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lord_n	day_n	time_n	week_n	12,399	5	9.7424	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65907	This to the King and his councel something in answer to an order made by the House of Lords for the breaking up of the meetings of the people of God in scorn called Quakers ...	Whitehead, John, 1630-1696.	1660 (1660)	Wing W1983; ESTC R20705	4,184	10

THIS TO THE KING and his COVNCEL Something in Answer to an ORDER MADE BY THE House of Lords FOR The breaking up of the Meetings of the People of God in scorn called QUAKERS In NORTHAMPTONSHIRE who are as the Sheep for the slaughter all the day long killed And a Representation of the innocency of the People of God called QUAKERS which meet to worship the true God in spirit within the County of Northampton In Answer to a false Information which behind out backs hath been given against us as it is upon Record in an Order made against us dated the 30th of Septem 1660. Subscribed by John Brown Clerk of the Parliament which hath been read both in open Sizes and divers Steeple-houses whereby people have been stirred up to persecute us LONDON Printed for Robert Wilson and are to be sold at his Shop at the sign of the Black-spread-Eagle and Wind-Mill in Martins l'Grand 1660. Something in answer to an Order made by the House of Lords for the breaking up of the meetings of the People of God in scorn called Quakers SOlomon saith That he that is first in his own cause seemeth just but his neighbour cometh and searcheth him And ye cannot be ignorant that true Judgement cannot be given between party party without hearing them both therefore it should have been your honor to have search'd out the matter charged against us by hearing our Defence as wel as the Accusation of our Adversaries which we know they cannot prove before you had proceeded to pass Sentence against us Therefore in the fear of God consider Have you not overshot your selves in passing an Order or Sentence against us without first hearing us and our Accusers face to face whereby that Christian Liberty which we have in Christ Jesus to meet together in his Name and Fear hath been infringed for men with armed force have come violently into our Meetings by vertue of your Order have molested us by dragging us forth abusing and imprisoning some of us when we were in the exercise of our Religion peaceably waiting upon God calling upon him for the good of all men which molestation tends to the violation of the Word of the King solemnly given That we should not be disquieted nor called in question for our Religion which doth not disturb the peace of the Kingdom And it wil provoke the Lord to anger against you if you go about to scatter those that he hath sought out and gathered into one Spirit to worship him whom he will keepe as the Apple of his Eye Therefore be wise and learn to know his Counsel that is from everlasting least ye be found fighting against him with your Laws and Orders but mind the Law eternal that God hath written in your hearts and let your Laws be according to that of God which was not made for the Righteous but for the Transgressors and judge no man before you hear him and know what he doth lest the Jews and Romans rise up in judgement with you and condemn you that profess to be Christians for their Law judged no man before a hearing Likewise you may remember that History declares how often the gentleness and simplicity of Princes hath been abused by malicious men till they have been wrapped in remediless calamities by satisfying the wills of such as make Religion a Cloak for their Covetousness Ambition and Envy which will flatter and bow to men of Power that they may make them the executioners of their malice who thirst after the blood of the Saints because they cannot give them money for that which is not bread nor drink of the water which they have fouled with their feet And least you should through the suggestions of fearful and unbelieving men who know not the Truth which is strongest of all and therefore think it cannot prevail against Errors without Magistrates help wrap your selves in those remediless calamities which to persecute the innocent will inavoidably bring upon you we cannot but represent these things unto you and also the manner of our Meetings more truly then they have done who have informed you on this wise That there are very great Assemblies of Quakers and Anabaptists conceived to be of Lamberts Party who meet frequently in very great multitudes in Northamptonshire plotting and contriving against the peace of Church and State frequently casting out and dispersing several scandalous Papers against the Ministers and their preaching the truth in Churches to the great discouragement and scandal of good people To which we answer for our selves who are called Quakers That our Assemblies be neither with multitudes nor with tumult for we are but as the gleaning of the Vintage even a small remnant neither of this nor the other mans Party as men conceive for we are redeemed from amongst the Multitude Sects and Parties by the Lord Jesus Christ who is our Shepherd and we are the sheep of his pasture nourished and fed by him and in his Name and fear do we assemble our selves together on the first day of the week and at other times as the Christians did not to disturb the Peace of the Church nor State but to worship our God in Spirit and provoke one another to love and to good works as also to make prayer and supplication for all men that they may come to the knowledge of the truth and be saved and that we may see the peace and tranquility of the land of our Nativity we do exhort men to lay aside all Clamor Bitterness and Envie come walk in the Light of the Lord that they may have fellowship one with another as we have who do in our hearts abhor all Plots and Contrivances tending to the breach of Civil Peace and Concord amongst men or to the shedding of mans blood for with flesh and blood we wrestle not neither are our Weapons Carnal but Spiritual with which we war against Spiritual Wickedness but as much as in us lies we labour to live in Peace with all men though some do esteem us their enemies because we tell them the truth and being filled with envy it breaks their peace to see us have a being in the land of our Nativity as it did Hamon's to see Mordecai sit in the King's Gate and such labor to mis-represent our honest intentions say That our Papers and Declarations are scandalous against the Ministers of Christ and their preaching the truth which Papers Declarations do not touch the Ministers of Christ who preach the truth in the Church which is made of lively stones but are given forth as a testimony against such as do in words profess to be Ministers of Christ but serves not the Lord Jesus Christ but their own bellies who every one seek their gain from their quarter feed themselves with the Fat and cloath themselves with the Fleece who preach for hire and divine for mony and prepare war against those who cannot for conscience sake put into their