for his honour. So the Lord God Almighty keep and preserve you faithful in all things to his glory and honour for ever!

He that walketh in his integrity is just ; and blessed shall be his children after him. Prov. xx. 7.

Unjust weights, and unjust measures, both an abomination to the Lord.

these are

Verse x.

NUMBER

CCVIII.

1661.

All ye prisoners of the Lord for his Truth's sake, and for keeping the testimony of Jesus Christ, against all the inventions, traditions, rudiments, will-worships, feigned humilities and self-righteousnesses, that are in the fall; your patience must overcome all the rough. spirits in the world, and your love must bear all things. For patience, which runs the race, obtains the crown which is immortal. So be meek and low, then ye follow the example of Christ, and come to bear the image of the just, who suffered by the unjust; and put on his righteousness, who suffered by the unrighteous; whose back was struck, his hair

plucked off, and his face spit upon, and who yet cried, Father, forgive them! Here He kept his dominion, who though a sufferer had the victory; which the followers of the Lamb do in measure attain to. So, put on courage; put on patience. Let your loyalty be known for your King, that hath conquered the devil, death, and hell; in walking in righteousness, peace, and Truth, feeling the power of God preaching and reaching the witness of God in every one, when words are not uttered.

G. F.

NUMBER CCXV I.

To Friends in New-England, and the Islands

beyond sea.

1662.

To all my dear friends and brethren, among whom the precious truth and power of God hath been declared, and joyfully received; whose belief, confidence, and innocency is spread abroad; who are come to the vine, Christ Jesus, that is your shade; whom bonds and death have not dismayed, for the worth of Truth's sake. And fetters, irons, whippings, stripes, and spoilings of goods, and the like

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cruelties and persecutions, have not daunted you, whose courage, valiantness, and boldness for the Truth, hath much appeared among a crooked and perverse generation, that professed Christ, and among whom He hath not so much place of entertainment as in their manger in the outward; whose hearts are dens of dragons and places of darkness, and whose religion and profession they have shamed, being unfruitful in the ways of God and Christ, workers of darkness, whose iniquity bath flourished, and sins sprung up as the grass; that their folly and shame might cover them, and that they might be confounded in their iniquity.

So ye, in the power of the Lord God, in his might, and strength, that brings your salvation, stand; in which power and arm ye see over that which brought destruction; in which power (that is the Gospel) life and immortality cometh to light, and captivateth that which hid life and immortality. And then is the gospel, that is everlasting, preached unto all nations of mankind, and all that are driven out from God in the power of darkness; to the intent that

they may all come up again to God, and have life and immortality brought to light by his almighty power; which expels death and dark. ness. And so, all ye that have tasted of the power, sit down under your own vine, and abide in it; then will ye bring forth fruit through the power of God and Christ Jesus, who is the Vine. Therefore every one receive Christ the Light, that hath enlightened you, and ye shall feel the power, in which Light ye shall all have fellowship; which Light will give every one of you the knowledge of the glory of God, in the face of Christ Jesus, your Saviour. And in the power of the Lord God, which hath gathered you over the powers of darkness, and all the meetings therein, in that power of God which is everlasting, live, and keep your meetings; in that ye may feel fulness of life and wisdom from above, by which ye may all be ordered to God's glory, and order all things under your hands to his honour. Through which wisdom ye may be a blessing to the Lord God in your generation, and a sweet savour to Him in the hearts of all people upon the earth; yea, of the very heathen, to bring them to Light, which Christ

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Jesus hath enlightened them withal; that they may come to the knowledge of the same salvation or condemnation.

Work ye and labour in the power of the Lord God, that lives for ever; in it make vineyards and plantations, to the renewing of people's minds in the light and power of God, and the knowledge of Christ Jesus; turning them from the enmity and the darkness (the power of Satan) to the light, and to God, that they may be renewed into his image and likeness; that the image of the devil, and his likeness, may be defaced, which is gotten up in the hearts of men and people, since the beginning in transgression. So, bring them to the Great Sacrifice, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Seed of the woman, who offered up Himself for the sin of the world; the Top-stone, which is laid over all, who is restoring by his power, who hath all power in heaven and earth.

So spread the Truth abroad, and be valiant for it upon the earth, improve your talent, and be the wise virgins, with oil in your lamps; that ye may enter in with the bridegroom. Have salt in yourselves, that ye may