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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34988	Charitable advice in a letter to the French Protestants, into whatsoever parts of the world dispers'd, by reason of their present sufferings and persecutions, from the hands of the Roman Catholicks / first written for the use of the French Protestants by Stephen Crisp ... ; and since translated out of the French, for more publick benefit.	Crisp, Stephen, 1628-1692.	1688 (1688)	Wing C6926; ESTC R37689	10,838	17

CHARITABLE ADVICE In a Letter to the French Protestants Into whatsoever Parts of the World Dispers'd By Reason of their Present SUFFERINGS AND PERSECUTIONS From the Hands of the ROMAN CATHOLICKS First Written for the Use of the French Protestants by STEPHEN CRISP one of the People called Quakers And since Translated out of the French for more Publick BENEFIT Mat. 5.12 Rejoyce and be exceeding glad for great is your Reward in Heaven For so Persecuted they the Prophets which were before you Mark 13.13 And ye shall be hated of all Men for my Names sake But he that shall endure to the End the same shall be saved With Allowance LONDON Printed by G. L. at the Two Swans without Bishopsgate 1688. To the READER THE following Papers though designed only by the Author for the Vse of the French Protestants yet containing in them so much excellent and wholesom Advice I deem'd it would not be altogether unacceptable to make them speak English that our own Countrymen may have before them a fresh Idea of that Poor Peoples Calamities which may at once excite their Charity to them and hearty acknowledgments to Almighty God that still preserves us in prosperity and quietness And no one need suggest to himself from these hints any fear to the contrary For under God we have an Infallible Security a Royal and Gracious Sovereign Promising and Resolving to protect us in the exercise of our Religion in Peace Plenty and Credit for which may he find at the hands of the Lord Mercy and Blessings here and a Happy Life hereafter I have no more to desire of the Reader but that he will pardoning the faults a hasty Translation seriously mind what is here said and heartily put it in practice so that if which God forbid it should chance to be our turn to fall under the like sufferings we may not be ashamed of Christ and his Cross and the Good Cause of our Forefathers but after those blessed Examples may manfully despise and patiently pass through all tribulations in this Life in hopes of that happy share in the Heavenly Mansions which God that cannot lie has promised to such his Servants and Followers And that God will give us his Grace to enable us thereto is the daily Prayer of Thy hearty Welwisher and and Brother in Jesus Christ J. F. CHARITABLE ADVICE By way of Letter to the French Protestants Into what Parts of the WORLD soever Dispers'd c. DEAR FRIENDS 'T IS by the Inspiration of the Spirit of God and the Holy Motions of Love which it produces in my Heart that I am prompted at this time to Write to you And I do by the same Spirit of Love and Charity intreat the good God that it will please him by his invisible Power to open your Hearts to receive this short Word of Advice which I present you with and which concerns only your Everlasting Felicity It is Evident that your Sufferings are great and the noise of them has reach'd many Provinces Kingdoms and Countries by which means a great part of the World has been able to make Reflections upon the Cruelty of your Persecuters and at the same time to lament your Miserable Estate which has so nearly affected most men that they have not been content only to be touched with the greatest Compassion for you but have stretch'd forth their Hands to lift you up and assist you in your Necessities shewing themselves thereby truly affected to Christianity it being the indispensable Duty of all Christians to do what good they can one to another or in the Phrase of the Apostle To do good unto all Men but especially to those of the Houshold of Faith. These Motives prevail'd upon me to visit you in this your Day of Tribulation with a few Lines of Counsel and Advice which you will do well to accept with a sincere Heart and Humble Spirit for you cannot but reap some Advantage from them I. To begin then Consider seriously in the first place what could be the cause of your Sufferings and why the Lord permitted these times of Tryal and Affliction to come upon you Where by the Way I would not have any Man think me so presumptuous as to pretend to judge you or to conclude That God is always angry with those whom he suffers to lie under the greatest Afflictions No God forbid For who ever underwent such Afflictions as the most dear Children of God But though many have born severe Sufferings for the Tryal of their Faith and to be thereby Purified and prepar'd either to serve as Witnesses of God's Holy Name among the Sons of Men or to possess his Heavenly Kingdom into which nothing that is filthy and unclean can enter Yet nevertheless it cannot be denied but that there are many who suffer for having provok'd the Lord to Anger by their Disobedience Now which of these Reasons was the Subject of your Sufferings you cannot better understand than by that Light of Truth which shineth in your Hearts and manifesteth it self in your Consciences For doubtless whoever of you will set your selves seriously and attentively to consider your Ways and Manners in times past will quickly find how it stands between GOD and your own Souls For the Lord God hath a Faithful and True Witness in the Consciences of every one of you which hath Enregistred and kept in Order all the Actions you have done from your Childhoods This Witness will help you to Recollect how you walked with the Lord in the days of your Prosperity and Liberty in your own Countrey when ye sat every Man under his Vine and every Man under his Fig-tree How little have you answered the Kindnesses and Bounty of God to you How little did ye prize that Light of Understanding which God gave to you in greater measure than to your Countreymen So that although it were as offensive to the Eyes of God for you to follow and obey the Lusts and evil Passions of your Hearts as for your Neighbours to be Prostrated to and Adore their Images of Wood and Stone Yet how great were your Luxuries your Debaucheries your Quarrels and Jealousies one against another How did the greater Part of you content your selves with a Religion differing indeed in Form from that of the Countrey but in Life and Conversation almost the same giving your selves full Career and Liberty in all sorts of unlawful Pleasures Vanities and Concupiscencies of the Flesh Was it not a thing most disagreeable to the Spirit of God to see you at that same time call upon him with your Lips and Dishonour him by your scandalous Lives which yielded Occasion to your Adversaries of reproaching you and your Religion And it has been a great while the Observation that most Travellers into your Countrey have made that there was little Difference between the Protestants and Papists of France as to matter of Life and Conversation unless it were that the latter frequented the publick Churches and the others