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blood_n	body_n	cup_n	drink_v	11,759	5	7.7915	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60636	Innocency and conscientiousness of the Quakers asserted and cleared from the evil surmises, false aspersions, and unrighteous suggestions of Judge Keeling expressed in his speech made the seventh of the seventh month at the sessions-house in the Old-Baily ... : wherein also is shewed that this law doth not concern them, they being no seditious sectaries, nor contrivers of insurrections, nor evil-doers, therefore no just law is against them.	Smith, William, d. 1673.	1664 (1664)	Wing S4308; ESTC R16062	11,414	18

are Judges of it intend to execute it then we may truly say as it is written That the very Mercies of the wicked are Cruelty for some Felons and Murderers chuse rather to be Hanged than to be Transported Sold and Banished all which are threatned to be executed upon us and for no other cause but for worshipping God in such manner and way as we are perswaded in our Consciences which are made truly tender And we dare not make shipwrack of Faith and a good Conscience to save our Persons and Estates from the mouth of the Devourer For it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God for Disobedience and Conscience is as a thousand Witnesses either to excuse or accuse but fearedness of Conscience as with an hot Iron and deadness and blindness of heart is befaln many in this Generation And from this state ariseth all such merciful Laws as this the Judge speaks of in order to bring others who are tender and fearful to offend God into the same state they are in themselves but we are in Conscience constrained if the God whom we serve so far permit to suffer the Whore the false Church to drink more of our Blood but of her Cup of Fornic●●ion wherewith she hath made the Kings of the Earth and Nations drunk we cannot drink And we are of the Houshold of God and of one Family and Members of one Body and though thirty forty or an hundred or a thousand meet in one place or another together for no evil design why should we be banished for that If this be Mercifulness what is Cruelty The Heathenish Romans shewed more mercy manhood to Paul in allowing him to have a Meeting in his own hired house where he preached and taught All that came unto him without let or any limit as to number two full years though he was a Prisoner O that ever a People called Christians should be found more inhumane than Heathen more merciless than bruit beasts to banish Fathers and Mothers from their young and tender Children and Children from their Parents and Husbands from their Wives and all this for no evil or wrong done to any mans Person Estate or Goverment but onely for endeavouring to keep their Consciences pure to God and void of offence to him and all men POSTSCRIPT It is to be noted that though the Judge at the beginning of his Speech said that that day was appointed for their Tryal yet they were not tryed for one only which he intended to begin withal was brought from Newgate to the Bar being but a Boy and lately convinced of the evil of sin and but as it were turning from it into a conscientious fear and obedience to God When he had ended his Speech he asked if he were not at the Bull Mouth on such a day he said he was not Then the Judge took occasion to vilifte and reproach the Profession of the Quakers to the Jury and People and said For all their pretentions to Truth and Plainness could lie for their Interest to avoid suffering then asked him the same question again and he answered as before for he was not there that day then saith he we shall prove that you were there Will you stand to your Profession said the Judge Yes said the Lad and seal it with my Blood Then were Witnesses called in to prove that he was at the Bull and Mouth such a day but none could appear Then the Judge soon perceived that no Witnesses would be found to serve his turn against this Lad nor the rest Then said he There is a Disappointment faln out but threatned some should suffer for it to their cost and so dismist the Jury This Disappointment being only want of Witnesses to bring about the designed purpose of the Court They have ordered since that some of the Jaylors of Newgate together with the Marshal and his men shall be at our Meetings and be their Witnesses against us at the next Sessions so our Persecutors Cruelty is further manifested in this that they should Jezebel like hire force or command a company of hard-hearted men who are daily exercised in Cruelty and who have not the true fear of God in their hearts to be our only Accusers but the Righteous God which seeth the plots and designs of the wicked against the Innocent and harmless will reward them according to their doings THE END Bishop Gauden his Book concerning Publick Oaths