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A64453	A testimony for the Lord and his truth given forth by the women friends, at their yearly meeting, at York, being a tender salutation of love, to their friends and sisters, in their several monthly meetings, in this county, and else where, greeting.	Waite, Mary. Warning to all Friends who professeth the everlasting truth of God.$4aut.	1688 (1688)	Wing T810B; ESTC R222431	10,163	26

EPISTLE FROM THE Womens Yearly Meeting at York 1688. AND An EPISTLE from Mary Waite A TESTIMONY for the Lord and his Truth given forth by the women friends at their yearly meeting at York being a tender salutation of love to their friends and sisters in their several monthly meetings in this county and else where greeting Dear friends and sisters WE being met together in the fear of the Lord to wait upon him for his ancient power to order us and in his wisdom and counsel to guide us in our exercise relating to church affairs It hath pleased him to break in among us in a glorious manner to our great satisfaction and he hath filled our meeting with his living presence and crowned our assembly with his heavenly power and opened the fountain of life unto us and caused the streams of his love freely to flow among us and run from vessel to vessel to the gladding of our hearts which causeth living praise and hearty thanksgiving to be rendered unto him who alone is worthy And friends we hereby signify to you that there hath been many living testimonies delivered among us from the divine openings of the spirit of life in many brethren and sisters whereby we are fully satisfied that the Lord is well pleased with this our service and doth accept our sacrifices and free-will offerings and returns an answer of peace unto our bosoms which is greatly our reward Here hath also been brought several testimonies in writing from divers of our monthly meetings to our great satisfaction touching the care of friends for the honour of God and prosperity of truth in one another And dear friends in that unchangeable love and precious truth of our God we dearly salute you wherein our relation and acquaintance with him and one with another in spirit is daily renewed and our care and concern for his honour and one another's good is still continued and therein we see there is as great need as ever to watch over one another for good tho' it hath pleased God in his infinite mercy and love to give us a day of ease and liberty as to the outward and hath broken the bonds of many captives and hath set the oppressed free and hath opened the prison doors in a great measure living praises be given him for ever And now friends it is our desire that we all may make a right use of it and answer the end of the Lord in it and neither take nor give liberty to that part in any which may give the Lord occasion to suffer our bonds to be renewed but in his fear and holy awe walk humbly before him in a holy and self-denying life under the cross of Christ Jesus which daily crucifies us to the world and the world to us and teacheth us to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts and to live righteously and soberly in this present world that by our holy lives and righteous conversation others seeing our good works may glorify our heavenly Father and that by our truth-like and Christian behaviour and upright dealing in all our affairs among the children of men we may walk as becomes the truth And dear friends join not with any sort of people further than will stand with truth's honour and reach God's witness in every conscience but as much as in you lieth live peaceably with all men and do good unto all especially unto the houshold of faith and so daily fulfill the royal law of love in shewing to all men that you are Christ's disciples by loving him and one another And friends we cannot but warn you of the separating and quarrelling spirit which leads unto strife contention and jangling and would thereby lay waste your concern for God's honour and one another's good this is that old adversary and enemy of mankind who in all ages went about like a roaring lion seeking whom he might devour and as a ravenous wolf sometimes gets the sheeps cloathing and never wants specious pretences to accomplish his design and bring about his end which is to divide read tear destroy and separate from God and one another and would lay waste the heritage of God and make spoil of his plantation and leave his tender plants without care in the briars and thorns and every hurtful weed to wrap about them to hinder their growth and draw them out of their order by reason of which as in the days of old the way of truth might be evil spoken of The Lord disappoint him of his purpose and frustrate him of his end is our prayer and keep him livingly sensible that the end of the Lord in all his fatherly corrections gentle chastisements and kind reproofs hath been to preserve us from the snares of the enemy Therefore dear friends be concerned for the preservation of one another in every of your respective monthly meetings and be faithful in performing your service and duty to God and to one another as he opens it in you and lays it upon you in exhortation admonition and reproof in tender love for so it will be as the balm of Gilead unto those who are wounded by the wiles of the enemy for dear friends it is the very end of our travel and labour of love that the hungry may be fed the naked cloathed the weak strengthened the feeble comforted and the wounded healed So that the very weakest and hindermost of the flock may be gathered into the fold of rest and safety where no destroyer can come where the ransomed and redeemed by the Lord have the songs of deliverance and high praise in their mouths giving him the honour who alone is worthy for ever And friends let us ever remember the tender dealing and mercies of the Lord to us and that it was not for our deserts nor any worthiness in us but his own good will and for his seed sake in which he heard our many cries and had regard to our tears and helped us through many exercises and trials inwardly and outwardly and hath been our rock and refuge and our sure hiding place in many storms and exercises and yet preserves in perfect peace all those that trust in him who keep his new creation full of joy and the voice of thanksgiving and melody is heard in our land and the Lord becomes unto us the place of broad rivers and makes us before him as well watered gardens and affects our hearts with his divine love to praise his name And now to you young women whom our souls love and whom the Lord delighteth to do good unto and hath visited with the tastes of his love be you ordered by him in all things that in your modest and chast behaviour your comely and decent dresses in your apparel and in all other things you may be good examples to others not only those that are without but to some professing of the faith that in the line of life and language of truth we may speak one to another and say Arise ye

daughters of Sion shake yourselves from the dust of the earth put on the beautiful garments even the robes of righteousness the saints cloathing the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit And be not too careful for preferment or riches in this world but be careful to know the Lord to be your portion and the lot of your inheritance Then testimonies will arise as in the days of old our lot is fallen in a good ground we have large possessions And friends be not concerned in reference to marriage out of God's fear but first wait to know your Maker to become your husband and the bridegroom of your souls then you will come to know that you are not your own but that he must have the ordering and disposing of you in soul body and spirit which are all his for he being the only one unto you and the chiefest of ten thousand among you will be your beloved and your friend Oh! friends this state is happy and blessed are they that attain it and live in it the Lord is not unmindful of them but in his own time if he see it good for them can provide meet helps for them then will your marriage be honourable being orderly accomplished with the assent of parents and the unity of friends and an honour to God and comfort to your own souls then husbands and children are a blessing in the hands of the Lord and you will arise in your day age and generation as mothers in Israel as those holy ancients whose living testimonies reacheth unto us and blessed memories liveth with us according to our measures as Lydia open hearted to God and one to another as Dorcas careful to do one another good as Deborah concerned in the common wealth of Israel and as Iael zealous for the truth who was praised above women And you friends who are under the present concern and in your day's work do it not negligently not with careless minds but be you diligent in every of your womens meetings and order two faithful women in every meeting to take the care upon them and so far as may answer truth do you endeavour that nothing be practised among you but what tends to God's honour and one another's comfort let nothing be indulged or connived at in any whereby truth is dishonoured and let that be cherished and encouraged in all wherewith truth is honoured and these our testimonies cast not carelesly into a corner but some time peruse them and mark well the wholesome advice therein that our travel may be answered the Lord honoured and you reap the benefit and let a record be kept from month to month and from year to year of the Lord 's dealing with us and mercy to us to future ages that from age to age and one generation to another his own works may praise him to whom all praises do belong and be ascribed both now and for ever From our yearly meeting at York the 28th of the 4th month 1688. Signed on the behalf of the meeting by Catharine Whitton Judith Boulby Elizabeth Sedman Frances Taylor Mary Waite Deborah Winn Eliz. Beckwith Mary Lindley A WARNING to all friends who profess the everlasting truth of God which he hath revealed and made manifest in this his blessed day whether on this side or beyond the seas Dear friends IN tender bowels of love do I feel from the Lord a warning spring in my heart to you that you all may be kept low in his humble self-denying life where safety is to be found for assuredly the great and notable day of the Lord is at hand in which he will arise in the greatness of his strength to plead the cause of his suffering seed with all its enemies whether within or without So all dear friends be faithful under your several dispensations for in our Father's house are many mansions Keep in the low vallies for there will be your safety there will the green pastures of God's love be partaken of and with such will he delight to dwell So all friends keep to your watch that the day of the Lord come not in an hour you look not for it and so you receive the unfaithful servant's reward for indeed friends my soul is in a great travel for the prosperity of Sion that her walls may be builded her breaches repaired and made up for for many months yea some years hath my spirit been bowed down and groaned under the sense of an easeful selfish lukewarm spirit that hath crept in upon many for want of watchfulness and keeping to the daily cross of Christ Jesus and in the narrow way and savoury life that only will bring honour and praise to the name of the Lord. And how to be eased of these weights and burdens I did not know my cry was to the Lord that he would give me wisdom and strength to do his will. And it pleased him to lay his hand upon me and bring me near to the gates of death so far as I saw and was pleased to hide himself from me and my soul was in a languishing condition and my cries were great unto the Lord that he would not hide his face from me but let me feel of his wonted goodness and mercy by which I had received daily comfort and satisfaction from him in his unerring path in which he had been pleased to lead me And at length the Lord appeared and said he would be my physician and cure my disease and came in and comforted my spirit with his overcoming love which greatly revived me And in the openings of the bowels of his endless love he shewed me a terrible day drew near even as one may say at the door and laid it upon me to go warn his people in this city and elsewhere to depart from all filthiness both of flesh and spirit from all lukewarmness from the fashions customs and friendships of this world from pride covetousness and every sin that separateth from the Lord and brings dryness barrenness and deadness upon many and makes as unsavory salt that is good for nothing but to be cast forth and trodden upon And to warn them not to delay time but come into the true humility lowliness of spirit and self-denying life that the Lord might be a hiding place to them for terrible will that day be to all the unfaithful and disobedient All the sinners in Sion shall be afraid fearfulness shall take hold on the hypocrite dread and horror shall surprise them O whither will you unfaithful fly Would you not be glad that either rocks or mountains could hide you from the presence of the Lord and the wrath of the Lamb O this will be a terrible day indeed unto all those that have had a form of godliness but denied the power that would have saved them out of all defilements and pollutions of this world For long hath the spirit of the Lord been grieved with these who have long come and sitten among God's people