hat have been long
professors of the truth, and know the truth in the convincing power of
it, and have had a sober conversation among men; yet content yourselves
only to know truth for yourselves, to go to meetings, and exercise an
ordinary charity in the church, and an honest behaviour in the world, and
limit yourselves within those bounds; feeling little or no concern upon
your spirits, for the glory of the Lord in the prosperity of his truth in
the earth, more than to be glad that others succeed in such service.
Arise ye in the name and power of the Lord Jesus! Behold how white the
fields are unto harvest, in this and other nations, and how few able and
faithful labourers there are to work therein! Your country-folks,
neighbours, and kindred, want to know the Lord and his truth, and to walk
in it. Does nothing lie at your door upon their account! Search and
see, and lose no time, I beseech you, for the Lord is at hand.

I do not judge you; there is one that judgeth all men, and his judgment
is true. You have mightily increased in your outward substance, may you
equally increase in your inward riches, and do good with both, while you
have a day to do good. Your enemies would once have taken what you had,
from you, for his name's sake in whom you have believed; wherefore he has
given you much of the world, in the face of your enemies. But O, let it
be your servant, and not your master! your diversion rather than your
business! let the Lord be chiefly in your eye, and ponder your ways, and
see if God has nothing more for you to do: and if you find yourselves
short in your account with him, then wait for his preparation, and be
ready to receive the word of command, and be not weary of well-doing,
when you have put your hand to the plough; and, assuredly, you shall
reap, if you faint not, the fruit of your heavenly labour in God's
everlasting kingdom.

And you, young convinced ones, be you entreated and exhorted to a
diligent and chaste waiting upon God, in the way of his blessed
manifestation and appearance of himself to you. Look not out, but
within: let not another's liberty be your snare: neither act by
imitation, but by sense and feeling of God's power in yourselves: crush
not the tender buddings of it in your souls, nor over-run, in your
desires and warmness of affections, the holy and gentle motions of it.
Remember it is a still voice that speaks to us in this day, and that it
is not to be heard in the noi