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cause_n	great_a	lord_n	see_v	5,118	5	3.3465	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A23648	The cry of innocent blood, sounding to the ear of each member in Parliament being a short relation of the barbarous cruelties inflicted lately upon the peaceable people of God called Quakers, at their meeting in Horsly-down, in the county of Surrey : also some plain-dealing with the persecuting rulers / by C.H.	Allen, Robert, fl. 1670.; Harriss, Charles.	1670 (1670)	Wing A1045B; ESTC R9944	4,789	8

be suffered and tolerated to rifle us and knock us on the head and spil our Blood in the Street bruise and mangle our Bodies before we are brought to a Trial or Condemned by Law then farwel good Government and the Fundamental Laws of England which are very tender of the Liberties Estates and lives of men and the Magistrates who are sworn to do justice and right to all men and to execute the Law without respect of persons may endeavor to get a dispensation for their Oathes but we would hope better things Here are a few of the names of those who had their Blood spilt and were sore wounded as Witnesses to the truth of these things and in the behalf of themselves and the rest Robert Allen John Potter William Peachy Stephen Cook Henry Ham John Dowden Henry Day William Stewardson Edward Crisp Adam Waker ANd now Oh ye Rulers of this Nation I know the way to please many of you would be to smooth you up with fine words but the way to please the Lord of Heaven and Earth who is greater then you all is to deal plainly with you and that I may be clear of you in the Day of God it is with me thus to write Certainly God is Angry with you and that not without a Cause given him by you he hath tried you long to see what you would do for him he hath sent his Servants and otfen warned you to abstain from Violence and Iniquity but you have had little regard to it Look back and consider what you have done at all your Sittings since you were chosen and brought into place and see if you can find one Act made or revived by you for the subduing of Prophanness and Debauchery Do not all sorts of ungodly Meetings abound in your Cities and Countries as Stage-Plays Beare and Bull-Beatings Cock-Fights Footbal and Cudgel-Plays Race-Running both Horse and Foot Huntings Revelling Where is the Fair or Market but it rings with beastly Ballet-Singers And where are any of these stopped by you or do you not rather many of your selvs keep open house for such to come sometimes with Moris-dancers and Mummers And how doth Drunken-Meetings abound with Dice and Cards filled with Cursing and Hellish Oaths and the Noise of Fiddlers and Vagabonds roaring like Beasts and Swine So that one may say with the Prophet Hell hath enlarged her self And is not there daily new Inventions of Wickedness And was there ever more Pride and Whoredom and Oppression in Sodom and Aegypt then is now found amongst a People Professing Christianity What is become of the good wholsom Laws of England which were made for the suppressing of Prophanness You have neither revived them by Proclamation nor Conversation but still at your Sitting one of your chiefest businesses hath been to impose heavy Burdens upon People Consciences that are tender towards God But such whose Conscience will serve to run to such ungodly Meetings before mentioned they have Liberty enough and are upheld and incouraged and may have DRUMS and TRUMPETS to gather such Meetings in the open Streets and if one cometh in the Name of the Lord to reprove such doings he is in danger of his Life and may be to be sent to Prison and called a Rebel a Heretick and such like and Wickedness is now grown to such a hight that nasty Songs and Ballads may be heard in your Streets and hung upon the Gates of your Cities to be sold to corrupt Youth but Meeting-Houses for the Worship of God are pulled down and defaced and drunken Souldiers carry away of the Timber to sell that they may feed their lusts but many Play-Houses are built and repaired and sets the Kings Arms upon such and to these one may repair and not fear being Fined and there both Knaves and Fools may stand up and Lye and Swear and use all the Tricks Hell can afford and teach People Vanity but I hear of no Fines that are levied upon these kind of Teachers or Houses though these are the Seditious Meetings that draw People from the Grace of God the Anointing within which would teach People to live Soberly and such Meetings as these are a terror and trouble to the Kings good Subjects and a disturbance to the Peace of them that love Righteousness and are Subjects to Christ's Kingdom And therefore before you go about to meddle with tender Conscience humble your selves under the Hand of God that you may know your own purged and also stop that Fountain of Wickedness which since you came in place is set open more then formerly and call in all those Laws which you have made and caused the Innocent to suffer by and acknowledge your Sin to God and the Nation and open the Prison Doors that those that make Conscience of Oaths and Feeding Deceivers and have long suffered under you may once again enjoy their Families and Native Rights for I am to tell you Poor Naboth in the Eye of the Lord hath as good Right to his little Vineyard as Ahab to his Crown and it is not the Swearing of the Sons of Beliel that can make a just Birthright or yet prevent the heavy Vengeance of the Lord from overtaking the Oppressors of those whom God loves And now consider what Honour you have got by your last Act against religious Meetings it is true you have almost undone many hundred Families not leaving a Cow to give their Children Milk or Bed to lie upon Old Pharoah had a bad name but you have done worse then he for though like you he refused to let Gods People Worship him aright yet I do not read that he put them in Prison or took away their Goods and Cattle as you have done I have also made inquiry who for the most have assisted you in this Work through the Conntries and I find chiefly Drunkards such as could Swear any thing Hang men and such as were burnt in the Hand formerly for theft and Pick-Pockets and supposed High-way men and base Fellows that have spent their Estates in Prophaness these and such like have been your Informers in many places as also rude debaucht idle Souldiers and many Officers have heen made for fear of such and also lest they should pay a fine to act against their own souls and violate the Law of God in their own Consciences And these your Doings an All-seeing Eye hath beheld and though you are as lords in the Earth the Almighty God who is Lord of Heaven and Earth will call you to Judgment and then you shall know with him there is no respect of Persons THE END