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A40511 From our Womens meeting held at York, the 15, and 16th. days of the fourth month, 1692. To every particular womans monthly meeting; within this county Society of Friends. Yorkshire Quarterly Meeting of Women Friends.; Boulbie, Judith. 1692 (1692) Wing F2239B; ESTC R214638 4,300 11

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made those a plain people in the beginning who were subject to it and is not changeable in it self Nor admites of any Change in us And therefore we can do no less but advise you to the plainness of it Considering the good effects it hath wrought in and through those who are guided by it Oh what true fear what holy zeal what plain dealing and great care was there in that day to keep truth clear on every hand amongst all who loved it their Apparell plain their Countinances solid and grave their words weighty few and savory such as Ministered grace to the hearers And there is a word further in our hearts to you young Women keep in the line of life and Language of truth saying one unto another Arise Virgins Daughters of Sion and shake your selves from the dust of the earth and put on beautyfull Garments even the Robes of Righteousness the Saints Cloathing and humble your selves to the Cross of Christ you who have decked your selves above the simplicity thereof and let that Crucif●e you to the World and the world to you dayly and be you willing to walk in that narrow path of self denyal the narrow way that lead to life and the Lord will adorn you with a meek and a quiet spirit which is with him of great price and will inwardly make you beautyfull as the Kings Daughters for it is the very labour and travell of our soules that Sion may become the Beauty of all nations and the praise of the whole earth And that the wanderes and the scattered a broad through the letting in of a careless and forgetfull mind of the mercys of the Lord unto them in the day of his first love may be again gathered unto him and into the footsteps of the flocks of his Companions to enter in at the right door into the fould of rest and safety and into the perfect peace which God gives and none can take away And that you who loves the truth and are springing up as plants therein may gradualy grow from strength to strength and from one degree of grace unto another untill you become as Nurssing Mothers in Israel in your day and age and as Deborah concerned in your measure of life and the station God almighty hath placed you under the Government of Gods power subservant thereunto to Rule for him to the praise of him who loved accounted us worthy And that as Dorcas you may consider the poor and make provision for the Widdows and fatherless and as other faithfull women in generations gone which might be mentioned and many more of this generation removed from us out of the body worthy to be remembred of us and the Memoriall of them liveth upon our spirits to our refreshment in the Lord and to the praise of his worthy name over all Much might be said but we Recommend you with our own souls to the word of truth in every of our own bosomes which leads into all truth and if diligently harkened unto will perfectly teach and direct us all in the way of righteousness Wherein we shall be well pleasing to God and his delight will be to do us good dayly renewing his mercys unto us as the morning in the continuance of his ancient love in the fresh sence whereof we are concern'd both young and old according to our measures to be true and faithfull in the work through Gods help whereunto we are called as Co-workers and fellow-labourers in the service of truth meet helps one unto another in the Lord and through his power whereunto shall be the praise as worthy for ever And let it be remembred by us all that the woe was and is to those that doth the Work of the Lord negligently Therefore dear Freinds set us be carefull in our age and day according to the dispensation of the grace of God committed to us to serve the Lord in faithfullness with one consent secking his honour alone unto whom it doth belong from henceforth and for ever And it is desired that this our Testimony and advice with other Testimonys given forth by us heretofore after once peruseing and reading over may not be cast by and lost but that one of every sort of our papers may be kept in every perticuler meeting in the County and as Occasion and oppertunity may require they may be read and the advice and Counsell therein contained may be observed and followed that our Labour and Travel in the truth may be answered and that Friends in generall may reap the benefit thereof And that our next yearly Meeting may be attended with some faithfull Women from each monthly Meeting to bring in their Testimonys concerning their care of the good ●nd comely Order of truth that we may be comforted together as at this time we have been by the aboundings of the love of God unto us worthy to be honoured by us the days we have to live unto whome honour doth belong now and for evermore Subscribed in the Name and on behalf of the Meeting Judith Boulbie Katheren Winn. Elizabeth Beckwith Margaret Bracking Sarah English Jsabell Morris Elizabeth Moore Frances Tayler Mary White Katherin Ratlife Dorathy Wells Anne Allison Debora Winn. Grace Hemsley