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To those that have been formerly in authority, and have broken covenant with God & man. By G.F.
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Fox, George, 1624-1691.
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Wing F1963; Interim Tract Supplement Guide 4105.de.2[3]; ESTC R28014
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TO THOSE That have been formerly in AUTHORITY And have broken COVENANT WITH God Man By G. F. LONDON Printed for Robert Wilson and are to be sold at his Shop at the Sign of the Black-Spread-Eagle and Windmill in Martins le Grand To Those that have been in Authority c. Friends NOw are the Prophesies fulfilled and fulfilling upon you which was spoken to you by the People of God in your Courts in your Steeple-Houses in your Towns Cities Markets High-ways and at your Feasts and Pleasures when you were at your height of Authority in your Highnesse and puft up that you would neither hear God nor man though raised up from a mean Estate none to come nigh you without bowing or the respect of persons and were in the worlds way Complements and Fashions and set down at ease in the spoyle of your enemies Which for Conscience sake toward God they could not go into which they were Redeemed from Therefore they were by you hated for that cause but now you may consider the thing is come upon you which we told you of who exalted your selves above your Brethren and threw the just and harmless from among you until at last God hath thrown you out and when you cast the innocent out from among you then you fell abiting one at another until you were consumed one of another and so the day is come upon you which before to you was told though before you would not believe it And is not your hearts so hardened that you will hardly yet believe though in captivity and was it not told you when you spilt the blood of the Innocent in your Steeple-Houses in your Markets in your High-wayes and in your Cities yea and Courts by such as spoke the word then and could not put off their hats that if something did not arise among your selves to avenge the blood of the Innocent there would something come from beyond Sea which lay reserved there which the Arme of Flesh and strongest of Mountains cannot withstand the Arm of God yet you would not consider nor regard nor hear but cried peace peace and feasted your selves and sate down in the spoyle of your enemies and were both treacherous to God and man and who will trust you now and have you not taken COVENANTS and OATHS and made the Nation take COVENANTS and OATHS and broken both Covenants and Oaths bewixt God and man and made the Nation both break both Covenants Oaths So that nothing but hypocricy and rottenness and fals-hood and fair pretences were seen amongst you And after when you pretended to set up the Old-Cause it was but your filliness so that you long stunk to sober people which saw that no good you would do but it was a joy to any of you to get up in Authority that you might have praise and them that were in the self-denial were a derision to you amongst whom That was banished and so become the honored and respected Nations Masters and not Servants for the greatest of all must be the Servant to all and so there you lost your Authority not considering your states from whence you were to what God had raised you up but forgat the Lord and have quencht that which is good in your selves and have persecuted them that lived in it so that an honest man could not live amongst you but put out till you were overthrown your selves and so were grown so gross perverse that at last you are neither fit for God nor man Have you not used to call the Quakers the Phanatick people and the giddy heads but whether are you now giddied into Cains City of Nod which signifieth wandring And have you not persecuted and imprisoned till death such as God hath respect to and now hath he reproved you for their sakes by them whom ye have hated Was not many of you cut off and yet would not take warning for your persecuting was not there a book of Exaples set out unto you shewing what sudden and strang deaths happened upon the persecutors of the Innocent without a cause and yet ye would not take warning until the over-flowing Scourge come upon you Are not you them that have killed like Cain that killed about your Sacrifice hath not God Vagabonded you that you should become a Curse upon the earth doth not the blood of the Righteous cry out of the ground for Vengeance will not the blood of the Righteous be required did you think that the Lord would let you fit alwayes with bloody hands and fists of wickednesse what is become of all your feasts and fasts or the prayers and blessings of your Priests hath the Lord heard you or your Sacrifices hath he had respect unto do you not see that its all hypocrisie and from a false heart will not the Priests pray for the KING now as fast as they prayed against him for the PARLIAMENT to keep their benefices who once prayed against him and said Cursed was he that did not fight against him Now what is become of your Sacrifices you Persecutors hath God had respect to them or are they gone where Cain went O the falsnesse of heart and treacherousnesse and security that you were grown to that you could not trust one another have not you caused the Nations and caused the Souldiery both in arrears and in wages to suffer was the Nation behind in their Taxes and have not the Souldiers bin like to starve for want of their pay have not you been false to God and man every way opprest the Nation every way almost all people had a cry of oppression in their mouths and when they petitioned you and addrest to you it was a great thing if they had thanks from you and some when they laid their grievances before you you would not take it except they put of their hats Now your place had been to have sought to have done Justice if you had known your places for that is it that preserves a Nation So have not you been the greatest Prayers and Preachers and Professors in the Nation and the greatest Persecutors for how many thousands have been brought up to you and laid before you that have been Stockt and Whipped Banished and put to Death and their houses Rifled and their goods spoyled by your great Professing and Preaching Priests as ever did the Tories and Moss Troops which made your Religion lothsome and made the honest people discent from you but now have you your reward and the day of the Lord is come upon you nevertheless God hath reserved a rod in store for them that do wickedly that none should rejoyce in wickednesse and in the downfal one of another but in the Power of the Lord that doth overturn which is seen with the pure eye that lives in Justice Truth and Righteousness and the Ravenous Lyons must not be Satisfied but must suffer hunger the reward of the hypocrite is to be paid and persecutors were