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A27132 A message sent forth from the risen seed of God being a faithful expostulation and testimony concerning the unjust and hard dealings of the rulers and people in England who have a hand in the cruel oppressions and sufferings of the people of God called Quakers. Bayly, William, d. 1675. 1662 (1662) Wing B1533; ESTC R25913 8,299 11

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mans voice and are not you and your Teachers found in Cains way and Balaams way will not you murder and rob and banish and imprison and persecute about sacrifice and worship Is not this Cains way and Balaams way do not flatten your selves nor daub with untempted morter but let the witness of the just God arise and answer which will speak the truth which will be as a worm and moth in the heart and bowels of the ungodly and hypocrits for ever if you repent not with speed if your Common prayers and homilies and Organs be the fruit of your ground can you not offer it to your God and be content or will not your God accept it at your hands without you murder rob and persecute us who offer unto our God Male and firsting of our flock which opens the womb holy to the Lord if you do well shall you not be accepted but if not sin lyeth at your door like Cain whose countenance fell who was wrath and slew his brother consider these things for you have either a wicked God the Devil the God of this world or your sacrifices are wicked and abominable or you offer it with wicked hands for God said unto Cain why art thou wrath and why is thy countenance falling if thou dost well shall thou not be accepted but if not sin lyeth at the door ●●d your state now you that can sing and pray and murder about it and make laws against the true worshippers of the living God in spirit and truth and see what you are doing and how far you are out of Cains way and the Pharisees way who could pay Tyth and fast twise a week and make long prayers or Common prayers as well as you and kill Christ Jesus and his Disciples who had the Lattin Greek and Hebrew as well as you and see what you differ from them and whether you are not of the same seed of evil dooers and let the witness of the dreadful God Judge in this matter who will not be mocked with your Sacrifices and prayers and will-worships and feigned humiliations it s all abomination to him therefore repent least while you rejoyce in the sound of your Organs he sweep you down to Hell And be awakened to Judgment and arise and behould the great Controversie which is at this day between Cain and Abel Christ and Anti-christ Light and darkness Righteousness and unrighteousness Truth and deceit and wickedness what shall I say of it but in plainess between God and the Devil the Lamb and the Dragon Michael the Arch-angel and the Devil and his Angels and consider and see of whose side ye now are and whether you are not them of whom Enock the seventh from Adam prophesied and Iude declared ungodly men raging waves of the Sea foaming out your own shame speaking evil of things you know not filthy dreamers walking after your own ungodly Iusts the mockers and scoffers in these last days speaking evil of Dignities and despising Dominion even the sons and Children of the most high God and their Kingdome and Dominion which hath no end of which Abel and Enock was whose life and Kingdom you know not who of old were ordained to this condemnation heady high minded self willed lovers of pleasures more then lovers of God and whether you are not those Wells without water and Clouds without rain carried about with a Tempest having a forme of Religion but denying the power of God and persecutes them that live in it And whether you are not the Heathen that live at ease with whom God is very sore displeased which helps forward the affliction of his people read your state and your portion Zach. 1.15 Zeph. 1.15 16 17 18. c. And whether you are not them that chant at the sound of the Viol and drink Wine in Bowls and eat the Lambs out of the flocks and anoynt your selves with the cheif Oyntments inventing to your selves Instruments of Musick like David and are not greeved for the afflictions of Joseph putting far away the evil day and c●●●sing the seat of violence and oppression come neer ye which rejooce in a thing of naught read Amos 6 and within with Gods witness in your Consciences and then behold us in your Goale holes and stincking places of cruelty who are a poor and an afflicted people whose trust is in the name of the Lord for thus saith the Lord God concerning us who tremble at his word I will appear to your joy and they that hate you shall be ashamed and I will lead Ioseph like a flock and set the sollatry in families and they shall rejoyce in my highness and sing for the glory of my Majesty and I will joy over them and rejoyce to do them good But as for you your wresting of Judgement and your turning of things upside down and your Sword backward shall be rewarded upon your own heads for as you have oppressed and lead into Captivity my people and broke your words and Covenants and your promises and ingagements con●●ming them and their worships of me the living God which is in the Spirit and Truth which shall not be limited Even so shall you be oppressed and go into Captivity and be dealt treacherously with for with the same measure you meet to them shall others meet to you again And who do you think will keep their Oaths Covenants promises and ingagements to them that are false in their own to others consider these things for because of swearing and forswearing promising and treacherous dealing Convenanting and breaking of the same the Land mourns and will mourn until the spirit of Lyes deceit and falshood is banisht from amongst you but the Proverb is true the Tongue of the Just is as choice Silver but the heart of the wicked is little worth much less their words What are you Or what is your power Or whence came you that you in your Generation should deal thus treacherously with God and man to grind the faces of the poor and eat up my people like bread and slay them and chop their flesh as for the Chaldron will not blood be required at the hand of him that shed it have not many of my Children suffered to death by your cruel imprisonments and knocking 's down in their meeetings to waire upon me who had no other end but to worship me as I am witness between you and them for ever was not the death of Uriah laid to Davids charge though he slew him not with his own hands but consented to it and not restrained it who had the power in his hand and shall not my witness in you be the Nathan 〈◊〉 your particular Consciences and say thou art the man for thou consentedst to it and not restrained it when the power was in thy hand Consider these things before it be to late and your day pass as the chaffe before the wind for I the Lord God am jealous for Zion with great jealousie and I will
plead her cause with all her Enimies Or will your saying we have a Law or an Act of Parliament and by our Law or Act they ought not to meet above four or five by our Law they ought to be imprisoned or banished or they ought to dye or abjure the Land save you in the day of my fury saith the Lord will your Kings Laws or Queens laws or Parliaments laws or decrees stand you in stead help hide or save you when I shall descend upon you in flames of fire rendring vengeance on all them that obey not my Law and Gospel written and preached in the heart of every man and woman under Heaven or will your lying Indictments aad Warrants plead for you which you say my people meet in force of Armes in contempt of the King his Crown and dignity or will your writing them dangerous seditious and wicked Sectaries and disloyal persons cover you will not all Englands sober people give you the lye in these things who knoweth our manner and conversation among them yea and will not the witness of God in your own Consciences testify the same with them or will Elizabeths Statute 35. or she her self rise from the dead to keep off my vengeance that is hastening upon you for your lyes injustice and cruelty will your writing the Assemblys of my people unlawfull make them so in my sight was not Daniels prayer unlawful and the Apostles preaching forbidden by the Rulers but was it so in my sight judge ye might not they have said as well as you they break the peace of Kings and people were there not great stirs and tumults in all ages about my people against them in whom my spirit of truth was manifest could the whole Land bear my servant Amos his words Consider what peace is broken or against what peace my people are whose weapons are not Carnal and what people are terrified by them or their meetings in my name and fear in Truth and Righteousness as you have written to the great terror of the people by your lyes to render them odious and let my witness in you answer for I am not come to send peace on earth but a sword and a fire which is already kindled and you shall never be abe to quench it for I have raised my seed in my children and have placed them as a brazen wall in the midst of Nations against the flood of ungodliness Idolatry and wickedness else you had ere this been destroyd as Sodom in whom I will manifest my terrible power and Kingdom which hath no end against the Devils Power and Kingdome which must end against Oppression and Oppressours murder and Murderers injustice cruelty Idolatry and hypocricy and all manner of ungodliness and unrighteousness of men which power shall grinde the grinders and bruise the bruisers and oppressours of my people and shall tread upon Princes as upon morter for I am arisen and come and coming in thousands and ten thousands of my saints and Children who tremble at my word to convince all that are ungodly of their ungodly deeds and hard speeches and to execute my Judgements upon the rebelious and gainsaying Generation and I will gather my Lambs into my bosom and the Seed of Iacob into their own Land and the meek shall inherit the Earth and the poor in spirit shall possess my Everlasting Kingdom against which work now begun neither you nor all the Rulers of the darkness of this World your Kings Queens and Parliaments with their Laws and decrees Gog nor Magog Sodom nor Gomorah Egypt Death nor Hell with the strength and gates of it shall be able to prevaile or overcome I the Lord God of Heaven and earth that made the Worlds in mine eternal word and unchangeable decree hath spoken it Therefore these things in the fear of God if you have any and in soberness consider for it shall stand a living Testimony which shall not be made void but is dropt upon you as an hour of Gods Visitation the which if you slight and repent not of your deeds and unrighteous proceedings against his people you shall be left without excuse in the Terrible day at hand which hastens upon you as a Woman in travel that is ready to be delivered and you shall not escape Therefore prise your time and be not proud nor Rebellious for the Lord hath spoken neither be ye mockers least your bands are made strong but beleive and tremble and remember the King of Ninnive who shall rise up in Judgement against this Generation and Condemn it for a greater then Ionah and a greater then Solomon is risen among us who respecteth not the persons of men but will plead with all flesh which hath Corrupted its way by fire and Sword and the Slaine of the Lord shall be many even all the workers of Iniquity which hateth reproofe despiseth good Counsel and doth not chuse the fear of the Lord. So this is unto you a Visitation and warning from him that lives for ever of whose blood I his servant am clear having obeyed his voice whether you hear or forbear I am a Traveller for Sions sake and a trembler at the word of the great dreadful God the Righteous Iudge of quick and dead and a follower of the Lamb through the great tribulations loving not my life to the death for his sake Halelujah Amen W.B. And FRIENDS TEll me how you came to be Christians and by what Law you were lead to Christ was it Queen Marys Law without you or Queen Elizabeths which you now Act by or was it the new Covenant which God made unto his people If these Laws before mentioned as Queen Elizabeths or Marys be now the scoolmaster when came they in force And when was Moses the just man the leader of the people out of Egypt and the Law which God gave to him disanulled And when was the Covenant broken between Moses and God did not he stay 〈◊〉 wrath and stand in the gap between God and his people and prayed to God for them and God heard his prayer and his wrath was turned away from Israel whom Moses lead out of Egypt to be tryed in the Wilderness as many are at this day blessed be God and Moses the Instrument which brought them thither and cursed be they who disobey the command of God given to Moses which is fulfilled in Christ the Elder brother and them that follow him who breaketh not the commands of God given to Moses but fulfilleth them in his sufferings which is now making up at this day Have a care what you do in fighting against God in his Members you who profess your selves to be Christians Magistrates persecutors of others who are members of Christs body who was persecuted by cheif Preists and Rulers who professed they had more knowledge of God then them they persecuted but their Condemnation was the greater for that they were sayers and not doers as many of you are at this day professing Christ in words but serving an hypocritical generation Woe to the Pharisees saith Christ and woe to the Christians now who profess Christ in words and in their works and practises deny him who make long prayers and their hands full of cruelty and blood and makes their seat a place of violence that Justice and Truth cannot be heard but the simple and upright in heart will learn Judgement and the prudent in Queen Elizabeth and Marys Laws who refuse the Law of God to be their Rule will God cut off though called Justices Cheif Preists or Rulers Look ye to it for the hand of Justice and true Judgement is lifted up that the heritage of God shall be known not by the Law of Queen Elizabeth or Mary which is now in hand but by Jesus the King of the Jews the Son of the living God the highest amongst men the greatest in the Consciences of all his people Swear not at all saith he who is come to be Lord in the Conscience and ●one else shall Rule over his Heritage though now it seems to be trampled upon by injustice and unrighteousness which is Acted by unrighteous men who are but as the drop of a Bucket and dust defore him Therefore dread the Lord ye Kings and Rulers for the Judgement is now seting up which respecteth not the ways of Kings because the heart of Kings are in the hand of the Lord who can turn them as a River of Water which way he pleaseth and their Life is in his hand as a span Therefore I say dread the Lord all Flesh for the day of the Lord hastens and is even at the doors To the truth of which I subscribe M.B. SEek not by Laws made in mans will The blood of Innocents to spill For if you do the Law of God With in your heart shall be the Rod Which shall you smite with stroaks full soar And you Condemn for evermore For your decrees which are unjust They shall not stand Gods Counsel must Professions words and prayers long He hath no pleasure in Without the life of righteousness All Scarifice is Sin The day is broke and God's just stroake On Hypocrites must come Their many words and Carnal swords Can't save them from their doom Amen THE END Printed for W.M. 1662.