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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29355	To the mayor, aldermen, majestrates and officers of the military force in the city of London and county of Middlesex for you to receive and in patience to consider.	Brewster, Humphrey.	1662 (1662)	Wing B4435; ESTC R31628	3,985	8

TO THE MAYOR Aldermen Majestrates and Officers of the Military Force in this City of LONDON and County of MIDDLESEX for you to receive and in patience to consider MEN and Brethren in the fear of the Lord I beseech you every one of you to walk humbly in the places wherein you are set and also warn you that you beware of pulling Innocent blood on your own heads though some of you with the Jews may not matter it if our blood should be on you and your children Yet know this if ye shed it or cause it to be shed it will prove a burthen heavie for you to bear even as the innocent blood of Jesus proved a burthen heavy for the Jews though they in haste cried out his blood be on us and our children I write unto you Magistrates that you may consider though Naboth was put to death by the commandment of Jesabel yet Ahab leaving his seal so carelesly that his Wife could come at it though Ahab himself lay upon his bed yet the blood of Naboth was laid to Ahab's charge and withal know this that we dare not part with the Inheritance which the Lord giveth us though with Naboth we should be stoned to death for it Therefore oh ye Magistrates was not the late made Law against us who in scorn are called Quakers enough but do you now leave your seals so carelesly that others may take them and send Souldiers into our peaceable meetings to abuse us by bruising some of our bodies to the je●pardy of some of our lives Therefore oh ye Rulers know this that ye ought to bear the Sword of Justice and not to bear it in vain but to see that it be born for the punishment of evil doers and for the praise of them that do well And I write unto you Officers of the Military Force that you may consider though Vriah was put in the Front of the battel by Ioab and slain by the ●word of the Children of Ammon yet his blood was laid to Davids charge Therefore know this that if the Souldiers whom you send shed our blood though the guilt will lie upon them yet it will also be laid to your charge Therefore I warn you in the fear of the Lord to take heed that ye bring not swift destruction upon your selves for we are a people that expect deliverance only from the Lord for I denie all that confidence that trusteth in a carnal weapon for our trust is only in the Lord God and how can we but Worship him who hath delivered us out of so many dangers which hath attended us Yea though we should with Daniel be thrown into the Lions Den yet we must serve the Lord because we know that it is better to serve him then to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season and some of those great abuses I would lay before you which of late have been done unto us de●iring you to beware of abusing the Innocent for surely my soul believeth hat the Lord will plead our cause and deliver us rom the hand of the oppressor Upon the first day of this week we being peacably met together in the fear of the Lord waiting upon him to do his will in that measure of his Grace which he hath bestowed upon us out of the great love that he hath to the Sons of men There came in one like unto a man but in the actions of Fury more like a bear robbed of her whelps passing through the body of the people laying about him with such a weapon that merciful men would be loath to strike Doggs with and some Souldiers following him shuffing us to and fro as if we had been the most contemptible of all creatures throwing some out into the mire and dirt one being wounded many receiving heavy blows which may be to the hazard of their lives my self being a spectator of some of those things not being ashamed of the Gospel of Christ because it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth And also consider how many of us have been put into nasty prisons amongst noysom stinks many of the harmlesse Servants of the Lord have gone out of Newgate sick in the time of this late imprisonment eight of which have died being taken away from the evil to come neverthelesse that will not clear those that caused them to be put in prison and now instead of carrying us to prison to die there Souldiers comes to our meetings to beat us and bruise us near murthering of some of us none of you having any just thing against us but as concerning the Worship of our God even as the Rulers of old had against Daniel and the Jews against Paul But as it was ever so it is now The seed of the bond woman persecutes the seed of the free woman But I commit our cause to him that judgeth righteously desiring with my soul if it be the Lords will that the worst of our persecutors even those that are posting head long towards Damascus may meet with that voice in the way which might make them to know it is hard for them to kick against the pricks And having written something of what hath been done unto us now I would desire to know how vice is beaten down Have the Stage players liberty to Act their Playes or are they hindred Have the Bear-baiters liberty to make a shew of the Creatures that were created for the use of man to be received with thanksgiving or are they banisht from the City Are the Ballad-singers singing Ballads up and down the Streets or are they restrained Are the Mountebancks the Juglers the Morris-dancers suffered to Act their Tragedies or are they not Are the Drunkards Swearers and Lyers lying in the Taverns and Ale-houses in their drunkennesse while sober people are kept in Goals Is not this the time that is spoken of because of Iniquity the Land mourns And now oh ye Rulers come let us reason together what have we done or what would you have us to do Who have we wronged or whom have we defrauded whose Ox or whose Ass have we taken Have we raised any Rebellion against the King that we should be thus persecuted Nay nay we abhor defraud and all such things we own true obedience either Active or Passive what we cannot for Conscience sake towards God perform in Active Obedience we are made willing to suffer as the Lord shall enable us in Passive Obedience till the Lord deliver us for our trust is not in the Arm of flesh but in the Living God But here is the reason that we are persecuted because the Lord hath called us to follow him because we dare not joyn with Wickedness because we dare not run into the same excess of riot as others do and as we have done our selves in times past Therefore as it is written we are killed all the day long we are counted as sheep for the slaughter And now consider seriously with that