amongst you, and let none seek for the highest place, for there is the separated pharisee; but be lowly-minded, condescending one to another in a low degree; and bear one with another in patience; and be not high-minded, but fear. And all who are servants, labour in love, as unto God, for the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof; and labour in singleness, as unto the Lord. And all who have families, rule in the power and love of God, that that love may be head among you: for the time is coming, that it shall be, as with the servant, so with the master; and as with the maid, so with the mistress. For it is one seed that hath raised them up with one power, out of one grave, one death; which Seed all the promises of God ate to. So all friends, this is to you who know the voice of the living God, and know your calling; stand fast, and waver not, lest you lose your recompence of reward; but stand fast, that ye may receive the recompence of reward. For God is just in all his ways, and abideth faithful.

Therefore, all friends, mind that which is of God in you, who gives you food and raiment, and strength; that ye may gather strength,

and flourish, and your souls delight themselves in fatness, and feed and eat of the abundance of riches with Him and from Him, who filleth all things; and of the daily bread, which cometh from above, which none can feed upon, but who are above the world; for who are below, never could nor would, but are ready to stone them that confess they eat of the bread of Life, and would give of it to them. Dear Friends, wait upon the Lord, that all of you may grow up in the inward man, and be comforted and cherished there, in the things that be eternal.

And stand in the will of the Lord; and be obedient to Him: and the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, which teacheth you to deny all ungodliness and worldly lusts; that grace fill and establish your hearts, that your hearts may grow up in that grace to God, from whence all gifts and graces come. Amen.

and the righteousness thereof; and those things, what ye shall eat, and what ye shall drink, and wherewith ye shall be clothed, will be added, and will follow. Therefore take no thought, what ye shall eat, not what ye shall drink, nor wherewithal ye shall be clothed; for the Gentiles seek after these things, who seek not after the kingdom of God, and the righteousness of it: but seek ye first the kingdom of God, and the righteousness of it. And consider the lilies of the field, and who clothes the earth with grass, and who feeds the young ravens when they cry. And the kingdom of heaven being sought after, and the righteousness of it, he that is here, lives out of the creatures up to the Creator, which distinguishes him from the people of the world, who take thought (which thoughts they live in) what they shall eat, what they shall drink, and what they shall put on. And they that be there, are out of the wisdom of God, which the saints are in, that have sought and found the kingdom of God and his righteousness; which wisdom brings them to use the creatures to his glory; whether they eat, or whether they drink, all is done to the praise and glory of God. Such as abide there, can do nothing against the Truth, which Truth hath made them

free indeed; who are come into the kingdom of the dear Son of God, which is without end, who reigneth over the kingdoms of the world.

See, that there be no slothfulness amongst you, but all keep in diligence and liveliness for he that is slothful, and gets the form, may have an easeful mind, but is an evil example. And all such must be judged with the Light, that they may come to know the servant's place, and be diligent. And such who have gone up and down a begging, if ye have received any such amongst you, with the Light which hath convinced them, see that they be kept in diligence, and hot suffered to wander, but be kept in obedience to the Light, to receive the wisdom from God, how to labour in the creation; and see that they have things decent and necessary, and their nakedness covered, that no reproach nor shame may come upon the Truth, amongst such as are without; but that with the Light all such may be condemned, who act contrary to it. That

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in the Light which condemns the world, ye may walk, and receive the light of the Son of God, which the world stumbles at, which is their condemnation, and in which the saints have unity. And all being kept diligent, and walking in the Light, there will be no slothfulness; and then none shall have self ends in receiving any, but those ends shall be judged with the Light which if eternal.

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LXXXIII.

G. F.

LONDON, THE 15th Of The 3rd Month, 1655.

Dear Friends,

In the eternal Truth of God, ye whose minds are turned towards God by the light of Jesus Christ, meet often together in the fear of the Lord, and take heed to the Light, that with it all your minds may be kept up to God, from whence it comes. And in all your meetings wait low in his fear, that ye may come to know the life and power of Truth one in another. And all ye whom the Lord hath made overseers over his church in your several places, be faithful to the Lord, and