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A tender and Christian testimony to young people and others whom it may concern in this present day, who walk with us under the profession of the blessed truth.
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Elson, Mary, 1623 or 4-1707.
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walk under the Profession of Truth with us In the fear and love of God we beseech you as Children Retire to the Light of Christ in you and there feel our burden for you and the reproach and dishonour of the precious Truth by you whilst the world saith The Quakers are now like us they want only Lace Ribbands Our end is not to upbraid any but to remind you how our religious Profession is upbraided for with the Light you will see there may be and is Superfluity in Habit although no Lace and Ribbands neither would we have you provoked but to the Love of the Light of Christ in you because they that love the Light bring their deeds to be manifested by the Light and receive the Reproofs and Instuctions of it for they are the way to Life Now this we do enjoyn upon you and are seeking for you even that the holy Principle of Truth may take place in you so as to season you in all good Manners of Life and Conversation as those that profess Godliness Remember what the Apostle saith in 1 Tim. Let the Women adorn themselves in Modest Apparel and with Sobriety and not with broidered Hair Gold or costly Array And in Peter read how the godly Womens adorning was to be inward not in putting on Apparel c. Now having known a Mortification through the Cross of Christ and in this as well as other things deny'd our selves put off these things we had liberty in before we professed the Truth to such it s now strange to see what some put on so much more costly far exceeding whatever they wore before they came to profess the Truth and indeed unsuitable to Truth 's Gravity and Christian Society as if that which crucifies to the World and leads to Self-denial were forgotten The Lord help to stop these things that hinders the work of God and stops that holy progress in the Life of Truth Furthermore we cannot but remind here amongst us Young People that have little in the World yet deck themselves as if they had great matters and thereby draw out the Mind one after another into high expectations in this Circumstance there is oft times a Falacy and Deceit and the end of it proves of a bad effect by disappointment but at best this bespeaks not the Modesty Sincerity or Weight of Truth Now pray Friends bear with us for it is the Truth of God which is most precious both in Faith and Life which is our concern herein and that the Cross of Christ in which the sum of Christianity consists may not be made void and our holy Profession may not be scandalized by things unbecoming Truth and us in which a false Liberty is creeping up to the hurt and hindrance of Truth 's Prosperity but in the Light all is discerned and strength ministred to withstand Therefore our Testimony is to Elder and Younger that in all things we all may keep to the Touch-stone and Guidance of the holy Principle that first convinced us And you the Younger Friends be not as those that are grown beyond Reproof but esteem of them that are before you in the Truth as the Elder Women that are in our Duty which is To teach the Younger in all good things and also to reprove and admonish concerning evil things and the Elder and Yonger may walk in Truth in all things harmless and blameless Let us all mind that which keeps in humility fear and godly sincerity and those that are Mothers of Children in all holy circumspection to watch over them that the Vanity of the Mind may not be encouraged but curbed and kept down And those Servants that profess the Truth which will not be subject in their places in these things that are wholsom honest and just but take liberty as they will being stubborn and perverse not answering the blessed Principle of Truth so becoming a stumbling to them without an ill example to our Children and Families within a sore disorder and grievous burden that many bears by them but such Servants we exhort to fear the Lord and take heed how they persist in going contrary to the holy Truth they profess but turn into the measure of God's Spirit of Grace and with the Light of Christ examine their own Spirits and manners of Life and with a subject mind read what the Apostle teacheth Servants in their places as well as Masters and Mistrisses Col. 3.22 Servants obey in all things your Masters according to the Flesh not with Eye-Service and so on to the end of that Chapter Ephes 6.5 6 7. also read Tit. 2.9 10. 1 Pet. 2.18 1 Tim. 6.1 2. Let as many Servants as are under the Yoke count their Masters worthy of all honour that the Name of God and his Doctrine be not blasphemed We pray God that Servants with meekness and fear would lay to heart what the Spirit of God speaks in themselves as also what the Spirit hath spoke through the Apostle to the Servants state that so the Truth they might do as well as know and profess and then they will be sensible that our Exercise is for the Prosperity of Truth in all And Masters do ye the same things as the Apostle saith Col. 4.1 Give unto your Servants that which is equal and just And Mistresses of Families to be Examples to your Servants in the fear of the Lord in Humility and Christian Gentleness that as in our several Stations we are called and gathered into the harmony of Truth that so all may grow up and prosper therein that so we may be a good savour to God in our day and to the Generation that shall succeed us in the Truth and Service of the Lord which he daily confirms us in through his heavenly Presence with us his Name be honoured the Witness in all hearts answered we through his Word of Life confirmed and strengthened to every good Work for which let us always wait on the Lord to whose Spirit of Grace we commit the whole Flock and Family of God for Instruction and Preservation unto the end Amen From our Womens-Meeting at the Bull and Mouth the 8th of the 4th Moneth 1685. These Names for and in the behalf of the rest of the faithful Members of our Meeting Mary Elson Jane Bland Hannah Taylor Anne Whitehead Margaret Meakins Sarah Milnar Lucresie Cook Elizabeth Fuller Agnes Poole Marabel Farnsbury Susannah Dew Elizabeth Camfield Grace Bathurst Mary Plumstead Ruth Crouch Martha Fisher Bridget Ford Sibel Adson Constant Atridge Mary Ellis THE END