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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77975	The vvofull cry of unjust persecutions, and grevious oppressions of the people of God in England, through the injustice of some of her rulers, and wikednesse of teachers and people, who hasten to fulfil the measure of their forefathers cruelty. With a lamentation over them all who rewards the Lord evill for good, and is a warning to them all for repentance; shewing that the coming of the Lord is nigh. And this may serve for an answer in full, to all such who have persecuted by violence, by word or writing the innocent people in scorn called Quakers. With a short addition, which shewes unto all, the ground of persecution; in its first cause, and the enmity which is betwixt the two seeds, is clearly discovered, by a friend to the suffering seed of God, E.B.	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.	1657 (1657)	Wing B6058; Thomason E927_1; ESTC R207590	26,005	39

THE WOFULL CRY OF Unjust Persecutions and grievous Oppressions of the People of God in England through the Injustice of some of her Rulers and wikednesse of Teachers and People who hasten to fulfil the measure of their forefathers cruelty WITH A LAMENTATION Over them all who rewards the Lord evill for good and is a warning to them all for repentance shewing that the coming of the Lord is nigh AND This may serve for an Answer in full to all such who have Persecuted by violence by Word or Writing the innocent people in scorn called QUAKERS WITH A SHORT ADDITION Which shewes unto all the ground of Persecution in its first cause and the enmity which is betwixt the two seeds is clearly discovered By a Friend to the suffering Seed of God E. B. LONDON Printed for Giles Calvert at the Black Spread-Eagle near the West end of Pauls TO THE READER READER THIS is sent abroad into the World that all people may see what is brought forth in this Generation against the Innocent who suffer cruel things for well doing and not for evil and the words of Christ are fullfilled who said As they have done unto me so will they doe unto you And the time comes that whosoever kills you he will think that he doth God good service And this is now come to passe according as he hath said to our rejoycing and to the sorrow of all our enemies And as any is moved herein this is to be given to the hands of the Persecuters and of them who have done evil against the Lords people as a gift unto them from a friend Who is at present a sufferer under Bonds for the testimony of Jesus Christ through the wickednesse of men but most especially by the supposed Minister of this Town in Kingstone upon Thames The 7 Month 1657. The Wofull Cry of unjust Persecutions and grievous Oppressions of the people of God in England through the Injustice of some of Her Rulers and wickednesse of Teachers and People who hasten to fullfill the measure of their fore-fathers cruelty OF a truth the Lord is arisen and he hath caused the light of his countenance to shine forth upon his people his day is dawned and the brightnesse of his glory is shining forth as the sun at noon day his everlasting arme is stretched forth to lead out of captivity his own chosen the days of perfect freedome is approaching he that brings health peace liberty to all Nations is come coming who will restore the breaches and subdue all things under himself that he may reign for ever and ever who alone is worthy for he hath all power in his hand and he brings to passe whatsoever he will that all men and Nations may fear before him and tremble at his dreadfull presence who hath power in his hand to change Times and Lawes Orders Decrees and Governments the hearts of all men he can turn what way he listeth and he pulleth down one and setteth up another and whatsoever is in his heart to do his power can bring it to passe who would not fear before him and reverence his Name Who would not be afraid to offend him who giveth unto man breath and takes it away in a moment all Nations are as the drop of a bucket before his eternal eye he dwells in the high and holy place and his habitation is high above the world he inhabits eternity forevermore and yet abideth and walketh and dwelleth with the children of men that fear his Name and tremble at his Word he hath been as a stranger as one not known for men have been seperated from him by transgression and have been ignorant of his wayes he hath been as one hidden for many ages and hath been worshipped ignorantly and hath winked in the time of ignorance but now he calleth all to repentance every where Blessed are they that wait upon him that they may know him and their souls may live and now the purpose of his heart is to bring in his scattered people into the fold of peace where Christ Jesus is the shepherd and his people shall dwell in safety and shall be a free people to worship him in the Spirit and in the Truth and every yoake of bondage shall be broken and the oppressed shall be set free and Christ shall reign and his Government above shall be established over all the world mans honour shall be laid in the dust and the pride of all flesh shall be stained and the glory thereof shall wither as a flower the loftinesse of all flesh shall be laid low and the Lord alone shall be exalted and his people which now are oppressed shall replenish and fill the earth All corrupt men and Rulers their strength and might shall utterly fail them and men that fear God and love righteousnesse shall take their place and all things shall be changed and the world shall be turned up-side down But because of this is all the world troubled and the Heathen is on a rage and the people do imagine vain things and men of high degree and low degree and of all sorts have set themselves against the Lord that they might stop the purpose of the most high and their hearts within them burn because of envy and the Devil hath stirred up all sorts of people to work for him and to uphold his kingdom and h●s power he is come down in great rage knowing that his time is but short and hath filled the hearts of all his servants with despite and ravening envy against the seed of God The heads of the people they have conspired together against the Lord and against his truth and have decreed unrighteous decrees that they might prevent the purpose of the most High Many of the Rulers and Judges as members of the beastly power rather than of Jesus Christ hath unjustly judged and falsly imprisoned and trodden under foot the meek and upright who fear the Lord and walk in his way even such who have come from under the subjection of the worship and power of the Beast which all the world had wondered after hath the Beast raised his force against How many hundreds in this Nation have been imprisoned falsly and suffered grievous abuses unjustly for righteousnesse sake and not for evil doing as a testimony against this generation of Judges and people and for a testimony that they are of God who have in patience born the sufferings and the cruelties of the wicked many have suffered the losse of liberty and riches and some the losse of life for the exercise of a pure conscience towards God and for the Kingdom of Jesus many have suffered under the power of wicked men for declaring against sin and iniquity in Townes Steeple-houses or high wayes and for crying against pride and vanity and idolatry and coveteousnesse and the wickednesse of Rulers Priests and People whose deceits and transgressions hath abounded in this generation and others have deeply suffered grievous cruelties

your hearts made manifest in the sight of the lord who hath looked down from heaven and considered these things and hath regarded the unjust sufferings of his people whose liberties and estates and good names have been spoiled through injustice by grievous burthens laid upon some because they could not pay Tythes that hainous oppression to satisfie the unmercifullnesse of cruel men and many suffers at this day unjustly in the sight of God and illegally also in the sight of men and some suffer the spoiling of their goods rather by way of robery and theft than by just execution of judgment in proceeding of just law this can largely be witnessed and this is brought forth by subservant Officers to you that are set to judge and you to them are evil examples and strengtheners of their malitious hands some of them are not ashamed to take sixtimes the value of what is unjustly claimed for the use of a false teacher and deceitful hireling who rides upon the beast and make you their servants to oppresse the poor to uphold them and maintain them in their pride and vanities but the Lord hath considered these things and he hath numbred the oppressions against you wherewith the just have been grieved and oppressed under you he hath counted this cruelty and recorded all your unjust dealing which you have or suffered to be brought forth yea the day of account hasters and the tearm draws near upon you wherein the just and righteous Judge of heaven and earth will call you to account who will plead the cause of the poor and of the unjust sufferer and oppressed against you all who are oppressors the innocent prosecute against you and the begging of the poor is heard which calls for vengeance upon you In the Record of justice what account will you give to the Highest-power who rules over heaven and earth for imprisoning just men for crying against sin and declaring against the wickednesse of this age this shall be proved against you in the day of the Lord Is your answer ready or will not your mouthes be stopped and you speechlesse when righteousnesse it self pleads against you And what can you plead for fining men and imprisoning them for not respecting your persons and bowing with hat and knee and because they could not swear this hath some of you done will you have any thing to say in the cause of these things when Christ Jesus comes to reign and his Saints with him unto whom the government and the authority and rule shall be given though now they are persecuted and as the refuse of men accounted by you unto whom they are become a prey to act your oppression and cruelty upon and because they render not evil for evil therefore is the impudencie of some men the more encreased and their hardnesse of heart enlarged and because judgment is not speedily executed therefore are the hearts of some men set in them to do evil O! what a sad reckoning in that day and what large indictments and verdicts for your oppression will be read against you and proved to be just in the sight of God and men a sad thing will it be upon you when laid to your charge by the Lord for causing men to suffer because they could not swear nor respect persons nor uphold the deceits of false worships and teachers nor cease to cry aga●nst sin in your Townes and Steeple-houses O! be stirred up out of your security you Heads and Rulers and Judges and Officers even all you be awakened who have turned your sword against the peaceable and been a terror to righteousnesse as much as you could which you ought not to have been and so your power you have abused and subverted it to another end than wherefore it was committed to you instead of defending the upright you have offended him and instead of being a terror to the wicked his hand hath been strengthened through your wicked presidents this is the truth as the light in all your consciences shall witnesse in the day of the Lord O! how hath justice and true judgment been neglected and oppression and cruelty abounded the like in generations past hath not been know●… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Lord is now arisen and hath said I will ease 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 enemies and take vengeance upon my adversaries 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 done wickedly against him and his people till the patience of the Lord is near an end and his longe suffering finished and his judgments will he make known upon his enemies in this generation that ages to come forever may be warned not to oppresse the innocent as these have done by false accusations and unjust judgment and wicked proceedings and because of it the wrath of the Lord is kindled and his viols of indignation shall be poured upon the beast and upon the false Prophet and all their power shall be smitten in one day And O what wickednesse hath abounded in the people also to help up the measure of the Rulers sins that may receive the recompence together how have the people of all sorts abused the innocent lambs of Christ whom he hath called What beatings and stonings and bruisings and other abuses in Townes and High-waies and Steeple-houses its hard to be expressed and large to be declared some have been wounded night unto death others bruised till blood have gushed out and others cast down in the dirt and punched with feet and troden upon and many have been in danger of their lives some have been knocked down with staves and thir cloaths rent and their hair torne off their heads and some have been pursued after with throwing stones and dirt at them and many halled and tumulted and lugged and hurried up and down in cruel manner to the danger of life and oppression of the creature and others have been whipped and lashed and put into cruel torment of their bodies by engins framed of purpose to torment the bodies of the harmlesse as Chester and Carlile may witnesse and others have been halled before rulers and falsly slandered to the taking away of life if the Lord had not prevented more than mercy of men and having been unmercifully and unjustly sent to prison there have they suffered cruelties from the Goalers or their servants by beatings or punnishings or threatnings or cruel words and casting into dungeons and great abuses shamefully acted upon them and other prisoners have made a prey upon them by t●king away their cloaths and meat and beating of them and abusing them divers waies and murtherers have had more priviledge of freedom in prisons and in tryals than these who are innocent and these things thus acted contrary to their own law hath passed without reproofe from many in Authority though it have been brought to their door and in this manner have the children of God the Lamb and his followers been persecuted without cause or any evil works brought forth by them and legally proved against them but for well doing and not for evil hath

against the people of God and called the holy City a rebellious and bad City and that it was hurtfull unto Kings and danger to endammage the revenue of Kings Here was a conspiracie by the Scribes and such as handled the Law with the King against the people of God and thus it is now he that hath an eye to see may see how many petitions have they put to the Rulers against the people of God What grieveous and false accusations have they laid to the charge of the innocent saying they be Popishly affected and disobedient to Government so that the seed of the Serpent ever doth hatch evil against the seed of God to destroy it from off the face of the earth and it was the wise and the learned and the Rulers whom the Devil made use of to persecute the righteous it was such as Rhehum the Chancellor and Shimshai the Scribe and Pashur the chief Governor in the house of the Lord and it was such as the chief Priests and Elders of the people and the wise men of this world such as these it was that persecuted the righteous and so it is now Orthodox men so called Justices of Peace c. whom the Devil makes use of to persecute the innocent against which no occasion can be found but concerning the Law of God as it was with Daniel as you may read Daniel 6 and 5 6. against him they could find no occasion that they might presecute him but concerning the Law of his God and it was the President and Princes and Counsellors and the Governors which consulted together against Daniel who was the servant of God And as it was then so it is now in this generation they can find no occasion against us the people of God either by doctrin or conversation but onely concerning the law and worship of our God for there is a law against the law of Christ and all that will not swear contrary to the law of Christ must be counted evil doers and Popish recusants and punished and this is not for any evil in us but because we cannot transgresse the law of our God and also another decree which takes hold upon them that travell to worship God on the first day of the week whereby the innocent doth suffer and are like to suffer and not for evil doing is any occasion against us but because we will not stay from the worship of our God but are made to travel that we may meet together to worship him with such other decree which sheweth unto all men that they seek occasion against us concerning the law of our God not having occasion by doctrine or conversation or any other thing so for righteousnesse sake are we persecuted and not for evil doing some are persecuted because for conscience sake they cannot stay at their own houses but are moved by the Lord to declare the Name of the Lord abroad in the Nation many by a decree are taken and punished as for vagabonds and this is an occasion concerning the law of our God and Christ was persecuted and put to death by an unrighteous decree for they had an unrighteous law as they said aad by it he ought to dye and unrighteous laws and decrees were made against the Apostles whereby they were commanded to depart out of their townes and to preach no more in the Name of Jesus and by such decrees were the Apostles persecuted So that this may shew unto all that our fore-fathers who were of the seed of God some were persecuted unto death by unrighteous decrees and statutes and as it was then so it is now he that hath an eye to see may see the same as ever was is come to passe in the earth the seed of the Serpent striving against the seed of God and persecuting it where it is brought forth by unrighteous decrees how did the late Bishops of England persecute the harmlesse What Lawes and Ordinances were then brought forth whereby violence was done against such as feared the Lord and then was the seed of the Serpent striving against the seed of God And this is given forth to shew unto all the World the cause of persecution in its first ground to wit the irrecoverable enmity which is betwixt the two seeds the one continually hating and persecuting the other and seeking the overthrow each of other and the enmity betwixt the two seeds is the cause of strife the one being innocent and the other unrighteous so it is not for the persons sake or any other thing that the just are persecuted but it is because of the seed of God which cannot bow nor worship the seed of the Serpent that is the first cause of persecution Again all may see what unrighteous lawes and decrees were and are brought forth to persecute the innocent whereby they have suffered in all generations for righteousnesse sake and not for evil doing also it may be seen that it was the wise the learned the Presidents and Chancellors and chief Priests and Scribes who were and are the very active persons by whom the seed of God is persecuted and even such as were and are zealous in their observances and Sabboth-keeping and such like it was not the poor nor the foolish only which the Devil made use of to do his work but it was the wise and the learned and the chief in Authority and such like it was such in whom the seed of the Serpent ruled who were the active men against the servants of God Also it was through the evil counsel of such as were Teachers and Scribes and handlers of the law and it was through the false accusations of the chief Priests unto the Governors and Elders of the people and so it is now at this day as I have proved and also the righteous was persecuted upon the false judgment of others and they were falsly adjudged to be deceivers and blasphemers and evil doers and upon this account were they persecuted and as being falsly reputed to be destructive to Government and revenue of Kings and upon such like and that they made void the Law of God and were movers of sedition and upon such accounts as these was the seed of God persecuted as it is at this day and all men that read this with moderation may come to the good understanding upon what account and by what instruments and by what means the seed of the serpent hath persecuted the seed of God even from Cain unto this day And this is to go abroad into this Nation and into the World and it is given forth from the suffering seed of God to clear it self in the sight of all men that not for evil but for good are these sufferings laid upon it But behold the Lord regardeth the cry of the poor and of the unjust sufferer and he will remember his mercy and his covenant with his own seed and when it passes through the fire he is with it and though it be afflicted