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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41058	A letter sent to the King from M.F. here is also thereunto annexed a paper written unto the magistrates in 1664, which was then printed, and should have been dispersed, but was prevented by wicked hands / by M.F.	Fox, Margaret Askew Fell, 1614-1702.	1666 (1666)	Wing F633; ESTC R5602	6,447	10

make them transgressors with though they be of the same Religion that they themselves profess they profess Christ and the ●criptures in words but those that come to the works of Righteousness and to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ which is the work of God such they persecute and make Lawes aga●●st so that England appears now as if it would shut Christianity out of its dominion and what will they bring in and set up next seeing they banish out Christ and his Members and s●●vants and saints and so makes them slaves that be freeborn English men which hath been a blessing unto them and to the Land wherein they lived and no hurt to them and if they had given them the liberty of their Conscience to have served the Lord God they might have been partakers of the blessing with them but being that they have turned their hand against the Lord and turned their sword backwards against the Righteous surely the Lord will plead for this and surely there will a recompence come for its hard to strive against the Lord and to touch his Anointed and to do his Prophets any harm when they were but few in number be reproved Kings for their sake and he is the same now he changes not and his arme and power is the same and his Righteousness is the same which is to be revealed upon the head of the wicked and he is engaged to plead the cause of the innocent who hath no pleader in the Earth and his eye sees and beholds all the Actions of the Children of Men and those that acts against him and his servants he takes special notice of and be saw the affliction of his people formerly when they were afflicted in Egypt and heard their cries and knew their sufferings and surely he is the same now as he was then and as he hath said himself in as much as you do it unto my little ones you do it unto me this he said when he knew that his next appearance should be in his Saints and certainly those that persecuted his Saints even without a Law when they had none and contrary to several Lawes of England as several of the servants of the Lord hath suffered hath Christs servants been persecuted by those that were in power formerly and they that did this and they that make new Lawes certainly if Christ and the Apostles had been and were upon the Earth they would have done the same unto them but all these things the Lord hath taken notice of and they are written where they cannot be bloted out and all the righteous blood that hath been shed since Abel and all the Saints sufferings in all ages the Lord hath taken notice of and all those Christians in these latter times where several have been imprisoned to death for the Christian faith all this the Lord hath in everlasting remembrance and when he comes to make inquisition for the blood of his saints and servants it will be a hard and a sad day for the acters and fighters against God so all ye Christian Magistrates beware what ye d● and keep your hands out of blood and persecution of the innocent and let that which is past suffice for ●e will find it heavy enough and for the time to come dread and fear the Lord God of Heaven and Earth that hath all your lives and breath in his hand to give and take away at his pleasure and do not that which may incur the Lords displeasure against you by making Children fatherless and wives widows as there are already several in England at this day it 's better for you to offend Man then God and so endanger your mortal souls so mind that which concerns your eternal peace and the eternal welfare of your souls and this I am moved of the Lord to forwarn you of least you bring wee and misery on your souls and a general judgment on the whole Land and this is true love unto you and the desire of the general peace and good And remember that you were warned from a prisoner of the Lord in Lancaster Castle 7th day ●th Mon. 1664. Margaret Fell. THE END

A LETTER Sent to the KING From M. F. Here is also thereunto Annexed a Paper written unto the Magistrates in 1664. which was then Printed and should have been dispersed but was prevented by wicked hands By M. F. They judge not the cause of the Fatherless and the right of the needy they do not judge Shall not I visit for these things saith the Lord shall not my soul be avenged on such a Nation as this Jer. 5.29 and Isa 1.24 There is no King saved by the multitude of an Host a mighty Man is not delivered by much strength but blessed is the Nation whose God is the Lord and the People whom he hath chosen for his Inheritance Ps 33. Many are the devises of Man but the counsel of the Lord will stand Prov. 19.21 This was delivered to the King the 29th of the 6. Month 1666 by Elizabeth Stubbs A Letter sent to the King from M. F. c. KING CHARLES I desire thee to read this over which may be for thy satisfaction and profit IN the fear of the Lord God stand still and consider what thou and you have been doing these six years since the Lord brought you peaceably into this Realm and made you Rulers over this People The righteous eye of the Almighty hath been over you and hath seen all your doings and actions What Lawes have you made or changed save such as have laid oppression and bondage on the Consciences of Gods People and that of no less penalty then Banishment cut of their Native Country The greatest crime that you could find with the People of God was that they obeyed and worshiped Christ Jesus so that the greatest stroke that hath appeared of your J●stice hath been upon such as you counted Offenders for worshiping of God In so much that several of your Judges of the Land have several times said in open Court to any that did confess that they met to worship the Lord God That that was crime enough whereby they could proceed to Banishment and when it was asked in open Court whether it was n●w bec●me a transgr●ssi●n or a crime in England to worship God He that was then the Chief Justice of England answered Yes yes Oh wonderful let this be Chronicled in England for after Ages that all Mag●st●ates may dread and fear so to affront the Almighty except they da●e say they are stronger then he And all this hath been without any just cause given at any time by that People which was the object of this Law so that Men that had but the least measure of righteousness and equity could never have proceeded on to have inflicted such a height of punishment without some just ground And all that ever was pretended was but suspition which never can be pa●alleld to be prosecuted to such a height of suffering without a just ground given although occasion hath been continually sought and watched for but never found but the Lord hath preserved his People innocent and harmless and therefore is he engaged to plead their Cause into whose hand it is wholly given and commited I desire you also to consider seriously in the fear of the Lord what effects and fruits these things hath brought forth First I believe it hath brought hundreds of Gods People to their Graves it hath also rendered this Realm and the Governours of it cruel in the eyes of all People both within its own body and in other Nations besides the guilt of innocent blood lies upon this Kingdome Since which time the Lord in his judgment hath taken many thousands of its People away by his two Judgments Pestilence and Sword And before any of this was when you first entered into this Kingdome I was sent of the Lord to you to informe you truly of the state and condition of our People And when I came before thee oh King I told thee I was come to thee in the behalf of an innocent harmless peaceable People which words I would then and ever since and should at this day seale with my blood if I were put to it and thy answer was to me If they be peaceable they shall be protected I also wrote to thee several times concerning our saith and principles how that we could not swear for Conscience sake neither could we take up Armes nor Plot nor contrive to do any Man wrong nor injury much less the King I also told you that we must worship God for God required it of us We did likewise give you many of our Books which contained our faith and principles and doctrine that thereby we might be tryed by the Scriptures of truth which all of you do profess whether our Principles were erroneous or no and to that purpose we gave our Books to the King and Parliament and to the Bishops and Ministers both Ecclesiastical and Civil Our Books were sold openly amongst all people and our Principles declared in a Declaration and freely holden forth to the whole World We also desired that we might have a Meeting of the Bishops or Ministers of the Land and that our friends would freely and willingly give them a Meeting that thereby they and we might be tryed by the Scriptures which of us was in the error whereupon thou wast pleased to grant us our requests and promised us that we should have a Meeting which was but reasonable but the Bishops and those that was concerned feared that their cause would not hold stitch with the rule of the Scriptures and so they turned it off when our friends were ready and would not give us a Meeting this action of theirs did clearly manifest them to be out of the life and power of the Scriptures for Christ Jesus said to those that he sent forth that they should not be afraid for he would give them a mouth and wisdome that all their adversaries should not be able to gain-say nor resist and likewise the Apostle when he wrote to his Son Timothy in the 2 Timothy 2.24 25 26. and the Servant of the Lord saith he must not strive but be gentle unto all Men apt to teach patient in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves if God peradventure will give them repentance and come to the acknowledging of the truth c. If they had been the Ministers of Christ and in the Apostles Doctrine they would have taken this way with us they would have endeavoured to have convinced us by sound Doctrine or at least have tryed us this way before they had put the civil Magistrates upon it to make Laws against us but this manifested their spirits and principle for they rather choosed to deliver us up to you that had the Whip and the Scourge in your hands and that which they could not do by sound Doctrine they put it upon others to do it for them by compulsion But the all-seeing God hath seen all this And all this we did that you should not be ignorant what we could do and what we could not