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A40269 The state of the birth temporal & spiritual and the duty and state of a child, youth, young-men, aged-men, and fathers in the truth : also, shewing that children are the heritage of the Lord, and that he hath a glory in them / by George Fox. Fox, George, 1624-1691. 1683 (1683) Wing F1922; ESTC R28010 9,634 14

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and what makes them strong and to overcome the wicked One the Word of God abiding in them and therefore every Young man and all Young people are to love and obey and do the Word of God by which their Ways Words and Hearts and all may be kept clean for the Word of God is a Hammer and a Sword to hammer down and cut down the Devil and his works and a Fire to burn them up So it is the Word of Power the Word of Wisdom the Word of Reconciliation and the Word of Patience by which they overcome Now concerning Aged men or Fathers in the Truth John saith I have written unto you Fathers because you have known him that is from the beginning to wit Christ Jesus And John writes as a Father himself who saith That which was from the beginning which we have heard which we have seen with our Eyes which we have lookt upon and our hands have handled of the Word of Life for the L●fe was manifested and we have seen it and bear witness and show unto you that Eternal Life which was with the Father and was manifested unto us 1 John 1●1 2. So here you may see not only John in his Epistle but also John in his Evangelist declares Christ in the beginning and saith In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and God was the Word the same was in the beginning with God and all things were made by him and without him was not any thing made that was made and the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld his Glory the Glory as of the only begotten of the Father full of Grace and Truth John 1. Now here you may see how John writes as a Father that knew Christ in the beginning and he writes to the Fathers that knew Christ in the beginning So the Fathers knew him in the Glory that he had with the Father before the World began and that all things were made by Jesus Christ So they knew him as he was God the Word they knew Chrst as he was Man The Word was made Flesh c. they knew Christ in the Promises and in the Prophecyes they knew him in the Figures Types and Shadows made under the Law they knew him of whom he was to be conceived to wit the Virgin they knew him in his Birth Life Doctrine Preaching Miracles Sufferings Death Grave Resurrection and Ascension into the Glory with the Father and at his right hand yea the Glory which he had with the Father before the World began So the Fathers have known Mark have known Christ from the beginning 1 John 2.14 So here you may see the State of the Birth Temporal and Spiritual and the duty and State of Youth the duty and State of Young men and Young people and the State of Fathers in the Truth Kingston the 10th Moneth 1682. G. F. DAvid saith Lo Children are an Heritage of the Lord and the fruit of the Womb is his reward as Arrows are in the hands of a mighty man so are Children of Youth Happy is the man that hath his Quiver full of them they shall not be ashamed but they shall speak with the Enemy in the Gate Psal 127. Blessed is every one that feareth the Lord that walketh in his Ways for thou shalt eat the Labour of thine hands Happy shalt thou be and it shall be well with thee and thy Wife shall be as a fruitful Vine by the side of thine House thy Children like Olive Plants round about thy Table Behold that thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the Lord yea thou shalt see thy Childrens Children and the Lord shall bless thee out of Sion Psal 128. Now all you that do Murmur against people that have many Children and do complain and say That they do fill your Towns Cities and Countries with Children and many times you that do so complain have few or no Children and you are afraid that they should come to want and that then you must be fain to relieve their necessities And what then What you do give to the poor you lend to the Lord and he will repay it to you again if they cannot and this wanting mind is for want of Faith and of God who gives the increase of all and is Rich unto all that call upon him and the Lord would have you to take notice that Children are the Heritage of the Lord. And so what you do give to the breeding and nursing and relieving of Children you do it to the Heritage of the Lord and the Lord hath many adopted Sons that he hath taken to be his that have received the adoption of Sons Gal. 4. And what if you that have no Children should do so It was but a Cross to the grumbling or murmuring self which many times have no Children and are discontent with the poor that have many and do think much either to adopt them to your selves and are afraid that they will be chargeable to you namely the Children that are the Heritage of the Lord but the Lord that doth increase the Children which are his Heritage he will take care for his Heritage whether that murmuring complaining mind against Poor People of having so many Children you relieving them or no he will take care for his Heritage blessed be his Name forever Amen Sing unto God sing Praises to his Name exalt him that rideth upon the Heavens by his Name ●AH and rejoyce before him a Father of the Fatherless and a Judge of the Widdow God is in his holy habitation Psal 68. The Sayings of old which we have heard and known and our Fathers have told us we will not hide them from their Children shewing to the Generations to come the Praise of the Lord Psal 78. And David saith Let thy Work appear unto thy Servants and thy Glory unto their Children and let the beauty of the Lord be upon us c. Psal 90.16 See what heavenly Love he had to Children Gods Heritage so they are not of David's mind who think that they shall be undone by maintaining of poor Peoples Children which Children are Gods Heritage and David saith Ye are blessed of the Lord which made Heaven and Earth the Heavens even the Heavens are the Lords but the Earth he hath given to the Children of Men Psal 115.16 And the Lord saith to David If thy Children will keep my Covenant and my Testimony that I shall teach them their Children also shall sit upon thy Throne for evermore Psal 132.12 Praise the Lord O Jerusalem praise thy God O Sion for he hath Strengthened the Bars of thy Gates he hath blessed thy Children with thee These are they that keep in the Covenant and the Testimony that God doth give them that have his blessings And you may see the tenderness of Joseph to his Father and to his Children and to his Childrens Children in the days of the Famine when they were in Egypt Gen. 45.
The State of the Birth Temporal Spiritual AND THE Duty and State OF A Child Youth Young-Men Aged-Men and Fathers in the Truth Also shewing That Children are the Heritage of the Lord and that he hath a Glory in them By George Fox Children are the Heritage of the Lord and he hath a Glory in them and they are to be trained up in the fear of the Lord. That your Children may be blessed after you Prov. 20.7 And may be blessed with thee Psal 147.13 for blessed is every one that feareth the Lord Psal 128.1 LONDON Printed and Sold by Andrew Sowle at the Crooked-Billet in Holloway-Lane near Shoreditch 1683. The State of the Birth Temporal and Spiritual c. THe State and duty of a Child Youth and Young-men and the State of Aged-men and Fathers it is the Lord that doth bring to the birth David Saith My Substance was not hid from thee when I was made in secret c. Thine Eyes did see my Substance yes being unperfect and in thy book all my members were writen which in continuance were fashioned when as yet there were none of them for thou possessedst my reins when thou coveredst me in my Mothers Womb. Here you may see Gods infinite and All-seeing Eye Work and Providence the Darkness nor secrets hide not from God but the Night shineth to him as the day and the Darkness and the Light are alike to his All-seeing Eye who made both and therefore all are to Consider how God hath made them and fashioned them Psal 139. And the Lord saith in Isa 66. Shall I bring to the birth and not cause to bring forth saith the Lord Shall I cause to bring forth and shut the Womb saith my God So here you may see it is the Lord that fashions in the Womb and brings it forth both the Natural birth and the Spiritual birth and opens the womb and shuts the womb both the womb of the Morning and of Eternity and of the Natural And the Lord said to Jeremiah in the 1st chapter Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee and before thou camest out of the womb I sanctified thee c. And so here all may see and consider and know themselves to be the great Work of God that when God that forms and fashions you in the Womb and brings to a birth and hath brought you forth that you may chuse the Good and forsake the Evil that you may remember and consider that you are the Work of the Lord and remember your Creator and who hath fashioned you and formed you in the womb and hath brought you to a birth and hath brought you forth to Fear and Serve and Worship and Honour him that hath made thee and brought thee forth For as Solomon saith in Eccless 12. Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth whilst the Evil days come not or before the Evil days do come Now this is the duty of all Youth let them be Males or Females to remember their Creator and let him not go out of their memory so that they may be fitted to stand in the Evil dayes when they come for when they grow up to be young-men then the evil dayes will appear in which they may be tempted to Adultery Fornication Drunkenness Theft Murder Lying Consening Cheating Vnrighteousness Vngodlyness Lightness Wantonness Pleasures and other Evils by which they may forget their Creator by going into such Evils when they are tempted to such things the Evil days are come to try Youth for they that yield unto such Evils before-mentioned forget their Creator and forsake him for Solomon saith Train up a Child in the Way he should go and when he is Old he will not depart from it Prov. 22.6 Here is the duty of Parents and the duty of Children which is to be practised and followed Now here is the duty of Youth To remember his Creator in the days of his Youth before the Evil days come But what must we do when we come to be young men What is their means and duty David declareth in Psal 119.9 Wherewith shall a young man cleanse his ways By taking heed to thy word c. Thy Word I have hid in my Heart and do meditate on thy Word that I might not sin against thee So now for all Young men to take heed to the Word of God in their hearts and hide it in their hearts and to meditate upon it for the Word is called a Hammer and a Sword and a Fire to hammer down and cut down and burn up that which would defile them in their Ways Words and Hearts And the Apostle saith That the Word of Faith which he preacht was in their hearts and mouthes to obey it and to do it Rom. 10. And the engrafted Word was able to save their souls James saith And Peter saith That they were to feed upon the sincere Milk of the Word but they which are hearers of the Word and not doers of the Word deceive their own souls And Christ said to his Disciples Now ye are clean through the Word c. So this Word will keep the Ways and the Hearts of Young men clean the Word of God which is a Sanctifying Word a Reconciling Word and Christ told the Jews His Word had no place in them And again he told the unclean Jews Ye have not his Word to wit the Word of God abiding in you So these Jews made a great Profession of the Scriptures but had not the Word of God abiding in them John 5. then they were not like to be made clean by it And Christ said Sanctifie them through thy Word thy Word is Truth to wit his Disciples and Believers And again Christ saith I have given them thy Word and they have k●pt thy Word namely his Disciples to wit the Word of God John 17. Now here you may see the Disciples kept the Word of God which was the means to keep their Hearts Wayes and Words clean but the Jews Priests Scribes and Pharis●es that made a great outward Profession of the Scriptures whose ways were unclean and mouthes full of foul unclean words against Christ Christ told them That the word of God did not abide in them And therefore though they had the Scriptures and made an outward Profession of them like the Professors of our Age and others who go from the means the Word of God in their hearts to keep their Ways and Lips clean and to Sanctifie them Therefore they plead for a Body of Death to the ●rave and a Purgatory when they are dead who live in a profession of the Letter without the Word And John saith I have written unto you young men because you are Strong and the Word of God abideth in you and you have overcome the wicked one viz. the Devil by the Word of God which was before the Devil was So here you may see what is the means by which the Young mens ways are cleansed and sanctified