A Song of the Judgments & Mercies of the Lord: wherein the things seen in secret, are declared openly. Being, a brief demonstration of the secret work of the Almighty in me his servant: given forth at the movings of the spirit of the Lord, and is to go abroad throughout the world. With a hearty salutation of pure and unfained love, flowing from the innocent life, (in a few words) to all the souldiers, of the Lambs army throughout the nations, and also to the suffering seed every where. With a few words by way of information unto such who may have desires in them to know the way to the kingdom of peace and righteousness, (which we possess, and are heirs of through Christ Jesus our Lord) which to them is the visitation of God. By one that laboured and travelled for the redemption of the suffering seed; who is ceased from his labour, and entred into everlasting rest; called, Josiah Coale

London, 1669. Pamphlet (in boards). Good. 20 pp. Modern paper over boards. Toned, early pagination in ink, assumed once in a tract volume, small hole to title (front margin), leaves closely cropped, a few minor stains. Third edition, being expanded. Coale was one of the earliest Quaker explorers of Pennsylvania and early missionary in the New World (according to the Papers of William Penn, Vol. 5, Coale was likely the first Quaker to touch Pennsylvania soil in 1658.) Coale was one of William Penn's intimate friends during his first years as a Quaker, the first secition of his "Song" written while he was "travelling in the Wilderness...on Long-Island". The last section comprises Coale's dying words, before which is a Testimony concerning Lodowick Muggleton - 'He is a Son of Darkness, and a Co-Worker with the Prince of the Bottomless-Pit. (Inventory #: 1475)