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A44231	A brief relation of some part of the sufferings of the true Christians, the people of God, in scorn called Quakers, in Ireland, for these last eleaven years, viz, from 1660 until 1671 with an occasional treatise of their principles and practices briefly stated, whereby the innocency of their cause, for which they so suffer, is not only plainly demonstrated, but also from all false asperations and causeless pretences sufficiently vindicated / collected by T.H. and A.F.	Holme, Thomas, d. 1695.; Fuller, Abraham, d. 1694.	1672 (1672)	Wing H2514; ESTC R7372	56,059	82

indeed they and he too ought he made two Calves of Gold and set up one at Betbel the other at Dan and falsly called them the Godds which brought Israel out of Egypt and it became a great Sin for the people worshipped them and went not to the Temple as they were commanded of God And he made an House of High-Places and Priests of the lowest of the people such as he knew being raised so by him would serve his Ends and call the dead Images Godds and his invented ways and worships the True Worship that were not of the Sons of Levi and therefore false Priests and not of God's appointing or making And he ordained Feasts Offerings Sacrifices Altars c. in some resemblance of the Worship at Jerusalem thereby to please the People and feed their Fancies with a doing something in imitation of the Worship at Jerusalem and by offering upon the Altar there Burnt-incense c. and feasting the people that it became a great Snare and Sin of Idolatry and turned away their Hearts from serving the Living God to serve Godds or rather more properly no Gods of Gold and the Works of mens hands and this very much provoked the Lord insomuch that whilst Jeroboam the King and the People were at their invented Worship at the Altar at Bethel there came a Man of God a Prophet out of Judah and cryed against the Altar the false Worship and the King put forth his Hand and said Lay hold on him as many do in our dayes and his Hand withered or dryed which by the Prayer of the Man of God was healed and restored again 1 King 13. 1 to 10. Neither did Jeroboam set up this his Worship as judging it in his Conscience to be the true Worship of God for he knew it was his own invented Worship and devised Way as is plain in 1 King 12. 27 33. but rather politickly prescribing a Way and Worship like in some things to that at Jerusalem to keep the People from the true Worship and to busie their minds in an active way of Worship by Priests of his own making who would say or do any thing he would have them their Places and Maintenance depending on him and also to strengthen himself in his Kingdom rather seeking his own Greatness and Preservation then the Honour and Glory of God that had bestowed such a Kingdom and Dignity unexpectedly on him and as the Author● of so fair and gilded a Way of Worship thereby wholy to allure and engage them to him and his Idolatrous Worship who having so sinned against God knew no other safety or strength then the good will and number of the People and several of the Kings of Judah and Israel were false Worshippers and against them and their said false Worships several Prophets of the Lord bore Testimony and reproved them as did Zechariah Michaiah Isaiah Jeremiah Ezekiel Malachi and several other Servants of the Lord which kept the Law of God then as we do now the Gospel and served the Lord in their Generations and knew him whom they served and could not forsake him and his Laws to joyn with the Idolaters and false Worshippers that knew not the Living God and for bearing Testimony against the false Worshippers and reproving them for their Will-worship Idolatry Sin and Wickedness were Persecuted imprisoned and some of them put to Death And it is to be well observed That not in all the time under the Law when Sacrifices Offerings Temple-worship c. as Types and Figures were set up by the Command of God none were lyable or compelled as we read of to worship there but the Jews and them that were of their Religion So that the true Worshippers were never Persecutors in any Age but false Worshippers have ever persecuted them that truly serve and worship God in sincerity of Heart therefore let not Persecutors think or look on themselves to be true Worshippers true Christians whilst they are in that Nature and let them but seriously examine their Hearts in the Light and Spirit of Christ Jesus and they will know that they find not acceptance with God in their own Services nor Peace of Conscience and true Satisfaction of Soul in their Worshippings and that 's the very Cause why they malign others and Caiu like envy and persecute sometimes to Death them that are more Innocent and that find Peace with God and Acceptance in their worshipping Thirdly The Lord having been thus worshipped before and under the Law and having a further and another Way of Worship in and by manifesting of the promised Seed to be clothed with Flesh John 1. 17. For the Law was given by Moses but Grace and Truth came by Jesus Christ who was the Substance of the Law of all the Offerings Sacrifices Altar and Temple-Worship which could not make perfect as pertaining to the Conscience all which he ended by his Coming and being offered up a Body being prepared him to do the Will of the Father and then Sacrifices of Righteousness and worshipping God in Spirit and in Truth ordained of God and declared by Christ for when Christ came he did not joyn with the publick Worship but reproved them that drew nigh with their Tongues and honoured God with their Lips and their Hearts far from him Mat. 15. 8 9. as many do now adayes and told them In vain they worshipped that taught for Doctrine the Commandments of Men and called them Blind Leaders John 7. 28. 4. 23. and he often went into the Temple the publick Place of Worship for the Jews and reproved them and set up the true Worship of God over all false worships in the Spirit and in the Truth which differed from the National Worships and as many as came to the Gospel Worship to worship God in Spirit were separated from the Jews and Gentiles Publick and National Worships and did often testifie against them in their publick Places and reproved them in the Streets and other Places for which they were persecuted by Unbelievers and false Worshippers that knew not God And Christ Jesus being come of whom Moses prophesied and said Acts 3. 22. He must be heard in all things and he being Head of his Church it s his Prerogative alone to establish the Worship and Order thereof and he only hath Power in all Spiritual Matters over his Body his Church and People who are oblieged in point of Duty to obey and observe his Commands and Institutions and not the Prescriptions of any other for God never was is or will be worshipped acceptably any otherwayes then in his own Will and Way And Christ Jesus for publishing the Everlasting Gospel and setting up his Father's Worship in Spirit and in Truth by ending the Law with its Ordinances and Temple-worship c. and for testifying against Sin and Wickedness the works of the Devil and for all other his good Words and Works he was persecuted and put to Death by the chief Priests Elders Scribes and

same Faith Worship Church and Gospel-Order of the antient true Christians for which we are now persecuted as they were in former dayes And indeed it hath been our Portion to suffer ever since the Lord God first raised us up to bear Testimony to his Everlasting Truth the Light Christ Jesus that lighteth every Man that cometh into the World that through it they might believe and to own his true and living Worship which is in Spirit and in Truth and to endure not only Reproaches bitter Taunts Mockings and Revilings but also Cruel and Vnchristian-like Vsages by Halings Tearings Beatings Whippings Woundings long Imprisonments great Fines excessive Loss and Havock of our Goods and sometimes Loss of Life occasioned mostly by the Priests whose Merchandize we can no longer buy and their incensing the Magistrates against us falsly accusing us as the Jews did Paul to Faelix to be Movers of Sedition and raising new Sects so that as it was accounted a Crime then with the Jews to be called a Christian a Follower of Jesus of Nazareth even so now is made matter enough against us by some sometimes to be called a Quaker a tearm given us in Derision first by an Independant Justice at Derby about 20 years ago and for no other cause have several suffer'd Neither have we in this Realm suffered for these last 11 Years only but before even in the former Powers time the which hath been already published and we have found that the most and worst of our Sufferings since the King's Restauration have bin by such of the Professing Priests and Magistrates that were in Favour or at leastwise made use of in Oliver and his Son Richard's dayes and are now wheeled about and for Profit or Honour have cringed and conformed to these Times though we cannot but own and acknowledge that upon Applications and Addresses made by us to the chief Rulers of this Land in behalf of our suffering Friends they have divers times been pleased to grant us Remedy and Redress And seeing we hold or maintain no Principle of Religion or Practice of Worship or Doctrine of the Gospel but what is according to the Scriptures of Truth why will any professing Christianity persecute us And we can truly appeal to God the Searcher of all Hearts that according to our Principles so our Practises have alwayes been even to seek Peace and ensue it and to follow after the Knowledge of God and to desire the Good and Welfare of all Where have we wronged any mans Person or Possession or been found in Plots or guilty of Sedition or Have we made Resistance when men yea unreasonable men with Clubs Swords and Staves and other illegal wayes have wronged beat cut and abused us which was no Honour to Manhood to exercise such severity and Cruelty upon such an Innocent and Harmless People that will not lift up a hand against them and wherein we could not actively obey for Conscience sake in matters relating to Religion and our Principles there we have passively suffered and patiently born it Have we not all along been a Suffering People and yet not for any Cause of Evil doing that could justly be laid to our charge but for things pertaining to our Principles and the Worship of God and in Obedience to his Requirings of us for which Cause we can more freely give up our Bodies a Sacrifice then to disobey the Lord God of Heaven and Earth who having kept us Innocent will plead for us against our Causless Persecutors who have no more against us then was against Daniel Hath not long Experience of us under several Governments and distinct Powers since we were a People to God fully and to any moderate man sufficiently evidenced our Innocency and that our Deportment notwithstanding the many and great Provocations have been peaceable and harmless in the exercise of our Consciences in Religion and the Worship of God touching which we our selves and none else for us must give an account to God let our Neighbours and the whole Nation bare testimony and the just Witness of God in men judge and Conscience speak whether our Principles have produced any other Practice then as aforesaid or our Practices any other Effects in our Conversation then such as become an in-offensive and well-minded People professing Truth and Honesty Well then What man as a man much more as a good man professing Christianity will have a hand in persecuting the Innocent People of God or who will joyn with cursed Cain the first Persecutor on Earth to persecute his Righteous Brother Abel about Worship Is it not contrary to the Character of a good Christian and against the Royal Law of God to impose upon another in the things of Religion and worship of God contrary to the Faith of the Imposed or would the Imposer be imposed upon contrary to his own Vnderstanding and Conscience in the spiritual concernments of his soul seeing that every man must answer for himself that none can give to God a Ransom for his Brothers soul therefore we warn all in love to take heed what they do herein for its a tender Cause and its the Jurisdiction of the Lord his Sovereignty and proper Dominion and alone belongs to him to rule in the Consciences of people in order to be served and worshipped acceptably And to the end Reader thou mayst be inform'd of the manner of our Sufferings and the cause thereof we have collected some part of what we have suffered for these last 11 years that thou mayst see how where and for what sometimes without and contrary to Law and sometimes under colour of Law much Havock hath bin made of our Goods which we here put to publick view in a plain way and manner for we are a plain people we have no need to use Arguments to perswade thee to credit the truth of this ensuing Relation it being so obvious and generally known in Cities Towns Countries where we are conversant And though some of them may seem small in thine eyes yet we would not have thee too sleightly disesteem thereof in regard the least of them is for matter of Conscience and therefore ought to be tendred by all professing Christianity in Truth and Sincerity of which number we wish thee no worse then to be one and then thou canst not but reckon us two thy Friends Thomas Holme Abraham Fuller THE CONTENTS I. FOr Meeting together to wait upon God in his Fear Service and Worship II. For not paying Tythes and Maintenance to the Priests and their Clarks III. For not paying to the building and repair of the Parish Worship-Houses called Churches IV. For not going to the publick Worship at the Church so called and for Exhorting and Reproving people in the Fear of the Lord in the said publick Houses of Worship Markets and Streets V. For not Swearing not taking off the Hat and working on Holy-dayes so called VI. An Occasional Treatise relating to the aforesaid Sufferings First