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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56011	A general epistle to all the called and chosen of God with all such as make a profession of the blessed truth as it is in Jesus every where : wherein is comfort to the feeble-minded, support to the weak, and reproof to the unruly and disorderly walkers : with several who[l]som exhortations and admonitions, according to the conditions, states & growths of such as profess the truth of God, for the rooting out of that which is bad, and the stirring up of the pure mind in all, that God may be glorified over all / written in the movings of the spirit of life and love from God in me, who am resolved by the power of his might, with you that abide faithful, to follow the Lord fully, James Parke.	Parke, James, 1636-1696.	1676 (1676)	Wing P369; ESTC R40058	15,597	29

A General Epistle TO ALL THE CALLED AND Chosen of God With all such as make a Profession of the Blessed Truth as it is in Jesus every where Wherein is Comfort to the Feeble-minded Support to the Weak and Reproof to the Unruly and Disorderly WALKERS With several wholsom Exhortations and Admonitions according to the Conditions States Growth of such as profess the Truth of God for the rooting out of that which is Bad and the stirring up of the pure Mind in all that God may be glorified over all Written in the Movings of the Spirit of Life and Love from God in me who am resolved by the Power of his Might to you that abide faithful to follow the Lord fully JAMES PARKE Printed in the Year 1676. A GENERAL EPISTLE TO ALL THE Called Chosen of God Dear Friends Brethren and Sisters WHO are made Partakers of the Love Life and Power of God by turning to and believing in the Glorious Light of Christ Jesus the Only Begotten of the Father full of Grace and Truth My Dear and Stedfast Love is to you all I am daily more and more effected with the Power of God manifested in you and the living Operation of it as it blessedly appears to turn every one of you from the Evil of your Wayes to God and his Glorious Living and Standing Way which blasts and stains and yet will more and more blast and stain all other Wayes and the seeming Glory of them that are dead and keep people in Death and from the Path of Life which leads to Life and preserves in the pure Life of Jesus the Son of God and brings out of the Unstableness Error Going Astray to have the Heart fixed upon the Lord God and to love and live in the Immortal Truth of God which was before Error Falshood Going Astray was You that are come to know this blessed Way of Truth O love it love it for evermore see that you err not by wandring or straying from it or turning aside into any By-path and so lose your first Love and fall from your first Stedfastness for the Way of Truth is a stedfast standing Way over all the false wayes who ever wander or perish from it it stands and remains the same forever and is the Path of the Just that shines and shall shine more and more unto the perfect Day over all the wayes of the Wicked and paths of the Unjust and all the envious Persecutors that tear after their Prey hurting and destroying one another in the false unprofitable Ways barren Mountains where long they have wandered from Christ Jesus the Way the Truth and the Life and so are alwayes kept from God and the Knowledge of his everlasting Way But Glory to God forever Dear Friends the Only True God you know and Christ Jesus whom he hath sent to lead to himself and to lead out of the World its Wayes Fashions Customs and the Wickedness that the World lieth in So look not back again in the least Degree to Egypt's Wayes the vain and unprofitable Wayes Words Manners Fashions Customs or Traditions of the Heathen that know not God but lie in their Wickedness adding Sin to Sin bringing up one Vain Way Fashion Custom and Tradition after another which pleaseth and taketh up the vain loose Mind that loves to be at ease in the Flesh and lives above the Cross of Christ such love best the broad way wherein though they have a little Ease for a few dayes but if they Repent not they will assuredly meet with Death and Destruction everlastingly as a Reward due to them for loving and walking in the broad way of Sin and hating and despising the Way of Life Therefore keep out of the World's wayes keep out of the way of the Ungodly which leads from keeping in the daily Cross into the lusts of the world fashions of the world words of the world the lusts of the flesh and pride of life these things you know are not of God our Father but they are of the world and kept up in the love and by the spirit of the world and the world passeth away its spirit is seen by you as you keep in the Light of Christ Jesus you are kept out of the world's spirit that lusts to Envy and after evil things This spirit keeps people walking after their ungodly Lusts one lusting after one Evil and another after another Evil Thing And by this spirit how is Sin committed with Greediness and Men and Womens Reins let loose to act all manner of Wickedness and to run into every Evil they lust after so that many seem without Bridle to stay them from any sensual Desire that by the spirit of the world ariseth in them Therefore Dear Friends you Children of God and of his Day be wise and sober alwayes having God's Fear before your Eyes Let none of you in the least adhere to the spirit of the world that draws back into the world and love of the things of the world again for such will have an Eye out towards worldly Delights Pleasures and be taken up therewith then the sweet savoury words are lost so the sense of Life is lost also the Pleasures that such have had in the Truth they lose the lively sense of then is the Enemy let in as a Flood and the Spirit of God not felt to lift up a Standard against him so the Soul's Enemy prevails greatly against such to the losing of their first Love and Stedfastness they had to God and his Truth and People and when the first Love to God is left there is a Loss of Stedfastness in the Truth of God and the Work of the Day not well minded but the Mind after the World and the things thereof and that besets and clogs and so lieth so heavy upon the Conscience that it darkens hardens and if not laid aside in due time sears the Conscience that hath been good and tender Now them who are in that State can take up that which they once did lay down for Truth 's sake and in Obedience to its Requirings building again the things they destroyed and matter not whether they keep to the true Language or not but will speak it to faithful Friends and not to others and so use their Liberty as may be they call it as an Occasion to the Flesh in Corrupt Words and False Language contrary to Thee and Thou to a Particular which was the Language of all the Holy Men of God mentioned in the Scriptures and You to more then one or many but some can take up an Ease in speaking You to one but its fleshly and not spiritual it is of the Earth and is earthly and renders them to be at Ease in Sion and this is written in the Love of God That every one professing the Truth of God that have used such a Liberty may deny themselves of it and take up a daily Cross to it that so that Liberty

may be seen to be Bondage to the god spirit of this world whereby the Unfaithful to the Truth of God are vailed and so keep not clear nor pure their Consciences towards God or men as to the Language of Truth and Faithfulness therein Certainly God's holy Spirit is grieved especially with those who have been long convinced of the pure Truth of God and yet give such way to the Enemy's Temptations as that thereby they are kept out of the Language of Truth so not being faithful in a little or the lesser things that God hath by his Spirit led his People into blessed them in how can such expect to be Rulers over much or see much of the Glory of God that he hath revealed in these latter dayes And Dear Brethren and Sisters seeing you are called with a holy Calling unto Liberty let none use it as an Occasion to the Flesh let not the Liberty you use be fleshly but spiritual then none will take liberty in Words or Actions contrary to the Truth and the Spirit that led you into it nor none will be Heady or High-minded for that is out of Truth and the Spirit of it and goes before a Fall and they are not near in Relation to God nor like unto Christ Jesus that are High-minded neither do they feel the Lord to dwell in them and with them although they may have Tastes of his Goodness and be sensible of his Power at some times Now it is the Heady and High-minded that will not submit to the Spirit 's Rule Order and Government in the Heart and so would set up something of Flesh something of Man and rob the Spirit and Power of God of what belongs thereunto and so all the bad Rule and Disorder in Government got up and is kept up in the World Flesh would rule and have the Preeminence inwardly and outwardly and who are High-minded they love to have the Preeminence they love Lordship and Superiority above their Fellow Servants and will smite them that are of lower degree whom they ought to cherish and condescend unto Now saith the Apostle I would have no man to think of himself otherwayes then what is meet but every one to think lowly of himself to abase and humble himself as did our Lord and Master-Christ Jesus A lively Pattern for all to look at to be so minded and to follow his Steps in his Humiliation and enduring the Cross patiently despising all the Shame and Reproach he met with whilst in a visible Body of Flesh in the world Friends he hath left us an Example that we all might follow his steps and mark his steps that never stept into any Evil nor was Guile found in his Mouth there will be no Headiness then there will be no giving way to the Lusts of the world the lusts of the Flesh nor the Pride of Life but all that with the Light Spirit of Grace will be seen and judg'd to be out of the Steps of Christ that we are required to follow so the things come to be pursued and followed which make for Peace in the particular and in the general so all high Thoughts and Vain Conceits will be judged down and shut out with the Power of the Living God and all Excess and Unnecessary Things used by any that profess the Truth either in Meats Drinks or Apparel will be denyed and come out of and there will be no fashioning themselves like the World nor getting into their Fantastick Garbs and foolish vain Fashions as they are brought in but all will be kept to modest and plain Attire such as becomes the Truth of God and was in times p●st for some are greatly to be blamed who make a Profession of Truth who let their Eye after every Fashion almost as soon as it appears Women appearing in Attire immodest and unbecoming the plain Truth of our God both in City and Country and I write this that they may be asham'd that are guilty in this matter without any Reflection upon them that are clear and innocent as I know a Remnant are both in City and Country Glory to the Lord God forever who hath made his Power known and subjected the Minds of a Remnant so to it that their Communication and Conversation is honest before God and amongst men and is as becomes the Gospel and as those that follow the Steps of Christ Jesus who dwell in the Power of God You are the Lord's Jewels my dear Friends and Brethren O you are the purified It 's you that are made Holy Vessels fit for God and his Heavenly Treasure and that retain the Heavenly Treasure in your Earthen Vessels it 's you that come to walk with God in white for you are worthy when some walk after their Ungodly Lusts and after the Course of the World whose God is their Belly who glory in their Shame and mind Earthly Things Therefore as any Root of Pride High mindedness Self conceits or Bitterness would spring up in any let the Ax be laid to it or whatever Evil Root thou mayst find yet standing in thee or which would again spring up in thee dally not with it give it up to the Sword and spare it not and so seel the Wicked bowed before the Just in thy own particular not only the wicked Branches of the evil Tree but the Root also then will thy cumbering Thoughts be gone then thou wilt not be overcome with Surfeiting Drunkenness or Cares of this World but wilt be sensible aware of the Day of the Lord and wilt do the Works of the Day and not of the Night or Darkness as the Apostle saith Ye are not in Darkness as others that that Day would overtake you at unawares for you are all the Children of Light and of the Day and how unbecoming is it for such to be overtaken with a VVork of Darkness or to walk in Darkness for none are overtaken in VVorks of Darkness but by walking in Darkness and being subject to the dark Power of the Prince of Darkness then Pride is not seen to be Pride but called Decency Civility good Breeding and good Manners then Passion is not seen to be Passion but accounted Fervency of Zeal to God and Darkness thus covering and overpowering the Creature such can keep evil Company more then doth them good yet say they cannot avoid it my Business Affairs and Interest lies in keeping all Sorts of Company and if I do not my Imployment and outward Calling is at Stake O you that know the Power of the Lord every where be subject to that let that good Power rule in you to the over powering and throwing down the Power of the man of Sin then by no enticement of any man high or low which thou mayst have Occasion with in Dealing or otherwise wilt thou be drawn into that that offends God or hurts thy own Soul Hadst thou not better come to hurt or loss in thy Trade or outward Business then to