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cause_n	harden_v	heart_n	pharaoh_n	2,001	5	11.6391	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25493	Another out-cry of the innocent & oppressed being a true account of the unjust and illegal proceedings of Richard Rainsford and Roger Norwich and others against Thomas Allen, Francis Child, Richard Coe, and William Line, being such as are called Quakers, at the general Quarter Sessions holden at the castle in Northampton on the 12. and 13 days of the 10th moneth, 1665, where Rich. Rainsford sat in judgment and when Richard Rainsford saw that the plague was somewhat ceased, as Pharaoh did Exodus 9, 34, he hardened his heart, and those called justices joyned with him so their hearts were hardened that they attempted the second time unjustly to pass sentence to transport the servants of the Lord to the island of Barbados.		1665 (1665)	Wing A3273; ESTC R16388	8,907	13

consider what the Lord hath done for you ye Rulers of England remember were you not in a low condition not many years since and was it then in your hearts to do to us as now you have done if the Lord would but restore you into your power and places again if you were at that time so resolved to do your tongues and declaration did not at that time declare the same thing but it was promised that none should suffer for his Religion in case he lived peaceably in the Nation and these promises were not by force forced from you but it was done freely by you and it was the Lord that made the termes with you and not man and after that time the Lord gave your enemies into your hands and without your Sword or Bow or the valour of your men of War the Lord brought you again into your possession and the Lord performed what he had decreed as concerning your Restauration and it had been well for you and this Nation if you had performed what you had promised to the Lord in the behalf of his people but to this day the Lords people hath and doth grievously suffer under your power who hath lived peaceably under you and hath never at any time molested your Authority neither have they ever made any plot or Conspiracies against you or your Authority nor never joyned with any that did to this day and yet ye have made us the only mark that ye shoot at contrary to what ye have promised unto us and before the Righteous God we have spread our innocent cause and sufferings and he hath heard our cry and now he is arisen to plead our Cause and wo and misery and destruction will assuredly be the portion of all those that are found fighting against him as you are at this day Hear O yee Rulers of England the Lords controversie against you you have contrary to your promises abused persecuted imprisoned his servants and you have made an unrighteous Law to banish them forth of the Land and you have put in execution this your unnatural Law are still putting it into execution you have hardned your hearts far beyond Pharaoh and your cruelty towards the Lords people hath far exceeded his towards Israel he never imprisoned the Israelites neither did he ever shut them up that they might not labour for their livelihood but you have shut up thousands of the Lords people in Prisons and Dungeons and there they are at this day and by that means they cannot labour with their hands to get bread for themselves and their families and yet you are so cruel that you force your taxes from them O cruelty far exceeding Egipts bondage and Pharaoh's sin was he would not have had Israel gone from him out of his Country when the Lord sent for them by Moses but your sin is this you have made a Law to force the Lords people out of their Native Country where the Lord hath raised them and placed them therefore as you have exceeded them in cruelty towards the Lords people so will the Lord multiply his Plagues upon you as upon Egipt untill you be made to let Israel alone to Worship the Lord as his good Spirit shall lead and direct them and notwithstanding you have thus rebelled against the Lord and abused his servants ever since the Lord hath restored you into power yet hath the Lords mercy been shewed towards you and his good spirit hath a long time striven with you and the Lords servants whom you call Quakers have at all times been faithful unto you and they have told you the mind of the Lord and what would come upon you in case you went on with your wicked work of persecution of the Innocent but to this day you have regarded them not but have persecuted and abused them both Rulers Priests and People and you have dealt far worse and cruel with them then Pharaoh did by Moses and Aaron and now the Lords wrath is kindled against you and there is like to be no remedy for you have hardned your hearts against the Lord and you have not believed his Prophets therefore you cannot prosper thy Judges O England have perverted the Law and by that means hath made many widdows and fatherless Children and their cry hath entred into the ears of the Lord of Hosts who now will surely plead their Cause and will reward into thy bosom for the wrong thou hast done unto his Chosen and as thou hast notwithstanding thy warnings hardned thy heart against the Lord and his people so now hath he given thee up to hardness of heart the greatest of all Judgments and the nearest to destruction and thou hast shut thy eyes against the light and would neither see nor hear nor take notice of the mighty works of the Lord that he hath made manifest in thee and now great is the darkness that hath covered thee John saw in the Revelation three unclean Spirits like Frogs come out of the mouth of the Dragon Beast and false Prophets and they have come unto thee to stir thee up to battle against the great day of God Almighty and to two of these thou hast lent thy ear and took their Councel O how hath thy false Prophets deceived thee and perswaded thee to carry on thy work of persecution and banishing the righteous out of thy Land and though the Lord appeared in his Judgments against thee ever since the very week that thou begins to banish his servants yet have they not given over but both in Cityes and Countryes they have made it their work to preach to the People that the Plague would not cease but did increase because the Rulers had not banished the Quakers forth of the Land and so Judge Rainsford said this Sessions in open Court that the Reason was that Gods Judgments were so in the Nation because they had not removed the Quakers out of the Land but he and other Judges and Rulers being blind cannot or will not see what is the cause no more then Pharaoh could when the Lord struck off his Chariot Wheels when he was pursuing Israel into the Sea For ye Judges and Rulers if that is the cause that Gods Judgments are so upon the Nation then why did you not make more hast to remove Gods Judgment have not you seen how the Lord hath fought against you ever since you have gone about this cursed work of Persecution and especially of banishing the Lords people have you ever prospered since you have begun in any thing that ever you have put your hands unto how hath the Lord fought against you will all his four Elements as Winds Fire and Waters and those creatures that have fed upon the Earth how have they been corrupted and brought to nothing to the impoverishing of thy Inhabitants how hath thy Trading decayed both in Cityes and Countryes so that the peoples hearts even now begins to fail them and these going before to forewarn

thee but thou taking no notice of them how hath the Lord smote thee lately in thy Cityes with the Plague and laid thousands upon heaps in a short space but this thy Rulers have taken little notice of neither and now the Lord hath much taken this Judgment of the Plague off on thee once more to try thee if thou will let his people go free but being taken off thy Rulers begins again to harden their hearts and already make hast to go on with their cursed work of sentencing the people of the Lord in this County of Northampton to Banishment as is seen by Richard Rainsford this Sessions who said the cause was why he did not do it at Michaelmas Sessions was because of the Plague which that time was hot in the Country but now he is the first in the Nation that is heard of that begins this wicked work as Pharaoh did when the Plague was taken off but it cannot be but taken notice of that though the Plague had ceased in London many weeks before yet that week that this wicked Judge began his cursed work to sentence the innocent again that very week the Lord made an encrease of the Plague again in the Chief City to let him and all other wicked Rulers know that their work of persecution is the cause of the Lords sending and continuing of his Judgments upon this Land and it had been well if the Rulers in this Nation after they had so grievously sinned against the Lord in persecuting of his people and by that work had caused Gods Judgments to be poured down upon them and if they had repented of their evil works and with David had been willing to have fallen into the hands of the Lord it might have been that the Lord would have been merciful unto them and the Lords wrath might have been appeased towards them and the Land but they have and do still rebell against the Lord and say in their hearts still We know not the Lord and who is the Lord that we should obey him and will do what they can to drive on their Chariots though the Lord hath struck off their Wheels to the pursuing of Israel and think because they 〈◊〉 taken their flight and have run with the swiftest from this 〈◊〉 that the Lord hath no other that can take hold on them 〈◊〉 Lord hath other Plagues in store for such Persecuters as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 cease nor repent as he had for Pharaoh after he had escaped 〈◊〉 plague of smiting the first-born in Egipt and if you go on with 〈◊〉 work still of persecuting imprisoning and banishing Gods pe … you shall surely find that made good upon you which the 〈◊〉 of the Lord George Bishop writ unto the King and both Hou … 〈◊〉 Parliament the last year the 25th of the 9th moneth 1664. 〈◊〉 words were these Meddle not with my People because of them 〈◊〉 science to me and banish them not of this Nation because of their 〈◊〉 science for if you do I will send my Plagues upon you and y … 〈◊〉 know that I am the Lord. And surely in a large measure this ●●●phesie is fulfilled upon this Nation ever since the Rulers have ●●nished the Lords people and if you go on it will be fulfilled 〈◊〉 you to the uttermost Therefore O England believe no● 〈◊〉 thy false Prophets who cries peace unto thee and saith it sh●●● 〈◊〉 well with thee though thou still goes on with thy cursed wo●● 〈◊〉 persecution for those who are thy best friends and cannot 〈◊〉 thee sees thee to be in a sad condition by reason of thy sin an● 〈◊〉 thy surfeting thy self with the abundance of Gods mercies w … he bestowed upon thee five years ago and ever since thou has● 〈◊〉 falling into a Consumption and now thou art become so feeb●● 〈◊〉 Nation of England as not able to help thy self and excep● 〈◊〉 Lord by his power restore thee which he will not if tho● persists in the wicked work of persecution thou wilt assur … come to ruine and destruction THE END