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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91008	The priests wickednesse and cruelty, laid open, and made manifest, by Priest Smith of Cressedge, persecuting the servants of the Lord, whose outward dwellings is in and about Shrewsbury. As also, the proceedings of Judge Nicholas, and the Court of Justice, so called, against them so persecuted by the priest, at the last generall assizes holden at Bridgenorth for the county of Salop. Together, with some queries, to the priests.	Overton, Constantine, d. 1687.	1657 (1657)	Wing P3454; Thomason E910_4; ESTC R207503	9,613	16

the Law of the Nation doth not forbid any publique place to meet in neither them that doe professe faith in Jesus Christ the Law doth not forbid but by it they are to be Protected neither did we any thing contrary to sound Doctrine as we shall be ready to prove out of the Scriptures of truth for there is nothing mentioned in the Scriptures of putting off the hatt and so keeping on our hatts is not contrary to sound Doctrine and so not transgressors of the Law But is not he who is our accuser and prosecuter out of the said Doctrin of Jesus Christ is not he called master doth not he stand praying in the Synogogues hath he not the chiefest seat in the Assembly doth he not take hire is not he a false accuser who accused us that we disturbed him and hath not proved it and is not all these things contrary to sound Doctrine and so he found to be the transgressor of the Law And so all may see how the innocent is punished and the guilty goes free for when the jury came in with their Verdict they said that we were guilty as touching keeping on our hatts not mentioning any other thing of concernment whereupon the Judge with the consent of some of the Court there present fined us seaven aforementioned in fortie pounds a peece and to be kept Prisoners till the payment And this is the chiefest of the things that was done by the Judge and the Court that we doe remember But yet for all this the malice of the Priest and his members is not ceased for as some of our friends passed by the place called Cressedge where the said Priest is called a Minister the fruits that is brought forth by the people made him manifest to be no Minister of Christ Christ saith by their fruits ye shall know them they were mockers and scoffers and swearers and such like which I know is not fruit of the good tree but of that tree that is to be hewn down and cast into the fire For every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is to be hewen down and cast into the fire Mat. 3.10 And so it is good for people to consider of their ways who have such leaders as cause them to erre for if the blind lead the blind both fall into the ditch And the Priest to cover his former envie goes on further and to blind the people more and more reported it that we were fined for that we had done unto him which is a plaine and manifest lye as many can witnesse and may be made appeare for the Judges Clarke told one of us if we were but free to goe and put of our hatts before the Bench our fines might be taken off and we might have our libertie to prosecute against the Priest and Justice for false imprisonment and so have recovered our costs and dammages for five months imprisonment which would have been no small sum of money if we had been free to have done so So here all may see the Priest to be a lyer and so a transgressor of the Law of God whose Law we durst not break upon whom we waite for righteous judgement who will judge our enemyes righteously And here followeth a Copy of a Letter which was sent to the Judg so called but as we do understand he would not receive it wherefore we thought it convenient to put it here that all that desire to see it may FRIENDS COnsider in this your day the things that belong to your peace consider in what way you are going all people both high and low rich and poore Judge and Justice Priest and People before the decree of the Lord be sealed against you and the time of repentance be past when there shall be no more time but you shall wish the hills and mountaines to fall upon you to hide you from the presence of the Lambe whose innocent and harmlesse Lambs you have opprest O you Judges of the earth learne to be wise pervert not judgement and justice feare God and respect not the person of man but doe righteous judgement between man and man set the oppressed free the Lord requires it of you Consider you that sit in place to doe justice at the towne of Bridgenorth what you have done already who say you were a Court of justice of whom we might have expected justice if it had been so that our accusers might have come to our faces that we might have known the crime for which we are cast into Prison but we now see that there is nothing against us unlesse it be concerning the Law of our God who commands that we should not respect the person of man In obedience of whose command we come before you honouring you in the Lord in whose presence we stood who commands no such things as the putting off the hatt as is ever recorded in the Scriptures of truth And moreover some of us came before you having our hatts taken of by some that stood by and the Judge bad put them on Consider was it both justice to bid put on and put off consider was ever the like heard of in any generation are you Ministers of the Law or Judges of the Law may you doe what you will and not come to judgement yea the Lord whom we serve shall judge righteous judgement and plead our cause against all our enemyes and he is able to deliver us However be it known unto you we will not break the command of God to please you And for him who is our accuser who professes to be a Minister of Christ consider was ever the like heard of that ever any Minister of Christ caused any to be halled to Prison kept swearers in his house revilers mockers and scoffers we were met to waite upon the Lord in quietnesse disturbing no man nor men but were disturbed by them who are members of the Church of Priest Smith Surely the Ministers of Christ never did so nor the members of Christ never upheld such but cried against them who preached for hire and divines for money was this the fruits of divine service to persecute doe you think the Lord will be mocked doe you not know such as you sowe such must you reape shall not the Lord reward you double and as you have done shall it not be so done unto you O foolish people and unwise doe you not understand that the Lord loveth judgment and justice doe you count it stubbornes in my servants saith the Lord that they will not bow to the will of man was it stubbornes in my servant Mordecai who could not bow to Hammon who would have had honour in the Kings gates was it stubbornes in my servants that could not bow to the Image that Nebuchadnezzar set up Consider is the putting of the hatt a lesser matter then these things and is not this the greatest thing that is against us And so is not this to be worse then the Heathens Consider