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A27159	The epistle to the monthly and quarterly meetings of Friends in England, Wales, and elsewhere from our yearly meeting, held in London the fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth days of the fourth month, 1693.	Society of Friends.; Bealing, Benjamin, d. 1739.	1693 (1693)	Wing B1560A; ESTC R28888	5,811	6

Four Epistles from Ireland one from the half Years Meeting in Dublin another from Vlster Province another from Munster Province the fourth from the Province-Meeting at Lemster intimating the goodness of God in their Preservation and his Presence amongst them and how well things are with respect to Unity Peace and Concord among themselves and withal return their grateful acknowledgments of Friends dear Love great Affection and Charity here towards them for the Relief of poor Friends that greatly suffered by the late Calamities which hath been to the great refreshment of the Bowels of many Of several Epistles from Foreign Parts Several other Epistles from Foreign Parts as Barbadoes Maryland Pensilvania Virginia Scotland Holland were Read signifying for the most part the Love and Unity amongst Friends and great Openness in divers parts with desires of Friends Prayers for them particularly in Pensilvania And that in Barbadoes there hath been a very violent Distemper which has caused a great Mortality Of the Earthquake in Jamaica A Letter also from Jamaica signifying the sad effects of the late terrible Earthquake there by the destruction of many with their Substance two Thirds of the People as is supposed at Port-Royal and the most of Friends then there lost except those that were at a Monthly Meeting twelve Miles distant from Port-Royal who were by that means Preserved An Epistle from Amsterdam in Holland signifying their Meetings are quiet and that they are thankful to God for it John Furley's late Travels in Holland c. and desires to be Visited And our dear Friend John Furley of Colchester being newly returned out of Holland and present at this Meeting gave a full account that he hath lately visited all the Meetings in Holland and Low-countrys in those Parts except one little Meeting which he could not get to the place being much covered with Water And that there is some Openness in some places and great flocking of Strangers to the Meeting at Amsterdam Of Dantzick Friends An account was given of Dantzick Friends that they have been quiet one Year and half and so continue tho but few left some having died under Persecution The Magistrates there now pretty kind And that there are a People raised up and encreased in Germany Of a People called Pietes from among the Lutherans called Pietes and by some called Quakers many whereof Persons of Learning and of the Gentry That they are a People of sober Conversations Persecuted by the Duke of Saxony and the Priests but favoured and Tolerated by the Duke of Brandenburgh several Friends Books at their request have been spread among them The Priests at Hamburgh much disturbed and inraged against our Friends and them do rail and abuse them in Print endeavouring to insense the Magistrates there by their Lyes and Calumnies but the Magistrates do not gratifie them but rather discountenance them Blessed be the Lord whose power is at work in the Hearts of many People Of the Captives in Macqueness The Friends yet remaining Captives in Maqueness are still held under great Severities and Hardships by that cruel tyranical Task-master who is yet suffered cruelly to punish wound and kill poor Captives at his pleasure and all possible care of their Redemption and Relief is by this Meeting still recommended to the Meeting for Sufferings to continue their endeavours for the effecting thereof This Meeting being acquainted that endeavours have been used for the relief of Friends in relation to Oaths pursuant to the last Yearly Meetings Advice in that case Of Friends endeavours for Relief from Oaths and what progress was made in the House of Commons in order thereto and before the Committee of Parliament who after a due hearing of Friends drew up a fair Report and gave their opinion for our Relief which nevertheless was lost by Vote in the House This Meeting being sensible of the great care of the Meeeting for Sufferings here in that case many tenderly acknowledged Friends labours and endeavours therein And the Meeting still leaves it to the said Meeting for Sufferings to continue their care and endeavours in that case as the Lord shall please to make way for the general Ease of Friends About poor Friends Removal c. An account being given to this Meeting that several poor Friends have removed themselves and their Families from divers parts of the Nation to the City of London who soon after their coming being not capable to subsist have applied themselves to Friends there for Relief and have been very chargable It 's advised that if any poor Friends for the time to come should incline to remove themselves and Families to this City that before they unsettle themselves they apply themselves to the Monthly or Quarterly Meetings to which they belong for Advice and Counsel and that such Meeting do rather advertise them to be contented in their Station and places where Provisions and Accomodations may be easier and much cheaper obtained then at London Or if permitted by Certificate from the Counties to Remove that then the monthly and quarterly Meetings from whence they come do take care to supply their Necessities that the Friends of London be not overcharged for the future It s desired that the Monthly and Quarterly Meetings respectively take notice of all Friends Books that are or may be sent to them according to former agreement Of Friends Books and take care for the dispersing the same for the Service of Truth Correspondants only to be written to about Sufferings And also it is agreed that each Quarterly Meeting take care to advise the Correspondants for the Counties and any others concerned to Write Only to your Correspondants in London about their Sufferings and not to other persons lest their suffering Case be delayed Friends appointed to view the Accounts Report that they find they are truly stated and rightly kept Accounts And Friends are again advised to bring up with them the total Sum of each Counties Collection for the Relief of Friends that suffered by the late Calamities in Ireland We are truly comforted and greatly refreshed in the Lord by the weighty Accounts given at this our solemn Assembly from the respective Counties in England and Wales by the Friends sent up as also by some Epistles from several Counties importing the Unity Accounts of Truth 's Prosperity c. Love Peace and Concord among Friends and Prosperity of the blessed Truth and increase of the Government of Christ and his Peace in the Church in which we pray God to keep his People to the end To avoid Contention and Strife in all Meetings It is the Advice and Sence of this Meeting 1. That all Friends have a care of God's Glory be tender thereof as hath been often advised Seasonable Advice for Peace good Order in several particulars 2. And to keep the Authority of your Meetings in the Power of God and Unity of his blessed Spirit whereby they were errected and settled and continue your Godly care and services therein for these good ends for which they were first instituted 3. And to keep out all Contention personal Reflections and Smitings out of your Meetings and keep down and out of all Heats and Passions and doubtful Disputations 4. Suffer no turbulent contentious quarrelsom Spirit or Person to be concerned among you in ordering your affairs that they may be all managed in the peaceable tender Spirit and Wisdom of Christ Jesus 5. Suffer no Divisions or Schisms or making parties among your selves one against another for that will greatly tend to weaken your Meetings and lose their power and to cause them and you to be slighted 6. Both our Mens and Womens Meetings and our Monthly and Quarterly Meetings and Yearly Meetings and Meetings for Sufferings were set up in the Wisdom Counsel and tender Love of God and in the same peaceable Wisdom to be kept and incouraged for all those good ends for which they were intended and appointed 7. All Differences happening in Personal or Temporal occasions to be speedily ended according to the Advice given in our last Yearly Epistle and if any doubtful point in Law be in the case then both parties may advise with some well knowing in the Law For if any lust to be con 〈…〉 we have no such Custom in the Churches of Christ 8. The Meeting for S●…gs is intrusted to take care of all Sufferings of Friends for Truth and Conscience sake as at first intended The six Friends of the City appointed and intrusted this Year with the Accounts are William Crouch John Staploe William Macket William Chandler William Beech and Nathaniel Marks The blessed Progress and Conclusion of the Meeting Our Souls also were very deeply affected with the refreshing Presence and Counsel of the Lord our God attending this our Yearly Meeting and the Amicable and Peaceable Management of the Affairs and the Blessed End and Closure thereof to the great Consolation and Satisfaction of Friends and honour of his Blessed Truth in which our Unity stands blessed be the God of all our Mercies forever It 's agreed that our Yearly Meeting be continued as hitherto if the Lord will being Adjourned till the next Year And that Friends of each County send two Faithful Friends to attend the Service thereof as formerly directed Signed in behalf of our said Meeting by Benjamin Bealing