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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36074	An epistle to be communicated to Friends & to be read in the fear of the Lord in their men and womens meetings, and other meetings, only among Friends as they in the wisdom of God shall see meet and serviceable	Niesen, Geertruyd Deriks.	1677 (1677)	Wing D1558; ESTC R6660	5,177	10

perhaps dye if it should be corrected to the breaking of its stout and stubborn Will and what is this but Unbelief and Self-love in such Parents but when Parents receive possess their Children in the Faith then the Light rules in the Parents and that gives daily wisdom to rule the Children in God's wisdom but when fleshly affection rules what miserable disorder doth it bring forth even amongst them that profess truth and many times their children grow worse then many in the world and that which is most to be lamented it happens sometimes that the Parents have not quit themselves as they ought nor fully clear'd themselves of their Blood so that there lies a Guilt upon the Parents and an Offence and stumbling in the minds of the Children when they come to years and to see how their Parents Care was not over them as it ought to have been Oh that none among us might be found guilty in this matter but that every Friend would be diligent to keep a Good Conscience in the sight of God that our Children may have a blessed Remembrance of us when we come to be taken from them and they come to be in our state and condition and that the Remembrance of our dealing with them may be as a good Pattern to them and so from Generation to Generation to the Honour and Glory of him who first called us and to the edifying of them in the Faith and to our Joy and everlasting Comfort Amen The second thing that lies as a weight upon me and have done for several Years is concerning the manner of Trading that is practised by several professing the pure Principle of Truth both Merchants and Shop-keepers and other Trades-men who take too much Liberty in getting and borowing Money ●f others to inlarge their Trading in the World b●yond what Truth allows When I first felt the weight of this matter upon me I presently examined my own Affairs and took such a course as to prevent all peril of any Body suffering by me however things might happen and the same course did our Brethren take who lived in those parts they feeling the weight of the matter upon them as well as I so that we came to sit every one as under our own Fig-tree being satisfied that if we came to suffer loss in our outward things whether for our Testimony or by War or by Sea we should lose but our own But many I find to be otherwise minded who out of a greedy though uncertain Hope of Profit gets that which is other Mens into their Hands and when they see things goes not according to their Expectations but that Losses and Crosses happens in their Trading are not so faithful and open hearted to let their Creditors know thereof but rather goes on setting themselves at Ease and takes a large Liberty in their House-keeping and Expences as if all that is under their Hands were their own and this lasts a while until not only their own but other mens Estates are spent also and all the while under a shew of Profession although all uprightness and fear of God and regard to make a righteous Account with men be lost these are a stink among men and a shame to their Profession And this Evil increaseth daily in some parts of this Nation where many young Ones brought up among us and hath little to begin withal upon the Reputation of Truth dares to adventure upon and get Credits and set themselves in a high posture of Trading House-keeping and Expences And some that are Ancient Professors of Truth and should watch over them and Counsel and Bridle them with the Bridle of Truth and Righteousness in the Power and Wisdom of God they are so incumbred with great Dealings and great Debts and Credits and Adventures both of what is their own and other mens that they are not without Peril and Danger of falling short at one time or other if loss at Sea or spoiling of Goods for their Testimony should happen to themselves in the mean time that Godly care and jealousie is not taken by such over the younger sort as it ought to be but some runs on without fear of God or upright Communication of their State and Condition unto sound and faithful weighty Friends and especially to such whom they have made to be concerned in their Concerns as they ought to do from time to time that it might stand in their choice whether they would be longer concerned with them or not which is but a righteous and just thing that every Creditor ought to keep not only the Propriety but the Command of what is his own to ask it and receive it when he sees cause and not to be beguiled by great shews as if the Debtor were in a good Condition as to his outward Estate when indeed it s very bad But such do like this World first seek the Kingdom of this World under a Profession of Truth But if the Kingdom of Heaven were first sought as it ought to be then every one would sink down in the fear of God to feel him leading them and ordering their Trading and Merchandize in sujection to his Will Jam. 4.13 14 15. Go to now ye that say to day or to morrow We will go into such a City and continue there a Year and buy and sell and get Gain whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow For what is your Life it is even a Vapour that appeareth for a little time and then vanisheth away For that ye ought to say If the the Lord will we shall live and do this or that And not to go on in their own Wills adventuring the Estates of others without their knowledge or consent when they themselves knows well enough that if the Adventures fail their Security must fail also Oh! how many Widdows and Orphans Old and Weak are there oppressed and wronged by these things Doth not such think and believe that the Want Poverty and Cry of these will bring down Vengeance from the Righteous God or think they not that God will visit for these things for his pretious Truth and Names-sake and for the Cry of the Opressed yea assuredly he will plead their Cause and will disburthen and clear his Truth and People of them their unrighteous Deeds together Is it not our duty both Old and Young to set our Affairs in such a posture as that we may be out of danger that any Body should suffer by us while we in the mean time only aim at our own profit advantage Oh let the Truth here be judge and then I know the Elder Friends will labour to quit themselves in this matter and so have power to put a stop and bridle to such young Ones as takes this course or else the peril and reproach of both will lie at their Door in a great measure Oh! that a holy Zeal may increase in many Hearts for the removing of this great Evil and let go the eager desire of great profit and every one to be content with his own and serve the Lord and his Truth therewith according to his Ability and if he please he will increase it And take care of the younger sort and become good Examples to them in this matter that the stink of offences in this kind may be stopped and the Truth of God may prosper and flowrish more and more Amen Colchester the 29th of the 9th Mon. 1677. Geertruyd Deril●●iesen

An Epistle to be Communicated to Friends to be read in the Fear of the Lord in their Men and Womens Meetings and other Meetings only among Friends as they in the Wisdom of God shall see meet and serviceable FRIENDS WHereas it hath pleased the Lord in the unspeakable Riches of his Mercy to visit a Remnant in his Love and to meet with us in a Way where we expected him not when we were wandring from Mountain to Hill and chusing our own Ways seeking the Living amongst the Dead yea when we had long thus wearied our selves and almost dispaired of finding what we sought but were saying in our selves Who shall ascend up or descend down for us to bring that to us without which our immortal Souls can find no Rest Even in that time is the Lord appeared not as a God afar off but a God near even in our Hearts is he appeared through the Light of his Son and thereby open'd he our Hearts and Understandings according to his divine Wisdom who knew every ones State and every ones Necessity and he became as a Pillar of a Cloud by Day and as a Pillar of Fire by Night unto all such as imbraced and received his Appearance and followed him faithfully yea he became as a wall of fire round about them who did wholely put their trust in him And thus hath he gathered us to be a people who were once as scattered Sheep that knew not the true Shepherd and hath made us as Firstlings upon his holy Mountain that we might be as Lights and Leaders to the next Generations and many are so in the Sight of the Lord and his Anointed and are so felt and known among his People And seeing we are called to be as Firstlings and Examples to the Generations that are coming after us it is highly needful that we watch diligently in the Fear and Wisdom of God that nothing may be nor remain among us as an Old Leaven to grieve and burden the Redeemed nor to be an Occasion of Evil Example to the Young Ones that are coming up after us And considering that it is every ones Duty to be faithful in their Measures and not to put that under a Bushel which is manifested from the Lord but to bring it forth in the true Love of God and Faithfulness to each other to the edifying and building up and to the Amendment and Admonition of those concerned and that all Causes of Stumbling might be removed and that we might not leave a Hoof in Egypt but might all follow the Lamb as the Redeemed of the Lord together and being Washed Sanctified and Born again might come to sing the New Song with the New Name in our Foreheads and Hallelujahs in our Mouths Amen Amen For these good Ends it is in my heart to signifie these two things that at the present are principally upon me which I have born a weight concerning for several years and did hope that some elder and fitter might feel the like Weight and bring forth a Testimony concerning the same whereupon I have forborn as long as well I durst but now finding that I am not cleared of the Matter but that in a fresh living Sense it is renewed in me I dare not longer forbear to write the things that are upon my Spirit in these two Particulars and recommend the same unto God's Witness in all Consciences The first thing that lies before me is concerning the bringing up of our Children which is a very weighty Concern and every one that hath the bringing up of Children will have very much to answer for if they do not quit themselves as before the Lord in all Diligence and Faithfulness they are God's Creatures and given to Parents as a Gift from him upon whom they are to improve their utmost Diligence that they may grow up in the Fear of God and that Parents should not over-look things in their Children through fond Affection which they know by the Light of Jesus to be evil and bad neither speak to them in a slender Reproof as Eli did to his Sons but from their youth upwards to set before their Eyes the Weight Danger of their Iniquity and that in a Holy Zeal as for the Lord and in a deep sense of his holy Power seeking in their young years to reach the Witness of God in them and above all things to be a Good Example to them in all things or else we break down in them that which we seek to build up for how can we build them up in the Faith except we so stand in the Faith as to obtain the Victory in our selves and how can we bring their Minds to the Light of Jesus except we walk in it Neither ought any one to be bitter to their Children nor to require more of them then we know they are of Ability to perform and when they fall short of their Duty not to Correct them in our own Wills nor in a Wrathful Angry Mind for that Mind is it self for Correction but on the contrary to help them with the Rod of a gentle Chastizement in the Fear of God to bow their own stubborn Wills and so comes the Witness in them to be reached and they grow sensible in themselves that the Rod hath been a Help to them and come to feel a Love and Unity with them that have so helped them while their Minds are kept to the Truth And seeing we are as a City set upon a Hill and as Fore-runners and Leaders to the next Generations where and in what should the Pattern of our Godly Lives more appear and shine forth then to the Innocent Children of our own Birth and Generation which are committed to us as a particular Charge and Ministry from their time of greatest Innocency upwards to whom we are bound by the Band of Nature and by the Ordinance of God to take Care over and to bring up in his pure Fear in all Wisdom Discretion and Watchfulness that we may be a good Savour in them and to them whether it be unto Life if they be Obedient or unto Condemnation if they become Rebellious But alas with a great grief of spirit I write it here is a great want and shortness in many professing Truth I speak not of all for first they receive not their Children as from the Lord in the Faith as his Gift neither do they offer them up again to him in their hearts as being his but seeing their own Likeness brought forth imbrace it as their own and nourish it up in the self-love and their lives being bound up in the children every Appearance of sickness or death is as a death to the Parents and accordingly if the Child grow up till its perverse and crooked Will begins to appear then is the Father and for the most part most of all the Mother afraid to give it due Correction fearing lest the Child should be grieved and vexed and perhaps grow sick yea