Epistle 161
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"Married to the Lord"

OH Friends! Do not Dye from the Good through the Wantonness of the fleshly Lusts, neither be choked with the Cares of this Life, nor fear the Shearers, neither let the Heat scorch your green Blade; but dwell under the Shadow of the Almighty, who will shade you from the Heat and Cold. Neither be cumbred nor surfeited with the Riches of this World, nor bound, nor straitned with them, nor married to them; but be free and loose from them, and be married to the Lord.

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