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Show S;S 1693· ~ Pan II. The Rife a~~d Progrefs VoL. I: 289 Next, Charity makes the bell Confttullion of Things ond Perfons and is fo far from being an evil Spy, 3 Backbm:r, or a Detra6:or, that i~ cxcufes Weaknefs, extenuates Mifcauit~ges, mt~kes the Beft of every Thing forgives every Bc.dy, fenes All, and hopes to the End. ' 290 1 t mode_ratcs Exueams, i•alwaye for Expedients, laLours to ac .. commodate Diflerences, and had rather Suffer than Re\'enge: Andis(ofar from exaE\ing the utmoft Farthing, that it bad rather lofe, than feek her own violently. · 291 As it ails Fxeely, fo Zealoufly too 1 but 'tis alwaysto Do Good, for it butts No Body. 2 92 An Univerfal Remedy againll Difcord, and an Holy Cement (Cr Mankind . • 29; Jind Lt/lly, 'Tis Love to God and the Brethren, which raifes the Soul above all Worldly Confiderations; and, as it gives a Taite of Heaven upon Earth, fo'tis Heaven in the Fulnefs of it, to the truly Charitable here. 294 This is the Noblell Senfe Chatity hailo aftet which all ihould ptefs as that more excellent Way. ' 29) Nay,_ moft excellent; for as ~aith, Hope and Charity were the more excellent" Way that Great Apofile dJfcovered to the Chriftians (too apt to flick in Outward Gifts and Chutch Performances) fo. of that better Way he prefexr'd Charity as the bell Part, becaufe it would out·lall the tell, 3nd abide for ever. 296 Wherefore a Man can never be a True and Good Chrifiian without Charitl, even in the lowe1t Senfe of it\ and yet he may have that Part thereo , and ftill be none of the .Apoft/IF True Chriftian, fince he tells us, That tbo' we foou/J. give aU our Goods to the Poor, 11nd want Charity (in her other and higher Senfes) it would profitm nothing. 297 Nay, Tho' 'IIJt bad .AU Tongue1, .AU Knowkdge, and even Gifts of Propbefy, and were Preachers tG others, ay, and had Zeal eno11gb to givt our Bo~its to be burned, yet if we fiD,mted Chuity, it would 1101 av~ti!HJ Jor SaiV<2tton. 298 It fee~s it was his (an~ indeed ou~ht to be .our) Unum ]\rueff~rillm, or the One Thtn.g_ Needful, wh1ch our Sav10ur attnbuted to .Jl:L:lry, in Pre· ference to bet Stftcr Marrba, that feems not to hue wanted the letTer Parts of Charity. 299 Would God this Divine Virtue were mole implanted and diffufed among Mankind, the Pretenders to Cbrifli•nity efpecially, and we fhould certainly mind Piety more than CoRtTO'f}trJy, and Exerdfe Love and t!ompt2ffion inflead t~/ Cenfuring tmd Ptrfecutmg one another in any b1anner t»hlt· Joever. A Brief A C C 0 U N T of the Rife and Progreft of the People, call'd QU·AKERS. IN Which their Fundamental Principle, Doarines, Worfhip, Minillty and Difcipline are Plainly Declared, &c. By W. PENN. An EPISTLE to the Reader. READ~ R, tbH follofling Jlccount of tb~ People coiled QuakerS, c:/c. Wal Wftt m the fell!' and Love of God : Fzrft tU aflandingTejlimony ttJ Jbat ever Bleffed Truth, 111 the Inward Putt, with whifh God, in my TtJut!J.. {ua A Brief A C C 0 UN T i~ ' r:::TC. CHAP. r, Conraini'!g a hrief .Account of divers D~ . tbe Tu11e he r»tU pleafed ttJ raife tbi/'b:jfifi~r::tR •f God i~ the Wot!d, t tl DIVE R S p toplr, call d Qpakero. have been the DHi enfati 'the World unto the Sons of 'M ons of God fince the Creation of ~_as b{~he Renoom of his own Exce~~;t ~t th~ Great End of all of them Gl~; of ;n hi~W~,~~.• ETh~lWorl~ h~mfelf~~:n.'~o¥~~;E~r~b~ ~%/'tl,~ ~o that the good God had made. egan wah Innocency : All was' then th~n~ fo.thet'8t Natures and Harmo~yA~~g~~t~ ~~fred t.he Works of his ormng tars Sang togerhe fi J e tm thelt Creator Then .Amen to his Law Not a J ~ or oy, and all Parts of his Works f: 'd :hehBeHafts in the Field, the F~{:l ti~ tt~~ wA~ole hFraF~Ihe i. but Man in Paradife, n t e eavens, the Fruits of h E r, t e 1 tn the Sea, the Lights ter and Fire Worf'hipped, praifede 3. ~anh; yea, ~he Air, the Earth, the Wa• ntji. 0 Holy Sabbath 0 Hoi Dnd exalted hiS Powtr, WifJom and G(}()l· ' Y ay to the Lord! · · 5 R 2 Bat |
