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cause_n	bear_v	truth_n	witness_n	3,073	5	8.6773	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41057	False prophets, antichrists, deceivers which are in the world, which John prophesied of, which hath long been hid and covered, but now is unmasked in these last dayes with the eternal light which is risen ... ; also a word to the heads and governors of this nation, who have put forth a declaration for the keeping of a day of humiliation for the persecution (as they say) of the poor inhabitants in the valley of Lucerna, Angrona, and others professing the reformed religion which hath been transmitted unto them from their ancestors / by M. Fell ; and also James Milners condemnation upon that which erred from the light.	Fox, Margaret Askew Fell, 1614-1702.; Millner, James.; Millner, Elizabeth.	1655 (1655)	Wing F631; ESTC R36427	18,386	25

and we own it and see it good to administer to the necessities of others and to do good to all and we who are sufferers by a Law derived from the Pope are willing to joyn and contribute with you to their outward necessities for the Earth is the Lords and the fulness thereof who is good to all and gracious to all and willing that all should be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth but in the mean time while you are doing this and taking notice of others cruelty tyrany and persecution turn your eye into your own bosoms and see what is doing at home To the light of Christ Jesus in all your Consciences which never changes do I speak which cannot lie nor cannot erre nor cannot bear false witness which doth witness for God and cry for equity and justice and righteousness to be executed See what is a doing among them who professeth the Scriptures as they were given forth by the Saints in light who dwell in the light and in the life of them and them who do now witness the same light in the same life and the same power which gave forth the Scriptures which ye profess them are persecuted hailed out of the Synagogues and Markets beat stockt and imprisoned Now let that of God in your Consciences which is just and righteous and equall examine and try whether there be any example or president to exercise this persecution which now many in this Nation suffer under A people harmless and innocent walking in obedience towards God and towards man though it be accounted heresie but therein do they exercise themselves to have alwayes a Conscience void of offence towards God and man as you may read Acts 24.14.15 16. not wronging any man neither giving any just cause of offence only being obedient to the Commands of the Lord to declare as they are moved by the Holy Ghost for the testimony of a good conscience and say the truth of Christ and lie not their consciences also bearing them witness Rom. 9.1 And for this do they suffer under them who profess the same things for which they suffer Now see if any age or Generation did ever persecute as this doth who professeth Christ Jesus who reveals the Father and persecutes them that witness it so Who professeth Christ Jesus the light of the world which enlighteneth every one that cometh into the world and persecutes them who bear this witness and testimony They who professe that the Word is become flesh and persecutes them who witnesse it so They which profess that whosoever confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is an Antichrist and yet persecute them who doth confess him come in the flesh and calleth them Antichrists and Deceivers They profess that the Kingdom of Christ is come and they persecute them that witness it come They profess Christ Jesus who is the Resurrection and the life and they persecute them who witness him to be so But you will say How shall we know that these people who say they witness these things do so or no Answ. Turn your minds to the light wherewith Christ Jesus hath enlightened you withall which is one in all and if you walk in the light you shall know the light of life and then you will know and then you will see what you have done who have persecuted the Lord of glory in whom is life and that life is the light of men and to no other touchstone shall we turn you but into your own Consciences and there shall ye find the truth of what we have declared unto you and of what we bear testimony to and when the books of Conscience shall be opened and all judged out of them then shall you witness us to be of God and our testimony to be true though now you may stop your eares and harden your hearts while it is called to day but then you shall know what you have done and whom you have transgressed against and then you will see that no persecutors in any age or generation that ever went before you did ever transgress against that light as some of this age doth and measure of God made manifest who persecute the same which themselves profess But you will say That Christ and the Apostles were persecuted in their times Answ. The Iews did not know that he was the Christ when he came though they had the Scriptures which prophesied of him neither did they believe that he was risen again when the Apostles preached his resurrection But you say you believe he is come and you say you believe his resurrection and yet you persecute those that witness him come in the flesh and those that are buried with him in Baptisme and those that are conformable to his Death and knoweth the power of his Resurrection according to the Scriptures those you persecute hayl before Magistrates suffer to be beaten in your Synagogues whipt and stockt and shamefully intreated and into prison cast and kept great summes of money fined and laid upon many of them as many Goales in this Nation at this day doth testifie to your faces by a Popish Law Therefore honestly consider what is done whilest you are taking notice of others Cruelties abroad lest you overlook what is done at home for there is much difference in many things between the Popish Religion and the Protestant as they call it but in this persecution there is no difference for you will confesse that the foundation of your Religion is grounded upon the Scriptures and now some men are persecuting the same life as spoke forth the Scriptures under a profession of the words thus spoke and this you shall eternally witness So you have the profession and the form and persecute the possession and life and power of that form Therefore know assuredly that you must come to Judgment for he is made manifest which is without form to whom all Judgement is committed Therefore to the light of Christ Jesus in your Consciences which changeth not which searcheth and tryeth you turn your minds and stand still and wait there to receive the righteous Law which acts according to that of God in the Conscience which is now rising and bearing witness against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men And those whom you persecute is made manifest to that of God in all Consciences and that of God in all Consciences shall witness for us to be of God and this you shall eternally witness whether you will hear or forbear And our rejoycing is this the testimony of our Consciences that in simplicity and godly sincerity not with fleshly wisdome but by the grace of God we have had our conversation in the world and more abundantly to you-wards And therefore do we bear witness and testifie against the form and profession of it who persecute the life and power Therefore to the Eternal light of Christ Jesus which is the searcher and tryer of all hearts turn your minds and see what ye are doing lest you overturn your foundation and bottom whereon you stand while you are professing the Scriptures and persecuting the life light and power that gave them forth for the stone cut out of the Mountain without hands is now striking at the feet of the Image which the profession that stands in the will of man hath set up Now is that made manifest that all must appear before the Judgment Seat of Christ that every one may receive the things done in the body according to that which they have done whether it be good or bad Knowing therefore the terrour of the Lord we perswade men but we are made manifest unto God and shall be made manifest in all your Consciences which you shall eternally witnesse The Afflictions and the Sufferings of such that suffereth by the Popish Laws and waies beyond the Seas by which Law of Queen Maries that guarded the Jesuite Priests and the Popish waies doth now the Babes and Children of God which are in the unlimited power and spirit suffer imprisonment yea and great fines of money and have had both bread and drink kept from them within your own Nation therefore consider that within the Nation they be set free from those Popish laws which the Priests have yet to guard their Church which guarded the Jesuits and their Catholick Church by which Law the Children of God now suffer therefore consider and break down all the Supremacy of the Popish Church and that which guarded their Priests in your own Nation that now suffer by that but let the sword be upon that laid which would limit the Spirit of the Lord God That with one Consent all dwelling in the light which comes from Christ who is the way to the Father where the Church is may relieve their brethren without any pretence go relieve others in another Nation and leave that Popish law to make others suffer in your own Nation Therefore that Condemn the Lord God dread and fear that him you may know who doth good to the Just and the unjust for them we are not against So be ye mercifull even as your heavenly Father is mercifull therefore we and many others which have suffered by Queen Maries Law in this Nation doth send some relief to them who doth suffer by the Papists Wills Laws and Inventions in other Nations that the sufferes bowells may be refreshed and they anointed though many do suffer by the same Law given forth by the same nature which causeth them to suffer beyond Sea and many which gathers them relief causeth them to suffer which all with the light condemned and answered shall be with the light in all Consciences which light being comed to and obeyed keeps from Idols and leads to the Church in God and which brings to do good unto all especially to the houshold of faith Margaret Fell Written from the Spirit of the Lord the 16. Day of the 4. Month. THE END Matth. 23. Mark 12. Isa. 55. Isa. 54.13 Rom. 10.6 7 8. Ier. 31.33 34. Heb. 12.1 2. 1 Cor. 1.17 18 19 20 21. 2 King 22.2 Ier. 29.8 9.