To Friends in the County of Oxford.
DEar Friends,
Keep in the Lord's Power, that his Kingdom stands in, and in Righteousness, and Peace and Joy in the Holy Ghost, which the Devil and all his Instruments of Strife and Debate, and Sowers of Discord among Brethren, are out of; and keep that Spirit out with the Power of God, which was before it was; in which Gos∣pel (the Power of God) is your Holy and Heavenly Order; in the Pos∣session of the same Labour, walking in the New and Living Way, over all the dead Ways in Adam, let them be what Sect they will; and in this New and Living Way you have the Life and the Truth, which Death and Darkness cannot get into, which is out of the Truth, tho' they may talk of the Words of the Truth; but keep in the pure Re∣ligion that was set up above Sixteen Hundred Years ago; and this pure Religion, which is undesiled before God, will keep you from the Spots of the World, and above all the spotted and dirty Religions that are not pure, but are defiled before, and in the sight of God. And in this Religion, in your Mens and Womens Meetings, that are in the Go∣spel of Christ, and in the Order of it, you will see that nothing is lack∣ing, being ordered by the holy, pure, peaceable and gentle Wisdom of God from above; and so keep in the Worship of God, in the New Covenant, in the Spirit, and in the Truth; which the Devil that foul Spirit, who is out of the Truth, cannot get into, nor his Com∣pany: And so in the Seed of Life, which bruiseth the Head of the Serpent, all dwell, and sit down, who is the Amen, the First and Last, in whom you have Peace with God; and then nothing can get be∣tween you and the Lord God.
G. F.