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A34920 To all you Protestant persecutors, whether magistrates, priests or people, this is for you to reade R. C. (Richard Crane) 1660 (1660) Wing C6817; ESTC R28577 3,987 1

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passed through very many Difficulties Dangers and Perils both of Waters and wilde Beasts and now being come within sight of my City of Rest I never intend to go back again Then said he that spake unto him If thou wilt not go back again with us in our way thou must go no further on in thy way but rather than go forward towards the City thou shalt die and then he spake to his Companion to slay the poor man which at first he refused and said I know no evil by him But said the other If thou dost not I do and I should not have asked of thee to have done it but I am a man devoted to holy Service therefore I may not imbrew and stain my hands in blood but I desire thee to do it and I will bear thee out in it So with some intreaties and many threatnings he caused his Companion to slay the poor Travellor and would not suffer him to go to his City of Rest and then he took his Body and hid it lest them that were travelling after should see it and so enquire the reason Now he that can reade let him reade And know you this O you Priests you above all men upon the face of the Earth have little cause to stir up Persecution against us knowing how and in what manner we formerly suffered even in the day of your Probation and who were most faithful to their Principle then let God Angels and men judge for we hold forth the same Truth now as then and then as now But hath it been so with you let God's just Witness in you speak and answer And would you have us conform unto that as Truth your selves durst not publickly own in that day And know you this that since your Restoring amongst the many thousands who have been imprisoned in and about this City did ever your Charity lead to our Prisons to visit or endeavour to convince us of that behind our backs you call Errour What do you think will not the Jesuites and Fryars in Queen Mary's dayes rise up in Judgment against you and condemn you For as it stands upon Record they did often visit them they falsly called Hereticks and used many endeavours to reclaim them and to save their lives though God's Truth were of more value unto them than all their proffers of Life Liberty and Preferment and chose rather to seal their Testimonies with their Blood than to deny the Truth of God manifested in their Hearts and Consciences but you as the Generations of old do beautifie their Tombs and garnish their Sepulchers by your often repeating their Memorials and cry out Protestant Martyrs Protestant Martyrs We say it 's true they were so and we are the very Off-spring of that Seed But what will it avail you when by your practice you are found Protestant Persecutors and indeed let no man admire why no more Charity appears amongst you for this we have learned in God's Wisdom that the Hawk and Dove flyeth not in company together neither doth the Wolf and Sheep pasture together in one place And as for us the Innocent People of God called Quakers who deeply suffer for our Consciences to God and chiefly by your means we say The Will of God be done and though we be enclosed within your Prison walls yet the Presence of our God is with us and amongst us whereby our very Lives and Souls are refreshed in him and one in another and in the true sence of that we have bowels of compassion for our Enemies yea the very cruelest of them and for such as are ignorant in what they do our very souls mourn pittie and pray for them and for those who know what they do and manifestly sin against the Light of God in their Consciences as we believe even very many do in this thing yet we have no evil towards them neither in word thought or action but leave them to the Lord who judgeth righteously Given forth by a Servant of the Lord whose life is bound up amongst those that bear a Testimony for God's Living Truth by their Sufferings in the several Prisons and Goals in and about London R.C.