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truth_n	life_n	way_n	world_n	4,036	5	4.7603	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40006	Some seasonable considerations to the young men & women who in this day of tryal are made willing to offer up themselves, estates or liberty, and suffer reproaches, with other hard usages in the streets of this city, and elsewhere, to bear a testimony for the life, light and truth of Jesus Christ and to all who make a profession of the same, this in the tender love of God is written / by Mary Forster.	Forster, Mary, 1619?-1686.	1684 (1684)	Wing F1604; ESTC R10778	6,261	14

SOME Seasonable Considerations TO THE Young Men Women Who in This DAY of TRYAL Are made willing to offer up themselves Estates or Liberty and suffer Reproaches with other hard Usages in the Streets of this City and Else-where To bear a Testimony for the Life Light and Truth of Jesus Christ And to all who make a Profession of the same this in the tender Love of God is written By Mary Forster LONDON Printed and Sold by Andrew Sowle at the Crooked-Billet in Holloway-Lane Shoreditch 1684. Some seasonable Considerations to the Young Men and Women who in this Day of Tryal are made willing to offer up themselves Estates or Liberty to suffer Reproaches and other hard Usages in the Streets of this City and else-where to bear a Testimony for the Life Light and Truth of our Lord Jesus Christ c. FRiends Consider your Calling 't is High 't is Holy 't is out of the World its beggarly Rudiments its false Ways and Worships its Customs and Fashions with all the Abominations Prophanations Sports and Pastimes Into what even the glorious Liberty of the Sons of God to be made conformable unto Christ our Head to be in him Holy as he is Holy then to be Heirs with him joynt Heirs with Christ and to sit with him in the heavenly places O blessed Exchange unspeakable Love What manner of Persons ought we to be saith the honest Heart Oh! let none of us walk unworthy of such Mercy but keep a living sence thereof upon our hearts continually watching over our Thoughts Words and Works that we in all may glorifie the Lord our God who is worthy to be Loved Feared Reverenced and Obeyed from henceforth and forever The matter chiefly upon my Heart is this That as there is now a more publick Testimony born to Gods blessed Truth than when we had liberty to assemble our selves together in our Meeting-houses so now let our care be more to answer our Profession for we are as a Candle in a Candlestick not under a Bed or Bushel yea as a City set upon a Hill publickly taken notice of to be of that number of them who dare not omit the Assembling our selves together as the manner of some is but we must confess him before men who we know will not deny us before his heavenly Father we must bear our Testimony to the blessed Truth he hath made us Partakers of though in such Hazards Let this my dear Friends engage our Souls to all Circumspection in our Lives and Conversations that we give no occasion to the Enemy to blaspheme or speak Evil of that holy Profession we are called to hold forth in the midst of a perverse and crooked Generation amongst whom we ought to shine as Lights that men seeing our holy chaste Conversation coupled with fear may glorifie our Father to this surely every honest Heart cannot but say Amen Amen as saith my Soul Friends the Enemy of our Souls is busie both within and without yea the Devil still goes about as a roaring Lyon seeking which of us he can devour and he may suffer us to make a Profession even in the strictest manner whilst he endeavours to spoil us of our Possession he will not disturb us if he can but draw into looseness or lightness 't is possible you may speak the plain Language without interruption if you will but use it in foolish Talking and idle Jesting and although you do not appear in the Superfluities of this wanton Age in your Apparel but in plain Cloathing yet if you do suffer your Hearts to be in the Nicities Costliness and Curiosities and let them be as like the World as may be Lace only excepted if you can but escape the Reproofs of them who abstain from every appearance of Evil and hate the Garments spotted with the flesh then the Soul's Enemy will indulge you therein and you may for a time possibly in this day of Tryal come frequently to Meetings stand in the Streets bear the Gain-saying of Scoffers and the haling before Magistrates but if any of you indulge a loose careless Spirit such make void their Suffering invalidate their Testimony and fall short of the Reward and Comfort of the Vpright and so will not hold out to the end This I write not to accuse any particular but do beseech all to stand upon their Watch that they suffer not this Spirit to prevail in them or if it have any place in any that makes a Profession of Gods pure holy Truth to give no rest to their Eyes nor slumber to their Eye-lids till they are turned to the Light of Christ Jesus in their Consciences and listen to its Reproofs which now as heretofore bears a faithful Witness against every evil Word and Work and as it is heard believed in and obeyed will give strength to overcome all and every thing that is of that Nature Oh my Friends press forward in the holy Warfare for of a truth Victory may be obtained if you run well and continue to the end you shall have a Crown of Glory Friends Let me expostulate the matter a little with you I know there is many that when the Enemy of mans Soul comes to tempt to any gross Sins can have no entrance their Souls abhor this or the other Abomination so as to gross Enormities he may come and have nought in Thousands but the great danger lies here in little things and they think their Souls may live in this little Zoar if they escape the Sins of Sodom and such like But here 's a Snare here 's a Rock that many are split on taking liberty in little matters in Decency till Pride sits in the Chair in excessive Merriment which some call Cheerfulness till it come to such vain and immoderate Laughter as the wise men call Madness appears in their Conversations They must not be too demunitive some will shy they must be friendly to all free to discourse with any and this may be good in its place but for want of taking up the daily Cross and not being upon the Watch they become one with the idle Talker and foolish Jester and so in many other cases As We may be Angry and sin not which is true but letting themselves loose here the Enemy takes an Advantage and in the Night sows his evil Seed and the wrathful hasty spirit gets up grows strong till that which is tender meek and lowly in themselves and others they converse with is grieved and groans under the Oppression And from this Spirit there 's no deliverance till they come again to learn of him that 's meek and lowly as they did at their first Convincement when after great and sore Travels they did find rest unto their souls in him that was meek and lowly And it s at these Breaches the Enemy being entred the more grosser and grievous sins enter and so even the old Iniquity is revived and the sin that so easily besets gets up again and by giving