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DEar Friends,
Who are turned to the Light, and are the Believers in the Light, which is the Life in Christ, my Desires are, That you may all be established upon him, your Eternal Rock and Founda∣tion, and grow up in Christ Jesus, the Second Adam, by his Light, Grace
and Truth, that is come from him; for you know Christ had many Enemies (and his Disciples and Followers, and Moses in the time of the Law) such as turned their Backs on the Lord, and erred from his good Spirit, and rebelled against it, they turned against the Lord, and Moses and Aaron, and they went from the Fellowship of the Law of God and his Spirit, and then Destruction came upon them: Such Jews were they that rebelled against Christ and his Apostles, and yet were great Professors of the Old Testament. And such that were called Christians, that got the Form of Godliness, and the fair Speeches, and good Words, but denied the Power thereof, and so the Order there∣of: Such as these separated themselves, and erred from the Spirit and the Faith, and so from the Unity of the Faith, and the Fellowship of the Spirit of God. Such were and are to be turned away from by all them that are in the Faith, and the Spirit of God; and all the Spiri∣tual Witnesses in the Tabernacles of God, testifies against such, though they may make a great Profession of Christ and the Apostles Words, but deny the Power, and err from the Spirit, and the peaceable Truth: Such cannot be the true Worshippers of God in the Spirit and Truth: And thereforefore, Friends, you that have been turned to the Light, and Truth, and Grace of Christ, and know the Power and Spirit of Je∣sus, walk in the same, and in it keep your Fellowship, and your Domi∣nion, over all that which is out of the Truth, and abides not in the Truth: And that your heavenly Light may shine, and you may all be kept in Love and Ʋnity in the same Light, Power and Spirit, to the Glory of God, and the Comfort one of another. Amen.
London, the 27 of the 3d Month, 1684.
G. F.
Epist. 395.
To be esta∣blished upon Christ the Rock.
Christ and his Followers have many Enemies.