The Missing Cross to Purity


Advice to and Regarding Children

As the Site Editor, a father to grown men, and grandfather to a young grandson, I have created this page to index several writings of the Early Quakers to their children. Each writer was a totally regenerated, entirely new creature, dwelling in the Kingdom of God. Each writer was a giant in the Early Quaker movement, whose writings live to posterity.

After our wife, children are a man's greatest treasure in this world. So, when we can see how these worthies of the Lord instructed and advised their children, we know it is their best; and it is the best advice available from anyone in the world, because all of these men lived in close counsel with our God and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Francis Howgill and Isaac Penington wrote to their children when long imprisoned. As William Penn was departing for the colonial wilderness of Pennsylvania, he wrote to his wife and children, not knowing if he would see his wife or children again. So their advice was somewhat of a last will.

No, their knowledge and wisdom was not earthly — their wisdom was from above, for they were the oracles of God, convincing thousands of the Truth, and then counseling them as the convinced worked out their salvation.

The writings indexed on the left side bar are treasures. May they be helpful to you in ordering your life, and then to your children afterwards.

Some Additional Guidelines to Those Newly Convinced Parents with Children

On this site we are counseled not to teach until we have been specifically authorized by the Lord. But what about our children? We have a responsibility to raise them with proper values, which includes a true description of God and what He expects from every person. I have a few suggestions for how to approach children.

Communicate the essence of following writing by George Fox to your young children:

"And the Lord said to Jeremiah 1:5, ‘Before I formed you in the belly, I knew you; and before you came out of the womb, I sanctified you.’ And so here all may see, and consider, and know themselves to be the great work of God; that when God that forms and fashions you in the womb, and brings to birth, and has brought you forth, that you may choose the good and forsake the evil; that you may remember and consider, that you are the work of the Lord, and remember your Creator, and who has fashioned you and formed you in the womb, and has brought you to a birth, and has brought you forth to fear, and serve, and worship, and honor him that has made you, and brought you forth. For as Solomon said in Eccl 12:1, ‘Remember now your Creator in the days of your youth, while the evil days come not, or before the evil days do come.’ Now this is the duty of all youth, let them be males or females, to remember their Creator, and let him not go out of their memory, so that they may be fitted to stand in the evil days when they come; for when they grow up to be young men, then the evil days will appear, in which they may be tempted to ‘adultery, fornication, drunkenness, theft, murder, lying, cozening, cheating, unrighteousness, ungodliness, lightness, wantonness, pleasures,’ and other evils, by which they may forget their Creator by going into such evils, when they are tempted to such things. The evil days come to try youth, for those who yield to such evils before mentioned, forget their Creator, and forsake him; for Solomon said, ‘Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.’ Pro 22:6 . Here is the duty of parents, and the duty of children, which is to be practiced and followed. Now here is the duty of youth , ‘to remember his Creator in the days of his youth, before the evil days come.’ But what must we do when we come to be young men? What is their means and duty? David declared in Psalm 119:9, ‘How shall a young man cleanse his ways? By taking heed to and watching for your word, .. I have retained your word [spoken commands] in my heart, and I will meditate on your precepts, that I might not sin against you.’ So now, for all young men to take heed to the word of God in their hearts, and hide [retain] it in their hearts, and to meditate upon it; for the word is called a hammer, and a sword, and a fire, to hammer down, and cut down, and burn up that which would defile them in their ways, words, and hearts.

And the apostle said, ‘that the word of faith which he preached, was in their hearts and mouths, to obey it, and to do it.’ Rom 10:8,17 . And ‘the engrafted word was able to save their souls,’ James said. And Peter said, ‘that they were to feed upon the sincere milk of the word;' but they which are hearers of the word, and not doers of the word, deceive their own souls.' James 1:22. And Christ said to his disciples, ‘Now you are clean through the word [which I have spoken unto you.’ So this word will keep the ways and the hearts of young men clean, the word of God, which is a sanctifying word, a reconciling word; and Christ told the Jews, his word had no place in them.

And again, he told the unclean Jews, ‘You do not have his word (namely, the word of God) abiding in you. John 5:38.’ So these Jews made a great profession of the scriptures, but did not have the word of God abiding in them; so they were not likely to be made clean by it.

And Christ said, ‘Sanctify them through your word, your word is truth,’ (namely, his disciples and believers). And again Christ said, ‘I have given them, (namely, his disciples), your word, and they have kept your word,’ (namely, the word of God). John 17:17,14,8.

Now here you may see the disciples kept the word of God, which was the means to keep their hearts, ways, and words clean; but the Jews, priests, Scribes and Pharisees, that made a great outward profession of the scriptures, whose ways were unclean, and mouths full of foul unclean words against Christ, Christ told them, ‘that the word of God did not abide in them.’ And therefore, though they had the scriptures, and made an outward profession of them, like the professors of our age, and others who go from the means, the word of God in their hearts, to keep their ways and lips clean, and to sanctify them; therefore they plead for a body of death to the grave, and a purgatory when they are dead, who live in a profession of the letter without the word.

And John said, ‘I have written unto you young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you; and you have overcome the wicked one,’ namely, the devil, by the word of God, which was before the devil was. So here you may see, what is the means by which the young men's ways are cleansed and sanctified, and what makes them strong, and to overcome the wicked one—the word of God abiding in them. And therefore, every young man, and all young people are to love, and obey, and do the word of God, by which their ways, words, and hearts, and all may be kept clean ; for the word of God is a hammer and a sword, to hammer down, and cut down the devil and his works, and a fire to burn them up. So it is the word of power, the word of wisdom, the word of reconciliation, and the word of patience, by which they overcome.

By the grace of God, Christ the word and light is given to every man so that He might believe and obey — including to believe the truth of a man's ways, which the light reveals within him. God then visits every man at some time in their life, anonymously pleading with them to turn from the evil of their ways. The vast majority of men do not comprehend this anonymous pleading to come from God; and so if they don't love the truth of what they have been shown by the light of God within every man, they reject the truth, loving their evil ways, and in effect hating the truth, which is to hate Christ, who is the truth. The few that feel convicted as they are shown their evil ways, who acknowledge the truth of what they have been told, and who resolve to change their life accordingly — because of their love for the truth, those few men and women are then chosen by God to be given a spiritual experience that gives them a taste of the goodness of God, which is given to motivate them to seek He who has been hidden to be revealed. For those few, thus starts their spiritual journey to: 1) first discard the broad easy ways that lead to destruction and find the narrow, only way to God: the cross, and 2) to make the difficult journey to full reconciliation with God, restored to what Adam and Eve lost, but even better: to be translated into the heavens, to sit in the heavens with Christ, protected from ever sinning again, and be in their presence continually — all while still alive on earth and then forever.

Remember the scripture: Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old, he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6 . Only the Lord can give a man, including your children, the desire and hunger to seek Him; that is why this scripture limits your responsibility to the way he should go, not in the way he goes; the way he goes is your child's response to the call of the Lord.

If you read some of the writings on the left side bar, you will find further suggestions. When your children are old enough to read these letters on the sidebar for themselves, guide them to read the wonderful advice in those letters.

Now some warnings:

  1. Don't give you child a computer or access to a computer without first installing a porn filter. Pornography on the web can seriously disadvantage your child from hearing the Lord's calling.

  2. Consider restricting your children from all social media on phones or computers, which can be very harmful to children in several ways: a) by sexualizing them, heterosexually, or homosexually, or even transexually; b) subjecting them to cyber bullying that can cause depression and even lead them to suicide; c) warp their sense of right vs. wrong as you have taught them; d) be convinced to keep you from knowing what they are watching and doing, which some popular figures on social media strongly stress; e) become addicted to gossip; f) etc.

  3. Be very careful with your child's choice of computer games. Keep away from games of violence and revealing images of bodies ; and be certain there are not demons within the game. There are games with demon characters, with which you must make a deal in order to succeed in the game. There are games with Satanic ceremonies, rituals, and word-for-word Satanic prompted recitations, etc. Participating in these games, your child can become demon possessed very easily; and there is no easy way out of that possession.

  4. Experimenting with magic and Satanism is all over the web, urging the reader to recite a particular Satanic Prayer or mantra; and this can result in serious demon possession. Warn you child to not ever experiment with magic, often disguised as innocent-looking games such as ouija boards.

I have heard from several people that have become demon possessed by playing with magic, through computer games, through participating in witchcraft rituals, etc.; and even when they realize they have become possessed with demons and turn to true Christianity, (the way of the inward cross), in hopes of ridding themselves of the demons, they are then attacked by the demons. By waiting on God with obedience to His commands to repent, He will eventually rebuild the walls in their heart to keep the demons out; but this is very long and difficult because the demons are continuing to talk to them, lie to them, torture them, fill them with doubts, discourage them, and confuse them.

This web site's purpose is to show how to become
free from sin
by benefiting from the changing power of God through the cross,
which leads to union with God in his Kingdom.


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