For the holy Women that trust in God and do profess Godliness with good Works , according to the Apostle's Doctrine in this Age to read over and put in Practice .

THE Apostle saith , I will therefore that Women adorn themselves in modest Apparel , with Shamefacedness and Sobriety , and not with broided Hair , or Gold , or Pearls , or Costly Aray , but as becometh Women professing Godliness with good Works , 1 Tim. 2.9 , 10. And likewise Peter , saith , in his general Epistle to the Church of Christ , to the Women , whose Adorning , let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the Hair , and wearing of Gold , and of putting on of Apparel ; but let it be the hidden man of the Heart , in that which is not Corruptible , even the ornament of a meek and quiet Spirit , which is in the sight of God of a great price , for after this manner in old time the holy Women also who trusted in God adorned themselves , 1 Pet. 3.3 , 4 , 5.

Now all Women may here consider what is to be the practice of such Women that profess Godliness , and trust in God , their adorning is the hidden man of the Heart , which is Incorruptible , and their ornament is of a meek and quiet Spirit , which is in the sight of God of a great Price ; but those Women whose outward adorning is with broided and plaited Hair , and Gold , and Pearls , and costly Aray , these are not the modest Apparels which become Modest , Sober , Shamefaced Wome● that profess Godliness with good Works ; but such as are Unsober , Unshamefaced and Unmodest , such look upon such things to become them , are cloathed with corruptible and unquiet Spirits , that do not possess Godliness with good Works ; and these outward Ornaments , as plating and broiding the Hair , and wearing of Gold , and Pearls , and costly Array ; the Apostle saith , Do not become Women professing Godliness with good Works ; but them that do not profess Godliness , that are Shameless and Unsober , they may become such Women that do not trust in God , their corruptible Spirit may lead them to adorn themselves with such things , as is said before , which the Apostle forbids ; but the holy Women of God which professed Godliness with good Works , and trusted in God , adorned themselves not with plating the Hair , or wearing of Gold , or Pearls , or costly array ; but with the hidden man of the Heart , in that which is not Corruptible , even the Ornament of a meek and quiet Spirit , which is in the sight of God of a great price .

And now consider also , you Women that profess Godliness , and go under the name of holy Women , and trust in God , see that your selves , and your Children , and all your young Women are Adorned and Arrayed , and have on this Ornament , as the Apostle wills the Church of Christ to put on , as the holy Women did of Old , and be not of an unmeek and unquiet Spirit , and unsober and unshamefaced , when you are admonished and exhorted not to act contrary to the holy Women of old that trusted in God , and such as professed Godliness according to the Apostles Doctrine .

And here you may see what care the Apostles had to keep the Saints , the Church of Christ , their Eyes , Minds and their Spirits above the wearing of Gold , plating their Hair , and Pearls , and costly Aparrel , which was the Glory of the World , which the holy Women that trusted in God and professed Godliness and good Works , these things were not to be their Adorning nor Ornaments , but as is said before , the hidden man of the Heart , which was not Corrupt , even the meek and quiet Spirit , which is with the Lord of a great price , and this ought to be , and is the Adornment and Ornament of all the holy Women that profess Godliness and good Works , and trust in God .

And all you that have been convinced of the Lords Truth by his Spirit , take heed of Sathan taking you up into that Mountain , and then of his shewing you the Glory of the World , and then of your Minds and Eyes going after it , and receiving of it , and so in that you fall from the Spirit and Truth of God that did convince you , and then so to worship the Devil , the King of Pride , the God of the World , that abode not in the Truth , in whom there is no Truth , and then he to lead your Minds and Eyes after every new vain Fashion of the World that passeth away , and that lieth in wickedness , and so draweth you into the Love of the World , which is Enmity to God , and into the Wisdom of the World , by which ye do not know God , & then to such the Gospel of Life and Salvation is hid , in whom the God of this World hath blinded their minds , and in such disobedient ones the Prince of the Air rules , and gets into them by disobeying the Truth , and in such Christ doth not rule in their hearts by Faith , and it is not like , when they make Shiprack of it , and a good Conscience ; and therefore walk in the Light of Christ , and grow in his Grace , and the Knowlege of the Lord Jesus Christ that bruises the Serpents Head and destroys the Devil and his Works , that you may all be established upon Christ the Rock and Foundation .

And if ye do believe in the Covenant of Light , Life and Grace , then , why do not you all train up your Children in the same ? did not the Lord command the Jews to train up their Children in the old Covenant and teach them to walk in it ? and were not all the Males to be Circumcised ? and they that were not Circumcised were to be cut off from the Congregation of the Lord ; so are not all you that profess the new Covenant of Grace , Light and Life , and the Gospel of Salvation Preached to Every Creature , and the Grace of God which brings Salvation that hath appeared to all men , to teach them to live Godly , and to deny Ungodliness , &c. ( I say ) are not you all to train up your Children and Families in this Light of the Gospel and Grace of Christ which brings Salvation , and brings them into favour with God , that you may have the comfort of your Children in this World , and in that which is Everlasting ? and that they may be Circumcised with the Spirit of God , which he poureth out upon all Flesh , that with his Spiritual Circumcision the Body of Death and Sins of the Flesh may be cut off , which are come into Man and Woman by Transgression , that neither you nor they might dye in the Body of Death , and in the Sins of the Flesh , and such do not die in the Lord , for they that are not Circumcised with the Spiritual Circumcision are cut off from the Heavenly Jerusalem , and the Kingdom of God and Christ , and from the Church of the Living God written in Heaven : And therefore , if you will have the comfort of your Children in this World , and that which is to come , train them up in the fear of God , and in his Covenant of Light and Grace , which Grace brings their Salvation , and brings them into favour with God , and into the Spiritual Baptism and Circumcision , so that they may Serve and Worship the Living God in his Spirit and Truth , Amen .

And now , do not say but you are all warned in your Life time ; and therefore prise your time , while you have it , that you way spend it to the Honour and Glory of God .

Concerning Children and Young People .

AND if Children and young People must be left and let alone to themselves , and not be Admonished , Exhorted and Restrained from the Evil and Vanities of the World , then why did Moses and the Prophets , and the Apostles , which were sent of God , exhort the People to train up their Children in the fear of the Lord , and to teach them his Law while they were Young , that they might not depart from it when they were Old ? and if that they did , the Lord did Judge them , as ye may read in the Scriptures of Truth ; and if that they must be left to themselves , and not restrained from Evil , then how came it to pass that old Ely lost his Life , and his Priesthood , and the Ark of God , for not restraining his Children from evil ?

And again , if that they must be left to themselves , why did the Prophets and the Apostles say , that they must not Quench , nor Vex , nor Grieve , nor Rebel against the Spirit of God , nor turn the Grace of God into Wantonness , nor walk despitefully against the Spirit of Grace ? but walk in the Spirit , and in the Truth , and in the Light , and to Love it , and not to Hate it ; for they that do not Love it , the Light , but Hate it , are Condemed by it , and so grow in the Condemnation , and are not in the Justification of Life .

The Lord God commanded Abraham to Circumcise himself and his Children , and servants that were Bought with Money , and were Born in his House . He was to bring all his Males into this Covenant of outward Circumcision . And the Lord said , That Soul shall be cut off that is not Circumcised , he hath broken my Covenant of outward Circumcision , as you may see , Genesis 17. Here you may see , Abraham was to teach and instruct his Family and Servants , and he was not to keep any Man or Servant that was Uncircumcised in his Family .

Now you that profess the new Covenant , are not you , and all your Children and Servants to be Circumcised with the Spirit of Circumcision ? and do not they that have not the Body of Death and the Sins of the Flesh , cut off by Circumcision , go down into the Pit , and not into the Paradise , and the Kingdom of God ; and therefore may not such Uncircumcised by the Spirit hurt the Families of true Christians in the Light .

Therefore consider Abraham was not to suffer any of his Children and Servants that were Bought with his Money , or Born in his House to be Uncircumcised , in the old Covenant , this care the Lord laid upon him , in his Family , in the old Covenant . Therefore consider you that profess the new Covenant of the Spirit of Circumcision , what care lies upon you in your Families , of Teaching and Instructing your Servants and Children , and to bring them to the Spirit of Circumsicion .