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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	harden_v	lord_n	pharaoh_n	7,022	5	11.1206	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77975	The vvofull cry of unjust persecutions, and grevious oppressions of the people of God in England, through the injustice of some of her rulers, and wikednesse of teachers and people, who hasten to fulfil the measure of their forefathers cruelty. With a lamentation over them all who rewards the Lord evill for good, and is a warning to them all for repentance; shewing that the coming of the Lord is nigh. And this may serve for an answer in full, to all such who have persecuted by violence, by word or writing the innocent people in scorn called Quakers. With a short addition, which shewes unto all, the ground of persecution; in its first cause, and the enmity which is betwixt the two seeds, is clearly discovered, by a friend to the suffering seed of God, E.B.	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.	1657 (1657)	Wing B6058; Thomason E927_1; ESTC R207590	26,005	39

should grow grieveous yoaks have you laid upon it by false imprisonments and unjust fines and illegal proceedings by beatings halings abusings reproaches and revilings all manner of evil have been acted and spoken against the generation of the just by you and under you in your judicatories and jurisdictions in your Corporations high-waies Townes and Goals and other places O! what have you done consider and suffered to be done under you lay it to heart what havock of the people of the Lord in their persons and estates and what cruelty exercised upon them through your robellious hearts without any evil justly charged upon them or breach of any law justly proved against them for well doing and not for evil have you caused them to suffer For crying against iniquity and reproving sin in the gate and for bearing witnesse to the truth and against all unrighteousnesse which abounds in this generation such have you falsly judged to be offenders and cryed a confederacie against them and strengthened the hands of the wicked and caused the innocent to groan O! what will you do in the day of your visitation when the Lord ariseth to plead with you to whom will you fly for refuge and to whom will you cry for deliverance Shall not the Lords soul be avenged upon you yea from the least of you to the greatest You shall feel his hand of judgment even all you who have had your fingers dipped in the unjust sufferings of the dear servants of the Lord whom he hath called to place his name with for ever who are his faithful witnesses in this perverse generation and by your persecuting of them have you proved them to be the people of God in the sight of all Nations and it is for a testimony unto them that they are of God and against you that you are of the Devil and Christs words are fullfilled upon them to their rejoycing and to your sorrow who said The time comes that they shall speak all manner of evil falsly and persecute you and think they do God service that kills you and casts you from among them and the Devil shall cast some of you into prison And these things you have done and fullfilled Christs words against your selves for a witnesse against you and to shew that you are enemies to Christ and to his kingdom and that you will not have him to reign as I have said Therefore when hee reigneth hee shall say bring hether those mine Enimies and slay them before me O! what will the just Judge of true judgment the God of Heaven and Earth render unto you when he ariseth to plead the cause of the poor and needy and to deliver his Inheritance from under your oppression into perfect freedom What account will you give in that day when hee brings swift destruction upon you And wherewith will you answer him when the secrets of your hearts are made manifest and when the true witnesse in you all is awakened which will bring to your remembrance all your cruel and unjust dealing and all your bitter and hard speeches which in your envy you have brought forth against the Lord and against his people What will be done to you his enemies when Christ Jesus whom you have persecuted comes to reign in his Kingdom and subdues the kingdoms of this World and changeth them into the Kingdoms of the Lord and his Christ and the Saints which you have oppressed receives the Authority and Dominion It shall be said All that would not that Christ should reign slay them before him when it shall be given to the Saints to bind Kings in chains and Nobles in fetters of iron and to execute upon the heathen all the judgments written for behold all ye stout hearted the Lord cometh with ten thousand of his Saints to judge the World in righteousnesse and you shall be convinced of all your ungodly deeds for the Scriptures must be fullfilled and as you have done even so will it be done unto you when the suffering of the righteous is finished and your wickednesse come to an end when the Lord shall reign you shall lick the dust off his feet and all the persecuters of Christ shall be trodden down as mire and the righteous shall rejoyce over them and the Lord shall mock when your fear and calamity comes which come suddenly in a day when you expect not how shall the Lord pardon you for this you have sinned against knowledge and gone on after warning and hardened your hearts after reproof and the day of your visitation you have greatly slighted ye Rulers have abused your power and ye subjects have abused your subjection and now consider what God did in gerations past unto the rebellious children what he did to Pharaoh and all his Hosts when his long suffering was finished how did Pharaoh harden his heart and his cruel Task masters oppresse the righteous even as you have done and they would not let Israel go free to serve the Lord but they kept them in bondage and this way you walk who exercise cruelty as they did and laid heavy burthens upon the innocent grieveous to be born cruel task-masters have you been over the heritage of the Lord and in Pharaohs example of wickednesse have you walked fullfilling his measure of cruelty and Pharaohs example shall you follow in a cursed end remember how the loftinesse of his heart was bowed down and how his proud heart was abased in the day that God pleaded with him in his righteous judgments he and all his task-masters was confounded in a day and the bondage of the righteous was broken in a moment how was his whole strength of tyranie overturned and turned into weaknesse the righteous were delivered and he and all his train overwhelmed in one day and thus shall it come to passe upon you Therefore consider this all ye that fullfill the measure of iniquity suddenly will the righteous God be awakened to take vengeance upon you and the just shall not alwaies groan under your bondage for he that looketh from the heaven hath pity upon the distressed for whom now his arme is stretched out to bring deliverance unto them and all their enemies will he confound who have this long time ploughed long furrows upon the back of the righteous the oppression and cruelty and injustice brought forth in this Nation it calls for vengeance from Heaven Alas alas woe is me for you you Heads and Rulers and Judges of England what have you done and suffered to be done under you against the innocent people of God who is as dear to him as the apple of his eye for they be written on the palms of his hands and because of the cry of the poor and the needy will the Lord arise and plead their cause Oh consider and let it enter into your hearts the cruelty and injustice that hath been brought forth in this land and remember what God did unto all the persecuters of old how was their strength

the wicked vented their malice against them that the more the Beast and his power hath fullfilled wickednesse the sooner may be his destruction And O what scorning and reviling and lying and slandering and evil speeches with mockings and cruel words of envy and tearms of cruelty against the innocent hath this generation brought forth in this day wherein the dragon with his Angells hath joyned battel against the Prince of righteousnesse and they that follow him and whole Gog and Magog is gathered together to compasse the Camp of the Saints about and to fight against the beloved City the Judges and Rulers with their train of subservant officers as Bayliffs Clarks Goalers Constables with all that to those belonged have with a high hand persecuted and laid oppressions by hard-heartednesse upon the backs of the poor and distressed and the scorners and liers and prophane wretches have bent their tongue against the just in uttering lies slanders reproaches back-biting nick-namings and false-accusing and all manner of evil speehes and false reproaches and the just have been burthened by all this and thus they that have been departed from iniquity have been a prey to Rulers to act their injustice upon and to the people to utter their slanders and to do cruelty against and the teeth of evil doers have been set on edge to bite and devoure and to satisfie their maliciousnesse upon the sufferings of the upright people and from the Judge upon his throne to the begger upon the high-way all have had their hand dipped in this cause of cruel and unjust persecution and the Lord hath considered and harkened from his holy habitation and numbered up the summe of all your iniquities that he may repay and recompence upon your heads wo unto you unjust Judges and corrupt men who have abused your power And wo unto all that do oppresse by hard dealing who have offended the just and defended the unjust Wo unto all you scorners liers back biters and reproachfull tongues the Lord is coming to take an account Your sins cry for vengeance against you and though your hands and tongues have been strengthened to speak and act ungodlinesse by the evil example of your rulers yet your own iniquity shall you bear in the day of the Lord and though your rulers and judges have been strengthened in their unjustnesse and mercilessenesse by the false lying teachers and diviners of false visions which have seen vanity yet their own iniquity shall they bear every man shall die for his own sin Wo unto your teachers they have eaten up the sin of rulers and people and covered iniquity and transgression by flattering and lying words they have daubed with untempered morter and healed up the wound deceitfully and cryed peace peace to the wicked that have walked in the imaginations of their own hearts when unto such the Lord never spake peace And now whereas the Rulers and people have stretched forth their hands to vex the Lords people and have through unjust judgment and grievous oppressions and unmercifull dealings troden the innocent under foot and made them a prey to their mouth and divers waies have persecuted in cruel manner the followers of the Lamb yet also have the wise men of this world even the Priests and Teachers who have led the people and have caused them to erre and have set themselves as in battle array against the Lord and his way and people How have you hardened your hearts and made your forehead as brasse against the Word of the Lord and you have been as the fountain of all this wickednesse acted against the just and strengtheners of the hands of ungodly men the Heads and Ruler you have strengthened in their cruelty of false judgments by your arguments of strife in subtiltly you have been as nursers of all this persecution and wickednesse and have interceded for oppression to cause the just to groan whom the Lord hath raised to testifie against you the judges they have given regard unto you and the people they have taken you for examples who have been cursed presidents to the Rulers and people who have followed your cruel steps of malice and envy and from the head to the tail they have drunk in your poisonus doctrines and made themselves drunk therewith and out of reason in their furious zeal of madnesse and all have taken council together to slay the harmlesse from off the face of the earth some by false judgment and oppression and others by cruel abusings as beatings and stonings unheard of or unequalized in generations of late O ye Priests and Teachers and wise men and Scribes how many of you in this Nation joyned hand in hand to betray the innocent by your false doctrines and lying divinations and have filled and sought to do so the mind of the people with slanders and false reproaches and lying imaginations and many conceptions and jealousies against the people of God many of you have made it your study work to bring forth evil by cunning arguments to suggest into the hearts of people that they might not enter the kingdom and even so have you been shutters of the kingdom of heaven against men and would not enter your selves nor suffer others that would Wo unto you you have taken away the key of knowledge and lost it and multitudes of false aspersions and lying assertions have you brought forth without fear by wicked consequence and lying productions that you might take away the key of knowledge thereby and hide it from men and lay stumbling blocks of iniquity before the people to stop the way of the upright and you have travelled to seek occasions of evil against the just and watched for the halting of the innocent that you might glory and rejoyce in their fall and without any occasion by words or actions you have taken offence and made offences by evil surmisings to blind the eyes of people that your Idolatry might not be discovered nor the way of righteousnesse shine forth O be ashamed and repent for to account must you Come and the sin of Rulers and people whom you have blindly led will be charged against you who have given them wicked examples of cruelty in your pulpits you have spent time in rayling and slandering and lying to infuse evil into the minds of men against the truth and many books have you given forth and sent abroad from your lying pens out of your vain studies of false prophesie and mens hearts have been filled with your damnable doctrines of Devils wherewith the simple have been poysoned and the innocent betrayed even great numbers of books and lying scroules have gone through the nation from some of you filled with false divination and intents of evil against the way of the Lord and his people and worse than Balaam and far exceeding him have you been you have sought enchantments to curse the people whom God hath blessed altogether and some of you have done it to your evill reward of your

consumed and they overturned and destroyed what did he to Pharaoh and all his host who persecuted the seed of God how was he destroyed and the righteous set free and what was done to Hammon How was he justly rewarded who persecuted the innocent seed of God What did God to Herod and all his people who persecuted the innocent and remember what he did unto them that persecuted the three children and them that persecuted Daniel how did they fall into the pit which they had digged for another and how were they destroyed and the innocent delivered consider and remember these things ye that suffer the just to groan by you Search through the records of old and search what God hath done unto all them that lifted up their hand against him and his people and is he not the same at this day his hand is not shortened that it cannot save his people and destroy his enemies his ear is not dull of hearing that he should not understand this unjust suffering of his people though you live carelessely in pleasure upon earth while the innocent mournes yet doth the Lord regard though you spend your time in pleasure and delight your selves in vanities all the day long yet the Lord hath taken it to heart and his spirit is grieved that his innocent servants should lye in holes and dungeons to be trodden upon and be accounted as the off-scouring of all things hardly thought worthy to have a place on the earth Oh remember these things ye that are high minded and consider what God did to the Bishops and their crew of persecutors in this Nation your selves are witnesses how the Lord overthrew them and delivered his people in a few years time and as little as you did they think that they whom they perseceuted should so soon come to have reigned over them the Lords hand was then against oppressors as it is at this day do you think the Lord hath forgotten or that he takes no notice of what is come to passe how should he forget his people to save them or his enemies that he should not recompence them but know ye assuredly that the Lord is the same and all those things are written in a book and remembred by him and he will judge justly and righteously in his dreadfull day Ah let it enter into your hearts serve not your selves altogether in the pleasures of this world but serve the Lord and this he requires of you let the oppressed go free and break every bond whereby the innocent doth suffer and this the Lord requires at your hands Oh but I feel great hardnesse of heart and rather a strengthening of cruel bonds than a breaking of them and you appear rather to be given up to work wickednesse and to fullfill the largest measure of them that went before you than otherwise unrighteous decrees are rather established than dissannulled Oh what will be the end of these things and what will be your judgment when the Lord awakens himself as out of sleep who hath left you to follow your own spirits to try you that it might be known unto all what is in your hearts and behold perversenesse lodges in them and while the Lord hath looked for justice amongst you even the cry of oppression hath been heard even a grieveous cry of unjust persecution and violence against the seed of God and once you would have been ashamed of those things which now you act without shame so that which is in your hearts is powred forth in the sight of the World Oh ye Rulers of England the Rulers of the Heathen shall rise up in judgment against you even they that never professed so much as you have done they shall be rather justified than you whose wayes have been more equal than yours and lesse cruelty brought forth by them than by you unto their subjects and this makes your sin more great in that many of you were raised from low estate and you have exalted your selves more than is meet and have caused your very equals to groan under you by the heavy yoak which you have prepared for them well but the Lord hath listned and heard and a book ofremembrance is written and he will repay into your 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the time is not long when the Lord may scatter you and give you unto the will of your enemies therefore be awakened and warned the day of your visitation is upon you all OH England that thou hadst known in this thy day the things that belong to thy peace Oh that thy Rulers and people had known how that the Lord hath called unto them Oh that they had considered how that his hand hath been stretched forth all the day long and he would have gathered them as a Shepherd doth his flock but they have not known neither have they considered and therefore that which belongs to their peace will the Lord hide from their eyes the day of their visitation is spending apace and the night will come and no man shall be able to work and because the Lord hath called and you have not heard therefore shall you try and the Lord will give no answer Oh Nation thou art filled with oppression and griveous iniquities and from the head to the foot thou bearest marks of great abominations in thee is found lamentable oppression of the poor and great and grieveous idolatries and Gods righteous soul is vexed in thee day by day the Just groanes and mournes under the heavy hand of oppressors many of thy Goales do witnesse it where many innocent and upright people have suffered unjustly the losse of their freedom without any ground or charge of evil laid upon them Oh what have thy Rulers done Judgment and Justice have they turned backward the cry of the poor hath not been regarded and equity hath not found a place to enter Who would have thought 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 who have been so high in profession of the Scrip●●●●… should thus have dealt with them who are in the life of the Scriptures this agravates your sinne in that none hath been like you in profession of Religion and in pretences of Righteousnesse and yet you have exceeded others in persecuting and suffering of it the servants of the Lord but it is now made manifest what lodgeth in your hearts under your faire covers of promises words and shewes what deep hypocrisie is this that you should professe liberty of conscience and yet have persecuted hundreds for the exercise of their pure Consciences Is not this to be taken notice of that you should professe that which you do not perform and will not the Lord plead with you because of it in his dreadful day which is hastening upon you as a chief in the night and the wicked shall not escape do you think that he whom you persecute in his members and his members shall sure reign over you do not you know that he is sufficient to avenge himself of all his enemies and do not you believe that