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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77975	The vvofull cry of unjust persecutions, and grevious oppressions of the people of God in England, through the injustice of some of her rulers, and wikednesse of teachers and people, who hasten to fulfil the measure of their forefathers cruelty. With a lamentation over them all who rewards the Lord evill for good, and is a warning to them all for repentance; shewing that the coming of the Lord is nigh. And this may serve for an answer in full, to all such who have persecuted by violence, by word or writing the innocent people in scorn called Quakers. With a short addition, which shewes unto all, the ground of persecution; in its first cause, and the enmity which is betwixt the two seeds, is clearly discovered, by a friend to the suffering seed of God, E.B.	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.	1657 (1657)	Wing B6058; Thomason E927_1; ESTC R207590	26,005	39

consumed and they overturned and destroyed what did he to Pharaoh and all his host who persecuted the seed of God how was he destroyed and the righteous set free and what was done to Hammon How was he justly rewarded who persecuted the innocent seed of God What did God to Herod and all his people who persecuted the innocent and remember what he did unto them that persecuted the three children and them that persecuted Daniel how did they fall into the pit which they had digged for another and how were they destroyed and the innocent delivered consider and remember these things ye that suffer the just to groan by you Search through the records of old and search what God hath done unto all them that lifted up their hand against him and his people and is he not the same at this day his hand is not shortened that it cannot save his people and destroy his enemies his ear is not dull of hearing that he should not understand this unjust suffering of his people though you live carelessely in pleasure upon earth while the innocent mournes yet doth the Lord regard though you spend your time in pleasure and delight your selves in vanities all the day long yet the Lord hath taken it to heart and his spirit is grieved that his innocent servants should lye in holes and dungeons to be trodden upon and be accounted as the off-scouring of all things hardly thought worthy to have a place on the earth Oh remember these things ye that are high minded and consider what God did to the Bishops and their crew of persecutors in this Nation your selves are witnesses how the Lord overthrew them and delivered his people in a few years time and as little as you did they think that they whom they perseceuted should so soon come to have reigned over them the Lords hand was then against oppressors as it is at this day do you think the Lord hath forgotten or that he takes no notice of what is come to passe how should he forget his people to save them or his enemies that he should not recompence them but know ye assuredly that the Lord is the same and all those things are written in a book and remembred by him and he will judge justly and righteously in his dreadfull day Ah let it enter into your hearts serve not your selves altogether in the pleasures of this world but serve the Lord and this he requires of you let the oppressed go free and break every bond whereby the innocent doth suffer and this the Lord requires at your hands Oh but I feel great hardnesse of heart and rather a strengthening of cruel bonds than a breaking of them and you appear rather to be given up to work wickednesse and to fullfill the largest measure of them that went before you than otherwise unrighteous decrees are rather established than dissannulled Oh what will be the end of these things and what will be your judgment when the Lord awakens himself as out of sleep who hath left you to follow your own spirits to try you that it might be known unto all what is in your hearts and behold perversenesse lodges in them and while the Lord hath looked for justice amongst you even the cry of oppression hath been heard even a grieveous cry of unjust persecution and violence against the seed of God and once you would have been ashamed of those things which now you act without shame so that which is in your hearts is powred forth in the sight of the World Oh ye Rulers of England the Rulers of the Heathen shall rise up in judgment against you even they that never professed so much as you have done they shall be rather justified than you whose wayes have been more equal than yours and lesse cruelty brought forth by them than by you unto their subjects and this makes your sin more great in that many of you were raised from low estate and you have exalted your selves more than is meet and have caused your very equals to groan under you by the heavy yoak which you have prepared for them well but the Lord hath listned and heard and a book ofremembrance is written and he will repay into your 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the time is not long when the Lord may scatter you and give you unto the will of your enemies therefore be awakened and warned the day of your visitation is upon you all OH England that thou hadst known in this thy day the things that belong to thy peace Oh that thy Rulers and people had known how that the Lord hath called unto them Oh that they had considered how that his hand hath been stretched forth all the day long and he would have gathered them as a Shepherd doth his flock but they have not known neither have they considered and therefore that which belongs to their peace will the Lord hide from their eyes the day of their visitation is spending apace and the night will come and no man shall be able to work and because the Lord hath called and you have not heard therefore shall you try and the Lord will give no answer Oh Nation thou art filled with oppression and griveous iniquities and from the head to the foot thou bearest marks of great abominations in thee is found lamentable oppression of the poor and great and grieveous idolatries and Gods righteous soul is vexed in thee day by day the Just groanes and mournes under the heavy hand of oppressors many of thy Goales do witnesse it where many innocent and upright people have suffered unjustly the losse of their freedom without any ground or charge of evil laid upon them Oh what have thy Rulers done Judgment and Justice have they turned backward the cry of the poor hath not been regarded and equity hath not found a place to enter Who would have thought 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 who have been so high in profession of the Scrip●●●●… should thus have dealt with them who are in the life of the Scriptures this agravates your sinne in that none hath been like you in profession of Religion and in pretences of Righteousnesse and yet you have exceeded others in persecuting and suffering of it the servants of the Lord but it is now made manifest what lodgeth in your hearts under your faire covers of promises words and shewes what deep hypocrisie is this that you should professe liberty of conscience and yet have persecuted hundreds for the exercise of their pure Consciences Is not this to be taken notice of that you should professe that which you do not perform and will not the Lord plead with you because of it in his dreadful day which is hastening upon you as a chief in the night and the wicked shall not escape do you think that he whom you persecute in his members and his members shall sure reign over you do not you know that he is sufficient to avenge himself of all his enemies and do not you believe that

evil work and you have not known that there is no divination against the holy seed O! what will become of you when he Lord is arisen to plead with you for these things the cruelty and oppression of the Rulers shall be added to your account and the sin of the people which you have swallowed down it shall be laid to your charge for you have strengthened the hands of evil doers so that none could turn from his evil way but have by you been hardened therein and from you prophanesse have gone forth to the ends of the earth Woe woe is approaching what account will you render in the day of the Lord you will all be speechlesse in that day when the swift witnesse doth arise therefore to all you I am moved to write who have set your selves to gain-say the truth and to write against the people of the Lord whom you call Quakers who walk in the truth and have received the truth from the Lord whom you have reproached and slandered in secret and also in open print in the face of the world and have laid many cruel and false charges and accusations against them and to all that hath or ever shall hereafter bend your tongues and pens to utter wickednesse and falshood by writing or otherwise Repent and cease your wickednesse for the wrath of the Lord is kindled against you and take this for an answer in full to all your books and false reproaches we are of God and he that is of God heareth us and the whole world lyes in wickednesse and we have the testimony that we please God and he is our God and we are his people and he hath chosen us and we have chosen him and the name of the Lord is our strength and his covenant of life is with us and among us hath he fullfilled his promise and his spirit is poured forth and sons and daughters do Prophesie and one king reigns upon mount Sion and the night to us is far spent and the day is dawned and the darknesse of the night which long hath overshadowed the world in which no man could work is from us fled and the marvellous light is risen and we are them whom God hath gathered according to his promise Ezek. 34. from the mouthes of Idol-shepherds which once made a prey upon us and the glory of the Lord is revealed and the time is come of Restoration and of bringing back out of the captivity of darknesse where all have laid with a vail of darknesse spread over all their faces and we are eye-witnesses of his glory and it is given us to taste and feel and handle the Word of Life which lives for ever therefore I say unto you all it is a little thing to us and not respected to be reproached by you our life you cannot reach nor our glory deface and you we know to be them who God never sent but must fullfill your measure of wickednesse till the time of your overthrow which draws near upon you all and despisable shall you be to all that fear the Lord and love his wayes for your nakednesse and shame shall be uncovered and them that have loved you shall be filled with the indignation of the Lord against you all your writings and books and lyes and Senders and false reproaches uttered in publick and private shall go into the pit from which they came and shall return upon your own heads and when your vail of slanders and false aspersions is taken off then shall we as we are appear and till then all your evil brought forth against us we bear in patience and love your revilings rather than your praise wherefore with shame put off your armour and lay down your crownes and stop your mouthes in the dust and bow and tremble before the just God and before the lamb who is risen to make war against the beast against you his fals Prophets whose generation must grow feeble and become weaknesse in this the day of the Lord your time is at an end wherein it was given you to reign and to seduce and deceive the Nations and now shall the sonne of God be exalted and the kingdoms of this World shall become the Kingdomes of Christ hear and consider this all ye that exalt your selves against the Lord and his way and are established in the throne of unrighteousnesse under the beastly power if any man hath an ear to hear let him hear the light is risen and these things are made manifest and with the light of the world in all men shall they be witnessed to be truth and the state of things as they are at this day and if you can discerne the times and the signes of times and the changing of times here you may read and understand blessed are all that have an ear to hear TO all ye Heads and Rulers Judges and Magistrates Mayors Bailiffs Goalers and Constables and all others whatsoever governors Priests and people who have and do persecute the children and servants of the Lord the Saints of the most high God who feareth the name of the Lord and walketh in his way who are not of this world but redeemed out of it and are despised among men as all the generation of the just every where to all you persecuters and violent doers this is a word from the Lord God Repent repent for evil have you done in his sight and vext his soul and grieved his spirit and heaped up wrath against the day of wrath and multiplyed your transgressions and the measure of your Iniquities are well nigh filled up ye have set your selves against the Lord and your hands you have strengthened against his people you have rejected the day of your visitation and you have not regarded the day of your salvation you have plainly made it manifest that you are that generation which killed the just and that you are of the seed of evil doers the works that you have brought forth do plainly declare that you will not Christ to reign amongst you nor his government to rule over you who have thus persecuted the innocent without cause by false imprisonments and false judgments and hard dealing and reproachings and revilings consider your waies and what you have done search your hearts and let it take place in you all how have you persecuted the just how have you stretched forth your hands and dealt cruelly and violently with the meek of the earth how have you troden under foot the poor and needy and greatly oppressed the upright hearted who have not rendred evill for evill but forgiven you and prayed for you and wished well unto you and born in patience without complaining all your injustice and cruelty and have not sought vengeance against you even such hath God chosen more than many and them you have despised and persecuted more than any and laid heavie bonds of oppression upon them and doubled their task through your hard-heartednesse least the seed of God