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A34334 A general epistle containing wholsom admonition & advice to friends in Ireland and elsewhere Carleton, Thomas, 1636?-1684. 1676 (1676) Wing C589; ESTC R29174 6,208 10

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A General Epistle CONTAINING Wholsom Admonition Advice to Friends in IRELAND and else-where By Thomas Carleton DEar and well-beloved Friends Brethren and Sisters who are in some Measure gathered by the Arm of God's Power and have known the blessed Appearance of Life and Salvation to you is the Salutation of my unfeigned Love and in the Fellowship of God's Everlasting Light do I tenderly greet you all and for the clearing of my Spirit of that which for some time hath been upon me do I communicate these Lines in the true Simplicity of my Heart dearly desiring all that love the Lord Jesus Christ To keep low and near the Lord and wait to feel God's living Power in your Hearts unto which we were turned or exhorted from the Beginning for in the Light of the Lord I see there is a Necessity for it For unless the Sense of God's living Power be felt Profession is vain and Meetings are not made profitable for the Mysteries of Life and Salvation and of true Christianity consist not only in any Profession Name or Notion of this or that Principle Article or Creed formed or received in the Minds of M●n or Women but in a living Enjoyment and Possession of the Power and Spirit of Christ Jesus the Author Finisher of the living saying Faith So my dear Friends all wait to feel the Operation of that Power in every Heart and Soul to subdue all to God and to work all into submission and real obedience to the heavenly Will and Mind of Christ Jesus who is come a Light into the World that all men through him might believe here is the unchangeable standing Rule which every one is to measure themselves by and he or she that is measured or squared by this is as polished Stones for God's spiritual House and he or she that is not sqaared by this are not fit to be Members of God's Building so all having the Measuring line in your hearts let Judgment be laid to it and so try all things words works behaviours and the Intent of all and from what ground soirit it doth proceed and this unchangeable everlasting Rule all keep to it and build by it so shall you be justified with it in the Day of Tryal so all things done by this unchangeable everting Rule the Law of the Spirit of Life this keeps clean and pure and sets free of all Mud and Confusion Sin and Iniquity and things that bring death and darkness over the Soul and Understanding and so cloud the Testimony So let every man and woman by this standing Rule examine themselves and so let them eat speak or act as the Lord shall perswade them and wherein any one doubteth and is not clear in what he or she undertaketh let such forbear and wait in quietness till the Lord clear their way So all take heed and keep to the Rule for in the Lord's Light we see Light and have Clearness and Freedom and Peace but going from the Light without Rule without Guide the Vail comes over Darkness gathers in Confusion Trouble then Peace comes to be lost So you that have known in any measure the work of Regeneration and of the New Fi●th through the working of God's Spirit Power in your Hearts by which some unclean spirits have been cast out keep to the Power still beware of letting in the unclean spirit again for if you do the latter end will be worse then the beginning And lean not to the World's Wisdom beware of that spirit I advise all for by that wisdom God is not known and if once the Sense and enjoyment of God be lost then man and woman is in a woful state without God in the World so keep out of the world's spirit I intreat you all and live as Fools to it and all its wayes fashions customs for in the Lord I see a great Snare at this day and too many that make Profession of Truth are like to be split upon that Rock So dear Friends live loose to the world and all the glories of it and seek to be wise in that which is not of this world that you may be loved of God and so dwell in that which can bear the revilings and reproaches of this world and the contradiction of sinners as our Lord Jesus Christ hath lest us an Example So beware of looking back to Egypt's Glory again to see any beauty or comlines in that dark Land for from the Lord I see a Temptation attending God's spiritual Israel in this day as surely as ever it attended Israel after the Flesh and many are too prone to desire the pleasures of Egypt again though the best of them be bondage as many to their Sorrow have found yea too many there be that cannot bear tryals and reproaches and the way of the Cross and self-denyal but think it long and wearisom and hard as they did in the dayes of old and so are too ready to murmur and repine and lust in their hearts after this World's glory again and joyn to its fashions customs again and so set up Idols again as they did whose Carcases fell in the Wilderness with whom the Lord was displeased So beware of letting in that spirit of distrust unbelief and rebellion against God and his pure Witness in your Consciences and beware of building that which was once destroyed or licking up that which was once vomited or entertaining of that which was once cast out or owning that which was once denyed either in words in works in behaviour in apparel in doctrine or faith hath Truth in you condemned for all idle vain prophane wicked unsound and unsavoury words and brought you into a Form of needful true and sound words keep to it still hath Truth condemned all idle proud prophane wicked and ungodly actions and all empty airy foolish wanton lustful proud self-willed and men-pleasing behaviours and brought you into Moderation Gravity Plainness Reallity and Truth in Life and Conversation keep to it still hath Truth condemned for decking adorning the Body with vain superfluous proud needless worldly eye-taking Toyes in Apparrel and led you into plain profitable decent needful things keep to it still and fashion not your selves like unto the world nor learn any of their Manners nor of the Breeding of that egyptian-Egyptian-Spirit which keeps the Seed in Bondage and oppresseth the Just in the particular and in the general so from the Lord I advise you all and warn you all that are parents to watch over your Children and bring them up in the Nurture and Admonition of the Lord and beware you breed them not up in the World's manners nor customs nor in Pride Lightness and Vanity nor in things that puff up and lead away their Minds from under the Cross of Christ Jesus but rather breed them up in Humility Lowliness and Self denial and in the Fear of the Lord which is the Beginning of true Wisdom and gate of Virtue
trusteth to his Riches shall fall for as one said They are not forever but sometimes make themselves Wings and fly away so be not lifted up with them but eye the Lord and posses as though you possessed not labour to be rich towards God and rich in good Works and remember poor afflicted Joseph and be ready to do good and to communicate as said the Apostle and keep your Hearts single and loose to those things and so in God's Wisdom you will see your Way Service and the End and Use of all And all you Young Men and Women that are single and unmarryed you have an Oportunity to serve the Lord do you keep low and beware of being entangled or brought in Bondage by youthful Lusts for thereby many have lost a good condition with God and brought themselves to Sorrow and Wo both in this Life and that which is to come And above all take heed of joyning Affinity with strange Nations and such as know not God 〈◊〉 obey the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ for this was f●rbidden Israel after the flesh Deut 7 3 4. and for their Disobedience herein God's anger was kindled against them and they were carryed away captive many years which made Ezra the Servant of the Lord rent his Garments and pluck his Hair off his Head and Beard and mourn before the Lord till he and the Elders of Israel resolved to put away their Strange Wives Ez 9 10. chap. And Esau by marrying the Daughters of Heth so grieved his Father and Mother that Rebecca complained sh● was weary of her Life Gen. 27.46 And Paul advised not so be unequally yoaked together Believers with Vnbelievers knowing there could be no Vnion between Light and Darkness nor the Temple of God and Idols c. so keep your Hearts single to God and wait in God's Wisdom to overcome the Wicked One in your own particulars and seek to be marryed to the Lord first and joyned to the Lord by his eternal Spirit which brings into Unity and keeps Chastity in Mind and Spirit unto him and observe the Advice of the Apostle who said The Vnmarried cared for the things of the Lord how he or she might please the Lord but the married for the things of this World how he or she might please Wife or Husband So all be watchful and mind your Places and Callings in Christ Jesus but if any one in the Fear and Wisdom of God do see it their way to marry let such seek God's Counsel and be not hasty but wait in it that he or she may enjoy a Wife or a Husband in the Peace Love of God and to be joyned one by his eternal Spirit and then Meet helps and a Blessing one to another and then the Marriage is honourable and the Bed undefiled so all keep clean and live up to God in all things in all States and Conditions in your Places and Callings whereunto God hath called you that the Lord may take pleasure to do you good and to multiply his Blessings upon you that the Issues of Life and Peace may abound and run through all and rest upon all your Hearts and Souls as the Dew of Hermon And the God of Peace and Love preserve us all in his Peace and Love and carry us through all by the Arm of his Eternal Power and guide us all in his heavenly Wisdom to the Praise Glory and Renown of his Everlasting Name who is God alone blessed forever and for evermore Your Friend and Brother in the Obedience of Truth Tho. Carleton Written the 13th of the 7th Moneth 1676.