_Thirdly_, _to the young convinced_.
_Fourthly_, _to the children of Friends_. _Fifthly_, _to those that are
yet strangers to this people and way_, _to whom this book_, _and that
which it was preface to_, _in its former edition_, _may come_. _All the
several exhortations accommodated to their several states and
conditions_: _that all may answer the end of God's glory_, _and their own
salvation_.
And now, Friends, you that profess to walk in the way that this blessed
man was sent of God to turn us into, suffer, I beseech you, the word of
exhortation, as well fathers as children, and elders as young men. The
glory of this day, and foundation of the hope that has not made us
ashamed since we were a people, you know, is that blessed principle of
light and life of Christ which we profess, and direct all people to, as
the great and divine instrument and agent of man's conversion to God. It
was by this that we were first touched, and effectually enlightened, as
to our inward state; which put us upon the consideration of our latter
end, causing us to set the Lord before our eyes, and to number our days,
that we might apply our hearts to wisdom. In that day we judged not
after the sight of the eye, or after the hearing of the ear; but
according to the light and sense this blessed principle gave us, so we
judged and acted, in reference to things and persons, ourselves and
others; yea, towards God our Maker.
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