the corn, that the wind may scatter the chaff, that the corn may be gathered into the barn. So, in the power of

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the Lord Jesus Christ preach the everlasting Gospel, that by his power the sick may be healed, the leprous cleansed, the dead raised, the blind eyes opened, and the devils cast out. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ go on, that that of God in all consciences may witness, that ye are sent of God, and are of God; and so according to that speak, to bring up all unto the Head, Christ, and into the life, which gave forth the Scriptures; for there is the unity, and out of it is the confusion.

Sound, sound the trumpet abroad ye valiant soldiers of Christ's kingdom of which there is no end! all the antichrists in the kingdoms of fallen men are up in arms against Christ.

NUMBER CXVI.

G. F.

Friends,

Concerning Judging in Meetings.

1656.

Do not judge one another in meetings, ye that do minister in the meetings; for your so, doing hath hurt the people, both within and without, and ye have brought yourselves under