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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84938	York, the 24th. and 25th. of the 4th. month, 1696	Yearly Meeting of Women Friends; Breckon, Margaret.; Winn, Katharine.	1696 (1696)	Wing F2242A; ESTC R177207	5,177	8

York the 24th and 25th of the 4th Month 1696 Dear Friends WEe being met together at this our Yearly Meeting to wait upon the Lord to feel his Ancient Power to fill our hearts and contrite our Spirits and comfort us together we have renewed cause to say he is the same God that ever he was yesterday to day and will be the same for ever unto all those that believe in him and put their trust in him And Dear Friends in the sence of the same Love wherewith we have been sweetly comforted together in this our Meeting We do salute you all and give you Account in this our County how things hath been with us for blessed be the name of our God he is with us in all our undertakings and causes his Work to prosper both here and elsewhere for we have had several Testimonies in Writing from the several Monthly Meetings of the care and diligence of our Women friends in their particular Meetings in things relating to Truths Prosperity And Gods living ●owerful Presence hath abundantly appeared in this our Meeting and many living Testimonies have been born amongst us blessed be the Name of the Lord for everand evermore And this short Epistle we have given forth for the encourageing of all and also to warn any whom it may concern to be faithful in this their Day And now DEar Friends we being under a weighty consideration of the tender dealings and many mercyes of the Lord and what he hath been to Us and done for Us in gathering Us out of the World yea out of Babylons confusion and by the Revealing of his Heavenly power hath made a little Remnant willing to bear testimony against the evil of this World its vain Customs foolish Fashions and Traditions for which Testimonye some have suffered great abuses for Testifiing against Observing Mass times Feast days or any other vain Past-times therefore let none professing the same truth think these things light or matters indifferent which others purchased at so dear a rate therefore see that truths Testimony be born up in every particular Meeting for by the same power hath many been made willing to lose the friendship of the World the favour of Relations and acquaintance for the denying of extravagent feastings in Marriages Births and Burials and though many of our Antient and Honourable Women be removed and gon to their rest yet some here is yet in being blest be the Lord who bear a true Record of the good effect this Testimony had amongst the sober Peo-ple of the Neighbour-hood where it was faithfully born up therefore let none professing the same truth vary from it but in the unity of the one Spirit see that all be done decently and in good Order to the honour of our God who is a God of Order and not of Consusion Here hath divers Testimonies been given from this Meeting wherein we have hinted at many things and particulared some as conserning Apparill we could be glad our Testimonies were generally Observed and the Judgment of truth submited to and these things put in practise in every particular Meeting for it is the doer that is accepted a few Lines may soon be writ and a Testimony soon delivered but the Work is weighty and requireth great Care and Diligence here is also a warning in our Hearts from the Lord unto you who are Mothers of Children that you be good examples in your Families in your Words Actions and Apparrell and in all other things both to your Servants and Children and keep a watchfull eye over them and take a narrow inspection into their ways and inclinations And Crush every appearance of Folly in them in the bud while they are young and little before they grow high and stuborn and still keep your Authority in the truth and rule over the unsubjected nature in them But if you lose your authority they will rule over you and then the just will be Opressed and they will act to truths dishonour their own ruin and you griefe therefore be ye warned to see to the discharge of your Duty in this behalf and do not connive at any Loose Wanton behaviour in them but restrain them Remember old Elys fall and consider the Daughters of Sion who walked with stretched out necks and wanton eyes and read Isaiah the third the Judgments threatned against them And surely the Lord is the same this day he hath no more favour for the Proud and Rebellious nor friendship with the workers of iniquitie though he hath been slow to wrath and of great mercy and long hovered over us waiting to be gracious yet he will arise as a Man of War and those that will not that he should Reign over them they are his Enemies he will slay them but well will it be with those that live in subjection to him and under his Government he will be tender over them as the Apple of his own Eye and preserve them in the hollow of his hand until his Indignation be over But be you warned you proud and wanton careless ones though Professors of truth who yet have your Coversations in the World and your Companions of the Spirit of it Many Warnings and Invitations you have had but now the Day comes on apace which long hath been threatned that will be as a consuming Fire wherein the Lord will avenge himselfe of his adversaries and all the Proud and all that work wickedness will be as Stubble for tho he will gather his Wheat into his Garner the Chaffe he will burn with unqueanchable fire And now you dear hearts who are young and tender springing from the true root who by the Heavenly Power have been made willing to deny your selves and take up your Cross daily and follow the leadings of truth tho through many trials and deep exercises you are the living branches of the true Vine which drinks in the Heavenly dew upon whom the pleasant showers fall O you are near and dear to us we are comforted in you you are our Joy in the Lord. Oh the flowing Streames of our Fathers Love which reaches from one to another which many waters cannot quench nor distance of Miles seperate for though absent in Body yet present in Spirit and can simpathyze together and be a comfort one to another Living Praise to our God for ever Now Friends here is many of our Antient and Honourable Women removed off the Stage of this World and gone to their rest yet their Memorial is comfortable to us and their travel is often before us and some of us but weakly and not likely here to continue long therefore we desire you may let no Place be empty but take your Orders and keep your Ranks and put on the Breastplate of righteousness the Helm●t of Salvation and take the Sword of the Spirit and make war in righteousness against the Uncircumcised Phyliftian Nature lye waste and untterly consume all Babilons trumpery cast our her goodly Garments and Wedge of