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Some certain, hidden, or vailed spiritual Verities revealed, &c.
FRIENDS,
YOU, who (tam masculiné, quam foemininé, and that (as may well seem, at least to some) mendaciter & fictitiè po∣tius, quàm veraciter & sincerè) subscribe your selves (respectively) by these two more Latine, Greek, and Hebrew, then Engl••sh Names (which are significative of a nature and state which your selves are short of) of Livinus Theodorus, and Sabina Neriah.
I have seen your thirteen Queries propounded to G. F. J. P. and my self, or either of us, together with your (seeming sym∣pathetical) Preface to them, wherein (after an acknowledge∣ment of our Ministry as such, whereby people may be brought into a posture or frame of spirit, in which they may be capa∣ble to receive the Mystery of Godliness, which ye believe also by the Light within us, to be in a great measure elucidated unto us) you express your selves in some other particulars in such wise, as gives me occasion (by way of Preface to my Answer) to pre∣mise something as to them. You intimate of the things exhi∣bited to us in your Questions, that they are matters of such weight, that the consideration thereof hath oft much reflected upon your spirits, so that you have gone sometimes to our Assemblies in hopes to hear Discourses of such like, as being of great concernment, and very pertinent for every one to know; but though ye have heard us promising felicity and consolation in the Creatures obedience, and threatning judgement and misery in its disobedience; yet we never ex∣plicated (so as to your satisfaction) when, where, and in what man∣ner they must of necessity participate of the one or the other. Hereup∣on, and for other reasons by you alledged, viz. the profitable∣ness