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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91168	A declaration and protestation against the illegal, detestable, oft-condemned, new tax and extortion of excise in general; and for hops (a native incertain commodity) in particular. By William Prynne of Swainswick, Esq;	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1654 (1654)	Wing P3936; Thomason E813_16; ESTC R203225	23,096	31

A DECLARATION AND PROTESTATION AGAINST The Illegal Detestable Oft-condemned New Tax and Extortion of EXCISE In General AND For HOPS a Native incertain commodity In Particular By William Prynne of Swainswick Esq Ezek. 22. 12 13 27 29 30. Thou hast greedily gained of thy Neighbour by Extortion and hast forgotten me saith the Lord God Behold therefore I have smitten my hand at thy dishonest gain and at thy Bloud which hath been shed in the midst of thee Her Princes in the midst of thee are like Wolves ravening the Prey to shed bloud and to destroy Souls to get DISHONEST GAIN The people of the Land have used OPPRESSION EXERCISED ROBBERY and have VEXED THE POOR NEEDY yea they have OPPRESSED THE STRANGER WRONGFULLY And I sought for A MAN among them that should make up the Hedg and stand in the gap before me for the Land that I should not destroy it but I found none Therefore have I poured out my indignation upon them I have consumed them with the Fire of my Wrath their own way have I recompenced on their heads saith the Lord God Psal. 12. 5. For the Oppression of the Poor for the sighing of the Needy I will arise saith the Lord I will set him in safety from him that would ensnare him 1 Cor. 6. 8 9. Nay you do wrong and defraud and that your Brethren Know you not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdome of God LONDON Printed for the Author and a●● to be sold by Edward Thomas in Green-Arbor 1654. A Declaration and Protestation against the Illegal Detestable oft-condemned New Tax and Extortion of EXCISE in general and for hopes in particular WE read in the 2 Sam. 23. 1 3. That these were the last words of David the man WHO WAS RAISED UP ON HIGH THE ANOYNTED OF THE GOD OF JACOB and the sweet Psalmist of Israel The God of Israel said the Rock of Israel spake to me HE THAT RULETH OVER MEN MUST BE JUST RULING IN THE FEAR OF GOD What it is for a Ruler over men to be just and to rule in the fear of God we may infallibly conclude and learn from three Scripture-Presidents and three sacred Texts which may serve as a Commentary on it The first President is that of Samuel 1 Sam. 12. 1. to 6. And Samuel said unto all Israel Behold I have hearkened unto your voice in all that ye said unto me and have made a King over you And now behold I am old and gray-headed and have walked before and a judged you from my Childhood to this day Behold here I am witness against me before the Lord and before his Anoynted Whose Oxe have I taken Or whose Ass have I taken or whom have I defrauded whom have I oppressed or of whose hand have I received any ransome to blinde mine eyes therewith and I will restore it to you And they said THOU HAST NOT DEFRAUDED US NOR OPPRESSED US NEITHER HAST THOU TAKEN OUGHT OF ANY MANS HAND And he said The Lord is my witness against you and his Anoynted is witness this day that you have not found ought in my hand And they answered He is witness That Governour or Ruler over men who can make such a challenge and protestation as this before God and all the people and receive such a testimony from both of his integrity as Samuel here did after he had judged Israel above threescore years is certainly a just man truly fearing God And what Governour this day ruling though but for a few months or years can make such a challenge or receive such a witness as he did from all the people The second President is that of King David a man after Gods own heart who as he would by no means lay violent hands on King Saul his Soveraign who hunted him like a Partridg and sought his life though God gave him twice into his hands and was perswaded by his Souldiers and Military Officers to kill him nor yet usurp the Royal Throne or Government of Gods people though specially anointed by God long before thereto without a General Call and Election thereto by all the Tribes and Elders of the people 1 Sam. 24. 26. 2 Sam. 5. 1. to 6. So it is recorded of him 2 Sam. 8. 15. and 1 Kings 15. 5. And David raigned over all Israel and David executed Judgment and Justice unto all his people and David did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord and turned not aside from any thing that he commanded him all the daies of his life save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittire for which he penned and left a a Penitential Psalm on Record to Posterity to testifie his unfeigned repentance for that bloody crime And where can we finde such a David now The third is Nehemiah cap. 5. throughout who when the people cried and complained to him of their Debts Engages Bondage and Oppressions by their Brethren and that others had their Lands Vineyards yea their Sons and Daughters for servants for moneys borrowed of them FOR THE KINGS TRIBUTE He grew very angry and rebuked the Nobles and Rulers for it and set a great Assembly against them and said unto them We after our ability have redeemed the Jews our brethren which were sold unto the Heathen and will you ever sell your Brethren or shall they be sold unto us I likewise and my Brethren and my servants might exact of them money and corn I pray let us leave off this Usury restore I pray unto them even this day their Lands their Vineyards and their houses also the hundredth part of the money and of the corn the wine and the oyl that ye exact of them Then said they We will restore them and will require nothing of them so will we do as thou hast said Then Nehemiah called the Priests and took an oath of them that they should do according to this promise Also he shook his lap and said So God shake out every man from his house and from his labour that performeth not this promise even thus be he shaken out and emptied and all the Congregation said Amen and praised the Lord and the people did according to this promise After which he subjoyns this memorable testimony of himself Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their Governour in the Land of Judah from the 20. even to the 32. year of Artaxerxes the King I and my Brethren have not eaten the bread of the Governour But the former Governours that had been before me WERE CHARGEABLE UNTO THE PEOPLE AND HAD TAKEN OF THEM BREAD AND WINE BESIDES FORTY SHEKELS OF SILVER what is this to our Contributions EXCISES Freequarter Sequestrations Imposts c. Yea even their servants bear rule over the people BUT SO DID NOT I BECAUSE OF THE FEAR OF GOD Yet also I continued in the work of the Wall NEITHER BOUGHT WE ANY LAND and all my servants were gathered thither unto the work

Moreover there were at my Table an 150. of the Jews and Rulers besides those that came unto us from among the Heathen that are about us c. YET FOR ALL THIS REQUIRED I NOT THE BREAD OF THE GOVERNOUR that is his Salary and ordinary allowance formerly paid by the people BECAUSE OF THE BONDAGE WAS HEAVY UPON THIS PEOPLE Think upon me my God for good according to all that I have done for this people When our late and present Governours and their under-Officers shall imitate Samuel David but more especially Nehemiah and the Nobles Rulers and Officers under him in making full restitution of all their Christian Brethrens and the publike Lands Vineyards Oliveyards Houses Goods Possessions Offices Moneys Corn Wine and Oyl they have forcibly seized on without any legal Right or Title or gotten by usurious or unrighteous contracts Sequestrations Sales Donations Wiles Disseisins Oppressions Exactions Excises Taxes c. give a true and just accompt to our whole Nation of the many Millions of Treasure in few years extorted from them and shall neither impose nor exact from them any more Moneys Contributions Excises Corn Wine or the bread of the Governour from the people because of the fear of God and because of the Bondage that is heavy upon them we shall then pronounce them to be just ruling in the fear of God But till then neither God nor men will or can pronounce them such And upon consideration of these three sacred Texts to omit others The first is Ezek. 18. 5. to 14. But if a man be JUST DO THAT WHICH IS LAWFUL RIGHT HATH NOT OPPRESSED ANY but hath restored to the Debtor his pledg HATH SPOILED NONE BY VIOLENCE hath given his bread to the hungry and hath covered the naked with a garment hath not given forth upon usury neither hath taken any encrease hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity hath executed true judgment between man and man hath walked in my Statutes and hath kept my Judgments TO DEAL TRULY HE IS JUST He shall surely live saith the Lord If he beget a Son that is A ROBBER A SHEDDER OF BLOOD and that doth the like to any of these things to his brother and that doth not any of those duties but hath eaten upon the Mountains and defiled his Neighbours Wife HATH OPPRESSED THE POOR AND NEEDY HATH SPOILED BY VIOLENCE hath not restored the pledg c. hath committed abomination hath given forth upon usury and taken encrease shall he then live He shall not live he hath done all these abominations he shall surely die his bloud shall be upon him c. Which is again there repeated for the greater certainty If the just men and Rulers of this latter age shall be judged and tried by this Text I fear we may take up the words of the Prophet Micah 7. 2. and c. 3. 1 2 3 4. The good man is perished out of the earth and THERE IS NONE UPRIGHT AMONG MEN They all lye in wait for bloud they hunt every man his Brother with a Net that they may do evil with both hands earnestly the Prince asketh and the Judg asketh for a reward and the great man he uttereth the mischief of his soul by coveting Fields and Houses and taking them away by violence because it is in the power of his hand ch. 2. 1 2. the best of them is as a Bryar the most upright is sharper then a thorn-hedg they pluck off the flesh of my people from their bones they eat their flesh and flay their skin from off them and they break their bones and chop them in pieces as for the pot and as flesh within the Caldron The second is Ezek. 45. 7. to 10. and ch. 46. 18. A portion shall be for the Prince c. and my Princes shall no more oppress my people and the rest of the Land shall they give to the house of Israel according to their Tribes Thus saith the Lord God Let it suffice you O Princes of Israel REMOVE VIOLENCE SPOIL and execute Judgment and Justice TAKE AWAY YOUR EXACTIONS or expulsions of others from their rights from my people saith the Lord God Moreover the Prince SHALL NOT TAKE OF THE PEOPLES INHERITANCE BY OPPRESSION TO THRUST THEM OUT OF THEIR POSSESSION How conscientiously this precept and Gods own Tenth Commandment of the Decalogue Exod. 20. 17. Thou shalt not covet thy Neighbours HOUSE thou shalt not covet thy Neighbours WIFE nor his Man-servant nor his Maid-servant nor his OXE nor his ASSE NOR ANY THING THAT IS THY NEIGHBOURS hath been observed by such who have made and stiled themselves not only Princes Rulers Governours Officers but proclaimed themselves the holiest justest Saints and Pillars of Justice and Righteousness of late years and all sorts of Swordmen let the world and their own consciences judg I doubt Ovids old Poetical description of the Iron Age a VIVITUR EX RAPTO c. will suit better with our times and Saints of this Age then these sacred Precepts become like old Almanacks quite out of date and practise at least if not quite out of mind Terras Astraea reliquit The third is Isai. 58. 3. to 13. Behold in the day of your Fast you finde pleasure and exact all your griefs Behold ye fast for strife and debate and TO SMITE WITH THE FIST OF WICKEDNESS Ye shall not Fast as ye do this day c. Is not this the Fast that I have chosen TO LOOSE THE BONDS OF WICKEDNESS TO UNDO THE HEAVY BURTHENS of illegal oppressions long-continued Taxes Excises c. to let the OPPRESSED GO FREE and that ye break EVERY YOKE Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry and that thou bring the poor that are cast out of their houses possessions offices estates by violence and rapine to thy house when thou seest the naked that thou cover him and that thou hide not thy self from thine own flesh Then shall thy light break forth as the morning and thine health shall spring forth speedily and THY RIGHTEOUSNESS shall go before thee and the glory of the Lord shall be thy rereward c. And they that be of thee shall build the old waste places raising up the Foundations of many Generations and thou shalt be called The repairer of the breach the restorer of paths to dwell in We have had many publique Fasts and Mock-fasts of late years such as God in this Text professedly reprehends and rejects but never yet such a true and real Fast as he here calls for and that is one main reason we are still pulling down and rooting up the Foundations of our Church Kingdoms Parliaments Liberties Properties Lawes and changing from one mishapen form of Government to another instead of building the old waste places raising up the Foundations of many Generations repairing the breaches and restoring paths to dwell in O that we might never henceforth mock God or men any more with such hypocritical Fasts as formerly but that