Love without dissimulation, or, The letter & directions of Robert Rich to M. John Raynes, for the distributing his benevolence to the seven churches in London

A Note or List of Direction, to Mr. John Raynes, after what manner to dispose of the 210 l. in his hands.

I. Thirty pounds to the Professors of the Roman Catholick Re∣ligion, Enquire I pray (on the Exchange) for one Mr. Daniel Archur, or one Mr. Thomas Wise, Merchants; they can inform you who are the chief Confessors and Teachers in Queen Katha∣rines ••rin the Queen Mothers Chappel; and give the Money to three of the chief of them, (as a sign of my dear love) intreating them to bestow the said Money on those that are in need, sickness, or any other kind of Adversity amongst them.

II. Thirty pounds to the Episcopal Protestants. Give to Dr.

Thomas Pierce, Dr. Pearson, Dr. Peter Guanel, Dr. Robert P••ry, Dr. Britten, Dr. Duckenson of St. Cloment Danes, to any t••ree of them, or any other three you judge more convenient (as a sign of dear love) intreating them to bestow the said money on such as are in need, sickness, or any other kind of adversity amongst them.

III. Thirty pounds to the Prebyterian Professors. Give to Dr. Spurstow, Dr. Manton, Mr. Richard Baxter, Mr. Thomas Case, Mr. Samuel Clark; to any three of them, or to any three of that way you judge more convenient, (as a sign of my dear love) in∣treating them to bestow the said money on those that are in need, sickness, or any other kind of adversity amongst them.

IV. Thirty pounds to the Professors of Independancy. Civet Dr. Owen, Dr. Dell, Mr. John Goodwin, Mr. Thomas Goodwin, Mr. Thomas Brooks, Mr. Feak; to any three of them, or to any other three of that way you judge more convenient, (as a sign of my dear love) desiring them to bestow the said money on such a•• are in need sickness, &c.

V. Thirty pounds to the People called Anabaptists. Give to Mr. Thomas Lamb, Mr. John Rodgers, Mr. John Cooper, Mr. ••iff••n, Mr. Vavasor Powel, to any three of them, or to any three of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 way you judge more convenient, (as a sign of my dear love) in∣treating them to bestow the said money on such as are in need, &c.

VI. Thirty pounds to the People called Quakers. Give to Amos Stoddard, Simon Dring; John Bolton, Sam••el Newton, G••••rard Roberts, Henry Clark; to any three of them, or to any other three of that way you judge more convenient (as a sign of my dear love) desiring them to bestow the said mony on such as are in need.

VII. Thirty pounds to the Church of the First-Born, who wor∣ship God in Spirit, and have their Conversations in Heaven. Give to Mr. Robert Bacon, Mr. William Rawlinson, and to Mr. Blackbo∣row, he is a Leatherseller, and once lived in the Old Change, but now (as I am informed) dwelleth in Aldersgate-Street, he I suppose knows the rest, and may help you to the speech of them, to whom I have written a few Lines, and sent them here inclosed (open that you may see what I have desired.) My further request to them is, That they would also receive this 30 l. of you, and therewith pro∣vide a Dinner or Supper, which I chiefly do for the raising of my dear Friend Lazarus, viz. The Love of God, which hath been long

pining away through a tedious famine of Contention and Strife, even unto death; and invite to this Entertamment of Joseph, Love, and as his Passover from the Death of Enmity, to the Life of Love unfained, such as they shall apprehend to be born again into the new Life of Love, so as to have peace with God therein, and good Will towards each other, which is a Life and a World as yet to come to many an one) who with one heart and soul can meet and break bread in the singleness of their hearts, and behold my Spirit is with you from the beginning to the end, even with all or as many as shall meet together in the Name or Power of Love the Father, and of Love the Son, and in the pure Innocent, Powerful, Loving Spirit thereof, even with all that feel the Joy of the Lord their strength, or that have Christ Jesus, the Love of God, shed abroad in their Hear••s; all such are but one Bread, which the Father giveth for the Light and Life of the World. O eat and drink abundantly thereof, my Beloved Friend. Hallelujah.

More particularly, I desire you to bid welcom the persons, or rather remember the Spirits, of certain Friends to the Bridegroom, who longed to see this day of the Son in Man; but could not, he vanishing out of their sight; and not appearing as he now doth in many, face to face, as bone of their bone, and flesh of their flesh; Hallelujah, viz. dear Saltmarsh, honest Erbury, Doomesday Sedgwick. Noble Sir Henry Vane, Dr. Everard, Dr. Gell, Samuel How, Gilles Randal, Thomas Venner, Mr. Jesse, Praise God Barebone, &c. Innocent and Patient James Nailor, John Parrot, George Fox the younger, Humphry Smith, honest William Tomblingson, Divine Webster, John Cordwell, John War, Cobb, Copp, and Coppin, Joseph Salmon, Joshua Sprigge, the Lady Fines, Mrs. Brice, Mrs. Wally and her Husband, Mrs. Calvert, Elizabeth Rook, the woman Robinson, &c. John Tauney, Roger Crabb, Francis Jennings, Elizabeth Porter and her Husband, Paul Bunting, &c. The whole Family of Love, Henry Nicolson, Jacob Behmes, Dr. Pordage, Humphry Blundal; Russel, Whitlock and him that writ the Sabbath of Rest, &c. Ruishin••l Casamus, The Lord Mountague, Brave Mr. Hobb••, Dr. Chalton, Mr. Owen Feltham, Dr. Broome, Dr. Comenius, Mr. George Withers, &c. Likewise certain others of my dear Friends or Acquaintances, viz. Mr. John Raynes, Mr. Francis Raynes, and Isabella his 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Mr William Deake, M. G. John

Lambert, Col. Nathaniel Rich, Col. Richard Moss, Methusalah Turner, Mr. VVilliam Smith, Mr. John Jackson, Mr. VVilliam Potts, &c. Sincere Simon Dring, Robert Dring and their Wives, Joan VVoodcock, and her Husband; Mary Erbery, Mary Leekes, John VVatham, and Jane his Wife, Hannah and John Stringer, Henry and Darky Cook his Wife, VVilliam VVilson and his Wife, Ann and John Stanton, Luke Herbard, Sir Hugh Quiffin, &c.

Many of which I know are fallen asleep: yet dying in the Faith of Good things to come, I have seen in the New Jerusalem, at the Forming and Transfiguration of Christ in me, as the Spirits of Moses and Elias) appear in the Holy City, amongst other Spirits of just men, perfect in their Generations, which Spirit, is the One Body of Christ, (which was dead, but behold now lives) whereof we are a part, and they without us not perfect: Wherefore let us in the Unity of Love; (that one spirit) meet and joyn together with all Saints, under any Dispensation or Form whatsoever, that so our Joy may be the fuller, when in our Feasts of Charity, we Feast with them, in remembring the good and vertue that was in them, for ever and ever. In which Innocent Spirit of Love there is no Spot nor yet Wrinkle, for it thinketh none ill to its Neighbour, and can do none: This is the Seed and Plant which our Heavenly Father a∣lone planteth, will bless, and whom none can curse, the which must grow and increase into a great Tree, so that the Fowls of the Aire, may lodge in the Branches thereof, (even All those Cares, Fears, and vain Imaginations which attend the Life of Man) whose Leaves are for the healing of the Nations: Hallelujah to God in the highest, on Earth Peace and Rest, to men of Good will; the which I most humbly offer to the God of the whole Earth; and Lord of the Spirits in all flesh, as a perpetual, eternal, everlasting Incense-Sacrifice, and Prayers of all Saints, to him who is our King, and hath made us Kings and Priests for evermore. Amen, Hallelujah.

If any of this 30 l. be left unspent, my desire is, That it should be given to the Relique or Family of Giles Calvert, viz. That Har∣lot who (in his time and day) so kindly and readily did receive the New Light, viz. the Spiers out of that good Land which floweth with Peace and Rest. Hallelujah. Let the whole Earth rejoyce in Gods Salvation, as doth

ROBERT RICH.