OH Friends , You all that have tasted of the Power of the LORD GOD , and of his Truth , that is pure , and doth not admit of any impurity nor change . O therefore the holy Truth mind , which will let nothing that is unholy live : for nothing that is unholy can enter into the Kingdom of God ; and no disobedience to Truth must enter into the Paradise of God : for the cause of disobedience was Man and Woman put out of Paradise . And therefore all every-where mind the pure Power of the Lord God , and the Truth which first convinced you ; and whatsoever is gotten up through the Reason , and your Eyes going from the Power of God , and that which doth convince you , let that be purged out of your hearts ; if not , it will lift up your hearts to consultations and subtilty , questionings , reasonings and disputes . Oh I feel too much that hath gotten up into the wrong understanding part , through which wrong liberty gets up , which will bring a plague in the heart , which is worse than an outward Plague . O therefore consider the Life and the Power of God hath not the supream in all ; for I feel some minds , and some bodies , have let in that which hath defiled them , and doth defile them : O cleanse , cleanse , clean , and joyn to the pure immortal Power ; for the Power of the LORD GOD will make room for it self either in cleansing , or in vomiting , or casting out them ; and that that doth not joyn to the Power of God , Sodom that whorish and adultrous spirit , it must to the Fire , and gainsaying Core into the Earth ; and it will throw down that which hath been ●ifted up ; the Beesom of the Lord is going forth to sweep , the Candle of the Lord is lighted to search every corner of your houses ; for the Just walks in the path which is a shining-light , which admits of no rubbish in his path . O come out of all these things which you have entertained in your minds , which you received not from them that came to minister unto you in the beginning . Oh dwell in the Power of the Lord God , for to keep you low ; and O take heed of getting up into Conceitedness and the Air ; and to set up that which pertains not to the Kingdom of God , but to strife , which never the Apostles , nor the Saints since , in the Power of God set up ; for if you do , the Power of God will clense it and you all away . And O you that come to be Vessels of Honour , and Vessels of the Mercies of God , O have esteem of your Bodies : for such as defile their Bodies , are neither Vessels of Honour , nor Vessels of the Mercies , but of Wrath and for the Wrath : therfore keep out Strife , keep out Fornication and the Adulterous Spirit ; keep out Lust of the Eye , Lusts of the Flesh , and Pride of Life , which is not of the Father , that that which is of the Father may be received and have an entrance into every vessel . O be not lifted up with a vain mind ; and let Balaam be slain that erreth from the Spirit , and raiseth stumbling-blocks ; and such as keep nor their first habitation in the Power of God and his Truth , become Enemies to such as be Heirs of the Kingdom and the Power of an endless life . Therefore all Friends and People , mind that which first convinced you , that Power of God which first awakened you , and arise and live in it , that all your eyes , minds and hearts may be kept single and naked ●o God and one another , and uncloathed of all that which is contrary , and is got up since : for the Seed and the Life of Christ Jesus reigns and rules , Glory to him for ever .

I have been uncapable to write or receive Writing a long time , or to speak or be spoken to , but have been as a Man buried alive , and the Sepulcher watched as with a Sword and a Gun , for else I should have writ to you before now ; and therefore , O dear Friends , give no occasion of stumb●… keep tender ; for hardness of heart is worse than an outwa●… plague , for that brings destruction many wayes : and so grie●… not the Spirit in others , nor in your selves . And whatsoeve●… is decent and comely , follow ; honest and of a good repor●… that makes for Peace , and not for Strife , under pretence 〈…〉 Love ; for that 's not of God : for God who is Love , is 〈…〉 the Author of Strife and Confusion , but of Peace . So I●…sire you to let Copies of this be sent into Virginia , Marylan●… and New-England , to be read amongst Friends in all th●… Meetings . Things are pretty well here , Friends being in Love and Unity , and the dread of the Lord God is amongst us , who raigns and will raign .