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 rendered and ascribed, with fear and
reverence, through him in whom he is well pleased, his beloved Son and
Lamb, our light and life, that sits with him upon the throne, world
without end.
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