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A34915 God's holy name magnified, and his truth exalted by the testimony of his faithful servants who have suffered the cruel penalty of banishment from their native country by the rulers thereof as also an abstract of their names : with some of the barbarous dealings and useages they received and sustained from the hands of those instruments that were imployed in the imbarquing of them / R.C. Unto which is annexed Englands sad estate and condition lamented / written by George Fox the younger in the beginning of the year 1661 ... R. C. (Richard Crane); Fox, George, d. 1661. Englands sad estate and condition lamented. 1665 (1665) Wing C6812; ESTC R24785 24,205 34

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GOD'S holy Name 〈◊〉 AND HIS TRUTH EXALTED BY THE Testimony of his Faithful Servants who have suffered the Cruel Penalty of BANISHMENT from their Native Country by the RULERS thereof AS ALSO An ABSTRACT of their Names with some of the Barbarous Dealings and Useages they received and sustained from the hands of those Instruments that were imployed in the Imbarquing of them R.C. Doth not the Teares run down the Widdowes Cheeks and her Cry is against him that caused them for from her Cheeks do they go up unto Heaven and the Lord which heareth them doth accept them and the Lord will not be slack nor the Almighty will not tarry long from them till he hath smitten in sunder the loynes of the unmercifull and avenged himself of the Heathen till he have taken away the multitudes of the Cruell and broken the Scepter of the Vnrighteous till he give every Man after his works and reward them after their devices till he have judged the Cause of his People and comforted them with his mercies Ecclesiasticus 35. ver 15. 18. They are Abrahams Children who are of Abrahams faith who forsook his native Country Fathers house and his own Kindred and followed the Lord he knew not whither Gal. 3.7 Gen. 12. And they are of Cains seed who are found in Cains nature who slew his Brother because his own works were evil and his Brother 's Righteous 1 John 3.12 Unto which is annexed Englands sad estate and condition lamented Written by George Fox the younger in the beginning of the year 1661. In which are some Prophesies that now are fulfilled and fulfilling Printed in the Year 1665. The Epistle to the Reader FRIEND THou that reads this ensuing Relation will find what hath been dispenced to us from the hands of the men of this Generation and as thy mind is kept cool out of prejudice thou wilt also be able to judge in thy measure concerning our sufferings as to ourselves we are well satisfied and in the will of God do rest and acquiesce But to satisfie many who desire to be informed this Relation is wrote and also in order to Record and the reason why it is so suddenly brought forth is because the Mortality of Mankind is great in this City where these things have been done and committed and eternity presseth sore on this Generation and a remisness herein might make void the record of our testimony which Record will have a place amongst all the faithful witnesses of God for his holy truth 〈◊〉 every Generation to this day and the very end of 〈◊〉 according the actions of men in their several Generations is for the benefit of their Successors and undoubted the next Generation must judge the works of their Ancestors think it not strange we receive such hard measure from the hands of the Rulers of this Nation for the holy record of Scriptures are fulfilled on this Generation which saith They shall hale you before Magistrates and they shall imprison you and whosoever shall kill you shall think he doth God good service And he who spake forth these words suffered from the same seed that ministers our sufferings unto us which seed is one even from the begining to this day there are but two the persecuting seed and the persecuted seed and these are known by their fruits For Grapes are not gathered of Thorns nor Figgs upon Thistles And our sufferings have been multiplyed very much since the return of this Power heightened even to BANISHMENT which is more severe then death it self the Lord permiting it so to be we are content though I must tell thee as we are a people and a considerable one in England our Conditions and promises from BREDA and since so often repeated was neither Imprisonment nor Banishment but these things with our just cause we leave to the Righteous God to judge R. C. God's holy Name magnified c. PErsecution in the World is no new thing for such as manifests a holy and blameless life in that Generation in which they are brought forth doth assuredly meet with it and it hath been the practise in every Generation from Caine downward and all in his nature even to this day to Persecute God in his appearance in his Servants and Saints as is plentifully seen and made known in this our day and Generation which is the product of this Relation and the Rulers and Priests have been and are they that act these Cruelties upon God's holy Saints the Priest with Tongue the Magistrate with Fist and so is Persecution brought forth and between these two are and have been all the Rapes Spoyles Injuries Imprisonments Deaths Banishments and all manner of cruel exercises inflicted upon the People of the Lord for their Consciences to him and in every Generation Persecution hath according to the manifestation of God been less or more exercised For this is infallible the greater appearance of God in Flesh the greater Persecution raised by the Devil in Flesh and here is the mistery of the two Seeds shewed and each Seed beares its Fathers Image and so they come to be known and eternal enmity is placed between them therefore the holy Witnesses for God in every Generation have sustained more or less of Persecution according as is said to the manifestation and appearance of God in them raised up and held forth in Testimony unto the World and as this appearance of God comes to be lived in and unto then the World is testified against that the deeds thereof are evil And here first begins Persecution and those that persevere in faithfulness unto what God hath manifested they meet with such measure from Rulers and Priests as is hereafter declared and we the People of God called Quakers have by Gods permission felt the weight of their persecuting hands this many years even ever since the Lord hath called us forth to testify unto his truth in this Nation and our sufferings have both abounded and multiplyed in these few years past and as sufferings 〈◊〉 abounded so hath the love of God increased unto us we 〈◊〉 living Witnesses of it praises praises unto our God for ever and we have a Witness for God in every Persecuter's Conscience in England of what rank or quality soever that our sufferings are not neither have been for evil doing for if by their Provocations they could have drawn us forth to have retaliated unto them in the same spirit the measure unto us they had gotten their ends but O the admired patience that God hath indued his People with in that his mercy hath preserved us from staining our hands with such poluted works and so our sufferings are and have been on the Lord's account from the beginning even to this very day and as to our Imprisonments of sundry kinds and the Injury we have sustained thereby is at this time omited because a Relation of the useage of my friends and brethren which did befall them from Newgate to their Ships into