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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41852	One out-cry more against tythes unto the chief ruler of the nation of Engand [sic] and all that are with him of God permitted to be in present authority, whether Parliament, Councel or Army; by whatsoever name or title known or called: but in a more especial manner, to such of them as are yet remaining faithfnl [sic] unto the former declared for, and never to be forgotten cause of King Jesus, who are such as have not departed, through sinning against the light of a good conscience, ... And yer notwithstanding, you that are in present power know these things, do even as he did, suffer the saints in your name, and by your power daylie to be imprisoned, and otherwayes afflicted; and that you may not be ignorant thereof, I have been moved to make the same known unto you by way of declaration, which is grounded upon the Holy Scriptures; wherein is contained the manner of our sufferings, and by whom: ... Written the beginning of the second month, 1657. by Isaac Grayes, prisoner for the cause of Christ in the Wood-street Compter, London, ...; One out-cry more against tythes unto the chief ruler of the nation of England.	Graye, Isaac.	1657 (1657)	Wing G1626; ESTC R220318	27,098	37

from being put to death who had taken away goods from many people although for the Kings use but yet notvvithstanding that was not by the King owned because it was by his Lavv judged Robbery read Mirror of Justice fol. 241. Novv consider ye Rulers vvhat a vast difference there is betvvixt your doing justice upon the Lavvyers that live upon the abuse of the Law King Alpherets forasmuch as that you canot deny in your consciences you do permit of unsufferable Robberies daylie for to be done both by Priests Lavvyers yet seek not to have that Wickedness remedied besides the Murthers vvhich you suffer the Lavvyers to do against express Lavv upon their Opinions and false Judgements according to their Opinions by them given vvhereby many thousands have been murthered for theft vvhich is against the righteous Law of the Lord And therefore seeing that you knovv these evils and yet vvill not seek to prevent them of committing any more hovv can you expect any safety for to be given unto you from the Lord God of Israel vvhose Lavvs in effect you despise for vvhich things sake the vvrath of God vvill suddenly seize upon you as vvell as it hath done upon others before you unless there be a speedy returning unto the Lord whose Work vvhen time vvas you promised to do vvhich yet lieth undone which causeth the Enemies of the Lord to renew their strength again who did in the time of your seeming zeal for Christ and his now persecuted cause judge themselves as good as half hanged for what they had done in answer to their Opinions which they caused to take place in the room of Law through whose Villanous false Opinions and Judgements given the late King by them and the Priests were seduced and perswaded to permit of doing such things vvhich the Law did not justifie him in although Judge Jenkins and Judge Cook and some few others did as to the best of my remembrance perswade him what possible they could not to hearken to the false Opinions of those vvicked Judges vvhich he was deceived by These things being true as thousands of the well-affected then so called with my self at this day can also witness was in the matter of Ship-Money done contrary to Law and therefore hovv doth it behove you that are got into the present Rule and Authority of the three Nations for to take heed of your standing seeing you are Instruments that have come through much blood unto what 〈◊〉 are now possessed vvith Hovv much I say again doth it concern you for to see and consider vvhat you are doing and then I hope you vvill seek to stand for the putting into execution the Lavvs Commandments Statutes Precepts and Judgements of the Lord God of Israel instead of the Laws of Tyrants vvherein his Honor vvill be promoted and your souls eternally saved and your bodies prosperously from him protected and then will all plots and conspiracies cease from being contrived any more against you vvhen you shall learn for to do his Will according to his righteous Law vvhich requireth blood for blood life for life an eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth a hand for a hand and a foot for a foot Thine eyes saith the Lord to his beloved people shall not pitty or spair such transgressors who have by their wickedness given themselves over to death which according to the Law are not to be excused by which example those that do remain alive may hear and fear henceforth that there may be no more such evils committed amongst you read Deut. 19. 20 21. Now I appeal unto your consciences there for to judge whether you are not such as do transgress vvhat the Lord hath commanded should be obeyed which is by reason of your suffering a company of Lavvyers to abuse and destroy the good people of this Nation by such a Povver as is not of of God and therefore if you do not see that remedied you cannot have thoughts to escape unpunished vvith the King because the Lord of Hosts hath expresly commanded his chosen people That they should not suffer the judgement of the stranger to be perverted lest their Right should be hindered much more ought you to be careful of the cause of the Widow and Fatherless Deut. 24. 17 c. vvho are yet by you permitted to suffer vvrong and therefore are they and their Estates spoiled and ruinated by both Priests and Lavvyers who act contrary to their expresse Popish Law as doth appear in that Statute made the 2. of the Reign of King Edward the sixt chap. 13. vvhich Statute saith Be it provided and enacted That if any person do with-hold or withdraw any manner of his Tythes Oblations Obventions Profits Commodities or other duties or any part of them cont●ary to the true meaning of the said Act or of any other Act heretofore made that then the partyes so substracting or withdrawing the same may be convented sued in the Kings Ecclesiastical Court by the party from whom the same shall be substracted or withdrawn to the intent the Kings Judges Ecclesiastical may and shall then and there hear and determine the same according to the Kings Ecclesiastical Law And that it shall not be lawful for any Parson Vicar Propriator Owner or other Farmers or Deputies contrary to this act to convent or sue such witholders of Tythes Obventations or other duties aforesaid before any other Judge then what is Ecclesiastical Now knovv Oh you my dear friends for unto you do I make this knovvn who are the persecuted Saints of the Most High That these forementioned lines are the very vvords of that Statute novv judge ye Rulers how contrary these wicked Lavvyers that are yet in their vilanous beings upon their Stages at Westminster do act vvho as it doth appear are suffered by you their Masters for to be above the Law which is the only cause the Lords people for conscience sake in obedience to Christ Jesus are daylie sued convented and brought before them in their filthy Dens called temporal Courts contrary to their ovvn invented filthy tyrannical Laws as hath been already proved and as I could make more at large appear by many more Laws but only I fear being too large and therefore do I make use of no more then what may justifie me in the truth of what I have too charge against them for their abominations daylie committed against the very express Laws of the Land as doth further appear in that 22. of Henry the eight chap. the 7. which saith Be it provided alwayes That the last Act shall not extend nor be expounedete give any cause of Action or Suits in the Courts Temparal which notwithstanding they daylie do Novv judge O ye Rulers hovv you do think you can in conscience stand justified with the Lord and his poor oppressed people whom you suffer daylie for their consciences to be troubled afflicted and abused by your Priests and others of their spirit by their being

avvay peoples Cattel out of their yards and Goods out of their Houses for pretended Tythes upon trebble Damages which is three for one against the express Lavv of God vvhereby it doth and may appear unto such as are vvith my self of the seed of Israel That it is not only the Priests fault alone who are not of God but you sin in suffering of them as you are the Rulers of the people who do permit them in your Name and by your Povver to do what they do These evils rightly considered doth give a discovery that you are departed from the Lord God of Israel whom you once declared for as doth appear by your taking part vvith the Priests who are his Enemies or else if it were not so your consciences would teach you to obey observe and keep the Laws Statutes Commandments Precepts and Judgements of the Lord as vvell as my self vvho for keeping the same do suffer which would not be if you did stand in the counsel of the Lord vvhich then you vvould seek to do his will by seeing his Laws duly and truly executed upon such as are the breakers thereof vvhich vvould cause your dayes to be prolonged in the Land vvherein ye yet live as so many Enemies to that most holy God whose just and righteous Laws yea even hate to obey observe and keep and in effect do amongst your selves conclude That the Government vvhich God Almighty did appoint his people to be governed by according to his righteous Order vvhich by you is not judged good enough nor wise enough to be governed by in your generations as is evident by your ruling of the people with such Laws as you and other transgressors before you did from Imagination make and set up to oppose the Laws Commandments and Statutes of the onely wise God for vvhich vvickedness of theirs so committed the just judgement and vengeance of the Lord hath from one generation to another destroyed both them and theirs from off the earth and yet you are not sensible for what they have been cut off although he hath made use of you as Instruments in his hand to cut off the late King for his disobedience to the Lord God of Israel who stood not in his counsel but vvas driven aside by the flattery of wicked Priests and Lawyers as you are although little notice by you is taken thereof I therefore desire from my heart in love to your souls that you did fully understand and know wherefore the Lord did permit you to put the King to death and then you would seek how to do his vvill and not your own and then who do you think would harm you but because you do not therefore it is that you delight not in the Law of the Lord as King David his servant did for which cause plots and conspiracies are daylie and justly ●y him suffered for to be contrived against you which hitherto hath been discovered to that end and purpose that you might be warned for to return unto the Lord from the evil of your doings before destruction in good earnest doth come upon you and then it will be too late to seek repentance or to wish you had unto God and his people paid your vows now know that through your disobedience unto him whom you have promised reformation unto and yet have not performed what you have so promised the number of of oppressors under you have taken boldness for to increase at which the lying National Priests do rejoyce who do in like manner make their boast and say That they will have Tythes paid unto them upon force by such people as do refuse for conscience sake or else they will take away their goods which daylie they do in your Name that are the chief Rulers of these three Nations viz. England Scotland and Ireland and by your Power they also imprison the Saints as they did in the Kings time for that they cannot in conscience pay Tythes the Priests excusing the manner of their tyranny so committed doth lay the fault and blame upon you they saying they are enforced to do what they do because you require of them Offerings or first Fruits which they cannot pay unto you unless the people first pay the same by way of Tythes unto them now if it be so betwixt you and the Priests then where is that Liberty of Conscience performed with your former Engagemens Declarations Remonstrances and those many Oaths Vows and Covenants discharged which were made in the sight of heaven in the dayes of your distress when you were entrusted by the people of God as their servant to fight their Battels viz. at Dunbar Worcester-Fight and several other places as you cannot but remember was put forth under pretence of Publike Liberty but are all yet unperformed with your last Promise also which you made to my loving friend Mr. Iessie and several other friends concerning your taking away of that yet continued Antichristian Oppression of Tythes which should be done said you by the third day of Siptember which was in the year 1654. or if they were not taken away then you bid them call you Juglers Novv knovv that had this last Promise vvith your former Remonstrances Engagements and Protestations c. been by you really intended for to have been performed according to vvhat you pretended then my self vvho formerly have made redress unto you and many more of the dear Saints and faithful Servants of the Lord God of Israel could not have been by you suffered for to be thus ruinated in our outvvard Estates many of us as are and yet notvvithstanding our persons kept prison for that vve cannot sin against our consciences in paying Tythes in vvhich Prison I have been many times in danger of being throvvn into the Hole through poverty vvhich hath made me unable of my self for to provide moneys for to pay my Chamber-Rents so that if my sufferings must for conscience sake be by you stil continued then that you vvould be pleased to shevv some compassion unto me by taking care for to have my Chamber-Rent satisfied I shall remain very thankful to you for the same through vvhich kindness of yours if I may so finde it I shall be the better enabled for to be kept from perishing till the Lord is pleased to give deliverance some other wayes it may be through the death of my cruel Enemies if it may not come from you for I am wel assured from the Lord a deliverance I shall have from my oppressors ere long And thus having discharged my conscience in what I have already declared I shall return again to my former Matter from whence I am a little digressed Giving of you to know and all in Authority with you That forasmuch as you by your Power do uphold the Priests of this Nation for to take the wages of the Law of the Lord God of Israel by way of tythes which peculiarly was given unto the first Priesthood for their service done

convented and by them brought before such a company of forsworn murthering Lawyers whose continual practice is to engage themselves against the consciencious people of this Land even against their Commissions in the matter of Tythes as I have already declared for that the Law saith None shall expound it no other wayes to give remedy for tythes then what it doth of it self plainly express whereby cause of Action may be given or Suit commenc●t in the Courts temporal against any person or persons which shall refuse or deny to set out his or their Tythes or shall detain with-hold or refuse to pay his Tythes or Offerings or any parcel thereof but that in such cases the persons or parties being Ecclesiastical or Lay-persons have cause to demand or have the said Tythes or Offrings in every such case in the Spiritual Courts according to the Ordinance of the first part of this Act and not otherwayes And thus unto you the Rulers have I made it plainly appear by the Lavvs and Statutes of this Realm That it is utterly unlawful for your Temporal Judges to give judgement in the matters of Tythes against the Saints as they dayly do in such Courts as are called Temporal Courts viz. The Exchequer Common-Pleas and in that other Court or Place called the Chancery which is called a Court of Equity If lyes may take place or rather a Court of Iniquity through which deceivable Name of Equity many people have made their Addresses from out of other Courts into that in hopes of gaining right there but have found as much wrong and have met with much inconscionable dealings as ever they did before the Lawyers being all agreed to destroy the poor wronged people that have been forced to seek help where none is to be had through their ignorance of not knowing that the Lawyers Tyade is upheld and maintained by fraud and wrong as doth appear in this great controversie of Tythes there shall need no other proof against them then this of Tythes as doth appear in their wresting and abusing the Law in that cause through which they promote all manner of injustice against the Saints by whom they both suffer imprisonment and also the spoiling of their Goods contrary to the Laws and Statutes of this Nation which in themselves require right should be done but contrary to that these Law-breakers do force Jury-Men through their being ignorant of the Law commonly to forswear themselves by giving up false Verdicts against their consciencious Neighbors in the matter of tythes by their fining for the ungodly Plaintiff against the poor Defendant for not dividing or setting forth and not paying their predual Tythes or for taking or carrying away the same before the tenth part be divided or set forth by which unlawful proceedings of wicked Plaintiffs before ungodly forsworn Judges in their Secular courts the Saints do greatly suffer by the Priests and others of their Antichristian Tribe who by them are well bribed for their pains so that betwixt the one and the other this poor Land and people is brought under the guilt of those horrible crying sins which Israel of old in their dayes suffered to be committed amongst them although they were the Lords beloved people unto whom he sent his holy Prophet to give them warning that the Lord had a controversie against the inhabitants of the Land for suffering those abominations through which there was no truth or mercy nor knowledge of God amongst them for by swearing lying killing and stealing and committing Adultery they brake out and blood touched blood therefore the Word of the Lord unto them was by the Prophet declared That the Land should meurn and every one that did dwell therein should languish with the Beasts of the field and with the Fowls of heaven yea the fishes also of the sea shall be taken away read Hos. 4. 2 3 4. The fore-promised matter being well considered by such as yet do live to fear the Lord may justly give their judgement for God That both the Rulers and people of this Nation are under the guilt of all those sins and are in danger of coming to suffer sad judgements from the Lord for that the Priests and the Lawyers and such as with them do live upon the gain of oppression are yet suffered to be the actors of all manner of wickedness that in this Land is committed under pretence of Law by whom this forementioned scripture is fulfilled as hath been by them made manifest from the beginning of all our troubles who yet do confederate together to divide the people from holding amity one with another that thereby they may hinder the promoting the cause of truth and the establishing of Justice through which wickedness of theirs when time was in dividing the people from the King and setting him against the people Justice by him was wholly neglected although he was much sought to by the people of God for to see the same duely administred as he was permitted of God to be the chief Magistrate of the three united Nations of England Scotland and Ireland but he not standing in the counsel of God would not hearken unto the desires of his people but grew weary in hearing them whereupon no more addresses by them unto him was made wherefore his end suddenly upon him came and therefore justly did the God of Justice deliver him up into the hands of those which sought his life Let good heed therefore be taken by you that are in present Power least the cause be forgotten which brought him to suffer the pangs of death for know you the Lords hand is not shortned but is stretched out still for to reach you also forth from all your Guards of Guns Swords and Pikes which by multitudes of men is made use of for to defend you yet notwithstanding your strong Arm of flesh you may take notice the King had as great a power in his time as you and was more esteemed regarded and beloved by the people as to the generality then possibly can be imagined you are but yet he not doing that which was right in the sight of God you see was cut off Oh therefore that you may remember with all speed for to establish Justice that so you may rule for him for the good and well-being of his poor distressed and every wayes afflicted and persecuted people who are at this day frustrated of all hopes of mans doing Justice and therefore cry they unto the Lord for to be delivered from the hands of their oppressors seeing hitherto you have denyed their redemption notwithstanding you have sworn unto the Lord you would give them deliverance This know therefore your time to perform what you have engaged and promised is almost past therefore what you do do speedily for I behold your night a coming and then will all your Works cease and then vvil all your intentions with former pretences come to be frustrated and annihilated and your memorials vvill also be blotted out