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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25484	Another cry of the innocent & oppressed for justice, or, A second relation of the unjust proceedings at the sessions held at Hicks's Hall for the county of Middlesex, and at the Old Baily, London, the 6th and the 14th dayes of the 10th month or December, 1664, with and against 32 more of the people called Quakers ... together with an account of the most material passages between the prisoners and the aforesaid courts ... : unto which also is now added, a brief, short summary of the sentencing of 36 more of the aforesaid people ... where they were all sentenced for to be transposed to the island of Jamaica.		1664 (1664)	Wing A3255; ESTC R12642	22,154	31

the souls under the Altar slain for the word of God and the Testimony which they held saying How long O Lord holy and true dost thou not judge and avenge our bloud on them that dwell on the earth I say this Cry hath peirced the heavens and entred the ears of the Lord against this Generation therefore tremble ye uncircumcised in hearts and ears and be smitten with terrour ye persecutors about Religion Church and Worship for behold your portion is the same with Cain your elder Brother who was the first murtherer about Religion and with the Whore your Mother who hath made Nations drunk with the wine of her fornication and who is also drunken with the bloud of the Saints and in whom is found the bloud of Prophets and of Saints of men and all that were or hath been slain upon earth yea in her is found the bloud of all the righteous since Abel to this day therefore all persecutors in Christendome or elsewhere who oppress kill and endeavour to destroy and shed innocent Bloud about Church and Worship Common Service you are Children of this Whore and as you partake of her sins so you will assuredly partake of her Plagues for strong is the Lord that judgeth both her and you and the Lord hath shewed many thousands in this Nation and elsewhere the secret Chambers of your Imagery where you commit Uncleanness and Idolatry and also what is in the golden Cup that your Mother holds forth to the Nations and also what is under her purple and scarlet coloured array and her ornaments of gold precious stones and pearls and to them he hath lifted up her skirts and made her naked and bare and her filthiness and fornication is seen in and under her glorious out side and in vain do you her children endeavour to impose her Sorceries upon such if the Lord permit she may drink yet a little more of their bloud but of the cup of her fornication they dare not nor will not drink for they know the true woman the true Church the Spouse of Christ the Kings daughter who is all glorious within and having seen her beauty and glory and partook of her graces and vertues cannot now follow other lovers nor be forced by the power of the beast which carrieth the Whore nor yet by her fair allurements to forsake and deny the true Church though flouds of persecutions follow her and her Children therefore in vain is the labour of Babels Merchants and the power of the beast which defends them against such a people whose eyes are opened and whose understandings are enlightened and whose souls have not only tasted but daily feed on the bread of life which comes down from above even from the heavenly Jerusalem the mother of all the faithful and the City of their Solemnity I say in vain do Babels Merchants the children of the great Whore and the Beast that carries her endeavour to compell such to partake of her Merchandize to drink down her Sorceries and to become Members of their Church whose glory is outward fair words but foul deeds white garments but black souls the blind the ignorant the dark in heart and understanding the doubtful and unstable the wanton vicious and voluptuous ones these and such like she may prevail upon and of such do her Church consist of these are the Multitudes Nations Kindreds and Tongues on whom she sitteth and over whom she reigneth and hath long reigned but the Lord in his exceeding riches grace kindness and love hath in this latter day caused his everlasting day to dawn and his day Starr to appear and not onely so but the womb of the morning is opened and the Sun of Righteousness is risen in the hearts of thousands even of those over whom she reigned and he hath redeemed them from under her and out of the Nations Kindreds and Tongues and as this Light and Glory Riches and Love encreases and prevails in the hearts of people which certainly is to overcome the Whore will lose her Dominion Seat and great Authority and be cast upon a bed of torment which is the determinate counsel of God to bring to pass upon her for Babylon is faln and must yet fall Sin Violence Oppression Cruelty and persecution had a begining and must and shall have an end and the whole Creation of God longs groans and travails for that day even to enjoy her Sabboths or rests and to see sin and iniquity finished and everlasting Righteousness brought in and Judges restored as at the first and Counsellors as at the beginning and the knowledge of the Lord to cover the earth as the water doth the Sea or the deeps but the wicked must fill up their measure of doing wickedly and the Righteous also must fill up their measure of suffering innocently and in the end cometh the Reward of both The memory of the just is blessed but the name of the wicked shall rot Prov. 10.7 And may it not be said of Christendome as once the Lord said of Israel Sodom thy sister hath not done she nor her daughters as thou hast done and thy daughters Ezek. 16.48 c. Postscript READER I do here present to thy view a Narrative of the most malicious wicked Illegall Process against one of the persecuted and oppressed ones of Christ called John Otter Shoomaker who on the 25. of the 10th Month called December 1664. was taken in a Meeting at Mile-end and from thence had before William Rider and Thomas Player called Justices which Meeting the People of God called Quakers have and do in their usuall manner meet to worship God as he hath made himself known in them and unto them the Relation extracted from his own mouth is as followeth The said John Ottir with some of the people of God called Quakers being seized in the said Meeting was brought before the two Justices so called William Rider asked him his name the Prisoner declared his name unto them then he asked him his Dwelling place or place of abode the Prisoner asked him if declaring his name was not sufficient Then Tho. Player said No but said in his hast that if he declared not his place of Habitation or abode he was to be taken as a Felon or a Vagabond The Prisoner answered that he had a dwelling place where neither thief murderer nor persecuter could come Then W. R. asked where that was he said in God So they committed him to New Bridewell as a Vagabond where he was detained some weeks and the Sessions at Hicks-Hall following shortly after the said Prisoner was called down thither where were Robert Hide and Iohn Keeling two of the Kings Judges with other Justices so called who usually sit there and there was three Malefactors who were Prisoners at the same time that was brought down to the Sessions who was called to the Bar John Otter being also set to the Bar the Judge asked him his Dwelling place the Prisoner answered him as