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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65850	A Christian epistle to Friends in general of weighty concern, for their present and future peace and safety from the soul's adversary's subtill devices and snares of death. To be carefully communicated to the children of light, and professors thereof every where. Being faithfully given forth, and recommended from the spirit of Christ; by his servant George Whitehead.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1689 (1689)	Wing W1906; ESTC R220965	9,717	18

and God in displeasure hath suffered them to discover their own weakness and nakedness for their own abasement under the righteous Judgment of Truth And 't is evident from this kind of exalted censorious whispering and envious Spirit which worketh not for Love and Union have proceeded the several Divisions Schisms and Separations which have happened to the great trouble of the Church of Christ in our days as in the Primitive Christians days And the several sorts of Apostates Backsliders from Truth shew what and what kind and manner of Spirit they went and go out in by their Works and Fruits whether in a Spirit of Pride and Ambition in a Spirit of Envy and Hypocrisie in a scornful contemning Spirit in a covetous earthly Spirit in a loose prophane Spirit or in a drunken debauched Spirit of Ranterism and fleshly Liberty which come all from one evil Root and Seed according to the various corrupt Inclinations and Wills of Men upon which the Enemy works and appears with Baits and Temptations suitable thereunto that he may prevail the more And 't is certain that the envious Apostates and wilful Adversaries were the most troublesome to the Primitive Churches of Christ and his holy Apostles in their day and so in ours Therefore blessed and truly happy are they that keep their Habitations in the Truth and love of God and live in Christian Love and Charity one towards another for such walk in the Light where there 's no occasion of stumbling or scandal And as 't was Evidence unto the Primitive Christians that they were passed from Death to Life because they loved the Brethren and that they had purified their Souls through their Obedience of the holy Spirit unto unfeigned Love of the Brethren Even so now the same Evidence Testimony remains and lives in and for all them that dwell in the Love of God one towards another For all Envy Prejudice Back-bitings Whisperings Tale-carrying Lying Heats Passions Provocations Reviling Railing Clamours Scorn Contempt ill Language Flattery and Hypocrisie are to be utterly put away avoided judged condemned and forever excluded the Camp of God for they proceed from the false and degenerate Birth evil Seed and Spirit and not from the true Seed or Birth which is Innocent and hurts no body by Word or Action in Person Name Reputation or Property for that 's tender in all these things For false Reports Whisperings Back-bitings and Tale carrying cause Strife and Division and are condemned by the Law of God and Light of Christ and expresly forbidden by God himself Thou shalt not be as one that carries Tales up and down among my People Thou shalt not receive a false Tale nor raise a false Report against the Lord's People nor do his Prophets or Servants any harm And all who profess the Truth or make mention of the Name of the Lord among us ought to watch over their own Spirits Wills and Passions and have a care of hurting one another or crushing any tender Spirit or Plant or stopping or quenching any Spiritual Gift or Testimony God has given how little or low soever it may be or seem for some of a tender Spirit are sooner hurt and wounded than healed All keep in Christian Humility Meekness Patience Gentleness and Tender heartedness one towards another And Elders and Overseers in the Churches of Christ must be Examples of Believers both in Humllity Meekness Patience and Condescention as Christian Patterns and not self-willed nor soon angry nor given to Passion Striving Heats or Contention Such Christian Examples and Behaviour in the House and Church of the living God tends greatly to keep out and prevent Contentions and contentious Spirits and to the comfort and encouragement of the upright-hearted who are willing to serve the Lord his Truth and people My dear Friends the Lord our God has been good to us a tender Father through all our Tryals Sufferings and Exercises in upholding us by his free Spirit accompanying us with his presence comforting us in our Afflictions with his renewed Mercies and multiplied Favours in preserving us a living people to his praise until this day and affording us this present Liberty we have of late enjoyed and do pertake of the benefit and advantage thereof in our publick peaceable and Religious Assemblies for the Exaltation of the glorious Name holy Truth and divine Power of the Lord our God. Wherefore we have great cause to prize his tender Mercies and Goodness to us and walk humbly under the sence thereof that a right use and improvement may be made of all the Mercies and Priviledges we do enjoy and such a good use of the present Liberty as that none grow careless or negligent indifferent or luke-warm because thereof nor any to sit ●own at ease in the Flesh or in the Earth and therein promise themselves security from further Sufferings or Tryals because of the late present enjoyment of liberty and ease from Persecution This is no good use of the present Mercy nor safe Conclusion for God has many ways to try his people and National Calamities and Distresses whereof his own people sometimes partake are not at an end nor the Judgments incurred by Iniquity turned away because of the continued Provocations Wickedness Rebellions against God their Abominations Pride Hypocrisies Deceits Falshood and Presumption abounding in this and other professing Nations against the great and righteous God the Judge of all who is so long sparing and for bearing as he is to this Nation meerly for his small Remnant and Seed's sake which is already gathered and to be gathered Yet the great God will distress Nations and cause the Earth to tremble before him and Overturnings and Desolations in the Earth before Calamities are ended or Christ's peaceable Kingdom be set up more generally in the Earth or where as yet it is opposed and resisted For the cause why Wars Desolations and the devouring Sword are already in great Judgment entred so many Nations and Countries is because of the Crying Sins Great Provocations Persecutions and Cruelties in the dark Places of the Earth And dear Friends Brethren and Sisters whom I truly love in the Lord who retain your Integrity and Love in the blessed unchangable Truth you cannot be unsensible how that the Lord's Harvest is great and what need of faithful Labourers there now is an effectual Door being open in this time of Liberty the Lord in Mercy has granted for the good of many poor Souls that they may come and receive the Truth in the love of it and that they who have been or are of a fearful Heart may receive strength and know the Lord to be their Saviour and Redeemer in this his Evangelical Day and free and blessed opportunity he has afforded And yet though this Harvest be great the diligent and faithful Labourers are but few now raised up in Comparison of the greatness of the Harvest and necessity of the Work many of our antient Brethren and faithful fellow-Labourers