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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 Underta∣kings: 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 Con∣versations,
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 Store House; 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 Wo∣mens 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 anothers Good and Welfare, and to be helpful one to another; and see that nothing be lacking among you, then all will be well. And let Temperance, and Patience, and Kindness, and Brotherly Love be exercised among you, so that you may abound in Vertue, and the true Humility; living in Peace, shewing forth the Nature of Christianity, that you may all live as a Family, and the Church of God, holding Christ your heavenly Head, and he exercising his Offices among you, and in you; and hold him, the Head, by his Light, Power and Spirit; and that will keep your Minds over the Earthly Spirit, up to God; for the Earth, and the Sea, and all things therein, are his, and he gives the increase thereof.
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 in the Truth, and how your Men and Womens Meetings are settled.
And my Desires are, That we may hear that you are a good Sa∣vour to God, in those Countries: So that the Lord may Crown all your Actions with his Glory. So with my Love to all.
Swarthmore, the 4th of the 1st Month, 1676.
G. F.
Epist. 340.
Honour God in all Ʋnderta∣kings.
Temperance. Patience and Brotherly Love be exercised.