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A40195 Gospel family-order being a short discourse concerning the ordering of families, both of whites, blacks, and Indians / by G.F. Fox, George, 1624-1691. 1676 (1676) Wing F1829; ESTC R30371 11,777 24

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GOSPEL Family-Order BEING A SHORT DISCOURSE CONCERNING THE Ordering of Families BOTH OF Whites Blacks and Indians Pour out thy Fury upon the Heathen that know thee not and upon the Families that call not on thy Name for they have eaten up Jacob and devoured him and consumed him and have made his Habitation desolate Jer. 10.25 Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty Nation and all the Nations of the Earth shall be blessed in him For I know him that he will command his Children and his Houshold after him and they shall keep the Way of the Lord to do Justice and Judgment that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him Gen. 18.18 19. And if it seem Evil unto you to serve the Lord chuse you this day whom you will serve whether the Gods which your Fathers served that were on the other Side of the Flood or the Gods of the Amorites in whose Land ye dwell but as for me and my House we will serve the Lord Joshua 24.15 By G.F. Printed in the Year 1676. GOSPEL Family-Order The following Discourse is as it was taken from the Mouth of George Fox at a Mens Meeting at Tho. Rous his House in Barbadoes in the Year 1671. touching the Government of Families according to the Law of Jesus HEre all Friends may see how the holy Men of God by the Command of the Lord were to order their Families apart and also by the same Law of God the People in the General were to be ordered as you may see in Gen. 17. where God commanded Abraham to keep his Covenant between him and his Seed Gen. 17. Every Man-child shall be circumcised in your Generations and he that is born in thy House or bought with Money of any Stranger which is not of thy Seed shall be circumcised and Abraham obeyed the Command of God in circumcising all his Family and all that were born in his House and all that were bought with Money of Strangers Now you who are called Christians must not all your Families be circumcised with the Spirit which the outward Circumcision of the Flesh did type forth yea all Sons and Daughters Masters or Mistresses of Families must be circumcised with the Spirit that puts off the Body of Death the Sins of the Flesh with the Circumcision of the Spirit that is not made with Hands and also all that you have bought with Money all Strangers and all that are born in your Houses of Strangers which are not of your own Seed must you not bring all these to the Circumcision of the Spirit else how are you the Friends of God as Abraham was who obeyed God and therefore call upon all your Families and your Servants whom you bought for Money and those that were born of them in your Families and let them be Circumcised and endeavour to bring them to that which doth circumcise them to wit the Spirit which is the Substance of the outward Circumcision and every one that was not circumcised was he not to be cut off from among the People And so are not all now that are not circumcised by the Spirit to be cut off from the spiritual Union the spiritual Fellowship And therefore if you who are Masters of Families if you I say do not see the Circumcision of all your Families of Servants and Strangers and all such as are bought with Money will it not lye upon you who ought to take Care for your Families and order your Families as Joshua said he would order his Family And if it seem Evil unto you to serve the Lord choose you this Day whom you will serve Joshua 24.15 whether the Gods which your Fathers served that were on the other Side of the Flood c. or the Gods of the Amorites in whose Land ye dwell BUT AS FOR ME AND MY HOUSE WE WILL SERVE THE LORD And so were not all his Servants that he bought with Money and Strangers and such as were born in his House of his Family were they not all to serve the Lord according to the Law in the outward Circumcision And so are not all you Christians now and Masters and Mistresses of Families now to look to your Families to see that you and your Families do serve the Lord in the Circumcision of the Spirit of God by which Spirit you must worship God in Spirit and in Truth who is the Father of Spirits and the God of the Spirits of all Flesh And therefore mind and consider this in your Families and gather them altogether and teach them the Way of the Lord and the New Covenant yea your Families and Children and those you bought with Moneys and the Strangers and such as are born of them in your House And in Exed 12. there you may see how the Lord said When a Stranger sojourneth with thee Exod. 12. he shall keep the Passcover of the Lord and let all his Males be circumcised You may think it was a strange thing that if a Man did but sojourn in the House of a Jew that the Male should be circumcised for a Sojourner is a Comer and Goer but a Servant that is bought with Money or one that is born of them in the House is more then a Sojourner for no uncircumcised was to eat of the Passeover And so now no uncircumcised Person is to eat of the Sacrifice or Passeover Christ Jesus but such only I say who are circumcised by the Spirit who ends the outward Passeover and the outward Circumcision which were Types of Christ and so one Law should be to him that is born at home and to the Stranger that sojourneth with you And as all were then to keep this Law of God so all are to keep this Law of Jesus Christ among Christians now And Leviticus 14. there it is said You shall have one Manner of Law Lev. 14. as well for the Stranger as for one of you own Country I am the Lord your God saith the Lord. So this Law was then and still is to be observed which is to love God above all and to love their Neighbours as themselves And Deut. 5. Deut. 5. all were to keep the Law of God all were to keep the outward Sabbath both Sons Daughters Men-servants Maid-servants Oxen Asses and other Cattle and the Strangers that were within the Gates these were all to keep the Rest the Sabbath and the Law of God Now mark Christians who are come to Christ and who believe in him and have entered into your Rest by the Law of Christ see that all your Families do keep this Sabbath this Rest both you and your Sons and Daughters Men-servants and Maid-servants that are within your Gates this concerns every one of you that are Masters of Families to consider seriously of it for Christ is the Sabbath and Rest who gives Rest to the whole Creation he it is that takes off the Oppression who destroyeth the Devil's Works