then you may have a Six-weeks, or a Monthly, as well as a Quarterly Meeting, as you may see meet.

I received your letter from your Quarterly Meeting, and I am glad that you are in the Lord's work and service.

And my desire is, that ye all may stand up for the glory and honour of the Lord God, and that his blessings may abound among you.

And so if you were to write to New Eng land and Jamaica, where I hear they have precious men and women's meetings, it might be well, to encourage one another in the work and service of God.

G. F.

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CCCXXXVI.

To Friends at Dantzick.

Swarthmore, the 17th of the 3rd Month, 1676.

Dear Friends,

In the love of God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, look above all your outward sufferings,

and him that is out of Truth, who makes you to suffer; and let nothing separate you from the love of God which you have in Christ Jesus, by whom all things were made: I say, let not the birth of the flesh, with all his carnal weapons, gaols and prisons, threats or reproaches, move you, nor separate you from the love of God, nor from your foundation, the Rock of Ages, Christ Jesus. And therefore let your faith stand in the Lord's power, which is your hedge and defence, which is your keeper, and which will keep you safe, that you need not be afraid of your enemy.

O! be valiant for God's glory and his Truth upon the earth, and spread it abroad, answering that of God in every man and woman's conscience; knowing Him that hath brought everlasting peace into the earth: so that the songs of salvation may be in your mouths; for it is said, "With the heart man believes, and with the mouth confession is made to salvation." So every true believer will confess to Christ, his salvation, his way, light, and life, out of death and darkness ; his Prophet, to open to him; his Captain and

Commander, to command and to lead him; his

Counsellor to counsel him; and his Priest, who hath offered Himself for him, and who sanctifies him, and offers him up to God. To whom be all praise and glory for ever. Amen.

In this part of the world and in America Truth prospers and spreads and by it many men and women are made God's free people; being redeemed from him that is out of Truth, that they may serve God in the new life in Christ Jesus, (out of the old life in Adam in the fall,) and so come to live in the heavenly unity, wisdom, love, and dominion.

So in that love that bears all things, and keeps your hearts, minds, and souls up to God, which comes from God, through which you come to love God and Christ, and one another, in that live and dwell.

G. F.

NUMBER

CCCXL.

To Friends in New Jersey, in America.

Swarthmore, the 4th of the 1st Month, 1676.

My dear Friends

In New Jersey, and you that go to New Jersey, my desire is, that you may all be kept in the fear of God, and that you may have the Lord in your eye, in all your undertakings ; for many eyes of other governments or colonies will be upon you; yea, the Indians, to see how you order your lives and conversations. And therefore, let your lives, and words, and conversations, be as becomes the Gospel, that you may adorn the Truth, and honour the Lord in all your undertakings; let that only be in your eye, and then you will have the Lord's blessing and increase, both in basket and field and storehouse; and at your lyings down you will feel Him, and at your goings forth and comings in. So that you may answer the Light and the Truth in all people, both by your godly lives and conversations: serving the Lord, and being valiant for his Truth, with a joyful heart, upon the earth, and the glorious Name in whom you have salvation.

And keep up your meetings for worship, and your men and women's meetings for the affairs of Truth, both Monthly and Quarterly : and after you are settled, you may join together, and build a meeting-house. And do not strive about outward things; but dwell in the love of God, for that will unite you together, and make you kind and gentle one towards another; and to seek one another's good and welfare, and to be helpful one to another. And let temperance, and patience, and kindness, and brotherly love be exercised among you, so that you may abound in virtue, and the true humility; living in peace, showing forth the nature of Christianity, that you may all live as a family, and the church of God, holding Christ your heavenly Head, and having Him to exercise his offices among you, and in you.

And therefore be not over eager after outward things, but keep above them in the Lord's power, and seed, Christ Jesus, that is over all; in whom you have all life, election, and salvation.

And write over yearly from your Meetings, how you are settled, and how your affairs go