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A41053 A declaration and an information from us the people of God called Quakers to the present governours, the King and both Houses of Parliament, and all whom it may concern / M.F. Fox, Margaret Askew Fell, 1614-1702. 1666 (1666) Wing F628; ESTC R18345 6,412 8

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Sufferings been because we desire the good of all People and the Salvation of their Souls and this is all we desire and Suffer for that all might come to the knowledge of the Lord who said They should all know him from the least to the greatest (r) Heb. 8.11 We are a People that follow after those things that make for Peace Love and Vnity it is our desire that others feet may walk in the same and do deny and beare our Testimony against all Strife and Wars and Contentions that come from the Lusts that warrin the members that warr against the Soul which we wait for and watch for in all People and love and desire the good of all for no other cause but love to the Souls of all People have our sufferings been and therefore have we been numbered amongst the Transgressors and been accounted as sheep for the slaughter as our Lord and Master was who is the Captain of our Salvation who is gone before us who though he was a Son yet learned he Obedience by the things that he suffered who said my Kingdom is not of this World if my Kingdom were of this world (ſ) Joh. 18 36. then would my Servants fight but my Kingdom is not from hence This is he that comes to save mens lives and not to destroy them (t) Luk. 9.56 and this is he that is our Lord Master whose Testimony we must seal with our blood if it be required of us And our Weapons are not Carnal but Spiritual (u) 2 Cor 10.4 who have given our Backs our Cheeks and our Hair to all professions out of the Life and Power to be smitten who have done it to purpose which the Lord hath overturned who were often warned by us under whom we have undergon cruel sufferings And now You are come up into the Throne to be tried we cannot but warn you in your day to do justly and to love Mercy (w) Mica 6.8 whereby the violence of the wicked might be stopt which is for your own good and prosperity And so we desire and also expect to have the liberty of our Consciences and just Rights and outward Liberties as other people of the Nation which we have promise of from the word of a King that we may not be made a prey upon by the prophane envious People and Priests which we have born our Testimony against their corruptions who thirst not onely after our Estates Liberties but our blood also who have already begun to search our Houses and to apprehend our Members cast them into Prison there to be kept without bail or mainprize under pretence as if we were Thieves Murderers or Traytors who are Enemies to no mans Person upon the Earth which they cannot lay to our charge whereby they endeavour to take away our lives Treason Treachery and false Dealing we do utterly deny false dealing surm●zing or plotting against any Creature upon the Face of the Earth and speak the truth in plainnesse and singlenesse of heart and all our desire is your good and Peace and Love and Vnity and this many thousands will seal with their blood who are ready not onely to believe but to suffer but only that the blood of the Innocent may not come upon your selves through false informations Given forth the 5 th of the 4 th Month 1660. Margret Fell. WE in the Vnity of the Spirit and Members of Christ do Subscribe and Witnesse to the Truth of this and in the behalf of those in the same Vnity George Fox Richard Hubberthorne Samuel Fisher Joseph Fuce Gobert Sikes Amos Stodert William Caton Gerrard Roberts John Stubbs Thomas Coveny Thomas Harte James Strut Ellis Hookes And now I am here to Answer what can be Objected against us on the behalf of many Thousands who are Baptized with one Spirit into one Body to bear my Testimony and to be offered up for the Service of the Faith and to give an Account of the Hope that is in me to every one that Asketh according to the Scripture who was moved of the Lord to leave my House and Family and to come Two Hundred Miles to lay these Things before you Who to the Will of the Lord is Committed M. F. THE END
Endeavours are and shall be Good True Honest and Peaceable towards them and that we do Love Own and Honour the King and these present Governours so far as they do rule for God and his Truth and do not impose any thing upon Peoples Consciences but let the Gospel have its free passage through the consciences of men which we do not know that they have by any Law as yet imposed And if they grant liberty of Conscience towards God and towards Man then we know that God will blesse them For want of which hath been the overthrow of all that went before them We do not desire any liberty that may justly offend any ones Conscience but the Liberty we do desire is that we may keep our Consciences clear and void of effence towards God and towards men and that we may enjoy our civil Rights and Liberties of Subjects as freeborn English men And this we do in the presence of the Lord declare not in flattering Titles but in reality and truth of our hearts and shall manifest the same Now that we may be clear in the presence of the living God and of all just and moderate men that they may not have their hands in Blood and Persecution as those have had that are gone before and that they may not be ignorant of us and of our principles and practice so receive information against us from others envy which may be contrary to our very principles and the truth as it is in Jesus Therefore that we may be free from the blood of all men (i) Act. 20.26 that they may not have a hand in Persecuting and Oppressing the Innocent whose cause God hath pleaded and will plead We do therefore inform the Governors of this Nation high and low That we are a People that desire the good of all People and their peace and desire that all may be saved and come to the knowledge of the Truth (k) 1 Tim 2 4. Act. 13.47 Rev. 21.24 2 Cor. 4.6 the Way and the Life which is Christ Jesus the Everlasting Covenant which is given for a Light to the Gentiles and to be the Salvation to the ends of the Earth and all the Nations that are saved must walk in this Light of the Glorious Gospel which hath shined in our hearts and given us the light of the Knowledge of the Glory of God in the Face of Jesus Christ And to this Light we direct Peoples minds that every one in particular may have a Teacher and Testimony according to the Righteousnesse of Faith which speaketh on this wise The word is very nigh in the heart and in the mouth (l) Rom 10.8 And if every one would come to this there would be a feeling of Gods Justice and Righteousnesse and our intents to be just Innocent and Righteous who hath said I will come neer to Judgement and be a swift witnesse against the Sorcerer and Adulterer and false swearer (m) Mal. 3.5 Now if every one would turn to this witnesse in their own Consciences this would keep from oppressing and persecuting of others without cause for God is coming to teach his People himself by his own Light and Spirit who hath said it is written in your law you shall be all taught of God (n) Joh. 6.45 which many of us now do witnesse for which cause are we persecuted the children of the Lord are taught of the Lord and are established in Righteousnesse and are far from Oppression (o) Isa 54.13 14. The Testimony that we have born hath been chiefly against the Priests Teachers and Professors of these Nations that are out of the Life power for when it pleased the Lord to reveal his Son in us we saw them to be absolute deceivers of the People and betrayers of their souls for they lead them wholly from that of God in them to the letter of the Scripture without them and to their own Inventions and Immaginations and meanings which they speak who are not taught of God themselves For for all their high profession there is scarce one of them that dares say they have the infallible Spirit of God the same as the Apostles had that gave forth the Scripture The Apostle saith that which may be known of God is manifested in them for God shews it unto them No People can retain God in their knowledge and worship him as God but first they must come to that of God in them But these Teachers deny this Doctrine and have manifested themselves several wayes to all sober minded People to be men not fearing God and are not true to their Principles for who have minded them and seen their Carriage and Behaviour in all these Changes that have been these 8. years which have been many as may be further manifest for there have been Changes of Governments of Parliaments and Protectors several in these Eight years and all these have been warned not to uphold these Priests contrary to Peoples Consciences but that every one might have their Liberty that they that would have them might maintain them and they that could not receive their Doctrine might not be forced to maintain them but this would not satisfie their Covetous Practice but they went on in the way of Cruelty Persecuting and Oppressing the Innocent and casting into Prison and took trebble Dammages and spoiled their Goods and made Havock of poor Peoples Encrease and Fruits of their Labours neither would the Magistrates hear but suffered them to go on in their Persecution and upheld them by a Law to the oppressing of the Innocent until the Lord by his mighty Power overturned them and broke them one after another and those Priests turned to euery Power and every Government as it turned and made Petitions and Addresses and Acknowledgements to every Change of Government and Conformed to every Power and shewed much Love and Zeal to every present Power for their own ends though many of them were Instruments to throw others out Yet through their Deceit and Subtilties have kept themselves in in all these Times and Changes Now let any honest hearted People judge whether these be sound Principled men that can turn conform and transform to every Change according to the Times Whether these be fit men to Teach People But their Fruits are manifest and God doth discover them more and more that they cannot proceed much longer Their Folly is so much made manifest they have used their utmost endeavors to cause Persecution to continue upon us But the Lord hath seen it and we commit all to him can freely say The Lord forgive them for what they have done to us (p) Act 7.60 But for the bearing our Testimony against them for the deceiving and betraying of poor ignorant People that are blind and led by them that are blind into the ditch (q) Mat. 15 14. We cannot but in pitty and love to Peoples Souls bear our Testimony against them Therefore have our