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The blood of righteous Abel crying from the ground being a lamentation for and a warning too [sic] all that have a hand against the innocent people of God, especially intended for the rulers and priests in Hamshire ... / by W.B.
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Bayly, William, d. 1675.
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The blood of righteous ABEL Crying from the ground being a lamentation for and a warning too all that have a hand against the innocent people of God especially intended for the Rulers and Priests in Hamshire who have hardned their hearts against the day of slaughter wherein they shall feel Cains punishment which he was not able to bear who have been often warned by the servants of the Lord yet have they not done that which is just in his sight but have imprisoned several of his servants this many months without just cause and doth increase their bondage upon us where 9 of us are kept close prisoners in an unwholesome stinking hoale not fit for beasts whose cry is not onely gone through the Nation but is also entred into the ears of the Lord God of rest who will plead our cause in righteousness Also the decree of the Lord sealed and made manifest to his servant that all the plottings snares and persecutions which the powers of the earth and darkness and the gates of hell can invent and rise up with shall never prevail against his power that is now brake forth and made manifest in his dear children who in scorne are called Quakers By W. B. MY heart within me is broken because of the false Prophets persecuting rulers who are found fighting against the Lamb of God and his followers Alas alas woe is me because of the misery that is coming upon you my heart is filled with sorrow and mine eyes with tears and my bowels are turned within me to consider the day of your desolation and destruction which is coming upon you from the Almighty God of heaven and earth Oh what shall be done for you ye hard harted and rebellious children who shall intreat for you or take pitty on you in the day of your calamity which is coming as a whirlwind of terrors and you shall not escape and woe be to him that strive with his maker do you think to stop or limit the mighty power of the Creator of heaven earth which is now broke forth and made manifest in his dear children who have waited for him in the way of his judgements by your blood thirsty persecution and by your false accusations and wicked consultations and unrighteous decrees and lawes nay you shall never prevail nor prosper in these your intents your vain hopes will perish and your contrivances will be swept with you into the bottomless pit from whence your counsel is and no weapon that is formed against us who love not our lives for the son of Gods sake unto the death shall ever prosper and woe to the rebellious children that take counsel but not of me and that cover with a covering but not of my spirit saith the Lord. Is your councels plottings and persecution to hinder the powerful work of the Lord which he hath begun among the children of men and hath blessed and will bless and to frey people from embraceing the precious truth which is the everlasting foundation of God without which all men will be found miserable in their latter end is this your end and to keep up your earthly honour deceit and flattering titles and vain glory which will wither and be laid in the dust and to satisfie the pride of life which is not of the father but of the world Is this your end for fear of loseing these things that puffs up the fleshly mind out of Gods fear and that warrs against your souls for which you persecute imprison and draw before the judgement seats and make a prey and a spoyl of a harmless and innocent people whose glory and kingdome and peace is not of the world but follows the lamb that was slain whither soever he goeth if this be your end and to keep off the trouble and torment that is coming upon you by reason of your wickedness and rebellion against the Lord you will miss of it and your expectation will perish and do you think to avenge your selves on his dear children and get ease by aflicting them and grieving them and tormenting them with your plottings and snares of inhumane cruelty is this your way is the time that was spoken of come to be fulfilled upon you that whosever killeth us who are the followers of Christ shall think he doth God service and will not their vain thoughts deceive them who are found in the envy against the meek spirit that is come to judge the world and do not they rise up against the Lord of life who rise up against him that is meek and lowly surely this is a wrong way you have entred into the way of the ungodly which will perish and not the way to peace for in these things you heap up wrath to your selves against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgements of God in this way you shall never prosper nor prevail the Lord God hath spoken it For this is the way of the wicked which is as darkness where the stumbling is and leads into the chambers of death and destruction this is the sword of the wicked which you have drawn it shall enter into your own bowels and if you thirst for our blood you may have it to drink for a body is prepared and we fear not him that is able onely to kill it but the Lord our God alone he is our fear and he is our dread and our refuge in time of trouble who is taking vengeance on you unawares in a way you know not nor will you believe though a man declare it unto you for did you believe it and were the eye open to see these things you would fear and dread and tremble at the presence of the pure powerful God whose swift witness is coming upon you as a thief in the night and will wound your hairy scalp who proceed in your wickedness and will smite the head of his enemies and strike through Kings in the day of his wrath whose fury you cannot escape and all your high mountains by him will be overturned who think to rule and reign over the meek of the earth by your hight of pride and cruelty alas for you ye tall Cedars a fierce wind from the Lord God shall shake you the axe is laid to your root and you will be hewn down for the fire ye raging waves of the sea you some out your own shame and cast up mire and dirt our King that rides meekly is on the top of you all and on your head doth he trample and he will calm this storme to his own praise and glory and to your utter confusion who rebel against him Christ Jesus the light of the world the man of sorrows who seek not honour from men whom you despise against whom you are risen up and have turned your sword he is our King here this ye rebels ye traytors the Lord God will stain the pride of your glory and lay your earthly honour in the dust and bring you
into contempt who are seeking honour and glory to your selves in the earth whose peace is your life who love the praise of men and pleasures more then God a sword is coming upon you all and you are for the slaughter of the great King who is our lawgiver and Saviour and our peace who is come a light into the world and is the true light that lighteneth every man that cometh into the world meek and lowely upon the wild asses coalt hear this ye deaf and see ye blind and be still and hearken ye flouds of ungodly men who compass the Saints about and the beloved city with lies and plottings of falsehood whereby you think to weary out the dear children of the most high fire is coming down from God out of heaven to devour you and you shall not be able to quench it ye are the pricking briars to the house of Israel ye are the thorns the dross and the stubble the Lord God Almighty of power will you consume the decree is sealed against you a witness I am for the eternal God of life against you all in all your deeds of darkness and hard speeches my outward life is not deer unto me ye devouring beasts of the field I have given it up and you may take it for he that departeth from iniquity is become your prey But the Lord God will plead our cause in righteousness and his eternal witness the light in your consciences will answer your condemnation to be just and your destruction to be of your selves for you have been warned from time to time by the servants of the Lord without you and reproved by the light his true prophet within you that you might escape flee from the wrath to come which if you proceed in the harness of your hearts in afflicting his dear children it will over take you and because of these things my soul is moved knowing the terrors of the Lord against you and a doleful lamentation is on me and my very bones are pained and my heart is hot within me the whole earth is moved with the fierce indignation of the Lord his vengeance plagues and eternal judgements without mercy do I proclaim against you all from the mouth of the Lord God of hosts except you speedily repent for you have greived his spirit and you have afflicted his dear children these many months yet have you been intreated by them with many tears and often warned and the Lord have we even intreated for you as Abraham did for Sodome Moses for Pharaoh that you might not wholly be condemned with an utter overthrow but rather that you might repent and live but our righteous souls are vexed and grieved with your pride rebellion and filthy conversation from day to day and no answer from the Lord have we concerning you but the red sea of his wrath wherein you will be utterly swallowed and drowned and not one will be left and fire from heaven as snares upon you will be rained for every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit shall be hewn down and cast into the fire and every plant which my heavenly father hath not planted shall be rooted up Consider this ye that forget God ye that forget mercy whose bowels are shut up whose hearts are hardned from his righteous dreadful fear lest he tear you in pieces and there be none to deliver you for our God is a consuming fire and is terrible to the heathen that know him not whose fire is in Sion and his furnace in Jerusalem and from thence our deliverer comes who turns away ungodliness from Jacob. But is not envy persecution and oppression ungodliness and wrath pride and injustice are not these things ungodliness and unrighteousness consider and weigh it in the even ballance the light in your consciences to which I speak which will answer the truth without covering and is my witness in you all for the Lord God and heareth my voyce therefore stop not the ear lest you are shut out for ever then shall you cry but he will not hear you and is not the wrath of God to be revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men or is envy pride cruelty oppression tiranny and persecution and laying snares for the innocent and harmeless without cause is this good fruit or the fruit of the spirit of God who among the saints in these things is your example or doth the heavenly plant bring forth such fruit nay verily will Gods witness answer me and are any the sons and children of God but who are joyned to the heavenly plant or led by his spirit which guides unto all truth out of unrighteousness into soberness quietness love peace patience long-suffering humility and gentleness c. and are not the children of God in these things manifest and are not the children of the divel in the other ground bringing forth other fruit of the curse also manifest But if you will not hear nor lay these things to heart and give over afflicting oppressing and grieving my dear children and tender babes that cry unto me night and day and give glory to my great and dreaful name by returning from the evil that is in your hands I will destroy you and your seed from off the face of the whole earth blot out your name from under heaven and your remembrance shall stinck and be a grief to my chosen yet shall they rejoyce over you when the smoke of your torment shall ascend up for ever and ever saith the Lord God Almighty For thus saith the Lord God these people whom you hate and seek many waies to ensnare and take counsel together against and abuse and persecute and imprison whip stone revile and reproch by the name QUAKERS who abide faithful to my son the light of the world that lighteth every man that cometh into the world they are dear unto me my chosen my dear children my beloved ones and he that toucheth them toucheth the apple of mine eye whose cry is entred into my ears and my pitty is towards them and my bowels are moved for them for whose sake I will reprove Kings and kingdomes shall be overthrown that rise up against them and every tongue that rise up in judgement against them will I condemne for I the Lord search the heart and try the reins and will reward every man according to his deeds Therefore consider these things ye proud and scornful men who are of the birth born after the flesh persecuting the birth of the spirit being moved with envy wrath which is of the Divel against an innocent people whom the Lord God will preserve and doth though out of your sight whom the God of this world hath blinded and all you false teachers deceitful workers who use your tongues both to pray and also to lye flander and revile whose hearts are exercised in covetous practises and yet sometime for a cloke will speak against it as if one