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A42606	A general epistle given forth by the people of the Lord, called, Quakers that all may know, we own none to be of our fellowship, or to be reckoned or numbred with us, but such as fear the Lord and keep faithfully to his heavenly power, that with a holy conversation they may adorn that truth they profess, otherwise, what experience soever they have had of the truth, and are fallen from it, we account them as so many Judasses or Demasses, and own such no more than the primitive Christians owned them; but we testifie against them, and say, such go into perdition through transgression, and fall under darkness into a state of damnation, twice dead, pluckt up by the roots, reserv'd in everlasting chains, until the judgment of the great day, except it be possible they yet can find a place of repentance through God's great unlimitted mercy. Read the general epistle of Jude.		1686 (1686)	Wing G497A; ESTC R219864	9,860	26

the prosperity of his heavenly Jerusalem who are Wells with Water and ●loud● with Rain to refresh the hearts of many with their Virtue through the Influence of the Lords heavenly Power and Showers of pure divine refreshing Bounty and are the Servants of the living God in their Measures in the true Faith and unity with the Disciples and holy Ministers of Jesus Christ who fell not with Judas by Transgression but kept the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ to the end and in the end received a Crown of Glory laid up for them in Christ Jesus and we testify for God against all dark Souls who may meet with us as if they were of us and profess the Truth yet have not on the Wedding Garment of uncerity and holy mindedness but are reprobate concerning the Faith and hold the Truth in Unrighteousness Such are Spots in our Feasts of Charity and partake not with us of the refershing sence of the holy Life of the pure God neither can they eat of the Flesh or drink with us of the Blood of the Lord Jesus or discern the Lords Body though we wish all such who come to our Meetings a better Condition that with us they may truly say Verily our fellowship is with the Lord's People in Christ Jesus So we give forth our general Testimony That we own none to be of us or to have ●nity with us but such as fear the true and ●●ving God and take up the Cross of Christ ●hich is his eternal Power that so they may ●e kept in the Faith that stands in the same ●ower to the purifying of their hearts and giving them victory over the World the Mystery of which Faith is held in a pure Conscience But we dearly cherish and love every tender desire that is raised up toward● God in all that their hearts and Souls may be kept hung●ing and thirsting after Righteousness ●arnestly breathing for Mercy from the ●ence of the weight of Iniquity which hath been upon them that so they may come to the state of the bruised Reed and smoking Flax to wait upon the Lord to renew their strength in his Power and to be Witnesses of his burning day to the purifying of their hearts and purging of their Iniouities with a true and pure spirit of Judgment and everlasting Burning let such receive incouragement for in due time thorow the exercise of Patience and faithfulness to God they will reap and not faint and attain their desired end but all such as Judas a traytor and Demas who turned from the Truth into the evil World Hymeneus and Alexander ●ho made shipwrack of Faith and a good Conscience we utterly deny and cannot own though they may in words and shew profess the Truth but their Fruits will make all such manifest and God's Wisdom will teach all the Lovers of it how to behave themselves towards all men in all states and conditions whatsoever and to love Enemies and false Friends and Brethrens Souls by wishing for them true Repentance unto Life that they may escape the danger of the Wrath and Indignation of God which will suddainly and everlastingly overtake all such as pe●severe in Unrighteousness and hold the Truth in it For as the Apostle saith Neither Fornicators nor Idolaters nor Adulterers nor Effaminate nor Abusers of themselves with MANKIND nor Thieves nor Covetous nor D●●nkards nor Revilers nor Extortioners shall inher it the Kingdom of God But if any have been so but now are sanctified washed and jnstified in the Name of the Lord Jesus by the Spirit of God it is well but all such as live and abide in such things aforementioned without Repentance will utterly perish The Apostle Paul in his first Epistle to the Corinthians chap. 6. reproveth the Corinthian-Believers for going to Law one with ●nother and that before the Unbelievers ●●d upbraids them for so doing asking them ●f there were not a wise man amongst them 〈◊〉 not one able to judge between his Brethren ●elling them it was utterly a fault amongst ●hem asking them Why they did not rather ●ake wrong or suffer themselves to be defrauded ●aying also Know ye not that we shall judge Angels how much more things that pertain to ●his Life Nay says he you do wrong defraud 〈◊〉 that your Brethren Do ye not know that in ●laces of Judicature all sorts of People are admitted to hear matters debated there And will ●t not be a shame for such as profess the Truth to ●e heard there by the vilest of men to endeavour to the utmost to uncover one anothers Nakedness for some worldly end or other this is worse than Ham's villiany who uncovered the real Nakedness of his Father to his Brethren only but these who may be called Quakers endeavour to uncover one anothers Nakedness to all Sects and sorts of People who will be Spectators thereof though they may be the vilest of men who hate the Truth This is far from Christianity and endeavouring to cover one anothers Nakedness Weaknesses Infirmities Let such who are concerned be ashamed of such things All false and Unjust Dealing Fraud and Deceit Cheating Over-reaching one another which things are Unchristian we utterly disown for Truth acteth Righteousness and to do to others as we would they should do to us but we would not that any through false pretences equivocations or sub●ilty should betray any by borrowing buying or otherwise whenas the bottom of the matter being found out it is found to be an implicite kind of Theft to get others Goods and things into their hands under pretence of borrowing or buying c. whenas aforehand they have known they have not been in a capacity to perform their Promises or Bargains which hath been the cause of Contention and Troubles and Law-suits and the Ruin of Families and casting into Prisons for Debt but the Truth and fear of God casts out all such things and introduces plainness and simplicity but the Lord helpeth the needy who trust in him and fuch have no need to exercise Craft and Fraud to live by as they fear and reverence the true and living God without guile he will bless them and help them and stir up true hearted Friends to do them good The poor man's Basket and store is blessed whose heart is with the Lord and his morcel of Bread and cup of cold Water as he stands in the counsel of God and keeps in to him and looks not out at others to murmur at their prosperity or covet their worldly substance but are content with their own present need or want their own Innocence and Righteousness will be felt amongst God's People who will answer their Conditions one way or other and if it were possible that should fail which is not the Lord for their sakes will cause Stones to be made Bread and the hearts of their Enemies to open and feed them This is concerning the Lords Poor who are neither slothful nor idle minded nor murmurers nor look

Nations that there is no Inchantment against Jacob nor Divination against Israel but your Tents shall be goodly and your Dwellings glorious Which is the daily humble Supplication of my Soul to my God and your God and to my Father and your Father that am with unfeigned Love in that lasting Relation Your tender faithful Friend and Brother William Penn. An Epistle to Friends to be read in their Meetings Dear Friends VVHat a blessed thing is it to fear the Lord and to seek him continually for his Mercies fail not those that truly wait upon him he hath been very bountiful to us in our native Land and hath been very tender and good to us in bringing of us to this Wilderness he was with us upon the tempestuous Seas he abides with us still blessed be his Name forever and for evermore Oh my Friends let us call to mind the time when the Lord first made his blessed Truth known unto us surely that was very acceptable my Soul shall never forget it what then did we enjoy that we could not part withal for the Lord Then did we abase our selves in Dust and Ashes and I can truly say in that Day I thought the meanest things I was unworthy of and I do believe it was so with many more And now my dear Friends we are come into this American part let us above all People not murmer non be discontented for we have good experience of the Mercy of the Lord for as we fear and obey him he will make this Wilderness a fruitful Field the greatest thing we desire here is that People may come to fear the Lord it is that and that alone will make this a happy Country unto us Let all that fear the Lord put on Strength and Courage to do his holy Work for here is much to be done we must begin it and carry it on the Lord is ready to help us and furnish us with his Wisdom Advice and Couns●l indeed we can do nothing without it Oh my dear Friends let us not murmur here for we may read in the Scriptures of Truth how many fell in the Wilderness of those that murmured let us be content with our Manna for here is no liklihood of a Famine except they famish themselves for want of taking heed to the Lords pure Word which is daily Bread to his Children and they live thereby and many in this Country have great Families and Servants and for want of good fore-cast and a good heavenly Order they become a burthen unto their Masters Come come ●ny dear Friends call your Families together every Family apart and discharge your Duties and there you may exhort examine ●nd advise and by that means Gods holy Truth will be over them all You may find many Difficulties to frustrate such a good and holy Order and others may find it a great cross to get into it because they may have Children or Servants that are very wild and they may think they will rather scoff a● it then think it will do them good but do advise you in the fear of the Lord to sit down with them in the Evening or according as ye see meet and wait there upon the Lord for he is ready and willing at all times and upon all occasions to assist and help his People and Servants in all things and by this means your outward Business will be made easier and you may save a great deal of lost time that is spent amongst Servants in their Masters absence and by this means may find out some way that they may be helpful to their Neighbours and it may prevent much time that is spent in Families after they have done their Labour and Service in much Talk and idle Jesting le● every Family that fears the Lord practise therein this holy Law and leave the issue to the Lord and by this means you will find unruly Spirits to be chained Some have ha● good experience of these things but som● need not this Advice who are in the practice of it and witness the good effect thereof Also I do think that here in these parts where S●ips do arrive it would do well for some small number of Men and Women Friends to meet together that are sollid and weighty to take a little care of the Persons that are brought into this Country that they may not sit down here or elsewhere and spend that little that some bring with them but that they may be advised ●ook care of and employed for here comes many Young People that are single Men and Women that go about and spend that little they have and then when it is gone and see no way how to have more they it may be take ill Courses and revile the Country it would be very well for the time to come we might use means to prevent these things ●nd then that little they bring over with ●hem may do them good in order to a set●lement I mean those that be low and may ●eed advice These things I was exercised ●ith and leave them to your Christian Consideration Frances Taylor Given forth some small time before she ●●parted this Life who is eternally wi●h ●●e Lord Jesus forever THE END Books sold by W. Bradford NO Cross No Crown Or a discourse shewing the nature and discipline of the holy Cross of Christ An Address to Protestants upon the present Conjuncture An Answer to a foolish Libel call'd the Quakers Opinions A brief state and examination of Liberty Spiritual Truth Exalted in a short but sure Testimony against al● those Religions Faiths and Worships that have been formed and followed in the Darkness of Apostacy and for that glorious Light which is now risen Presented t● Princes Priests and People that they may repent believ● and obey A Persw●sive to Modera●ion to Dissenting Christians i● Prudence and Conscience humbly submitted to the King and his great Council An Epistle containing a solemn Farewell to England All writ by William Penn. The Spirit 〈…〉 the Martyrs revived in a brief compendi●●● 〈…〉 of the most remarkable Passages and livi●g 〈…〉 of the true Church Seed of God and faithful ●●rtyrs in all Ages The ●●●fering state condition of the People call'd Quakers presented to the King and Parliament Anno 1685. A Lamentation over England and faithful Warning to th● Inhabitants thereof By William Bingley The true Christians Faith and Experience briefly declared A Mirror to distinguish the true Ministers from the false A Collection of the several Writings of Humphry Smith A plain Path way opened to the Simple hearted for th● answering all Doubts and Objections By S. Crisp A● Invitation of Love to all that hunger and thirst afte● Righteousness By ●sabel Yemans The state of the Birth T●mporal and Spiritual c. The Principles of Truth or a declaration of our Faith Truths Vindication or a stroke to wipe off foul Asperation● Also Primmers for Children c.