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A77136	For the inhabitants of Worcester to view and consider well of, especially they of Nicholas-Parish. The case of us, viz. Edward Bourne, John Knight, Joseph Allibon and Richard Hill, of Nicholas-Parish in the city of Worcester.	Bourne, Edward, d. 1708.; Knight, John.; Allibon, Joseph.; Hill, Richard.	1682 (1682)	Wing B3846C; ESTC R170729	3,951	8

every Man and Woman to do as God hath given them to believe they ought to do And if any do that which God hath not given them to believe they should do but forbear so to do or if in the least they cannot have satisfaction in themselves but they shall do amiss therein Will not such sin in so doing since the Apostle saith Let every one be fully perswaded in his own mind in what he doth For whatsoever is not of Faith is Sin Rom. 14.5.23 If this be your Rule ought you not to walk according to it But if you have a better Rule then this to walk by you may do well to let us know it So this is our case and thus it stands with us and here as in a Glass you may see where we are and upon what Foundation we stand And if you can find in you Hearts to open your Purses to part with Money to throw us into Prison and so to disable us from paying Taxes on the Poors account and other accounts which according to our Abilities we were alwayes ready to do and so to wrong the Poor and bring a heavier burden upon your selves which in likelihood will be in outward things as well as upon your Consciences which certainly will hereby be loaded and the righteous Spirit of God grieved in you to gratifie such persons whose Fruits declare them to be Envious and Malicious though they pray that God would deliver them from all Envy and Malice The Lord look upon it and judge between you and us herein These Wardens caused us to be cited into the Chancellours Court where we often appeared and wrote to them to satisfie them concerning our selves and to have satisfaction from them which they have not yet answered nor never will we believe through whose doings we are Excommunicated that is delivered up to the Devil as 't is said which is sad to consider of for we have done them no wrong and Christ says Love your Enemies Now if they were Christ's true followers do you believe they would deal thus by us We do not believe they would And do not these cry down the Papists for their Cruelty The Inquisitors in Spain for their grievous Persecution and say They are Antichristian therein But satisfie us who can whether a better spirit be the guide of these in these their doings then such are guided by And whether it be not one and the self-same Spirit which guides the one that guides the other But for what they have done against us we say The Lord forgive them From Your Friends and Neighbours Edward Bourne Joseph Allibon John Kinght Richard Hill Worcester-City-Prison the 1st of June so called 1682. Since this was writ John Knight was Imprisoned being Arrested on the account herein mentioned who is under a close Confinement with Edward Bournand also Richard Hill THE END Books Printed and Sold by Andrew Sowle at the Sign of the Crooked-Billet in Holloway-Lane in Shoreditch and at his Shop without Bishops-Gate 1682. NO CROSS NO CROWN Being a Discourse of the Holy Cross of Christ By William Penn. A Legal Examination of Abuses of LAW concerning 1. Forcible Entry 2. Imprisonment without Warrant 3. Riots Routs and Unlawful Assemblies 4. The publick Peace and breach of it 5. How Arbitrary and Illegal the late proceedings at Bristol are 6. Oppression and Duress by Goals and Goalers c. How contrary to Law What priviledge the Law allows to Prisoners Due Order of Law and Justice pleaded against Irregular and Arbitrary Proceedings By George Whitehead An Address to Protestants upon the present Conjuncture in Two Parts By William Penn. Humphry Smith's Books collected into one Volumn The Arraignment of Popery Being a short Collection out of Ecclesiastical Histories and Chronological Accounts of the State of the Church viz How long it was before the Vniversal Pope and Mass was set up and the bringing in of their Rudiments Traditions Beads Images Purgatory Tythes Inquisitions c. And the Cruelty they have acted since the Pope got up Also the manner of the Spanish Inquisition

For the Inhabitants of Worcester to view and consider well of especially they of Nicholas-Parish The Case of us viz. Edward Bourne John Knight Joseph Allibon and Richard Hill of Nicholas-Parish in the City of Worcester BEing Excommunicated and a Writ de Excommunicato Capiendo is come down to imprison us upon which Edward Bourne is closely confined who was a Prisoner before for no Evil except it be an Evil to exhort advise and perswade People to dwell together in Love [a] Note That if to do these things be accounted an Evil by any amongst you yet they are not so accounted by the Lord. and to be at Peace amongst themselves and to live in the fear of the Lord and to obey his Voice by whom we are all called upon To follow Peace and Holiness with all Men which is his Call unto all People without which no man shall see the Lord though they make mention of his Name and call upon him never so often see Matth. 7.21 and Heb. 12.14 He that readeth let him understand So consider whether it be Righteous in the sight of God to imprison any for perswading and advising People to do as above is mentioned especially when such believe they shall sin if they neglect the same So you see 't is for obeying the Voice of the Lord for hearing and doing what God speaks to us by his Son Christ Jesus by whom we are called unto Peace that this measure is measured unto us And consider if they must go into everlasting Fire who did not visit Christ in his Members in Prison what will become of them that cast them in 'T is not for us to be silent and to hold our peace and not to warn people of the danger they are in when the Lord makes us sensible thereof and requires it at our Hands Though it may be said concerning us We are no Prophets nor no Prophets Sons as Amos said see Amos 7.14 15. Yet the Lord who knows best what is to be done may call whom he will to such a Service as this he knows best who is the fittest for it Who said to Amos who was a gatherer of Sycomore Fruit and followed the Flock Go prophesie to my people Israel And to David the Lord said I took thee from the Sheep-Cote from following the Sheep to be Ruler over my people over Israel and I was with thee whither soever thou wentest and have cut off all thine Enemies out of thy sight c. see 2 Sam. 7 8 9 c. So can any know who are fit for the work and service of the Lord so well as he Will it not be a great presumption in any so to take upon them 'T is appointed for all to dye and after that to come to Judgment to bear and lie under the Sentence and Judgment of him that judgeth Righteously where people will be blessed or cursed forever And know that in the Grave will be no repentance So if the Lord make any of us sensible of the Misery he is bringing upon such as mind not his Call nor do not obey his Voice if we do not discharge a good Conscience towards them in warning them thereof will not their Blood lie upon us Will not the Righteous Lord who loveth Righteousness and requireth Truth in the inward parts require it of us See what the Lord said to Ezekiel See thou O Son man I have set thee a Watch-man unto the House of Israel therefore thou shalt hear the Word at my Mouth and warn them from me When I say to the wicked man Thou shalt surely dye If thou dost not speak to warn the wicked man from his way that wicked man shall dye in his Iniquity But his Blood will I require at thy Hand Ezek. 33.7 8. begin the Chapter and read to verse 10. You who shall read this consider thereof and the Lord give you understanding And now concerning our Case who are Excommunicated and a Writ de Excommunicato Capiendo is come down to Imprison us This hard measure is measured unto us by Unmerciful persons who mind not Christ's command To do to others as they would be done unto themselves Though they call themselves Christians and account themselves Christ's true followers but the Tree is known by its Fruit. Concerning whom we can say praised be the Lord therefore notwithstanding they have measured such measure to us The Lord forgive them and change their Hearts from Hardness to Softness from Stonyness to Fleshiness that they may be as God would have them to be who is merciful and kind and would have people to be so lest as they have done it be done to them again according as they have measured it be measured to them again For he shall said the Apostle and Servant of Christ Jesus have Judgment without Mercy who shewed no Mercy James 2.13 The Wardens of Nicholas Parish viz. for the last Year one of which is High-Warden this Year demanded a little Money of every one of us the whole they demanded was Eight Shillings towards the repair of the Church so called which we could not pay them because we believed we should offend the Lord in doing it and not because we loved our Money so well that we could not part with it So it was not for Covetousness-sake we were not willing to part with so much Money for we have parted with a great deal more many times as many know and that freely when by the Law we could not be compelled thereunto when we believed it necessary so to do which we did not nor do believe in this case to be necessary for us for reasons you may know more hereafter if occasion shall require the same than at present we may give you It may be what we shall say at present for our selves herein may be satisfactory to you However to such who are reasonable who desire to do to others as they would be done unto themselves Let us ask you why should we be forced and compelled by rigour to do what God hath not given us to believe we may do without offending him therein You may say You see no Harm therein Suppose it be as you say You see no Harm therein then you may come off the better when to God you must come to a reckoning to give account of all things you have done For 't is said The time of Ignorance God winked at I wish you may reform in what you see the Lord would have you come to a Reformation in But be it so as you say Must it follow that others must do so because you see no Harm therein when they believe it will turn to their Harm to do it Will it be safe for others to walk by your sight or by their own But tell us what is the good you see herein Are you the better approved of in the sight of the Lord therefore do you believe You may answer the Question if you see it meet Ought not