salvation, to the ends of the earth. And so be faithful in his power, which was before the devil was; who hath darkened people, and set them one against another. You having on the armour of light, which was before the power of darkness, and having on the breast-plate of righteousness, that you may stand against all unrighteousness, and the shield of faith, the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God. For the Word is the same now as it was in the beginning, in ages past, manifested over all; which many thousands have received. Glory and blessing to the Lord God for ever.

So be faithful,

that you may be one another's crown and rejoicing in the Lord, going together in the love and fear of the Lord.

G. F.

NUMBER CCLVI.

My dear Friends,

1667.

Live in the wisdom of God, which is gentle and pure, from above, and easy to be intreated. All bear one another's burdens, and so fulfil

the law of Christ. And if any weakness should appear in any in your meetings, let not any lay it open and tell it abroad; that is not wisdom that doth so; for love covereth a multitude of sins, and love preserves and edifies the body; and he that dwells in love dwells in God, for God is love; and love is not easily provoked; and therefore keep the law of love, to keep down that which is so provoked; for that which is easily provoked hath words, which are for condemnation.

NUMBER CCLX.

Dear Friends,

G.F.

1668.

And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called the way of holiness: the unclean shall not pass over it. This way, which is called the way of holiness, was spoken of by prophecy; and this way is Christ, who is the way of holiness, who is above the unclean, and destroys it, and the ground of it, the devil; and so, the unclean cannot pass over this way of holiness. This is our way, who are in scorn called Quakers, to wit, Christ; and this way of holiness shall

be for the wayfaring men; though fools, they shall not err therein; nor shall lion, or ravenous beast, or lion's whelp go thereon. All the ravenous beasts are without, in the way of the world, without Christ and God. But the redeemed shall walk in this way of holi-. ness, Christ Jesus; and the ransomed of the Lord shall walk in this way of holiness; and they that do return from the way of the world to Sion, shall walk in this way of holiness, with singing, and everlasting joy upon their heads. And they that walk in this way of holiness, Christ Jesus, shall obtain joy and gladness; and sorrow, and sighing shall flee away. And all that walk in this way of holiness, their deaf ear is unstopped, and their blind eye is opened. And the lame man here shall leap as an hart, and the dumb man's tongue shall sing. And here he shall see waters gush out of the rock, and streams out of the desert, in this way of holinesss. And in this way he shall see the parched ground become a pool, and the thirsty land full of springs; and in the habitation where dragons lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes, which begin to spring: glory be to the Lord for ever. And this way of holiness, which the prophets prophesied of, is Christ Jesus,

the Way, who said of Himself, I am the Way; and He is over all the fallen ways, and before the way of the serpent; glorified with the Father, before the world began. And this is the way of the wayfaring men, who have been wayfaring up and down from religion to religion, from worship to worship, from one people to another, from one minister and teacher to another, and could not sit down in any of their ways, but wayfared, travelled, and sought. And now, glory be to the Lord forever, thousands of these wayfaring men arc come to find their way, Christ Jesus, and shall not err therein. They shall not err in Christ Jesus, for there is no error in Him, for He was before error was; for Christ, the way, destroys the devil and his works, the ground of all error. So, though they be called fools by all the sons of Adam, who are set down in their own rudiments, and who have persecuted these wayfaring men as fools, because they would not sit down with them in their rudiments, worships, self-righteousness, and national church, which national powers have established; yet these wayfaring men walk on in their way, Christ Jesus. And they see how all the wise men in old Adam mixed with the wisdom of the Serpent, how they are all in their own

ways, worships, and religions; and all the sects in it, how they are like tradesmen, plucking from one church to another, and getting customers, and drawing people from one another's church to their own ways; and tearing one another to pieces, to get people from one another's church to themselves. I sought my beloved by night, and the watchmen smote me. Did not the wayfaring man go to the Papists, and say, You watchmen of the night, did ye see my Beloved? What is thy beloved more than another's beloved, said they? What is thy religion, more than another's religion? or thy profession, more than another's profession? so the papists smote and wounded the way-faring man. The way-faring man did not ask the papist for his beloved; for the papists had a beloved, a Mass-book; but he asked him for his own Beloved, Christ Jesus.

Well, the next watchmen were the Commonprayer men of every parish. The wayfaring man went to those watchmen of the night, and said, Did ye see my Beloved? They stormed at the wayfaring man, and said: What is thy beloved more than another's beloved, and thy religion more than another's