will. And
through this path you must walk to the city of God, that has eternal
foundations, if ever you will come there.

Well! and what doth this blessed light do for you? Why, first, it sets
all your sins in order before you: it detects the spirit of this world in
all its baits and allurements, and shows how man came to fall from God,
and the fallen state he is in. Secondly, it begets a sense and sorrow,
in such as believe in it, for this fearful lapse. You will then see him
distinctly whom you have pierced, and all the blows and wounds you have
given him by your disobedience, and how you have made him to serve with
your sins; and you will weep and mourn for it, and your sorrow will be a
godly sorrow. Thirdly, after this it will bring you to the holy watch,
to take care that you do so no more, and that the enemy surprise you not
again. Then thoughts, as well as words and works, will come to judgment,
which is the way of holiness, in which the redeemed of the Lord do walk.
Here you will come to love God above all, and your neighbours as
yourselves. Nothing hurts, nothing harms, nothing makes afraid on this
holy mountain. Now you come to be Christ's indeed; for you are his in
nature and spirit, and not your own. And when you are thus Christ's,
then Christ is yours, and not before. And here you will know communion
with the Father and with the Son, and the efficacy of the blood of
cleansing, even the blood of Jesus Christ, that immaculate Lamb, which
speaks better things than the blood of Abel; and which cleanseth from all
sin, the consciences of those that, through the living faith, come to be
sprinkled with it, from dead works to serve the living God.

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To conclude; behold the testimony and doctrine of the people called
Quakers; behold their practice and discipline; and behold the blessed man
and men, at least many of them, that were sent of God in this excellent
work and service; all which is more particularly expressed in the annals
of that man of God, which I do heartily recommend to my reader's most
serious perusal; and beseech Almighty God, that his blessing may go along
with both, to the convincement of many, as yet strangers to this holy
dispensation, and also to the edification of God's church in general: who
for his manifold and repeated mercies and blessings to his people, in
this day of his great love, is worthy ever to have the glory, honour,
thanksgiving, and renown; and be it rendere