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A89302	The cry of oppression, occasioned by the priests of Englands pulpit-guard, which is a popish law that was made by Queen Mary, to guard her friars and Jesuits. With a true discovery of the unjust proceedings of those called magistrates of Bathe; wherein is a lamentation over them, and a warning unto them to repent, lest they perish for ever. / By one which is hatefully called a Quaker ... known to the world by the name, Thomas Morford.	Morford, Thomas, d. 1693.	1659 (1659)	Wing M2728; Thomason E989_23; ESTC R204878	34,580	48

Cross where that precious oyntment covering and living bread for your souls is And ye that say your humble servant Sir or your servants servant bowing and cringing using many vain words Are ye not lyers and hypoctites ye or nay And is not the woe from God to the hypocrite And is not the lyer for the lake when ye say your humble servant Sir c. Are not your hearts haughty puft up in pride and living in it And are ye not wanton scornets mockers and persecutors of the innocent Are these the fruits of true humility Nay nay see Gal. 5.22 23 24 25 26. and there ye shall read the declaration of the fruits of true humility and in the light of Christ Judge your selves and ye shall not be judged for ye that use that deceitful salutation saying I am you servants servant ye are of Hams Generation Gen. 9.25 And that that is in high esteem amongst men is abomination to the Lord. Therefore repent while ye have time for the day is come and coming that an account shall be given for every idle word And by your words saith Christ shall ye be justifyed and by your words shall ye be condemned Math. 12.36 27. Therefore all who to the light and life of Christ in any measure are come and by it are guided cannot use your vain words nor bow to your deceit not use your fashions which to them are past away and for that cause ye persecute them to death and no murtherer hath eternal life abiding in him 1 Iohn 3.15 But where do yeread in all the Scriptures that any did require any such thing as putting off the hat and fining of men and casting of them into prison if not done Did ever Moses who was as a King a Priest and a Prophet to Israel or David and Solomon who were Kings ever compel men to such a thing Solomon said my son give me the heart not the hat Is not the hat an ornament of the body may ye not as well compel the servants of the Lord to pull off their shooes as their hats And why do ye compel the male servants of the most high God to stand bare headed before you more then the Females Oh! the loftiness and haughtiness of man I will saith the Lord God of Hosts stain the pride glory of all flesh an woe to the crown of pride Do ye not shew your selves to be those whited Sapulchers which appear very beautiful outwardly or with a seeming humility but are within full of hypocrysie and all uncleanness And although some of you say Abraham Lot c. bowed yet they did not bow to the wicked but it was to the Angels or Messengers of the most high God although Jacob bowed seven times Blessed is he that readeth and understandeth Jacob was then in returning to his fathers house thus saith the Lord to you O ye Edomites or the house of Esau because Esau your father and ye his children pursued his brother with the sword did cast off all pity and his anger did tear as yours doth perpetnally and he kept as ye do his wrath for ever Therefore thus saith the Lord the house of Jacob shall now be a fire and the house of Joseph shall be a flame and the house of Esau shall now be for stubble and no one of your fathers house shall remain the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it And to whom then shall the seed of Iacob bow but unto me saith the Lord God of hosts whose alone right it is But may I ask you a question what spirit is this that is so much contending for honour before men bowings putting off the hatt c. Is it not that spirit that was in Saul when the spirit of God was departed from him Or is it not that that was in Haman that vexed him because Mordecai could not bow to him Or whether it be not that which was in the Chaldeans and Nebuchadnezzar who had prepared an hot fiery furnace to cast the Innocents in because they could not bow to there image Or is it not that spirit that would have had the Lord Jesus to have bowed or fallen down and worshipped him yea or nay which Christ reproved and said Get thee hence Satan It is written thou shalt worship the Lord thy God c. Mat. 4.10 11. But Paul saith concerning the holy fathers of old Abraham Isaac c. Brethren I would not have you to be ignorant that all our Fathers were under the cloud and passed through the sea c. But now the star of Jacob is risen the Cloud is scattering the Lord again as in the ancient of daies is smiting the tongue of the Egyptian Sea in the seven streams this is enough to the wise And all that but to Mount Sion are come a Law from God they have received which saith Thou shalt not bow c. And the Scripture doth testifie that Peter a Minister of Christ and his holy Angel did deny and forbid bowing unto them for when Cornelius would have fallen down or bowed to Peter he denyed it and said stand up for I my self also am a man Acts 10.25 26. And when the Angel came unto John Iohn 19 10. 22.9 Exod. 20 45. Deut. 5.8 9. Phil. 2.9 he fell down and would haue worshipped the Angel But he forbad it saying see thou do it not I am thy fellow-servant and of thy brethren the Prophets which keep the sayings of the book worship God which is a spirit And unto me saith the Lord God shall every knee bow both in Heaven and in earth So that it is evident that there is not one Scripture that doth require any such thing as putting off the hat or bowing But the Scriptures do testifie against it and forbid it as I have proved before except it be that of Solomon which saith The evill shall bow before the good and the wicked at the gate of the righteous And although Moses said Thou shalt stand up before the hoary head yet he did not say they should put off the hat or bow c. And as for you who are contending for flattering titles of honour which yee say Paul gave to Festus Agrippa c. Luke to Theophilus Iohn to the Lady c. This cover is too narrow for your deceipt in the light of Christ are ye seen judged and denyed for when Paul said noble Festus c. and O King Agrippa c. Paul spake as he found by them for they were more noble than the Tumultuous Jewes who took him to wit Paul with Sylas and cast them into the inner Prison Acts 26.22 23 24 25. and made their feet fast in the stocks And the Magistates rent their clothes and beat them uncondemned c. Acts 22.25 But when Paul came before Festus and Agrippa they were more noble than those aforesaid gave him leave peaceably to give an account of his faith and the hope that was in him

said should come in the last dayes of whom saith Christ Ye shall know them by their fruits Mat. 7.20 And these are the fruits of the false Prophets to wit sporting themselves with their own deceivings mark ye that are makers of Feasts with your Priests while they feast with you having eyes full of Adultery and that cannot cease from sin take notice beguiling unstable souls an heart they have exercised with covetous practises mark cursed children which have forsaken the right way of the Lord and are gone astray following the way of Balaam who loved gifts and rewards as ye Priests do the wages of unrighteousness 2 Pet. 2. from verse 1. to 15 from the 10 Verse of Jude to the 19. And in those two Chapters ye may read a true discovery of the Priest and false Prophets And thou George Long saidst at the time aforesaid to T.C. that the Quakers preach the Doctrine of the Pope to wit Perfection Now whether the Doctrine of Perfection be a Doctrine of the Pope or false let the light of Christ in all judge for the blessed God his servants and Prophets and Christ Jesus and his Ministers preached the Doctrine of Perfection the Lord said to Abraham Walk before me and be thou perfect Gen. 17.1 And Moses his servant preached perfection and said Thou shalt be perfect with the Lord thy God and not follow them that use Divination c. Deut. 18.11 12 13. David preached Perfection 1 Chro. 28.9 and said Know thou the God of thy Fathers and serve him with a perfect heart Hezekiah did witness he had walked before the Lord in truth and with a perfect heart and had done that which was good in his sight 2 Kings 20.3 And Solomon preached Perfection and said 1 Kings 18.61 Let your heart be perfect with the Lord our God to walk in his Statutes and keep his Commandements and Prov. 11.5 The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way mark George Long but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness And Isaiah that holy Prophet preached Perfection saying Thou wilt keep them in perfect peace whose minds are staid on thee Isai 26 3 4. And the Lord Jesus the everlasting Covenant of God preached Perfection saying Be ye perfect even as your Heavenly Father is perfect Mat. 5.48 And Paul his Minister preached Perfection not with enticing words of mans wisdom but in the demonstration power and Spirit of the Lord howbeit he preached wisdom amongst them mark that were perfect and therein did Paul strive and labour according to the mighty workings of the Lord in him mark to present every man perfect in Christ Jesus and therefore having these promises saith Paul see what the promises were 2 Cor. 6.3 last verses Let us cleanse our selves take notice ye that say that man cannot be free from sin on earth from all filthiness of fl●sh and spirit perfecting holiness in the fear of the Lord and he said they were not come to the Mount that might be touched but ye are come unto Mnunt Syon and unto the City of the living God Heavenly Ierusal●m and to an innumerable company of Angels to the general assembly and Church of the first-born which are written in Heaven and to God the Judge of all and to the spirits of just men made perfect And Epaphras a servant of Christ laboured fervently in prayers that they might stand perfect and compleat Read these Scriptures 1 Cor. 2.4 5 6. 2 Cor. 7.1 Col. 1.28 Heb. 12.18 to 23. Col. 4.12 Heb. 6.1 John 17.23 1 Iohn 4.12 17 18. Now let all that fear the Lord judge whether the Doctrine of Perfection be a Doctrine of the Pope yea or nay or whether G. Long which denies the Doctrine of Perfection doth not deny the Doctrine of Christ and so is an Antichrist 2 Iohn 9. and tells the people they cannot be freed from sin while they are on earth and yet saith if they have Faith to believe that Christ dyed for their sins they shall be saved and so applies the Promises to that nature which the judgements of the Lord are to preaching peace to the wicked to whom God hath said There is no peace and to confirm this Doctrine of imperfection tells people that Paul was a sinner and David was a sinner and that Iob was not a perfect man witness to this against thee George Long Francis Stokes of London to whom thou saidst when I sent by him to thee a few Queries which thou never yet answeredst which I shall send some of them once more with some others unto thee and Priest Sangers at that time thou saidst Iob was not a perfect man and so thou blasphemously chargedst God to be a lyar which said Satan hast thou considered my servant Iob that there is none like him in the earth a perfect man one that feareth God and escheweth evill Iob 1.8 Therefore thou George Long hast spoken wickedly against God Thou thinkest that he is altogether such a one as thy self but he is a pure and holy God and hath reproved thee through me the least of his servants and set thy sins in order before thee as Psalm 50.21 for although Iob said in the anguish and bitterness of his soul and spirit that mark if I should just fie my self my own mouth would condemn me if I say I am perfect it would prove me perverse yet the Lord said Iob was a perfect man and the Word of the Lord is true Iob said he was as one desperate and did confess his words to be as wind ch 6.26 for he was not suffered to fetch his breath by reason of the anguish and bitterness of his Soul and he desired the Lord to take his hand and dread off him And in all this Iob sinned not with his lips Iob 2.10 And Iob said My face is foul with weeping and on my eye-lids is the shadow of death mark not for any injustice in mine hands for all my prayers are pure and he said My Righteousness I hold fast and will not let go my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live here Iob did confess his perfect holy life Job 16.16 and 27.6 And the Lord said again chap. 2. Satan hast thou considered my servant Job that there is none like him in all the earth c. and still he holdeth fast his integrity although thou hast moved me against him to destr●● him mark without a cause Iob was a perfect man and none spake of me the things that were right like my servant Job saith the Lord God Almighty Iob 42.7 And therefore thou George Long art a forger of lyes who saidst Iob was not a perfect man Thou art a Physitian of no value and the wrath of God is kindled against thee and all you wicked ones who are searching for the sin and failings of the holy Fathers of old thereby thinking to keep people in sin for terme of life and also to hold up the horrible filthy thing in the Land

fierce Lyon hath trod it or passed by it no fool knoweth it nor the vulturous eye hath not seen it Isa 35.8 9. Iob 28.6 7. Querie 18. What is the first resurrection And whether ye can witness ye are partakers of the first resurrection Rev. 20.6 Querie 19. What and where is the tree of life and what is the flaming sword that turneth every way to keep the tree of life Gen 2.9 and 3.24 Querie 20. Whether ye have an infallible Spirit to Iudge and try all Spirits And where is that Spirit of truth which Christ said he would send that should guide into all truth and shew things to come Ioh. 16.13 I have here proposed Scriptures Chapters and verses to these Queries Because I sent some of them to a Priest by him to be answered and his answer was that they were not Fundamental And therfore for the sake of the simple hearted But not to fatisfie the lust of any that they may see the deceit and ignorance of their Priest who are ignorant of the Scriptures And also that ye may search the Scriptures I have here proposed them to you in publique The Lord that searcheth all hearts knows that I have no envy against the persons of you George Long and Priest Sangers or the Rulers of Bath or any other by whom I have suffered neither would I hurt the least members of your bodies if I might And I desire the Lord not to lay it to your charge in his dreadful day wherin ye must give an account to him with whom ye must have to do will ye nill ye for every idle word all the actions done in the body And I was as great a lover and follower of your Priests as some of ye are now But now the Lord having shewed me their deceit and abomination that maketh desolation Mat. 24.15 Isa 62.1 1 Ioh. 2.27 spoken of by Daniel the Prophet At it my soul is vexed and for Sions sake I cannot hold my peace till its righteousness shine forth in its brightness and its salvation as a Lamp that burneth He that hath an ear to hear can hear and understand And therefore I do charge and require you Priests George Long and Priest Sangers in the presence of the dreadful Lord God to answer these Queries by plain Scripture without giving meanings or consequences or imaginations hatched up in your carnal dark minds for the Scripture is of no private interpretation neither came they by the will of man but holy men of God spake them forth as they were moved of the holy Ghost and cursed is he that addeth to them or diminisheth from them Which if ye refuse to do you will plainly manifest your selves to be no Ministers of Christ for they are no more then what every Minister of Christ ought to know and to have the work of them wrought in himself to give an account thereof and of the hope that is in him with meekness and fear being required but Anti-christs and deceivers and keepers of the people in ignorace and blindness and ye will bring their blood upon your own heads And except ye speedily repent the day will come upon you wherein you will wish ye had never been born then you will remember me whom the Lord sent you to forewarn of those Judgments and indignations that will come upon you except ye repent for which message I have been imprisoned neer twenty moneths where I wait in patience on the Lord to be delivered in his time Let the light of Christ in all that fear the Lord Judge whether these be the fruits of the Ministers of Christ or not Rev. 19.19 And the Beast was taken and with him the false Prophet that wrought miracles before him c. These both were cast alive into a lake burning with fire and brimstone Because when I called ye refused I have streched out my hand and no man regarded But ye have set at nought all my Counsel and would none of my reproof I also will laugh at your calamity I will mock when your fear cometh and in your heat I will make your feasts and ye shall drink and be drunken and rejoyce and sleep a parpetual sleep and not awake Saith the Lord God of Hoasts T. M. A TESTIMONY Against the Worlds feigned Love and Salutations and flattering Titles As also against their false Accusations against them scornfully called Quakers touching Magistracy Ministry Scriptures Heaven and Hell And likewise against the Prayers and Songs of their Idol Temples wherein is a true Discovery of their eternal Destruction except they repent The world hath a love and loves its own And have several salutations and flattering titles giving to each as they think according to his or their place or estate or riches some saying How d' ee or I am glad to see you well others good morrow with a put off of the hat c. And others with bowings and cringing saying your humble Servant Sir or your servants servant c. And all is but feigned love and words proceeding from a deceitful heart for when poverty tribulations or any other afflictions come your love and feigned respect have an end Yet for fashion-sake which will pass away and have an end also if ye meet each other ye will still use your deceitful salutations to wit How d' ee or I am glad to see you well c. When sometimes if ye could avoid it ye would not see each other and also have secret envy in your hearts one towards another and would do any evil one to another in body or goods if it were not for some slavish fears that do possess you of the law and ye do backbite and revile each other behind one anothers backs and yet if ye do meet each other if envy and malice be not so great in you that it stops your mouths ye will say How d' ee I am glad to see you well c. when ye are not well in body or soul for envie destroys and consumes body and soul And where there is envie strife and division there is every evil work and that is not well 1 Cor. 3.3 Iam. 3.16 And ye that say I am glad to see you well c. know sometimes that the person or persons to whom ye speak are not well but want both food and rayment and ye some of you have it in great abundance albeit ye give them not those things that are needful and what good do your words do them Read Iam. 2.14.15.16 and 1 Iohn 3.17 But as for your souls food healer or covering ye are little sensible of it any of you whose hearts dwel in the earth what it is or where it is But did ye love and follow the light of Christ in you that checks you for sin and deceit and that shews you the hypocrisie of your hearts as is afore shewed unto you it would give you power against it and lead you into the kingdome of God through the

not if ye walk in their steps and ye will have their end except ye repent And as for you who are in Authority and act contrary to the pure law of God which ought to be your rule Deut. 17.18.19 and are acted by your wills and lusts and unrighteous Laws wereby we suffer deeply yet to you also are we subject in that we suffer under your great oppression without resisting of you which we rather chuse to doe than to disobey the royall Law statutes and judgements of the most high and holy God And Ministers of Christ we own who abide in the doctrine of Christ 2 Iohn 9. But Jesuites all that wicked Popish Generation we do them deny for they are as great enimies to the truth as it is in Jesus as the Priests of England are who abide not in his Doctrine and will use and are using the Servants of the Lord whom he hath sent and is sending unto them them to forewarn of the plagues and righteous Judgements of God that are coming upon them as bad as your priests of England have done who have given and are giving them a wicked example and your reward will be a like And the Scriptures we do own and are ours and are for the perfecting of us being given by inspiration of God and to us they are profitable for Doctrine and reproof for correction instruction in righteousness that thereby we may be thoroughly furnished to every good work of the Lord. And therefore all ye who are plotting and persecuting of the Lords chosen ones whom he hath redeemed and is redeeming with his pretious blood and by judgement Eph. 17. Isa 52. Isa 1.27 out of the worlds customes fashions words c. fining of them and casting them into prison for not bowing or putting off the hatt c. to satisfie your wills and lusts and some of you are afflicting and whipping and putting of them into stocks other stoning dirting of them in streets high wayes they not giving you the least offence in word or action ye are those that rob the Lord of his honour haters of Sion the Lord will plead with you all poor and rich by fire and sword and will cut your cords of wickedness asunder and ye will be as grasse that groweth on the house top that withereth before it be grown up wherewith the mower filleth not his hand nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosome neither will they which pass by say we bless you in the name of the Lord or the blessing of the Lord be upon you neither receive you into their house or bid you God speed for he that so doeth will be partaker of your evil deeds Psal 129.4 to the end 2 Iohn 10.11 And then will the prayers and prophesies of David which ye have made the Songs of your Temples unto which ye have added and diminished both words and verses Witness Psal 2. Psal 4. Psal 14. and 15. with many others therefore denyed by the Children of light will come upon you who are Confederates persecuting the innocent for ye sing your hearts are foul and vain and death in hast will fall on you and send you quick to hell except ye repent Will it not be just with the Lord to answer your prayers who are doing so wickedly Read and understand what ye sing Psal 5.6 9. Psal 55.16 Are ye not lyars and Hypocrites when ye sing All the night I wash my bed with tears c. My joynts in sunder break My heart doth in my body melt like wax against the heat c. My tongue cleaves to my jawes Are not your tonges at liberty uttering forth deceit And are not your hearts as hard as the nether mill-stone And do ye not spend the night in sleep and ease O ye simple ones when will ye be wise Do ye not know the lyar is for the Lake ye sing and say ye do not haunt with men whose deeds are vain to come into the house ye do refuse with the deceitful train ye much abhor the wicked sort it were well if ye did But are ye not some of them that are taking Counsel against the Lords annointed ones If ye say nay Then are ye not some of them that resort into the Temples or Synagogues called Churches Into which come all manner of wicked lewd persons The light of Christ in all your consciences shall eternally witness this to be truth and answer your condemnation to be just except ye speedily repent come out from amongst them touch not the unclean thing understand what you sing and read Psal 26. for the Lord is discovering the secrets of al hearts ye read or sing My wounds stink and and are festred so as loathsome is to see c. That ye go wailing all the day in doleful heavyness c. And ye say or sing ye roare for grief of heart and are not puft in mind and have no scornful eye c. How dare ye to be so presumptious to breath forth such abominable untruths before the Lord when ye are at ease clothed in rich arayment perfumed with sweet smells and are haughty scorners puft up with pride of mind living in wantonness ease and pleasure singing vain songs and times having eyes full of adultery c. By this ye may as in a Looking-glasse see and read your figure and also what blindness and ignorance your Preists have lead you into that ye are not truly sensible when ye sing whether it be for a blessing or a curse and therefore I was moved out of tender love to your souls that ye might come to consider aright of your condition to forewarn you of those plagues that ye ignorantly pray for to come upon you which will assuredly come upon you speedily except ye repent The light of Christ in all your consciences shall eternally witness me to be true and answer your condemnation to be just if ye sleight the day of your visitation and salvation proffered unto you T. M. THE END POST-SCRIPT THis Book should have been Printed long ago but through neglect of some and mistake of others it hath been prevented a great while yet now it comes not out of good season but may do its service to awaken the Witness of God in the Persecutors of the Righteous Seed that they may see what they have done and repent now before the last plague be poured out for the Viols of Gods fury is full to be poured out upon the head of the Vngodly so the service of this book is now in season to answer the witness of God in all men to which it is Commended