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A28165 An epistle of tender love to friends in Ireland by your faithful friend and brother in the truth William Bingley. Bingley, William, 1651-1715. 1692 (1692) Wing B2918; ESTC R30297 4,694 10

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Actions that you keep in Innocency and in the Simplicity of the Truth and therein walk Inoffensively before all with whom you have to do or amongst whom your lot may be cast and then whatsoever Sufferings come upon you they will be without occasion given on your parts and therein you will have true Peace and Satisfaction whatever your hardships or exercises may be And dear Friends see that you keep your Hearts and Minds in an Holy Submission and Resignation to the Will of God in all things being truly contented with and Patient under your Troubles following the Example of Job that good Man of Old who said when Surrounded and Surprized with sudden 〈◊〉 Evil Tidings The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away Blessed be the Name of the Lord. And as thus you are kept by the Mighty Power of God through Faith Rooted and Grounded in Christ our Lord not looking out at your Afflictions but fixed and setled in him who is the Munition of Rocks where your Bread is sure and your Water failes not nothing will be too hard for you because the Lord your strength is with you and is become your Rook and Salvation and your exceeding great reward Then if you should loose all your outward Enjoyments you know him that is able to make it up again yea and if you should suffer Death it self as to your outward Man you know him that is your Life and this is a Life that Death and Hell cannot touch nor all the Cruelties of the Wicked deprive you of and herein you are the Lords whether in Life or in Death and will have the Evidence of Gods Spirit bearing witness with your Spirits that you are his ●hildren and that you have faithfully served ●od in your Day Thus having the blessed Evidence of Well Done and peace from God in your selves it will make up all your Sufferings and Losses and will be a Portion and an Inheritance beyond all the Treasures and Pleasures of this Transitory and fadeing World And dear Friends as God hath been pleased to open the fountain of Divine Love to you So wait to feel more and more the same Love shed abroad in your Hearts to keep your Minds and Spirits in a right frame in this trying Day that you may be kept open to God and truly open in his Love one to another and thereby you may be a strength and a comfort one to another helping to build up one another in the most Holy Faith that notwithstanding all the stormy Winds that may blow and Floods that may beat against you to Scatter and wash you away you being founded upon Christ the Living Rock may endure and stand immovable as Gods building to his Glory and your everlasting Joy And now dear Friends Let your Lives and Conversations amongst all men be in Meekness Patience Temperance and Holiness that therein you may be Exemplary to all and instrumental in the Hand of God to turn the Children of men from the darkness and all their dark and evil Works and Wayes which alwayes procure Wrath and Judgment from God To the Light of Christ in themselves which will shew them the evil of their Wayes and as it is beleived in and closed with will bring to true Repentance and Remission of Sins and to an Inheritance incorruptable that fadeth not away And be careful and tender of Gods Honour and the Reputation of the Blessed Truth and Breath to God and Supplicate him for one anothers good and preservation every way in this day of Great Affliction which though the Lord may suffer you outwardly to partake of yet he will behold his afflicted ones who have no helper in the Earth with an Eye of Love and Compassion and will as it was prophetically said of old lay the Foundations with Stones of fair Coulours and will Beautifie with his own Beauty and make to shine forth in that Comliness which he doth and will put upon his own Heritage and Off-spring Oh! Friends since these late Calamities have attended you in that poor Nation you have been often in my Mind and the many times of Refreshments which we in the Presence of God have enjoyed together to our mutual Joy and been as a well watered Garden with the pleasent Showers which have dropt from above upon us and yet fall upon the truly begotten of God and made us to rejoyce together in the Lord and in the Power of his Might and fresh in my Remembrance at this time and therein are the reaches of my Life and Spirit to you My Friends and Brethren This is it that Unites and Bundles up together in one and makes Members of that Living Body of which Christ our Lord is Head as we are preserved in this Membership we cannot but mourn and suffer with you being in a Spiritual sence as Flesh of our Flesh and Bone of our Bone And now my dear Friends the earnest Cry and Breathing of my Soul are to the Lord that you and I and all Gods Heritage may be preserved in a living Sence of the Goodness and Presence of God to the End and that he may more and more break the Bread of Life unto you and the Waters of a full Cup may be daily administred unto you to strengthen your Souls that so you may have cause to say and that with Joy that though your Tribulations in this World do abound yet your Consolation and Peace in our Lord Jesus Christ doth much more abound and thus being preserved in a Divine sence will sweeten your Exercises and also sweeten your Spirits under them and Sanctifie every state to you and all things will work together for your Good and to the Glory of God who hath been your Strength and preserver through all your Afflictions and will be as your Eyes are kept to him So into the Hands of our God as in to the Hands of a Faithful Creator do I recommend you and leave you with all his Flock and Heritage every where who am Your Loving Friend and Brother in the Truth Bowed in Spirit to the Lord for your Preservation to the End Written in London the 2d of the first Month 1690 1. William Bingley THE END