TO ALL THE Friends to Truth in the Nations.  
DEar Friends, I am Commanded of the Lord God to lay a few things before yond, charging you in his Fear and Dread to weigh and consider them.  
THis is an Hour and Power of Darkness, of Trial upon all, and is not a Time for any to be looking abroad; It is high time for the strength of every Individual to be gathered Inward; Stayed minds will now be found more needful than ever.  
The Grand Design of the Enemy is, To draw you out; and doth suit his several Baits accordingly; Knowing assuredly, that your Strength, your Peace, your Safety, your Redemption, indeed your All lies in your single being stayed in your Minds in the Light, and in your Real and Sincere Obedience and Subjection to the Leading of That, to the proper measure of that in every Individual or Particular Vessel; If he can but lead you out from That in more or less, in so fat he gains his point, and you so far strengthen the hands of the Enemy, and you are struck in your very Vital parts, especially if in any measure your Minds be joined to that Thing, whatever it be you have set up an Idol of Jealousy.  
Therefore all dear hearts, in the LIGHT watch over the hollow-nature, over your Thoughts, Words and Actions; every one keeping in their proper Sphere, singly given up in all things INWARD and OUTWARD, Fearing and Trembling, especially in this Day to admit of a Thought, a Word or Action to pass you without examining in the Light, how far it is owned by the Infallible Witness; and if it will not stand there shut it out, and let it alone, if there be any Doubt concerning it.  
Dear hearts, I have in the Eternal seen, that the Enemy hath much entered, in the Ordinary Application of that which goeth under the name of our own Freedom.  
I say again, this is an Hour and Power of Darkness, and the Enemy hath entered; And I say (in the Dread and Authority and Power of the living God) hath leavened many; and the Seed hath been and is burdened in many Particulars, and in one another; The World hath entered, Self hath entered, the High-mind hath entered: Singleness, Love, Integrity, Tenderness, Bowels, have been eaten out. Judge, Evil-Surmisings, Enterfearings with one another's work; so that even Divisions with an Open Face hath entered as it were; Yea, and the Servants of the Lord God have been discouraged, and their hands weakened, in that which they have been particularly employed in from the Lord God.  
I speak what in the Infallible I see and know, I Judge no man; All Judgement is committed to the Son; every Individual is to stand-fast in that Liberty, to admit of no Judgement but what is from the true Judge: To shut out the Accuser, any thing that would take that Office; And indeed the Work of that is to justify the Guilty, and condemn the Innocent, both at Home and Abroad (feel me) And therefore I do in the Name and Authority of the Lord God Charge every Individual, shutting out all Reasonings, Consulations, Justifications, Accusations, that they may come under the Single View of the True and Insallible Judge, the LIGHT in the Conscience; that every One may in that see, how far the Execrable thing hath entered any of you, in any of the aforementioned Evils: For I do say, In the Fear & Dread of the Almighty, that I have seen his Fury ready to break forth for these things; Yea, his Jealousy that burns like Fire.  
And therefore let none be stouthearted, let all sink down to the Witness; for whatever ye be, it is your station to dwell there, and not to look out; and in that you shall see the Innocent Cleared, Justified, and Judgement brought upon the head of the Transgressor, that in every Vessel the Transgressor may be Sacrificed; there may be nothing preserved that must be broken down and shut out, that the Oppressed may be delivered, the Dear and Precious Union of Friends preserved, the Reproach of Truth taken away, and who have been overtaken in an Infirmity (through the Deceit or Violence of the Enemy) may be restored with the Spirit of Meekness, Love and Tenderness.  
For Friends, Know that the Weight of these things have been upon me, and I have been pressed under them. I am even bowed down.  
J.S.