A
GENERAL
EPISTLE
,
And
a
tender
Greeting
,
sent
unto
The
Flock
of
Christ
,
Who
meet
together
,
to
Worship
the
Father
and
the
Son
in
the
Spirit
of
Truth
;
to
be
read
in
the
fear
and
wisdom
of
God
,
amongst
them
.
DEar
and
tenderly
beloved
Friends
,
and
Children
of
the
most
high
God
,
who
have
felt
and
tasted
of
his
eternal
Word
of
Life
,
and
have
been
acquainted
with
the
workings
and
opperations
thereof
,
whereby
you
are
begotten
again
unto
a
lively
hope
,
and
are
brought
to
know
that
life
,
which
you
were
alienated
from
,
and
that
Covenant
of
Promise
,
which
ye
were
strangers
unto
.
Oh
Friends
!
unto
you
is
my
love
in
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
exceeding
great
,
and
for
you
do
〈◊〉
pray
to
the
Father
of
life
,
that
ye
may
be
kept
stedfast
in
that
life
,
which
ye
have
felt
and
tasted
of
,
and
that
nothing
may
move
you
from
that
hope
and
confidence
,
which
God
hath
begotten
in
you
by
the
working
of
his
mighty
power
:
Oh
dear
Babes
!
let
the
love
of
our
God
break
and
melt
you
into
the
meek
tender
spirit
of
the
Lamb
,
and
let
the
consideration
of
his
mercy
and
grace
,
which
to
you
he
hath
shewn
,
overcome
you
and
make
you
sick
of
love
▪
Oh
how
can
I
express
his
goodness
,
for
it
is
beyond
utterance
!
yea
his
loving
kindness
to
you-ward
hath
been
exceeding
large
,
who
in
an
acceptable
time
hath
appeared
and
visited
you
with
his
tender
love
,
the
light
of
the
world
;
and
by
his
unresistable
power
hath
he
caused
you
to
feel
the
day
spring
from
on
high
,
even
the
breaking
forth
of
light
in
your
hearts
and
inward
parts
;
yea
,
this
did
he
do
for
you
,
who
were
as
sheep
without
a
Shepherd
,
scattered
upon
the
Mountains
in
the
cloudy
and
dark
day
:
Oh
Friends
!
how
did
his
love
reach
unto
you
,
when
ye
were
enemies
unto
him
?
how
plainly
did
he
shew
unto
you
the
evil
of
your
wayes
,
which
had
seperated
you
from
his
presence
?
and
how
tenderly
did
he
hold
forth
his
hand
of
love
,
to
lead
you
out
of
that
which
had
made
you
miserable
?
and
how
did
he
give
you
strength
to
walk
when
ye
were
lame
,
and
inclined
your
hearts
after
that
which
he
shewed
unto
you
to
be
good
?
and
how
did
he
manifest
his
eternal
power
and
righteous
judgment
in
you
,
against
the
body
of
sin
?
and
how
did
he
beget
and
quicken
a
righteous
seed
in
you
,
which
cannot
live
but
in
his
presence
?
and
how
mightily
hath
he
opened
the
eye
of
your
understandings
,
by
his
eternal
spirit
,
that
ye
are
brought
to
see
the
false
wayes
and
worships
of
the
world
,
wherein
ye
were
once
intangled
;
and
he
hath
also
given
you
to
see
the
way
to
himself
,
and
the
worship
which
he
regards
,
in
the
spirit
of
truth
;
wherein
you
are
come
to
know
that
which
only
can
give
satisfaction
,
and
make
you
eternally
free
:
Oh
let
the
unexpressable
love
of
the
Father
never
be
forgotten
by
you
,
my
dear
friends
!
but
all
keep
to
,
and
dwell
in
,
that
eternal
immortal
power
of
an
endless
life
,
which
ye
have
felt
and
tasted
of
;
and
let
your
minds
be
kept
to
the
workings
and
opperations
of
the
same
,
that
so
none
of
you
may
be
daunted
by
the
enemy
within
or
without
,
but
all
wait
in
the
eternal
light
,
the
foundation
of
God
,
which
can
never
be
shaken
,
that
so
your
minds
may
be
girded
up
,
and
you
kept
upon
your
watch
,
and
your
ear
kept
open
to
the
Lord
,
that
so
when
he
calls
ye
may
answer
,
and
when
he
teaches
,
ye
may
observe
and
obey
,
that
so
your
souls
may
live
;
and
that
ye
may
see
his
eternal
will
in
all
conditions
,
and
be
contented
therewithal
,
then
will
you
feel
the
peace
which
none
can
take
away
:
And
friends
,
give
all
diligence
to
obey
the
word
of
wisdome
,
that
ye
may
be
known
to
be
its
Children
,
and
that
ye
may
feel
,
and
witness
your
growth
into
the
nature
of
the
immortal
seed
,
whose
Kingdom
is
not
of
this
world
;
that
so
your
redemption
from
the
earth
,
and
all
earthly
things
you
may
know
,
through
the
blood
of
the
unspoted
Lamb
of
God
;
which
blood
is
the
life
which
he
gave
a
ransome
for
many
,
which
life
is
manifested
in
your
mortal
bodies
,
that
through
faith
in
it
ye
may
be
saved
.
And
know
this
my
Friends
,
henceforth
you
are
not
your
own
,
for
you
are
bought
with
a
price
,
and
you
are
called
with
an
holy
calling
,
that
you
might
glorifie
the
Lord
in
your
bodies
and
spirits
which
are
the
Lords
:
Oh
my
Friends
!
let
not
your
delight
be
placed
in
the
things
of
this
world
,
for
then
will
you
be
intangled
,
but
wait
in
the
feeling
of
the
pure
power
of
the
Lord
God
,
that
ye
may
be
kept
and
preserved
thereby
,
that
so
ye
that
marry
may
be
as
if
you
married
not
,
and
ye
that
have
of
this
world
,
as
if
ye
possessed
not
,
and
that
ye
may
be
kept
in
the
living
wisdome
of
God
,
in
the
ordering
of
all
things
that
are
given
unto
you
,
that
so
the
glory
of
God
,
and
the
honour
of
his
eternall
truth
,
may
be
minded
in
all
things
;
and
that
your
minds
and
hearts
may
be
drawn
out
of
all
created
things
,
and
ye
kept
single
and
chast
unto
the
Lord
,
that
so
,
if
it
were
his
will
,
that
ye
should
be
seperated
either
from
wife
,
or
husband
(
outwardly
)
or
Children
,
or
Houses
,
or
Lands
,
or
any
outward
thing
for
his
name
sake
,
that
ye
may
be
kept
in
that
temper
and
frame
of
mind
and
spirit
,
that
ye
may
resign
up
all
freely
without
murmuring
,
that
so
ye
may
be
known
to
be
followers
of
the
Lamb
,
whithersoever
he
goeth
for
my
babes
it
is
given
unto
you
,
as
well
to
suffer
for
his
namessake
as
to
believe
,
and
hereby
shall
the
world
know
that
ye
are
redeemed
from
the
earth
,
if
ye
in
patience
and
innocency
give
up
to
the
will
of
God
in
all
things
:
Therefore
dear
hearts
,
wait
in
the
power
and
life
of
God
,
that
ye
may
feel
your
strength
and
courage
and
boldness
for
the
Lord
increased
,
that
when
you
are
tryed
,
ye
may
stand
in
that
spirit
of
life
and
meekness
,
which
will
give
you
eternal
peace
,
in
all
your
sufferings
and
tryalls
,
for
the
Lord
will
try
you
,
that
ye
may
see
,
and
know
him
alone
to
be
your
strength
,
and
that
the
world
may
know
,
that
ye
are
a
people
saved
by
the
almighty
God
;
and
this
know
,
that
ye
that
are
faithfull
,
shall
not
be
proved
beyond
your
strength
,
for
the
Lord
will
be
with
you
in
all
your
tryals
,
and
the
more
that
you
are
persecuted
for
his
name
,
the
greater
shal
his
power
be
felt
in
you
,
and
the
more
your
enemies
afflict
you
,
the
greater
shal
be
your
joy
,
and
this
shall
torment
your
enemies
:
So
friends
let
patience
have
its
perfect
work
,
that
ye
may
be
perfect
and
entire
wanting
nothing
,
for
the
Lord
will
make
up
his
Jewels
,
and
he
will
take
away
all
the
dross
,
and
nothing
shall
remain
,
but
that
which
will
abide
the
trial
in
the
fire
,
for
the
Lord
hath
been
loathed
with
the
sacrifices
of
many
,
who
have
professed
his
name
,
but
have
not
been
subject
to
the
leadings
of
his
spirit
,
but
have
grived
it
from
day
to
day
;
Therefore
will
the
Lord
God
try
all
professions
,
and
the
chaffe
shall
be
blown
away
,
and
all
false
coverings
shall
be
stript
off
,
and
men
shall
appear
as
they
are
;
yea
the
chasse
which
some
time
seemed
to
joyn
to
the
wheate
,
shall
be
driven
to
and
fro
,
untill
the
fire
consume
it
,
or
untill
,
it
mixe
it self
with
the
mire
where
the
swine
walloweth
;
but
God
will
have
regard
unto
his
seed
which
is
weighty
:
And
friends
,
a
day
of
calamity
wil
come
upon
them
,
who
have
worshipped
,
and
do
worship
an
unknown
God
at
a
distance
,
and
pretend
the
worship
of
the
true
God
,
for
they
shalt
call
but
their
God
shall
not
answer
,
and
they
shall
fret
themselves
,
&
fear
and
terror
shal
sieze
upon
them
,
&
many
shal
joyn
to
,
and
fall
under
that
,
which
they
have
called
&
esteemed
Babilonish
:
But
there
is
a
Remnant
yet
to
be
gathered
,
both
from
among
the
professors
,
and
prophane
:
Therefore
dear
hearts
,
let
your
circumspect
walking
in
the
life
of
righteousness
,
reach
the
witness
of
God
in
all
consciences
,
and
let
your
soberness
and
patience
smite
your
enemies
.
And
you
that
are
strong
in
the
Lord
,
and
in
the
power
of
his
might
,
are
able
to
endure
much
,
bear
ye
with
the
weak
,
and
incourage
and
strengthen
the
feeble
,
and
let
your
tender
love
and
care
be
over
such
,
as
ye
feel
have
true
breathings
after
the
Lord
,
though
they
have
have
little
of
a
knowledge
of
the
declaration
of
truth
;
and
let
your
words
to
,
and
before
them
and
all
men
,
be
seasoned
with
grace
,
that
ye
may
minister
unto
the
grace
in
the
hearers
.
And
ye
that
are
weak
,
and
yet
have
a
true
Love
,
begotten
in
you
towards
the
Lord
;
all
wait
in
the
feeling
of
the
truth
in
your
inward
parts
,
that
your
minds
may
be
wrought
into
subjection
to
the
Lord
,
through
the
working
of
his
eternal
power
in
you
;
and
when
you
are
tempted
,
heed
not
the
temptation
,
but
heed
the
light
that
makes
manifest
the
temptation
,
and
believe
in
the
light
and
keep
to
it
,
and
ye
will
feel
the
Lords
presence
and
strength
breaking
forth
to
deliver
you
,
and
to
make
a
way
for
you
to
escape
the
temptation
;
and
if
at
any
time
ye
be
overcome
by
the
subtilty
of
the
Devil
,
and
then
the
light
arise
in
you
,
to
make
manifest
the
transgression
,
and
to
Judge
you
for
it
,
then
joyn
to
the
light
,
and
love
the
judgment
,
and
will
not
,
but
be
still
,
until
it
works
through
,
and
breaks
forth
into
victory
;
and
if
ye
see
iniquity
abound
,
then
take
heed
that
your
love
wax
not
cold
;
and
if
ye
see
some
fall
from
the
truth
,
and
turn
back
with
the
dogg
to
the
vomit
,
and
with
the
swine
that
was
washed
,
to
the
wallowing
again
in
the
mire
;
and
if
ye
see
some
for
fear
of
persecution
start
aside
,
or
for
the
love
of
this
world
depart
from
the
faith
,
or
turn
from
the
holy
Commandment
,
which
was
delivered
unto
them
upon
any
account
whatsoever
;
let
none
of
these
things
move
or
trouble
you
,
for
such
things
will
come
to
pass
;
but
blessed
are
they
that
are
not
offended
with
the
light
,
but
suffers
and
endures
all
things
unto
the
end
,
for
they
shall
be
saved
:
But
this
know
friends
,
that
the
Lord
God
will
try
you
,
and
ye
must
pass
through
perils
and
tryals
,
not
only
among
the
open
prophane
ones
,
but
also
among
such
as
have
known
the
truth
,
and
turns
from
it
;
yet
know
my
friends
,
that
God
will
not
try
you
further
than
he
will
give
you
strength
to
endure
the
tryal
,
if
ye
be
faithful
unto
him
.
Therefore
watch
and
be
sober
,
and
waite
in
the
life
,
that
ye
may
have
salt
in
your selves
to
savor
withal
;
and
be
not
weary
,
neither
faint
in
your
minds
,
nor
let
not
in
distrust
,
but
hope
to
the
end
,
and
be
confident
that
God
will
appear
and
work
deliverance
for
his
people
;
but
if
it
be
his
will
that
ye
must
yet
be
further
tryed
,
and
that
he
will
yet
suffer
the
wicked
to
flourish
,
&
spread
forth
themselves
as
a
green
bay-tree
,
and
that
ye
must
yet
bear
your
testimony
for
the
Lord
by
greater
sufferings
;
Oh
friends
murmur
not
!
but
hold
fast
your
integrity
,
and
know
certainly
,
that
whatsoever
any
suffer
for
the
Lord
,
they
shall
not
loose
their
reward
:
Therefore
all
friends
,
be
valiant
and
strong
,
and
bold
for
the
truth
upon
earth
;
and
walk
humbly
with
the
Lord
,
and
wisely
before
your
enemies
,
that
so
,
ye
by
doing
the
thing
that
is
right
in
the
sight
of
God
,
may
put
to
silence
the
foolish
and
ignorant
,
for
this
is
the
will
of
God
.
And
friends
,
walk
patiently
towards
all
men
,
knowing
that
ye
sometimes
were
ignorant
and
foolish
,
and
disobedient
;
therefore
let
your
pitty
and
patience
towards
them
(
that
be
disobedient
)
be
known
,
and
wait
that
ye
may
be
ready
to
shew
them
the
thing
that
is
good
,
&
to
instruct
them
concerning
the
way
of
righteousness
,
or
if
you
have
not
words
given
you
,
then
let
you
conversation
preach
forth
righteousness
,
that
so
happily
God
may
give
some
of
them
repentance
,
and
that
ye
may
be
made
instruments
for
the
bringing
them
unto
the
acknowledgment
and
knowledge
of
the
truth
,
and
live
in
the
wisdome
and
power
of
God
,
that
so
your
enemies
may
have
nothing
against
you
justly
,
but
if
they
will
persecute
you
for
any
thing
appertaining
to
a
good
conscience
,
be
not
dismaid
;
or
if
they
falsely
accuse
you
,
and
falsely
sweare
against
you
,
and
so
ye
reckoned
among
the
transgressors
by
them
,
be
not
troubled
,
but
be
patient
and
keep
to
the
witness
of
God
;
for
thus
the
wicked
served
your
Master
,
who
gave
his
back
to
the
smiter
,
and
his
cheeks
unto
them
that
plucked
of
the
hair
,
and
the
servant
is
not
greater
than
his
Lord
:
So
let
nothing
be
too
dear
to
be
given
up
for
the
Lord
,
and
bow
not
to
any
thing
,
but
to
the
name
of
Jesus
,
whose
name
is
called
the
word
of
God
,
by
which
we
must
overcome
and
break
through
all
this
ungodliness
:
Oh
the
Lord
keep
you
faithful
and
patient
in
your
tryals
,
for
much
have
we
to
pass
through
and
to
overcome
,
through
the
patience
and
long-suffering
of
the
Lamb
:
So
let
none
be
exalted
above
their
measures
,
nor
cast
down
by
letting
in
of
fears
,
but
all
dwell
in
the
living
nobility
of
the
immortal
king
of
righteousness
,
and
keep
in
subjection
to
his
government
,
and
meet
together
oft
in
his
name
,
though
the
Sea
and
the
heathen
Rage
,
and
the
people
imagin
vain
things
,
and
though
the
Kings
of
the
earth
,
and
the
Rulers
rise
up
together
,
and
take
counsel
against
the
Lamb
,
and
his
followers
;
and
though
the
rude
multitude
may
persecute
you
,
and
the
whore
may
drink
some
of
your
blood
,
yet
be
not
dismaid
,
neither
fear
ye
at
all
,
for
in
vain
do
they
strive
,
for
the
Lamb
shall
get
the
victory
;
glory
to
him
in
the
highest
.
And
so
friends
,
keep
your
garments
unspotted
,
ye
,
who
have
washed
them
in
the
blood
of
the
Lamb
,
and
be
exceeding
tender
toward
such
professors
as
have
a
tenderness
in
them
towards
God
,
in
what
sect
soever
they
be
in
,
for
poor
creatures
they
are
to
be
pittied
,
and
the
way
of
truth
is
to
be
shewn
unto
them
,
and
this
day
will
bring
some
of
them
unto
the
principle
of
God
in
themselves
,
and
they
must
come
unto
that
,
before
they
can
find
a
true
stay
to
their
minds
;
and
them
that
comes
not
to
that
and
keeps
not
to
that
,
will
wither
as
the
grass
upon
the
house
top
.
On
friends
!
I
can
even
rejoyce
and
sing
for
joy
,
notwithstanding
the
rage
and
strength
of
the
enemies
,
for
I
see
the
day
that
approacheth
will
be
exceeding
good
for
truth
,
and
for
friends
that
dwell
in
it
;
for
they
that
stand
approved
shall
be
made
manifest
,
and
the
upright
shall
not
loose
,
but
gain
through
all
these
things
,
and
certainly
,
when
our
God
hath
tryed
us
to
the
full
,
he
will
appear
for
us
;
and
though
our
enemies
were
as
the
sand
of
the
Sea
,
and
as
strong
as
Gyants
,
yet
shall
they
fall
as
the
untimely
fruit
,
and
our
God
shall
consume
and
weaken
them
by
the
majesty
of
his
power
,
and
an
exceeding
dissolation
shall
come
upon
the
earth
,
and
a
beesome
of
destruction
shall
sweep
away
many
.
Therefore
dear
hearts
,
be
stedfast
in
the
Lord
,
and
keep
the
word
of
his
patience
,
and
know
,
that
not
one
hair
of
your
heads
shall
perish
,
nor
any
thing
shall
be
done
unto
any
of
you
,
but
what
the
Lord
will
be
glorified
by
,
and
you
shall
receive
a
full
and
a
sufficient
reward
for
it
,
if
ye
continue
faithful
;
So
live
in
the
power
and
seed
of
God
,
that
ye
may
possess
the
kingdome
,
the
eternal
peace
,
joy
and
tighteousness
,
which
stands
in
the
power
;
And
love
fervently
,
Oh
friends
,
let
that
abound
more
and
more
one
towards
another
,
and
by
this
shall
men
also
know
,
that
ye
are
taught
of
Christ
,
if
ye
love
one
another
;
and
wait
that
ye
may
feel
the
springs
of
life
in
your selves
,
and
feed
upon
that
which
proceeds
from
God
,
that
ye
may
grow
up
in
the
power
and
life
,
and
wisdome
of
God
,
and
therein
be
established
:
So
the
almighty
power
,
life
and
wisdome
of
God
,
keep
and
preserve
you
for
ever
Amen
;
the
Lord
God
almighty
keep
you
fresh
and
lively
,
meek
,
tender
,
and
innocent
,
and
fill
you
with
every
good
word
,
and
work
,
which
accompanieth
peace
,
and
godliness
;
If
any
decree
unrighteous
decrees
,
heed
them
not
,
for
the
decree
of
God
shall
stand
,
which
is
,
to
establish
righteousness
in
the
earth
,
and
in
the
power
of
the
Lord
,
we
shall
break
the
bonds
of
the
ungodly
,
and
cast
their
cords
from
us
;
So
the
spiritual
weapon
war
withal
,
and
stand
in
the
faith
,
and
hold
fast
the
word
of
truth
,
that
through
it
you
may
feel
and
witness
your
sanctification
,
and
the
birth
immortal
raised
up
over
all
,
which
is
the
heir
of
the
Kingdome
,
without
end
,
and
assuredly
God
will
do
mighty
things
for
his
people
;
therefore
be
ye
comforted
and
strengthened
in
the
Lord
,
and
dwell
in
and
keep
his
covenant
,
and
answer
his
requirings
in
the
light
of
life
,
and
live
in
the
retiredness
,
and
in
the
wisdome
of
God
,
that
your
enemies
may
have
no
just
occasion
against
you
,
and
that
ye
may
be
preserved
out
of
their
snares
,
and
if
they
imprison
you
,
and
falsely
accuse
you
,
or
spoil
your
goods
,
or
persecute
you
any
manner
of
wayes
,
keep
in
patience
,
and
freely
forgive
them
,
and
suffer
as
Lambs
in
the
true
innocency
,
that
so
your
peace
with
the
Lord
may
be
preserved
in
all
conditions
.
And
Friends
,
let
the
dread
and
majesty
of
God
fill
you
,
and
as
concerning
the
changing
of
Times
and
Governments
;
let
not
that
trouble
any
of
you
,
for
God
hath
a
mighty
work
,
and
hand
therein
,
and
he
will
yet
change
again
until
that
come
up
,
which
must
reign
;
and
in
vain
shall
Powers
and
Armies
withstand
the
Lord
,
for
his
determined
work
shall
come
to
pass
;
but
what
is
now
come
up
,
i't
s
just
with
the
Lord
that
it
should
be
so
,
and
he
will
be
served
by
it
:
Therefore
let
none
murmure
,
nor
distrust
God
,
for
God
will
provoke
many
to
zeal
against
unrighteousness
,
and
for
righteousness
,
through
things
which
are
suffered
now
to
work
for
a
season
;
yea
many
whose
zeal
was
even
dead
,
shall
revive
again
,
and
they
shall
see
their
backslidings
,
and
bewail
them
bitterly
,
and
God
shall
thander
down
from
heaven
,
and
break
forth
in
a
mighty
noyse
,
and
his
Enemies
shall
be
astonished
,
and
the
workers
of
Iniquity
confounded
,
and
all
that
have
not
on
the
garment
of
righteousness
,
shall
be
amazed
at
the
mighty
and
strange
work
of
the
Lord
,
which
shall
be
certainly
brought
to
pass
;
but
my
babes
look
ye
not
out
,
but
be
still
in
the
light
of
the
Lamb
,
and
he
shall
fight
for
you
:
So
the
Almighty
hand
which
must
break
,
and
split
,
and
divide
your
enemies
,
and
take
away
peace
from
them
,
preserve
and
keep
you
whole
,
and
in
unity
,
and
in
peace
with
it self
,
and
one
with
another
.
Lambeth
House
the
third
day
of
the
4th
.
moneth
1660.
I
am
your
Dear
Friend
and
Brother
in
the
Kingdome
and
patience
of
Christ
,
who
am
a
Prisoner
for
his
testimony
,
and
keep
his
word
,
and
am
made
as
willing
to
suffer
bonds
,
or
to
die
for
his
name
,
as
to
declare
and
publish
it
amongst
men
;
eternal
living
praises
,
and
hallelujahs
over
all
,
be
unto
him
for
evermore
,
Amen
.
George
Fox
,
the
Younger
.
The
End
.