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A42606	A general epistle given forth by the people of the Lord, called, Quakers that all may know, we own none to be of our fellowship, or to be reckoned or numbred with us, but such as fear the Lord and keep faithfully to his heavenly power, that with a holy conversation they may adorn that truth they profess, otherwise, what experience soever they have had of the truth, and are fallen from it, we account them as so many Judasses or Demasses, and own such no more than the primitive Christians owned them; but we testifie against them, and say, such go into perdition through transgression, and fall under darkness into a state of damnation, twice dead, pluckt up by the roots, reserv'd in everlasting chains, until the judgment of the great day, except it be possible they yet can find a place of repentance through God's great unlimitted mercy. Read the general epistle of Jude.		1686 (1686)	Wing G497A; ESTC R219864	9,860	26

the prosperity of his heavenly Jerusalem who are Wells with Water and ●loud● with Rain to refresh the hearts of many with their Virtue through the Influence of the Lords heavenly Power and Showers of pure divine refreshing Bounty and are the Servants of the living God in their Measures in the true Faith and unity with the Disciples and holy Ministers of Jesus Christ who fell not with Judas by Transgression but kept the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ to the end and in the end received a Crown of Glory laid up for them in Christ Jesus and we testify for God against all dark Souls who may meet with us as if they were of us and profess the Truth yet have not on the Wedding Garment of uncerity and holy mindedness but are reprobate concerning the Faith and hold the Truth in Unrighteousness Such are Spots in our Feasts of Charity and partake not with us of the refershing sence of the holy Life of the pure God neither can they eat of the Flesh or drink with us of the Blood of the Lord Jesus or discern the Lords Body though we wish all such who come to our Meetings a better Condition that with us they may truly say Verily our fellowship is with the Lord's People in Christ Jesus So we give forth our general Testimony That we own none to be of us or to have ●nity with us but such as fear the true and ●●ving God and take up the Cross of Christ ●hich is his eternal Power that so they may ●e kept in the Faith that stands in the same ●ower to the purifying of their hearts and giving them victory over the World the Mystery of which Faith is held in a pure Conscience But we dearly cherish and love every tender desire that is raised up toward● God in all that their hearts and Souls may be kept hung●ing and thirsting after Righteousness ●arnestly breathing for Mercy from the ●ence of the weight of Iniquity which hath been upon them that so they may come to the state of the bruised Reed and smoking Flax to wait upon the Lord to renew their strength in his Power and to be Witnesses of his burning day to the purifying of their hearts and purging of their Iniouities with a true and pure spirit of Judgment and everlasting Burning let such receive incouragement for in due time thorow the exercise of Patience and faithfulness to God they will reap and not faint and attain their desired end but all such as Judas a traytor and Demas who turned from the Truth into the evil World Hymeneus and Alexander ●ho made shipwrack of Faith and a good Conscience we utterly deny and cannot own though they may in words and shew profess the Truth but their Fruits will make all such manifest and God's Wisdom will teach all the Lovers of it how to behave themselves towards all men in all states and conditions whatsoever and to love Enemies and false Friends and Brethrens Souls by wishing for them true Repentance unto Life that they may escape the danger of the Wrath and Indignation of God which will suddainly and everlastingly overtake all such as pe●severe in Unrighteousness and hold the Truth in it For as the Apostle saith Neither Fornicators nor Idolaters nor Adulterers nor Effaminate nor Abusers of themselves with MANKIND nor Thieves nor Covetous nor D●●nkards nor Revilers nor Extortioners shall inher it the Kingdom of God But if any have been so but now are sanctified washed and jnstified in the Name of the Lord Jesus by the Spirit of God it is well but all such as live and abide in such things aforementioned without Repentance will utterly perish The Apostle Paul in his first Epistle to the Corinthians chap. 6. reproveth the Corinthian-Believers for going to Law one with ●nother and that before the Unbelievers ●●d upbraids them for so doing asking them ●f there were not a wise man amongst them 〈◊〉 not one able to judge between his Brethren ●elling them it was utterly a fault amongst ●hem asking them Why they did not rather ●ake wrong or suffer themselves to be defrauded ●aying also Know ye not that we shall judge Angels how much more things that pertain to ●his Life Nay says he you do wrong defraud 〈◊〉 that your Brethren Do ye not know that in ●laces of Judicature all sorts of People are admitted to hear matters debated there And will ●t not be a shame for such as profess the Truth to ●e heard there by the vilest of men to endeavour to the utmost to uncover one anothers Nakedness for some worldly end or other this is worse than Ham's villiany who uncovered the real Nakedness of his Father to his Brethren only but these who may be called Quakers endeavour to uncover one anothers Nakedness to all Sects and sorts of People who will be Spectators thereof though they may be the vilest of men who hate the Truth This is far from Christianity and endeavouring to cover one anothers Nakedness Weaknesses Infirmities Let such who are concerned be ashamed of such things All false and Unjust Dealing Fraud and Deceit Cheating Over-reaching one another which things are Unchristian we utterly disown for Truth acteth Righteousness and to do to others as we would they should do to us but we would not that any through false pretences equivocations or sub●ilty should betray any by borrowing buying or otherwise whenas the bottom of the matter being found out it is found to be an implicite kind of Theft to get others Goods and things into their hands under pretence of borrowing or buying c. whenas aforehand they have known they have not been in a capacity to perform their Promises or Bargains which hath been the cause of Contention and Troubles and Law-suits and the Ruin of Families and casting into Prisons for Debt but the Truth and fear of God casts out all such things and introduces plainness and simplicity but the Lord helpeth the needy who trust in him and fuch have no need to exercise Craft and Fraud to live by as they fear and reverence the true and living God without guile he will bless them and help them and stir up true hearted Friends to do them good The poor man's Basket and store is blessed whose heart is with the Lord and his morcel of Bread and cup of cold Water as he stands in the counsel of God and keeps in to him and looks not out at others to murmur at their prosperity or covet their worldly substance but are content with their own present need or want their own Innocence and Righteousness will be felt amongst God's People who will answer their Conditions one way or other and if it were possible that should fail which is not the Lord for their sakes will cause Stones to be made Bread and the hearts of their Enemies to open and feed them This is concerning the Lords Poor who are neither slothful nor idle minded nor murmurers nor look

A General Epistle Given forth by the People of the Lord called QVAKERS That all may know we own none to be of our Fellowship or to be reckoned or numbred with us but such as fear the Lord and keep faithfully to his heavenly Power that with a holy Conversation they may adorn that Truth they profess otherwise what experience soever they have had of the Truth and are fallen from it we account them as so many Judasses or Demass●s and own such no more than the primitive Christians owned them but we testifie against them and say such go into Perdition through Transgression and fall under Darkness into a state of Damnation twice dead pluckt up by the Roots reserv'd in everlasting Chains until the Judgment of the great Day except it be possible they yet can find a place of Repentance through God's great unlimitted Mercy Read the general Epistle of Jude Printed and Sold by William Bradford at Philadelphia in Pennsilvania 1686. A General Epistle given forth by the People of the Lord called Quakers CHRIST and his Disciples were the blessed Church in the days of his Flesh and Judas was one of the twelve who was Guide to them that took Jesus and had been number'd with the other Disciples and obtained part of the same Ministry with them who fell by Transgression that he might go to his own place for he was a Devil as Christ himself said of him Have not I chosen you twelve and one of you is a Devil for he was a Murderer in betraying his Lord and Master into the hands of those Murderers who slew him and causlesly put him to death But the wicked Serpent was kept out from entring upon the other eleaven Disciples because they gave ear to Jesus and abode in his Doctrine and therefore being faithful were sent to turn Nations and People from Darkness to Light and from Satans Power unto God that they might receive forgiveness of sins and Inheritance among them which were sanctified by Faith i● Christ Jesus Now these blessed Apostles and Ministers of the overlasting Gospel kept their Habitations and Stations in the holy Truth from which Judas fell by Transgression and they were good Examples unto others unto wh●m they preached in a holy Life and Conversation They did not converse with Drunkards Swearers Lyars Murderers false Accusers of the Innocent Fornicators Adulterers Idolators Blasphemers malicious Back-biters he added and proud high minded ones c. to joyn or unite with them in the Iniquities their hearts were privy to but were sound in the faith and preached the everlasting Gospel with Power from Heaven to the subjecting and trampling upon Satans Power to stand over his Deeds of Darkness and Wickedness and such Majesty and Dominion is with all Christ's Ministers who live with God in his holy Truth and Power but they who go from this Power of the living God and fall by Transgression as Judas did become as so many Judasses to betray the Truth into the hands of the wicked Murderers of the Light Life Spi●it and Power of Jesus by their scandalous walking and wicked acting falling into presumption with the Angels which kept not their first estate in the Truth doing things contrary to the good Order of it shewing forth Examples of Lewdness Vanity and Wickedness and so become twice dead plucked up by the Roots and such may come raging against the Truth foaming out their own shame through the enmity that Satan hath begot in them being tormented because of Truth whose Testimony stands and arises against all such Judasses who fight against the Light and the Power of God in his faithful Servants and so Judas-like for their own base ends do what they can to insinuate their own wicked Spirits of enmity into the hearts of the innocent to betray them from that simplicity and stability that is in the Truth to draw and lead them into Confusion to start back from the Truth and so to fall with them by Transgress●on as Judas did that Thief and Murderer To such is reserv'd the blackness of Darkness forever And such whether they be Drunkards Fornicators Adulterers false Accusers Blasphemers or live in any other sort of Wickness though they have been convinced of Truth as Judas was and received part of Truth 's Ministry as Judas did yet being fallen from the Truth by Transgression into Enmity Wickedness and Mischief we in the blessed Truth which is everlastingly pure and precious do deny them all who are wickedly bent and set against the Truth and live in a factious rebellious sensual loose vain and prophane Condition to the dishonour of God and shame to pure Religion the good Order and Government of it And know this though many may profess in shew to be Christians and the People of God amongst us who were in scorn and derision first abused and called and nick-named Quakers Let all know that since first through Gods Mercy we became a People the Devil hath laboured to bring forth his wicked Instruments to abuse us the Truth through the scandalous living of such as have made a profession of Truth but never owned by such as lived in it no not from the beg●nning but have been denyed and testified against both by word and writing so that if amongst the twelve Disciples there was one became a Devil and fell by Transgression so now if amongst every twelve who Profess the same Truth with us called Quakers one should become a Devil and fall by Transgression we cannot help it Let such remember Judas his end at the except they can find a place of Repentance Judas his state represents the body of the whole Apostacy and Degeneration from the holy Faith so that Judas is the Father of them all and they may read their state and Doom in Judas they all give an occasion for Truth to be evil spoken of its blessed face to be spit upon to be reproached and shamed and evilly intreated even unto Death and Destruction as much as in them lies so that it may have no esteem at all in Peoples hearts but be accounted a base and unworthy thing that People may slight it through their wicked living who profess it as if it had no power or vertue in it to save Peoples Souls and heal their Distempers of Iniquity and Sin This is the Devil's Work in such Instruments that he may block up the way of Truth and cause the simple to stumble and so discourage their Faith and keep them in Unbelief and Sin Thus the Murderer of Souls thinks to have his end by keeping People under his dark Power But this is our Testimony from the living God That though many may profess the Truth who live not in it but are a scandal to it yet the Lo●d hath a living People who fear him and have kept their Habitations in his Truth and are good Examples in word and work for others to follow whose hearts are known to the Lord and their Zeal for