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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	bear_v	end_n	truth_n	1,796	5	6.9490	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29607	The guiltless cries and warnings of the innocent against injustice, oppression, cruelty, false-swearers, envious men, and such like witnesses, arisen up against a plain man, or, A living and true witnesse condemned, through want of sound (yet through unjust) judgment : together with the unequall and unreasonable proceedings of Humphry Wildey, Mayor, and Edward Solley, and Robert Sollers, Aldermen, and Justices of the city Worcester, as may plainly appear by what followeth, besides the unjust sufferings of the guiltlesse ... / from the hand, mouth, and very heart of a true Friend, and not an enemy to the person, or well-being of any man, woman, or childe within thee, O city, or upon the face of the earth, throughout the whole creation of God, or of that which lieth under the cruel bondage of death and corruption, for which I suffer, and labour, and travail, with, and among many brethren, for its perfect freedome, and restauration, into the glorious liberty of the sons of God (as in the beginning), whose servant, witnesse, and prisoner for the elects sake, I am called by men Daniel Baker, by scorners, a Quaker.	D. B. (Daniel Baker), fl. 1650-1660.	1660 (1660)	Wing B482B; ESTC R22840	14,464	20

THE GUILTLESS CRIES AND WARNINGS of the INNOCENT AGAINST INJUSTICE OPPRESSION CRUELTY False-Swearers Envious Men and such like Witnesses arisen up against A PLAIN MAN OR A Living and True WITNESSE condemned through want of sound yet through Unjust Judgment together with the unequall and unreasonable Proceedings of HUMPHRY WILDEY Mayor and EDWARD SOLLEY and ROBERT SOLLERS Aldermen and Justices of the CITY WORCESTER as may plainly appear by what followeth besides the unjust Sufferings of the GUILTLESSE From whom a clear true Sound and many certain Warnings and wholesome Exhortations have been as a Trumpet sounded forth and directed to the ears and hearts of thy chief Magistrate and Rulers O CITY together with the multititude of the Inhabitants within thy bowells fenced Walls strong Holds Borders and Territories O wicked CITY From the Hand Mouth and very Heart of a true FRIEND and not an Enemy to the Person or well-being of any Man Woman or Childe within thee O CITY or upon the Face of the Earth throughout the whole Creation of God or of that which lieth under the cruel Bondage of Death and Corruption for which I suffer and labour and travail with and among many Brethren for its perfect Freedome and Restauration into the glorious Liberty of the Sons of God as in the beginning whose Servant Witnesse and Prisoner for the Elects sake I am Called by men DANIEL BAKER by Scorners A Quaker To this end was I born and for this cause came I into the world that I should bear witness unto the Truth Every one that is of the Truth heareth my voice saith Jesus John 18.37 As a Sheep before her Shearers is dumb so he openeth not his mouth Lo he was taken from prison and from Judgment And who shall delare his Generation Isaiah 53. Ver. 7 8. Printed for R. Wilson at the black-spread-Eagle in Martins 1660. A COPIE of what was delivered to the Major of the CITY of Worchester for Him and the Aldermen to read Friends IS it not the Honour of a Good Magistrate wisely with a Good Vnderstanding to make diligent Inquiry and search into the Nature and Ground of a Matter or Controversie between a Man and his Neighbour that so True and Sound Judgment may be ministred without Respect of Persons and that the Cause of the Poor may be heard as well as the Rich and so Judgment or Sentence to be passed according to Equity and Mercy that the Sword may be laid in its due Place even upon the Head of the Transgressor lest the Guitless whom God will Justifie be smitten and Equity Sound Judgment and Good Lawes be perverted to a wrong end which will draw down Vengeance a Curse and wrath from the Lord God of Judgment and not Blessing Hearken ye Rulers and consider your Proceedings past against me and let the Light of Jesus in your Consciences give Sentence and answer me whether ye did not respect persons in judgment which you ought not when as ye compelled me to stand bare headed at the Bar and my Accuser John VVinnington sate upon the Bench beside one of your Rulers And Whether you did well after John VVinninton had spake forth the Words of his False Testimony the first time and varied in his Second Speech contrary to his first which I immediately shewed you but ye did not heed it but suffered or caused a Pen Ink and Paper to be given to the False Witness to write down what he pleased as he sate by one of you upon the Bench And if ye remember I questioned Whether it were according to the Law of the Nation what ye suffered him to do then the matter being so weighty as I laid it before you saying For ought I know my Life lay as it were at the stake And Is this a Shame or an Honour to you Rulers Consider of it And I cry even unto You Repent while Ye have a Day and quit Your Selves like Men of Truth fearing God to clear the Guiltlesse and Your Selves also while ye have time and it is in your power But this I tell you in plainnesse That if Deliverance come some other way the Weight of False Judgment and Guilt will lie heavy upon your Consciences before the Lord God in his Day and of your Account Consider I say whether ye have done well or whether ye have not had respect of Persons in Judgment and condemned the Guiltlesse when Ye had an Opportunity put into Your hands to do Justice and Judgment which I expected from You But Behold Oppression and the Needy is turned aside from Judgment And Is it not Joy to the Just to do Judgment but Destruction shall be to the Workers of Iniquity saith Wisedome and Wo unto them that seek deep to hide their Counsell from the Lord whose Works are in the dark and they say Who seeth us Surely Your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the Potters Clay See Isaiah 29.15 16. Worcester Prison this 8th Month the 24th Day 1660. From the hand of a Lover of the whole Creation of God whose Prisoner I am D. B. Hearken You that are called Christians and professe the Scripture your Rule and Pauls words that read this Foelix whom some call a Heathen was so noble to Paul when he was a Prisoner commanded to let him have Liberty and that none of his acquaintance should be forbidden to minister or come unto him Now If any be ready to say to me Thy Case is not Pauls My Answer is Paul was innocent of the things he was falsly accused of and so am I God is my Witnesse whether Men believe or not and Let such called Christian Governours take heed lest those called Heathen Rulers arise up in Judgment against them and condemn them The Sheriffe had a Coppie of this The SHERIFF sent sundry times since to order that I may have more Liberty as to let Friends come to me the City Hall being as it were under my Prison-Chamber I having sometime Liberty to go down and once when the Justices were present upon the Bench I spake these words to them and said Blessed shall they be that without Respect of Persons do Justice and Judgment but Eternall Wo from the Living God will be on them that do it not and they shut me up more close To the Major and for the Aldermen to read also Friend TAke heed as thou wilt answer before the Throne of the Majesty on High even the Lord God of Judgment who from Generation to Generation did and doth and yet will plead the Cause of the Guiltlesse whether men do it or not that thou yet pursue not Evil to thine own Destruction in consenting to or joyning with any in Testimony or Judgment against the Innocent lest the weight of innocent Blood lye heavy upon thy Conscience The Living God behold I testifie hath an Eternall Witnesse that is true in thy Conscience And in love whether thou hear or forbear I warn thee also that thou take heed

Gomorrah that suffered the vengeance of Eternall Fire greater Let the Wise in heart consider and judge and let all be warned as once and again yea and many times within thy Cities and Towns and chief Places of concourse O England In singleness and uprightness of my heart in obedience to the Lord of Heaven with my precious life in my hand which often through the loving kindness of the Lord I have received power to lay it down and to take it again according to the perfect Example of the Captain of my Salvation and Elder Brother to cry Repentance I say it to the end that all may be warned to bring forth fruits meet for Repentance unto life as it becometh all that make mention of the Name of the Lord which I also freely cryed within thy Gates O City And what is this Crime worthy of Bonds or Imprisonments within thy bowels O Nation How often has the Scripture been fulfilled within thy Borders Truth is fallen in the Streets and Equity cannot enter and Iudgment is turned away backward and he that departeth from evil and reproveth Sin in the Gate maketh himself a prey and becomes a signe and a wonder to an evil gainsaying and adulterous Generation And the Lord saw it yea and hath seen it and it displeased and yet displeaseth him because there is no judgment as in the Ancient dayes A Lamentation Wo and Alas for thee O England O Shrewsbury Lo thy crying Sins together with the multitude and variety of thy Abominations have reached Heaven even up to the very Throne of God and verily his Eternall Eye from above hath beheld and looked down and to his wounding hath long and many a time refrained himself and sent his Word of Life in his Lambs freely to warn and visit thee to Eternal Judgment and Salvation Wherefore Let the Wilde Brutish Unstable Double-minded Hard-hearted Inhabitants within their Dark Habitations of Cruelty and of thy strong Holds O SALLOP O Sodome Remember and forget it not if happily yet it may be for their good Before your Day passe away over your heads even as the Wind which bloweth where it listeth and Lo the sound you have heard yet it obeyeth the Lord But Do Ye yet know O Ye Men without a good and perfect understanding whom my soul pittieth from whence it cometh or whether it goeth Yet Blessed are and shall they be that Read and lay it to heart for good But to return to what I was speaking of before Know Ye O Magistrates and Inhabitants of this City again That the Testimonies of the Swearers that rise up against me are wickedly false and therefore judged and condemned with the True Eternal and Spiritual Light Christ in me and not any other but the same that lighteth every man that cometh into the World and the True Living God who is Light knoweth and behold I testifie again that I had not no not so much as an evil thought in my heart against any man from the time I began to sound forth my Message which the God of heaven put into my heart to sound freely forth whether people can believe me or not which in obedience to the Lord I freely did declare till I was violently pulled off the Beast I rode on nay nor then neither But as to what these Wicked men have falsly sworn against me again I say Lo I am even as a Babe born as it were but yesterday and it s my desire in the truth and nakednesse of my heart if haply they may find a place of Repentance unto Life and that they and all may be warned from henceforth not to do act or speak contrary to the Light of Jesus in their Consciences and that what these men have done against me may not then be laid to their charge who simply have not known what they have done for they have hated me without cause Father forgive them that know not what they do and let them know My Innocency stands justified and not condemned before the pure presence and Throne of God the Light the Judg of all Whether you O men can believe me or not it s even so though I am with and among many Brethren Sons and Daughters of the same Family or Houshold of Faith condemned of wicked ungodlike unreasonable men who are out of the Faith of Gods Elect that 's a Mystery held in a pure conscience and respects no mans persons without which Faith its impossible to please the Living God and thus it hath happened from Generation to Generation they who were out of the Faith of Gods Elect in the respect of persons giving and receiving honour with flattering Titles one to another which is from beneath earthly and sensual and not that which is from above True Heavenly Eternal and Spiritual alwayes since the beginning hated and persecuted them that were born of the Spiritual Birth from above and so it is at this day That which is born of the Flesh is Flesh and from beneath persecutes that Birth that is born of the Spirit which is Spiritual Heavenly and from above and not from beneath or of the world that lyeth in wickednesse and therefore do they hate us without a cause even as they did Gods Lamb who is our perfect and compleat Example and Captain even of our Salvation So that we marvel not at the matter to see or feel the Birth born of the Flesh Death and Hell that 's from beneath persecute that of the Spirit of Life from above And behold it cometh to passe That the true Witnesse in your Consciences and also in many more in Englands Nation the Land of my Nativity or Place where my first birth was begotten and brought forth and as a cloud consumed away and dyed yet behold I live shall be awakened and arise to justifie and not condemn and answer to the words of my Testimony given forth and declared now and within thy Gates O City Worcester wherein I delivered forth the Message which the Lord of heaven had put into my heart to give forth A certain sound and warning to thy Inhabitants O bloody City of the mighty terrible and Glorious Day of God come and coming even a Resurrection Day and behold it s begun to dawn and break forth in England first and it 's shining forth over all Nations Blessed is the eye that beholds it And this Day is and will be a day of joy a day of peace a day of Gladnesse of heart and of eternal Life to all the upright in heart that turneth from Ungodlinesse the Darknesse But on the contrary it is a Day and yet will be a Day of Vengeance a Day of Calamity and Distresse and Perplexity a Day of Wo and Misery a Day of Blacknesse and Darknesse and of Astonishment ●●art yea a Day of burning even in the bowells of such that reject the day of their visitation who turn not from Ungodlinesse and so bring not forth Fruits meet for Repentance which I also