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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38516	An epistle to Friends given forth from Leinster-province meeting in Ireland, held at Castledermot the 9th. 10th. and 11th. days of the 7th. month 1698.		1699 (1699)	Wing E3165A; ESTC R219570	8,343	28

or other approved Elders as the Province-Meeting shall think fit if in any thing we do exceed those Bounds that Truth may bound Us that hath all power in Heaven and Earth And in a Subjection one to another in our Possessions Holdings Callings Trading and dealing amongst Men not to be our own Judges or walk in the light of our own Eyes considering the Wise Mans saying that every Mans Cause is good in his own Eyes but his Neighbour finds him out and in the multitude of Counsel is safety Not that we intend to deprive any of the moderate lawful use of the things of this World or to take from any Man his Possessions or to invade and take away Property but to bring all things into right bounds and set them in their right places that so none may be guilty of the great sin of abusing the Lord's Mercies but might use and enjoy them to his honour that in so doing they may enjoy his Peace Blessing which indeed is the true comfort of all Enjoyments Thus shall we give evident Testimony to the World by our Moderation even in the lawful things that we are true followers of the Lord Jesus Christ in a self-denying life And thus as helps meet together in the Lord Jesus we may be as Saviours on Mount Sion building up one another in our most precious Faith and in our heavenly possession in Christ Jesus over the greedy Gain Greatness and Vain-Glory of the World and perishing fading things thereof that soon comes to an End and here the rich Man will not Glory in his Riches but see the danger of them and not lay hold of Opportunities to heap up more to make himself and posterity great in the World but rather Endeavour to lessen that with more ease and chearfulness he may serve God and his Generation with what he hath with all his might being glad of every Opportunity that presents that he may do good and be rich in good Works considering he is a Steward and his time uncertain in what he enjoys and must be accountable to the Lord of all for all things he possesses under him and under the like consideration the mean Man will be glad that he is free from many Temptations and Snares that the Rich in this World is lyable to fall into and pierce themselves with many sorrows and hurtful Lusts and bless the Lord for what he enjoys not wanting Food and Rayment with which he is well content and easie in his mind that is towards the Lord and seeks not from place to place and from one Country to another in a covetous Mind to heap up Riches but looks to the Lord with an Eye of Faith to receive Counsel from him in his undertakings and dare not go beyond his Limits nor without his countenance and all Murmuring Repining and Unbelief is kept out of the Camp And there will be no craving Spirits where the Lord Rules but all in their stations according to serve the Lord with all their might and Substance in their places where the Lord hath raised them or order'd them and may be serviceable Shaking themselves from the dust of the Earth putting on their beautiful Garments of the Lords Government and shining under the discipline thereof rising over the Earth and Earthly things in the life and power of Christ as Lights in the World in this glorious day of the Lord wherein he is staining the Glory of the lawful things of this World and the goodliness thereof by the brightness of his coming in the Glory of his Fathers Kingdom and is whipping Buyers and Sellers out of the Temple that it may be a house for the service of God which holiness becomes that he may walk sup and make his abode and the Offerings of his People may be acceptable to him when he hath purged away all this dross Tin and reprobate Silver Our hearts are deeply affected with the care and kindness of the Lord for our preservation from the Snares of the Enemy which he lays for us in the lawful things of this World far more dangerous and we more lyable to be taken in them in this time of great ease and liberty than in the time of persecution and sufferings to be frighted from our stedfastness in our Faith and Principles And dear Friend we may well understand that as to our Society self-denial stands mostly in the lawful things hoping by this time of this glorious day you have overcome the base and unlawful things and your hearts and minds is cleansed from them by the Blood of Christ that sprinkles our hearts from an evil Conscience and washes our Bodies with clean Water of Regeneration and renewing of his Holy Spirit And he that hath done this for us is perfecting what is lacking that he may present us to God the Father faultless to whom be praises for ever Amen Subscribed in behalf of the Meeting by William Edmondson Thomas Trafford Roger Roberts John Pim. George Rooke Thomas Wilson POST-SCRIPT AT the first when the Lord called and gathered us to be a People and opened the Eyes of our Understandings then we saw the exceeding sinfulness of sin and the wickedness that was in the World and a perfect Abhorrence was fixed in our hearts against all the wicked unjust vain ungodly unlawful part of the World in all Respects And we saw the goodly and most glorious lawful things of the World to be abused and misused And that many Snares and Temptations laid in them and many troubles and dangers of divers kinds and we felt the Load of them and that we could not carry them and run the Race the Lord had set before us so chearful as to win the Prize of our Salvation So that our care was to cast off this great Load and Burthen of our great and gainful ways of getting Riches and to lessen our concerns therein to the Compass that we might not be chargeable to any in our stations and services required of us and be ready to answer Christ Jesus our Captain that called us to follow him in a spiritual warfare under the discipline of his daily Cross and self-denial and then the things of this World was of small value with us So that we might win Christ and the goodliest things of the World was not near us So that we might be near the Lord and the Lords Truth out-ballanc'd all the World even the most glorious part of it Then great Trading was a Burthen and great concerns a great trouble all needless things fine Houses rich Furniture and gaudy Apparel was an Eye fore Our Eye being single to the Lord and the inshining of his Light in our hearts which gave us the sight of the knowledge of the Glory of God which so affected our minds that it stained the Glory of all Earthly things and they bore no Mastery with us either in dwelling eating drinking buying selling marrying or giving in marriage the Lord was the object of our Eye and we all humble and low before him and self of small Repute Ministers and Elders in all such cases walking as good Examples that the flock might follow their footsteps as they followed Christ in the daily Cross and self-denial in their dwellings callings eating drinking buying selling marrying and giving in marriage And this answered the Lord and his Witness in all Consciences and gave us great credit amongst-Men And as our Number increased it happened that such a Spirit came in amongst us as was amongst the Jews when they came out of Egypt and this began to look back into the World and traded with the Credit which was not of its own purchasing and striving to be great in the Riches and Possessions of this World and then great fair buildings in City and Country fine and fashionable Furniture and apparel equivolent with dainty and voluptuous provision with Rich Matches in Marriage with Excessive Customany uncomely smoaking of Tobacco under colour of lawful and serviceable far wide from the Footsteps of the ministers and Elders the Lord raised and sent forth into his Work and service at the beginning And far short of the Example our Lord and Master Christ Jesus left us when he was tempted in the Wilderness with the preference of the Kingdoms of the World and the Glory of them and despised them And Moses that refused the Crown of Egypt and to be called the Son of Pharoh's Daughter rather chused Affliction with the Lords People having a regard to the recompence of reward And the holy Apostle writes to the Church of Christ both Fathers Young-men and Children and advises against the love of the World and the fashions thererof And it is working as the old Leaven at this very time to corrupt the Heritage of God and to fill it with Bryars Thorns Thistles and Tares and the Grapes of the Earth to make the Lord reject it and lay it wast But the Lord of all our mercies whose Eye hath been over us for good since he gathered us to be a People and entred into Covenant with us and according to his antient promise is lifting up his Spirit as a Standard against the Invasion of this Enemy and is raising up his living Word and Testimony in the hearts of Many to stand in the Gap which this floating high worldly libertine Spirit hath made And that is gone from the Footsteps of them that follows Christ as at first and knows him to bound them and to keep in his Bounds and not in their own Will and time lay hold on Presentations and Opportunities that may offer to get Riches which many hath had and refused for Truths sake and the Lord hath accepted as an offering and rewarded to their great comfort and to the Praise of his great Name William Edmondson The End