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A40287 To all rulers and magistrates to be tender and take heed of persecuting and imprisoning and spoiling the goods of God's people for obeying, serving, and worshipping the Lord God that made them, and the heavens, and the earth, and all things therein / by G. Fox. Fox, George, 1624-1691. 1683 (1683) Wing F1941; ESTC R28012 4,537 14

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TO ALL RULERS AND MAGISTRATES To be Tender and Take Heed of Persecuting and Imprisoning And Spoiling the GOODS of God's People For Obeying Serving and Worshipping the LORD GOD that made them and the Heavens and the Earth and all things therein By G. FOX LONDON Printed by JOHN BRIGHVRST at the Sign of the BOOK in Grace-Church-street 1683. To All Rulers and Magistrates to be TENDER c. FOR we the People in Scorn called Quakers have suffered as the Lambs of Christ by all sorts of powers both Imprisonment and spoiling of our Goods only for serving and worshipping the God that made us And for these thirty five or thirty six years the Goales in most Counties have seldom been empty but we are and have been Imprisoned and many to Death which hath caused many Weeping Widdows and many Crying Fatherless and yet having their goods spoiled which should refresh and nourish them And did we ever but Intreat when we have been threatned and when we were Cursed by Bishops and Priests did not we Bless and We who are and have been Persecuted have not we alwayes prayed for our Persecutors have not we been devoured like Chickens and hunted like Partridges by Birds of Prey Have not we been as Sheep among Wolves and do not you know that in New-England some of us have been Hanged and others Banished on pain of death and others their Bodies whipt and beat till they have been like a Gelly and have not others of us had our Ears cut and some Branded with a Hot Iron in the other Power 's dayes And now in Severall Dungeons and Goales Men and Women are Crowded yea some that have Sucking Children Oh! do not lose the Bowels of Humanity nor the love and tenderness of Christianity do ye and they learn of Christ who is meek and low in Heart that do and have done so unto us Would such be so served themselves is this to fulfill the Royall Law of God To do unto all men as they would have them do unto them Are not many of us spoiled both in our Trades and Husbandry through the Informers that take away our Goods God in Heaven knows and sees all our Sufferings and Afflictions which is only for Obeying and Serving and Worshipping him And you know that the Prophets and Christ and the Apostles they were never Imprisoned nor Persecuted and suffered as Just and Righteous men by them that made them to Suffer but the Question is Whether they would be so done unto themselves as they do unto others whether they would not judge it to be hard measure Therefore I beseech you all to consider whether ever Christ and his Apostles did give any Power to Imprison and persecute and spoil the goods of any for Obeying serving and Worshipping God that made them or did they ever persecute Imprison or spoil the goods of any because they would not be of their Religion Oh! therefore consider you that profess your selves Christians shut not up your Bowels of Compassion against your Brethren but as the Apostle saith Put on Bowels of Mercy and Loving-kindness one towards another And consider what became of Pharaoh that Opprest and Persecuted the Children of Israel and all his Host that rose up against them and would not let them go to worship God And what became of Cain that Killed and Persecuted his Brother about Religion And what became of the Old Ungodly World And what became of the Cities of Sodom and Gomorrah that grieved Just Lot And what became of the Jews that Persecuted the Prophets Christ and the Apostles Did they not Persecute them because they obeyed God and they themselves disobeyed God And what became of them that Persecuted Daniel and the Three Children Did not they Persecute them for Worshipping Obeying God that made them And what do you Read will become of the Beast that Compelled to Worship And the Whore spoken of in the Revelations that drinketh the Blood of the Martyrs and Servants of Jesus Doth not John in the Revelations say that their End will be Destruction and their followers with the Devil and his Angels Who was the first that led Man and Woman from Obeying God But my desire is that none that Profess Christianity may follow their Wayes lest they partake with them in their Misery but that all may come to the knowledge of the truth as it is in Jesus and in their own inward parts And that all may cease from Persecuting and Imprisoning and Spoiling the Goods of such as meet together to Serve and Worship God in Spirit and in truth as Christ hath Commanded And Christ Jesus by the Grace of God hath tasted Death for every Man and then hath he not shed his Blood for all And then bought them with the price of his Blood And is there any thing that brings Condemnation but Disobedience and Unbelief in him And did Christ give any Command to his Apostles Messengers and Embassadours to Persecute them that would not believe hear or receive their Testimony But to shake off the Dust of their feet as a Witness against them and that should be Punishment enough for them in the day of Judgement And doth not Christ say let the Tares and the Wheat grow together untill the Harvest which is the end of the world and in the end of the world Christ would send his Angels that should be the Reapers that should distinguish the Wheat from the Tares So Christ did not give Men Power before the World was ended to pluck up the Tares lest they should pluck up the Wheat with the Tares for that Power Christ gives to his Angels to sever the Wheat from the Tares at the end of the World And if they went into Everlasting punishment that did not cloath Christ in his members and visit when he was in Prison What will become of them that cast Him in his Members into Prison And you Read what Christ saith unto Saul why Persecutest thou me when he was going with Authority from the Chief Priests to Persecute the Christians at Damascus And you Read how often Christ Commands Christians to forgive one another as God and Christ hath forgiven them And must these Commands of Christ be preached and Talked of and not Practised for Christ saith you must do the will of his Father if ye enter into the Kingdom of Heaven And they that love God and Christ will not only call him Lord but keep his Commands and do what he saith And how do they that are called Christians say the Lords prayer who desire the Lord to forgive them their Trespasses as they forgive them that trespass against them for Christ saith if you forgive Men their trespasses your Heavenly Father will also forgive you your Trespasses but if ye forgive not Men their trespasses neither will your Father which is in Heaven forgive you your trespasses to wit your Trespasses that you trespass against him Matth. 6. Mark 11. Now here you may see that you Pray