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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56022	A general epistle to friends every where Written in obedience to the requirings of the spirit of life from God.	Parke, James, 1636-1696.	1682 (1682)	Wing P371; ESTC R218729	29,511	32

A General Epistle TO FRIENDS Every Where Written in obedience to the Requirings of the Spirit of Life from God Some of the things spoken to in this Epistle GOd's peculiar Love and Favour manifested to the People of God With a Salutation to them The manner of Gods bringing of us out of spiritual Sodom and Aegypt and his end therein Something of the old Serpents subtilty and cunning working with a way opened for all how to escape it that are convinced of the Truth Some wholsom Exhortations unto all who are come to the Way of God to continue stedfast in it and to be constant in their Obedience to Christ Jesus unto the end With something by way of Advice to beware of the Whores Cup and that ye receive not the Beasts Mark on your Foreheads or in your Hands Also concerning mighty things done by Faith A few words concerning Marriage And several other things relating to Husbands and Wives Parents and Children Masters and Servants A friendly Caution to all such who have transported or may transport themselves beyond the Seas into forreign Plantations Dear Friends and Brethren WHO are the called of God in Christ Jesus and witness the hope of your calling out of Darkness into his marvellous Light and are the Children of the Light and of the Day The dear and tender Salutation of my Love in the Light Life and Spirit of God reacheth to you all with fresh and fervent desires that you all may be kept faithful unto him who hath called and also made choice of you to serve worship love and obey him in your generation that you may be called the Trees of Righteousness of the Lords planting his Seed taking deep Root in you you will all bring forth fruit to the honour and glory of him who hath not only planted but often also watred you with his heavenly dew showers of plentiful Rain which purely and refreshingly hath fallen down upon you as no People else hath witnessed the like in our age or generation nor hath been known since the Apostles days glory to the Lord God of Heaven and Earth he hath made many Trees fruitful that now remain as lively fresh and green as ever altho some are not only withered but dead twice and pluckt up by the Root that were planted and have been watred with us often by our heavenly Father the Husband man both to us and them who did sow the same good Seed in them Grounds that prove evil as on that which is good Ground and that which he plants or sows in any mans heart is good and shews man what is purely good and of God from that which is contrary that all might come to love the good and hate the evil as its manifest from God by his immortal Seed or Word of Life within and that all might chuse the good and refuse the evil as either appear or is represented to any particular all are to love the good and hate the evil to chuse the good and refuse the evil to joyn to and be one with the good but to separate from reject and deny that which is evil and the pure Light of Christ in every Conscience as all take heed thereunto and wait therein will let them see and know how to distinguish betwixt good and evil under what disguise fair pretence or transformation of the Enemy soever it may appear to blind beguile or deceive the simple either to keep in the evil always from the good or to lead out and draw from the good after tastes of it into the evil again to make the latter end of such worse than their beginning I say and testifie in the Lord dear Friends as we all keep in and mind the glorious Light of the Son of God no such Darkness will ever again come over any of us as to call good evil or evil good to put light for darkness and darkness for light sweet for bitter or bitter for sweet for that cometh of Darkness from the Prince of Darkness and God of this World even the blindness that some are in who profess the light yet put darkness for it and call good evil and evil good and how can such know the good and acceptable will of God or good from evil then they were not like to chuse the good and refuse the evil And how were they like to obey the Light of Christ or walk in it that cannot clearly or truly distinguish betwixt Light and Darkness Christ or Belial May not such follow darkness in stead of light and Belial instead of Christ nay do they not walk in darkness not knowing whither they walk whose Minds thus are blinded by darkness And such to the Children of the Light and of the Day may be known by this Character that though they profess the Light of Christ and have been convinced by it yet they hate it and will not bring their deeds to it to be proved and tryed this Prover and Tryer that judgeth and condemns for sin and evil they cannot abide the coming of but would have their works and things tryed and proved by the Darkness which they themselves are in Which dear Friends I tenderly beseech you in the love of God to beware of and dwell in the Light of the Son of God forever mind it love and believe in it as much as ever you did since you turned to it and came to believe in it then I know you will be as willing to bring your deeds to it as ever you were and will be as ready to imbrace and follow the motions of it as you were at your first Convincement or the Candle of the Lord first shined upon your Tabernacles And I doubt not but a Remnant are so at this day although some are already turned aside from the Light into great Darkness and lost the sence of Life having Death over them and they feed thereon being out of the green and fresh Pastures of Life where once they fed with us gladly and accounted them good and precious which now seems but to them as the Manna did to the Children of Israel when they had eaten thereof and were full how did many of them forget the Lord and his works and murmured against Moses that was faithful in God's house and said Hath he brought us hither to destroy us And they said Can God furnish a Table in the Wilderness which was also a questioning of Gods Power and Providence All which were the fruits and evil effects of Unbelief and their revolting and acksliding Hearts and the Lord said Israel hath cast off the thing that is good he saw it was angry and greatly displeased therewith and the Lord did forsake them and cast them off because they did forsake him and cast off the thing that was good and followed after that which evil and often did evil in the sight of the Lord and many ways God proved them and tryed them and did mighty things for them for his Names sake