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A89302	The cry of oppression, occasioned by the priests of Englands pulpit-guard, which is a popish law that was made by Queen Mary, to guard her friars and Jesuits. With a true discovery of the unjust proceedings of those called magistrates of Bathe; wherein is a lamentation over them, and a warning unto them to repent, lest they perish for ever. / By one which is hatefully called a Quaker ... known to the world by the name, Thomas Morford.	Morford, Thomas, d. 1693.	1659 (1659)	Wing M2728; Thomason E989_23; ESTC R204878	34,580	48

not if ye walk in their steps and ye will have their end except ye repent And as for you who are in Authority and act contrary to the pure law of God which ought to be your rule Deut. 17.18.19 and are acted by your wills and lusts and unrighteous Laws wereby we suffer deeply yet to you also are we subject in that we suffer under your great oppression without resisting of you which we rather chuse to doe than to disobey the royall Law statutes and judgements of the most high and holy God And Ministers of Christ we own who abide in the doctrine of Christ 2 Iohn 9. But Jesuites all that wicked Popish Generation we do them deny for they are as great enimies to the truth as it is in Jesus as the Priests of England are who abide not in his Doctrine and will use and are using the Servants of the Lord whom he hath sent and is sending unto them them to forewarn of the plagues and righteous Judgements of God that are coming upon them as bad as your priests of England have done who have given and are giving them a wicked example and your reward will be a like And the Scriptures we do own and are ours and are for the perfecting of us being given by inspiration of God and to us they are profitable for Doctrine and reproof for correction instruction in righteousness that thereby we may be thoroughly furnished to every good work of the Lord. And therefore all ye who are plotting and persecuting of the Lords chosen ones whom he hath redeemed and is redeeming with his pretious blood and by judgement Eph. 17. Isa 52. Isa 1.27 out of the worlds customes fashions words c. fining of them and casting them into prison for not bowing or putting off the hatt c. to satisfie your wills and lusts and some of you are afflicting and whipping and putting of them into stocks other stoning dirting of them in streets high wayes they not giving you the least offence in word or action ye are those that rob the Lord of his honour haters of Sion the Lord will plead with you all poor and rich by fire and sword and will cut your cords of wickedness asunder and ye will be as grasse that groweth on the house top that withereth before it be grown up wherewith the mower filleth not his hand nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosome neither will they which pass by say we bless you in the name of the Lord or the blessing of the Lord be upon you neither receive you into their house or bid you God speed for he that so doeth will be partaker of your evil deeds Psal 129.4 to the end 2 Iohn 10.11 And then will the prayers and prophesies of David which ye have made the Songs of your Temples unto which ye have added and diminished both words and verses Witness Psal 2. Psal 4. Psal 14. and 15. with many others therefore denyed by the Children of light will come upon you who are Confederates persecuting the innocent for ye sing your hearts are foul and vain and death in hast will fall on you and send you quick to hell except ye repent Will it not be just with the Lord to answer your prayers who are doing so wickedly Read and understand what ye sing Psal 5.6 9. Psal 55.16 Are ye not lyars and Hypocrites when ye sing All the night I wash my bed with tears c. My joynts in sunder break My heart doth in my body melt like wax against the heat c. My tongue cleaves to my jawes Are not your tonges at liberty uttering forth deceit And are not your hearts as hard as the nether mill-stone And do ye not spend the night in sleep and ease O ye simple ones when will ye be wise Do ye not know the lyar is for the Lake ye sing and say ye do not haunt with men whose deeds are vain to come into the house ye do refuse with the deceitful train ye much abhor the wicked sort it were well if ye did But are ye not some of them that are taking Counsel against the Lords annointed ones If ye say nay Then are ye not some of them that resort into the Temples or Synagogues called Churches Into which come all manner of wicked lewd persons The light of Christ in all your consciences shall eternally witness this to be truth and answer your condemnation to be just except ye speedily repent come out from amongst them touch not the unclean thing understand what you sing and read Psal 26. for the Lord is discovering the secrets of al hearts ye read or sing My wounds stink and and are festred so as loathsome is to see c. That ye go wailing all the day in doleful heavyness c. And ye say or sing ye roare for grief of heart and are not puft in mind and have no scornful eye c. How dare ye to be so presumptious to breath forth such abominable untruths before the Lord when ye are at ease clothed in rich arayment perfumed with sweet smells and are haughty scorners puft up with pride of mind living in wantonness ease and pleasure singing vain songs and times having eyes full of adultery c. By this ye may as in a Looking-glasse see and read your figure and also what blindness and ignorance your Preists have lead you into that ye are not truly sensible when ye sing whether it be for a blessing or a curse and therefore I was moved out of tender love to your souls that ye might come to consider aright of your condition to forewarn you of those plagues that ye ignorantly pray for to come upon you which will assuredly come upon you speedily except ye repent The light of Christ in all your consciences shall eternally witness me to be true and answer your condemnation to be just if ye sleight the day of your visitation and salvation proffered unto you T. M. THE END POST-SCRIPT THis Book should have been Printed long ago but through neglect of some and mistake of others it hath been prevented a great while yet now it comes not out of good season but may do its service to awaken the Witness of God in the Persecutors of the Righteous Seed that they may see what they have done and repent now before the last plague be poured out for the Viols of Gods fury is full to be poured out upon the head of the Vngodly so the service of this book is now in season to answer the witness of God in all men to which it is Commended

neither were they offended at Paul when he Thee'd and Thou'd them And they judged him without partiality and said we find nothing worthy of death or of bonds in this man c. And so they were truly noble in their judgments to Paul and to this Pauls words do much accord for when he came to the Bereans he said they were more noble than the tumultuous Jewes of Thessalonica in that they received the word with alreadyness of mind and searched the Scriptures daily whether these things Paul testified of were so c. Acts 17.10 11. And hence was the true ground of Pauls saying Noble Festus O King c. which was for their noble and true judge ment of Pauls innosency as is aforesaid And when Luke said most excellent Theophilus c. It was for his love to the truth of Jesus which Theophilus was instructed in And Paul said he accounted all things but dung in comparison of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ c. And Solomon saith The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour but the way of the wicked seduceth them But such a one was not Theophilus who was instructed in the way of God and therefore Luke a servant of the Lord Jesus thought good to give him a more perfect understanding of all things from the very first in order concerning the Lord Jesus c. Luke 1 1 2 3 4. And hence was it that Luke did account Theophilus excellent or more excellent than Herod Pilate and the wicked high Priests who seduced them to kill the just One And when John wrot to the Elect Lady it was not one who lived in idleness pride wantonness lusts excesse of ryoting whose apparrel was laced with silver or gold or used plaiting of the hair or looked for flattering titles or respect to her person But it was one who was covered with the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit who had her children walking in the truth whom I love saith Iohn mark in the truth and not onely I but also all they that have known the truth which truth leads out of all the evills aforesaid read 1 Pet. 3.1.2 3 4. Pet. 4 3. Iam. 2.1 2 3 4. for though John did not speak those words yet Peter and James did for the most part the spirit of Christ was but one in them and ye who are called Ladies Maddam c. in the light of Christ judge your selves whether ye have the fruits of the Elect Lady or whether ye are any of those vertuous women spoken of Pro. 31. who are doing good not evill all the dayes of their lives seeking the wool and flax working willingly with their hands not in vain toyes but with the spindle and distaffe or whether ye are not with some of your husbands who are plotting and wresting the judgement of the poor and needy living in all manner of sin and evill persecuting the innocent yea or nay these are not the fruits of of true Humility or Nobility nay nay to the light of Christ in all your consciences I speak And whereas some of you say we hold there is no Heaven nor Hell but that in the conscence ye are false accusers for if in this life onely were our hope of Christ 1 Cor. 15.19 we were of all men most miserable for they who to the life of Christ by faith in him in any measure are come can say with Paul that all our present sufferings are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us which hath been hid from ages and generations but now is made manifest in his Saints Christ the hope of glory And in love to this glorious life we have in measure received as the earnest for obedience to the faith of the eternall inheritance as we abide in it our dearest relations of all visible created objects whatsoever and our lives also are not dear unto us in comparison of it And we know that when this our earthly tabernacle shall be dessolved we have a building with God not made with hands 2 Cor. 5 1 ● mark eternall in the Heavens for in this we groan earnestly c. and they who to this life are come as I said before in any measure can witness the great torment and tribulation they have passed thorough Acts 14.22 which is the portion for everlasting of the wicked Psa 17.14 Psa 13.5.67.8 Job 21.6 to 15. who have their portion of ease joy pleasure only in this life and have more than heart can wish whose eyes stand out with fatness their houses are safe from fear neither is the rod of God upon them their bull gendereth and faileth not their Cow calveth c. your children dance have the Tymbrel Harp rejoyce in the Organ therefore they you their parents say unto God depart from us for we desire not the knowledge of thy wayes Mat. 25 ● to the end and what is the Almighty that we should serve him c. And ye spend your dayes in wealth persecuting the innocent but in a moment go down to the grave And to such Christ is now saying Depart from me ye cursed take notice into everlasting fire woe is me for you ye wicked ones Repent while ye have time this is the day of your visitation salvation proffered unto you who are wanton in pleasure on the earth nourishing your hearts as in the day of slaughter ye have condemned and killed the just and he doth not resist you And as for you who have gone up and down to get men to subscribe to your grievous Prescription which ye have prescribed against the innocent saying they who are called Quakers deny the Sriptures and are Jesuites witness to this ye of Marshfield thereabouts and others saying they deny Magistrates and Ministers Government c. thereby thinking to cover your wickedness that ye have purposed against the guiltless I who am a Servant of the living God and a fellow feeler and partaker of their sufferings am moved of the Lord to send forth this as a witness against you who have done and are doing so wickedly for so we who are scornfully called Quakers hated and persecuted without a cause do own Magistrates and good Government whether the King as supream or any other Governors who are of the Lord sent for the punishment of evill doers and for the praise of them that do well for so is the will of God c. for no Magistrate ought to be a terror to good and godly men or any other good thing But if he be he bears the sword in vain the sword so the Lord will be turned against him and cut him off as were Ahab Jehoash and others as the Scripture testifies that did oppresse his people nay look to our dayes remember Wentworth of Ireland the late King with other of that generation Take notice ye that are in authority are ye better than they Nay ye are