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A65876	The path of the just cleared, and cruelty and tyranny laid open, or, A few words to you priests, and magistrates of this nation, (who say we deny the Scriptures, and that we are antichrists and deceivers, and that we deny the Word of God) wherein your oppression and tyranny is laid open, which by you is unjustly acted against the servants of the Living God, who by the world which hate the light of Christ, are in derision called Quakers : wherein also is something declared both to judges and justices ... : also the ground and cause of the imprisonment of George Whitehead and John Harwood ... / from the spirit of the Living God in me, whose name in the flesh is George Whitehead ... ; also a paper against the sin of idleness ...	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.; Harwood, John. To all you rulers, gentry, priests, and people.	1655 (1655)	Wing W1944; ESTC R206645	17,128	27

that to your selves which belongs to God and this is He vvho reigns over the house of Iacob and is greater then Abraham Let the heathens bovv to him vvho hath redeemed us out of the heathenish nature for he wil break the limits of the heathen and dash them to peices and all your limits who live in envy and rage in the heathenish nature and plead for their customs and would limit the righteous to walk in their steps and to bow to your proud flesh for as I live saith the Lord every knee shall bow to me and every Tongue shall confess unto god as you may read Rom. 13. 11. Isai. 45. 23. Phil. 2. 10. Therefore bow to the Lord of hosts and let proud flesh stoop before him who seeks honour to your selves which belongs to God Fear before the Lord and tremble at which Name every knee shall bow and every tongue confess to the glory of God Then examine what will be the end of your Earthly glory whose honour must be laid in the dust who seeks your own glory and not the glory of God whose honour and glory we seek and not the honor of man and therfore we cannot stoop nor bow to your pride nor conform to your vanities which are acted in your wills contrary to the pure Law of God which respects no mans person and here you act for your own ends and punish the servants of the Lord who for his sake cannot submit to your deceit and heathenish vanities you act contrary to the Law of God and the Law of the Nation and for the Lords sake act not neither were you sent of God to this end therefore accuse us not for contempt of Authority neither say that we are not subject to every ordinance of man for the Lords sake for to every Ordinance of man which are for the Lords sake we are subject whether it be to supream or unto Governors as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evil-doers and for the praise of them that do well But you who are sent to judge of Causes between man and man according to the truth and equity by an outward Law which takes hold upon transgression and now execute power upon them who by the Law of the Spirit of life are made free from the Law of sin and death and so would usurp Authority over the consciences of the people of the Lord whose consciences is exercised by the Light of Christ which condemns the World with its deeds and so you go beyond your limits to judg in things pertaining to God who is Judge and Law-giver and so here you act in frowardness contrary to the Light of Christ in you and so would lord it over Gods heritage and here let the Rulers among the heathen which Christ spoke of condemn your practices who said the Kings of the Gentiles exercised Authority over them but ye would exercise Lordship over us who are not Heathens but Christians Therefore ye Magistrates of this Nation see whom you are acting for and what order is set up by you and whose glory it is you seek and who it is that you seek to exercise Authority over for when the Judgments of God comes upon you for acting in your wills and in your cruelty against the innocent you will witness them to be Just by that of God in your consciences and your Just reward And know that in as much as you persecute them whom Christ hath sent you persecute Christ therefore now while the Lord doth not speedily execute his Judgments upon you consider your wayes and see what you act and whom you act for as you will it eternally answer The ground of John Harwoods my imprisonment that Innocency may be cleared and the wicked bear their burthens UPon the 30 day of the 5th month being the 2d day of the week I my two Bretheren Jo Harwood Richard Clayton passing through a town called Bury in Suffolk about 5 Miles from Halstead in Essex where we were at a meeting the firstday before in the feare and service of the Lord and passing by the steeple house in the said Bury Richard Clayton was moved to set up a paper upon the steeple house door and John Harwood I passing on a litle before and seeing some people of the said Bury coming to Richard Clayton where he was seting up the paper and so we passed back to them who stayed him and were about him reading the paper who could find nothing contrary to Scriprure in it so John Harwood and I being to speake a few words to the people there present in the name of the Lord exhorted them to turne to the Lord from the vanities wickednesses they lived in which several of them was made to confess the truth of which was declared to them and the mouths of many who were in rage were stopped and so we passing from the people there present there came a Constable called Richard Hum who stayed us and said he had a warrant to stay us so we demanded to see his warrant but he had none to shew but said he had order from the Justice so carried us two before Harbert Pellam called Justice of peace in the said Bury whose office is for Essex so first I was carried before him and he examined me then John Harwood of our names and country and abode where we had been and what money we had when we came out of our own countryes which we answered as we were moved and had freedom and many other vain questions he asked in his b●sie vain Light mind which were not worth mentioning and when I was moved to speak a few words concerning his rage filthiness which he uttered forth he said he sent not for me to preach but he could lay no transgression nor the breach of any known Law to our charge but in his fury rage sent us by the Constable some others with him to one Thomas Walgrave who is called Justice of peace at Smalbridg in Suffolk about half a mile from the said Bury whose office is for Suffolk so when we came before the said Walgrave we were carried into the house they first examined Richard Clayton of his name and country and where he had been and what was the cause of his coming into that country and who sent him which he answered as he was moved and some other vain Questions were asked him when he had examined him he then examined me of my name country and where I was born and how long I had been acquainted with Richard Clayton and where I first met with him which I answered according to my freedom some other vain needless Questions were asked not worth mentioning so he could lay nothing to our charge concerning the breach of any Law we being free born English men and not Chargeable to any so then John Harwood was brought before him and Richard Clayton I commanded

THE PATH of the JUST Cleared AND Cruelty and Tyranny laid Open Or a Few Words to you Priests and Magistrates of this Nation who say we deny the Scriptures and that we are Antichrists and Deceivers and that we deny the Word of God Wherein your Oppression and Tyranny is laid Open which by you is unjustly acted against the Servants of the Living God who by the World which hate the Light of Christ are in Derision called Quakers Wherein also is something declared both to Judges and Justices so called concerning Contempt of Authority Also the Ground and Cause of the Imprisonment of George Whitehead and John Harwood who are Sufferers for the Innocent Truths sake In the Goal of Bury in Suffolk Also a Copy of a Paper which a Servant of the Lord called Richard Clayton was moved to set upon a Steeple-house Door at Bury in Suffolk for which he was caused to be whipped by one Thomas Waldegrave Justice of Peace in the said County But though hand joyn in hand the wicked shall not be unpunished but the Seed of the Righteous shall be delivered Prov. 11. 21. From the Spirit of the Living God in me whose name in the flesh is George Whitehead who for Sions sake cannot hold my peace but testifie against her Oppressors who am a Sufferer as aforesaid the 4. day of the 7. month 1655. Also A Paper against the sin of Idleness which we declare against and live out of and are diligent serving the Lord though that sin be cast upon us yet it we deny with all other sins and ungodlinesse which is contrary to the Gospel of Christ London Printed for Giles Calvert at the Black-Spread-Eagle near the West End of Pauls 1655. THE Path of the JVST cleared AND Cruelty and Tyranny laid Open See what Christ we own and who are Antichrists THat Christ we owne and witness and are partakers of his Sufferings who was promised for a Covenant unto the people for a light unto the Gentils to open the blind eyes this is he who was before Abraham was who said Before Abraham was I am who was in the beginning which was the Word by which all things was made which Word became flesh and dwelt among the disciples and suffered at Jerusalem and witnessed a good confession before Ponce Pilate whom Pilate delivered up to the Jews and the chief priests and elders whom they mocked and despitefully used put to death concerning the flesh but is raised up by the spirit and ascended into glory which glory he prayed for even that glory whereby he was at first with his Father glorified in wherein he is glorified in his Saints and is God over all God blessed for ever and he that hath him hath the father also and hath life and he that hath not the Son hath not life for he is the light of the world and in him is no darknesse and He is the Way the truth and the life and he that followeth him shall not abidein darknesse but shall receive the light of life And this is the true light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world which Iohn who was a man sent from God was a witnesse of and we are witnesses of and do not deny the Word nor the Scriptures but they who persecuted him even the Scribes and pharises and the chiefe priests and elders of the people who had a profession of the Scriptures of Moses words and the prophets words they did deny the Scriptures even Moses who wrote of Christ so did not beleive Christ and so denyed him who was the Word which became flesh And so his word did not take place in them because they did not believe that he was the Christ but looked for another Christ to come in pompe like themselves but against their pride he did cry and said Woe unto the Scribes and Pharises who were called of men Masters stood praying in the Synagogues had the chiefest places in the assemblies and greeting in the markets and laid heavy burthens upon the people But he said to his disciples Be not ye called masters and when he sent them forth he forbad them to take money or bag or Scrip but freely ye have received freely give and many of them had no certaine dwelling place but suffered persecution and hunger and nakednesse and prison and stripes and perils and were chargeable to no man but where they had sown Spiritual things they said if we sow to you Spiritual things it is a smal thing if we reap of you carnal things But these were not the world for the world was persecuters and revilers and haled them out of the Synagogues and such as Christ sent we owne and the Scriptures we own and Christ come in the flesh we owne and witnesse but you Magistrates and you Priests of this nation who are upholden by such as persecute and hale out of the Synagogues and imprison and whip despitefully now use such as are sent freely to witnes forth the truth and for that Christ and against Antichrist and deceivers such as Christ cryed wo against here you priests of this nation who are found in their steps which Christ cryed woe against even the steps of the Scribes Pharises you Magistrates Justices Judges Rulers who uphold such and persecute imprison cause to be whipped and fine such as are sent to bear witness against them that are found in Scribes and Pharises steps who lay heavy burthens upon the people and are called of men masters stands praying in the synagogues and have the cheifest places in the assemblies you are filling up the measure of their iniquities who persecuted Christ upheld them which Christ cryed wo unto and them who persecuted the true prophets who was sent to cry out against the false prophets these cryed against such as sought for their gain from their quarters such as were hirlings such as bare rule by their means and taught lyes who said they were sent of God when God never sent them but man before they were sent and these were the prophets who cryed against the false who said thus said the Lord and Heare the Word of the Lord But God never spake to them but Jeremiah who cryed against such was not a proud man nor a covetous man as the priests of England are now who are in these steps before mentioned which the false prophets were in But Jeremiah was mocked they were stoned some killed and Jeremy was set in the stocks for witnessing forth the truth against the false prophets and put into adungeon and here we are witnessed by the true prophets Christ his Apostles who ever witnessed against deceivers and such as lived in pride and coveteousness and Amos who was a true witness for God witnessed against the abomination of rulers and people he was not made a Minister by the will