FRiends,
Know what the Lord doth require of you, and all have a Sense of that in your selves, that he doth require; which is, to do Justly, and to love Mercy, and to walk humbly with God. Now, the Lord who is Merciful and Just, Holy and Righteous, Pure and Perfect, he doth require, That Man and Woman should do Justly and Righteously, and live Godlily and Holily, by the Holy Light and Spi∣rit, and Truth and Grace, that the Lord hath given every Man and Woman to profit withal: And so, to answer the Holy, Pure, Righte∣ous, Just God of Truth, in all their Lives, and Words, and Conversati∣ons; and so, to glorifie him upon the Earth. And the more the Lord gives, the more he requireth; and the less that he giveth, the less he re∣quireth: But the Lord requireth of every Man and Woman as he giveth, who will judge the World in Righteousness, by the Man Christ Jesus, ac∣cording to the Gospel, the Power of God, that is preached to every Crea∣ture under Heaven; that is, according to the invisible Power; mani∣festing, that there is something of the invisible Power of God in eve∣ry Man and Woman: So, here the Lord Jesus Christ doth not Judge ac∣cording to the hearing of the Ear, and to the seeing of the Eye; for with Righteousness shall he Judge you, according to the Light, which is the Life in the Word, Christ, with which he doth enlighten every Man that cometh into the World, to the Salvation of them that believe in it, and the Condemnation of them that do hate it, and that will not receive the Gospel, nor the Grace, which bringeth Salvation, which hath appeared to all Men, but walk despitefully against the Spirit of Grace, and iurn it unto Wantonness. So, according to his Grace, and Light and Gospel will the righteous God Judge the World in Righteousness, by Christ the Heavenly and Spiritual Man, who hath died for the Sins of the World; though they deny him that bought them, and tasted Death for every Man: Such deserve his Judg∣ment.
Send this abroad among Friends, to be read in their Meetings.
Swarthmore, the 11th Month, 1678.
G. F.