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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 ...
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R. C. (Richard Crane); Fox, George, d. 1661. Englands sad estate and condition lamented.
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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.
GOD'S holy Name 〈◊〉 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. Doth not the Teares run down the Widdowes Cheeks and her Cry is against him that caused them for from her Cheeks do they go up unto Heaven and the Lord which heareth them doth accept them and the Lord will not be slack nor the Almighty will not tarry long from them till he hath smitten in sunder the loynes of the unmercifull and avenged himself of the Heathen till he have taken away the multitudes of the Cruell and broken the Scepter of the Vnrighteous till he give every Man after his works and reward them after their devices till he have judged the Cause of his People and comforted them with his mercies Ecclesiasticus 35. ver 15. 18. They are Abrahams Children who are of Abrahams faith who forsook his native Country Fathers house and his own Kindred and followed the Lord he knew not whither Gal. 3.7 Gen. 12. And they are of Cains seed who are found in Cains nature who slew his Brother because his own works were evil and his Brother 's Righteous 1 John 3.12 Unto which is annexed Englands sad estate and condition lamented Written by George Fox the younger in the beginning of the year 1661. In which are some Prophesies that now are fulfilled and fulfilling Printed in the Year 1665. The Epistle to the Reader FRIEND THou that reads this ensuing Relation will find what hath been dispenced to us from the hands of the men of this Generation and as thy mind is kept cool out of prejudice thou wilt also be able to judge in thy measure concerning our sufferings as to ourselves we are well satisfied and in the will of God do rest and acquiesce But to satisfie many who desire to be informed this Relation is wrote and also in order to Record and the reason why it is so suddenly brought forth is because the Mortality of Mankind is great in this City where these things have been done and committed and eternity presseth sore on this Generation and a remisness herein might make void the record of our testimony which Record will have a place amongst all the faithful witnesses of God for his holy truth 〈◊〉 every Generation to this day and the very end of 〈◊〉 according the actions of men in their several Generations is for the benefit of their Successors and undoubted the next Generation must judge the works of their Ancestors think it not strange we receive such hard measure from the hands of the Rulers of this Nation for the holy record of Scriptures are fulfilled on this Generation which saith They shall hale you before Magistrates and they shall imprison you and whosoever shall kill you shall think he doth God good service And he who spake forth these words suffered from the same seed that ministers our sufferings unto us which seed is one even from the begining to this day there are but two the persecuting seed and the persecuted seed and these are known by their fruits For Grapes are not gathered of Thorns nor Figgs upon Thistles And our sufferings have been multiplyed very much since the return of this Power heightened even to BANISHMENT which is more severe then death it self the Lord permiting it so to be we are content though I must tell thee as we are a people and a considerable one in England our Conditions and promises from BREDA and since so often repeated was neither Imprisonment nor Banishment but these things with our just cause we leave to the Righteous God to judge R. C. God's holy Name magnified c. PErsecution in the World is no new thing for such as manifests a holy and blameless life in that Generation in which they are brought forth doth assuredly meet with it and it hath been the practise in every Generation from Caine downward and all in his nature even to this day to Persecute God in his appearance in his Servants and Saints as is plentifully seen and made known in this our day and Generation which is the product of this Relation and the Rulers and Priests have been and are they that act these Cruelties upon God's holy Saints the Priest with Tongue the Magistrate with Fist and so is Persecution brought forth and between these two are and have been all the Rapes Spoyles Injuries Imprisonments Deaths Banishments and all manner of cruel exercises inflicted upon the People of the Lord for their Consciences to him and in every Generation Persecution hath according to the manifestation of God been less or more exercised For this is infallible the greater appearance of God in Flesh the greater Persecution raised by the Devil in Flesh and here is the mistery of the two Seeds shewed and each Seed beares its Fathers Image and so they come to be known and eternal enmity is placed between them therefore the holy Witnesses for God in every Generation have sustained more or less of Persecution according as is said to the manifestation and appearance of God in them raised up and held forth in Testimony unto the World and as this appearance of God comes to be lived in and unto then the World is testified against that the deeds thereof are evil And here first begins Persecution and those that persevere in faithfulness unto what God hath manifested they meet with such measure from Rulers and Priests as is hereafter declared and we the People of God called Quakers have by Gods permission felt the weight of their persecuting hands this many years even ever since the Lord hath called us forth to testify unto his truth in this Nation and our sufferings have both abounded and multiplyed in these few years past and as sufferings 〈◊〉 abounded so hath the love of God increased unto us we 〈◊〉 living Witnesses of it praises praises unto our God for ever and we have a Witness for God in every Persecuter's Conscience in England of what rank or quality soever that our sufferings are not neither have been for evil doing for if by their Provocations they could have drawn us forth to have retaliated unto them in the same spirit the measure unto us they had gotten their ends but O the admired patience that God hath indued his People with in that his mercy hath preserved us from staining our hands with such poluted works and so our sufferings are and have been on the Lord's account from the beginning even to this very day and as to our Imprisonments of sundry kinds and the Injury we have sustained thereby is at this time omited because a Relation of the useage of my friends and brethren which did befall them from Newgate to their Ships into