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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28148	A certaine sound, or, An alarm sounded to the persecuting episcopalians in and about the cities of London & Westminster those bloody cities in many whoredoms, and to the rest of that sect throughout the nations who prophanely, bloodily, or maliciously now have, or heretofore have had any hand in persecuting the innocent servants and prophets of the most high, for the exercise of their pure conscience to the Lord God their creator.	Billing, Edward, 1623-1686.; Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.	1665 (1665)	Wing B2899; ESTC R32746	9,660	15

Innocent Flock it cannot be so for they shall then dread though they now make merry over the Lords Witness and Witnesses that most dreadful and irrevocable malediction Go ye cursed yea when such come to dye the Light of Christ Jesus with which every man is enlightned that comes into the World shall arise in the Conscience to the utter condemnation of all those who in their life-time have despised or disobeyed it Then shall the betrayers of the Just and hard-hearted imprisoners of the innocent to death for obeying it know what it is to be a Iudas or a Pharaoh Then shall the worldly-wise and rich with the false divining Hireling their frontier and leader who serpent-like to save self have bowed to and even twisted about every green and dry tree that in the deceit hath stood up feel the Parable of Dives and know that Lazarus the poor poor in Spirit in the faithfulness is the Seed that doth and must inherit Now if you be men and would be deemed in any measure rational to posterity for what you do have done against us positively declare what 's the evil these People called Quakers as a people have done or if you have ought against them but for their worshipping the living God of Heaven and Earth in Spirit Truth and Righteousness nay farther if they have left undone any thing that they ought to have done in the Spirit of God and according to the Scriptures of Truth make it appear for our souls delight to be and are subject to the higher or highest power and in my heart I intend most willingly and for conscience sake actively to be obedient to every Ordinance of man which is or shall be made for the Lords sake I say by plain Scripture command of Jesus our Lord or pure example from his holy Apostles detect our principle and practice if you can and without supposition or false allegation orderly set forth to the world what detriment we have brought upon the good People of these Nations since it pleased the Lord first to raise us up therein and also what the evil is that we have done you who have thus spilt and drank our blood without Mercy Have we done ought against you except reprove you for your rending and damming Superstition and Idolatry prophane and unmanly as well as antichristian Persecution with the rest of your superabounding evils and uncleanesses in which you wallow that you might repent amend your lives and be saved I say again produce your charge against us under your hands plainly and directly setting forth and declaring matter of Fact only without allegation dubious supposition or any manner of clandestine trick or intreague of State-Policy dissonant to Scripture or forreign to the matter that it may be transmitted to the ends of the earth or at least so far as your spirit hath traduced or made odious us or our Principle that all reasonable and unprejudiced people in the world may judge whether it bear in it cause enough thus to kill us in your Coals and Holes force and banish us out of our Nation where of we are as free-born as your selves And when you have thus manifestly plainly and publickly emitted your charge into the world then lay by your Swords Clubs Goals and ungodly Laws and bring forth your Priests also with whom if not for whom you thus engage Soul and Body and let them publickly thorowly and equally dispute your and their Religion and what they can vive voce face to face say or rather prove against us or our Principle in Religion who in the Spirit of Truth serve and fear the Lord by you called Quakers I am sure if they your Priests be spiritual men or but so much as spiritually minded it cannot be denyed on their parts And this would be a good way to try Spirits and for you and them to try and hear Truth and be tryed by it and true Religion is a Spiritual not a State matter and whoso is found in the Error let the smooth stone of David be slang into their hearts by the hand of a holy man to convince and the Sword of the Lord run through and through them as his most holy Spirit shall give utterance And if to that they will not submit leave it to the Lord of the Harvest for further or contrary to this no Man or Power upon Earth hath Commission from Christ Jesus to act So consider well what Church you are of and whose Servants and Ministers you are that instigate the Rulers who are too apt of themselves to imprison and hew down the Innocent with carnal swords promp and help Parliaments to make Laws against us move the inferiour Magistrates to execute them and cause dissolute Souldiers to tear us out of our holy Meetings from thence drag and drive us into your Goals and Dungeons there to be kept till Banishment or Death whereby in the Curse you rend assunder the endeared Husband from the tender and faithfull Wife whom God hath joyned together dislocating the blessed Child from the righteous Parent the faithful Servant from his honest Master and calling the Master from the Servant c. If this be Christian or Apostolical I know not what is Antichristian and Diabolical Most certain I am Precept from Christ Example from his Apostles or the least seeming vestage in any of their Writings for such doings you cannot pretend and the right generous English Spirit abhors such Salvagism as Hell Then in this matter who are you like or to whom may I compare you but your selves Except in that of your Oaths of Alleageance and Supreamacy you run parallel with the Roman Episcopalians in the late Marian Persecution with the Sacrament of their Altar the one they used as a Roman Gin against the then Martyrs the other you impose as an Antichristian Snare upon Us the now obeyers of the true Christ who saith Swear not at all c. For often-times when neither your selves your late made cruel Edicts nor the Multitude who for the most part have been for you against us can raise seeming plausible matter enough against the truly Innocent to ensnare and incasserate their persons Then I have often seen and observed your last subterfuge to be viz. O but will you take the Oath of Alleageance and sometimes it 's Will you take the Oaths of Alleagiance and Supremacy whenas for pure Conscience-sake we who profess Christianity and are Christians indeed as wel as in words cannot may not dare not swear by Heaven Earth Evangelists or any other Oath whatsoever because the promised Messiah and performed Oath of God of whom Oaths under the Law were a Type hath commanded us in express words But I say unto you Swear not at all but let your yea be yea and your nay nay c. and his Apostle Iames saith Above all things my Brethren swear not So that being absolutely commanded by the Son of God and precautioned or rather confirmed by his