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A40127 Canons and institutions drawn up and agreed upon by the General Assembly or Meeting of the heads of the Quakers from all parts of the kingdom at their New-Theatre in Grace-church-street in or about January 1668/9 ; George Fox being their president. Society of Friends.; Fox, George, 1624-1691. 1669 (1669) Wing F1755; ESTC R36474 6,988 29

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General Meeting V. And also all Widdows in all your several Meetings let them be taken notice of and informed and incouraged in their outward business that there be not an hindrance to them in their inward growth and so carefully look after them that they may be nourished and cherished and so preserved in the Truth that Love may be increased and if they have many Children to put out Apprentices or Servants that may be a burthen to them to bring up then let Friends take care to ease them by putting them forth as may be meet Let all this be look'd into by every Meeting and Notice thereof given to the next General Meeting and then some ordered to see that all things are done according to Truth and Rightousness VI. And all such as marry by the Priests of Baal who are the rough hands of Esau and fists of wickedness and bloody hands and who have had their hands in the blood of our Brethren and who are the cause of all this banishment of our Brethren and spoiled so many of their goods casting into prison and keepeth many hundreds at this day And such as go to them for wives or husbands must come to Judgment and condemnation of the Spirit that lead them to Baal and Baals Priests also or else friends that keep their habitations must write against them and Baal both For from Genesis to the Revelations you never read of any Priest that married people but it is Gods Ordinance and whom God joyns together let no man put asunder And they took one another in the Assembly of the Rightous when all things were clear therefore let all those things be enquired into and brought to the General Meeting and from thence some ordered to go to them and return what they say at your next Meeting and all this before they or any of them be left as heathens or written against let them be three or four times gone to that they may have Gospel order so that if it be possible they may come to that which did convince them to condemn their unrightous doings that so you may not have a hoof in Egypt VII And also such as wear their hats when Friends pray and are gotten into the old rotten principle of the Ranters who set up the wearing thereof in opposition to the power of God and therein uphold it which is condemned by it and the power of God is gone over it and them who have Ranted from the Truth and have stopped many who were coming into it th●● the very world may say you are in a confusion and divided and gone from your first principle who said you were of one heart and one mind and one soul And therefore that spirit must be cut off by the sword of the Spirit of the Lord that they may come to them which did at first convince them and notice may be given to the General Meeting of all things and from thence must be ordered to go and exhort them that erre in such things to come to the first principle that did at first convince them that they may come over such things and Friends must stand up in the Noble Seed of God to judg the world and all the fallen Angels VIII And in all your Meetings let notice be given to the General Meeting of all the poor and when you have heard that there is many more poor belonging to one Meeting than to another and that Meeting thereby burthened and oppressed let the rest of the Meetings assist and help them so that you may ease one another and help to bear one anothers burthens and so fulfill the law of Christ and so see that nothing be lacking according to the Apostles words then all is well For the Jews outward though they were as the stars of heaven and as the sand on the sea yet there was not to be a beggar amongst them according to the law of God and amongst Christians in the first Ages there was a Mens Meeting set up at Jerusalem to see that nothing was lacking which was the Gospel Order according to the law of the Spirit and thus continued as long as they lived in the like power and Spirit of God But when the Apostates came in and the true Church fled into the Wilderness who was to continue there 1260 days and the Witnesses prophesied in Sack-cloth 1260 days and the Beast was worshipped just so long 1260 days and then all things went out of order every thing was wanting in the time they worshipped the Dragon and the Beast and the Devil made the world like a Wilderness But now the Judgment of the Great Whore is come and of the Beast and with them the False Prophet and the Dragon who shall be cast alive into the Lake of Fire And the True Church come up out of the Wilderness and the Manchild which was caught up into Heaven come down again to Rule all Nations with a Rod of iron and the Marriage of the Lamb is come and the Lamb and the Saints shall have the Victory And the everlasting Gospel is and shall be preached again as was amongst the Apostles the Gospel order shall be set up as amongst them and a Mens Meeting as was at the first Conversion to see that nothing be lacking in the Church then all things is well so there is not to be a Beggar now amongst the Christians according to the Law of Jesus as there was not to be any amongst the Jews by the Law of God IX And also all men that hunt after women from woman to woman and also women whose affections run sometimes after one man and soon after another and so hold one another in affection and so draw out the affection of one another and after a while leave one another and go one from another do the same thing These Doings make more like Sodom than Saints and is not of Gods moving or joyning then they are to be parted for Marriage is Gods Ordinance Gods command and one to another and in that they feel the Power of God X. And that notice be taken of all evil Speakers backbiters and slanderers and foolish talkers and idle Jesters for all these things corrupt good manners and is not according to the Saints and Holy ones whose words are seasoned with salt ministring Grace to the hearers XI All such as are Tale-carriers and Railers whose work is to sow dissention are to be reproved and admonished for such do not bring people into the unity of the Spirit but by such means do lose their own condition XII And all such as go up and down to cheat by borrowing and getting of Money of Friends in by-places and have cheated several all such are to be stopped and judged as there is a Woman tall in her person freckled in her face and also one John Harding who are for judgment and to be condemned XIII If there happen any difference between Friend and Friend of any matter if it cannot