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A54467	Persecution appearing with its own open face, in William Armorer as will be sufficiently manifest to all that may impartially read this following relation of the cruel proceedings of the said William Armorer, with some others, against the innocent people of GOd called Quackers, in the town of Reading, in the county of Berks, of his taking them up, and imprisoning great numbers of them, and of the continuance of their sufferings to this day, being almost three years and a half : and of his unwearied and cruel practices against that innocent people from time to time : discovered and laid open, to the end that lyes and false reports may be stopped and that the King and all people may be rightly informed, and truly acquainted with the case, as it is clearly and truly in it self.	Armorer, William.	1667 (1667)	Wing P1658; ESTC R12485	70,047	89

Gaol and I sent them They said But did you write them He answered Nay Did you indite them said the Mayor I will not answer to such questions said T. C. read the Paper and then I will say more to it So they gave him the Paper and he read it and being reading that part which saith Because of swearing the Land mourns Alderman Johnson said that was vory true And having read it T. C. said it was every word true and should stand for ever and he did own it Then said VVilliam Armorer I will send it to the Council T. C. said I would they had every one one of them A Copy of which here follows THE Eternal God from whom no secrets can be hid sees your doings and the eye of the Lord beholds the way that now you walk in and the works you are about who are persecuting his Lambs and impr●soning his people who for the fulfilling of his commands and walking in his ways have chosen the sufferings of this present world rather then all the glory and pleasure that this world can afford them and we have counted up our cost and do find upon serious deliberation That it is better for us to dye by the hands of the hard-hearted and cruel men of this world in and under the favour love and friendship of the Lord then to lose our peace with him by making shipwrack of our faith and peace of conscience which the Lord hath given us and we have truly debated pondered and considered this our present state of hard and cruel suffering in our own bosomes and weigh'd our hearts in the ballance of Gods truth and there is nothing in all this world that could make us to leave our Wives and Families our Callings Estates and Employments but this very thing namely The Truth of our God and the Worship of Christ Jesus the profession and practise of which at this day is the ground of this our sufferings And whereas you press us so hard to take the Oath of Allegiance and come to your Church We do declare in the sincerity of our hearts That the ground and cause why we cannot take an Oath in any case although it be to the loss of our Estates and Life is Because Jesus Christ and his Apostles hath commanded us not to swear at all and it is not lawful for us in any case to break Christs command And if any of your Ministers Doctors Priests or Bishops can make it appear by Gods Word or the Scriptures that it 's lawful for us to swear and may swear and not fall into damna●ion we will take it And therefore cease calling for us to swear and break Christs commands till your Doctors Bishops ●●●rates or Ministers or some of them hath convinced us that it may be done and Christs command not broken There is too much swearing already and because of swearing the Land mourns And as concerning coming to your Church we have with much gravity considered the true state of the Church of which you are members to see if possible we might come to you and join with you and not lose our peace with God and this we find That you have called your selves by the Name of the Church of Christ but the nature of Christians and of the Church of Christ is denyed by you For the Pride we daily see and the Oaths we daily hear from the Members of your Church is sufficient to make a Heathen or a Turk much more a Christian quite out of love with it And further the cruelty that is practised by your members as haling men and women out of their peaceable Meetings and casting them into Prison contrary to the Lord Jesus Christ's Practise and Doctrine is ground enough for us to believe that you are neither members of Christs Church nor children of God nor heirs of his blessed Kingdom for if you were members of Christs Church you would not act such high blasphemies against the living God as to swear by the Blood and Wounds of God and God damn me and God confound me and when you have so done enter in●o your Church and cry aloud We beseech thee to hear us goo● Lo●d and this is top common among the members of your Churc● Now in the coolness of your hearts con●ider what it is you ar● so earnestly pe●swading us unto How ca● we come among ●●u a●d joy● in prayer with such as act this gre●t ● wickedness If we should come and join with you the Lord migh●●●mn us all together for it is the same tongue the same lips and ●he same spirit that swears before you enter that when you are entr●d ca●●s to ●od to hear you so that the words of the Apostle are ●ul●●lled Out of the same mouth p●oceedeth blessings and cursings Oh ye unw●se ●n 〈◊〉 ye know not God neither of what spirit you are an● ther●●ore be advised before it is too late for in love to ●ou● sou●s do we declare unto you That if you will have us joy● to you your way must be to joyn to the Lord repent of the wickedness that you have done and return to the Lord God and p●● away the evil of your doings and cast out from among you the P●oud and the Drunkard the Swearers the Murderers the Adulterers and Whoremongers and all other filthiness of flesh and spirit that is amo●g you and then clothe your selves with meekness and pa●●ence ●s the Church of Christ was in the dayes of the Apostles an● the● if we will not joyn with you and come to your Church let ●ur b●ame be upon our heads for till then although you call your selves Christians you are but Antichrists servants that opposes Christ in this the day of his appearance And though you may comp●l b● force and cruelty many to joyn with you in words you do but make them ten-fold more the children of the Devil and a t●ousand-fold more in a capacity to do you mischief and truly such Christians you have enough already and this was the way that your forefathers walked in whom God overthrew and razed their Name ●ut of the Land of the living Therefore boast not your selves over us as if the Lord had forsaken us because we have none in the Earth to take our part or p●ead our cause or a● if your day should never have an end or as ●f ●he Lord had ●o regard to his suffering-people nor took no no●●e of your cruelty towards them for certainly when we have fil●ed up the measure of the sufferings of Christ that is yet to be filled up and you have filled up the measure of your cruelty and hard-heartedness the Lord will divide between cattel and cattel and you shall not escape his fierce Vengeance and fiery Indignation therefore in love to your souls do we send this that you might be warned before it is too late for the wicked shall be turned into Hell and all that forget God as the Scripture plainly declareth and we

the inner door W. Armorer his man Venter by violence took it from her but the street-door being shut he could not get in Then in great rage W. Armorer called for somthing to break open the door and some Hammer or Sledg or such like thing being brought they went about to do it but others perswaded W. Armorer to pacifie him that there was another way into the House The 23 d of the same month came W. Armorer again to the meeting according to his usual manner and took three men and six women viz. Christo Cheeseman Ranold Ave●y Tho Hine Mary Wrenn Eliz d ee Widow Jane Hussy Judeth Smith Katharine Edsoll and Eliz Lavell younger and committed C. Cheeseman on the third account though it was but his second and accused them of carrying of Letters about the Countrey and then came together on that day to plot c. But when they came to have their trial then that is not mentioned but the main business is to prove they were there to worship God or to seek God or to seek Christ c. and this is the crime for which they proceed against them to Banishment as will more fully appear by the following Relation and not a word of plotting then when they come to the proof And the rest were sent to the House of Correction for forty eight hours Tho Curtis his maid-servant being one of them So that the whole Family were now prisoners the maid being taken out of her masters house The 6th of the 9th month called November 64 William Armorer came again to the meeting and swore there was a goodly company and caused the children to be pulled out and with a staff that had a goad or some sharp peick at the end of it pricked some of them that they were very sore and black where he pricked them and took one man and six women viz. T●o Hine Anne Harrison Rachel Cape Hannah Emerton Mary Sanders Al●ce Milerd Mary Winter and sent them to the House of Correction for three dayes And the first of the tenth month called D●c●mber 64 William Armorer came again to the meeting and caused the children to be pulled out telling them he had a stick at home that he had forgot would make them feel him which was supposed to be the same with which he prick'd them before being under age he cou●d not have his will in imprisoning of them Others of the children he threatned to have forely whipt and having turned them going took two ancient Women Bridget Smith and Margery Richa●dson and sent them to the Gaol on the third account and se●t four viz. Anne Hatt Margery Symonds Grace Hutchins Jane Hussy to the House of Correction for twenty four hours And being not satisfied when he had got them in prison but would have had the Gaoler put them in one room together and no body to come at them and what provisions was brought them should be put in at the Grates and hath cau●●d their papers to be taken from them pretending they had sent a Paper to the King and Council which was very false And now we come to the proceedings of the said William Armorer and the rest of the Justices at the general Quarter-Sessions held in Reading for the County of Berks the tenth eleventh and twelfth day of the Eleventh Month called January 1664. The Justices being come into the Town the morning before they sate a Paper was sent by one of the Prisoners to them to read but being refused by W. Armorer who would have had it burnt it was sent to the Court and delivered to the Cryer which W. Armorer perceiving it cryed out Burn it for it should not be read and therefore it is thought meet here to be published A true Copy of which here followeth Friends IT will be a good and precious thing To have the fear of God before your eyes and therein to act in all things towards all people and then you will act in righteousness and do the thing that is just if in the fear of the Lord you stand and are exercised therein in your proceedings for it is that which makes men honourabl● and in Ages to come to be had in renown by the generation of the r●ghteous and the memory of su●h who in the fear of the Lord do act in their day in Justice and Righteousness shall live for ever when the Name of the wicked shall ●ot and be blotted out from under Heaven who have had no regard to the fear of God neither hath Equi●y and Justice have had place in their hearts and such shall eat the fruit of their own doings and receive a just reward from the hands of the Lord according to their work in the day when God shall judg the secrets of all mens hearts and search out the hidden things of darkness and then shall every man be rewarded according to their deeds done in the body whether they be good or whether they be evil Wherefore Friends the Lord hath put it into my heart to write unto you and that I may be clear in his fight and that the neglect of such a thing may not lye upon my Conscience as disobedience I say unto you Be considerate and sober in your minds and calmly and seriously weigh what you are going about and let not rashness and envy oversway you because that the God of Heaven takes notice of your proceedings and your actions are registred in a Book of Remembrance But let Justice be your Rule and let the Law of Equity be your Guide let the Light of Jesus in your hearts and Cousciences be your Counsellor because if you start aside from that and act not according thereunto you cannot please God nor do the thing that is justifiable in his sight but you will bring guilt upon your Consciences which no man upon the earth shall ever acquit you of and the sentence of condemnation you will certainly feel by the Spirit of the living God which judgeth righteously without respect of persons And to lye under that guilt and sentence from the Lord in your own hearts and consciences will be sad and heavy indeed for a wounded conscience who can bear If the Lord wound men inwardly in their consciences because of transgression against his righteous Law of Equity who can bind them up or heal them Will the saying We have a Law and by our Law he the just ought to dye or suffer Will this ease them Oh no! that will not remove that weight and burden from off their consciences which they do bring upon them by acting and walking contrary to the Light or Law of God in their own hearts and because of this the Lord often brings shame and confusion upon men and dishonour and a curse in all ages hath attended and followed those that have been found in that way of afflicting troubling disquieting and persecuting innocent and harmless people because of the exercise of their Conscience towards God and for

Persecution APPEARING With its own OPEN FACE IN WILIAM ARMORER As will be sufficiently manifest to all that may impartially read this following Relation of the Cruel Proceedings of the said William Armorer with some others against the Innocent People of God called QUAKERS in the Town of Reading in the County of Berks Of his taking of them up and Imprisoning great Numbers of them And of the eontinuance of their Sufferings to this day being almost Three years and a half And of his unwearied and Cruel Practices against that Innocent People from time to time Discovered and laid open to the end that Lyes and false Reports may be stopped and that the King and all People may be rightly informed and truly acquainted with the Case as it is clearly and truly in it self Matt. 5. 11 12. Blessed are ye when men shall revile you and persecute you and shall say all manner of evil against you falsly for my sake rejoice and be exceeding glad for great is your reward in Heaven for so persecuted they the Prophets which were before you Rev. 2. 10. Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer behold the Devil shall cast some of you into prison c. Psal 119. 126. It is time for thee Lord to work for they have made void thy Law LONDON Printed in the year 1667. To the READER Friend THou mayest be sensible That great and many have been the Trials and Sufferings of the People of God in Ages and Generations past who did bear witness against wi●kdeness Idolatry and Oppression and all the unrighteous Laws and Decrees of men bearing a righteous Testimony for God his Way and Truth upon earth for which cause they have always been persecuted by wicked and ungodly men whom the Devil the Enemy of mankind hath always made his Instruments to withstand the work of the Lord God in every dispensation of time wherein the Lord hath been pleased to appear and manifest himself unto men and as Truth and Righteousness hath flourished and born rule in the heart and the true worshipped of God been exalted and set up so much the more hath Deceit Cruelty and Oppression appeared against it through wicked and cruel-minded men whereby the Lord was displeased and provoked to anger and his indignation and wrath was many times kindled against the Kings and Rulers of the Earth because of the Afflictions and Oppressions of his People which he did see and take great notice of as the heavy Plagues and dreadful Judgments which were known and felt in the earth were signal Testimonies of whereby for the Cause before-mentioned they were brought to perpetual shame and confusion and an example to all that should come after and tread in their foot-steps As in the case of Cain who was wrath and slew his brother Abel about Sacrifice because Abel's was accepted and his was not being wicked and Abel off●red unto God a more acceptable Sacrifice then Cain by which he obtained witness that he was righteous Gen. 4. Heb. 11. Also in the case of Lot it may be seen how wickedness and oppression did abound in the men of Sodom against him and how they compassed his house because of the men the Angels of the Lord which were with him and pressed to break the door to search for the strangers These were the Sodomites w●o were made Examples of Gods Eternal vengeance to all persecutors and ungodly men Gen. 19. A●so in the case of the children of Israel when the Lord manifested himself unto them by Moses in Egypt who commanded them to worship contrary to the worship a●d wills of the Egyptians and walked contrary to their wayes and customs and were oppressed and held in bondage till God was provoked to destroy them seeing his heavy Plagues and Judgm●nts did not reform them Exod. 3. 14. And also the Judges and Kings of Israel who were wicked and did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord and regarded not him nor his way and people how the Lord the Most High God dealt with them according to their doings and how he often cut their dayes short in the earth and made their Names a reproach for ever Also in the case of Haman whom the King Ahasuerus had exalted and given Power and Authority unto how he insulted over the Kings peaceable Subjects and poor Jews misrepresenting and falsly accusing them to the King because Mordecai the Jew could not give that honour to him which belonged to the Lord telling the King That their Laws were divers from all people and that they kept not the Kings Laws and therefore said it was not for the Kings profit to suffer them And the King giving too much credit unto this envious bloody-minded man consented to him against the Jews and bid him do as he would to them and left them wholly to the mercy of a merciless man to destroy them and in the Kings Name he began to proceed against the Jews so that his Villany must be done in the Kings Name which was his Cloak and to execute the Kings Laws or that destructive unrighteous Decree which he through wicked Enmity had obtained as if the King had sworn him to do all mischief in his Name which would have been great dishonour to the King if he should have brought his wicked intentions to pass and would undoubtedly have provoked the Lord God of Israel to anger against the King to destroy him But the Lord appearing for his innocent people the Kings heart was turned and he perswaded from his Resolution which he had made through mis-information and then see what followed this proud Haman who was exalted as it were from the Dunghill to the Throne Esth 3. 7. And again how the Princes and Presidents of King Darius who fearing that Truth and Righteousness should be exalted by Daniel and De●eit and Wickedness thrown down th●y finding no occasion against him except it were concerning the L●w and Worship of his God for they could not deny but he w●s an honest peaceable man and his conversation among men was blameless and harmless and what was the matter then why did they persecute him and throw him into the Lyons Den Why these envious men that purposed to destroy him coming into his Chamber and finding him seeking the Lord or making petitions to his God as he use to do at other times notwithstanding there was a Law made against it with his window open they went to stir up and incense the King against him saying Hast thou not signed a Decree That every man that shall ask a Petition of any God or Man within thirty dayes save of thee O King or as thou hast prescribed shall be cast into the Lyons Den and here is one Daniel who regardeth not thee O King nor the Decree that thou hast signed but makes his petitions three times a day c. Dan. 6. And this was his crime for worshipping God or asking petitions of him according to his usual manner