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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34991	An epistle of tender love and brotherly advice to all the churches of Christ throughout the world who are gathered into the one living faith, and walk in the light, and therein have their fellowship one with another. From a friend and brother in the same fellowship, who hath long travailed, and still travails for Zion's prosperity, and for the gathering Zion's children out of Egypt and darkness, that they may walk and dwell in the light of Zion's Saviour, which is Christ the Lord; whose outward name is Stephen Crisp.	Crisp, Stephen, 1628-1692.	1690 (1690)	Wing C6929; ESTC R215184	11,866	17

of mind or else they will go away burthened whereas if they speak their minds freely and a Friendly and Christian Conference be admitted thereupon they may be eased and oftentimes the Different Apprehension of such a one come to be wholly removed and his understanding opened to see as the rest sees for the danger in society doth not lie so much in that some few may have a differing Apprehension in some things from the general sence as it doth in this namely when such that so differ do suffer themselves to be lead out of the bond of Charity and shall labour to impose their private sence upon the rest of their Brethren and to be offended and angry if it be not received this is the Seed of Sedition and Strife that hath grown up in too to many to their own hurt And therefore my dear Friends be ware of it and seek not to drive a matter one in fierceness or in anger nor to take offence into your minds at any time because what seems to be clear to you is not presently received but let all things in the Church be propounded with an awful Reverence of him that is the Head and Life of it who hath said Where two or three are met in my Name I will be in the midst of them and so he is and may be felt by all who keep in his Spirit but he that follows his own Spirit sees nothing as he ought to see it Therefore let all beware of their own Spirits and natural Tempers as they are sometimes called but let all keep in a gracious Temper then are ye fit for the service of the House of God whose House ye are as ye keep upon the Foundation that God hath laid and he will build you up and teach you how to build up one another in him and as every Member must fell Life in themselves and all from one Head this Life will not hurt it self in any but be tender of the Life in all for by this one Life of the WORD ye were begotten by it ye are nourished and made to grow into your several Services in the Church of God it is no man's learning nor artificial acquirements it s no mans Riches nor Greatness in this World it is no man's Elequence natural Wisdom that makes him sit for Government in the Church of Christ unless he with all his Indowments be seasoned with the Heavenly Salt and his Spirit subjected and his Gifts pass through the Fire of God's Altar a Sacrifice to his Praise and Honour that so Self be crucified and baptized in Death and the Gifts made use of in the power of the Resurrection of the Life of Jesus in him and when this great Work is wrought in a man than all his Gifts and Qualifications are sanctified and they are made use of for the good of the Body which is the Church and are as Ornaments and Jewels which serves for the Joy and Comfort of all who are partakers of the same divine Fellowship of Life in Christ Jesus our Lord and thus comes many to be fitted and furnished to good Words and to good Works which are brought forth in their due Seasons for Edification and building up the weak and for repairing the decayed Places and also for defence of them that are feeble that hurtful things may not come near them Oh Friends great is the Work the Lord hath called you to and is a sitting you for who innocently wait upon him and the Lord hath opened my Heart unto you and laid it upon me to exhort and beseech you to have a care that ye quit your selves as ye ought in what God requires of ye and for the more particular expressing what lies before me in the matter I shall set down a few perticular Observations for your benefit and advantage and my Soul's desire is that my labour of Love may have a good Effect in all your Bosoms that God may be honoured thereby And Friends ye know the chief Business to which ye are called in your perticular Men and Womens Meetings is under these two Heads Justice and Charity the first to see that every one hath right done him and the other to take care there be nothing lacking to the Comfort of the Poor that are made partakers of the same Faith with you And when ye meet about these things keep the Lord in your Eye and wait to feel his Power to guide and direct you to speak and behave your selves in the Church of God as becomes the peaceable Gospel And beware of all brittleness of Spirit and sharp reflection upon each others words for that will kindle up heats and create a false Fire and when one takes a liberty of a sharp word spoken out of the true fear and tenderness it oftentimes becomes a Temptation to another and if he hath not a great care it will draw him out also and then the first is guilty of two Evils first being led into a Temptation and then secondly he becomes a Tempter to others therefore all had need to be upon their Watch neither to tempt nor be tempted and let none think it a sufficient excuse for them that they were provoked for we are as answerable to God for every evil Word spoken upon Provocation as without Provocation for for that end hath the Lord revealed his Power to us to keep and preserve us in his Fear and Counsel in the time of our Provocations and therefore if any man through want of watchfulness should be overtaken with Heat or Passion a soft Answer appeaseth Wrath saith the Wise Man and therefore such a time is fittest for a soft Answer lest the Enemy prevail on any to their hurt and to the grief and trouble of their Brethren for it is the proper duty of Watch-men and Overseers to spare the Flock that is let nothing come nigh them that will hurt them and wound and grieve them nay the good Apostle was so careful over the Flock of Believers that if there were any doubtful matters to be disputed of he would not have them that were weak in the Faith at such Disputes much less ought them that are weak to see those that are strong descend from their strength and go into the weakness where they are not able to bear for that is certainly the weak that cannot bear those that really live in the Strength and Power they can bear even Burdens for them that cannot bear their own The Apostle in the place before mentioned when he sent for the Elders of Ephesus to Miletus and left a Charge with them before he said Take heed to the Flock of God he said Take ye heed to your selves And indeed we are none of us like to discharge our selves well towards others but by taking heed to our selves to be kept in that sober innocent frame of Spirit which the Truth calls for In the next place my dear Friends when ye are called upon in point of Justice