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book_n	doctrine_n	faith_n	scripture_n	3,083	5	5.9043	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41058	A letter sent to the King from M.F. here is also thereunto annexed a paper written unto the magistrates in 1664, which was then printed, and should have been dispersed, but was prevented by wicked hands / by M.F.	Fox, Margaret Askew Fell, 1614-1702.	1666 (1666)	Wing F633; ESTC R5602	6,447	10

A LETTER Sent to the KING From M. F. Here is also thereunto Annexed a Paper written unto the Magistrates in 1664. which was then Printed and should have been dispersed but was prevented by wicked hands By M. F. They judge not the cause of the Fatherless and the right of the needy they do not judge Shall not I visit for these things saith the Lord shall not my soul be avenged on such a Nation as this Jer. 5.29 and Isa 1.24 There is no King saved by the multitude of an Host a mighty Man is not delivered by much strength but blessed is the Nation whose God is the Lord and the People whom he hath chosen for his Inheritance Ps 33. Many are the devises of Man but the counsel of the Lord will stand Prov. 19.21 This was delivered to the King the 29th of the 6. Month 1666 by Elizabeth Stubbs A Letter sent to the King from M. F. c. KING CHARLES I desire thee to read this over which may be for thy satisfaction and profit IN the fear of the Lord God stand still and consider what thou and you have been doing these six years since the Lord brought you peaceably into this Realm and made you Rulers over this People The righteous eye of the Almighty hath been over you and hath seen all your doings and actions What Lawes have you made or changed save such as have laid oppression and bondage on the Consciences of Gods People and that of no less penalty then Banishment cut of their Native Country The greatest crime that you could find with the People of God was that they obeyed and worshiped Christ Jesus so that the greatest stroke that hath appeared of your J●stice hath been upon such as you counted Offenders for worshiping of God In so much that several of your Judges of the Land have several times said in open Court to any that did confess that they met to worship the Lord God That that was crime enough whereby they could proceed to Banishment and when it was asked in open Court whether it was n●w bec●me a transgr●ssi●n or a crime in England to worship God He that was then the Chief Justice of England answered Yes yes Oh wonderful let this be Chronicled in England for after Ages that all Mag●st●ates may dread and fear so to affront the Almighty except they da●e say they are stronger then he And all this hath been without any just cause given at any time by that People which was the object of this Law so that Men that had but the least measure of righteousness and equity could never have proceeded on to have inflicted such a height of punishment without some just ground And all that ever was pretended was but suspition which never can be pa●alleld to be prosecuted to such a height of suffering without a just ground given although occasion hath been continually sought and watched for but never found but the Lord hath preserved his People innocent and harmless and therefore is he engaged to plead their Cause into whose hand it is wholly given and commited I desire you also to consider seriously in the fear of the Lord what effects and fruits these things hath brought forth First I believe it hath brought hundreds of Gods People to their Graves it hath also rendered this Realm and the Governours of it cruel in the eyes of all People both within its own body and in other Nations besides the guilt of innocent blood lies upon this Kingdome Since which time the Lord in his judgment hath taken many thousands of its People away by his two Judgments Pestilence and Sword And before any of this was when you first entered into this Kingdome I was sent of the Lord to you to informe you truly of the state and condition of our People And when I came before thee oh King I told thee I was come to thee in the behalf of an innocent harmless peaceable People which words I would then and ever since and should at this day seale with my blood if I were put to it and thy answer was to me If they be peaceable they shall be protected I also wrote to thee several times concerning our saith and principles how that we could not swear for Conscience sake neither could we take up Armes nor Plot nor contrive to do any Man wrong nor injury much less the King I also told you that we must worship God for God required it of us We did likewise give you many of our Books which contained our faith and principles and doctrine that thereby we might be tryed by the Scriptures of truth which all of you do profess whether our Principles were erroneous or no and to that purpose we gave our Books to the King and Parliament and to the Bishops and Ministers both Ecclesiastical and Civil Our Books were sold openly amongst all people and our Principles declared in a Declaration and freely holden forth to the whole World We also desired that we might have a Meeting of the Bishops or Ministers of the Land and that our friends would freely and willingly give them a Meeting that thereby they and we might be tryed by the Scriptures which of us was in the error whereupon thou wast pleased to grant us our requests and promised us that we should have a Meeting which was but reasonable but the Bishops and those that was concerned feared that their cause would not hold stitch with the rule of the Scriptures and so they turned it off when our friends were ready and would not give us a Meeting this action of theirs did clearly manifest them to be out of the life and power of the Scriptures for Christ Jesus said to those that he sent forth that they should not be afraid for he would give them a mouth and wisdome that all their adversaries should not be able to gain-say nor resist and likewise the Apostle when he wrote to his Son Timothy in the 2 Timothy 2.24 25 26. and the Servant of the Lord saith he must not strive but be gentle unto all Men apt to teach patient in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves if God peradventure will give them repentance and come to the acknowledging of the truth c. If they had been the Ministers of Christ and in the Apostles Doctrine they would have taken this way with us they would have endeavoured to have convinced us by sound Doctrine or at least have tryed us this way before they had put the civil Magistrates upon it to make Laws against us but this manifested their spirits and principle for they rather choosed to deliver us up to you that had the Whip and the Scourge in your hands and that which they could not do by sound Doctrine they put it upon others to do it for them by compulsion But the all-seeing God hath seen all this And all this we did that you should not be ignorant what we could do and what we could not