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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B10121	A testimony and wholesome advice concerning marriage.	Seaton, Alexander.; Edmundson, William, 1627-1712.; Bingley, William, 1651-1715. Epistle of love and tender advice, to friends and brethren in America, or elsewhere.; Whitehead, Anne, 1624-1686. Epistle for true love, unity, and order in the Church of Christ.; Elson, Mary, 1623 or 4-1707. Epistle for true love, unity, and order in the Church of Christ	1680 (1680)	Wing T807A; ESTC R221301	6,513	15

in this Case and cannot but grieve when their Children joyn in Marriage with such as are before mentioned and give away their believing Parents part that they have in them to the World which makes Confusion and grieves God's good Spirit and smites their Parents with Grief and such as smote Father and Mother in the time of the Law were to die Exod. 21. 15. for Parents have a great Power and part in their Children as in Numb 30. 3 4 5. If a Daughter in her Fathers House unmarried make a Vow or Promise her Father hath power to break it or establish it and you may see 1 Sam. 2. 3. chap. old Eli did not use his Power to restrain his two Sons from their Wickedness for which the Lord cut off the Arm of Eli cut off his Family from the Priesthood and Believers are a Royal Priesthood to offer to God spiritual Sacrifices So they are to use their utmost Endeavours to restrain their Children from running into the World which lies in Wickedness or into their Fashions or Familiarity which often doth great hurt as Jacob's Daughter in visiting the Daughters of the Land of Canaan was defiled So Friends are to be careful to watch over their Children for their preservation from those things which Youth is prone to fall into to their great hurt for we were but a few at the first when God called and chose us to be his People and now there is a young Generation sprung up of young Men and Women many of them sprung from the Loins of true Believers and many of them runs into the Pride and Fashions of the World and take Wives and Husbands of the World and go to the Teachers of the World to be married and so go from Gods Ordinance and Gods Joining And men of the World see that Friends are a thriving People in their outward Substance which makes them seek after Friends Children to marry with them And some Friends when their Rebellious Children have so done through Indulgence and Affection to their Children more than the publick good have given them Portions And this encourageth the World to seek Friends Children in Marriage and encourageth wanton Children to consent to them by which means a breach is made upon our Youth to the wounding and grieving the Spirits of the Faithful that are Abrahams Children and are of the same mind with Isaac and Rebekah and cannot give their Children in marriage to other People upon any account But are willing to give their Children the same liberty as the Elders of Israel did to the Daughters of Zelophehad who might marry to whom they pleased in their own Tribe So Friends must use their godly endeavours according to the utmost of their Power to stop the gap of such proceedings that their Arm be not cut off as old Eli's was And you may see before the Flood when the Sons of God married with the Daughters of Men how it grieved God And is it not all one when Friends marry with other People and some Friends Children are surprized and hurt and spoiled their Parents allowing them to go into the Finery and Fashions of the World and to visit and company with proud People as Jacob's Daughter did with the Daughters of Canaan by which opportunity she was ensnared So Friends are to prevent such things to the utmost of their Power and stop the breach that is made upon us by these things that you may inherit Phinehas's Portion an everlasting Priesthood in Christ our High-Priest and the Covenant of Peace in Christ Jesus in whom there is Peace which is the desire of your true Friend W. E. The aforegoing Paper was read in the Men and Womens Meetings being assembled together in a weighty Sence of Truth and Friends having good Vnity with it have added thereto the following Testimony Dear Friends every where in this Nation and elsewhere WE being met together in the Name and Fear of the Lord and his Presence and Power being with us it was represented by several Friends and that under a weight and burden of Spirit that of late great hurt hath happened among Friends through several young People going to the Priest to be married and taking Husbands and Wives among the World which hath been sometimes occasioned through too much Indulgence of Parents towards their Children and sometimes through the stubbornness of Children towards their Parents and not hearkning to their Counsel Now Friends the Lord having established it as a Principle that those that profess his everlasting Truth should neither go to a Priest to be married nor take Husbands or Wives from among the World that are not of us it fell weighty upon Friends to consider of some way according to the Truth as much as in them lay to endeavour to prevent such Practices for the future And in order thereunto after a serious debate and several weighty Testimonies in that case both of Men and Women Friends concluded on the following Advise and Counsel desiring that Friends in their respective places and stations will in diligence put it in practice First That all Parents both Men and Women take care to educate their Children in the awe and fear of the Lord according to the Principles of the blessed Truth taking care to restrain them from such Company and Acquaintance that may allure them from the way of Truth into the Vanity of the World and likewise to restrain them in any other things that may have a tendency to draw their Minds from the fear of the Lord and from the sence of his blessed Truth That so through the sence of the Truth in themselves it may so ballance their natural Affections that they may rightly see the states and conditions of their Children as to give that wholsome Advice and Counsel that may answer the Witness of God in them Secondly If any Friends do perceive that their Children are under such a Temptation as to go to a Priest to be married or to take one of the World to Husband or Wife if they will not hear that counsel and advice which in the fear of the Lord they give them then let them inform Friends that they may deal with them in the order of the Gospel that so if possible they may be preserved out of the snare or the greater weight of Judgment may be laid on them by their Parents in particular and Friends in general Thirdly If notwithstanding the advice and counsel of Parents and Friends any young People do fall into the aforementioned evils we desire and advise all Parents to keep very strictly to the principle of Truth in themselves in their conduct towards their Children which we believe will restrain them from passing by that act of great Disobedience unto themselves in particular and the Lord and his Truth in general until such time that Friends through their true Repentance receive them into Vnity again And further we believe that it will best answer the Truth for ●arents to

withhold giving such disobedient Children any outward Portion until such time they be reconciled to Truth and Friends as aforesaid for the withholding that may be instrumental to cause them to enter into a consideration of their Disobedience to the Lord and their Parents from whence true Repentance may spring and not only so but it may be an occasion to prevent others from falling into the same Snare and may put a stop to some of the World in seeking after our Children on that account Fourthly We do desire that Friends in every place will have such a watchful Eye over one another in the fear of the Lord that if they see any Parents negligent in their duty by too much indulging their Children in those things that Truth doth not allow that they admonish them of it in the Love of God and Sence of Truth that so things may be kept well amongst us Fifthly As in the weighty Sence of the blessed Truth we have given our advice and counsel in this particular So in the same Sence we advise and counsel Friends in the general that in all things they walk as becomes the Gospel taking heed that in no respect they give way to any liberty which the Truth doth not allow of for that is so far from the true Christian liberty that it hath a tendency to imbondage the Soul again as the Apostle said Hold fast the Liberty wherewith Christ hath made you Free and be no more entangled with the Yoak of Bondage And as the Lord hath set Limits and Bounds in his Truth our preservation doth consist in keeping within the bounds of it in which we may expect the Blessings and Mercies of the Lord to rest upon us and to be multiplied unto us and our Children to the Praise of his Name for ever Given forth at the National Men and Womens Meetings Assembled together in Dublin the 10th day of the Third Month 1680. Signed in behalf of the said Meetings By Alexander Se●● THE END 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 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 in their own Wills adventuring the Estates of others without their knowledge or cons●nt ●hen they themselves knows well enough 〈◊〉 if th●● Adventures fail their Security must fail 〈…〉 how many Widdows and Orphans Old and 〈◊〉 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 Vengean●● 〈…〉 the Righteous God or think they not that God will vis●●●or these things for his pretious Truth and Names ●●ke 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 Derik Niesen