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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36074	An epistle to be communicated to Friends & to be read in the fear of the Lord in their men and womens meetings, and other meetings, only among Friends as they in the wisdom of God shall see meet and serviceable	Niesen, Geertruyd Deriks.	1677 (1677)	Wing D1558; ESTC R6660	5,177	10

An Epistle to be Communicated to Friends to be read in the Fear of the Lord in their Men and Womens Meetings and other Meetings only among Friends as they in the Wisdom of God shall see meet and serviceable FRIENDS WHereas it hath pleased the Lord in the unspeakable Riches of his Mercy to visit a Remnant in his Love and to meet with us in a Way where we expected him not when we were wandring from Mountain to Hill and chusing our own Ways seeking the Living amongst the Dead yea when we had long thus wearied our selves and almost dispaired of finding what we sought but were saying in our selves Who shall ascend up or descend down for us to bring that to us without which our immortal Souls can find no Rest Even in that time is the Lord appeared not as a God afar off but a God near even in our Hearts is he appeared through the Light of his Son and thereby open'd he our Hearts and Understandings according to his divine Wisdom who knew every ones State and every ones Necessity and he became as a Pillar of a Cloud by Day and as a Pillar of Fire by Night unto all such as imbraced and received his Appearance and followed him faithfully yea he became as a wall of fire round about them who did wholely put their trust in him And thus hath he gathered us to be a people who were once as scattered Sheep that knew not the true Shepherd and hath made us as Firstlings upon his holy Mountain that we might be as Lights and Leaders to the next Generations and many are so in the Sight of the Lord and his Anointed and are so felt and known among his People And seeing we are called to be as Firstlings and Examples to the Generations that are coming after us it is highly needful that we watch diligently in the Fear and Wisdom of God that nothing may be nor remain among us as an Old Leaven to grieve and burden the Redeemed nor to be an Occasion of Evil Example to the Young Ones that are coming up after us And considering that it is every ones Duty to be faithful in their Measures and not to put that under a Bushel which is manifested from the Lord but to bring it forth in the true Love of God and Faithfulness to each other to the edifying and building up and to the Amendment and Admonition of those concerned and that all Causes of Stumbling might be removed and that we might not leave a Hoof in Egypt but might all follow the Lamb as the Redeemed of the Lord together and being Washed Sanctified and Born again might come to sing the New Song with the New Name in our Foreheads and Hallelujahs in our Mouths Amen Amen For these good Ends it is in my heart to signifie these two things that at the present are principally upon me which I have born a weight concerning for several years and did hope that some elder and fitter might feel the like Weight and bring forth a Testimony concerning the same whereupon I have forborn as long as well I durst but now finding that I am not cleared of the Matter but that in a fresh living Sense it is renewed in me I dare not longer forbear to write the things that are upon my Spirit in these two Particulars and recommend the same unto God's Witness in all Consciences The first thing that lies before me is concerning the bringing up of our Children which is a very weighty Concern and every one that hath the bringing up of Children will have very much to answer for if they do not quit themselves as before the Lord in all Diligence and Faithfulness they are God's Creatures and given to Parents as a Gift from him upon whom they are to improve their utmost Diligence that they may grow up in the Fear of God and that Parents should not over-look things in their Children through fond Affection which they know by the Light of Jesus to be evil and bad neither speak to them in a slender Reproof as Eli did to his Sons but from their youth upwards to set before their Eyes the Weight Danger of their Iniquity and that in a Holy Zeal as for the Lord and in a deep sense of his holy Power seeking in their young years to reach the Witness of God in them and above all things to be a Good Example to them in all things or else we break down in them that which we seek to build up for how can we build them up in the Faith except we so stand in the Faith as to obtain the Victory in our selves and how can we bring their Minds to the Light of Jesus except we walk in it Neither ought any one to be bitter to their Children nor to require more of them then we know they are of Ability to perform and when they fall short of their Duty not to Correct them in our own Wills nor in a Wrathful Angry Mind for that Mind is it self for Correction but on the contrary to help them with the Rod of a gentle Chastizement in the Fear of God to bow their own stubborn Wills and so comes the Witness in them to be reached and they grow sensible in themselves that the Rod hath been a Help to them and come to feel a Love and Unity with them that have so helped them while their Minds are kept to the Truth And seeing we are as a City set upon a Hill and as Fore-runners and Leaders to the next Generations where and in what should the Pattern of our Godly Lives more appear and shine forth then to the Innocent Children of our own Birth and Generation which are committed to us as a particular Charge and Ministry from their time of greatest Innocency upwards to whom we are bound by the Band of Nature and by the Ordinance of God to take Care over and to bring up in his pure Fear in all Wisdom Discretion and Watchfulness that we may be a good Savour in them and to them whether it be unto Life if they be Obedient or unto Condemnation if they become Rebellious But alas with a great grief of spirit I write it here is a great want and shortness in many professing Truth I speak not of all for first they receive not their Children as from the Lord in the Faith as his Gift neither do they offer them up again to him in their hearts as being his but seeing their own Likeness brought forth imbrace it as their own and nourish it up in the self-love and their lives being bound up in the children every Appearance of sickness or death is as a death to the Parents and accordingly if the Child grow up till its perverse and crooked Will begins to appear then is the Father and for the most part most of all the Mother afraid to give it due Correction fearing lest the Child should be grieved and vexed and perhaps grow sick yea