To all friends every where to whom this may concern, to go abroad among them to be ●ead in the fear of God by them.  
DEar Friends, all stand in the power of God, for therein you shall be able to beat such a testimony as shall truly honor God, and fill your hearts with true peace, for there is not a way whereby you can glorify God, and feel his joy, and peace, but only, by standing in his power, which is a meek and innocent power, which cannot hurt any, but sincerely loves all that be in it, and travels for the gathering of such as are not in it, that their minds may come to be acquainted with it, wherein, there is no cause of complaining because of want of power, for all they that stand in the power of God, they are unfeignedly innocent, and they have power over the devil, and all his instruments, their innocency is not feigned, neither is it pretence, but it is unfeigned and real in the presence of God, why then should such be dismayed, or cast away their confidence, nay, but as they stand in the power of God, they cannot be dismayed nor afraid because of the threatenings of men, whose breath is in their nostrils, who are ignorant of the power of God, their threatenings, rage and fury cannot disquiet those that in the power of God stand, lot it not trouble any that have the least love to truth, because it looks like to be a suffering time, and is so, and is like to increase, have you not red of the valour of the Saints in former Ages, how they were valiant for the truth, if you say, what made them valiant? What sustained them, in all their deep trials and sufferings? are there any deeper trials to be past through then what the Saints of old passed through, and what upheld them? do ye not red, what they past through, in some things, yea it was not all their sufferings then, and I may truly say, itis but a little of their sufferings now which can be declared, but they past through sufferings undeclareable, unutterable, and what sustained them in all these, nothing but the power of God, they stood in the power of God, that was their stay, that which sustained there minds: and carried them through all that was inflicted upon them, by those that persecuted them, and in the power of the Lord they obtained victory through patience, and sufferings, and not with any carnal weapon, or any carnal force, the carnal mind leads to carnal weapons, the spiritual mind is life and peace with God, wherein they that are in it makes war against all that which is carnal within and without, and not without success, for they overcome, it is the Lamb and his Followers that obtains the victory, mark, they who follow the Lamb, who be in his Life, power and patience, have the victory over the Dragon, and his Followers, if you would have this victory, you must come into the Lambs life and innocency, not into a pretence, or feigned appearance of innocency, but into that which is real, in the presence of God, and this being witnessed in verity, the pretence to it makes it not voided, but such as are really and unfeignedly therein, do see over all pretenders thereunto, and with such they have no Unity, but against such we stand witnesses, as also we do witness against all open gross iniquity, which is apparent but the zeal of the faithful in all ages hath been fervent against, that which works in a mystery, so my dear friends, now it must appear who are really the Followers of the Lamb, and who follow or creep in for by ends, and pretences, the Lord is severing and distinguishing between them that really are given up to be his, and all they have to the loss for his truth, and their own lives i● it be called for, good is the Lord to them that are wholly given up without any reservation, but thou that hath in thy heart a reservation, itis in vain for thee to think to cover, with any thing or under any pretence whatsoever, thou cannot be hide, thou will grant that the Lord is better nor all, and all is to be resigned, and yet it is not so with thee, and there is not a willingness that it should be so with thee, but thou hast a reservation in thy heart, this worlds wisdom lies near thee, and therein thou goes about to save and hast a reserve, and yet art not willing any should think so of thee, and something says Master save thyself, but self must perish, and that is self that goes about to save, & reserve, this is that which stands in the way of the true power, & victory, such I say cannot be hide, there is an eye that sees such, and that spirit is not that which can carry through in this day of trial, the Lord is a beholder of thy heart, thou hast nothing outwardly but what the Lord hath given thee, and art thou right in the sight of God who art afraid of losing it, which so prevails within thee, as to make thee go about to seek by ways, to save, and which draws thee back and stops thee from being valiant for the truth, but makes thee secretly daunted in thy spirit, so that thy courage begins to fail, and the love of the world creeps over thee, and yet some shane is in thee; thou would not have it appear; and yet thou cannot hid it, but the matter evidently appears to the single hearted, such might long have covered themselves, if this day of trial had not come, and this day is come, and coming to manifest,( I say) who are the Lords and who are not his, and art thou his? Consider it art thou thyself resigned to him, art thou made willing to give up thy life for his sake, and yet dost thou fear to loose outward things for his sake, if thou canst not part with these, and give up these, how wilt thou give up thyself, thy life to be laid down for him, O all friends stand fast in the power of God, and faint not, for it shall be and is well with you that abide faithful, you overcome and shall overcome as you stand in the power of God, and all you that would be reputed Followers of the Lamb and yet do shrink, and go about in your carnal prudence, wisdom, and policy, to save that which you are to give up, have a care what ye do, O sink down and consider the love of God, namely his good gift; his holy spirit given you to profit withall, is not this great love, in that he hath put his spirit within you, by which you may search your hearts, by which you may profit, to the purifying o● your own hearts, and helping of others if ye be faithful, therefore examine your hearts with the light of Christ in you, for this is a trying time, and a good time to them that obey the truth for they shine, as stars in Gods Firmament, their very enemies shall be made to confess that such are the faithful people of God e're all be done is there not something in the world that can make a distinction, between right Quakers and such as they call Mongrils, or not righ● it is not the suffering of spoiling of goods or any outward things that the righteous look at this day, where there is not a spirit born● up in the mind that can do all these things cheerfully, as to the Lord freely offering up all without any secret reserve of grudging the time, or afterwards, ah friends, itis not a small thing, in reality from the heart, to love enemies, and pray for them that spoil your goods, and beat you and abuse you, and yet I believe many are so given up, and have such a testimony upon their Spirits before God, that they suffer all these without a desire of evil towards them that so use them, but it would be greater joy to them then all earthly things to see the conversion of their enemies, that is it their Souls prey, for notwithstanding you be evilly requited by them, for whose souls you travail who judge your innocency to be but feigned and pretence, though it be indeed real, towards all your enemies, insomuch that not withstanding of all the hard usage, by them done unto you, ye can from your hearts freely forgive them, and pray for them, and yet they will not believe it to be so on your part, but do judge otherwise of you, that it is not so with you, but that you would help yourselves with carnal force and many other false suppositions have they in their minds against you, but dear Friends, since I heard of your sufferings, this hath oft stood up in my heart, what is all their surmises concerning us this day, so long as we find ourselves in the presence of God to be innocent concerning those things which they charge us with, is not this great encouragement on your part, may not you be bold in the sight of your persecutors, who charge you with being guilty of what you are really innocent, doth not this good boldness, encouragement, to stand fast in your innocency, & i● you suffer yet more abundantly as evil doers; & as deceivers in there esteem, yet not being so in the esteem of God, but feeling the Scriptures fulfilled in you, namely the witnessing of the witness or testimony in your spirits that ye are his followers, who is the true and living God, who are no otherwise judged of or dealt with by the World now, then formerly the world judged of and dealt with Christ and his Followers and still I affirm that the highest pretences to this doth not make voided the least degree attained to, in the truth, but that is truly able, and all in it, to judge all pretences, so therefore all my dear and faithful Friends, I say now is the day wherein the Lord is manifesting his who for all this World may not shrink nor give way to the adversary, O stand your ground, stand in the power of God, they cry to you now, that ye will keep your own houses and say, if you do so they will not meddle with you, O Friends this is but pretence, for if they could bring us that length as they shall never be able to bring to that, they would not be content with that, but they would also strive to have you perfectly back into all their Worships, customs, fashions, and spirit also from which they flow, but my dear friends, feel your minds stayed in the power of God, and never heed there threatenings, let neither threatenings nor flatteries, draw you from your place in the innocent power of God, but mind all to feel the keeping down of all thoughts of revenge, and all desire of evil against them that persecute you, for Charity thinks no ill, it bears no envy, but bears all, and endures all, and they that be truly in the Charity they are found in Christs Doctrine, which saith love one another, so my dear Friends love one another, and that ye may unfeignedly love one another, love the truth in your own bearts, and that you may have unity one with another, feel your unity with the truth in your own hearts, that from your hearts in godly sincerity you may serve one another in love unfeigned, and then you will be fully able to love enemies, and to pray for enemies, and so fulfil Christs doctrine, and if you sincerely. love one another, and abide in Unity with the truth in your hearts and one with another, then are you fastened and knit together, and you are they that can stand for God, in this day, and the pretences of pretenders shall not be able to make vold your testimony for the Lord this day, your name and memorial shall endure to ages to come, who stand in the power of God but all who profess the truth, and feels not its living virtue in their minds, and have a reserve of earth in their hearts, and cannot give up with the earth, how will they give up themselves? Nay they cannot, and the cause why the earth is not under their Feet, but is in their hearts in the love of it and with it cannot part, the cause of this is, because they are not fully one, not ever were fall one with the truth in their own hearts, but an earthly spirit was secretly alive in them covered over with a profession of truth, and so were never fully sanctified, and now the trial is come, to manifest them that are given up not only to the l●ss of all they possess, in this World, but have given up a greater matter then all the world to them, namely their own lives if the Lord shall call for the same, so they that are not given up themselves can never freely give up any thing they possess with a willing mind, this day of trial doth good, it minifests those that loves this world better the. Christ, but some may say, is there any so mad as to love this World better the● Christ? Yes, there is such a madness now a d●ys, and darkness is over their hearts that cannot see it, first consider, what stir has been among the several professors in these nations how have they in words cried up Christ and his Followers, for their sufferings, and how have they cried against their persecutors, and now the Lord is come to trial if this be real, and O what flocking has been, in this little while of calm, but now a storm is come, and now they seek for holes and corners, and creep in secret, and yet will say they love Christ above all, but though in words they confess so, yet there work says another thing, what means all this carnal policy and prudence, and creeping into private with there meetings, doth not this show that there is guilt, and that they, and what they possess are not given up for Christ, for if they loved Christ above all, then the less of what they have in this World, neither any other suffering would be able to stop them from an open and public testimony for Christ,( we called by the World Quakers) have expected no other concerning them, and our expectation have not failed us but is now made appear to be so, but is not this spirit to be found among or in any that haue or do profess themselves to be one with us ( master save thyself,) is there something that would save self, it cannot be hide, it will appear, no cover can hid it in this day: but still I affirm though some such there may be, and is, yet that no more makes voided the reality of them that are truly resigned now, then Demas his forsaking of Paul and cleaving to this present World, did make voided Paul and his Brethrens real resignation of all, you will say Paul and the rest were real notwithstanding Dem as his forsaking of him, so are the single hearted this day who have fully counted the cost, and in their hearts given up all, so let every one beware of this spirit that would save self, this spirit may lie near and doth lie near to tempt even the righteous, and will creep in if the watch be not kept, O master save thyself it will come creeping in with a suggestion within thee to save self, and to forbear meetings, O itis an evil time, Christian prudence, and wisdom is good, they will fine me twenty pounds if I have a meeting in my house, they will at last leave me nothing, and what shall I do with my wife and my family? and here the creeping serpent creeps upon his belly to deceive, until he get in by piece and piece, and then he'l begin to be bold and brazen-faced, and stand up to pled for his Kingdom, but I know there are many and not a few that stands so in the power of God, insomuch that he is chained down and hath no power to prevail, but his suggesting shut quiter out, but some there may be that may lend an ear to his suggesting, that would not have it outwardly known that such a thing were in their hearts, but yet he being let in a little, he creeps further until he comes in some measure to show himself and seek a cover for himself, O is it not good to be prudent, is it good to calf ourselves upon sufferings, when there is no need for it, and here master save thyself, creeps in, but I say it is good to be prudent, and not to cast ourselves upon sufferings where there is no need, but the Lord rebuk thee thou creeping deceitful spirit who would cover thyself under this pretence, for now the day is come that who will live Godly must suffer persecution, and who will depart from iniquity must be made a prey of by the World, and this day manifests them that have not a reservation in their hearts, but are the Lords freely given up in obedience to his holy truth by it to be guided in faithfulness to keep their meetings together, intending not another thing but to obey the Lord and feel his power and presence among them, this is the good prudence and wisdom, and if for this s●mple, honest intent and practise any more shall be ●poiled,( as many have been) of there outward things the Lord will give a hundred fold, the Lord is the everlasting portion of the faith 〈◇〉 such than I never want, that which is good for them to have, notwithstanding the single hearted do not approve of rasnness, or of ostentation or of ●urning into things to be seen and to have a name, that is not, to stand, ●… er can it ●… d, but a● dear friends mind the tru●h in your hearts s●mply obey the truth for its own sake, not minding what ye may suffer for the same, keep your meetings together, in the feeling of that, in which ye can be able to forgive your enemies, itis a weighty thing freely from the heart to forgive enemies, and not to desire evil in your hearts against them, but all wait to feel that in your hearts, that thinks not evil against them, neither desires evil against them, still I affirm that the pretence to this makes not voided the reality where it is, and it that be seen that would beget a desire of evil or revenge, against those that abuse you, ah beware of it, the Law of Christ is in our hearts, where the Law of man cannot lay hold, yet the Law of Christ as thou minds it, will let thee see the murderer within, the ground of all hatred, and if they from a wrong spirit shall beat and abuse you, though it may not be seen by them nor appear to them, yet if revenge rise in your hearts, and ye desire evil in your hearts against them, thatis the same spirit, so beware of it, if at any time I have felt any thing of this revengeful Spirit in me what a weight has it brought in me. the La●… of Christ is in my heart has secretly taken hold of it, and judged it and  told me in secret that I should not have let such a thought into my heart, but feeling his spirit that said love, and forgive and pray for enemies, in my heart leading to do so from my heart in that sight of God, ah then secret joy peace and contentment, so wherever that spirit is let in that would and doth save self, and makes cowardly and fearful and makes to sink. O take heed and beware, least the Lord altogether depart, but shrink let all such sink down to that which remains a witness for God, and there wait to feel Judgement upon the evil spirit and to judge it out and its fruit, and if it be but yet in secret, prevailing with thee within, begetting consultings if thou judge it not, it will break out it cannot stand there, so all mind the fear of God, that therein ye may be preserved, for truly this hath lain heavy upon me to writ as I have written, there being a sense in my heart of the enemies subtlety against us this day. who by several ways works against us, so the Lord by his grace preserve the faithful and bring such to be faithful who are not.  
Your friend Patrick Livingstone. From the Prison by Newgate the 7th. of the 10 month, 1670.  
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