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A40195
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Gospel family-order being a short discourse concerning the ordering of families, both of whites, blacks, and Indians / by G.F.
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Fox, George, 1624-1691.
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Wing F1829; ESTC R30371
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Egypt was of Ham's Stock yet if they do not come up to worship God they must be plagued And in Amos 3.2 you may see there how the Lord was against the whole Family of the Jews Amos 3.2 because they had not kept his Law and he punished them And so consider ye Christians ye whole Families of Christians and see how you have kept the Law of the New-covenant and the Law of Love and the Law of Life and the Law of the Spirit if you have not plainly you must be punished God will punish you with a Witness even the whole Family if any Family or Tribe or Man or Woman their Hearts shall turn away from God and serve other Gods see what a Curse came upon them and therefore what doth Christ say unto all the left Hand Goats though they may profess him in Words whose Hearts are turned away from his Law of Love Law of Life Law of Faith and the New-covenant And therefore see that the Ark of the Lord be in every ones House to wit your Hearts in all your Families and with the Law and Testimony of Jesus in it and then you will have the Blessing of the Lord with you as Obed Edom had the Blessing of the Lord upon his Family and House while the outward Ark remained with him the Figure of which Christians must enjoy the Substance of as you may see 1 Cor. 13 14. Gen. 39.5 See how the Lord there blessed the Egyptian's House for Joseph's sake and the Blessing of the Lord was upon all that the Egyptian had both in House and Field so you may hence see how a Servant being a faithful Man to God brought the Blessing of God upon the House and Field of a Heathen and now much more a faithful Master or an Head or an Elder of a Family faithful to God bringeth a Blessing on his own Family and upon all within his House and out of his House and Field for the Lord said If that they keep his Law and his Word then they shall be blessed in the Field and in the Store house and blessed in the Basket and blessed in his going forth and coming in as Abraham was who are of the Faith of Abraham now of the blessed Seed that brings the Blessing now to them as it did to him but they that crucifie the Seed to themselves afresh and quench the Spirit of God in themselves and entertain the evil Seed and the evil Spirit that brings the Curse upon them in the Basket and in the Store-house and in the Field in his going Forth and coming in And you may read in the Scriptures how many Families Nations and Kingdoms the Lord did cut off because they did not obey nor keep his Law as Core and his Family Achan and his wicked Haman and his and many others for transgressing the Law of God Yea and he destroyed Nations for his own People and gives his own People the Possession of them because of the former Inhabitants Debauchery and Wickedness and tells his own People that if they do go into the same Debaucheries and Wickedness they must look for the same Destruction And therefore Christians all should serve God in the new Life out of the Life of old Adam for if they do profess Christ Jesus the Heavenly Man and yet live in the Old Adam and serve Sin and Evil they must look for Destruction both Families and Nations who profess God in Words but deny him in their Works Lives and Conversations according to that in Isa 31.2.9 the Lord saith concerning the Children of Israel that transgress his Law Amos 9.7 Are ye not saith he as Children of Ethyopia unto me O ye Children of Israel Amos 9.7 Now consider this if the Children of Israel transgress the Law of God were they not accounted as Ethyopian Children And so you Christians now who profess Christ in Words and transgress his Law of Love of Life of Faith and the New-covenant are you not to the Lord as Children of the Ethyopians what Difference is between you It is not a Profession and talking that makes the Difference but the Possession of Christ Jer. 38. there you may see an Ethyopian a Black-moor how serviceable he was made unto Jeremiah the Lord's Prophet in the Day of his Suffering in the Dungeon how he went to the King and told him that the Prophet was like to perish there and the King commanded him to go and take thirty Men and draw him out of the Dungeon before he dye so here this Black had more Sence then the great Professors of Jeremiah 's Innocency and he was in Favour with the King being one of his Eunuchs And so now consider do not slight them to wit the Ethyopians the Blacks now neither any Man or Woman upon the Face of the Earth in that Christ dyed for all both Turks Barbarians Tartarians and Ethyopians he dyed for the Tawnes and for the Blacks as well as for you that are called Whites therefore you may see in Acts 8.27 how the Lord commanded Philip to go toward the South and he arose and went and behold a Man of Ethyopia a Eunuch of great Authority under Candace Queen of Ethyopia who had the Charge of all her Treasure how this Man came up to Jerusalem to worship the Lord and how this Ethyopian this Black was converted to Christianity by Philip who preached Christ to him And therefore now you should preach Christ to your Ethyopians that are in your Families that so they may be free Men indeed and be tender of and to them and walk in Love that ye may answer that of God in their Hearts being as the Scripture affirms all of one Blood of one Mold to dwell upon the Face of the Earth for Christ I say shed his Blood for them as well as for you and tasted Death for them as well as for you and hath enlightned them as well as he hath enlightned you and his Grace hath appeared unto them as well as it hath appeared unto you and he is a Propitiation for their Sins as well as for yours for he is the Propitiation for the Sins of the whole World and so let every Master and Governour of a Family inform them as well as others in his Family that so they may come to walk in the Grace and in the Light of Jesus Christ that so they may come to know Christ the Saviour from whence Grace and Light comes and the Mediator or Middle-man between them and God and so in this so doing you will serve God and not your selves Also in Psalm 68.31 there you may see Princes should come out of Egypt and Ethyopia shall stretch forth her Hand unto God sing unto God ye Kingdoms of the Earth Oh praise the Lord Now confider this ye Christians the Prophecy of David in that you may see the fulfilling of it viz. that Ethyopia should soon stretch out her Hand unto God for you see by the