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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55863	A brief narrative of the proceedings of Doctor Parr, and some of the parishioners of Mary Magda'en [sic] - Bermonsey in the county of Surrey against certain people called Quakers, inhabitants of the said parish, for not paying and complying with an illegal tax, laid under pretence of repairing their church ...	Rawbone, Joseph.	1677 (1677)	Wing P346; ESTC R182375	28,455	42

to be Christ's Ministers compare themselves herewith And let this be considered by every true English man That if the rash inconsiderate unlawful Proceeds of a few of our Neighbours becomes presidential and escapes Correction which is so direct against the fundamental Law of our Country others may take Boldness to rate and raise Eighteen Thousand Pound as well as Eighteen Hundred Pound upon the like Pretence But we attribute this Favour and Connivance to the powerful Influence of the Ecclesiastical Authority whose Inclination and nature is to creep over the Heads of Law and Gospel too and to sit as a Queen over mens Persons Liberties Lives and Estates so that if people please not the Church or that Sect or Sort of men that in a Nation or Country calls themselves so and hath the Power in their hand then all that 's contrary is lyable to Ruin by the Power and Influence of holy Church falsly so called being indeed no other then the great Whore which John saw sit upon the Waters and ride upon the Scarlet-coloured Beast For it hath been the Work of the false Church for many ages and generations past and is her endeavour at this day to get upon the backs of Lords Dukes Kings and Emperors and other great men of the Earth and to lead them which way she pleaseth and she arrayeth her self in such beautiful Apparel and giveth her self such glorious Titles and holds forth such a glorious Cup that through the Mystery of Iniquity that works in her they are so far deceived and intoxicated that they think and are perswaded she is the Church and Spouse of Christ and so many mighty men and Monarchs of the Earth in this part of the World called Christendom especially are as obedient to her and as tractable under her as a Beast is under its Rider and ready to do any Drudgery for her And this is observable That if any of these become sensible of the Weight of their Burden and to see what a Mystery of Iniquity they have upon their Backs and begin to be weary and unwilling to carry it any longer then such a one let him be Lord Duke King or Emperor if her severe Sensures Curbs and Threats will not serve to bring him again into Obedience to holy Church she will get his Blood to drink if she can as might be instanced at large by many Examples It 's said That it is a Maxime in the Church of Rome not to keep Faith with such she accounts Hereticks longer then till she hath an Advantagious Opportunity to break it and that she is very ready with her Dispensations to absolve Subjects from their Obedience to their Natural Prince and Governour if they judge him an Enemy to holy Church if this Report and Saying be true we declare it a Cursed Opinion and Inconsistent with Humane Society and the Well-being of Mankind and an evident Mark and Sign of the Whore Beast and False Prophet and not of the Church of Christ And if the Church of England and other Protestants be of the mind and Opinion of Doctor Parr that when People differ in their Judgments and Understandings about spiritual Matters and are tender and Conscientious and cannot conform to their Way of Worship and have the Nick Reproachful Name of a Quaker given them as the Primitive Christians had that of a Nazarine though they live never so Soberly Righteously Justly Uprightly and Inoffensively among their Neighbours and all people relating to the things of a Man that notwithstanding this SUCH ARE NO SUBJECTS OF THE KING which in plain English implyes thus much that the King nor Law is not concerned to defend their Lives Liberties nor Estates but that because they are out of the Pale of their Church they ought to lie open to the Mouth of every Raveuous Beast and Devourer So far as the Protestants are tainted with this Opinion they are guided and governed by the same spirit of Darkness Ignorance and Cruelty and in the Ground is one with the other and the same evil Effects and cruel Consequences attend it for that People Sect or Opinion that will take upon them to absolve Kings and Governours and the Judges of the Law from being concern'd in Duty to administer Justice and take a fatherly Care of Harmless Innocent People that dwell within their Dominions because they are not of the same mind about Religion nor do not conform to their Church-Discipline we say it is the same spirit of Deceit and Delusion with that which pretends a Power to absolve Subjests from their Obedience to their Superiours and is also inconsistent with Humane Society Cruel Unnatural Bloody and Unreasonable Let such as are concerned therein Repent thereof for they have not the Spirit of Christ ruling in their Hearts though they may have his Name in their Mouthes Here follows a Copy of a Letter sent to Dr. Parr and the rest concerned in which was enclosed a Copy of the Substance of what follows Doctor Parr THe Enclosed we send thee before we communicate it further that if thee or any of the rest whom it doth concern can except against or disprove any thing thereof as relating to matter of Fact contained therein you have your liberty or opportunity to signifie the same for when your forty dayes are expired we expect the end of your work designed against us to be soon accomplished that is to have our Bodies in Goal from our Wives Children Trades and Families which is a work of Cruelty and not of Christianity and know this the Cry of the Innocent will enter the Ears of the Lord against you and if you shall be suffered to make our Wives Widdows and our Children Fatherless though we can forgive you yet it is just with the Lord if he measure the same measure to you again for the Blood of the Righteous will cry as Abel's did and Vengeance will pursue the Evil-doer and you shall be justly charged as the Prophet Micah charged the professing Jews Mic. 3.10 They build up Sion with Blood and Jerusalem with Iniquity read the whole Chapter which indeed is applicable to England as truly as ever it was to the Nation of the Jews And let this be considered that if you polute and stain your Church-building with the Blood of the Innocent through Imprisonment in nasty Holes and put them out of a Capacity to provide Bread for their VVives and Children this will so defile you and your Temple that the Bishop of this Diocess nor all the Bishops of England will not be able to remove and take it away by all the power of Consecration they have and the stones in the VVall shall witness against you in the Day of Account Now for the Causes mentioned in the first page we do intend to make your VVork publick that all may see what spirit rules in thine and your Hearts notwithstanding your talk and profession of Christ and Christianity and that you concerned may be convinced concerning