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A76750	The Cry of blood. And Herod, Pontius Pilate, and the Jewes reconciled, and in conspiracy with the dragon, to devour the manchild. Being a declaration of the Lord arising in those people, of the city of Bristol, who are scornfully called Quakers, and of the manifold sufferings, and persecutions sustain'd by them from the priests, rulers, professors and rude multitude, contrary to law, liberty, justice, government, the righteous ends of of the wars, and the Scriptures of truth. Together with a true account of the material passages in substance between the rulers and them at their several examinations, and commitments, and at two general sessions of the publick peace: and of the tumults, and insurrections, with other necessary observations, and occurences. Gathered up, written in a roll, and delivered to John Gunning late mayor of that city (being the fruits of his year) for the private admonition, and conviction of himself, and brethren concern'd, and named therein: with a letter declaring the end, and reason of what is so done, (of which a copy followes in the ensuing pages) / Subscribed by Geo: Bishop, Thomas Goldney, Henry Roe, Edw: Pyott, Dennis Hollister. And now after five moneths space of time published, for the reasons hereafter expressed.	Bishop, George, d. 1668.	1656 (1656)	Wing B2990; Thomason E884_3; ESTC R27277	101,853	169

r Mat. 26. 65 66. Blasphemer And he must dye for it ſ John 8. 59. 10. 39. Iuke 23. 29. 30. Tumults were raised upon him to take away his life though he passed thorough them his hour being not come the t John 9. 12. Luke 24. 20 22. Chief Priests cryed out to Pilate when he would have released him for he was u Acts 3. 13. determined so to do w Mat. 27. 18. knowing that they had delivered him for envy because he found no x John 19. 6. 18. 38. Luke 23. 5. cause of death in him saying y Mat. 27. 23. Mark 15. 14. What evil hath he done Whosoever maketh himself a King speaketh against Caesar and thou art no friend to Caesar if thou let him go No z John 19. 15. King will we have but Caesar though they before said If we let this man alone the a John 11. 48. Romans will take our place and Nation A b Luke 23. 18 19. 24. 25. Mark 15. 7. Matth. 27 21. mover of sedition a maker of insurrection a murtherer do they desire before him Nothing will serve them but to c Mat. 27. 22 23. John 19. 6. crucifie him And the rude multitude do they d Matth. 27. 20. Mark 15 11. stir up to cry Release Barrabbas Crucifie Jesus and the e Luke 23. 24 25. voices of them and the Chief Priests prevailed And Pilate gave sentence that it should be as they required And he released unto them him that for Sedition and murther was cast into prison whom they had desired but he delivered Jesus to their will A stone is f Mat. 27. 63 64 65 66. rolled before his Sepulchre and guards of Souldiers placed to hinder him from rising And when he arose from the dead g Mat. 28. 11 12 13 14 15. large money given them to slander his resurrection and to say his disciples came by night and stole him away Thus they of whom he was according to the h Rom. 9. 4 5. flesh to whom he was the i Gen. 3. 16. 17. 19. 18. 18. ●8 14. promise of many hundred years standing and that in him all the families of the earth should be blessed in whom all the promises concerning him were fulfilled before their eyes for whose sake their Kingdom stood above two thousand years being the Admiration and dread of the world they who looked so earnestly for him mist him and they who laid up all their hopes and life in his coming put him to death and said his k Mat. 27. 25. blood be upon us and our Children And although the Romans in that very generation took away their place and Nation and caused them to sustain such miseries ●s l Mat. 24. 21. never were before or shall be on a people as he foretold And though they have these many hundreds of years ceased from being a Kingdom and are scattered upon the face of the earth as the prey of Nations Yet are the Jews still expecting the Messiah the Messenger of the Covenant's coming whom their m Acts 5. 30. 10. 39. Fathers with wicked hands slew and hung upon a tree As it was then so is it now in this City and Nation Great hath been and are in these dayes the expectations many the breathings the groans the prayers the speakings of professors for the coming of Jesus Christ in Spirit and power the n Heb. 9. last according to the Scriptures to judge Babylon the great Whore the mother of harlots and of Fornications who hath made all Nations drunk with the Cup of her abominations to raise up the Tabernacle of David which is fallen down to bring the New Jerusalem from God out of heaven prepared as a Bride adorned for her Husband wherein the Tabernacle of God shall be with men and he shall dwell with them and they shall be his people And God himself shall be with them and be their God Yea what writings are there to prove according to the computation of years that we are come to the periods of Daniel's times and John's in his Revelations wherein the Prophesies shall be fulfilled and that the Kingdom shall not be delivered to another people And how earnest are the expectations of people going from mountain to hill looking here and looking there saying Lo here and lo there as if the Bridegroom were coming promising themselves and being perswaded that they are upon the entrance of those glorious times that never shall have an end And yet now that the Cry at midnight hath been made Behold the Bridegroom cometh Go ye forth to meet him And many who had oyl in their lamps have met him and are gone in with him Now that the day doth dawn and the shadowes flie away after the long night of Obscurity and Apostacy Now that the man of sin by the brightnesse of his coming is discovered and destroyed in many who are his witnesses and of his power and glory Because he cometh not in the Common way of the National profession Nor by the mixed Companies of the Presbytery nor by the Forms of gathered Churches so called nor by Baptisme of water nor by Observation nor in high Notions and Imaginations nor in the liberty of the flesh nor in outward pomp and glory nor in the wildernesse nor in the secret Chambers nor in the Thrones of this world nor in returning and raising up the outward breaches in the fundamentall constitutions of the Civill Government which now seems to be shaken as was the Jewish upon his coming in the flesh nor by outward powers nor by the Rulers nor the Priests nor the Doctors nor the Universities nor the Synods nor by the great men nor by the noble nor by the wayes men have concluded on But in the power and life of God growing up as a tender plant before him as a root out of the dry ground out of the barren mountains out of the least of the Tribes Out of the mean and the weak and the foolish without outward form comelinesse or beauty Reproving and denying all the vanities and fashions and Customs of the world and whatsoever is esteemed by man Judging and cutting down the body of sin and the whole world of professions opinions and Judgments which stand in the imagination and not in the light Turning the lofty from their Seats and exalting the humble and meek Bringing those who have placed themselves at the upper end of the Table to the lowest to the first principle the light which is the door at which whosoever entreth not is a thief and a robber Passing Judgment on every idle word witnessing the streight way the daily Crosse the denyall of a mans self his will and righteousnesse the Redemption the cleansing the birth the Teacher the setting up of Judgment and righteousnesse on the earth within yea Christ within the hope of Glory yea the father and the sonne and the spirit dwelling and ma●ing their

in his Province whose Laws were divers from all people neither kept they the Kings Laws because Mordecai bowed not to him in the gate It was the d Dan. 6. 4 5 ● 7. 12. 13. Governours of Provinces that suggested This Daniel will not obey thy Command O King and these e Dan. 3. 12. Children of the captivity regard not thee O King nor the Decree which thou hast signed they serve not thy God nor worship the Image thou hast set up And it was the f John 9. 12 Chief Priests Scribes and Pharisees who told Pilate if he Crucified not Jesus the King of the Jewes he was no friend to Caesar and that they had no King but Caesar And we have found this g Luke 23. 2. fellow perverting the Nation and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar saying that he himself is Christ a King though he pretended to no other Kingdom than a spiritual one neither entrenched he upon Herod or Pilate And it was the Bishops who in latter times reproached the meetings of the people of God who were scornfully called Puritans with the brand of Conventicles against the Kingdom for which they would needs pretend a Law which neither was made for nor intended any such thing and possessed the Kings against them as their onely enemies Priests in their Pulpits and elsewhere incensing stirring up and enraging the People Whilest this ground-work of Dissavour was laying in the Chief in Authority the Priests were not idle to disaffect and enrage the City by their Raylings and lyes in their Pulpits their reading of Books there and perverting the sence of them and falsly representing the people of God as Deceivers Denyers of Christ that dyed at Jerusalem Scriptures Ordinances Magistracy Ministry Justification by Christ as Blasphemers Jesuites Witches yea what not And endeavoring to possess the people therewith Gathering repeating what lyes false stories how improbable soever they could learn abroad for that purpose a Ring-leader and Chief of whom was Ralph Farmer Priest and hereunto many of the Independents and Baptized Judgement and others added their reports And upon occasions private and publick manifested their dislike and opposition to those people and their Doctrine and Principles whereby both the Magistrates and the multitude were so hightened and incensed that there was nothing too bad for them to wish to nor too cru● for them to execute upon the innocent yea they stoo● ready to draw their blood and manifested such a spirit that had the Supreme disposer of all things and the Laws given leave it was casie to conclude they would more greedily have led them to execution and murthered them with torments then the Bishops did the Martyrs in Queen Maryes days to burn whom they had a Law or the Heathen the poor Christians under the Romane persecution and thought therein they should do God service As Just as innocent as Disciples as Christians no persecutions were managed against Christ and his Apostles upon record in Scripture but as † Luke 23. 2. Perverters of the Nation Forbidders of Tribute to be given to Caesar Teachers that the a Acts 6. 14. Acts 21. 21. 18. 12 13. Law of Moses was not to be observed Christ the end thereof being come as b John 7. 19 20. 8. 48. 52 59. Acts 21. 28. Devils as c John 19. 7. Mark 14. 64. Blasphemers of God the Holy place and the Law as d Acts 6. 11. 13. Acts 6. 14. 16. 21. Changers of the Laws and Customes as e Acts 16. 20 21. turbulent and f Acts 24. 5. 18. 13. pestilent fellows Movers of Sedition g Acts 26. 6. Prophaners of the Temple h Acts 21. 2● 29 30 31. Polluters of the Holy place i Acts 19. 26. Affirmers that those are not Gods which are made with hands and so to the Prison and to the Crosse to the Stocks and to the Whip to the Torments and to the Devourings of wild Beasts to the Saws and to Death it self And the same seed of the Serpent in this Generation with a greater rage according to its power persecutes the righteous seed first paints them out as the vilest of men not fit to live and then stirs up the beastly nature of the multitude to devour and destroy them as the Romans of old clothed Christians in wilde beasts skins and then threw them to the dogs to be torn to pieces With these things the City was as it were set on fire and the minds of the people fully prepared for mischief and as opportunities were administred their tongues were exercised and their hands stretched out against those who bore testimony to the Truth For now no friends whatsoever could passe up and down the streets upon their occasions nor to a friends house nor to or from their meetings to wait upon the Lord but by boys servants Porters Priests and other people who would be esteemed of rank and quality were they openly abused reproached dirted stoned pincht kickt and otherwise grosly injured without check or controle Insomuch as there appeared not the face of civility in the Town And a stranger would have doubted whether any such thing as Government were in it or Religion And as the Trumpet gives the alarm to the battel so the tongues of people being thus freely exercised whetted on their rage and kindled their fury further to lay hands on the Innocent as what is hereafter mentioned will abundantly manifest For on the tenth day of the tenth moneth in the Eliz. Marshal 10. day 10. month 1654. speaking the word of the Lord to Priest Farmer morning Elizabeth Marshal being moved of the Lord to deliver a Message to Ralph Farmer and the people hearing of him at Nicholas Steeple-house went thither and sitting over against him and waiting in the power of the Lord all the while he was speaking but spake nothing till he had ended his Sermon and prayer of it and seemed to be going out of the Pulpit to give that they call the Sacrament to the people at which times the thing called the blessing is not usually given till that be ended Cryed out This is the word of the Lord to thee Farmer Wo wo wo from the Lord to them who take the word of the Lord in their mouths and the Lord never sent them And was proceeding to speak further but Tumulted c. the multitude prevented her by laying on her violent hands crushing her Arms pinching and thuisting her the first that laid hands on her and crushed her Arms being one of the Rulers Sons notwithstanding she got a little respit and turning about was moved to speak to the people for her bowels were turned within her for them to them she said from the Lord This is the mighty day of the Lord the Lord is comming to pull his people out of the mouths of all dumb shepherds But she was hindred by the tumult from speaking any further who drew her

Conscience in things of a spiritual nature except to Popery and Prelacy And to such as under the profession of Christ hold forth and practise licentiousnesse seems to be guarded from all persecution by the Fundamental constitution of a new Government Wherein those are Chief in Authority and Rule and possessed of all power whose sword was made successful and victorious to the cutting down of Tyrannous and imposing powers under which themselves amongst others suffered wherein the Gospel is said to shine so glorious as to form the whole Nation into a profession and to the rendring so many thousands of professors clear-sighted in the Mysteries of the Kingdom and earnestly to expect the reign of Christ over all for ever now supposed by them and believed to be on the very threshold Such persecutions and unjust proceedings as are rehearsed in the following Treatise should be presumed to be done in England And that those who are called the Children of the Kingdom and accompt themselves ready to sit down therein with Christ when he shall appear Now that he is begun to be manifested in life and mighty power unto which thousands of his Saints do bear witnesse and have set their seals should all opinions Judgments and forms hitherto in the height of enmity and contention against each other be now reconciled together and joyn in with the powers of the world from whom in their several dayes as they have witnessed any thing of truth they have received opposition And also with the rude multitude in persecuting and afflicting the witnesses of this Kingdom and seeking to murther the Lord of Glory thus beginning in these last times to be revealed But thou wilt cease to admire if in the cool of the day thou doest sit down and consider That as it was of old a Esay 8. 18. Christ Jesus and the Children whom the Lord had given him were for signs and wonders in Israel b Rom. 9. 4 5. to whom pertained the Adoption and the Glory and the Covenants and the giving of the Law and the Service of God and the promises whose were the Fathers and of whom as concerning the flesh himself came who is God over all blessed for ever Even from the Lord of Hosts who dwelleth in Mount Sion And that as the seed of the Serpent and of the Bondwoman which is the same in Ishmael as in Cain who hated and slew his brother c Gal. 4. 29. persecuted the Seed of the Free-woman so it is now d Mal. 3. 1. John 1. 41. 4. 25. Very great were the expectations of the Jews for the coming of the Messiah Of him e Luke 1. 70. 24. 27. Acts 3. 18 21. all the Prophets prophesied from the beginning of the world Him all the f Heb. 8. 1. 5. 10. 1. 5. 7. 10. Levitical services sacrifices the Temple Circumcision and the Jewish Kingdom shadowed and typified Him the g Luke 5. 17. Acts 13. 27. Doctors of the Law and the Pharisees read out of the Prophets every Sabbath day and on him were their hopes fixed for a perfect restauration and redemption from under all their Captivities and servitudes In the h Gal. 4. 4. fulnesse of time in the dayes of i Matth. 2. 1. Herod the King who was not of the race of the Jews but appointed over them by the Romans under whose power they then were when the Scepter was departed from Judah which old Jacob k Gen. 49 10. prophesied should not he nor a Law-giver from between his feet till Shiloh come He came was l Luke 2 4 7. born of a Virgin at Bethlehem in the Tribe of Benjamin of the Seed of David The m Luke 2. 8 9 10 11 12 13 14. Angels signifie his birth to the Shepherds and for joy of it sing together n Luke 1. 17 76. 3. 4 5 6. John prepares the way before him in the spirit and power of Elias o Acts 2. 22. Approved he is of God by miracles wonders and signs by a p Mat. 3. 16 17. voice from Heaven by the descension of a Dove and by q 1 Cor. 15. 4. Acts 17. 31. raising him the third day according to the Scriptures All r Luke 24. 44. Acts 3. 18. Prophecies are fulfilled in him and himself ſ John 7. 28. 37. 38. John 8. 12 to the end Luke 4. 21. convinceth the Doctors and the people publiquely that it was so being indeed t 1 Tim. 3. 16. God manifested in the flesh justified in the Spirit seen of Angels preached to the Gentiles believed of in the world and received into glory And yet because He came not with outward observation nor in the Glory of Solomon nor in the dominion or restauration of an earthly Kingdom nor in the way they prescribed him Nor by the discovery of the High Priests Scribes and Pharisees But was u Luke 2. 24. Levit. 12. 8. born of a poor woman w Mat. 13 55. supposed a Carpenters sonne x Luke 2. 7. laid in a manger for there was no room for him in the Inne more marred in his y Esay 52. 14. visage than any man of no z Esay 53. 2 3. form or comelinesse or beauty whereby he should be desired Of no a Mat. 8. 20. abiding place b Mat. 4. 18 21. John 21. 3. Attended by poor Fishermen as his disciples followed by c Matth. 9. 9. 10. 11. 21. 31. 32. 11. 19. Luke 3. 12. 5. 29 30. 15. 1. 7. 29. 19. 2. Publicans and sinners because he opposed their e Matth. 25 3 6. Mark 7. 8 9 15. traditions Reproved their f John 4 20 21 22 23 24. outward commanded worship being all ended in him changed the g Mat. 5. 6. cap. Mat. 12. 1. 2. 6. 7. 8. 10. 12. 13. 14. Mat. 15. 1 15 Joh. 5. 10 11 Acts 6. 14. Laws and Customes h John 8. 44. 15. 22. 16. 8 9. Convinced them of sin was as a i Mal. 3. 1 2. Refiners fire and as Fullers sope k Mat. 2. 3. All Jerusalem as well as H●rod was moved at his birth The l Mat. 2. 4. 5. 6. 16. chief Priest and Scribes advise with Herod whom they hated and tell him who sought to murther Jesus where he was to be born who should be the Governour that should rule the people of Israel His m Joh. 1. 11. own receive him not though he came to them the most n Mat. 12. 14. John 7. 12. Luke 22 2. John 12. 42. Mat. 26. 3. 57. 59. 27. 20 22. strict in the outward observation of the Law which led to him most persecute him His friends when he took to him 12 disciples tell him he was o Mark 3. 21. besides himself The Scribes and Pharisees say he is p Mat. 11. 19. gluttonous a wine-bibber a q Mark 3. 23. Matth. 9. 34. Devill and the Chief of them yea and a

to the Law not their own wills and lusts And to the righteous ends of the late Wars for Rights Liberties Fundamental Laws and administration of impartial and equal Justice And to the a Exod. 22. 21. 23. 9. 12. Deut. 9. 12. Deut 10. 18 19. Lev. 19. 33 34. Psalm 146. 9. Ezek. 22. 29. Heb. 13. 2. Law of God which requires strangers to be entertained and cherished and loved as thy self not to be vexed or oppressed That His b 2 Chron. 36. 15 16. Isa 44. 26. Matt. 22. 6. Jer. 7. 25 26 27 28. Messengers be well entreated and hearkened to That the c Psal 82. 3 4 5 6 7. Exod. 23. 2. 6. 7. Deut. 16. 18 19 20. 27. 19. Innocent be protected and defended in Judgement That the d Deut. 1. 17. 2 Chro. 19. 6 7. Judgement given be the Lords Yea to Common humanity when men shall leave all that is dear unto them out of love to their souls at the command of God travel many hundreds of miles and freely speak to them the word of God as having known the terrour of the Lord and desiring only to approve themselves in what they deliver to every mans e 2 Cor. 4. 2. Conscience in the sight of God according to the Scripture and being not chargeable to any And a case wherein every Englishman is concerned And whether these Priests be not found out of the Doctrine of Christ Jesus and his Apostles and in the steps of the false Prophets High-Priests Scribes and Pharisees who throughout all their Generations caused the true Prophets and Ministers of Christ to be brought before Kings and Rulers to be f 2 Kings 22. 24. Matt. 26. 67 68. smot on the face to be imprisoned g Jer. 20. 3. Acts 16. 29. stockt h Acts 16. 22 23. 37. 22. 19 2 Cor. 11. 24 25. Acts 5. 40. Heb. 11. 36. whipt i John 9. 22. 24. 35. John 16. 7. cast out of the Synagogues k Matt. 8. 24. Acts 16. 39. Acts 2. 18. 5. 40. 1 Thes 2. 7. 8. commanded to depart their Coast and to speak no more in that Name yea to be l Heb. 11. 37. Acts 7. 58 59 60. Matt. 23. 29 to the end Acts 12. 19. 26. 10. put to death Christ himself to be m Matt. 27. 20. 35. Crucified as n Matt. 27. 63. 2 Cor. 6. 8. deceivers o Acts 21. 28. changers of the Lawes and p Acts 16. 21. Customes q Acts 17. 6. movers of Sedition r Acts 24. 5. turners of the world upside down s Acts 24. 5. pestilent and mad fellows u Luke 23 2. disturbers of the Peace w Luke 5 24. John 10. 37. Matt. 26. 65. Acts 6. 11. 13. perverting the Nation x Luke 7. 33. John 8. 48. blasphemers and y 2 Kings 9. 11. Jer. 29. 26. Jo. 10 20. Acts 26. 24. Luke 23. 2. Devils 'T was Amaziah z Amos 7. 10 11 12 13. that bad Amos depart Bethel and Prophesie no more there for it was the Kings Court 'T was the a Luke 8. 37. Gadarens that desired Christ to depart out of their Coasts because the Devils he cast out were got into the Swine And 't was the b Luke 7. 53. Samaritans that would not receive him because his face was as though he would go to Jerusalem If any one come in his own name or in the name of a Synod or some Church so called as bred up at the Universities or skill'd in the Tongues such a one is received settled maintained and defended be he what he will as to his qualifications and never so ignorant of the power and life of Jesus or unfit to speak even to men of which this City affords instances but they who come not in their own name or will nor by the will t 1 Kings 18. 20. Acts 16. 20. of man but in the name and power of the eternal God whereby they are made able Ministers of the everlasting Gospel and witnessed to be so in the hearts of thousands though they covet no mans silver nor gold though their conversation be as becometh the Gospel yet they must be charged to depart this City and the Liberties thereof Designing against the Government suggested This their first Attempt proving successess for their command in their own wills contrary to Law was not observed and these waters of the Sanctuary flowing higher and higher and spreading themselves much in the hearts of the people the Priests and Rulers are grieved thereat and new consultations are had concerning them And because that generally those who embraced the Truth were such as had alwaies been faithful to the Interest of the Common-wealth and of unspotted reputation and in that regard were likely to be heard by the chief in Authority should they complain because of their oppressions from these Magistrates the generality of whom are well known to have endeavored the destruction both of the Common-wealth and the friends thereof and that some other ends might be accomplished It was thought requisite therfore Representations were made at White-hall and Westminster that these were disaffected persons to the Government who under the notion of Quakers and under that pretence were suspected to be carrying on some design against the Government That there are thousands at their meetings even in the Fort that the safety of the Garrison was in immediate danger by those tumultuous Assemblies Among whom were many Cavaliers and that the Officers of the Garrison were friends to those people that so being brought under the prejudice and jealousie of Authority will lust might the more freely be acted upon them for the future and and be owned therein whieh suggestions were so far from truth that there was nothing administred that might give a rational ground of colour for any such practices those meetings being in peaceableness and though thousands made them up yet their quiet carriage and diligent attention was such as demonstrated another spirit than that of this world and another Kingdom than an earthly which if the truth was spoken out was that which indeed gave the trouble And to this false and adulterous generation an open charge is hereby given to prove the least title of any thing in design against the present Government in any who are Convinced of the Truth and do truly own this Ministration or any thing in all their meetings of a tumultuous nature or that gave any just suspition of conspiracies on their part or that is indeed criminal before man the Principles of those people tending to the laying down of carnal weapons and to the taking away of the occasion of war and disturbance and to the bringing of people off from that ground of evil doing to which the Magistrates sword is made a terrour It was Haman that suggested to King Ahashuerus that c it was not for the Kings profit to suffer the Jewes Hester 3. 8. 9. scattered

killed the Prophets And therefore he said unto them Woe be unto you ye Serpents ye generation of Vipers how can ye escape the damnation of Hell Wherefore behold I send unto you Prophets and wise men and Scribes and some of them ye shall kill and crucifie And some of them shall ye scourge in your Synagogues and persecute them from City to City that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias the sonne of Barachias whom ye slew between the Temple and the Altar Verily I say unto you All these things shall come upon this generation Matth. 23. from 29. to 37. Even so That i John 1 1 2 3 eternal word of life which the Apostles heard and saw with their eyes and looked upon and handled with their hands and bare witnesse unto with the Saints in their time as that which was with the Father from the beginning and manifested unto them k John 16. 13. Acts 15. 28. leading them into all truth for declaring of which and walking therein as the spirit not the form for there was no letter for much of what they did moved and l Acts 2. 4. gave them utterance they were persecuted put to death as the vilest of men and the off-scowring of all things by those who were called the devout and honourable and the Rulers and the people of the Jews who stood in the letter and in the form of those things which were once commanded of God but then abolished by the coming of Christ whom none of the m 1 Cor. 2. 6 8. Princes of the world knew for if they had they would not have crucified the Lord of glory being at least much of it committed to writing and handed with the rest of the Scriptures of truth to these later times the people of this generation embrace the declaration thereof Crying out against the Jews for persecuting and killing the Prophets and Apostles and crucifying of Christ after whose name they call themselves in whose doctrine and worship and in the fellowship and order of the Apostles and the Churches of the the Saints in their times they pretend to abide and for it and the Scriptures wherein they are recorded are they zealous even to blood though not according to knowledge as these later dayes have sadly witnessed And yet those who in this day of the Lords appearing do witnesse the Prophets and Apostles and their doctrine and Christ Jesus and the Scriptures and what is said therein of the Saints and their conditions in life and power in spirit and letter do receive from those who pretend to them all and to the Scriptures and yet are not so much as in the letter or form of doctrine declared therein the very same measure of reproach and persecution as did the Prophets and Christ Jesus and the Apostles and the Saints of which the Scriptures testifie read the one and compare the other therewith and judge though as to blood they have not as yet reached further than of those in other parts of this Nation who are dead in prison and of the blowes they have received And of others who by beatings have had their blood drawn even in the Steeple-houses as well as other places and mingled with their sacrifices of which this City giveth instances because the Lord who saith unto the raging Sea Hitherto shall thy proud waves go and no further hath bounded them by his power but they who contrary to Law and Justice and to that liberty which hath been allowed themselves and to the Scriptures which they would be understood to own and to be ruled by have proceeded so far and with so high a rage as this following Treatise to say nothing of what hath been acted in other parts of this Nation doth make to appear What cruelties would they not exceed in all former times had they Law for it or power in their hands And how doth this Generation manifest themselves hereby to be in the same spirit with those and in their steps which persecuted and killed the Prophets and Christ Jesus Luke 11. 49. and the Apostles and the witnesses of truth to this day filling up the measure of their fathers iniquity Wherefore the wisdom of God hath and will raise up his cloud of witnesses whom they do devise wicked devices against and dig as low as hell and imprison and persecute from City to City and from County to County and execute cruelties upon That all the blood of the Righteous shed since the foundation of the world may come upon them And venily it shall be required of this generation The Cry of Blood c. MAny of the people of God in and about the City of Bristoll as in divers other parts of this Nation having a long time wandred from mountain to hill from one from to another seeking rest but finding none and divers receiving no satisfaction from the Forms in which they walked and wherein they did abide in expectation of the glorious appearing of the Lord Jesus in spirit and power according to the Scriptures It hath pleased the Lord whom they sought at length to hasten to his Temple and out of his tender mercies to visite them with the day-spring from on high and not only them but many others who sate in darknesse and in the shadow of death thorough the everlasting Gospel of his dear Son Which though hid from ages and generations for many hundreds of years yet he hath now begun to make manifest with mighty power in the hearts and by the ministration of many whom he hath raised up to declare and publish the same and to bear witnesse to his great and terrible day approaching upon the Inhabitants of the earth And to the redeeming of his Sion with Judgment and her Converts with righteousnesse Unto which thousands of pretious Saints in this Nation and many hundreds in and about this place who are turned by the power thereof from darknesse to light and from the Kingdom of Satan unto God having born their testimony and set to their seals the Devil is come down with great wrath knowing his time is short and stirs up the beast and the false Prophet the Rulers of the earth and the Merchants of Babylon to make war against it with a rage reaching up to Heaven But the Lamb even him who rides upon the white horse the Word of God who is called Faithful and true and in righteousnesse doth judge and make war out of whose mouth goeth a sharp sword with which he sha●● smite the Nations and rule them with a rod of iron on whose vesture dipt in blood and thigh is written King of Kings and Lord of Lords having all the Armies of Heaven following him on white horses shall overcome and have the victory for his Kingdome is an everlasting Kingdom and his Dominion is for ever and ever And the beast shall be taken and

to him as the Magistrates was to them and therefore where they required things contrary to Law they must not expect therein obedience All which he spake with much mildnesse So they departed the Tumult being made up of some hundreds who continued filling the streets and whooping and hollowing beating the door with other abuses the Constables permitting them so to do About the fifth hour the meeting rose and a little before they departed a Chief Constable being in the house observing the Ryot and hearing the former passages went forth at the desire of the man of the house to require the Peace and to cause every man to depart for the Ryot was very high expecting their coming out but they regarded him not and so they violently assaulted the people of the Lord wirh blowes kicks dirt stones and other vile abuses and reproaches and clamours following them up the streets During this time which from the coming of the Officers was above two hours did neither the Constables nor the Magistrates keep the Peace though the Councel house where they sat was at the upper end of the same street where the meeting was and though some of the Aldermen saw the tumults and abuses yet so far were they from doing their duty therein and causing their own order of Sessions to be observed that Alderman Joseph Jackson and John Knolles Priest laughed openly on the Tolzey as they stood and looked thereon Then the Tumult returned on the house where the meeting was with more violence than before assaulting the door and giving very opprobrious language to the man of the house with great clamor and rage till the 7th hour and in what danger he was could they have gotten in may be well understood and did manifestly appear by their words and actions But during all this time the Magistrates did not endeavor the preservation of the Peace or require any so to do though it was in the view and hearing of several of them Now because so much is rehearsed concerning the Warrant with which the Officers came to search as aforesaid Here follows a true Coppy thereof and whether sufficiently le al to warrant such proceedings let the understanding Judge To all the Constables with in this City City of Bristol and to every of them The Coppy of the Warrant FOrasmuch as information hath been given us that John Camm and John Audland two strangers who were Commanded to depart this City have in contempt of Authority come into this City again to the disturbance of the publick Peace These are therefore to vvill and require you forthvvith to apprehend them and bring them before us to be examined according to Law Given this 22 th January 1654. Signed William Cann Joseph Jackson Gabriel Sherman Richard Vickris Dept. Maior Henry Gibs John Lock This Warrant gives no power to search private or any other houses or signifies any such Crime as Fellony or Treason in which cases only the Law allowes private houses to be searcht Nor doth it mention by nam● George Fox James Nayler Francis Howgill or Edward Burrough whom the Officers demanded to search for nor was it directed to the house they came nor to any other house nor to all houses in general And for the Crimes laid down therein as to John Camm and John Audley whom it mentions they are wholly false For first they were never commanded to depart the City by the Magistrates themselves before whom they were never or by any other at their command either for a time or not to return again Nor did they return to this City again in contempt of their Authority for as they were not commanded to depart and there can be no contempt where there is no command So if they had commanded them it would have been without the Law and the not observing of an unlawful Command is no contempt of Authority But they contemn Authority who Command in their own wills not according to the Law Nor had the Command been just according to the Law of the Nation and they had returned notwithstanding in obedience to the Command of the Lord were it a return as to them in contempt of Authority any more than in the Apostles who were charged to speak no more in that name and to depart their Coasts to return again and to speak in the Will of God whom to obey or man replyed they to the powers is i● better judg ye Nor are they men of that spirit to do any thing in Contempt to any much lesse to Authority though to their persecutors But to pray they may be forgiven And for that clause To the disturbance of the Publick Peace that is untrue for they are charged to make appear the least disturbance of the Peace on their part which the Law calls so and they 'l present their bodies to the punishment the Law provides But disturbed they were and Tumults raised on them threatning their Lives and the Peace broker as aforesaid The Warrant aforesaid being invalid and not carrying with it scandal enough the Magistrates cause another to be formed upon an information found out of one George Coolishaw in these words To the Constables of the Peace of the City of Bristol Ward of and to every of them FOrasmuch as information hath Warrant for apprehension c. as Franciscan Fryers been given us upon oath That certain persons of the Franciscan Order in Rome have of late come over into England and under the notion of Quakers drawn together severall Multitudes of people in London and whereas certain strangers going under the names of John Camm John Audland George Fox James Nayler Francis How gill and Edward Burrough and others unknown have lately resorted to this City and in like manner under the same notion of Quakers drawn multitudes of people after them and occasioned very great disturbances amongst us And forasmuch as by the said Information it appeareth to us to be very probable and much to be suspected that the said persons so lately come hither are some of those that came from Rome as aforesaid These are therefore in the name of his Highnesse the Lord Protector to will and require you to make diligent search through your Ward for the aforesaid strangers or any of them and all other suspected persons and to apprehend and bring them before us or some of us to be examined and dealt with according to Law Hereof fail you not Given the 25th of Jan. 1654. Signed 25th 11th month 1654. John Gunning Mayor Gabriel Sherman Henry Gibbs George Hellier Gabriel Sherman William Cann Joseph Jackson John Lock Richard Vickris Hereunto were there Seals affixed and that Alderman Sherman might be sure his name was down he wrot it twice and Alderman Hellier his Hand and Seal though he was not then sworn a Justice for which and for his acting upon the Bench at the Sessions the 16th of the eleventh moneth 1654. as a Justice and for other his proceedings when he was Maior