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A76750	The Cry of blood. And Herod, Pontius Pilate, and the Jewes reconciled, and in conspiracy with the dragon, to devour the manchild. Being a declaration of the Lord arising in those people, of the city of Bristol, who are scornfully called Quakers, and of the manifold sufferings, and persecutions sustain'd by them from the priests, rulers, professors and rude multitude, contrary to law, liberty, justice, government, the righteous ends of of the wars, and the Scriptures of truth. Together with a true account of the material passages in substance between the rulers and them at their several examinations, and commitments, and at two general sessions of the publick peace: and of the tumults, and insurrections, with other necessary observations, and occurences. Gathered up, written in a roll, and delivered to John Gunning late mayor of that city (being the fruits of his year) for the private admonition, and conviction of himself, and brethren concern'd, and named therein: with a letter declaring the end, and reason of what is so done, (of which a copy followes in the ensuing pages) / Subscribed by Geo: Bishop, Thomas Goldney, Henry Roe, Edw: Pyott, Dennis Hollister. And now after five moneths space of time published, for the reasons hereafter expressed.	Bishop, George, d. 1668.	1656 (1656)	Wing B2990; Thomason E884_3; ESTC R27277	101,853	169

That she stood out of her own will in the will of God therefore she should not bring her Conscience to be bound by the will of man To which the Town-Clerk answered That by order of the Court she must return to prison from whence she came Thereupon she was moved of the Lord to speak to him and she said Mind the light of Christ in thy Conscience which will bring condemnation on the man of sin and teach thee to act righteously and holily and see thou act according to the Law and not a tittle beyond the Law as thou wilt answer it before the Lord. Upon which he jeeringly bade her use better language then she was pull'd down but she cryed out Give me leave to clear my Conscience And being moved from the Lord she warned the Magistrates in these words Mind the light of Christ which will teach you to act righteously and charged them in the name of the Lord to act according to the Law and not a tittle beyond Then was she remanded to prison where she was continued about four weeks and released after they had satiated themselves with her oppressions The Paper she delivered to the Magistrates as aforesaid was as followeth Her Letter to the Magistrates Unto you who are the Magistrates of this City I am commanded of the Lord to give you warning that the Mighty day of the Lord of Hosts is at hand that he is arising in his mighty power In which day the strong shall be as towe and the maker of it as a spark And from the Lord I am to warn you that you judge righteous Judgment that then so you be not found some of those which shall imbrue your hands in the blood of the Saints and so cast the righteous Law of God behind your backs and so hate to be reformed for now the Lord is arising in his sons and in his daughters a faithfull witnesse for himself Crying even in the Ears of the Almighty It is time for thee to arise Lord for men have made void thy Law That so you be not found bearing the Sword in vain and so punishing the Innocent and let the guilty go free Therefore from the Lord you are warned to mind that of God in your Consciences which will bring you to see Judgment running down as a stream and equity as a mighty River And this is the word of the Lord to you whether you will hear or forbear And seeing the Just lyeth slain in the streets of the City it even turns the bowells of the righteous within them that so for Sions sake they cannot hold their peace and for Jerusalem's sake I must not be silent And so knowing the Terrours of the Lord for sin and for rebellion I am moved to write in love to your soules who is a Prisoner in Newgate for witnessing against Deceipt and for the Testimony of Jesus Elizabeth Marshall And shortly after she was returned to prison she sent the following paper to the Town-Clerk Her Letter to the Town-Clerk This is the word of the Lord to thee Robert Aldworth who art a Counsellour in the Law I warn thee in the Name and presence of the living God thou knowing the Law that thou act according to the Law as thou wilt answer it before the Lord at the great and terrible day of the Lord when the book of Conscience shall be opened I warn thee that thou mind the Light of Christ in thy conscience loving it and abiding in it it will lead thee up unto God hating it it will be thy condemnation The Law of God is just and is according to that in my Conscience which I own which is a Law against evil doers as man-slayers thieves and adulterers and drunkards and such like In the name of the Lord and by his word I do pronounce woes and plagues from the Lord against all such as scoffe at the Light of Christ and the Language of Christ as thou didst This is the day of thy visitation whether thou wilt hear or forbear Thus was I moved of the Lord to write unto thee who am a Prisoner for witnessing and for the Testimony of Jesus Elizabeth Marshal John Worrings Tryal John Worring was also brought from the prison and called to whom his Charge was read to this effect for making a disturbance in the publick Congregation calling the Minister Devil kicking at the Clark and saying the Minister spake never a true word Worring answered He made no disturbance The Court said he had disturbed the Minister before he had done his Sermon Worring replyed that one Gunning began that he spake after him and that he to whom he spake was no Minister And had denyed both the name and the Office at a meeting At a meeting said Alderman Joseph Jackson what meeting He answered At a meeting before three hundred people as himself said in the Pulpit at Ragcliff Alderman Cann replyed though he had denyed the Name and the Office yet he did represent the Place of the Minister at that time And Joseph Jackson presently said thou didst call him Devil Worring denyed it Joseph Jackson replyed one had sworn it He answered if I had said so which I never said yet I could prove him one by his own words They asked him how Said Worring Out of his own mouth for he said at the meeting that in all things that he did he sinned and if in all things as well in that meaning his preaching as in other things and he that sinneth is of the Devill If you will not believe me belie●e the Scriptures Then some of the Court said he kickt the Clark He denyed it but said the Clark gave him a kick So they asked him no more concerning that but demanded of him what he said to the Minister To which he made answer that he said If he were a Minister of Jesus Christ the Law of the spirit of life which is in Jesus would set him free from the Law of sin and death and unlesse he were freed by that Law of life which is in Christ Jesus he was still acting the works of the Devil and was no better in that condition Then the Court told him he had been invited by some turbulent people who had set him on that action and asked him whether he would promise for the future he would do no more such things and finde Sureties for the good behaviour One of the Officers told him A little boy might be surety Worring replyed that he denyed his words and told the Court that he was not sorry And that he stood single and free The Court replyed that he must be sorry He answered them again that he stood single and free that if they would clear him they might if not they might do their pleasures And for being sorry he was not The Court told him he must to prison again He answered again he stood free and so he was to prison returned and continued there till the 19th of the

it on them and would have taken away their lives But no more of these Orders of Sessions and the grounds of them though much materially may be said which is not yet mentioned We shall now proceed to instance what hath been since acted in observance of these Decrees These publique proceedings in Sessions somewhat 18th 11th month 1654. The Deputy-Mayor and his brethren comming together by Candle-light and sending for the Constables throughout the Town to search for some friends at a meeting occasion new stirs in the Town when before it was quiet blew up afresh the spirits of the people who disturbed with Tumults the private meeting in Cornstreet the 18th of the 11th moneth following and abused those who went in and out as formerly But those sparks waxing faint and the meeting two dayes after in the same place unmolested no people at all being gathered about the house Alder. Vickris then Deputy-Maior being forward in these persecutions was very eager to do some notable thing in the Maiors absence And therefore when the City was quiet sends for the Aldermen and for the Sergeants and Constables and by Candle-light meets in the Councell-house which raised an admiration in the Town and drew many to the Tolzey and from thence sends Constables to the meeting to look for and to bring before him and his brethren George Fox John Audland John Camm Francis Howgill Edward Burrough and James Nayler But the meeting was rose before and John Audland who onely of those aforementioned was in Town was departed whereupon he sent for the man of the house who went to them and gave them such answers as their Questions required and to other houses he sent to seek them whereby occasion was given of New Tumults and disturbances And the next day Thomas Bawdon Apprentice Thomas Bawdon 22th 11th month 1654. speaking to the People Committed to Edward Wilcox speaking to the people after all was ended not to the Priest was the 22th of the same month committed by them to prison for so doing in observing of their own Order of Sessions aforesaid not of the Law for it gave them no such Power or Authority The Deputy-Maior missing in what he attempted Warrant issued out in general for the apprehending of some friends the last day of the week aforementioned is put by the Serpent on a new expedient viz. to issue out a Warrant in generall to all Constables to apprehend them though neither John Audland nor John Camm nor any of those Northern friends avoided them at any time but stood single in their own freedom ready to appear and to give an answer to what should be demanded of them though they had no reason to put themselves as a prey into their teeth who sought to devour them and to hinder their Ministry And for this the Deputy-Maior thought he had 23d 11th month 1654. A house endeavoured to be search'd and forc'd at a meeting by vertue thereof and tumult raised thereupon the people being still till the Magistrates met together to give order therein got his opportunity for hearing of the meeting at the same house again the 23. of the eleventh moneth the Town being quiet he sends for the Aldermen to meet him in the Councel-House and thorough the Wards for all the Constables which though it alarmed the whole Town yet few of the Constables would appear except such as had been old Malignants and some of them with a Serjeant about the third hour in the afternoon he and his brethren send to search the house and to apprehend George Fox James Nayler John Comm John Audland Francis Howgill and Edward Burrough or any of them they should find there These Officers coming to the house and finding the door fast they knock thereat the Man of the house going to the door demanded their businesse They replyed that the Deputy-Maior and the Aldermen had sent them to search his house for the men aforementioned and to bring them before him He demanded the Warrant They answered they had none onely by word of mouth He replyed without a legal Warrant he could let none into his house and that he wondred the Deputy Mayor should send thus to him both on the last day of the week and then in regard he was well known to have behaved himself peaceably and soberly and to entertain none but such persons whereupon they returned to the Deputy-Maior A great concourse of people being by the Constables thus coming drawn together who were rude and endeavoured to follow the Constables into the house though before the Magistrates met and the Constables came the streets were quiet About half an hour after the Officers returned again and told the man of the house who held the door open in his hand that they had now a Warrant to search He desired to see it they denyed it saying The Warrant was their security but they would read it to him He replyed his house was his security and defence that he knew in what cases the Law allowed searches to be made If their Warrant were legal they should come in but for hearing of it read he would not he thereby being not able to know whether it were true or false and that there were many tumultuous people at the dore whom it concerned them to take course with and to keep the Peace For those in his house they were Christians met together to wait on the Lord and desired to know whether the Magistrates would disturb them They denyed again to let him see the Warrant and told him that it Was not particularly directed to him Then he desired them to give him a Coppy thereof and if he saw it were according to Law he would let them search They replyed they could not give a Copy of the Maiors Warrant and with that forcibly attempted to enter and afterwards offred violence to break it open whereupon some of them departed again and the rest staid about the door which occasioned the tumult very much to encrease before their faces which they appeased not though by him required Afterwards they returned again but refused to give him a Coppy of their Warrant or to let him take a Copy though he promised them to return it immediatly and to let them come in if it were legal and desired to know his positive answer To which he replyed that they had offered vilence to his house not shewing him any Warrant nor giving him any Coppy that the street was full of tumultuous people which for ought he knew attended their coming in and what mischief they and the tumult meant he knew not Therefore he was resolved to look to his own security They told him the Magistrates would take it ill of him He replyed he had reason to take it ill of the Magistrates to occasion his house to be thus assaulted both then and at other times and in permitting such Tumults on his house and his peaceable friends therein that his house was as free

Conscience in things of a spiritual nature except to Popery and Prelacy And to such as under the profession of Christ hold forth and practise licentiousnesse seems to be guarded from all persecution by the Fundamental constitution of a new Government Wherein those are Chief in Authority and Rule and possessed of all power whose sword was made successful and victorious to the cutting down of Tyrannous and imposing powers under which themselves amongst others suffered wherein the Gospel is said to shine so glorious as to form the whole Nation into a profession and to the rendring so many thousands of professors clear-sighted in the Mysteries of the Kingdom and earnestly to expect the reign of Christ over all for ever now supposed by them and believed to be on the very threshold Such persecutions and unjust proceedings as are rehearsed in the following Treatise should be presumed to be done in England And that those who are called the Children of the Kingdom and accompt themselves ready to sit down therein with Christ when he shall appear Now that he is begun to be manifested in life and mighty power unto which thousands of his Saints do bear witnesse and have set their seals should all opinions Judgments and forms hitherto in the height of enmity and contention against each other be now reconciled together and joyn in with the powers of the world from whom in their several dayes as they have witnessed any thing of truth they have received opposition And also with the rude multitude in persecuting and afflicting the witnesses of this Kingdom and seeking to murther the Lord of Glory thus beginning in these last times to be revealed But thou wilt cease to admire if in the cool of the day thou doest sit down and consider That as it was of old a Esay 8. 18. Christ Jesus and the Children whom the Lord had given him were for signs and wonders in Israel b Rom. 9. 4 5. to whom pertained the Adoption and the Glory and the Covenants and the giving of the Law and the Service of God and the promises whose were the Fathers and of whom as concerning the flesh himself came who is God over all blessed for ever Even from the Lord of Hosts who dwelleth in Mount Sion And that as the seed of the Serpent and of the Bondwoman which is the same in Ishmael as in Cain who hated and slew his brother c Gal. 4. 29. persecuted the Seed of the Free-woman so it is now d Mal. 3. 1. John 1. 41. 4. 25. Very great were the expectations of the Jews for the coming of the Messiah Of him e Luke 1. 70. 24. 27. Acts 3. 18 21. all the Prophets prophesied from the beginning of the world Him all the f Heb. 8. 1. 5. 10. 1. 5. 7. 10. Levitical services sacrifices the Temple Circumcision and the Jewish Kingdom shadowed and typified Him the g Luke 5. 17. Acts 13. 27. Doctors of the Law and the Pharisees read out of the Prophets every Sabbath day and on him were their hopes fixed for a perfect restauration and redemption from under all their Captivities and servitudes In the h Gal. 4. 4. fulnesse of time in the dayes of i Matth. 2. 1. Herod the King who was not of the race of the Jews but appointed over them by the Romans under whose power they then were when the Scepter was departed from Judah which old Jacob k Gen. 49 10. prophesied should not he nor a Law-giver from between his feet till Shiloh come He came was l Luke 2 4 7. born of a Virgin at Bethlehem in the Tribe of Benjamin of the Seed of David The m Luke 2. 8 9 10 11 12 13 14. Angels signifie his birth to the Shepherds and for joy of it sing together n Luke 1. 17 76. 3. 4 5 6. John prepares the way before him in the spirit and power of Elias o Acts 2. 22. Approved he is of God by miracles wonders and signs by a p Mat. 3. 16 17. voice from Heaven by the descension of a Dove and by q 1 Cor. 15. 4. Acts 17. 31. raising him the third day according to the Scriptures All r Luke 24. 44. Acts 3. 18. Prophecies are fulfilled in him and himself ſ John 7. 28. 37. 38. John 8. 12 to the end Luke 4. 21. convinceth the Doctors and the people publiquely that it was so being indeed t 1 Tim. 3. 16. God manifested in the flesh justified in the Spirit seen of Angels preached to the Gentiles believed of in the world and received into glory And yet because He came not with outward observation nor in the Glory of Solomon nor in the dominion or restauration of an earthly Kingdom nor in the way they prescribed him Nor by the discovery of the High Priests Scribes and Pharisees But was u Luke 2. 24. Levit. 12. 8. born of a poor woman w Mat. 13 55. supposed a Carpenters sonne x Luke 2. 7. laid in a manger for there was no room for him in the Inne more marred in his y Esay 52. 14. visage than any man of no z Esay 53. 2 3. form or comelinesse or beauty whereby he should be desired Of no a Mat. 8. 20. abiding place b Mat. 4. 18 21. John 21. 3. Attended by poor Fishermen as his disciples followed by c Matth. 9. 9. 10. 11. 21. 31. 32. 11. 19. Luke 3. 12. 5. 29 30. 15. 1. 7. 29. 19. 2. Publicans and sinners because he opposed their e Matth. 25 3 6. Mark 7. 8 9 15. traditions Reproved their f John 4 20 21 22 23 24. outward commanded worship being all ended in him changed the g Mat. 5. 6. cap. Mat. 12. 1. 2. 6. 7. 8. 10. 12. 13. 14. Mat. 15. 1 15 Joh. 5. 10 11 Acts 6. 14. Laws and Customes h John 8. 44. 15. 22. 16. 8 9. Convinced them of sin was as a i Mal. 3. 1 2. Refiners fire and as Fullers sope k Mat. 2. 3. All Jerusalem as well as H●rod was moved at his birth The l Mat. 2. 4. 5. 6. 16. chief Priest and Scribes advise with Herod whom they hated and tell him who sought to murther Jesus where he was to be born who should be the Governour that should rule the people of Israel His m Joh. 1. 11. own receive him not though he came to them the most n Mat. 12. 14. John 7. 12. Luke 22 2. John 12. 42. Mat. 26. 3. 57. 59. 27. 20 22. strict in the outward observation of the Law which led to him most persecute him His friends when he took to him 12 disciples tell him he was o Mark 3. 21. besides himself The Scribes and Pharisees say he is p Mat. 11. 19. gluttonous a wine-bibber a q Mark 3. 23. Matth. 9. 34. Devill and the Chief of them yea and a

with him the false Prophet that worketh miracles before him and which he deceived and they both shall be cast alive into the lake of fire burning with brimstone And the fowls that flie in the midst of the Heavens shall eat the flesh of Kings and of Captains and of mighty men and of Horses and of them that sit thereon and of all men both free and bond small and great that gather themselves together to make war against him that sits on the white horse and against his Army And all the fowls shall be filled with their flesh Of the rising and progresse of this Sun of righteousnesse and the persecutions raised against it in this City is the intent of this Treatise The particulars whereof shall be set down in order Some of the brethren near Kendale in Westmerland being moved not by man nor the will of man but by the Lord to come to Bristoll to which place they were wholly strangers as they were to every Inhabitant thereof to declare what he should there Command them in obedience thereunto came thither on the 12th day of the fifth moneth called 12th of the 5th moneth 1654 John Audland came first to Bristol July 1654 in the Evening And having the next day delivered the word of the Lord there given them in charge to the Independent and Baptized Churches so called And having testified the things of the Kingdom to a few others who were waiting for the Redemption of Israel The day following being the 14th of the same moneth they passed away towards Plymouth in Devonshire the witnesse being raised though in so short space of time by the power of the Lord and severall both of the Churches so called and others putting their seales to the truth of their testimony Being come to and departed from Plymouth to London one of the Brethren aforesaid to wit John Audland was mightily pressed in spirit to visit Bristoll again and therefore returned thither about the beginning of the 7th moneth following called September Beginning of the 7th month 1654 John Audland came the second time and John Camm with him with whom John Camm being moved of the Lord came also and spake publiquely as the Spirit gave them utterance And truly such a wide door and an effectual was opened which none could shut as hath not been known in any age in this Nation for the people being as Corn ripe for the Harvest pressed in by multitudes in this day of the Lords power and the witnesse which at first was risen but in a few to whom the Word of the Kingdom was communicated like to Elijah's cloud seemed to fill the whole Heaven The places of meeting were too streight the Assemblies thereupon in the fields though in the winter season were multiplyed to two three nay sometimes to near four thousand people And many of all sorts professions Ranks ages and sexes some of whom as eminent as any in that City in that which is called Godlinesse became obedient to the truth whose minds being turned to the Lord witnessed the power and life of Jesu● in measure and Redemption within from the fashions and customs of the world and their former vain Conversations and professions and this Ministry through which they were begotten again to a lively hope through the resurrection of the dead to be of the Lord. Persecution begun At this manifestation of Jesus the Priests and Rulers with many professors of all opinions and the worser sort of the City were exceedingly moved And as the joyfull Sound went forth into the Countrey round about whereby many were brought i●to the obedience of the truth So the members of the many-headed beast there and the false Prophet joyn in confederacy with them in making war against it And even some who as they have in their time and generation born their testimony to any thing of simplicity and power in Religion or have owned the publique interest have constantly been maligned and opposed by the Magistrates and people fall in and become one with both strengthening their hands and stirring up their hatred against the Truth And although they thereby justifie the oppositions themselves have received and allow the persecuting Principle which when it was their own case they condemned and give Judgment upon and prepare trouble for themselves and weaken the publique interest in which they are concerned and have lost the Crosse which the servants of the living God have alwaies witnessed against the adulterous generation yet so blind are their eyes that though they see they perceive not so gross are their ears that though they hear yet do they not understand yea their hearts are waxen fat lest they should see hear and be converted and healed fulfilling the words of Christ who saith For Judgment am I come into this world that those who are blind may see and those who say they see may John 9. 39. be made blind and their sin may remain And now who Esay 42. 19. is blind but my servant and who is deaf but my messenger seeing many things but he observeth not opening the ear but he heareth not And indeed to those who have known and lived in that City for the space of 18. years last past and do impartially weigh things to have beheld their Episcopacy persecuting Puritanisme so called with reproaches riots imprisonments and accusations of plotting against the Kingdome under pretence of religious meetings which they would make Conventicles Puritanisme in the throne turned into Presbytery opposing Episcopacy as Popish and Independency as Heresie and Schisme Independency got into the Chair trampling under Presbytery as Antichristian and others above them as Notionists Anti-Ordinance men c. Each taking their turn and time and applying themselves unto and making use of the Powers of the earth for the pulling down of the one and setting up of the other And now to see Episcopals Presbyterians Independents Baptists Notionists Ranters and the rude rabble of ignorant and dissolute people the Priests and the Rulers aforesaid reconciled joyned and folded together as Herod Pontius Pilate and the Jews in exercising the very same reproaches and persecutions wherein themselves suffered from each other and from the Priests and Rulers and in a higher manner against those who are called forth to witnesse Jesus now made manifest in them it would be very strange but that this is the portion which the truth hath received from the men and professions of the world throughout all generations and which returns to it as a testimony Neverthelesse as death and hell could not hinder the resurrection of Christ but he arose the third day according to the Scriptures so the confederacy aforesaid with all their policy and power have not been able to extinguish the light that hath shined but the more they have sought to quench it the brighter it hath appeared and so will it encrease to the perfect day for the Lord is risen and the word is gone forth out of his mouth

from the Lord to John Knowls after he had dismist the people by command of an Alderman laid hands on by the multitude violently assaulted and beaten with staves and cudgels in the place and after she was hurried out taken into Custody by order of the same Alderman And being brought before him and the Mayor examined and sent to prison without a Mittimus and the next day brought in Custody from the prison before the Magistrates and by them charged with nothing as to the cause of her Commitment after she had been ezamined as aforesaid but as to her Message delivered a week before to Ralph Farmer as aforesaid And for this she is Committed again to Prison as they pretend though they denyed her a Mittimus being by her demanded again and again and permitted no friend to come into the Councel chamber with her But the Mayor punished none of those who made the tumult in the Steeple-house before his face and who assaulted her with violence crushing and haling her nor caused the Peace to be kept nor did Ralph Farmer desire any such thing or that the woman might have liberty to speak and he to answer but called out to the Mayor in the midst of the tumult to take a course with her Nor did the Mayor punish or call to an account any of those who beat her with staves and cudgels and otherwise assaulted abused her at the Colledge or that made the tumults but imprisoned her both times laying the tumults raised on her wherein she was beaten and in so much danger and on whom the Peace was broken to her charge though as to any cause wherefore she was committed and continued for the space of about eight weeks a prisoner it appears not by any Mittimus to this day And thus was John Worring sent for by the Magistrates for speaking after another had begun to one who was no Priest and who but 3 or 4 days before said at a meeting in the presence of near three hundred people that he scorned the name and the office of a Minister and publickly said that he sinned in every thing he did A●d after examination committed to Prison without any Mittim●● and continued there for the space of fourty days though an Apprentice But neither was the tumult enquired after according to Law that was raised upon him nor those who struck and beat him in the place nor the Constables present who kept not the Peace But instead thereof when he said he was beaten and kickt Joseph Jackson said a Luke 2. 42. 46. if he had had his brayns knockt out he had his amends b Acts 9. 20. 13. 5. 14. 14. 1. 17 10. 17. 18. 4. 19. 26 19. 8. in his hands and when he would not own what was falsly alleadged against him to be true though what he had spoken he confessed was reproached by the said Alderman with the ignominious name of a Cut-purse So that whether the Priest be spoken c Acts 17. 16 to the end to when he hath ended all except his blessing or d Acts 17. 17. when by having said his blessing he hath dismist e Acts 19. 9. f Acts 28. 30 31. the people Or whether it be to a Priest or to one that scorns the name and Office of a Minister and g Sergius Paulus Governour of P●phos Acts 13. 7. 47. The Rulers of the Synagogue saith he sins in all things he doth and be the words what they will or the occasion it appears all is one to those who rule by their Lusts not by Law When as a Antioch in Pisidia Acts 13. 5. At Ephesus Acts 18. 19. 20. Publius Governour of Miletum Acts 28. 10 11. Christ was permitted at twelve years old to dispute with the Doctors in the Tepmle And the b At Rome two years no man forbidding Acts 28. 31. A● Antioch a year Acts 11. 26. At Ephesus 3 moneths Acts 19. 8. At Corinth a year 6. months Acts 17. 11. At Iconium a long time Acts 14. 3. At Caesaria many dayes Acts 21. 10. Apostles spake and reasoned and disputed in the Synagogues amongst Jews and Gentiles amongst the c Athenians in the d Market daily with those that met with him and on Mars hill and in Ephesus and in the e School of Tyrannus and at f Rome and were desired so to do by some of the g Rulers and permitted by others for some h space of time And in the Churches of Christ all might i 1 Cor. 14. 29 30 31. Prophecy one by one and if any thing be revealed to him that sitteth by let the first hold his peace And the Prophets two or three might speak the rest judge And it seemed to k Acts 25. 27. Festus the Romane Governour a thing unreasonable to send a prisoner and not withall to signifie the crimes laid against him it was the l Jeroboam Ahab Jezabel c. wicked Kings and Princes and People of Israel and Judah that caused the Messengers of the Lord to be imprisoned and his servants to be evil entreated and that said unto the m Esay 30. 10. Jer. 11. 21. Amos 2. 12. 7. 13. 15. Micah 2. 6. Prophets prophecy not n 2 Chro. 36. 15 16. Jer. 7. 25. 25. 4. 35. 15 26. 5. 29. 19. 32. 33. 44. 4. though he sent them rising up early saying O do not the abominable thing that I hate till there was no remedy and both o 2 Kings 17. 18. 20. 23. Israel p 2 Kings 24. 3. and Judah were removed out of his sight And it was the q Jer. 5. 12. 33. 17. false Prophe●s that perswaded them so to do saying no evil shall befall you and that the r Amos 7. 10. land was not able to bear the words of those who speak from the mouth of the Lord And it vvas the High Priests and the Chief of the Jewes and the devout and honourahle so called that crucified him that spake from s 1 Cor. 2. 8. Luke 23. 10. 13. 23 24. Acts 13. 5. 14. 19. 17. 17. 14. 2. 5. 17. 5 6 7 8. heaven and stirred up the Rulers of the Synagogues and the multitude to oppose and persecute his Apostles vvhom before they disturbed not And as to the t See Magna Charta Stat. Westm Petition of Right The trialls of the late King and of Strafford and Canterbury ancient Law of this Nation It is a special Fundamental That none be taken or imprisoned but according to the Law of the Land viz. by lawful Warrant or Mittimus of one or more who are lawfully authorized under his or their hands and seals which Warrant or Mittimus must contain the cause of the Commitment and must conclude Until he that is Committed be delivered by Law for above all things the Law doth value the Liberty of a mans person Therefore complaint was made in the Parliament 3. Charles against the King

Chief in Authority may consider whether this be not an endeavouring of the subversion of the Fundamental Lawes and Liberties of the English Nation and a very sad and high oppression under which those honest people in that City do sigh and groan and fit to be enquired after Order of Sessions That if any such disturbance trouble or other disquietment be hereafter made done or committed in the Churches as aforesaid the Minister be also desired not to hold dispute or other publique debate there with the Party or parties so offending but to perswade the hearers to repair home quietly to their severall Families and habitations and not to hearken to or runne after them Reply Poor Priests who being not able to defend before the people what you deliver to them as Doctrine nor to make appear to the faces of those whom you falsly accuse and rail on as Antichrists Seducers c. that they are such Nor to try what shall be said to you from the Lord nor to answer the Queries sent you long since by those whom you oppose Nor to prove your selves true Ministers of Christ as you professe your selves to be Indeed it concerned you to obtain the Magistrates Sword to guard your Pulpit every way though contrary to Law that none by speaking may put you to it And that if any shall so do you may refuse to reply lest you offend the Magistrates who have desired you the contrary And for you this is an easie answer People Repair home quietly to your habitations and Families and do not run after nor hearken to these men 'T is the Magistrates desire we should so perswade you and that we hold no publique dispute or debate with them Oh ye Generation of blind Guides Are ye not ashamed to pretend your selves Ministers of Christ and yet dare not to submit your Doctrine before the people to whom you speak to be tryed by the Scriptures Are ye not ashamed to accuse charge and bely others who are absent in the place where you would be accompted to speak as the Oracles of God and yet dare not hear them make good what they assert and clear themselves to your faces before those to whom you have accused them Do ye not blush to be guarded by a materiall sword and to have recourse thereunto that none be permitted to oppose and examine what you deliver and if any shall attempt to do it be the occasion what it will he must be silenced and his person imprisoned and perhaps his brains knockt out by the rude multitude who make up what you call your Churches And to stand under such a desire of the Magistrates not to debate not to dispute Ye disingenuous and dumb Shepherds Did the Prophets and Apostles of Christ so or the holy men of God Did they not speak freely and hear and answer freely and did they not approve what they said to the testimony of every mans Conscience in the sight of God yea even to those that opposed themselves Did they not go into the Synagogues and into the Temple and to Mars Hill and to the School of Tyrannus and to the Places of meeting where they came both of Jew and Gentile testifying and reasoning of the things appertaining to the Kingdom of God the work of their Ministry Did the Athenians whom you call Heathens refuse to reason with Paul even in their Market-place daily and on Mars Hill concerning their Idoll gods which were made with hands or of Jesus whom he preached and declared to be the onely true God blessed for ever or did they tumult him or desire the Magistrates to imprison him for so doing Might they not all speak one by one in the Churches of Christ who were living stones built upon the living Foundation And when any thing was revealed to another that sate by was not the first to hold his peace and when the 1 Cor. 14. 23 24 25. unbelievers and unlearned came in did they tumult beat or imprison them or were they not convinced of all and Judged of all and so the secrets of their hearts being made manifest fell down on their faces worshipping God and reporting that God was in them of a truth Were that a Church which you say is so and were they unbelievers and unlearned that come in amongst you according as you say Is the Spirit that ruleth in you and your actions such as doth convince them so and make manifest the secrets of their hearts that falling down on their faces and worshipping God they report that God is in you of a truth Or are not your actions such as Cain's who hated and therefore slew his brother and the spirit that is in you that of the evill one even of the Prince of this world that ruleth mightily in the Children of disobedience as your fruits make manifest Did they call to the Magistrates for help in this or any thing belonging to the Kingdome of Christ which consists in spirit and in power and is to be managed and carried on by weapons onely of the same spirituall nature Nay did not the false Prophets Chief Priests Scribes and Pharisees and those who stood in their generation apply themselves to the Magistrate against them yea to the people Ye men of Israel help made they not tumults and insurrections and stirred they not up persecution against Christ and his Apostles thorough all the parts where they preached Were it not the Jewes who went from City to City and from Region to Region to stirre up the Gentiles against them who before heard them quietly and amongst the Jewes were it not those who are called the devout and honourable that raised the persecutions And who believing not and being moved with Envy took unto them leud fellowes of the baser Acts 17. 4 5 6 7. Acts 13. 50. sort gathering a Company and setting whole Cities in uproares assaulting houses and seeking to bring them out to the people Crying out to the Rulers these that have turned the world upside down are come hither also whom Jason hath received and these all do contrary to the Decrees of Caesar saying that there is another King one Jesus As it is at this day Is it not a shame to all men of Natural Learning to be thus defended none to oppose none to object against what is publiquely held forth as Doctrine upon pain of tumults and imprisonments if there be but an attempting to speak Do ye not blush to be under or desire such a protection whereby you may speak lye falsly accuse rail blaspheam yea and what you will in your Pulpits and none must question you publiquely under the penalties aforesaid Well! you are out of the Doctrine of Christ and his Apostles and ere long yea the day is at hand wherein your Baal must plead for himself and even those who guard him and his Prophets shall be content to have the tryall before the people which is the God that answereth by fire and shall deliver