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A78367 A general epistle to all Friends who are convinced of the truth. With a word of exhortation to Friends, to be diligent in keeping their mens & womens meetings, for the service of truth; with a testimony to the same. : Also, an invitation to all that come to our meetings to hear the truth declared, no to rest in hearing, but to come into obedience thereunto, that so their souls may be saved. / By Samuel Cater. Cater, Samuel, d. 1711. 1680 (1680) Wing C1484; ESTC R171110 9,626 15

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her And now dear Friends that are come out of Babylon Sodom and Aegypt where the Righteous suffer all be mindful of that Arm that hath brought you out and by which the Lord is leading you unto Everlasting Rest There is great cause to be watchful and always to wait to feel the Lord's Power to preserve and keep you For all that came out of Aegypt did not enter into the Land of Promise some fell short through Unbelief and there was but four came out of Sodom and one of them looked back and twelve followed Christ and one of them betrayed him and how many hath the Enemy betrayed in our Day some in one thing and some in another for want of Watchfulness unto the Truth in which there is Preservation for all that love it and are led and guided by it For all Miscarriages and Dishonour that have been brought upon the worthy Name of the Lord that is concerned amongst us and wrong done to any Man by any that has and do profess the Truth and come amongst us Truth is clear of it all and is not to be blamed but they in that they have not stood in the Counsel of it but have hearkned to the Serpent as Eve did and as Cain did and Judas did and as all that forsake the Lord do and that they know who have in any measure known the Work of God upon their Hearts by the Truth they know that in that there is no Unrighteousness but the Truth judges it all and leads People out of all Unrighteousness that obey it And therefore blessed of the Lord are they that obey the same for they only do and shall enjoy the Comfort of it and have true Peace in it as Christ sayes He that doth well cometh to the Light and bringeth his Deeds to it Whereby it appears that they are wrought in God in whom the true Peace is that Man cannot take away and in which holy Light the true Teacher comes to be seen and known that cannot be removed into a Corner but our Eyes that God hath opened see him near to teach and guide us in the Way that is well-pleasing in his sight and great is the Peace of all that obey him And all dear Brethren and Sisters whom the Lord hath Called and Chosen in your several places to be a kind of first Fruits unto him to bear forth his Name in Righteousness and shew forth his Praise and to be Instruments in his Hand to strengthen the Weak and to support the Feeble and to refresh the Bowels of the Poor and to clothe the Naked and to supply them that are in want according to their Necessity and your Ability which is a Service acceptable to God and is truly profitable unto Men and is a Duty that Truth requires for all to be diligent in that have of the Things of this World and the Apostles commend them that were diligent in it and laid it as a Charge upon them that were Rich in this World not to be unmindful of their Duty in that good Work and which the Love of God constrains all the faithful to be mindful of now in this our day and time for says Christ The Poor you have alwayes with you And now that you may faithfully perform all those good Services which the Lord requires of you according to your Ability he hath and doth give unto you all be diligent to keep your Mens and Womens Meetings that are set up in the Power and Wisdom of God and is accompanied with the same as there are many living Witnesses can and do testifie the same even all that go to these Meetings and keep them in the Simplicity of their Hearts and Souls as hoping and believing they shall meet with that their Hearts and Souls desire which is the Presence of the Lord and them he doth not send empty away as is well known to you that according to the Integrity of your Hearts he gives Wisdom and Counsel whereby he fits both Men and Women and prepares them to perform what Service he hath for them to do in the Meetings in which Meetings they have a good opportunity to clear their Consciences And case your minds one to another when you have any thing lies upon you and to stir up one another to the Performance of your Duties in your several Places and Callings and to take notice of any that come amongst us and do not answer Truth in their Conversations that they in the tender Life and Love of God may be dealt withal and all other things which concern our Testimony may in the savour of Life be performed and carryed on and the Poor may be relieved and thus meeting in the Love of God and being refreshed with the same in the performance of your Duties and Services return to your Father again in Peace And why any should be against either Men or Women for this I know not which love the Prosperity of Sion and desire the Peace of Jerusalem but on the contrary there is true cause to Rejoyce in that the Lord hath brought both Man and Woman into a true Capacity to serve him and to be 〈…〉 one unto another in his holy Truth by which he hath brought and is bringing both Man and Woman out of the Fall into Christ that never fell in whom Male and Female are all one in whom is the Blessing and by whom all come to be restored again into their Services both Men and Women and made helpful one unto another not only in the outward Creation and Concerns but also in the labour of the Gospel and management of Truth 's concerns in which Work and Service let all be diligent in the performance of it as well Women as Men all Eying your Head Christ Jesus from whom your Supply comes And all be diligent in keeping your Meetings and let none be discouraged because of any opposition you may meet withal from those that set themselves against Womens Meetings because they say they see no Service in them that is no Rule for you to walk by and to neglect your Duties because they see no Service in them neither is it a sufficient ground for them that say so to oppose them for such ought to be quiet and wait upon God in the Simplicity of their Hearts out of all prejudice and wilfulness to know the Mind of the Lord in this matter seeing viz. that by the same Power of God by which the Gospel hath been preached Womens Meetings were gathered and settled and whosoever slights them or the Service thereof do and will come to loss thereby for the Lord is with them who hath made them a Blessing in his Hand For the Testimony of the Lord 's requiring and owning of them plainly appears in that his Power and Presence hath been and is from time to time manifest amongst his Servants and Hand-maids when so met as hath been largely testified unto by many antient and faithful Servants of