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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
saint_n	judgement_n	lord_n	ungodly_a	1,215	5	10.0738	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75788	A true declaration of the suffering of the innocent, who is hated and persecuted without a cause. Wherein is discovered the zeale of the magistrates and people of Banbury, persecuting and imprisoning them that are sent of the Lord in love to their souls to warn them of the evill of their wayes. Declared in a letter sent to William Allen, called justice of peace, with an answer to the false accusations charged upon the innocent. Also their proceedings laid open, and proved to be contrary to the Scriptures. / By Anne Audland, whom the world scornfully calls Quaker.	Audland, Anne, 1626 or 7-1705.	1655 (1655)	Wing A4195; Thomason E829_7; ESTC R207394	7,605	8

when you come into the pit remember you are warned in your life time And so your false accusation and blasphemy I do deny and the living God will judge between me and you The Burrough of Banbury in the County Oxon. Anne Audland THe righteous Judge of all the world is now arising to judge the world in righteousnesse and the people with equity And every tongue shall confesse that the Lord is righteous when hee comes to judgement and hee will reward every one according to their deeds And every tongue shall confesse the Lord is just For according to that in the conscience which is just and equall will the Lord judge whose Judgements are just and equall and every tongue shall confesse him just when hee takes vengeance upon the unjust And behold the Lord cometh with tenne thousands of his Saints to execute Judgement upon all and to convince all that are ungodly of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodlily committed and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken And such are they that walk after their own lusts and their mouth speaks great swelling words having mens persons in admiration because of advantage such will the Lord execute judgement upon in righteousnesse All you that are ungodly the Lord will reward you according to your deeds And all you that utter hard speeches against the holy one and blaspheme God in his Temple the Lord is coming with his Saints to execute judgement upon you and you shall confesse his Judgements is just that which convinceth you of your ungodly deeds and hard speeches by it you shall confesse the Lord is just when you are judged for your ungodly deeds and hard speeches And all you that have mens persons in admiration because of advantage you shall be judged righteously and you shall confesse that God is just and his wayes equall and God respects no mans person nor the Saints who comes with him to judgement respects no mans person for he that respects persons commits sinne and is convinced to be a transgressor of the righteous law of God but they who are guided by that which convinceth the transgressor they are kept out of the transgression and they do not admire mens persons nor respect mens persons But you that do are convinced to be transgressors and according to that which convinceth will you be judged by the righteous Judge who cometh with tenne thousands of his Saints and he will judge all you that respects persons for the Lord regards the rich no more then the poor but this is hee that the Lord regardeth who is of a humble and contrite spirit and trembleth at his word Such you do not regard who are poor and trembleth at the word of the Lord but you that respect persons scoffs at such as they go along the streets But the Lord will plead the cause of the poore who is now despised amongst you that respects persons you admire some mens persons because of advantage and ye despise others and persecutes the poore and goes about to make one an offender for a word which is none indeed and you set a snare for them that reprove in the gate that so you might catch the innocent they that are offenders indeed who can lye swear accuse falsly such have liberty such are set to ensnare the innocent to be as judges against the innocent and yet you profess your selves Christians Oh ●hat you were wise oh that you would co●sider your latter end how will you stand before the Ju●gment fear of God in the day when the secrets of every heart shall he judged by Jesus Christ who hath all judgment committed to him A●d behold he cometh and all the Saints with him and he rules and reigns in his Saints and sits upon his Throne But how will you stand at that day who now sits as Judges upon the Saints and cals them deceivers and persecutes them who are made free by the Sonne of God and in obedience to him suffers the losse of all things and are killed all the day long and are accounted as sheep for the slaughter● and are become a reproach and a by-word and a scorn even among you that professe your selves Christians and so the Scripture is fulfilled They that work wickednesse are set up and they that depart from iniquity becomes a prey to the wicked and the sufferings of the Saints is become a sport amongst you and you can stretch your selves upon your beds of ease and you do not remember the affliction of Joseph nor you have not knowne that all who live godly in Christ Jesus must suffer persecution And saith Christ As they have done unto me so will they doe unto you And the servant is not greater then his Lord. Now if you were Christians as you professe your selves to be then would persecution cease and not be found amongst you for Christians doth not persecute but you that live in such things are made manifest to all the children of light whose servants you are and you that are Magistrates who should punish evil doers such have liberty in the streets to scoffe and scorne to swear and lye and be drunk and you passe by these things but if any come amongst you to declare the word of the Lord against such things then the innocent are accused by them who live in such things and the innocent are persecuted and sent to Prison and may not know from you who prisons them what they are accused of nor see their accusers face to face is this according to the Law of God or is this as you would be done unto Consider of it and lay it to heart for the Lord will visit for these things I speak what I know and finde amongst you for I was accused and committed to Prison but I did not know what the accusers swore against me neither could I see my accusers but you took an o●th in secret and so I was accused and committed for that which I never spoke and had not liberty to answer for my selfe nor others had no liberty nor could be heard on my behalfe who was by when they say I spoke these words for which I am accused which would bear testimony that they heard no such things spoken by me as I am accused off and so the innocent suffers innocently and in the mean time wickednesse is at liberty and not onely in a corner but in your streets men lie and sweare and are drunke and the innocent is a prey unto ●hem and yet you do not lay it to heart woe is me for you that you should so slight the day of your visitation and so wickedly requite the Lord for all his goodnesse as to persecute his servants who are sent to warne you and despise h●s witnesses and shamefully intreat his messengers and them that comes to you in their own names such you receive but them that come to you in the name of the Lord such are a

reproach amongst you and the Lord is highly displeased with you for these things and he will make enquiry for blood you know that the blood of the innocent hath been shed in your streets one that came amongst you and offered violence to none was beat and abused and lost much blood amongst you and yet you are not ashamed to professe your selves Christians when as these actions proceeds from you and your care is how to wound the innocent secretly that so your deeds might not be brought to the light but it is in vaine for you to dig deep to hide your councell from the Lord Woe unto you that deviseth to worke mischeife in the darke and say who seeth us and consults together to shoot your arrows secertly against the poore The Lord sees you and knows your hearts and your very thoughts which you think against the King in your bed chamber there is a bird of the ●ire that carryes the voyce And the Lord will bring eve●y worke to judgment with every secret thing whether it be good or evill and the oath in secret shall be tryed and the Lord will sit as Judge amongst the Judges and you shall all be weighed and those of you that a●e found wanting the Lord will cast you by though you be as high and mighty as Belshazzar was and if you be angry with mee for telling you so and forewarning you in your life time the Lord will judge you for it for he is tender over his little ones and in as much as you persecute one of them ye do it unto him and you that imp●ison the innocent and they may not see their accusers is this according to the Law of God or is this to judge for God and not for man nor self ends without respect of persons They that were set over the people to judge them according to the Law of God were just men fearing God and hating coveteousnesse just men we●e to judge the unjust for the unjust cannot judge true judgement See what charge Jeh●shaphat gave unto them he set over the people 2 Chron. 19.6 7 9. Saying to the Judges take heed what you doe for you judge not for man but for the Lord who is with you in the judgement wherefore now let the feare of the Lord be upon you and take heed and do it for there is no iniquity with the Lord our God nor respect of persons not taking of gifts And he charged them saying thus shall ye do in the fear of the Lord faithfully and with a perfect heart Now all you that denies a perfect heart and are respecters of persons you cannot judge with a perfect heart and such are not judges for God who judges not not with a perfect heart but are respecters of persons but they who fear God and do faithfully with a perfect heart such Judges and Magistrates I own who are just men such rules for God and is a terrour to the wicked and for the praise of them that do well and such am subject to for conscience sake but they who were the servants of Christ Ministers of Chr●st when they were commanded by the rulers that which was contrary to the cōmand of Christ they said whether is it better to obey God or man judge ye and I say the same and they which command any thing contrary to ●he command of Christ which rules and reigns in his people and is one in the male and in the female such are not just men fearing God and judging faithfully with a perfect heart and such who do not fear God and have not a perfect heart such knows not the voyce of God but Christs sheep who follow Christ and are sent of God knows his voyce Now Magistrates and people will say how may we know that you are sent of God as Pharaoh sayd to Moses who sent thee and he answered the Lord sent me to bid thee let Israel go free and Pharaoh sayd I know not the Lord neither will I obey him and let Israel go free such are they who fear not God nor know not his voyce and such cannot discerne the things of God Magistrates nor people who fear not God and have not a perfect heart now consider if you judge me according to the Law of God when you heard all that was against me and did accuse me but would not hear the accused and the accusers face to face nor those that was by who would have witnessed against those untruths charged upon me but put them forth and said what have you to do here notwithstanding they said they came to bear witnesse to the truth see how Moses charged the Judges Deut. 1.16 17. saying Heare the cause between your brethren and judge righteously between every man and his brother and the stranger that is with him ye shall not respect persons in judgement but ye shall hear the small as well as the great ye shall not be afraid of the face of man for the judgement is Gods and Deut. 16.18 19 20. The Judges and Officers was to judge the people with just judgement thou shalt not wrest judgement thou shalt not respect persons neither take a gift for a gift doth blinde the eye of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous that which is altogether just shalt thou follow that thou mayest live and inherite the Land which the Lord thy God giveth thee now this is true Judgement and takes hold upon the unjust but here you do not act according to the Law of God who doth respect persons and doth not hear the small as well as the great which you have not done who have committed me to Prison and I had not liberty to speak face to face with my accusers and so I am falsly accused and imprisoned upon a false accusation he that knows all secrets is my witnesse and he will plead my cause and he will judge righteous judgement upon all the Heathen and the Lord comes with his Saints and this honour have all the Saints to execute upon the Heathen all the judgements written but the Heathen ought not to Judg the Saints but the heathen rages the heathen persecutes prisons falsly accuseth the Saints and the viols of wrath is now to be poured out upon the wicked and the Saints shall take the kingdom rejoyce in God for ever and ever which giveth them victory over the world and gives them strength to rejoyce in tribulation praises to the living God for evermore And so I warne you all people Magistrates and Teachers to feare the Lord God least his wrath and indignation break forth against you and the decree be sealed and he take you away with his grievous stroke and there be no remedy for God is my witnesse that my desire is for you that you may know the things that belongs to your peace so to you all I have cleared my conscience and I am free from your blood glory to the Lord for evermore who hath given me to beleive and suffer for the testimony of Jesus so I remaine a witnesse for the truth and a prisoner in bonds at Banbury for the truths sake who am innocent but falsly accused and slandered and reproached but the reproaches for Christ is my riches whose name in the flesh is The 5 day of the 12. month 1654. Anne Audland FINIS