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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86654	The visitation of the rebellious nation of Ireland. And a warning from the Lord proclaimed, to all the inhabitants thereof, to make their peace with him before hislong [sic] suffering come to an end. With a lamentation over its unfruitfulnes and rebellion after so many visitations. And an exhortation to all the honest hearted, to meet the Lord by repentance, while the patience of the Lord continues. Or the sealing of the Lords testimony unto all sorts of people in that land, by his servants, after their several months sore labours, and travells, and sufferings therein, who loved not their lives for the seeds sake. Also some particular papers, written in that nation, to severall sorts of people. I. A warning, to the heads, and rulers, and people of Dublin. ... VII. An invitation to all the poor desolate souldiers, to repent, and make their peace with the Lord, and their duty shewed them, what the Lord requires of them. By them who are sufferers, for the seeds sake; waiting for the building of distressed Sion: F.H. E.B.	Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669.; Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.	1656 (1656)	Wing H3188; Thomason E880_6; ESTC R202550	29,686	40

condemnation and such a Government will stand for the praise of them that doe well and encouraging of the upright but if such bear rule and handle the Law which know not God nor is not ruled by him these will abuse the Law and will be a terrour to righteousnesse and good works and will strengthen the hands of evill doers and will let vice and wickednes escape unpunished This I speak in love to all your soules to the informing of all your minds that you may know your place and how to exalt justice and judgement the light of the Son of God by which every man is lighted is but one in all just righteous and equall the same in him that hates it and transgresses the righteous Law as it is in him that loves it and judges all transgressions And this light of Christ by which all men is lightned is the seate of justice and of true judgement and the ground of all good wholsome Laws and every Law that is contrary to it is for condemnation by it Therefore I say waite in the light by which you are lightned to receive the pure Law of God to judge all causes by and make no Law in your own wills nor act not in such Laws made by the will of man for such Laws is oppression and tyranny lodges in them and false judgement and such God hath and will cast out who acted from that ground So be ye warned by their fall and judge not after your own thoughts nor sensuall carnall wisdome nor follow not your own wills nor the counsell of your own hearts but stand in Gods counsell and fear his name and tremble at his presence and waite to be guided by him in his holy Law which all unrighteous counsells and vaine affections and false judgements will condemn in your own hearts then you will truly know how to judge your brethren in equity righteousnes how to reward well doers how to punish evil doers according to the measure of their transgressions and according to the light in their own consciences by which they being convinced from your Law of the evill of their transgression will confesse your Law and judgement to be just and equall and you to be righteous Judges here you judge for God and bears not the sword in vaine but is a terror to transgressours and to the disobedient and lawlesse against which the Law was onely added to slay unrighteousnesse but it was not made for the righteous whose consciences are exercised towards God and towards man by the pure Law of God written in the heart and upon such and over such your Law hath no power for they are one and in union with that Law which is righteous and doth witnesse the justnesse and goodnesse and holinesse of it but if you make a Law in your own wills and judge by such a Law then you will make the innocent suffer and oppresses them who walks in the Law of God and in the exercise of a pure conscience Christ was put to death by such a Law and the Saints in all generations was persecuted by such Laws which was made in the will of man contrary to the will and Law of God therefore take heed to your selves least God hew down you and your Law together and condemn you by his righteous Law eternally which Law of God needs not to be made but is made already and to be witnessed by the light in every mans conscience to justification or condemnation and is revealed in all that love righteousnesse So take heed what you doe and know your place and the length and breadth of your Law which is committed to you which is to keep the outward man in good order and the Nations in peace and truth and from theft and murder and adultery and fighting and quarrelling and drunkenesse and wronging one another and such like such who acts these things walks contrary to the light and so brings themselves under the penalty of the Law but over the inward man your Law which is outward hath no power to bind to limit or to tie too or from any way of worship in Religion but let Religion defend it selfe and lay not your Law upon the conscience to exercise dominion over it for it is Christs seat in whom he will rule least you be found tyrants and numbred for destruction nor limit not the Spirit of the Lord how when where and by whom it must speak for the holy men of God in all ages ever cryed against such Laws as was contrary to the Law of God and did limit the Spirit of the Lord and against such Rulers as did judge false judgement and for gifts and rewards and against such Priests and Prophets as preached for hire and divined for money and sought for their gaine from their quarter and made a prey upon the people and through coveteousnesse made merchandize of soules therefore be ye warned if such you uphold by a Law which acts those things which the Scripture declares against which the holy men of God gave forth by his Spirit the Scripture which you professe shall stand a witnesse against you and the Law of God will condemn you and God will lay your honour in the dust and cast you out of the seat of Judgement as he hath done the power of the King Bishops before you but judge the cause of the poor needy of the widow fatherles joyn mercy with judgment and lay your swords upon oppression and all tyranny and wrong dealing that the land may be cleansed of evill doers and equity and righteousnesse may flow down and the Nation in good order may be kept in peace and righteousnesse and so God will establish you among his children who are taught of him alone and are far from oppression to the light of God in all your consciences I doe speak which if you make Laws contrary to it and judge contrary to it it is the eternall condemnation of you and of your Lawes and judgement And remember you are warned in your life time and my conscience is cleared to you and in the day of the Lord you shall witnesse me to be true and this to be the word of the Lord to you whether you will hear or forbear Written to you by a friend of righteousnesse and true judgement from the Spirit of the Lord as moved of him in love to all your soules to go abroad among the heads and Rulers and Judges in Dublin and else where through the Nation of Ireland from one who is called a Quaker by scorners whose name in the flesh is Edw Burrough Written at Dublin the 23 of the 8 month 1655. And now O ye Heads and Rulers happy had you been if you had taken the counsel of the Lord and submitted to have obeyed his word which came to you as moved of him but in that you have neglectted have made Laws in your will exercised Lordship over the

cause before you and to the light of Jesus Christ in all your consciences we appeal in this our cause of righteousness and innocency to be judged thereby We are men fearing God and working righteousnesse and are friends to the Common-wealth of Israel and are exalters of justice and true judgement in the earth and are subject to all just power and to every just ordinance of man for conscience sake and have suffered the losse of all and have borne part of the burden with you that we might obtaine the freedome of the righteous seed and the liberty of tender consciences to serve the Lord in his own way and we are well known to the Lord though strangers to you and are free men in the record of heaven though now sufferers unjustly under your present authority who hath taken the place of exercising Lordship over our pure consciences and hath imprisoned us and endeavoured to give judgement of banishing us onely upon false accusations and informations and slanders without the proofe or testimony of any accusation of evill justly laid to our charge And to you hereby be it known that not for evill doing doe we thus suffer for to this present no man hath convinced us of any evill nor justly proved the transgression of any Law martiall or civill against us though we stand accused of many grievous things of which we are clearly innocent in the sight of him that lives for ever and doth nothing more desire herein but to be tryed by the Law of equity and righteousnesse and judged according thereunto By vertue of command given unto us by the eternall Spirit of the Lord came we into this Land of Ireland contrary to the will of man not to seek our selves nor our own glory nor to prejudice your Nation nor Government nor to be hurtfull to your Common-wealth but with the message of the Gospel of Christ Jesus we came to turn from darknes to light and from the power of Satan to the power of God and to minister the word of reconciliation and salvation freely without a gift or a reward unto lost soules and hereof God is our witnesse and also we have the seals of our Ministry which unto us herein can give testimony by the same Spirit and this are we ready to seal with our blood And these six months and upward have we laboured in travells and sufferings and reproaches and have passed through your Cities and Towns in sobernesse and meeknesse have we preached the kingdome of God and have holden forth the word of truth and the testimony of Jesus and our lives have we not loved till this day though sometimes dangers on every side hath beset us that we might hold forth the faith of Jesus the author of our profession in the exercise of a pure conscience both by doctrine and conversation and herein we are justified in the sight of God and who is he that condemns us and doth call heaven and earth to record and the light in all mens consciences who have heard our doctrine or seen our conversation to witnesse for us herein and we challenge all you Nation of Ireland our very enemies to prove the contrary though otherwise we stand falsly accused and falsly reputed to be disturbers and makers of disorders to the breach of publique peace and such like grievous things upon the false information whereof a Warrant was issued out from the chief Ruler and Counsell of Ireland and we thereby was apprehended in the City of Corke and haled by guards as malefactors to before the Counsell in this City where none of all these false accusations was or could be proved against us nor the transgression of any known Law could we be convicted of and though occasions was sought against us yet none could be found and though snares was laid for our feet yet were we not entrapped but was cleared in the sight of God witnessed by the light in all their consciences and was found innocent and without reproofe in the eye of the Lord and by our innocency was their orders of false accusations made of none effect and we thus far proved to be guiltles before the throne of true judgment yet notwithstanding contrary to the light in their own consciences and contrary to the just Laws of the Nations which afordeth freedome to the freeborn and righteous were we committed to prison without conviction or any guilt charged upon us or the least appearance of evill towards any mans person though falsly accused yet nothing given true testimony of against us whereby our boldnesse in the way of the Lord could be discouraged as having the testimony of the Spirit of God bearing us witnesse in the Holy Ghost that in all good conscience towards God and towards man we have lived unto this day and so are without reproofe in the sight of God and all just men and though upon search and examination we were found guiltles thus far yet further hath the enemy the Devil prevailed in cruelty against the innocent that it is endeavoured that we be banished under the account of vagabonds which last accusation is the most false and urighteous for we challenge this of whom have we begged or to whom have we been burdensome or whose bread have we eaten for nothing or what evil have we done where is the testimony of your slande●s but innocently doe we suffer these things bearing reproaches and binding the cruelty done unto us as chaines about our our necks and as crowns upon our heads having the assurance that for well doing we suffer these things from the hands of the Rulers through the lies and slanders of the teachers who are in Cains way of persecution till they have fulfilled their measure of wickednesse and be laid wast as the wildernesse And this is our cause and hereby it comes before you by the light of Christ in your consciences to be judged if your hearts be not altogether hardned and your minds wholly blinded and we lay it at the doore to receive sentence from you and without respect of your persons holds forth our guiltlesse cause before you not begging any thing from you but herein to clear our consciences that you may save your selves from this untoward generation whose root is corrupt and fruit bitternesse for while we have breath from the Lord and injoynment of his presence our duty is to serve the Lord in bearing witnesse against injustice and all cruelty and oppression and shall appeal to receive justice from the present power which now rules for in the name of the Lord we challenge our priviledge of freedome as being freeborn till we be accused guilty by the just Law of equity unto which we are subject for conscience sake and not to any mans will but by word and writing is bound by the Law of God to bear witnesse against the unjust proceedings herein of the Heads and Rulers of Dublin and shall seale our witnesse against them and against their unrighteous decrees