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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27140	A vindication of the commands and doctrine of Christ Jesus and of his people in their faithful obedience to him against all swearers and swearing whatsoever, according to the scriptures of truth : with a few words unto all such rulars [sic], teachers, and people ... that have a hand in afflicting, persecuting, and casting such into prisons ... / W.B.	Bayly, William, d. 1675.	1663 (1663)	Wing B1543; ESTC R25916	13,178	17

of the Law or that ye are Infidels or Heathens no longer profes your selves christians for shame or take the name of Christ into your mouthes for a cloak of malitiousness but as flatly deny him to be come in the flesh with your mouth tongues as ye do with your works Tit. 1.16 And that such or anylother of his commands are of no effect or force to you so deny him to be Lord who is the Head over all to his Church to whom every tongue shall confess to the glory of God the Father For if ye do still profess him or his Name in words and that ye are his servants and call your selves christians or the like and yet not obey his commands nor do the things which he hath said nor abide in his doctrine but persecute them that do we must and shall judge you in righteous judgement to be abominable hypocrites and rebellious and disobedient both to the Father and the Son for God hath said This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased hear ye him and the Son said Swear not at all and John said Whosoever transgresseth and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ hath not God And this is Christs doctrine before mentioned which he taught In which who so abideth hath both the Father and the Son Therefore take heed to your selves what ye do or what ye intend to do against such for the Lord God of Heaven is pleading their cause and will plead with you all who break his commands and teach men so or compel men so to do for ye are all out of the doctrine of Christ in the transgression though ye can talk of him and profess him with your mouth and lips and hath not God but are without God in the world which lies in wickedness where ye are contending and pleading for swearing and oathes in the old time which ends not your strife which the one oath the new living way ends who saith Swear not all Mat. 5. So ye being without God in the world breaking his commands ye are not under Christs government and so being out of his government ye are without his protection for he praies not for the world but for them whom he hath chosen out of it for the whole world lies in wickedness So ye being in the wickedness in the Transgression out of Christs protection who hath all power in Heaven and earth ye are in darkness and under the shadow of death and in the gall of bitterness and in the bond of iniquity captivated in the snares and chains of the Old fool at his pleasure whom ye obey and so ye are in such apremunire body soul and spirit that ye will never more get out except ye repent with speed and turn your minds to the light of Christ Jesus in your consciences and obey his commands and abide in his doctrine who saith Swear not at all And this is the word of the Lord God of Heaven unto all you Rulers Priests and people whatsoever who swear and plead for swearing and oathes and persecute the harmeless about it ye are none of Christs sheep servants friends or children but of the linage of Cain and the old hipocrites in their way to whom the woe belongs who denied Christ and chused a murtherer and so ye are no christians But Christ Jesus is come and is setting up his government Kingdome and dominion over all your kingdomes and establishing his Throne upon top of all your Thrones whose Secpter is a Scepter of righteousness which must rule over all unrighteous Secpters And to his name which is above every name shall all your knees bow If ye fulfil the Royal Law according to the Scripture Thou shalt love thy neighbour and thy self ye do well c. For whosoever shall keep the whole law and yet offend in one point be is guilty of all Iam. 2.8 c. A few words more to the Rulars Priests Teachers and People of what sort soever in this Nation of England from the highest to the lowest who have any hand in persecuting the Innocent c. HEar and understand all ye Rulers Priests and Teachers of England with all your Officers and servants or whomsoever else Superior or Inferior from the Iudge to the Goaler or from the highest to the lowest who have any hand or are in any measure pertakers against the innocent people and servants of the Lord Iesus Christ who cannot break his commands by swearing This we would give you to understand that as for us who fear and obey the Lord your Prisons and cruel unjust dealings and your long furrowes ye plough upon our backs therein is very little to us except to the more raising and strengthning of that life in us which will never bow to your wills or any will of man by transgressing the commands of Christ Iesus for our eyes are not at what ye can or will or have power permitted you to do or at the length of time in which we suffer bonds under your ambitious wills or at any other temporal thing whatsoever but to the Lord our God alone who is pleading and will plead our innocent cause for us in all your consciences Ye if ye should shut us up in Dungeons never so close from you out of your sight or hearing yet Gods witness as a drawn sword in your bowels which seeth in secret shall pierce through your heart and life and smite you in your very vital parts for all your wickedness against him his way of truth and harmeless people and set in order before you all you ungodly deeds and blasphemous hard speeches which ye have committed and spoken for the eye of the pure God beholds and his ear of jealousy hears you in your most secret chambers from whose presence ye cannot alwaies fly nor hide your counsels though you should dig as deep as Hell or fly to the uttermost parts of the earth And though you should keep us till death in your prisons we cannot break the commands of our Lord and Saviour which hath saved us and will yet save and deliver us But as for you who profess your selves christians consider these things Whether he whom you professe in words will not call you to an account for breaking his commands and for casting his servants and children into prisons and keep them there for no other cause but for keeping the commands abideing in the doctrine of Christ whom your selves profess in words and shew as the Phraisees did Moses and the Prophets but opposed their life Crucified Christ Iesus the end and substance of Moses and the Prophets words Ye hypocrites what covering or excuse can ye have to hide or shelter your selves under in the day of the Lord which hastens upon you It s not your Acts and decrees made in the will of man that shall stand you in steed or save you when the sentence is given against you Go ye workers of Iniquity into everlasting torment Nay they shall not be able to save themselves from the just judgement of our God but shall receive a just recompence for all their doings And as for us we choose rather to die then transgress against the Lord Iesus Christ or wrong our conscience in any measure by bowing to the corrupt wills of proud ambitious men who are alienated from God and would alienate us from him also Did we obey your requirings or impositions in these unjust unrighteous things but we desire to live alway in obedience and humility before him though our outward man perish through your unjust and cruel dealings our souls you cannot touch to defile them neither can ye break our peace with our God by all ye can do For we know the uttmost of your power and Ability the last enemy is death and through the tender meacies of our God we do enjoy that life and peace in which we dayly triumph over death and Hell and the gates of it Praises and thanks to his holy Name for ever and ever being founded on the unmoveable Rock of our salvation Christ Jesus in whose will life and strength we are resolved in patience for his truth and Namesake to undergoe the greatest punishments afflictions or death that you from the highest to the lowest can or shall be able or suffered to inflict upon us So we have fully weighed and considered the cost to the utmost Mite But as for you this I tell you all from the highest to the lowest who have the least hand in our sufferings either in perticular or in general who in scorn are called Quakers you are splitting and dashing breaking and scattering confounding and destroying your own selves in these things and if no other hand be lifted up against you by this shall ye fall And this is Gods word of truth unto you which shall stand and be fulfilled So his blessed will be done and in it we are well satisfied knowing and beleiving that the Lord whom we serve and obey knoweth how to deliver them that trust only in him and to reserve the ungodly to the day of judgement to be punished From my Prison at Harford the 10th month 1663. where I remain a close prisoner because I cannot swear and break the command of Christ Jesus Thus saith the Lord I will make Jerusalem a burthensom stone to all people and they that burthen themselves with her shall be dashed in pieces The END Printed for W. M.