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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57299	An epistle from our monethly meeting, at our publick meeting house in Reigate, in Surry, the 7th day of the 9th month, 1692	Society of Friends. Reigate Monthly Meeting.; Rigge, Ambrose, 1635?-1705.	1692 (1692)	Wing R1477; ESTC R17179	4,245	10

An Epistle From our Monethly Meeting at our Publick Meeting-House in Reigate in Surry the 7th Day of the 9th Month 1692. WE being assembled with one accord in the Unity of the Spirit of Truth and having a deep and weighty Consideration upon our Hearts and Spirits of the Important Affairs of the Church which the Lord hath gathered in these parts and out of the Ways and Works of Darkness to be a People to his praise and to walk as Children of the Day in all Godly Conversation and Holiness for he who hath called us is Holy and he hath made us livingly sensible that without Holiness of Life and Conversation none can be true Members of the Church of Christ neither is any the Sons or Daughters of God but as they are led and guided by the Spirit of God in which all who have continued and walked have been preserved out of the Pollutions of the World and are as Lights among their Neighbours shewing forth before them their good Works of a Godly Peaceable and quiet Life to the Praise and Glory of our Heavenly Father for the Truth as it is in Jesus our holy Head Leader and Governour is the Life of Righteousness and freeth all who receives it from all Unrighteousness In this is the Children of God in our day manifested from the Children of Belial for whosoever doth not Righteousness is not of God neither he who loveth not his Brother and Neighbour but he who walketh uprightly and walketh surely and there is no occasion of stumbling in him And now dearly beloved Friends whom the Lord hath quickened and raised up out of the Grave of Sin and Corruption to be Monuments of his Mercy walk in the Light of the Lamb so will the Salvation of God be as Walls and Bulworks round about you to preserve you from the fear of Evil Stand ye as Witnesses for God in your day against all Ungodliness and worldly Lusts both amongst your selves and the World be ye circumspect and watchful both over your selves and your Children and Indulge them not in any thing that is Evil but timely Reprove and Restrain it lest it become your Sin and command them to observe the Law of God written in their Hearts for if you love the Truth as you ought your selves you will train up your Children in it when they are young and keep them to the plain and sound Language which the Truth required and led all the Faithful into in the beginning and keep them in plain and modest Apparel and Behaviour in due subjection to the Truth in all things in an Holy Conversation as much as in you lies that they may grow up in the Grace of God as Plants of his Renown this is your Duty the Lord requires it of you even to watch over your Children as those that must give an Account to God while they are under your Wings Elie's not Restraining his Sons became his Sin because he restrained them not and brought a Curs s upon his House for ever 1 Sam. 3. 13 14. Therefore beware of winking at or neglecting your Childrens Sins while under your Tuition but bring them up in the Nurture and Admonition of the Lord lest they bring shame upon your Houses and a Reproach upon your Posterity as some have already done by departing from the Counsel of God and the Word of his Grace which would have kept them in the hour of Temptation from the alurements of the Evil one and so have made themselves a Scorn to Fools and a Derison to them that are round about and hath opened the Mouthes of Evil men to Blaspheam the Name of the Lord and his holy Tabernacle Better had it been for such not to have known the Way of Truth then thus to turn from the holy Commandment which is the Lamp of Righteousness to guide our Feet in the Way of Peace And all Young Men and Maids unto whom God hath given the knowledge of his saving Truth be ye Sober and Watchful for many and strong are the assaults of the Enemy to overcome you and to bring you back again into Egypt's Bondage Stand stedfast in him who hath Called you being girded with the Truth that you may be able to Encounter the Enemy of your Souls which way soever he appears having upon your heads the Helmet of Salvation and the Breast plate of Righteousness and Shield of Faith and Sound Judgment the Spiritual Sword girded about your Loins In this Armour if you keep the Enemy cannot touch you The saving Truth which God hath made known in our day doth Reedeem all who loves and obeys it from all Evil whatsoever and out of the Gall of Bitterness and Bond of Iniquity and sets free from every Evil Deed Word and Work and discovers Sin in the Seed Bud and Root thereof and gives power to slay it there before it breaks forth into Action for as it is Inward and Spiritual it gives an Inward and Spiritual sight of the Man of Sin in all his Wiles and Temptations in the conception thereof and arms all who believes in it against the Enemy's power being greater then the Enemy is able to subdue his power in all mankind and Redeem them from their vain Conversation making them capable to serve worship and obey the living God which none can do while they are in the Evil deeds of the world And neither Pride Covetousness Drunkenness Whoredom Gluttony Theft Murder Adultery Idolatry Hypocrisie nor any Ungodliness whatsoever can have any power or prevalency over them who keeps the Word of Faith which is nigh in their Hearts such are Cloathed with the Armour of Light and they are able to quench all the fiery Darts of the Enemy of their Souls and through Faith in the Son of God receives Victory over Death Hell and the Grave these are Plants of Righteousness in our day and are daily Watered and Pruned by the Father 's the Right hand and grow up as Trees of Righteousness the planting of the Lord bringing forth Fruits in due Season to the praise of his Name who hath called them out of Darkness into his marvelous Light And now I exhort you Brethren and Friends in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ that you with-draw your selves from every Brother and Sister who walks disorderly and have no fellowship with the unfruitful Works of Darkness but rather in the Authority of Gods Power and Spirit reprove them And that you keep not Company with Fornicators for some are already turned aside into Fornication If any that is Called a Friend or a Brother be a Fornicator or Covetous or an Idolater or a Railer or a Drunkard or an Extortioner with such a one not to Eat And if any obey not this Gospel-Precept Note that Person and have no fellowship with him or her that they may be ashamed And if any have fellowship or society with such before they Repent after Friends in Gods Power and Wisdom have given a Testimony against