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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40137	A collection of many select and Christian epistles, letters and testimonies written on sundry occasions, by that ancient, eminent, faithful friend and minister of Christ Jesus, George Fox ; the second volume.	Fox, George, 1624-1691.; Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1698 (1698)	Wing F1764; ESTC R15883	725,753	580

Wisdom and their Vertue and Zeal and their Faith as you may see in the 2d of Samuel and the 20th And what think you of Esther read her Book Faster a Nursing Mother and by her Interecssion saved the Nation of the Jews and see the Behaviour of this vertuous honourable Woman who by her Wisdom Faith and Vertue preserved her People Israel she was a Nursing-Mother to them as you may read in the Book of Esther who kept a Fast with her Maidens to the Lord and also desired Mordecai to keep a Fast in Shushan Esther 4.16 Now Awarning to Careless Women all you careless Women that are out of God's Service and think ye have no need to be in the Service and Work of the Lord hear the Word of the Lord what Isaiah says to such Arise up ye Women that are at ease hear my Voice ye careless Danghters give ear to my Speech Many days and years shall ye be troubled ye careless Women for the Vintage shall fall and the Gathering shall noit come Nor you cannot expect it in your Ease and Carelesness that neglect God's Voice and Speech and are not Diligent your heavenly Vintage will fall and of it ye will have little gathering Tremble ye Women that are at ease be troubled ye careless Ones strip ye make ye bare gird Sackcloth upon your Loins c. Isaiah 32. Therefore put off that careless Garment and shake off Sloath and put on diligence in the Service of God Now the Jews had their Assemblies of Mourning-women and therefore the Prophet calls for the Mourning-women and let them bewail says he when the Jews went into Transgression And this was because the Men and Women were not Diligent in his Service in the Power and Spirit of God which he had poured upon them And Jeremiah says Hear the Word of the Lord O ye Women and let your Ears receive the Word of his Mouth and teach your Daughters wailing and every one their Neighbours Lamentation Jer. 9.20 So here the Prophet exhorts the Women to hear the Word of God first and then to teach and exhort their Daughters and Neighbours yea Wailing and Lamentation And were they not and are they not to teach their Families and their Neighbours from the Word of the Lord both in the time of the Law and the Gospel to prevent Wailign and Lamentation And see in Ezekiel how he exhorted and what the Lord says there I will cause Leadness to cease out of the Land that all Women may be taught not to do after their Lewdness And then as they are obedient to this Teaching they will shun the Judgments that came upon the Jews which were compared to Women as in Ezek. 23. And the Assemblies of the Women did continue amongst the Jews till they went into Captivity And when Saul and David had made a great slaughter upon the Philistines A General Asembly of Women the Women came out of all the Cities of Israel mark out of all the Cities of Israel and surely this was a great Assembly of Women singing and dancing c. with Joy and with Instruments of Musick and the Women answered one another as they played and sung Praises unto God And Saul the King was not angry with the Women but at David because they ascribed so much Honour to him for they were Partakers of the Salvation of the Lord and of the Deliverance as well as the Men 1 Sam. 18.6 And so they are Partakers in the Gospel of the Deliverance over the Devil the grand Enemy of Mankind and are exhorted to praise the Lord and to make Melody in their Hearts to the Lord for their Salvation and Deliverance by Christ in the time of the Gospel as well as the Men 1 Sam. 18. And in 2 Chron. 25. there Jeremiah lamented for Josiah and all the Singing Men and Singing-Women spoke of Josiah in their Lamentation So here was not only Singing-Men but Singing-Women which did not only Sing but Lament for this good Man Josiah And in the days of Ezra after the Jews returned from their Captivity to their Land there were Two Hundred Singing-Men and Singign-Women uEzra 2. And in Neh. 7. Women assistants to the Men in the Worship of God under the Law where the Priest stood up with Vrim and Thummim that is Light and Perfection they had Two Hundred and Forty Five Singing-Men and Singing-Women So these were incouraged by the Priests according to David and Solomon's Order and these were besides the Assemblies of the Women about Works and Services in the Holy Things for these sung Praises to God And in Zeph. 3. he saith Sing ye Daughters of Zion shout and rejoyce with all thy Heart ye Daughters of Jerusalem the Lord hath taken away thy Judgment c. the Lord is in the midst of thee thou shalt see Evil no more And in Zach. 2. he encourageth them to Sing and Rejoyce Oh Daughter of Zion for lo I come and I will dwell in the migst of thee saith the Lord. So here is great cause for the Daghter of Zion to rejoyce and who shall stop her Mouth And in Luke 1. you may see how the Angel of the Lord appeared unto Mary the Mother of Jesus and what he said to her and what a Noble Veruous Mind was in her and she said unto the Angel Behold the Handmaid of the Lord be it unto me according to thy Word so her Belief was beyond Zachariah's the Priest And when Mary came unto Elizabeth what a Meeting and Salu. Mary the Mother of our Lord and her Cousin Elizabeth's Meeting c. tation wat there and how she was filled with the Holy Ghost and the Babe leaped in her Womb and she praised the Lord God and called her the Mother of her Lord. Read from the 40th to the 57th verse and see how she extols the Lord and magnifies Christ Jesus for here was a Heavenly Meeting of these two which is chronicled to Ages So you may see her Belief was above Zachariah's the Priest So Mary and Elizabeth were notable Preachers of Christ Jesus And you may see in Luk. 2.7 how Mary wrapped Christ in Swadling-Cloaths and how tender she was of the Heavenly Birth conceived by the Holy Ghost And so must all true and tender Christians that receive him in the Spirit and how she kept all the Sayings that were spoken of Christ and pondered them in her Heart ver 19. And so should every true Christian And there was Anna a Prophetess Annah spoke of Christ in the Temple which was Eighty Four Years old who departed not from the Temple but served God with Fasting and Prayer Night and Day and she gave thanks unto the Lord and spoke of Christ unto all that looked for Redemption in Israel she spoke of Christ Here was a notable old Woman of Eighty Four Years of Age a Preacher and Declarer of Christ And you do not read that ever any despised her or said it

triumphed in the Lord over that which was against the Lord for by Faith Abraham forsook his Country and his Father's House and his National Worship And by Faith was Abel's Offering accepted of God unto whom God had respect Therefore did wicked Cain persecute and kill him about his Religion And this was not long after Man was fallen from the Righteousness and the Power and the Image of God which Man was made in And by the Faith and the Power and Wisdom of God did Moses go down and speak to Pharaoh the King of Egypt and through the Power and Hand and Arm of God he led them out of Egypt which signifies Misery Thraldom and Bondage though afterwards when they were come out and had tasted the Power of God many fell And Moses saw Christ the great Prophet that was to come which was to build his House as Moses by the Wisdom of God had done his in the time of the Law with Types Figures and Shadows and so look upon Moses how he conquered all the Magicians and comprehended all the Sorcerers and Southsayers and Pharaoh's Religion and their Worship and could not bow nor bend unto it Look upon Joseph who through the Enmity in his Brethren was sold into Egypt who underwent Reproach and Imprisonment unto whom God gave Power over all at last and confounded all the wise Men and the National Worshippers in Egypt and came in Favour over them all by the Power of God And remember Abraham who was in the Faith and the Fear of God and how Abimalek's House for his sake God plagued Therefore keep in the Faith of Abraham then who wrongs you the Hand of the Lord will turn against them And whilst they stood in the Power of God what Victories they had over their Enemies As instance Sampson David and Saul But when any went from the Command of God how under the Heathen they fell So now ye who are come to God's Power which goes over the Power of Darkness and before it was in that stand tuiumph nad trample who are come to the End of Carnal Weapons and striving with outward Arms And ye may lood upon them how Valiant they were over the Philistines both Sampson and David and his mighty Men when they were in the Power of God and how David's three mighty Men broke through a whole Host to fetch Water to refresh David Therefore now ye in the Power of the Lord the mighty God go over all the Philistines of the Earth and their Carnal Weapons as there they in the time of the Law did with Carnal Weapons And how often Jacob's Well was stopped up the beloved of God the Second Birth by the Philistines but Jacob did thresh the Mountains as he did arise and drove them away by which he might drink again So read this in the Substance who are come to the Second Birth which goes over Esau and the Philistines both which was before they were And also remember how the Prophets were Imprisoned and put into Dungeons and Stocks c. As in particular Jeremiah and how they were mocked and scoffed at and reproached for declaring against the Sins and Wickedness of the Times both by Rulers Teachers and People and yet by the Power of God they were carried through and over all And the Cry was then Cursed is he that puts his Trust in Man or feared Man or the Arm of Flesh c. So remember Daniel and the Three Children though Prisoners yet could not bow to the National Worship and so were cast into the Fiery Furnace and the Den of Lions unto whom the Lord God gave Dominion over their Enemies and confounded the National Worshippers with all the Magicians and made the King to change his Decree and Law And this was in the Babylonish Monarchy and when the Medes and Persians got up the Power was changed then they cast Daniel into the Den of Lions because he prayed to his God contrary to the King's Decree to whom God appeared again and confounded them all and made the King or Emperor to change his Decree Therefore keep Faith in the Power of God for that is it by which the Elders of old obtained a good Report And consider Mordecay who stood faithful and could not bow to proud Flesh though it was in danger of destroying all the Jews over whom through Obedience to God he gave him Victory by which he came to answer the Good in all People Now consider they that came to profefs Christ who was the Substance before the Types Figures and Shadows which were held up by the Jews in the Law and first Covenant and Priesthood and Ordinances which Christ the Substance came to end how that I say the Christians of Old by that kind of People the Jews as you do now suffer the most and have done by them that are the greatest Professors of Christ's Words but out of the Life and Power of Christ which the Apostles and Saints were in in the Primitive Times So it is no new thing and as Solomon saith Here is no new thing under the Sun for it is not a new thing for the Birth that is born after the Flesh to persecute the Birth that is born after the Spirit And look upon the Apostles and consider how they suffered and by whom that bore Testimony to the Substance their Sufferings were by such as were in the Husks Shadows Inventions and Rudiments of the World and such as were fallen from God's Righteousness Image and Holiness and not in the renewed State And consider how that the Hebrews suffered the spoiling of their Goods by the Hebrews who were called Jews as you may read in the Epistle to the Hebrews for ye read in few of the Epistles that the Gentiles suffered the spoiling of their Goods or the Christians by the Gentiles but mostly by the Jews the great Professors as you do and have done in these Days And consider how the Witness hath been slain and the true Church the Woman fled into the Wilderness who was persecuted and how she hath been fed there of God and how since that time the Beast and Dragon's Worship hath been up and the false Prophet and the Whore the false Church which hath riden on the Beast in the Dragon's Power whom the People have Worshipped who hath caused all Nations to drink of the Whore's Cup of Fornication Now you that have come to the end and beyond all the Worships of the Beast and after the Worship of the Dragon who comes now to fathom the Whore the fale Church and the false Prophets and comes to see the Power and to be in it that takes them and and casts them alive into the Lake of Fire which hath been Worshipped and burns the Whore's Flesh with Fire which Power gives them Dominion over them all and to see to the very Apostles Days what they were in and what hath got up since then for it is Sixteen Hundred Years since the false Prophets and