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<HEAD>For the holy Women that tru&s;t in God and do profe&s;s Godline&s;s with good Works, according to the Apo&s;tle's Doctrine in this Age to read over and put in Practice.</HEAD>
<P>THE Apo&s;tle &s;aith, <HI>I will therefore that Women adorn them&s;elves in mode&s;t Apparel, with Shame|facedne&s;s and Sobriety, and not with broided Hair, or Gold, or Pearls, or Co&s;tly Aray, but as becometh Women profe&s;&s;ing Godline&s;s with good Works,</HI> 1 <HI>Tim.</HI> 2.9, 10. And likewi&s;e <HI>Peter,</HI> &s;aith, in his general Epi&s;tle to the Church of Chri&s;t, to the Women, <HI>who&s;e Adorn|ing, let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the Hair, and wearing of Gold, and of putting on of Apparel; but let it be the hidden man of the Heart, in that which is not Corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet Spirit, which is in the &s;ight of God of a great price, for after this manner in old time the holy Women al&s;o who tru&s;ted in God adorned them&s;elves,</HI> 1 <HI>Pet.</HI> 3.3, 4, 5.</P>
<P>Now all Women may here con&s;ider what is to be the practice of &s;uch Women that profe&s;s Godline&s;s, and tru&s;t in God, their adorning is the hidden man of the Heart, which is Incorruptible, and their ornament is of a meek and quiet Spirit, which is in the &s;ight of God of a great Price; but tho&s;e Women who&s;e outward adorning is with broided and plaited Hair, and Gold, and Pearls, and co&s;tly Aray, the&s;e are not the mode&s;t Apparels
<PB N="2" REF="2">which become Mode&s;t, Sober, Shamefaced Wome<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> that profe&s;s Godline&s;s with good Works; but &s;uch as are Un&s;ober, Un&s;hamefaced and Unmode&s;t, &s;uch look upon &s;uch things to become them, are cloathed with corruptible and unquiet Spirits, that do not po&s;&s;e&s;s God|line&s;s with good Works; and the&s;e outward Ornaments, as plating and broiding the Hair, and wearing of Gold, and Pearls, and co&s;tly Array; the Apo&s;tle &s;aith, <HI>Do not become Women profe&s;sing Godline&s;s with good Works;</HI> but them that do not profe&s;s Godline&s;s, that are Shamele&s;s and Un&s;ober, they may become &s;uch Women that do not tru&s;t in God, their corruptible Spirit may lead them to adorn them&s;elves with &s;uch things, as is &s;aid before, which the Apo&s;tle forbids; but the holy Women of God which profe&s;&s;ed Godline&s;s with good Works, and tru&s;ted in God, adorned them|&s;elves not with plating the Hair, or wearing of Gold, or Pearls, or co&s;tly array; but with the hidden man of the Heart, in that which is not Corruptible, even the Ornament of a meek and quiet Spirit, which is in the &s;ight of God of a great price.</P>
<P>And now con&s;ider al&s;o, you Women that profe&s;s Godline&s;s, and go under the name of holy Women, and tru&s;t in God, &s;ee that your &s;elves, and your Children, and all your young Women are Adorned and Arrayed, and have on this Ornament, as the Apo&s;tle wills the Church of Chri&s;t to put on, as the holy Women did of Old, and be not of an unmeek and unquiet Spirit, and un&s;ober and un&s;hamefaced, when you are admoni&s;hed and exhor|ted not to act contrary to the holy Women of old that tru&s;ted in God, and &s;uch as profe&s;&s;ed Godline&s;s according to the Apo&s;tles Doctrine.</P>
<P>And here you may &s;ee what care the Apo&s;tles had to
<PB N="3" REF="2">keep the Saints, the Church of Chri&s;t, their Eyes, Minds and their Spirits above the wearing of Gold, plat|ing their Hair, and Pearls, and co&s;tly Aparrel, which was the Glory of the World, which the holy Women that tru&s;ted in God and profe&s;&s;ed Godline&s;s and good Works, the&s;e things were not to be their Adorning nor Orna|ments, but as is &s;aid before, the hidden man of the Heart, which was not Corrupt, even the meek and quiet Spirit, which is with the Lord of a great price, and this ought to be, and is the Adornment and Ornament of all the holy Women that profe&s;s Godline&s;s and good Works, and tru&s;t in God.</P>
<P>And all you that have been convinced of the Lords Truth by his Spirit, take heed of <HI>Sathan</HI> taking you up into that Mountain, and then of his &s;hewing you the Glory of the World, and then of your Minds and Eyes going after it, and receiving of it, and &s;o in that you fall from the Spirit and Truth of God that did convince you, and then &s;o to wor&s;hip the Devil, the King of Pride, the God of the World, that abode not in the Truth, in whom there is no Truth, and then he to lead your Minds and Eyes after every new vain Fa&s;hion of the World that pa&s;&s;eth away, and that lieth in wickedne&s;s, and &s;o draweth you into the Love of the World, which is Enmity to God, and into the Wi&s;dom of the World, by which ye do not know God, &amp; then to &s;uch the Go&s;pel of Life and Salvation is hid, in whom the God of this World hath blinded their minds, and in &s;uch di&s;obedient ones the Prince of the Air rules, and gets into them by di&s;obeying the Truth, and in &s;uch Chri&s;t doth not rule in their hearts by Faith, and it is not like, when they make Shiprack of it, and a good Con&s;cience; and there|fore walk in the Light of Chri&s;t, and grow in his Grace,
<PB N="4" REF="3">and the Knowlege of the Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t that brui&s;es the Serpents Head and de&s;troys the Devil and his Works, that you may all be e&s;tabli&s;hed upon Chri&s;t the Rock and Foundation.</P>
<P>And if ye do believe in the Covenant of Light, Life and Grace, then, why do not you all train up your Chil|dren in the &s;ame? did not the Lord command the <HI>Jews</HI> to train up their Children in the old Covenant and teach them to walk in it? and were not all the Males to be Circumci&s;ed? and they that were not Circumci&s;ed were to be cut off from the Congregation of the Lord; &s;o are not all you that profe&s;s the new Covenant of Grace, Light and Life, and the Go&s;pel of Salvation Preached to Every Creature, and the Grace of God which brings Salvation that hath appeared to all men, to teach them to live Godly, and to deny Ungodline&s;s, &amp;c. (I &s;ay) are not you all to train up your Children and Families in this Light of the Go&s;pel and Grace of Chri&s;t which brings Salvation, and brings them into favour with God, that you may have the comfort of your Children in this World, and in that which is Everla&s;ting? and that they may be Circumci&s;ed with the Spirit of God, which he poureth out upon all Fle&s;h, that with his Spiritual Cir|cumci&s;ion the Body of Death and Sins of the Fle&s;h may be cut off, which are come into Man and Woman by Tran&s;gre&s;&s;ion, that neither you nor they might dye in the Body of Death, and in the Sins of the Fle&s;h, and &s;uch do not die in the Lord, for they that are not Cir|cumci&s;ed with the Spiritual Circumci&s;ion are cut off from the Heavenly <HI>Jeru&s;alem,</HI> and the Kingdom of God and Chri&s;t, and from the Church of the Living God written in Heaven: And therefore, if you will have the comfort of your Children in this World, and that which
<PB N="5" REF="3">is to come, train them up in the fear of God, and in his Covenant of Light and Grace, which Grace brings their Salvation, and brings them into favour with God, and into the Spiritual Bapti&s;m and Circumci&s;ion, &s;o that they may Serve and Wor&s;hip the Living God in his Spirit and Truth, <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
<P><HI>And now, do not &s;ay but you are all warned in your Life time; and therefore pri&s;e your time, while you have it, that you way &s;pend it to the Honour and Glory of God.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>Concerning Children and Young People.</HEAD>
<P>AND if Children and young People mu&s;t be left and let alone to them&s;elves, and not be Admoni&s;hed, Exhorted and Re&s;trained from the Evil and Vanities of the World, then why did <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> and the Prophets, and the Apo&s;tles, which were &s;ent of God, exhort the Peo|ple to train up their Children in the fear of the Lord, and to teach them his Law while they were Young, that they might not depart from it when they were Old? and if that they did, the Lord did Judge them, as ye may read in the Scriptures of Truth; and if that they mu&s;t be left to them&s;elves, and not re&s;trained from Evil, then how came it to pa&s;s that old <HI>Ely</HI> lo&s;t his Life, and his Prie&s;thood, and the Ark of God, for not re&s;training his Children from evil?</P>
<P>And again, if that they mu&s;t be left to them&s;elves, why did the Prophets and the Apo&s;tles &s;ay, that they mu&s;t not Quench, nor Vex, nor Grieve, nor Rebel again&s;t the Spirit of God, nor turn the Grace of God into Wanton|ne&s;s, nor walk de&s;pitefully again&s;t the Spirit of Grace? but walk in the Spirit, and in the Truth, and in the Light, and to Love it, and not to Hate it; for they that do not Love it, the Light, but Hate it, are Condemed by it, and &s;o grow in the Condemnation, and are not in the Ju&s;tification of Life.</P>
<P>The Lord God commanded <HI>Abraham</HI> to Circumci&s;e him&s;elf and his Children, and &s;ervants that were Bought with Money, and were Born in his Hou&s;e. He was to bring all his Males into this Covenant of outward Cir|cumci&s;ion.
<PB N="7" REF="4">And the Lord &s;aid, <HI>That Soul &s;hall be cut off that is not Circumci&s;ed, he hath broken my Covenant of outward Circumci&s;ion,</HI> as you may &s;ee, <HI>Gene&s;is</HI> 17. Here you may &s;ee, <HI>Abraham</HI> was to teach and in&s;truct his Fa|mily and Servants, and he was not to keep any Man or Servant that was Uncircumci&s;ed in his Family.</P>
<P>Now you that profe&s;s the new Covenant, are not you, and all your Children and Servants to be Circumci&s;ed with the Spirit of Circumci&s;ion? and do not they that have not the Body of Death and the Sins of the Fle&s;h, cut off by Circumci&s;ion, go down into the Pit, and not into the Paradi&s;e, and the Kingdom of God; and there|fore may not &s;uch Uncircumci&s;ed by the Spirit hurt the Families of true Chri&s;tians in the Light.</P>
<P>Therefore con&s;ider <HI>Abraham</HI> was not to &s;uffer any of his Children and Servants that were Bought with his Money, or Born in his Hou&s;e to be Uncircumci&s;ed, in the old Covenant, this care the Lord laid upon him, in his Family, in the old Covenant. Therefore con&s;ider you that profe&s;s the new Covenant of the Spirit of Cir|cumci&s;ion, what care lies upon you in your Families, of Teaching and In&s;tructing your Servants and Children, and to bring them to the Spirit of Circum&s;icion.</P>
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<CLOSER><DATELINE><DATE>The 9th of the 5th Month 1686.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>G. F.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<TRAILER>THE END.</TRAILER>
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