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Cains off-spring demonstrated, as by their works they are discovered in a bitter persecution against the Lords people at Newark Upon Trent, in the county of Nottingham: being here truly related as it was suffered and executed at two several meetings. / Published for the truths sake, by those whom the proud in heart calls Quakers.
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Cains Off-spring DEMONSTRATED As by their Works they are Discovered in a bitter Persecution against the Lords People AT NEWARK Upon TRENT in the County of NOTTINGHAM Being here truly Related as it was Suffered and Executed at Two several Meetings Published for the Truths sake by those whom the proud in Heart calls QVAKERS IT being so Ordered by the Lord that a clear way was opened and a place obtained for the Lords People to meet in at Newark freedom was given from the Lord to appoint a time to meet together and upon the 7th day of the 9th Month 1659. being the second day of the Week a Meeting was ordered in Gods wisdom and the Lords People came up to it at whose appearance in the Town the rude multitude gathered in the streets and stood filled with envy and made a great noise with shouting for a long time until most Friends were come together And being met in the Name of the Lord and waiting in his fear the Word of Life was declared by William Dewsbery the Servant of the Lord in which time the rude people gathered into the Meeting and the wicked one appeared in them and much rudeness was committed by them for a long time together yet through all was the Word of Life preached and supplication made unto the Lord in Prayer by his servant in which time some bloud was spilt by the hands of the wicked and then an envious man got behind him and ran violently upon him to throw him down from the Table where he stood and others stood ready to lay hands upon him to pull him away and got hold of his garment and rent it but the Lord delivered him out of their hands and in all this time none in Government appeared to order the people in peace only one Christopher Wilson an Alderman in the Town came into the Meeting and at his first coming in he did a little rebuke some of them but after he departed which was in a little time they were heightned in their wickedness and did abide in much rudeness for a long time together and then the Lord appeared and brought them down that they stood in a pretty stillness until the Lords Servant had born forth his Testimony in the power of his spirit and the Meeting broke up in pretty order so after a season of time the bowels of Compassion opened towards the people again and another Meeting was appointed at the same place the Keeper of the House whose Name is Thomas Ailsby being free thereunto and it was ordered upon the 11th day of the 10th Month 1659. being the first day of the Week at which time the Lord brought many of his People together who in his fear waiting a ministration was given in his power and the Truth of God was declared for a season of time but the Enmity grew so strong in the wicked who then was gathered together that the flame kindled in their brest and suddenly brake forth into flames without that such things were thrown amongst us by them which in the mischief of their hearts they had invented as brake forth into violent burnings and one Thomas Heaps an Apothecary in the Town was chief in the Invention of this desparate wickedness and then the Lord moved and his Name was called upon in Prayer in the power of his spirit in which time one of those things was cast at the Friend who was Praying unto the Lord and it brake near unto his face with much violence that the Garments of Friends was much burned with the flames thereof but the Lord preserved their bodies that the flames had not power of them And after all this done and we still kept together in the fear of the Lord then they began to pull us down from our standings with much violence and such a Tumult was then made by them for a long time together as cannot be expressed some pulling us down and pushing us about others got upon the heads of Women and sate upon them others throwing Forms and Stools about to do mischief and others pulling off our Hats and casting them away so as some were lost After this came William Hobman called Mayor William Martin and Benjamine Wilson called Aldermen and when they came amongst the rude multitude the Mayor enquired of them where those were that made such a disturbance and asked what we did there and why we did not get us gone and why the man received us to his House And said to some Friends That if we would not be gone if they knockt us on the head we might take the mends on our own hands and then he and the Aldermen with him came to the door where we were in peace together and his eyes beheld us so Then at the door a Friend met him and told him That if he had the Government of that Place he was to order the people in peace To which the Mayor Replyed There was such a disturbance made and the Town was of such an Vproar that it was unpossible for any Magistrate in England to quiet them but he was come to protect us from them if then we would depart out of the Town So Answer was given him by a Friend That we were ordered thither by the Lord and as we had freedom in the Lord we should depart and it was the Lord that protected us whereupon the Mayor Replied We were a people that justified our selves It was Answered him That we denyed our selves and were justified by the Lord and if we were of the world the world would love its own The Mayor Replied He did not understand that but if we would then go He was there ready to protect us but if we would not we might take what followed How unlike was this man to the Ruler of the Synagogue who when Paul and others with him were ordered into the Synagogue they sent unto them saying Ye men and brethren if ye have any word of Exhortation for the people say on Acts. 13.15 They went into the Synagogue and this liberty was given them by the Rulers but the Ruler of Newark came unto us where we were in peace together and enquired what we did there and why we did not get us gone saying If they knockt us in the head we might take the mends on our own hands if we would not be gone Here was not liberty given for a word of Exhortation to be spoken unto the people nor liberty to abide but in danger to be knockt in the head This is a shame for a Ruler to be so void of understanding as to know his place no better So this Ruler departed and the Aldermen with him and left the rude Multitude in the height of their fury and strengthned them in it and as it was affirmed by many of them commanded to drive us out of the Town which they stood ready to perform and so came and broke in upon us as the Truth was declaring amongst us and got to the far
end of the Room and violently thrust us down both Men and Women and some was buffetted there and when they had thrust us down the stairs the Multitude had set themselves to execute the mischief of their hearts many of them had got staffs in their hands and had set themselves like a lane for a long way together and violently fell upon us with sore stripes buffettings knocking down throwing down bunching and stoning that some had their teeth knockt out some their faces beat into blacknesse Womens head-cloaths pulled off from their heads and bloud spilt the execution of which Cruelty cannot be expressed nor the stripes and blowes that then were laid upon the Innocent numbred and this was for a long time together executed upon above an hundred of us whose persons were all much exercised in this great suffering and cruel persecution and some had their Bridles and Saddle-girths cut that about one Friend there was above twenty Knives all drawn together And through all this our God appeared to preserve life and our deliverance was by his own arm Praises and Glory be unto him for ever And this Cruelty was exercised upon that day which they call their Sabbath and in that very time in which some of them were at their professed Worship And this was suffered and encouraged by him who in his place should have settled the people in quietnesse and peace yet there was a few appeared in some moderation and one Francis Fitz-Williams an Alderman was made serviceable to many Friends in taking off the wicked from exercising their Cruelty to the full and his Compassion did much appear towards the patient sufferers and they did not cease their Cruelty whilst any of us were left in the Town only one that did abide all night And thus did the Beast with his horns push and make War with the Lambs who in their innocency are justified in the sight of God and this is given forth that Truth may be cleared and the workers of iniquity may see themselves and come to Repentance before the fierceness of the wrath of God take hold upon them Therefore all you people of the Town of Newark who had any hand in this desparate wickednesse or whose hearts were joyned by consent Repent of your evil-doings from high to low for you are all proved and your way is tryed and your work is cursed and the wrath of the Lord is kindled against you Therefore unto thee who art called Mayor this is the word of the Lord God Repent repent that thy sins may be blotted ut and thy iniquity pardoned before the day of vengeance take hold upon thee for the Cry of the Poor is gone up unto the Lord of Sabbaths and he will enquire after thee and his hand will find thee out for Cain was a Murtherer and his Brothers bloud cryed against him and the Lord enquired after him and found him out and his sin was charged upon him and the judgement of God went forth against him and then he cryed that his punishment was greater then he could bear Put not this far from thee but read it near thee for the Root of Cain is in thee and thy fruits have made it manifest and without speedy repentance his punishment will fall upon thee because thou hast set thy heart to do wickedly And all people both old and young who were in this disperate wickednesse either with your hands or hearts you are by us pittied whom you so much wronged for sad is your states when it is truly considered and if you do not repent you will all perish for the Righteous God judgeth righteously and will lay the wickednesse of the wicked upon their own heads and turn them all into Hell because he is forgotten by them Then how can you escape who commit sin with greedinesse and runs to do violence with both hands performing the mischief of your hearts against the Innocent who seeks no revenge upon you but rather that ye might come to repentance escape the fierceness of Gods wrath which will speedily overtake you if you go on in your wickedness and there shall be none found to deliver you for he whom you serve is the God of this World and he hath dominion over you and at his will he hath you captive and you are his servants delighting your hearts in wickednesse and loving evil more then goodness Therefore wo is unto you from the Lord God because you have sold your selves to do wickedly and we being witnesses of it are constrained to testifie against you and all the unfruitful works of darknesse that is brought forth by you Therefore do you hate us because the Divels work in you is reproved by us as it was by him who testified against the World and all the evil deeds thereof and the Scripture is fulfilled which was spoken by him They hated me without a cause and the Servant is not greater then his Master If they have persecuted me they will persecute you saith the Lord And the time shall come that whosoever killeth you will think that he doth God service Now read your selves and see whose off-spring you are for Cain was of the wicked one and he murthered Abel was Righteous and he suffered and so through Ages and Generations hath the Righteous suffered under the wickeds cruelty and as the birth born of the flesh hath alwayes persecuted the birth born of the spirit even so it is now for such were alwayes blinded who were of that birth that persecuted and so could never behold the appearance of God but turned against it in all ages for the Jews could not behold the Glory of the onely begotten of the Father when manifest amongst them nor could not believe that it was he but called him a Deceiver and a Blasphemer and a Prince of Devils and so took Councel together against him and by wicked hands crucified and slew him and these are your fathers O ye viperous Generation whom you are following and filling up the measure of iniquity turning against the Life of him whose Glory now appeareth and this will be your condemnation that light is come into the world and you love darknesse rather then light because your deeds are evil Therefore repent of your evil deeds and love them no more but turn to the Light that reproves you for them in your own conscience and love the light which searches you in secret and that will let you see wherein you have erred and how unlike reasonable men you have acted without either sobriety or moderation and it will smite you in your inward parts for all your transgressions and wound you in the secret of your hearts for all your sins and this is he of whom we testifie who is the True Light that lighteth every man that cometh into the World that you all may unto him be turned for he hath no pleasure that any of you should die but rather that you would turn from your wickednesse and