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A65830	An epistle for true love, unity, and order in the Church of Christ against the spirit of discord, disorder and confusion &c. : recommended to friends in truth chiefly for the sake of the weak and unstable minded for information and encouragement in our Christian unity and society, held in the spirit of Christ both in faith and practice / by two servants of the Church according to our measures, Anne Whitehead, Mary Elson.	Whitehead, Anne, 1624-1686.; Elson, Mary, 1623 or 4-1707.	1680 (1680)	Wing W1883; ESTC R234487	12,141	18

AN EPISTLE FOR True Love Vnity AND ORDER IN THE Church of Christ Against the Spirit of Discord Disorder and Confusion c. Recommended to Friends in Truth chiefly for the sake of the Weak and Unstable Minded for Information and Encouragement in our Christian Vnity and Society held in the Spirit of Christ both in Faith and Practice By Two Servants of the Church according to our Measures Anne Whitehead Mary Elson But God hath tempered the Body together that there should be No SCHISME in the Body but that the Members should have the SAME CARE one for another 1 Cor. 12. LONDON Printed and Sold by Andrew Sowle at the Crooked-Billet in Holloway-Lane near Shoreditch An EPISTLE for true Love Vnity and Order c. Dear Friends VVHom the Lord hath called out of the World's Ways and Manners and chosen to himself and found faithful according to the Proportion of Faith and Measure of his Grace received how to walk Oh! let us hold fast that which we have receive that none may take our Crown Oh! let us keep to our first Love let us do our first Works and be rightly zealous for the Lords Honour and so with a good Conscience towards God and in the sweet Spirit of Peace seeking good one towards another as good Examples and wholesome Paterns in our Practices Oh! let us keep our good Order in the Truth and Unity of the Spirit even as we received of Christ Jesus in the begining 1 Joh. 1.7 that we should walk in the Light as he is in the Light so shall we have fellowship one with another which Light is one in us all and the one only true and living Way leading to the Knowledge and living Obedience of the one true and living God that in his own living Spirit of Truth we might Worship him and in all wholsom Service hold forth his holy and reverend Name to be one in us all who are gathered into it serving the Lord with one Heart one Soul one Mind and one Consent And in the beginning of our Day you that were then born and brought forth in the Truth you know the Harmony of our Unity was our Beauty and Comliness yea our Strength and Compleatness so far as we obtained then and so 't is now blessed be the Lord can we with one Heart say who by his heavenly Power have been from the beginning kept upon his Everlasting Foundation of true Unity held in his Spirit which is the Bond of our Peace to this very Day and Time in which the Lord hath suffered Blindness in part to happen to some through their own Neglect of Watchfulness and declining their first Love by the Enemy's Subtilty prevailing who came out amongst us and had a part in the Belief and Discovery of the Way of Truth but now some only have the Sheeps cloathing and others have lost that too who through a prejudiced Mind are alienated from that Unity of Spirit bond of Peace in which we keep our wholesome practices which we have received in the Vnity Order of the Gospel of Peace Truth of Chri●● Jesus in the fellowship of the Spirit in Bowels of Mercy being like-minded and of one accord 2 Phil. 1.4 in whasoever things are True Just Honest and of good Report not that we should think of them only but be in the Practice of them as we are and feel the God of Peace with us therein 1 Cor. 1.6 10. who are confirmed in the Testimony of Christ Jesus the one Guide Way and Rule we are to walk after where all speak one thing that there be no Dissention amongst us but to be knit together in one Mind and in one Judgment this we have received of Christ Jesus our Lord King and only Law giver that we might walk so in subjection to his Rule and Government that all things might be done Decently and in Order for our God is the God of Order in all the Churches of his Saints and not the God of Confusion blessed be his Name but to our burden and grief we find among some a contrary Spirit that will not subject to Unity in wholesome Practices amongst us and that will needs interpose to destroy Unity in some places and obtrude it self to confound our wholesome Order and Practices received amongst us as a Church and People And through this contrary Spirit and prejudiced Mind the Accuser of the Brethren is broken out under a specious pretence crying out Liberty of Conscience Liberty of Conscience in opposition to those needful convenient and wholesome Practices exercised amongst us in outward things to which we are called as a People that are distinguished from the World 's dark Ways and Corrupt Manners in keeping our Consciences void of Offence towards God and Man in keeping both in the Power and Form of Godliness Now that the Simple may not be ensnared nor the Weak unstable minded deceived nor the Unwatchful at unawares overtaken through the crafty insinuations of this accusing opposing dividing Spirit that is at work in this our day to confound Order against the peaceable Government of Christ amongst his People therefore in Duty to the Lord and to clear my Conscience for the sake of those before-mentioned are these few Lines writ Wherefore in Humility of Soul as before the Lord I beseech you tender Ones in seriousness and fear towards God weigh the Matter This Dividing Accusing Prejudicial Worker would introduce a Belief That an Apostacy is entering and we are gone from the Beginning or first Principle and the Power lost and now Forms are setting up and Imposition on Consciences and the like And amongst whom is all this say they but amongst us who are in Vnity of Spirit both in Faith and Practices with sincere minds towards God are preserved in subjection peaceably in Unity and wholesome comely Order that speaks forth our God to be the God of Order and 't is amongst these and such that they imagine this Fearful Imposture and Arbitrary Rule imposing Prescriptions and Laws on the tender Consciences of the Weak is now gotten up to Exercise and so the Liberty of the tender Conscience is lost And you say They are entangled with a yoke of Bondage again who would divide the Heritage of God at this day Pray Friends let us in this consider whether these in this Blindness which God hath suffered through their Perjudiced Mind justly to hapen in them by which are they not putting Darkness for Light and Light for Darkness while they are striving in the stifness of their Wills to rule placing their own Wills for Conscience and would have a Liberty therein which Christ never set free to any that are in a Preverse Gain-saying Opsing Willful Spirit void of the Reason of Truth and the Fellowship that is in it and so are led by a Mis-guided Conscience for we never understood that Conscience to be rightly guided that was not renewed and regulated by the Light of

as the Foundation of Christ's Government and Kingdom that shall never have end Anne Whitehead A true Information of our blessed Womens Meeting for we are blessed and the Lord hath blessed us praised be that Everlasting Arm of Power that gathered us in the beginning to be a Meeting betwixt three or four and twenty Years ago THus it was after the Word of eternal Life and Salvation and Light of Christ Jesus in the Conscience had been preached in this City for some time many there were that received the Report and was Convinced of it many Poor as well as Rich and oft-times Sickness and Weakness came upon many Poor Ones and many Distressed and troubled in mind when the Judgment of the Lord were upon them and they would often-times desire the Servants of the Lord to come unto them such that had a Word in season to speak to them And our dear Friend George Fox that man of God for so he is the Lord has made him a Blessing in his Hand to many praised be the Lord forever he was many times sent for to many that were Sick and Weak in this City and when he came to behold their want of things needful for them some scarcely Clothes to cover them or food to eat or any one to look to them in their Distresses and Wants The consideration of it was weighty upon him and he was moved of the Lord to advise to a Womans Meeting and in order thereunto he sent for such Women as he knew in this City of which there are many living to this day that can testifie to the same who keep the Meeting in the Faith of that power that gathered us together Blessed be the Lord forever who makes willing and gives strength to answer his Requirings in all things And when dear G. Fox declared unto us what the Lord had made known unto him by his power That there should be a Womans Meeting that so all the Sick the Weak the Widdows and the Fatherless should be minded and looked after in there Distresses that so there should be no want amongst the Lords people but that all Distressed ones should be minded and looked after I can truly say we had an answer of God in our hearts to his Testimony and my Soul was refreshed at that time and my Heart tendred with many more of my Sisters in the sensible feeling of that everlasting Life and power of the Lord and his Universal Love that had moved in his dear Servant to call us to this Work and we joyned with him in the power of God in it and so we appointed a Meeting and after we had met for some time we considered which way we should answer the Necessities and it arose in the Hearts of some Friends That we should have a conveniency that so all the Faithful might offer as unto the Lord not knowing what one another offers that so from him they might expect their Reward and it was concluded upon accordingly by the Meeting And there were found among us some that were unworthy that we could not relieve out of that which was provided for the Faithful and yet they were such that frequented our publick Meetings and looked unto us for Charity and we could not send them empty away So we considered and had a Weekly Gathering for them that it might be fulfilled as it is written Do good unto all but especially to the Houshold of Faith. And after some time of our meeting together there came two of the Brethren from the Mens Meeting to us when we were met together expressing their Unity with us and also did declare the mind of the Mens Meeting viz. That they would be ready to help and assist us in any thing we should desire of them for Truth 's Service And so in some time it was agreed upon in the Unity of the Truth that the Men Friends should pay the poor Friends Rents and find them Coles such as we Relieve that were faithful and put out such poor Friends Children as we should offer to them And this has been done almost from the beginning of our Meeting to this Day besides many other Services that fall in by the way that cannot be omitted by us And thus the Work of the Lord has been carried on and prospered by the Arm of his everlasting power Magnified be his Name forever who has found us worthy and made us willing to answer whatsoever he requireth of us according to the measure received of him And this I do declare that it was the same everlasting quickning power that first visited us by the Spirit of Judgment and of Burning and wrought in our inward parts mightily even as the little Leaven in the three Measures of Meal to purifie and to cleanse purge out and put under all that was contrary to the Lord and to make us Habitations fit to do his Will that gathered us and made us a Meeting and the same has been with us to this very day blessed and magnified be his Name forever And I have a Word in my Heart to say unto yon all Back-sliders Obstructers Opposers and such as countenance them secretly of this our heavenly Order of Men and Womens Meetings which the Lord by his power has set up hath given Wisdom according to true Knowledge to act in the Church of Christ you that have despised Dignities and speak Evil of the servants of the Lord such that faithfully have laboured amongst us from the beginning which the Lord hath found worthy of double Honour giving some of them odd Names Alas poor people what will become of you except you Repent Consider and see whether some of you could not once have plucked out your Eyes to have done them good Oh what is the matter now Has not the Serpent deceived you and made you to eat of the forbidden Fruit and let in the Spirit of Enmity that sows Dissention and makes Division in the Heritage of God I do say the Lord's Controversie is with you and your End will be Miserable except you come to Repentance which my Soul hath often desired for you For I do well know and the Lord hath sealed it upon my Heart That that Spirit which hath opposed the blessed Unity and Order of Truth in these our Men and Womens Meetings shall never prosper nor they who are in it inwardly to God without Repentance although outwardly they may make never so great a shew with high Words and Notions But saith the opposing Spirit We are not against your Meetings in London but we have no such need in the Countries Doubtless Christ's Churches in the Countries are one and the same as in the Cities of which he is Head of his Churches there as in London and surely his Members have the same Office and Service in kind and quality although it may be not so much in quantity which is reasonable for the Impartial minded to consider And now my Dear Friends and Sisters in the