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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70008	A few words to all who professe themselves to be of the Protestant religion whereby they may understand by what spirit they were led, that persecuted the people of God in former ages, for the exercise of their religion, and their tenderness of conscience in matters relating to the worship of God : with a few words of comfort to the suffering lambes / written by him that would have the greatest of persecutors to repent, and cease to do evil, and learn to do well, that so they might escape the judgments of the Lord, F.E.	F. E. (Francis Ellington)	1665 (1665)	Wing E542; ESTC R15982	13,725	20

A FEW WORDS TO ALL Who Professe Themselves to be OF THE Protestant Religion WHEREBY They may understand by what Spirit they were led that Persecuted the People of God in former Ages for the Exercise of their Religion and their Tenderness of Conscience in matters Relateing to the Worship of God With a few Words of Comfort to the Suffering Lambes Written by him that would have the greatest of Persecutors to Repent and cease to do Evil and learn to do Well that so they might escape the Judgments of the Lord. F. E. We unto them that decree unrighteous decrees and that write grievousness which they have-prescribed To turn aside the needy from judgment and to take away the right from the poor of my people that Widows may be their prey c. Isai 10.1 2. Surely there is no inchantment against Jacob neither is there any 〈◊〉 against Israel nor weapon formed that can prosper 〈◊〉 23.23 Printed in the Year 1665. A few Words to all c. THe people of the Lord who you in scorn call Quakers may in this day truly say as David said that you and other Plowers have plowed a long time upon our backs and made deep Furrowes but now is the time coming that the righteous God will hew your snares asunder therefore fear and dread our God for he is come in ten thousands of his Saints to judge the World of ungodly Men and to rebuke all the ungodly amongst them for all their ungodly deeds and hard speeches against him and for this cause and no other have you in this day as well as those Rulers that our God cast out before you risen up against us in persecuting imprisoning beating with Armed Souldiers stocking stoning fining and shamefully abusing an innocent harmless people who have in patience suffered under you and them ever since the Lord came to raign in us but now you have got to the heighth of your persecution and not much higher our God will suffer you to goe nor he never did any when they grew to that heighth of wickedness and cruelty that now you are come unto for the Lord hath suffered Persecuters to plow long upon his peoples backs that so he might try and exercise his peoples faith and patience as he hath suffered those before you and now hath suffered you but when plowing upon their backs would not satisfie them as beating fining and imprisoning of them but they would get a law or Decree made to root out banish or to kill and destroy the whole Seed of righteous Israel and to boast as Pharaoh and his Hoast did * Exod. 15.9 I will pursue I will overtake them I will divide the spoyle my lust shall be satisfied upon them I will draw my sword my hand shall destroy them or I will banish them out of my Land except they will worship according as I shall command them I say when ever Persecutors came to this stature in wickedness then their time was near an end and deliverance near to the persecuted The first that came to this stature in wickednesse was Cain who was the elder Brother of all Persecuters his punishment for killing his righteous brother about Religion was greater then he was able to bear as himself confessed Genesis the 4. Read the sin of the old World Genesis 6. 11. The Earth also or the old World was corrupt before God for the Earth was filled with violence or cruelty Persecution is cruelty and for this the Lord swept away the World of ungodly and they perished in the Waters but saved righteous Noah the persecuted alive in the Ark with his Family And read Exodus how wicked Pharaoh oppressed Israel a long time Exod. 5.6 7 8 9 10 11 12. but when the Lord sent his servant Moses to be their Conducter and Leader out of his house of bondage then Pharaoh oppressed them more when they desired to goe sacrifice to the Lord their God then he said the peopleare idle let them have no more Straw given them but let then goe and gather it where they can find it yet said he to the Officers let them diminish nothing of their dayes works but let them make their whole Taile of Brick as formetly so the Officers came and beat them and threatned them and they cryed unto the Lord and the Lord heard the cry of the afflicted and he delivered them and sent his plagues upon Pharaoh and upon his Land and People so that at length he let Israel goe but as soon as they were gone out from him Pharaoh came to that stature of wickedness both he and his people as the Persecuters in England are at this day and they consented to pursue and to destroy them at once they would rid the Land of them but the Lord delivered Israel and that which delivered them was the destruction of Pharaoh and all his Host Exodus 14. Now Moses wrote afterwards that the Lord would raise his people up a Prophet like unto him Deut. 18.15 from amongst their brethren and him they should hear in all things and according to his prophesie the Lord hath raised up this Prophet is the midst of us the Light Christ Jesus and he hath enlightned us and the Lord hath sent him to be our guide and Conducter out of spiritual Egipt where formerly he was crucifyed And now we may call to remembrance the dayes that are passed as the Apostle wrote Heb. 10.32 33. that after Christ Jesus the light came unto us and we received the Light how we have indured a great fight in affliction and as it were in Egipe after Moses was sent of the Lord to lead his people forth so it hath been with us ever since we received the Light the Prophet Moses wrote of how have our Persecutors oppressed us and in no wife they will yield that we shall sacrifice to the Lord our God as Christ Jesus the Light in us shall direct us and they have far exceeded Pharaoh and his Task-masters in cruelty towards us though we are free-born and Israel were strangers as instance Pharaohs bondage to Israel was chiefly to the outward man in oppressing of them with hard labour now if our Task-masters would but doe so to us and not oppresse our consciences we should look upon them to be merciful men if they would let us labour for our livelyhood for our Wives and little Infants in the Land of our Nativity but they will not but cast us and some of our Wives and Children into nasty stinking holes and dungeons and there for their pleasure keep us from labouring either for our selves or for to get Bred for our Families and lay great penalties upon the cruel Goalers that we may have no liberty to goe abroad not so much as to breath in the Ayre neither allow any of us one farthing of Allowance to keep us alive within their stone walls and yet as Pharaoh lay heavier Taxes upon us to pay then ever and

yet will not let us labour with our hands to get therein but sends their Officers to our habitations where our small Children are and there tare away that little we have left them to pay the Kings Taxes and to pay those false Prophets that teach for Hire oh cruelty of all cruelties far exceeding Egipts bondage for we never read that they ever imprisoned the Israelites and not let them labour but only oppressed them with labour neither were they ever denyed the benefit of the Ayre to breath in as our Protestant persecuters doth 〈◊〉 this day and we have cryed to the Lord our God and our innocent sufferings hath been spread before him and he delivered us from the generation of Protestant persecuters that were in Oliver's days and his Righteous judgments hath swept them away as he did others in days past But yet I say they were not grown to that stature in wickedness as now the Protestant persecuters are For now we are not onely imprisoned Math. 5.34 35. hundreds together in noisom Goales where many have sealed their Testimonies with their bloods for the Truths sake but now we are cast into Prison because we will not break an express Command of Christ whom our Persecuters falsly calls their Saviour who saith expresly Sware not at all James 5.12 neither by Heaven nor by Earth nor by any other Oath And further if we will not break this Law and sware by that Book which saith we must not swear we must by their Law be banished from the land of our Nativity from our Wives and little Children and dearest Relations into forreign Lands there to seek our Bread among strangers and if ever we return within seven years we are by the cruel Law to die without mercy and whoever shall worship the true God if they be above the number of four besides the Houshold except in that way time and place which man hath invented he or she shall undergo the same penalties as aforesaid To Persecutors in this Age let it be tould to those In Cruelty they have out-stript Pharaoh and all that rose The next that we read of that was grown to this stature in wickednesse Numb 22. 5. 6. as to root out and destroy the Israel of God it was Balak King of Moab for as the persecuters in this day would have the Lords own People that fear him to be all banished so Balak in his day he would have had them all cursed it being all by one and the same spirit what ever it cost him and for mony and for reward Balaam would willingly have cursed them but the Lord would not in that day let Man as he will not let his People be banished in this day but made Balaam blesse them altogether and we read that when Balaam went to curse Israel he rode upon an Asse and the went the Angell of the Lord stood in his way with his sword drawn in his hand and the Asse saw the Angell and tained out of the way and the foolish Prophet saw not the Lord stand in the way then the Angell went farther and stood in a narrow place and the Asse seeing the Lord again stand in the way she rushed on the one side and dashed Balaam's foot against the wall yet the mad Prophet all this while saw not the Lord but attempted the third time to go on again to have cursed Israel Now let all Protestant Persecuters read their figure Balak King of Moab he by all means what ever it cost him would have had the People of the Lord to have been cursed that so he might have rid his land of them to have destroyed them and this was from the same spirit that men in this day would have the People of the Lord banished out of the Land it is the spirit of Balaam the false Prophet that hath brought the people to this stature in wickednesse as to banish those that fear the Lord and that cannot put into the mouths of the false Prophets for they are they that have in all ages and in this age stirred up the Rulers and People to persecute Gods servants and they seeing that Imprisoning 〈◊〉 Beating Cutting with armed Souldiers Stocking Stoning Whipping will not make an end of them that 〈◊〉 the Lord now they have got a Law contrary to Law to banish them the Husband from the Wife and both from the little Infants not at all regarding Age nor Sex rending ●●●ilies in pieces O hard hearted Protestants what no pitty to the little Infants must they be left crying day and night in thy streets O England no care taken for them me not your hearts harder then the flint what banish Parents from their tender Infants and the pittifull Mother from our sucking Babe and banish them into a forreign Land and all because they will not break the commandment of him whom you call your Saviour and Redeemer and because they worship the living God in spirit and in truth according to the Scriptures you say you own and professe O Protestant persecuters you have quite lost your natural affection you have outstripped all that ever went before you go to the hearbs of the field and they will teach you doth that hearb that is naturally hot cause the other hearb that is naturally cold that it shall not grow by it no they buth grow together close by one another in unity and go to the birds of the air and they will instruct you for they live together and do not strive to beat one another forth of the Country where they have been brought forth go to little children and they will condemn you persecuters for they can play together in unity but you have no pitty to the sucking babes nor to the gray hairs nor to him that leans upon his staff for very age and thus you have hardened your own hearts untill the Lord hath given you up to hardnesse of heart which is the greatest of all judgments and the nearest to destruction and so you go on and strive against your Maker and as yet you have not given ear to those whom the Lord hath sent unto you to warn you of the evill of your wayes but you have hardened your hearts as Pharaoh and you will not let Israel go but this I tell you all who are hastening to banish Gods People from amongst you our God hath set himself in your way with his sword dravv● in his hand and the poor Sea-Men whom you make your Asses or would do they see the Lord stand in their way and they have these two times turned out of the way when they were a going to carry the innocent into banishment but the spirit of Balaam who would force them to carry them he sees not the Lord the Lord hath opened the mouth of the Sea-Men both at Deal and also at Bristoll and they have confessed to the whole Nation and given it under their hands that they see the Lord stand in their

way the first saw him crossing them in all their outward things ever after they undertook to carry innocent Israel from their own Land but at Bristol there the Lord met them in a narrower place viz. in the Conscience and they gave it under their hands that their Consciences would in no wise let them be at quiet or peace and that the plagues would follow them or others who should ever under take to carry them whether soever they 〈◊〉 and that they had partaked of the plagues in their heart 〈◊〉 and that they durst in no wise carry them because 〈◊〉 knew them to be innocent persons and destred to walk in befear of the Lord and thus hath our God opened the eyes Whose whom you would make your Asses the poor Sea●●en that they see the Lord and also their mouths to speak well of his people 2 Pet. 2.16 and for this cause hath he opened their mouths to reprove the madness of the wicked Prophets that see not the Lord therefore let it be a warning to all you that still would have them banished that the Lord ●●th promised shall dwell in their own Land Jer. 23.8 that you make not a third attempt to ride the Ass out again to drive on your design for our God stands still in the way Numb 22. 31. 32 33. and if you will not be warned he will slay you and preserve and keep the Ass alive Therefore out of true love pitty once more to you thus have I been moved of the Lord to write to you that so you tray fear and Repent and cease from the cruel and unheard of persecution for the seed whom the Lord hath according to his promise raised in this Northern Island as Jeremiah foretold must dwell in their own Land Jer. 23.8 the mouth of the Lord of Hosts hath spoken it Then another we read of that undertook this wicked work of Rooting out the Lords own people it was wicked Haman Est 3. 4. Chap. in the days of Esther and it runs parrallel directly with prosecutors in these days what do we read that proud Haman had or could justly charge the seed of Israel with as was evil in his days but that Mordecai the Jew fat in the Kings gate and would not bow the knee to one who was of the flace of Amaleck Est 3.1 who were the first of the Nation that arose against Israel when they were coming out of Aegypt's bondage Exod. 17 14. whom God had formerly Cursed whom the Lord said be would have warr with for that Cause from generation to generation and he would blot out his name from under heaven Haman I say being great with the King and being filled with envy laid false accusations against an innocent people and said to the King that it was not for the Kings profit to suffer them to live the King being willing to gratifie his flatterers granted his r●quest and sealed the decree not only against righteous Mordecai but against the whole Seed of Israel 2 Thes 1.6 that dwell amongst them but then it was A right●●● thing with the Lord to render tribulation to them that troubled his People Esther 7.10 as it hath been and will be ever for the same tree that Haman commanded to be built to hang Mordecai on the the Lord caused it that he himself was hanged thereon and those who by that unrighteous law had power given them to have destroyed Israel Chap. 9. the Lord brought it so to passe that they were slain themselves as thou may read Esther so what hath the People of the Lord who in scorn are called Quakers done that is evil against the proud Hamans in this day hath any of them made Insurrection Plot or Conspicies or any ways gone about to subvert the Government or have they any wayes wronged any man in their outward goods or good name or have they been a people that have lived contentiously with their neighbours or in pride idlenesse vanity or excesse let Gods witnesse in the hearts of all people that have known us answer or have we been a people that have made a profession of scriptures and lived contrary unto them in our lives and conversations let those who are our persecuters and that are found doing so make it appear to the Nation if they can but is not that the greatest and cheifest cause of our persecutors wrath against us that we cannot respect their persons nor give them flattering titles Job 23.21 22. because the scriptures which they professe forbids us and saith it is sin nay though our persecuters have never so much favour or honour from the King and have what their hearts can desire yet what doth all avail them while they see poor righteous Mordecais brought before the judgment seats John 5.44 and cannot bow the knee to that which is out of the faith of Christ and that seeks honour or receives honour one of another and so those that walks according to the holy Scriptures are with such men counted of evill behaviour and so at all times suffers under them for well doing and not for evill and such men who are filled with envy against us have to satisfie their bloody intents falsly accused us before those that are in authority and by that means have procured that law to be made signed and sealed against us for peaceable meeting together to worship the Lord in spirit and in truth and so by the execution of that unnatural Law to root us out of the land of our nativity and so to race out the seed whom the Lord hath raised in this northern Island Jer. 23.8 but unto our God we make our appeal he having raised in us the same spirit that was in righteous Mordecai and that was in the three Children that we know Our God is able to deliver us and he will deliver us Dan 3.17.18 and in him alone we wait for deliverance and he never yet failed any that were by wicked men designed to be universally rooted out for their obedience to the Lord in any age as before mentioned as we are by you at this day but if he should not deliver us be it known to you our persecutors that we will not be of that Religion that you are of to professe God Christ and Scriptures and walk and practice the clean contrary way to what you professe and what the scriptures declare of Nay contrary to what your book of Common Prayer speaks of for that saith that you should forsake the Devill and all his works and keep Gods holy will and commandments Read your Common-Prayer see whether your practice be according and walk in the same all the dayes of your lives and that you should hurt no body by word or deed but should be true and just in all your dealings that you should bear no malice nor hatred in your hearts that you should do to all