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A48759	A living testimony from the power and spirit of our Lord Jesus Christ in our faithful womens meeting and Christian Socity [sic] given forth in the universal union, and approbation thereof, according to our several proportions of faith and life in the same spirit.	Forster, Mary, 1619?-1686.; Society of Friends. London Yearly Meeting of Women Friends.	1685 (1685)	Wing L2598A; ESTC R21315	5,178	8

to help them and sometimes assisting the Men our Brethren to the placing out our poor Friends Children to Apprentices and other good Services that the Spirit of God leadeth us to and into the practice of the pure Religion and that all such as do profess the Grace of God may live and walk godly righteously and soberly in their Lives and Conversation all such as profess the Word of God may be Doers of the Word of God for all that fear God and work Righteousness are accepted with God And so the Aged Women in the Truth were and are to be Teachers of such good things but such wanton Women or Widdows that are Tale-carriers and busie Bodies that speak things they ought not and such Men that are in Envy and Strife and are puft up with high swelling Words of Vanity and vain unruly Talkers Despisers of them that are good having got into the form of Godliness but not in the Power Such were in the Apostles days as well as now reproved by the Spirit of God and turned away from and we cannot receive their Chaff and Husks for the Seed Wheat or the Bread of Life neither their Earthly sensual Wisdom for the Wisdom of God and therefore have several of such unruly Spirits printed and written so many slanderous reproachful Books against us and made disturbance against our Meetings under a false pretence as though they would call us to our own as it was in the beginning which if they themselves had kept to that that first convinced them they would have shewed forth a quiet and meek Spirit who under a pretence of calling People to their own have drawn People from their own for we are come to our Light Spirit Grace and Word of Life and Anointing within which is our own which at first convinced us and which doth teach us to be Doers of the Word of God and to live Righteously and to practice the true Religion and them that do not the spirit of the Lord moveth us and teacheth us to admonish and exhort them to forsake the Evil and cleave to the Good and them that oppose the Practice and Care in the Spirit and Grace of God of Men and Women in their Meetings had they kept to the Light Grace Truth and Spirit of God and Vnction within them they would have been one with us in the same and in the practice of the pure Religion and in the Godly Care for God's Honour but many of them are turned Mockers Scoffers Writers and Printers against us and are become vain Talkers But we leave them to the Lord to deal with according to their Words and Works And we right-well know our Services which the Spirit of Grace hath led us to in the Church of Christ And as to our orderly proceeding toward Marriage we say and affirm the Man and Woman both ought to appear at the Monethly Meetings and Meetings for such Services where we and the Men may hear what both have to say that Men and Women may not be wronged of their Children and that they are clear from all other Persons that the Meeting and all others concerned may have satisfaction in that Life Grace and Spirit of Christ in which is our Unity and may be faithful Witnesses both to God and Man in our own Gift of Grace in which God hath and doth own us And all that write and print and speak against our Practice which the Spirit of Grace hath led us to in the Church of Christ reach us not neither are they of any credit with us For we have put on the Breast-plate of Faith and Love and for an Helmet the Hope of Salvation And so our desires are That whatever things are pure vertuous lovely sober honest and of good Report and that every one may follow that which makes for Peace and that they may study to be Quiet and do the Lords Business in his Spirit and Power and their own in Truth and Righteousness and walk as Children of the Light in the day of Christ and in meekness instruct them that oppose themselves If God peradventure may give them Repentance to the acknowledgment of the Truth Greet one another with a holy Kiss of Charity Peace be with you all that are in Christ Jesus Amen Rom. 16. 1 Cor. 16.20 2 Cor. 13.22 1 Pet. 5.14 Now this holy Kiss of Charity is wanting and not to be found nor expected from them that do not walk in the Spirit of God And the Apostle saith I intreat thee true Yoke-fellow help these Women which laboured with me in the Gospel with Clement also and with others my Fellow-Labourers whose Names are written in the Book of Life Phil. 4.3 There is one God and Father of all which is above all and through you all and in you all by his Spirit So all may see with his Spirit the Lord is near unto all to teach them to know their Service and if these do lack wisdom to ask it of God who giveth liberally and take counsel of him who is nigh unto you and walk worthy of the Lords mercies being faithful in every good work for to do good communicate is a Sacrifice well pleasing to the Lord and we who are made the Sons and Daughters Servants and Handmaids by the Spirit of God in the same Spirit we have Unity and Fellowship though we be absent in body one from another yet we are present in the same Spirit and by the spiritual Eye do see and behold and rejoyce in our spiritual Order and one anothers stedfastness in Christ Jesus And so we have a communion in the Holy Ghost both Sons and Daughters and if any thing the Men do see that is more proper for the Women to do and to look into they do let us know of it as Sisters in the Truth and if any thing we see that is more proper for the Men than for us then we let them know as our Brethren in the Truth so in this we do assist each other in the Spirit and Truth and are meet helps in the heavenly spiritual Union and Communion and Fellowship and Society and do know the unity of the Spirit of Christ which is the Bond of Peace and in this heavenly Spirit that reaches through all and over all and is in you all our dear Sisters every where in Christ Jesus 't is you we visit to whom we recommend this Epistle Farewel Postscript WE have been a People that have sought the Lord and now we have found him we are willing to obey him in his Power and holy Spirit that he hath given us to enable us so to do and though we are persecuted in spirit and other ways by unruly Tongues that have not power with their hands such that are Sayers of the the Word of God and Talkers of the Grace of God and of the Righteousness of Christ but not Doers of the Word nor walkers in the Righteousness and Grace of God their ungracious Languages and Words that they have Spoken and Printed against us shew the Trees and their Fruit whom we desire may come to the Light of Christ that with it they may see themselves and repent for we desire the Salvation and Eternal Good of all Signed by us in the behalf of the rest of our sincere Minded Members of our Meeting London from our Womens Meeting gathered out of the City and Suburbs the 1st of the 4th Moneth 1685. Mary Foster Mary Elson Anne Travice Ruth Crowch Susannah Dew Mary Plumstead THE END