A General Epistle to all Friends.  
ALL my dear friends, and Brethren who are of the Royal Seed of God, patience obtain the victory that runs the race, and obtains the Crown, and be married and joined to the Seed Christ the Lamb slain from the Foundation of the World, from its foundation I say; Therefore as you are joined to the Seed and married to that which hath been slain from the foundation of the world which hath the victory, and doth overcome; by which you come to the end of the world, mark to its end. And now all friends look upon the sufferings that hath been since the Fall and since the world began. And again look upon the Valiant Prisoners and such as stood with the Lord and for the Lord; and followed, and obeied his movings, and motions, and Commands with victories they had; how they triumphed in the Lord over that which was against the Lord, for by Faith Abraham forsook his Country, and his Fathers house, and his national worship. And by Faith was Abels Offering accepted of God, unto whom God had respect; Therefore did wicked Cain persecute, and kill him about his Religion, and this was not long after man was fallen from the righteousness and the power, and the Image of God which man was made in. And by the Faith, and the power and wisdom of God did Moses go down and speak to Pharaoh the King of Egypt, and through the power and Hand and arm of God led them out of Egypt, which signifies misery, Thraldom, and Bondage thereby, afterwards when they were come out, and had tasted the power of God, many fell. And Moses saw Christ the great Prophet that was to come, which was to build his House( as Moses by the wisdom of God had done his in the time of the Law, with Types, Figures, and Shadows) and so look upon Moses how he Conquered all the Magicians, and comprehended all the Sorcerers; and soothsayers, and Pharachs Religion and their worship; and could not bow nor bend unto it.  
Look upon joseph who through the enmity in his brethren was sold into Egypty who underwent reproach and imprisonment; unto whom God gave power over all at last, and confounded all the Wise men and the national Worshippers in Egypt, and came in favour over them all by the power of God: And remember Abraham who was in the Faith and the fear of God, and how Abimalths house for his sake God plagued. Therefore keep in the faith of Abraham; then who wrongs you the hand of the Lord will turn against them, and whilst they stood in the power of God what victories they had over their Enemies, as instance Samson, David, and Saul; But when any went from the command of God, how under the Heathen they fell. So now ye who are come to Gods power, which goes over the power of darkness, and before it was; in that stand, triumph, and trample who are come to the end of carnal. weapons and striving with outward arms; And ye may look upon them how valiant they were over the Philistines both Samson and David, and his mighty men when they were in the power of God, and how Davids three mighty men, broken through a whole Host to fetch water to refresh the Seed ( David:) Therefore now ye in the power of the Lord( and the mighty God) which goes over all the Philistines of the Earth with Carnal weapons as there they in the time of the Law did with Carnal weapons. And how often Iacobs Well was stopped up( the beloved of God the second birth,) by the Philistines, but jacob did thrash the Mountains, as he did arise, and driven them away by which he might drink again. So red this in the substance who are come to the second birth, that goes over Esau and the Philistines both before they were; And also remember how the Prophets were Imprisoned, and put in Dungeons, and Stocks, &c. As in particular jeremiah, and how they were mocked, and scoffed at, and reproached for declaring against the fins, and wickedness of the times, both by Rulers, Teachers, and people; and yet by the power of God they were carried through, and over all: and the Cry was then Cursed is he that puts his trust in man, or feared man, or the arm of Flesh, &c.  
So remember Daniel, and the three Children though Prisoners, yet could not bow to the National worship, and so were cast into the fiery Furnace, and the Den of lions, whom the Lord God gave Dominion over their Enemies, and confounded the National worshippers, with all the Magicians, and made the King to change his Decree, and Law; and this was in the Babylonish Monarchy; and when the Medes and Persians got up, the power was changed, then they cast Daniel into the Den of lions because he prayed to his God contrary to the Kings Decree, to whom God appeared again and confounded them all, and made the King or Emperour to change his Decree: Therefore to keep faith in the power of God; for that is it by which the Elders of old obtained a good report; And consider Mordecay who stood faithful and could not bow to proud flesh though it was in danger of destroying all the jews, whom through obedience to God he gave him victory by which he came to answer the good in all people. Now consider they that came to profess Christ who was the Substance before the Types, figures, and shadows which were held up by the jews in the Law and first Covenant and priesthood and Ordinances( which Christ the Substance came to end) how that I say the Christians of old by that kind of people the jews as you do now suffer the most, and have done by them that are the greatest professors of Christs words, but out of the life and power of Christ, and the Apostles and Saints were in, in the Primitive times.  
So it is no new thing, and as Solomon saith here is no new thing under the Sun, for it is not a new thing for the birth that is born after the flesh to persecute the Birth that is born after the Spirit; And look upon the Apostles and consider how they suffered( and by whom) that bore testimony to the Substance, their sufferings were by such as were in the husks, shadows, inventions, and rudiments of the world, and such as were fallen from Gods righteousness, Image and holiness, and not in the renewed State. And consider how that the Hebrews suffered the spoiling of their goods by the Hebrews who were called jews, as ye may red it in the Epistle to the Hebrews, for ye red in few of the Epistles that the Gentiles suffered the spoiling of their goods( or the Christians by the Gentiles,) but by the jews the great professors as you do and have done in these days.  
And consider how the Witness hath been slain and( the true Church) the woman went into the Wilderness, sled, who was persecuted, and how she hath been fed there of God, and how since that time the Beast and Dragons worship hath been up and the false Prophet, and the Whore( the false Church) which hath ridden on the Beast in the Dragons power whom the people have worshipped; who hath caused all Nations to drink of the Whores Cup of Fornication; Now you that have appeared in the end and behind all the Worships of the Beast, and after the Worship of the Dragon, who comes now to fathom the Whore( the false Church) and the false Prophets, and comes to see the power, and to feel it, and to be in it that takes them and cast them alive into the Lake of fire( which hath been worshipped) and burns the Whores flesh with fire, which power gives them Dominion over them all to see to the very Apostles days what they were in and what hath got up since, for it is above sixteen hundred years since the false Prophets, and Antichrists came in( therefore they may pled Antiquity,) Now with the power of God, ye may look what raikes they have played in the world since the primitive times in the apostasy: But now is the Bride coming up out of the Wilderness, and the Prophet is risen and arising that the everlasting Gospel shall be, and is preached again to all Nations, Kindreds, Tongues, and peoples, and they that dwell upon the Earth; and the Reapers are going forth to reap people down and up to God, and bring them into the barn, and to gather the Wheat into the Gamer. And people shall come to worship God that made Heaven and Earth, the Sea and all that is therein; the Beasts Worship is falling, and Dragons Worship, and the great Whores Church is falling( the true woman is coming up) false Prephets are falling, true Prophets and true Witnesses rising, and risen; Sing triumph and rejoice glory in the highest, trample, tread, and bow before the mighty God: Let the wicked bow before the gates of the Righteous, sing and rejoice, the Heaven of Heavens praise the Lord. Now as the Dragons Worship, Beast, false Church, false Prophet is taken, the old Dragon cast into the Lake of fire,( and with him the false Prophets) and the flesh of the Whore burnt, Reap out, reap out, reap out I say( with the power of God) ye Reapers unto the Lord, for here is the day of Harvest, for as the other falls the day of Harvest is known, a day of gathering, for it is that which hath inwardly ravened, that hath scattered. For the inwardly ravenors, the Wolves in Sheeps clothing, whose fruits have been briars& Thorns and Thistles, are them which have made up the false Church, the Whore, the false Prophets, and the Beasts worship, and the Dragons worship out of the truth, which have made the world like a Wilderness, overgrown with Thistles, Thorns, and briars, in which lodgeth the Wolves and Dragons, which the beginning of this ravening into this state was a matter of sixteen hundred years since, amongst whom is found the blood of the Martyers, Prophets, and Saints in the faith, and in the Testimony of Jesus; in this dark night of apostasy, separation degeneration, with all their compelling Worships, inventions, Laws, Traditions, Churches rudiments to be observed, and Cups for people to drink; in these( I say) and amongst these have the Righteous suffered since the days of the Apostles: and amongst them is the blood of the Martyrs, and the Prophets, and holy people of the Royal seed found, and by them have they all suffered, and from amongst them will God fetch his Royal seed with his own hand, and with his mighty power will he fetch it; Glory over all, to him rejoice and sing praises, who is now triumphing gloriously, and bringing ye over with his power, that ye might see to the beginning before man fell, and know the state of the jews in the Law, and the state of the Christians in the end of the Law, and the state of the apostatised pretended Christians since the Apostles days out of both Law and Gospel, how they have gotten up and in what they have lived out of the life, and power the Apostles were in, and Christ Jesus who is the first, and the last, the top, and Corner ston who is over all felt, and lies heavy upon the Transgressors, who is the Rock upon which the Lambs, leaps, and skips; him all feel in you all then ye may all feel the first and the last, who destroys the Devil and his works( which are imperfect) whose works are Persecution and Murder, and Banishment, and Cruelty, and Imprisonment: For the Devil shall cast some into Prison saith John in the Revellations, and the Devil was a murderer from the beginning, and a liar, whom Christ destroys, and his works who was before he was, and remaines when he is destroyed and gone, and his works.  
Therefore in him( the seed) have ye life eternal, and in him meet together, and then ye are in the Pastures of life, who is the first and the last, who is over Death and the power of it, and the Pastures of Death; So who be in this Royal seed comprehends the state and time before the Law, the time of the Law, the time of Christians, and the time of the apostasy; for the seed Christ is the first and the last, the beginning& the ending, and in the seed is the staydness, and the plainness of words and life,( yet a mystery to all them that be out of it.) And comprehends and sees the state of the sufferings before the Law of the just, the state of the sufferings of the just in the Law, by whom and for what they suffered, and also comprehends the state of the Christians who lived in the end of the Law, in Christ the substance, and by whom they suffered and for what; even by such as were the greatest Professors, out of the life of Moses and the Prophets, which had they been in it they would have red Christ the Substance, and all them that testified of him, and were witnesses of him. And also comprehends the state and sees who are them that are apostatised from the Apostles and the Church in the primitive times, who have been the sufferers, and who it is that hath made them to suffer, and for what.  
So the measuring Line of Righteousness is in this known, and also the state now wherein the Lambs and the Saints shall have the victory; and the rising of the witnesses, and the Prophets, and the Reapers going forth to reap the earth, and the womans coming out of the Wilderness, and the worshipping of God that made Heaven and Earth, the Sea and the dry Land; and the destruction of the Devils worship, and Dragons, and the false Prophets, and the great Whore( the false Church) and the Saints shall reign, and the Lambs shall have victory, and the Kid the Lambs wife shall be known,( which is the true Church which Christ is the head of,) So in this live that is in the life and power of Christ in Christ the Substance in which ye may know the first& the last, and the Gospel fellowship which is preached again, which Gospel is the power of God which brings before the power of darkness was, which hath darkened life and immortality from people in which power, life, and immortality comes to be brought to light again to people in which power of God is the fellowship, which is a mystery. So wait to know every particular of yourselves, to be heires of this, and know your portion, the power of God, the Gospel fellowship, then are ye Members one of another, and living stones that build up the Spiritual household; And also know the across of Christ, which is the power of God, which Crucifies from the state in the fall, and the apostasy from that state, I say that Adam and Eve and all their Sons and Daughters are in, in the fall wherein that state they glory in the Creatures, and in their shane, and in their Inventions, or in their Strength, wisdom, Riches. But the glorying in the across of Christ the power of God, the glorying is in that which doth crucify from the state of Adam and Eve, and all their Sons and daughters in the fall, and from that state all the Apostate Christians be in since the Apostles; and in this power of God is everlasting gloryings, which is a across to all that lives as I said before, in the apostasy, and in the fall, but not a across to them that be redeemed, and Crucified, for their glorying stands in it which is over all the gloryings in the fall, and all Creatures. So in the power of the Lord God, meet, wait, live, and dwell, and have fellowship, for in the power Christ lives: Therefore now you that are come to know the Gospel preached again which was amongst the Apostles, in which power of God you feel before the fall of Adam and Eve, where all things were good and blessed in the beginning before the fall; which after the fall, the Curse came which brought the woe and misery: So you that feel the Redemption out of the fall, by which you know the state of the blessing before the fall, how all things were good and blessed, and come into the same power that brings you up before the fall, and brings you to be gathered in the Name of Jesus, which is above every Name, and gathered into the Name of Jesus, by which Salvation is brought, and there is no other name under Heaven given by which Salvation is brought but by the Name of Jesus. So ye being gathered in the Name which is above every name, and also into the Name by which Salvation is brought, and by no other name; in that wait, and meet, and keep together, so ye will feel the blessing of the Lord in you, and amongst you so farewell.  
And consider how the Servants of the Lord, and his Royal people, and Prophets, feared not flames, feared not Dens of lions, or Dragons, headed not Prisonments, Bonds, Banishments, whips nor Scourgings, nor spoiling of their goods, and their tortures, nor feared not their Saws of being sawed asunder, nor their Stocks, their Clubs and Staves, nor Persecution; but choose rather to suffer reproach with the people of God, then to enjoy the pleasures of Sin for a season: and how that reproaches, slanders, vilfiing words they regarded not, but trampled upon such, and said the sufferings were not to be valued with the Excellency and riches of grace, which they were made partakers of. And the cry was what shall separate us from the Love of God, which we have in Christ Jesus, shall Death, shall Famine, or Sword, or Persecution, or could, or Nakedness, or Things present, or Things to come, or height, or Depth, or Angels, or Men, or principalities, or Powers separate us from the Love of God &c. For by the powers were all the National Worships held up as they are at this day, which the false Prophets, the Teachers, and the powers joined together then against them that were in the Faith, by which faith they overcame, and said there was not any thing that was able to separate them from the Love of God which they had in Christ Jesus, mark Christ the seed who destroys the Devil and his works; in which seed( Christ) ye come over the Devil the Author of all Prisoning, Persecuting, Darkness, Ungodliness, Unrighteousness, Unholiness; Christ who doth subdue all things to himself, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and Dominion, an everlasting Dominion over all Dominions: And in this kingdom, and Dominion have ye all peace where no unrighteous thing enters: And so in this ye come to be a free people in life, and power, and Dominion; And there is no new thing under the Sun, for the wicked cries, light is darkness yet( as of old time,) and calls good evil, and evil good, and truth error, and cries up the false Teachers, and Prophets, for the true and false Church and worship, and the feigned humility for the true, and the blind zeal for the good, and true zeal, now as in former days, and so it is the old Enemy of mankind, and his works which the seed destroys, who reigns Glory for ever to the Highest.  
G. F.   

FRIENDS, all outward things figures, Types, shadows, and inventions have been set up since Adam fell, which invention Christ destroys, and the Types, Figures and shadows of him fulfils, and brings man up out of the fall to the state he was in before he fell, and so in the power of God in peace, love, and unity, and into the everlasting fellowship. Cain differed from Abel in matter of worship, Abraham from his own Countrymen and Nation: Likewise in matters of worship, Moses and the children differed from the Egyptians, and the Canaanites and other nations in matter of worship. Yet after the children of Israel were brought out of Egypt by the power of God, how soon after did they set up a calf an outward thing? Therefore in the power of God keep over all things, and in his wisdom: And how soon Chora, Dathan and Abyram began to offer a strange sacrifice, after they were brought out of Egypt by the power of God; and went from the power of God, in which they should have offered, therefore in the power of God keep.  
And how soon the children of Israel ( when they multiplied and grew unmerous) offered out of the life of the Law, and the power of God, then their Sacrifices were like unto the cutting off of a doggs neck, and blessing Idols, therfore keep in the life and power of God. And ye may see Daniels Religion and worship differed from Nebuchadnessars the Emperour of Babylon, and likewise differed from the chaldeans and Persians as yours comes to differ now from all the Apostates from the Apostles, and Christs life and doctrine, and there is the mystery of Babylon, as the jews differed from outward Babylon, therefore keep in the power of God, that keeps you to the beginning.