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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89302	The cry of oppression, occasioned by the priests of Englands pulpit-guard, which is a popish law that was made by Queen Mary, to guard her friars and Jesuits. With a true discovery of the unjust proceedings of those called magistrates of Bathe; wherein is a lamentation over them, and a warning unto them to repent, lest they perish for ever. / By one which is hatefully called a Quaker ... known to the world by the name, Thomas Morford.	Morford, Thomas, d. 1693.	1659 (1659)	Wing M2728; Thomason E989_23; ESTC R204878	34,580	48

over-head into the room where I was because I gave notice to the Keeper and did not give my consent for him to break the rest of the prison when he was put up again he threw down his piss or Urine several times over the place where my bed was that it might run down upon it Upon the 17 day of the said Ninth Month came Anne Blacklin and several other Friends with her to visit me and desired the Keeper that they might come into prison to me but his answer was that the Mayor had commanded not to suffer any to come in except my Wife so Anne Blacklin and those other Friends went to Matthew Cliffe the called Mayor and desired him that they might be permitted to come into the prison to me but he told her she should not come in to me nor see my face for he said I had abused their Minister and was a Railer then she bad him send for me before his face and convince me of evill or being a Rayler but that he refused to do and said he would send for me the next Sessions and then if I did not what he did require of me he would send me to Bridewel and so he rudely and unbecoming a Magistrate to so evill entreat a stranger and give such an evill example thrust her and her Friends out of his house and would not suffer them to come into prison to me though she told him she came a purpose from Bristol to visit me and in a few dayes after came Iames Travers and Iohn Wickham to Bathe and desired the Keeper to let them into the prison to me but the Keeper or his Wife told Iohn Wickham that the Mayor had charged them not to let in any but my Wife for if they did he would take away the keyes from them and Iames Stirredge and Iames Travers went to Matthew Cliffe Mayor to know of him what Law he had to keep me so close prisoner he told them he had a Law but shewed them none and would not suffer them to come into prison neither would he give leave to any that ever asked him to come in to visit me to come in And whereas thou Matthew Cliffe and ye Iohn Boyce and Iohn Biggs who were Mayors before him with others of your company do accuse me for Railing Railing I do deny and do not use or bring railing accusations against any man and so that slander I do return back again on your own heads who are the false Accusers and in the nature of Railers Did I rail at thee Iohn Boyce and thee Matthew Cliff and the rest of your company on the 5. day of the Ninth month 1655. when ye passed in pride and pomp with your pipes sounding before you through the gate to Thomas Scrines house to feast where ye feasted and enflamed your selves with Wine and strong Drink without the fear of the Lord I say unto you Did I rail to tell you as it was it was in the dayes of Noah so shall it be and is in this the day of the coming of the Son of Man They eat saith Christ they drank c. bid you repent with a lamentation over you mind the light of Christ in you which shewed you sin and evill and reproved you for it for that was your Teacher for your Teachers without you have deceived you and I said and now affirm again that the Lord will stain your pride and glory and this I was moved of the living God to speak unto you for which ye caused me to be shut into the inner prison before ye came back and used me so uncivil and brutish that night at your Sessions as I said before And did I rail at thee Matthew Cliffe the 9. day of the Ninth Month 1655. because I asked thee as thou passedst through the gate when thou wouldst fear the living God and do Justice Or did I rail at thee the 16. day of that month I being moved of the Lord to go out into the outward prison the inner prison door being but a very little while before left open which I believe was the mind of the Lord so to have it and immediatly thou passedst by with thy Mace before thee to the Idol Temple and the Word of the Lord came unto me saying say unto Matthew Cliffe Thus saith the Lord God of hosts Except thou repent and meet me the living God by Repentance I will cut thy life off from the earth and thou shalt go down to thy Grave in sorrow and when thou art on thy bed of Torment remember how thou sleightedst the day of thy Visitation and this was the Word of the Lord unto thee The light of Christ in thy Conscience and in all your Consciences shall eternally witness me to be true and this was the substance of whatever I spake to any of you as aforesaid which for the clearing of Truth and my Innocency and taking off of your reproach I was pressed in my spirit to send forth this as a testimony against you for it is no more than what is contained in the holy Scripture of truth and let the wise in God judge And I say unto you as Eliah said to Ahab who are in Authority from the greatest Prince to the least of you all that ye are they that disturb and trouble the Nations in that ye do not keep the peace which ye ought to do but suffer the Lords servants whom he hath sent unto you to preach his everlasting Gospel freely and to fore warn you of his great and mighty day that is come and coming upon you all and of his great wrath and fierce indignation that he will assuredly pour forth upon you except you speedily repent to be beaten with sticks and stones dirted whipped stocked and to be cast into prison and there to perish by long and sore unjust imprisonment and ye are those that have itching ears heaping up to your selves Teachers to wit your hireling Priests which prophesie falsely and divine for money and speak peace to the wicked which put into their mouths and against them that do not they prepare war And so ye are those that do hold up the horrible filthy thing in the Land and cannot endure sound Doctrine but are making havock of the servants of the most high God and ye do plainly manifest your selves to be such Princes as the Prophet Ezekiel called Ravening Wolves which made it their prey to shed blood c. Ezek. 22.27 And to tell you plainly from the Spirit of the living God what ye are is no railing but the day will come ye will confess it to be more honesty and faithfulness in them that so do from the Spirit of the Lord than it is in them that preach peace to the Wicked So my grievous and unjust oppressions I have received from these unreasonable men I leave to the Lord and all that fear his Name to judge thereof Oh! all ye Inhabitants of the Earth

will have no pleasure which is reserved for the Wicked Perditions and ungodly ones then ye shall confess him which now ye call a natural light to be supernatural when he will fit in your Conscience as a Refiners fire and as an Oven that burneth when your breath as a fire is consuming you being kindled by the Spirit of burnings and of judgement from the Lord God but did ye love and follow the light which Christ hath enlightened you withall it would lead you out of that great indignation which will assuredly come upon you except ye do repent But if ye do rebelliously reject the day of your visitation and salvation proffered unto you remember when ye are in the pit ye were fore-warned of it and this is love to your Souls and I do beseech the Lord to forgive this great evill ye have done against me who am the least of his servants Lord lay it not to their charge for they know not what they have done To the light of Christ in all your Consciences I speak which shall eternally witness me to be true and answer your Condemnation to be just if ye rebell against the light T. M. THE DECEIT AND ENMITY OF THE PRIESTS Manifested And the Doctrine of PERFECTION by them denyed as Popish witnessed by the Scriptures to be the Doctrine of Christ his Prophets and Ministers And the POPE with his Priests and Friars and the Priests of England proved to differ nothing in ground and nature one from the other WHEREIN Is also an Exhortation to all People to Examine themselves whether they have the true Faith and Hope and Belief with their Effects and Operations as they are in Jesus LIKEWISE XX. QUERIES Propounded to George Long High Priest of Bathe and Priest Sangers of London by them to be answered in Print or Writing Hos 6 8. As troops of robbers watch for a man so the company of Priests murther in the way by consent And Christ said False Prophets and false Christs shall arîse ye shall know them by their fruits they shall cry Lo here and lo there believe them not nor go not forth for the kingdom of God is within you And Christ is in you except you be reprobates LONDON Printed in the Year 1659. THE Deceit and Enmity OF THE PRIESTS MANIFESTED YE Priests oppression and injustice are the fruits of your Ministry the controversie of the Lord is great against you and of you will the Lord require all the Souls that perish under your Ministry for ye have only sought your own gain and ease and have not sought that which hath been lost neither have ye brought again that which hath been driven away nor bound up that which hath been broken nor healed that which hath been sick but with force and cruelty do ye rule speaking peace to them that put into your mouths and they that do not against them ye prepare War to wit go to law and take away their Good by force ye are those that are establishing the Vision Dan. 11.14 robbing the people and exalting your selves but at the time appointed ye shall fall and never rise again the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it but first ye will do wickedly and by reason of them that forsake the holy Covenant Woe unto them by you and your deceit and flattery will the holy people deeply suffer and by the rest of your Sects and the abomination that maketh desolation will yet be exalted Woe unto you I am the light of the world saith Christ that lighteth every man that cometh into the world and that Christ said They shall hale you out of their Synagogues and ye shall be brought before Magistrates and Rulers for my names sake and they shall scourge you and cast you into prison and ye shall have tribulation ten dayes that ye may be tryed he that endures to the and stall be saved and shall have a Crown of glory And if they kill you mark they shrit think they do God good service This is fulfilling by you Priests in particular by you George Long and Priest Sangers of London for by your Ministry causing have I been haled out of the Synagogue and cast into prison and haled before Magistrates And Moreover thou George Long ●ouldest have the blood of me and my innocent Friends to quen●h thy blood thirsty mind for thou saidst near the 23 day of the 5 month last in Iohn Biggs house where ye Priests and Magistrates were feasting and feeding without the fear of the Lord thou wouldest have three or four Quakers hanged for an example William Russel asked thee wherefore but thou couldst give no just account now let all that fear the Lord judge whether thou art not a murtherer and blood-thirsty hater of the upright Prov. 29. And as troops of robbers wait in the way for a man so the company of Priests murther by consent and no murtherer hath eternal life abiding in him 1 Ioh. 3.15 and when ye spread forth your hands I will hide mine eyes from you saith the Lord God and though ye make many prayers I will not hear you for your hand are full of blood Isa 1.15 The Lord is against you and will not appear among you except it be in his fierce wrath and indignation The light of Christ in you shall witness this to be truth of which thou George Long scornfully asked if it were the light of a candle we spake of to be within us to which thus saith the Lord God That in the day thou shalt run to hide thy self in thy secret chamber of imaginary and vain hope in which thou hast consulted with the lying spirits of Divination and Witchcraft and I that am the dreadful God there meet thee except thou Repent with my spirit of wrath and indignation even in burning flames of fire then shall the scorner be consumed and then thou shalt confess that I am not a natural light saith the Lord God And when thou George Long wentest to the house of T. C. to demand hire of him which never set thee a work nor made any condition with thee neither will he buy thy Babylonish stuff but did to thy face deny thee to be a Minister of Christ neither dost thou abide in his Doctrine but are a Swearer and forcer of others so to do contrary to the command of Christ and his Ministers who say Swear not at all by any Oath Mat. 5.34 James 5.12 Witness to this the men of Witcombes Parish whom thou compelledst to swear and at that time when thou wast at T.C. his house and his Wife charged thee for thy lye and false report against the innocent thou badst her and the rest if it were a lye take it and make sport with it Now all people that love your Souls take notice of George Long who is a reporter of lyes and bids others take them and make sport with them so he doth plainly manifest himself to be one of those false Prophets that Christ

not if ye walk in their steps and ye will have their end except ye repent And as for you who are in Authority and act contrary to the pure law of God which ought to be your rule Deut. 17.18.19 and are acted by your wills and lusts and unrighteous Laws wereby we suffer deeply yet to you also are we subject in that we suffer under your great oppression without resisting of you which we rather chuse to doe than to disobey the royall Law statutes and judgements of the most high and holy God And Ministers of Christ we own who abide in the doctrine of Christ 2 Iohn 9. But Jesuites all that wicked Popish Generation we do them deny for they are as great enimies to the truth as it is in Jesus as the Priests of England are who abide not in his Doctrine and will use and are using the Servants of the Lord whom he hath sent and is sending unto them them to forewarn of the plagues and righteous Judgements of God that are coming upon them as bad as your priests of England have done who have given and are giving them a wicked example and your reward will be a like And the Scriptures we do own and are ours and are for the perfecting of us being given by inspiration of God and to us they are profitable for Doctrine and reproof for correction instruction in righteousness that thereby we may be thoroughly furnished to every good work of the Lord. And therefore all ye who are plotting and persecuting of the Lords chosen ones whom he hath redeemed and is redeeming with his pretious blood and by judgement Eph. 17. Isa 52. Isa 1.27 out of the worlds customes fashions words c. fining of them and casting them into prison for not bowing or putting off the hatt c. to satisfie your wills and lusts and some of you are afflicting and whipping and putting of them into stocks other stoning dirting of them in streets high wayes they not giving you the least offence in word or action ye are those that rob the Lord of his honour haters of Sion the Lord will plead with you all poor and rich by fire and sword and will cut your cords of wickedness asunder and ye will be as grasse that groweth on the house top that withereth before it be grown up wherewith the mower filleth not his hand nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosome neither will they which pass by say we bless you in the name of the Lord or the blessing of the Lord be upon you neither receive you into their house or bid you God speed for he that so doeth will be partaker of your evil deeds Psal 129.4 to the end 2 Iohn 10.11 And then will the prayers and prophesies of David which ye have made the Songs of your Temples unto which ye have added and diminished both words and verses Witness Psal 2. Psal 4. Psal 14. and 15. with many others therefore denyed by the Children of light will come upon you who are Confederates persecuting the innocent for ye sing your hearts are foul and vain and death in hast will fall on you and send you quick to hell except ye repent Will it not be just with the Lord to answer your prayers who are doing so wickedly Read and understand what ye sing Psal 5.6 9. Psal 55.16 Are ye not lyars and Hypocrites when ye sing All the night I wash my bed with tears c. My joynts in sunder break My heart doth in my body melt like wax against the heat c. My tongue cleaves to my jawes Are not your tonges at liberty uttering forth deceit And are not your hearts as hard as the nether mill-stone And do ye not spend the night in sleep and ease O ye simple ones when will ye be wise Do ye not know the lyar is for the Lake ye sing and say ye do not haunt with men whose deeds are vain to come into the house ye do refuse with the deceitful train ye much abhor the wicked sort it were well if ye did But are ye not some of them that are taking Counsel against the Lords annointed ones If ye say nay Then are ye not some of them that resort into the Temples or Synagogues called Churches Into which come all manner of wicked lewd persons The light of Christ in all your consciences shall eternally witness this to be truth and answer your condemnation to be just except ye speedily repent come out from amongst them touch not the unclean thing understand what you sing and read Psal 26. for the Lord is discovering the secrets of al hearts ye read or sing My wounds stink and and are festred so as loathsome is to see c. That ye go wailing all the day in doleful heavyness c. And ye say or sing ye roare for grief of heart and are not puft in mind and have no scornful eye c. How dare ye to be so presumptious to breath forth such abominable untruths before the Lord when ye are at ease clothed in rich arayment perfumed with sweet smells and are haughty scorners puft up with pride of mind living in wantonness ease and pleasure singing vain songs and times having eyes full of adultery c. By this ye may as in a Looking-glasse see and read your figure and also what blindness and ignorance your Preists have lead you into that ye are not truly sensible when ye sing whether it be for a blessing or a curse and therefore I was moved out of tender love to your souls that ye might come to consider aright of your condition to forewarn you of those plagues that ye ignorantly pray for to come upon you which will assuredly come upon you speedily except ye repent The light of Christ in all your consciences shall eternally witness me to be true and answer your condemnation to be just if ye sleight the day of your visitation and salvation proffered unto you T. M. THE END POST-SCRIPT THis Book should have been Printed long ago but through neglect of some and mistake of others it hath been prevented a great while yet now it comes not out of good season but may do its service to awaken the Witness of God in the Persecutors of the Righteous Seed that they may see what they have done and repent now before the last plague be poured out for the Viols of Gods fury is full to be poured out upon the head of the Vngodly so the service of this book is now in season to answer the witness of God in all men to which it is Commended