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A34915 God's holy name magnified, and his truth exalted by the testimony of his faithful servants who have suffered the cruel penalty of banishment from their native country by the rulers thereof as also an abstract of their names : with some of the barbarous dealings and useages they received and sustained from the hands of those instruments that were imployed in the imbarquing of them / R.C. Unto which is annexed Englands sad estate and condition lamented / written by George Fox the younger in the beginning of the year 1661 ... R. C. (Richard Crane); Fox, George, d. 1661. Englands sad estate and condition lamented. 1665 (1665) Wing C6812; ESTC R24785 24,205 34

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God by them that are yet unborn and will bless God for this day and so these seven faithful Lambs are gone by the permission of God into exile and have for truths sake parted with Wives Children and Estates to fulfill the Holy will of God who is blessed for ever Not many dayes after the embarquing of these faithful Brethren the Lord shewed another notable example by cuting off that grand Instrument Iudge Hyde by sudden death who the Lord knoweth wrought much yea very much of our detriment both in our imprisonments our tryals and in expediating our Banishment But he is gone to his place and the fruits of the deeds in his life is his food to eternity and so I shall not particularize his several carriages to us in our imprisonments and tryals but leave it to others to read over the lines of his life which is written with a point of an Adamant And about that time the Lord began to pour out his plagues in some of the out parts of the City and then Weekly-bills began to declare the Judgements of a just God and in a manner as in his fear I may speak it as they began to banish in small numbers first 3. then 7. and afterwards greater numbers as may by and by be declared even so hath the Judgments of God traced that malicious spirit first in small numbers and so with greater as any that will make the observation upon the weekly-bills of Mortality may find it so just and righteous O dreadful God are thy judgments who hast judged thus And not many weeks passed but another experiment must be made by sending away for Banishment now eight malice encreasing one in number the Names of these faithful innocent Lambs are Rob. Allin Tho. Kent John Raunce Tho. Hodg Tho. Robins John Johnson Tho. Parker Rich. Poulton all which were on the 26. of the 3d. month 1665. by those emesaries of Newgate forced out of Prison and carried to the old place Black-fryars Stairs and there was a Barge prepared for them into which they were pulled and so from thence to Gravesend were carried where they were by violence put aboard in order to banishment and after some dayes lying in the River they were cleared at the Blockhouse which would not be done till the Shipmaster made appear to the Searchers that he had the Quakers aboard and so in the will of God have these all born a ●●●thful testimony unto Gods holy truth and have set their seales unto it by giving up freely both Wives Children and their all and rather then transgress the way of God have chosen to receive their lots with their Brethren into what place soever the Lord shall permit them to be cast and have committed the truth of their cause unto a just God who is now come to plead their innocency with their and his adversaries and he will render vengeance upon the heads of them and will smite hip and thigh the whole host of the Vncircumcised and they shall know by his Judgments he is God and not another and though these simple sheep when before your Courts of judgment so called might not have liberty to plead the truth of their cause unto you but with ironical scoffing jeering and taunting language have dispenced your wills unto them which is reckoned by you good law but the righteous Judge hath looked down and beheld all these things and when any one have but spoken a sentence of Scripture in defence of their just cause you have retorted unto them these unsavory ungodly unchristianlike sayings hold your canting sirrah hold your canting sirrah I even I have been both eye and ear witness of these things even to the grief of my very soul that ever men that should sit in Court to execute the Lawes of this Nation should drop such expressions from their mouths and in publique But what shall I say in an acceptable time is the Lord arisen to plead with the men of this Generation when I have heard such language given by old grey hair'd men that hath sate there to judge I have said in my heart where are we arrived in this day what the Scriptures of truth called canting a language learned under Hedges by Rogues and Vagabonds ah woe is me is this the reverence you have to the holy record of Scripture to call it canting and in your Courts of Judicature ah miserable men what an example is this to them that comes to hear your wisdoms and may not young men by your examples turn meer heathen and atheists but the Lord will awaken you yea he will awaken you to the confession of him and likewise that Records of truth spoken forth through his Servants by the Spirit of God in their day and Generation who received such measure from the Judges and Rulers then in being as we now do from you in this Nation But now I return unto my Relation to observe the dealings with my Brethren and Sisters in the pestiferous Jakes and Prison of Newgate well though notwithstanding the fury of the Lord smoaks in this City and his wrath is come up to the number Thousands and he is cuting off in all parts and his Judgments have even circum●fered and beleagured it and seeing it is the will of the Lord it shall be so what saith the envious spirit I will double and treble the number of those that are under my hand and will drive them into exile and in order thereunto a Shipmaster a fit servile for such an employment is found who as it is said of him will banish his neerest Relations for moneys and a contract is drove with him for no less then 60. innocent men and women or thereabouts to receive them into his Ship to dispose of them whetherto he is bound and there to leave them to starve and perish O mercyless Rulers is this your Retaliation for the return out of your distress the Lord if it be his will shew you more mercy then you shew unto his people and a day is ordered for the dispatching of this poor flock away out of their Country and so as aforesaid in a morning with very short warning was these friends about some 56. or 58. by the old serviles of Newgate taken forth and carried down to the same place by 10.8 and sometimes more in a company through the streets some drove and some led to the Waterside untill they had got the number spoken into the Barge prepared for them and so away they were rowed down to a place called Bugbeys Hole beyond Greenwich where the Ship rode and when they came unto the Ship these Instruments of Newgate did not find all things so ready to their hands nor they in the Ship so willing as themselves were to do their masters drudgery the Seamen being some of them more considerate refused to lay hands on them except they were willing and these poor sheep declared their unwillingness to yield any active complyance unto them so a
Way wherein you should walk and he will let you see what the Cross is unto and He will teach you when you are nlone in your Beds or where-ever you are if you will receive Him who gives you Life and Breath whose gentle Reproofes and Instructions are the Way of Life Therefore you in whom the Breathings and Desires after the Lord are Consult not with Flesh and Blood neither reason against the Cross but submit to every Appearance of Gods Power in you which appeareth to Crucifie the Fleshly Birth and Nature which hath stood and doth stand in Rebellion and Enmity against the Pure and Precious Life and Requirings of the Lamb of God that so that Mind which is at Enmity against God and that Nature in you which is disobedient to his Commands in Spirit may come to be Crucified that so there may be a Change inwardly felt and witnessed by the working of the mighty Power of Christ in your Inward parts and then the Desires and Breathings which are Begotten in you after Righteousness they will be strengthened and the Teachings of the Almighty will be Truly known and you believing in the Power you will receive Power to obey and Practise whatsoever the Lord shall make known unto you by his Spirit to be his Will and Requirings Oh People Let the Dread of the Lord Seize upon your Spirits in this the Day of his Power wherein he is Trying Sifting and winnowing the Nations and wait to feel that Life arise within you which beareth Testimony against all evil within and without that so yee may become more and more acquainted with the Teachings Drawings and Leadings thereof that thereby you may be drawn and led out of those things which have kept your Souls in the Death and hindred you from enjoying the Pure Peace of God And this know and consider that all that come to witness their Souls raised out of Death and brought to enjoy the Peace of God they must Believe in the Life of the Quickning Spirit which is the Second Adam the Lord from Heaven who for Sin Condemneth Sin in the Flesh and appeareth in the Inward Parts of man to work out sin and transgression which hath Separated from God and so to make clean the heart and inside of male and female Oh People This is the Work of Christ the Son of God even to make manifest and destroy the works of the Devil and so to reconcile man unto God by the Virtue of his own Life which he gave a Ransome for many and blessed are all those that believe in the Life of the Son of God and feel know it manifested in their mortal flesh for they shall witness the Power of it to make all things new and so their Souls will come up in the hand of God and his Peace will be Received and Enjoyed Oh people Wait to know and feel this Work of Christ within you that so you may be made able to stand in the Judgment and to Endure the Tryal and that you may be Hid from the Wrath of the Lamb which is nigh to come upon the Rebellious Oh! Consider this Those that are his Followers they come throw many tribulations and their overcoming their Enemies is by his Blood not by a talk of it but by the Virtue and power of it sprinkled in their Hearts which washeth and maketh them White Clean and without Fault before God Oh People my Bowels yearn my Bowels yearn towards you whose Desires in any measure are after the Lord O that you would now Return with all your hearts unto Him and obey the Voice of his Power in you then should you be made able to stand and endure the fiery Trial which is come and coming Oh! the Day hastens wherein all Profession that is not grounded in the Life and Power of the Lord Jesus Christ whatever the shew of it be it will be so shaken that an utter Blasting and withering shall come upon it and for that cause the Lord doth and will yet suffer great Trials to come both upon the Professors and Possessors of his Name that so his Children the Possessors may be manifested unto all and discerned from all that are but Professors though never so fair and seemingly Covered For all Coverings but what is of the Power and Spirit it self shall be too Narrow and all that are not Covered with the Spirit and Power of Emmanuel their Shame and Nakedness shall appear more and more This is the Testimony which the Spirit Word of Truth giveth therefore He that hath an ear to hear let him hear before the day of his Visitation be wholly past and the things belonging to his Peace be hid from his Eyes For yet a little while and the Voice shall be He that is filthy let him be filthy still For the Spirit of the Lord shall not alwayes strive with flesh but his Plagues and Indignation shall be poured out upon such as will not be gathered in the Day of his Patience long Forbearance and Free-love and He or She that Loveth Father Mother Husband Wife Children House or Land Liberty Honour or any Thing more than the Life of the Lamb shall be counted not worthy of him and plainly manifested so to be Read this who can and he that can receive it let him For the Time draweth nigh that these Sayings must be fulfilled George Fox the Younger Printed the 13. of the Second Moneth The End To the King And both Houses of PARLIAMENT Thus saith the Lord MEddle not with my People because of their Conscience to me and banish them not out of the Nation because of their Conscience For if you do I will send my Plagues upon you and you shall know that I am the Lord. Written in obedience to the Lord By his Servant Geo. Bishope Bristol the 25th of the 9th Month 1664.