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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44829	England's lamentation, or Her sad estate lamented as also a call to the heads and rulers, and all sorts to repentance, and shewing them the cause why so many disasters, and the judgements of God which are in the earth, and also a way how to remove the same, with an answer to some objections. Through the servant of the Lord, S.H.	Hubbersty, Stephen, 1632?-1711.	1665 (1665)	Wing H3213; ESTC R215979	8,829	14

unrighteousness which you have purchased unto your selves who hath despised both warning and reproofe Oh England England that thou wouldst see the cause of the Judgment of God in the Earth and remove the same thou mightest yet be happy for I know God is as yet striving as I may say with some of thy Inhabitants that if by any means they may return Oh I have a word from God in my heart oh that the King and the Councel might lay it to heart and that is this that if any would perswade thee and thy Nobles that we who are called Quakers is the cause of the Judgment of God in the Earth I say unto thee in the name of the Lord believe them not so to stir thee up against us to afflict us the Lord hath not spoken by them for that spirit mark that in all ages which stirred up to persecute even from Cain to this day was not the spirit of Christ but the spirit of enmity which God will overthrow So King Charles hearken not to their spirit but to the spirit of God in thy heart which will tell thee if thou be serious thou should love enemies and not kill them in this cause but we are thy friends and seeks thy peace and welfare in that which is everlasting and shews thee and all the World the cause and the way how to remove Gods hand and sore Visitation off thee and the Land that is to say to loose the bands of wickedness Isa 58.6 and to let the oppressed go free this were the only way for thee O King and all thy subordinate Ministers to obtain to perfect peace with God and to curb all sin and licentiousness lying swearing pride drunkenness and adultery with many more before named because of which the Land mourns But wo and alass there is one thing that we must require of thee and the Nation and that will tend to thy peace and the peace of all men and that is Liberty of Conscience towards God in matters of Religion or relating thereunto how canst thou and the Nation O King deny us of this superlative privilege which is allowed by Christ and the Apostle who said in matters of Religion Rom. 14.5 as every one was perswaded in his own heart so to walk and did not preach up persecution and to kill mens lives that 's of another spirit then of Christs who came to save mens lives but left it to the Lord that he might perswade them that were in error the error of their wayes c. and so we request it of thee O King and the Heads of this Nation as you will all answer it at the dreadful day of Gods Judgments to reverse that law of yours which you have made for the persecution of them of tender Consciences and for banishing those whom God hath loved with an everlasting love who cannot deny their God for the wrath of men and for meeting together in the publick Worship to worship the Lord in the beauty of Holiness Joh. 1.21 22 23 24 for the which so many and hainous offences have been committed against us charged upon us yet I say the God of Heaven bears us witness and the Testimony of God in all hearts that we are clear and innocent and we contain'd for nought but the truth and we are subject to Magistracy which would be charged against us for not being subject but we are either in doing or in suffering and I never knew a Quaker that lifted up his hand against any man though as I said before we have been stamped upon as the mire in the streets and so let none say we are not subject for in that we cannot do what man requires of us I say we are subject in suffering the wrath of the wicked and the Angel of Gods Heavenly presence hath been and still is with us to carry his chosen on in all sufferings for his names sake untill the suffering of his seed be full and then we know that God will plead our cause and it is at hand and so I say to make laws to banish men for Worshipping of God in the Spirit and praying and singing in the Spirit which is the publick Worship set up by Christ himself John 4. and to pretend the same your selves and to kill and banish them who are in the life of the Scriptures of the Saints that spoke them forth this is an error indeed And hear O ye Nations this thing and especially thee O England who should have been the glory of them all how unmercifully hast thou used the Messengers of the most High and what laws hath come out of thee against my people saith the Lord so that God is beginning to plead with thee O England even above all other Nations because of thy wicked laws against the servants of the most High whom God hath loved with an everlasting love and on whom his Heavenly Countenance shines and is his onely Jewels and as dear to him as the apple of his eye And is this your end and purpose and to throw Men and Women even into infected Prisons for Meeting together in the fear of God and to worship him oh shame and hard heartedness was ever the like in any Nation hath the like been heard of surely God will require it at your hands Oh consider these things and weighty causes for God will judge righteously and in the day of Gods Righteous Judgments we shall be clear and this in short in a word from God unto you If you persist on to do your work of persecution and do not desist from nor change that law which you have made against us you shall utterly fall the Lord hath spoken it and thus the cause is truly stated why the Judgments of the Lord is in the Earth and if you O ye Heads and Rulers would remove the cause the effect might cease which sin and persecution for good Conscience sake is the great cause not only naturally in puting people where the Plague is but supernaturally to remove the wrath of the Almighty Oh therefore be wise O ye Kings Psal 2.10 11 12. and be ye instructed O ye Judges of the Earth serve the Lord with fear and rejoyce with trembling kiss the Son least he be angry with you and you perish from the right way for if his wrath be but kindled a little blessed are all they that put their trust in him And oh call in that unrighteous Decree that it may never be heard of in other Nations that a Christian Magistrate should persecute and banish and as it were kill his subjects for their Conscience sake towards the Lord and this of a truth from the Lord is the way to procure the blessing and remove the curse which so long as the contrary is lived in no blessing can surely attend the Nation but God will find all the evil doers out of the earth and so God almighty keep and preserve all his

in the Communion which saith It is our aboundant duty at all times in all places mark that to call upon God c. and the Scripture is so full and pregnant in that behalf that I need say little to the proofe of it for all wise men know how that the Saints Mat. 5.1 Acts 20.20 Act. 5.42 Apostles and Christ Jesus our Lord himself used Prayer or Preaching sometime by the Sea side and sometime on the Mountain and the Apostles 't is evident that they Preach'd the Gospel in the Temple and in every House what is that lawful now to preach the Gospel in a House Nay say they Yes saith we 't is both agreeable to the Apostles Spirit and practise and the Liturgy also But wo and alass what shall I say my heart is even troubled within me and my Bowels is even pained to see what persecution of late hath attended the people of God for this very thing it would fill up a Chronicle and deserves to be Chronicled and is in the Book of Life Oh what treadings and what stampings there hath been and daily is of the people of God and oh what knocking 's and beating down the peaceable people of the most High for Worshipping the Lord no wonder if the Plague be begun and Gods wrath be gone out against his Adversaries who hath grumbled at us as you say in your Prayer-book and hath despised our peaceable Meetings and worship of God it self no wonder if God smite the Nation And oh what calls and crys hath been from us the peaceable people of God even with our lives in our hands that thou oh England might be reconciled to God but oh how stiffe hath thy neck been and how dull thy ear and how hard thy heart against all reproofe that even so many of thy Inhabitants hath chosen the worse way and hath refused to be reproved and would have none of his Councel when his Messengers hath rose early and gone late to bed I know to this very end that thou mightest be reclaimed who have preached the Gospel freely unto thee Oh but many of thy Nation O Engl. hath refused and hath hearkned to the dumb hireling that neither can nor never will gather you to God Isa 56.10 11. but to themselves that they might have their bellies filled this is the way of them O England and they have made the World like a Wilderness full of briers and thorns that so the Lambs of Christ who only hears him Christ the true Shepherd can scarce go up and down now for the Wolves though in sheeps cloathing the Scriptures which were not given to be made a trade of but to be fulfilled which the Saints lives in the life of for which life sake in us we are a suffering people at this day But woe and alass beside all these aforementioned evils inflicted upon our Estates and Bodies not only in treding upon and knocking down in our peaceable Meetings but also to adde unto these grievous sins against the Lord they have not only done so but they have taken the peaceable people of God and thrown them in Holes and Dungeons and all this for practising that which is as I said before both according and agreeable to Liturgy and Scripture 't is no wonder if the Lord send a Plague into the Land who resists the spirit of truth which is according to Scripture the justest Authority which is to be obeyed above all Authorities for mark Christ is to be the head of the Church Col. 1.18 that in all things relating thereunto he may have the preheminence as the Husband is to be the head of the Wife so 't is a vain thing to cause people to worship contrary to their Consciences 't is but to make people hypocrites to make people to Worship or not to Worship contrary to the work of God and spirit of truth in our hearts who leads us only to Worship God in his own way I say unto you all and that in the name of the Lord you that are found opposers heerin you shall be broken to pieces for God will have his own way and not his way set out by you who are in the fallen estate who are miserable sinners as you say how are you like to prescribe the way of the pure God and limit the Holy one to your forme and none else methinks you might see your selves blind in this thing for there is a way which no Fowl knoweth nor which no Vulturs eye hath seen nor Lions Whelp trod in who are in the uncircumcised nature who are miserable offenders and doth those things you ought not c. and those have never seen the way of God nor know it what Vulturous eyes hath been in this Nation that they can scarce let a Man go on the street but they will have a by-word for him people is so full of the venome of Aspes even under their tongue and these are not like to prescribe wayes for God to be Worshipped who are so like the Lions Whelp tearing and rending and puting people out of the Church before they be got in nay but these are like the Beast and his Followers Rev. 13.15 who would compell all both small and great to worship him into the wrong way from the right this is the Beast indeed And oh what killing hath been this day about Religion and Worship and forcing to or fro to the false from the true and what killing and knocking down in the very streets as I said before quite contrary and opposite to the Apostles Doctrine who saith touching Religion Phil. 2.3 saith he do nothing by strife but in love and gentleness instruct c. If God will give them repentance to the acknowledgment of the truth 2 Tim. 2.25 mark that ye Heads and Rulers of England for God yea even our God hath a controversie with you and be not proud for the Lord hath spoken for he can bring down the high and the mighty and raise them of low degree for them he will exalt for we have seen the mighty abased and the loftiness of the lofty laid low and what was the cause of this to wit sin and transgression and afflicting the just and limiting the Holy One to their own wayes which was not Gods way for Gods wayes is to love enemies which is the badg and true Cognisance as you say of a Christian and have you not manifested this love of yours what it is that it is but in word and in tongue not in deed for love thinks no evil love kills not about Religion and Worship Church and Faith but your love as I said before is manifest and the Nations have seen it and the blood of many Martyrs Saints shall be required at your hands even you the Heads and Rulers of this Nation who hath drunk the blood of the Saints and now God is giving you something else to drink and will do even the reward of