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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40137	A collection of many select and Christian epistles, letters and testimonies written on sundry occasions, by that ancient, eminent, faithful friend and minister of Christ Jesus, George Fox ; the second volume.	Fox, George, 1624-1691.; Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1698 (1698)	Wing F1764; ESTC R15883	725,753	580

in the Truth that the Lord may be glorified in all your Families And teach your Children when they are young then will they remember it when they are old according to Solomon's Counsel So that your Children may be a Blessing to you and not a Curse And all Men and Women are to order their Children and Servants in the Order of the Gospel and in the New Covenant And to order them in the Order of the Gospel that they may all come to know the Lord. For the outward Jews were to train up their Children in the Old Law in the Old Covenant And so you that are called Christians are to train up your Children in the Fear of the Lord and in Christ Jesus that they may walk in Him in Modesty and Holiness and Virtue And so all to govern their Families And they that are to Govern are to be governed and ordered themselves by the Spirit and Power of God to God's Glory and as Examples in their Families for all Loosness is out of the Power of God either in Word or Life And so by the Power of God and his Righteousness and Truth and Light and Life all that is to be judged and kept under and down and the Truth and the Light and Spirit of God must be walk'd in which all Loosness is out of And so whatsoever things are of good Report or whatsoever things are Lovely or whatsoever things are Pure and Decent and Vertuous and Godly and Righteous and Holy and Just that follow after and do the Works of Charity and not your own but the good Works of Hospitality which are accepted of God And keep the Order of the Gospel the Power of God which Power of God was before the Devil was and is over him which brings Life and Immortality to Light in Men and Women and Men and Women they are to walk in this Power of God and to keep in it Men and Women to walk in the Power of God being Heirs of the same and under the Goverment of Christ Jesus who bruiseth the Serpent's Head and destroys him and his Government Men and Women being Heirs of Grace and Life together and of the Power of God and of the Gospel of Christ Jesus the Amen And so as they come to possess and inherit him and his Gospel-Order they come to possess him and his Government and Order the increase of which there is no End And that Notice be taken of all evil Speakers Backbiters Slanderers and foolish Talkers and idle Jesters for all these corrupt good Manners and are not according to the Saints and Holy Men's Practise Against Backbiters whose Words were seasoned with Salt ministering Grace to the Hearers And all such as go up and down to Cheat Against Cheats by borrowing and getting Money of Friends and have cheated several all such are to be stopped and judged and Notice of them is to be given to Friends and to other Persons And Dear Friends in the Everlasting Seed of Life Wisdom and Salvation my Desire is that you all may be preserved in it to the Glory of God For heavenly Vnity and in his Power and Light and Life over Death and Darkness in the heavenly Vnity in all your Meetings Now concerning them that do go to the Quarterly Meeting they must be substantial Friends Quarterly Meetings Members that can give a Testimony of your Sufferings and how things are amongst you in every particular Meeting So that none that are raw or weak that are not able to give a Testimony of the Affairs of the Church and Truth may go on behalf of the particular Meetings to the Quarterly Meetings but may be nursed up in your Monthly Meetings and there fitted for the Lord's Service So that two may go one time from every particular Meeting and two another time or as it is ordered in your Monthly Meetings So that some may go from all your Meetings that make up your Monthly Meetings for the Quarterly Meeting should be made up of weighty seasoned and substantial Friends that understands the Business of the Church for no unruly and unseasoned Peasons should come there nor indeed into the Monthly Meetings but who are single-hearted seasoned and honest And if any one should speak or tattle any thing out of your Monthly or Quarterly Meetings Against Partling to the blemishing or defaming any Person or the Meetings such are to be brought to Judgment and Condemnation for it breaks the Priviledge and Order of your Christian Society in your Meetings so that all may be kept and preserved in the Power of the Lord and in his Spirit in Love and Vnity And therefore keep your Meetings solid and sober and let the Authority of your Men and Womens Meetings be in the Power of God Authority of Meetings for every Heir of the Power has Right to that Authority and in it keep the King of Kings and Lord of Lord's Peace in his Church And so the Lord give you Wisdom that by it you may be ordered to his Glory Care of God's Glory and Truth and that every one may have a care of God's Glory and of his Name and Truth and that in his Power you may see that all do walk as becomes his glorious Gospel which hath brought Life and Immortality to Light in you which will preserve you in Life and in Immortality over the Devil that has darkned you So that nothing may get betwixt your Souls and Minds and the Lord God that he may be glorified in you all and through you all and over you all blessed for ever Amen And the least Member in the Church hath an Office and is serviceable and every Member hath need one of another And now Friends so many Monthly Mens Meetings as you have in your County you may have so many Monthly Womens Meetings and if once a Year at least you had a General Womens Meeting it would be well for in some Counties they have as many Quarterly Womens Meetings as Mens and in others they have only two in the Summer-time Womens Meetings because the Ways are foul and Days short in Winter And that one or two Friends in every Meeting do take an Account of all the Marriages Births and Burials Births Burials and carry them to the Monthly Meetings and let one or two there be ordered to receive them and record them there in a Book which is to be kept at the Monthly Meetings And from thence a Copy of what is recorded there to be brought to the Quarterly Meeting and let one or two Friends be appointed there to receive them and to record them all in one Book which is to be kept for the whole County And this will be most safe that if one Book should happen to be lost the other may be preserved for the Use of such as may have occasion And that all Friends who are not already provided may speedily procure convenient Burying-places

Springs and Fruitful and all that lives under God's Teaching knows it So serve God in the Spirit and in the newness of Life which is over the old that the Lord God's Presence may be felt amongst you and his Son a Prophet to open to you and a Priest to sanctifie you a Bishop to oversee you and a Shepherd to feed you the Rock of your Age and Ages the Foundation of your Generation and many Generations and who are in him who was elected before the Foundation of the World they build upon him who is the First and the Last the Beginning and Ending in him you have all Life and Salvation who is the Amen And my desire is To Incourage the Faithful Women in the Service of God that you may in the Power of God encourage all the Faithful Women in your Island in the Work and Service of God and now you have Six Mens Meetings if you had as many Womens Meetings it would include all the faithful Women in all the Corners of your Island and some of your ancient faithful Women to go from Meeting to Meeting till they are settled in the Power of God and that will keep all alive in the Lord's working Power and living Life And all that are not Faithful let them be admonished to Faithfulness that so they may come into the Light and Life and Service of God and Christ for all the Wise-hearted and Faithful Women in the time of the Law were to work about the Tabernacle of God and the Holy Things And they were called the Assemblies of the Women And all the Women in the time of the Law was to offer Sacrifices upon God's Altar as well as the Men. And now in the time of the Gospel which hath brought Life and Immortality to Light God doth pour out of his Spirit upon all Flesh and therefore live in the Gospel and its Order and all true Christians Men and Women doth offer their Spiritual Sacrifices to God who is a Spirit And therefore my Friends be valiant for God's Truth upon the Earth dwell in Love that will bear all things and let there be an Order entered in your Books To avoid provoking Words that there be no provoking Words spoken in your Meetings but if any have any thing to say let them speak to them in love privately And when ye have settled your Six Womens Meetings then you may have a Six Weeks or a Monthly as well as a Quarterly Meeting as you may see meet And so that all your Wells of Life may be kept open and every one have a fresh Spring springing up in you so that in every one of you the living Water of Life may flow so that ye all may be refreshed with the Fountain of Life and feel Christ a Bishop to oversee and a Counsellor to counsel and a King to rule in your Hearts and a Prophet to open and a Shepherd to feed you with his heavenly Food And so see that nothing be lacking among you To follow whatsoever is of good Report both inward and outward and whatsoever is decent comely modest vertuous righteous and of good report follow after and be stedfast upon Christ the Rock and Foundation And whatever you do let it be done in the Name of Jesus that is in his Power and mind the Gospel of Peace and its Ordr which hath brought Life and Immortality to Light that you may be preserved in Life and in Immortality by the Immortal Power And all to be Children of the Wisdom that is from above which is pure and peaceable and easie to be entreated keeping the Vnity in God's Holy Spirit in which is the Bond of the Prince of Princes Peace in whom you have all Peace Life and Salvation I received your Letter from your Quarterly Meeting and I am glad taht you are in the Lord's Work and Service And my desire is That ye all may stand up for the Glory and Honour of the Lord God and that his Blessings may abound among you And so if you do Write to New-England and Jamaica where I hear they have precious Men and Womens Meetings it might do well to encourage one another in the Work and Service of God So that the Women may all be helps meet to the Men in the Restoration in the Image of God as Man and Woman was in before they fell So with my Love in the Seed of Life to all Friends in the Island Swarthmore in Lancashire the 25th of the 8th Month 1676. G. F. To Friends in the Isle of Man MY Dear Friends be valiant for God's Truth upon the Earth Epist 334. and and live in the Light and Power and Spirit of God that you answer that of God in all by which their Minds may be turned to God And keep your Meetings in the Name of Jesus To keep your Meetings in the Name of Jesus in whom you have Salvation whose Name is above every Name under the whole Heaven that the Lord's Glory you may see to shine in and about your Tabernacles and his Presence among you to teach and order you and be you obedient to it So with my Love to you all in the Everlasting Seed that bruiseth the Head of the Serpent which Seed liveth and reigneth over all from Everlasting to Everlasting in his Glory in whom the Saints do sit down in their Peace and Rest and Joy for evermore Amen Swarthmore the 5th Month 1676. G. F. To Friends in Virginia and Maryland MY Dear Friends Epist 335. all dwell in the Love of God and in his Power and Truth that the Presence of the Lord God you all may injoy who is the Life of you all and the length of your Days who hath the Breath of all Mankind and the Spirits of all Flesh in his Hand and in him you do all live and move and have your being who is your Rock and Salvation and Fountain of Life and of all your Mercies and of your Water of Life And therefore serve and honour and fear and worship him in his Spirit and Truth and that you all may abide in the holy heavenly and spiritual Vine and in him bring forth heavenly and spiritual Fruits to the Glory of God who sent his Son to be a Leader Christ the Leader and Way to God and the Way to God who draweth all Men up to himself where he is ascended to sit together in Heavenly Places in Christ Jesus out of all Sin and Transgression by which Man was droven from God that made him barren and unfruitful And therefore be ye separated from the World to the Lord by the Word which was in the Beginning which divideth the Precious from the Vile that by that Word ye may be reconciled to God which Word reconcileth all things in Heaven and in the Earth in one which Word hammereth down that which made twain and so by the glorious Everlasting Word of Life you are born again of the Immortal

God And now The Monthly and Quarterly Meetings to be made up of two or three faithful Friends out of every particular Meeting that Monthly and Quarterly Meetings of two or three out of every particular Meeting of true and faithful Friends are set up and kept in the most convenient place in the middle of your County you may know in your Meetings of the Wants and Necessities of all Friends whether in Bonds or out Widows or Fatherless or aged People their Necessities being looked into and every one feeling one another's Condition this keeps in Tenderness and Love as a Family and nothing being lacking amongst you then all is well every Want and Necessity being supplied And by this one Meeting may be serviceable to another in outward things for that is the least Love and by this you may come into the Practice of the pure Religion which is to relieve the Widows Strangers Fatherless and Helpless And Friends all the Legacies that are given to the Men or Women's Meetings let them be kept as a publick Stock for the setting forth of Apprentices and setting them up And Friends to have and provide a House for them that be distempered and not to go to the World And to have an Alms-House or Hospital for all poor Friends that are past Work And Friends to have and provide a House or Houses where an Hundred may have Rooms to Work in and Shops of all sorts of things to Sell and where Widows and young Women might work and live And Dear Friends dwell all in the Everlasting Power of God and his Life in which is both Vnity Order Peace and Fellowship and wait in the Fear of the Everlasting God that his Wisdom you may receive which is pure and gentle from above by which all things were made by which Wisdom you may order all things to the Glory of God The Poor the Sick the Widows the Fatherless the Prisoners be tender of and feel every one's Condition as your own and let nothing be lacking amongst you according to the Apostle's Doctrine to the Church of God of Old Time and if nothing be lacking all is well And Dear Friends know in all your Meetings who is Sick and Weak and in Want and Widows and Fatherless and aged People that cannot help themselves and such as God hath distributed unto of that which God has distributed to lay aside for the Necessities of others as you are moved and commanded of the Lord God by his Power and Spirit for he that gives to the Poor lendeth to the Lord and he loves a cheerful Giver Secondly That all Prisoners for Truth be minded who are in want and who are not and the Families of such who are in Prison whether they are in want or not and such as are decayed any manner of way and cannot help themselves and such as have left a Calling which they cannot for Conscience sake follow do the best you can to help them and further them to Imployment that they may labour in the thing that is good and be a Blessing in the Creation that this you may do that you may be a Blessing in your Generation And all the Fatherless Children their Estates to be Recorded in a Book at the Monthly or Quarterly Meeting and all that are intrusted with any Estates may be entered at the Monthly or Quarterly Meetings Fatherless or Widows Estates that the Meeting may see that Justice be done unto them and require them to give an Account if need be and to do that which is just and equal so that there may be no Strife about outward things amongst you And that every one that is entrusted with any Widdows or Fatherless Children Estates may be faithful and not fail them in time of need And that every Quarterly Meeting may have an Eye over such as are intrusted and assist them in that which is right and righteous and to see that they are faithful to their Trust So that Righteousness and Justice and Truth and Equity may flow down amongst you and that the Wisdom of God be among Friends to order them in all things to his Glory And let two faithful Friends in the Truth in every particular Meeting be ordered to receive all Collections and to bring them to the Monthly Meetings and let two such Friends receive them there and bring them to the Quarterly Meeting and let four faithful Friends receive them there And whatever Collections are received let an Account be kept of what is received and to whom it is disbursed that so an Account may be given to any faithful Friend that may desire it And in every Monthly and Quarterly Meeting to inquire what Poor there are and who are fit to go Apprentices or Servants and that Friends then and there may order them to Apprentiships to such Trades as they in Wisdom shall think fit And if any Legacy be left by any deceased Friends to a particular Use as to putting forth Apprentices and breeding of poor Friends Children that the said Money be kept distinct as a Stock for the said Use and a particular Account thereof to be kept and the Quarterly Meeting to appoint some Persons to receive the said Money and to keep the Account thereof and the Meeting to see that it be disposed of to the Uses aforesaid And if any of the Principal Money so given be at any time made use of to any other Use that it be again made up by the Quarterly Meeting of Friends And though the Money be left or given to any particular Friend for the Use aforesaid yet the same to be paid to the two or three Persons whom the Quarterly Meeting shall appoint to receive such Money that the Meeting may have the ordering and laying-out the said Money to the best Advantage to the Uses aforesaid So that the Legacies given a part to the Meeting of Men or Women be kept a part for the setting forth poor Friends Children and setting them up in their Trades that the Memory of the deceased just Friend that gave it may not be forgotten And all Friends in the Wisdom of God train up your Children in the Fear of God Friends to train up their Children in the fear of the Lord. that they may receive the Wisdom of God and as they are capable they may be instructed and kept imployed in some lawful Calling that they may be diligent serving the Lord in the things that are good that none may live Idle and be Destroyers of the Creation or unserviceable in the Creation and thereby become burdensome to others and to the Just in themselves but that in the Wisdom of God all may walk and with it all things may he ordered And all Friends see that your Children be trained up in Soberness And in Soberness c. and Holiness and Righteousness and Temperance and Meekness and Gentleness and Lowliness and Modesty in their Apparel and Carriage and so to Exhort your Children and Families