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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B10121	A testimony and wholesome advice concerning marriage.	Seaton, Alexander.; Edmundson, William, 1627-1712.; Bingley, William, 1651-1715. Epistle of love and tender advice, to friends and brethren in America, or elsewhere.; Whitehead, Anne, 1624-1686. Epistle for true love, unity, and order in the Church of Christ.; Elson, Mary, 1623 or 4-1707. Epistle for true love, unity, and order in the Church of Christ	1680 (1680)	Wing T807A; ESTC R221301	6,513	15

AN Epistle of Love AND Tender Advice TO Friends and Brethren IN AMERICA Or elsewhere To live in the Truth that they may shew forth the Virtue and Effects of it in a Holy Life By your Friend and Brother in the Truth who Travels for Sion 's Prosperity William Bingley 1 Pet. 5. 3. Being Ensamples to the Flock Ephes 5. 1 2. And Be ye therefore Followers of God as dear Children and walk in Love as Christ also hath loved us Printed by Andrew Sowle And sold at the Three-Keys in Nags-Head-Court in Grace-Church-Street 1689. A TESTIMONY And wholesome Advice concerning MARRIAGE MArriage is honourable in all and the Bed undefiled and it is Gods Ordinance and is not to be forbidden and whom God joins together no Man is to put asunder and this is the Marriage that hath a Blessing that minds Gods Joining and Gods Ordinance and the people of God were to practice it in all Ages and the Faithful did observe and do it As Abraham the Father and Pattern of the Faithful charged his chief Servant to go to his own People and take a Wife for his Son Isaac and said the Lord God of Heaven and Earth shall send his Angel before thee and his Servant at Gods appointment took Rebekah and Isaac brought Rebekah to his Mothers Tent and took her to Wife Gen. 24. So here was Gods Ordinance and Gods Joining And Isaac did not go contrary to God and his Fathers mind to take a Wife of the Daughters of Canaan nor had a Priest to marry them and Isaac was blessed of God and he gave him Jacob and Esau And Esau despised his Birth right and married of the Daughters of the Hittites which grieved his Father and his Mother Gen. 26. 35. So Esau went from Gods Joining and grieved his Parents and Rebekah said to Isaac if Jacob take a Wife of the Daughters of the Land such as these be what good will my Life do me Gen. 24. 46. So here you may see the great care of Rebekah to preserve her Son from the Snare that Esau was come into in this of Joining in Marriage with other People and Isaac called his Son Jacob and charged him and said thou shalt not take a Wife of the Daughters of Canaan but shalt go to thy Mothers Kindred and God Almighty bless thee and prosper thee Gen. 28. And Jacob obeyed his Father and his Mother and the Lord appeared to him in his Journey and blessed him and said I will greatly multiply thee and will be with thee And Jacob said if God will bless me and prosper me in the way that I go and bring me to my Fathers house in Peace then shall the Lord be my God vers 21. So here you may see Jacob minds the Lord and obeyed his Parents in his choosing a Wife and the Lord blessed him abundantly And the Sons of Jacob could not suffer their Sister to marry with a Stranger though he was a great Prince And the Jews which were the Off-spring of Abraham Isaac and Jacob were not to join in Marriage with other People as it is written thou shalt not take their Daughters to thy Sons nor give thy Daughters to their Sons for they will turn your Hearts from the Lord after other Gods Deut. 7. 3. Jos 13. 12. So here you may see according to Gods Ordinance there is a power in Parents in giving their Daughters in Marriage and in taking Daughters to their Sons they have a part in their Children to give and take in case of Marriage And when the Jews did mix in Marriage with other People they corrupted them and drew them from God and kindled his Anger against them as you may see Numb 25. where the young men took the Daughters of Moab which kindled Gods anger and many of them died and a great breach was made till Phinehas stood in the Gap and stopped those proceedings and turned away Gods Wrath and these went from Gods Ordinance and from Gods Joining and went from the good example of their Fathers Abraham Isaac and Jacob. And you may see that Solomon a wise King his taking of Strangers turned his Heart to worship Idols for which the Lord rent the Kingdom from him only left him a Lamp in Israel for David his Fathers sake And you may see in all the Passages of the Jews revolting from God for the most part the chief reason was their matching in Marriage with other People as in Nehemiah and Ezra where you may see the Jews had taken Strangers of the Daughters of Ashdod which grieved the Lord and his Servants Ezra and Nehemiah So here you see they went from Gods Ordinance and Gods Joyning And the Apostle saith to the Church be not unequally yoked a Believer with an Unbeliever he accounts it as Light and Darkness as Christ and Belial as the Temple of God and Idols 2 Cor. 6. for Believers in the Light of Christ Jesus are the Called of God and the Seed of Abraham and the Temple of God and his Sons and Daughters and are Heirs of the Promise in the New Covenant and are Jews in Spirit and have the Circumcision of the Spirit made without Hands and are under the Law of the New Covenant which God hath written in their Hearts and such cannot Join to give or take in Marriage with any Sect or sort of Persons or People that believe not in the Light of Christ Jesus with which he hath enlightned every Man that comes into the World nor believe not in the Grace of God but turn it into Wantonness nor in the Law of the New Covenant which is written in the Heart according to Gods Promise And do not worship God in Spirit but in some form without the Power of God neither have received the Circumcision of the Spirit to circumcise their Hearts and Ears such the Seed of Abraham must not Join with in Affinity of Marriage nor take their Daughters to their Sons nor give their Daughters to their Sons for you see it is contrary to Gods Ordinance and contrary to the Spirit of Abraham Isaac and Jacob which were great Fathers and Patterns and all the true Believers in Christ Jesus are to follow their steps in the New Covenant and will charge their Sons and Daughters that they joyn not in Marriage with any but amongst their own People that are Worshipers of God in Spirit and Children of such Believers as be of Faith and Society with them in the Worship and Service of God and such Children as fear God and are reverent and obedient to Parents which all are obliged to by the Law of the first Covenant and by the Law of Christ Jesus and by the Doctrine of the Apostles I say such Children will keep their Parents Charge as Isaac and Jacob did and not grieve and vex their Parents as Esau did his Father and his Mother in marrying with the Daughters of Strangers for such Parents as are of Isaac and Rebekah's Spirit are much concerned

in this Case and cannot but grieve when their Children joyn in Marriage with such as are before mentioned and give away their believing Parents part that they have in them to the World which makes Confusion and grieves God's good Spirit and smites their Parents with Grief and such as smote Father and Mother in the time of the Law were to die Exod. 21. 15. for Parents have a great Power and part in their Children as in Numb 30. 3 4 5. If a Daughter in her Fathers House unmarried make a Vow or Promise her Father hath power to break it or establish it and you may see 1 Sam. 2. 3. chap. old Eli did not use his Power to restrain his two Sons from their Wickedness for which the Lord cut off the Arm of Eli cut off his Family from the Priesthood and Believers are a Royal Priesthood to offer to God spiritual Sacrifices So they are to use their utmost Endeavours to restrain their Children from running into the World which lies in Wickedness or into their Fashions or Familiarity which often doth great hurt as Jacob's Daughter in visiting the Daughters of the Land of Canaan was defiled So Friends are to be careful to watch over their Children for their preservation from those things which Youth is prone to fall into to their great hurt for we were but a few at the first when God called and chose us to be his People and now there is a young Generation sprung up of young Men and Women many of them sprung from the Loins of true Believers and many of them runs into the Pride and Fashions of the World and take Wives and Husbands of the World and go to the Teachers of the World to be married and so go from Gods Ordinance and Gods Joining And men of the World see that Friends are a thriving People in their outward Substance which makes them seek after Friends Children to marry with them And some Friends when their Rebellious Children have so done through Indulgence and Affection to their Children more than the publick good have given them Portions And this encourageth the World to seek Friends Children in Marriage and encourageth wanton Children to consent to them by which means a breach is made upon our Youth to the wounding and grieving the Spirits of the Faithful that are Abrahams Children and are of the same mind with Isaac and Rebekah and cannot give their Children in marriage to other People upon any account But are willing to give their Children the same liberty as the Elders of Israel did to the Daughters of Zelophehad who might marry to whom they pleased in their own Tribe So Friends must use their godly endeavours according to the utmost of their Power to stop the gap of such proceedings that their Arm be not cut off as old Eli's was And you may see before the Flood when the Sons of God married with the Daughters of Men how it grieved God And is it not all one when Friends marry with other People and some Friends Children are surprized and hurt and spoiled their Parents allowing them to go into the Finery and Fashions of the World and to visit and company with proud People as Jacob's Daughter did with the Daughters of Canaan by which opportunity she was ensnared So Friends are to prevent such things to the utmost of their Power and stop the breach that is made upon us by these things that you may inherit Phinehas's Portion an everlasting Priesthood in Christ our High-Priest and the Covenant of Peace in Christ Jesus in whom there is Peace which is the desire of your true Friend W. E. The aforegoing Paper was read in the Men and Womens Meetings being assembled together in a weighty Sence of Truth and Friends having good Vnity with it have added thereto the following Testimony Dear Friends every where in this Nation and elsewhere WE being met together in the Name and Fear of the Lord and his Presence and Power being with us it was represented by several Friends and that under a weight and burden of Spirit that of late great hurt hath happened among Friends through several young People going to the Priest to be married and taking Husbands and Wives among the World which hath been sometimes occasioned through too much Indulgence of Parents towards their Children and sometimes through the stubbornness of Children towards their Parents and not hearkning to their Counsel Now Friends the Lord having established it as a Principle that those that profess his everlasting Truth should neither go to a Priest to be married nor take Husbands or Wives from among the World that are not of us it fell weighty upon Friends to consider of some way according to the Truth as much as in them lay to endeavour to prevent such Practices for the future And in order thereunto after a serious debate and several weighty Testimonies in that case both of Men and Women Friends concluded on the following Advise and Counsel desiring that Friends in their respective places and stations will in diligence put it in practice First That all Parents both Men and Women take care to educate their Children in the awe and fear of the Lord according to the Principles of the blessed Truth taking care to restrain them from such Company and Acquaintance that may allure them from the way of Truth into the Vanity of the World and likewise to restrain them in any other things that may have a tendency to draw their Minds from the fear of the Lord and from the sence of his blessed Truth That so through the sence of the Truth in themselves it may so ballance their natural Affections that they may rightly see the states and conditions of their Children as to give that wholsome Advice and Counsel that may answer the Witness of God in them Secondly If any Friends do perceive that their Children are under such a Temptation as to go to a Priest to be married or to take one of the World to Husband or Wife if they will not hear that counsel and advice which in the fear of the Lord they give them then let them inform Friends that they may deal with them in the order of the Gospel that so if possible they may be preserved out of the snare or the greater weight of Judgment may be laid on them by their Parents in particular and Friends in general Thirdly If notwithstanding the advice and counsel of Parents and Friends any young People do fall into the aforementioned evils we desire and advise all Parents to keep very strictly to the principle of Truth in themselves in their conduct towards their Children which we believe will restrain them from passing by that act of great Disobedience unto themselves in particular and the Lord and his Truth in general until such time that Friends through their true Repentance receive them into Vnity again And further we believe that it will best answer the Truth for ●arents to