A collection of many select and Christian epistles, letters and testimonies written on sundry occasions, by that ancient, eminent, faithful friend and minister of Christ Jesus, George Fox ; the second volume.

FRiends, dwell all in the Immortal Seed of God, which is Heir of the Promise of God, and doth inherit the same; so every one of you know the Promise of God your Portion, and the Power of God your Portion, and the Kingdom of God, that is everlasting, without End, and the Power of an endless Life, being Heirs of that, come to inherit it, knowing it your Portion; that ye may possess it, and in∣crease in the same Kingdom and Power, and endless Life: Here ye lay up Treasure in Heaven, where the Thief, Moth, nor Rust comes not. And know the Seed of God, in which is the Election, that never altereth nor changeth; which Seed never changeth, nei∣ther doth it submit to that which doth change, but standeth stedfast and distinct from all the Changables: Which Seed end∣eth all Types, Figures and Shadows, and variable things, and Typical things, that do change; which Seed doth not change, which is Christ, which keeps above all the Inventions, Rudiments, Traditions, vain Talkers and Bablers, that be in the World, and standeth, when they will be all gone, and have an End. In which Seed is Power, Wisdom and Life Eternal, that remains for ever and ever, which hath the Dominion in the Life and Power, and unchangable Wisdom of God, which is pure and gentle from above, and preserving above all the Destroying; which keeps up the heads of the living to Life; in that live. Which Seed of God breaks the Head of them, that go out of the Truth, to wit, the Serpent's: And here Life goes over all in Re∣nown and Dominion, and the Top-stone comes to be over all laid. So live in Life, and the Love, and the Power of God, which was, be∣fore Man and Woman fell; in that Power ye are kept over all out∣ward things, that have been set up, and are set up in the Fall, which causeth Pride and Contention, and Strife; which, if lived in, keeps out of the Power, in which is the Saints Everlasting Fellowship, that

stands and remains, and is Everlasting, for ever and ever. In which Power the living Seed lives, and the living Babes are preserved; in which Power they have their Food from the God of Life, which is living, which nourishes the Immortal Babes up to the Immortal God, with the Immortal Food; through which they come to be the living Stones, that build up the spiritual Houshold, who are the Church in God; who are brought out of the State, where Adam and Eve with his Sons and Daughters is drove from God, up to God again by Christ, the Power of God, who is the Way to God, where the Church is in God, that is the Pillar and Ground of Truth. So all in that live, which brings you up to God, out of the State of Adam and Eve, and his Sons and Daughters in the Fall. In that Power (as I said before) ye will have an everlasting Fellowship with God, and one with another; which Power of God was, before the Fall was: In that Power ye will know one another, and see one another, in which ye shall ever be together; in which ye shall see and know your Election, before the World began. So Fare-well.

G. F.

Notes

• Epist. 61.
• Lay up Trea∣sure in Heaven.
• The Ʋnchanga∣ble Wisdom of God.
• The Church is in God.