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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84839	The West answering to the North in the fierce and cruel persecution of the manifestation of the Son of God, as appears in the following short relation of the unheard of, and inhumane sufferings of Geo. Fox, Edw. Pyot, and William Salt at Lanceston in the county of Cornwall, and of Ben. Maynard, Iames Mires, Ios. Coale, Ia. Godfrey, Io. Ellice, and Anne Blacking, in the same gaole, town, and county. And of one and twenty men, and women taken up in the space of a few dayes on the high wayes of Devon, ... Also a sober reasoning in the law with Chief Justice Glynne concerning his proceedings ... And a legall arraignment for the indictment of the hat, ... And many other materiall and strange passages at their apprehensions and tryals ...	Fox, George, 1624-1691.	1657 (1657)	Wing F1988; Thomason E900_3; ESTC R202187	140,064	174

of God and cry out upon such as Blasphemers that say as Luke said of it who wrote it it is a declaration And they say that all Scripture given by inspiration of God holy men of God speaking not from the Letter for one Prophet prophesied not what he saw in writing of the Prophesy of another nor did John what he saw written in the Prophets but as they were moved of the Holy Ghost 2 Pet. 1.2.1 Nor spake the Apostles but as the spirit gave them utterance Acts 2.8 And is profitable for doctrine for reproof for correction for instruction in righteousness that the man of God not the man of sin and we say man can never be free from sin while he lives and he that is not free from sin is not free from the man of sin and the man of sin is not the man of God for whom the Scripture is profitable may be perfect and we deny perfection as a damnable doctrine and throughly furnished unto all good works as Paul affirms to Timothy 2 epist 3.16 17. Who by venting and broaching many of such Heresies and Blasphemies and scat●ering Books and Papers of these things which we call seditious do undermine with that which is perfect the Fundamentals of our Rel●gion these great truths which have been so long professed amongst us and cause many people which being weak have been deluded by us to see their delusions and to fall from us notwithstanding the clear Sun-shine of this our Gospel amongst them to the great dishonour of Almighty God whose name hath been taken in our mouths the disturbance of the peace of the Common-wealth which we have often set into Wars and Blood thereabouts to the sadning of every good and honest heart and the grief of all pious and religious people who observe what pitifull Fundamentals our Religion hath which can be thus undermined when as the Kingdome the Apostles and Saints received could not be moved Heb. 12.28 And the Rock on which their faith was built the gates of Hell could not prevail against said Christ Matth. 16.18 Nor the storms nor the winds nor the rain to make that house to fall that is built thereupon Matth. 7.25 And the things that are shaken are to be removed as of things that are made for this word Yet once more I shake not the Earth onely but also Heaven so signifies that those things which cannot be shaken may remain saith the Author to the Hebrews chap. 12.26 27. And they that trust in the Lord shall be as Mount Sion which cannot be removed but abideth for ever Psal 125.1 And how dark our Gospel is that notwithstanding the clear sun-shine thereof the wicked man hath sown such tares as these which are grown up exceedingly especially that all this should be done by a people wandring up and down the Countrey whom we and the World which make up what we call our Churches do scorn set at nought and reproach with the weak and contemptible name of Quakers and do account and number them as Christ Jesus their example in sufferings with Transgressours sturdy Rogues Beggars and wandring idle persons Therefore it is high time for ye who are the Magistrates and the Authority of this County of which we are the Ministers who are in this condition to appear and do your parts for the supporting of these great Truths these Fundamentals of our Religion which have been so long professed amongst us which are so undermined by a wandring trembling people which cry up perfection amongst us of this our Gospel whose clear sun-shine is thus dark and so far from being able to commend it self● to that of God in every mans conscience or to defend it self or us that it needs your carnal weapons which were not the Apostles for theirs were spiritual not carnal but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds 2 Cor. 10.4 And Ezra was ashamed to require of the King a Band of Souldiers and Horsemen to help them against the Enemy in the way because he had spoken unto the King saying The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek him but his power and his wrath is against all them that forsake him Ezra 8.22 For the preventing of that which makes ours appear so yea to be even the great contagion that hath infected almost every corner of this Nation and strikes at the feet of our Images which are but Iron mixed with Clay and not onely make your Law to the purpose aforesaid but send your Orders abroad to the chief Constables and petty Constables in every division earnestly requesting them as they tender the foundation aforesaid of all our hopes of being saved by our Religion now undermined and the peace of the strong man whose armour now begins to be taken from him and his goods to be spoyled to do their utmost to see them put in execution that so your dead orders may prove the destruction of the living truth of God which appears in contemptible Creatures to destroy our undermineable Religion and dark Gospel and shaken Fundamentals and tottering great Truths and all the designs of Satan of us his Instruments to support them whose Ministers that we may in all things appear in our generation the same with our predecessours in the former we advise you to put them in the front and reer in the wild beasts skins of disaffected to the Government and disturbers of the peace of the Common-wealth and fill the belly with blasphemy and heresy and so throw them to the unreasonable Multitude to be devoured for so did the chief Priests Scribes and Elders our Predecessours and the whole multitude of them by Jesus to Pilate when they desired him to crucifie him We have taken this fellow said they as we say now of those who witness him perverting the Nation and forbidding to give tribute to Cesar saying that he himself is Christ a King Luke 23.1 2. And so did the Jews which believed not but were moved with envy who took unto themselves certain lewd fellows of the baser sort and gathered a Company and set all the City in an uproar and ass●ulted the house of Jason and drew him and the brethren before the Rulers saying These that have turned the world upside down are come hither also whom Jason hath received and these do all contrary to the decrees of Cesar saying there is another King one Jesus Acts 17.5 6 7. And thus said Tertullus the high Priests and Elders Orator against Paul to Felix the Governour We have found this man a pestilent fellow and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world Acts 24.1 2 5. And whether this be not the plain English of the language of the order of Sessions and the Letter sent therewith to the Constables in every division hereafter to be mentioned at the instigation and instruction of the Priests and whether it be not the naked truth of the things contained in those Papers and their