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sin_n	iniquity_n	lord_n	transgression_n	7,467	5	9.6456	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95605	Some prison meditations in the 7th moneth, 1657. Being a free-gift sermon mainly touching the religious robbers, or spiritual murtherers, the sermon and prayer-sellers of the the former, later and present times; even to the whole company of mystery-Babylons merchants and members a warning.	Taylor, Thomas, 1618-1682.	1657 (1657)	Wing T582; Thomason E929_1; ESTC R207617	12,954	24

poured upon the beast and upon the false Prophet and all their power shall be smitten in one day And O what wickednesse hath abounded in the people also to help up the measure of the Rulers sins that may receive the recompence together how have the people of all sorts abused the innocent lambs of Christ whom he hath called What beatings and stonings and bruisings and other abuses in Townes and High-waies and Steeple-houses its hard to be expressed and large to be declared some have been wounded nigh unto death others bruised till blood have gushed out and others cast down in the dirt and punched with feet and troden upon and many have been in danger of their lives some have been knocked down with staves and thir cloaths rent and their hair torne off their heads and some have been pursued after with throwing stones and dirt at them and many halled and tumulted and lugged and hurried up and down in cruel manner to the danger of life and oppression of the creature and others have been whipped and lashed and put into cruel torment of their bodies by engins framed of purpose to torment the bodies of the harmlesse as Chester and Carlile may witnesse and others have been halled before rulers and falsly slandered to the taking away of life if the Lord had not prevented more than mercy of men and having been unmercifully and unjustly sent to prison there have they suffered cruelties from the Goalers or their servants by beatings or punnishings or threatnings or cruel words and casting into dungeons and great abuses shamefully acted upon them and other prisoners have made a prey upon them by t●king away their cloaths and meat and beating of them and abusing them divers waies and murtherers have had more priviledge of freedom in prisons and in tryals than these who are innocent and these things thus acted contrary to their own law hath passed without reproofe from many in Authority though it have been brought to their door and in this manner have the children of God the Lamb and his followers been persecuted without cause or any evil works brought forth by them and legally proved against them but for well doing and not for evil hath the wicked vented their malice against them that the more the Beast and his power hath fullfilled wickednesse the sooner may be his destruction And O what scorning and reviling and lying and slandering and evil speeches with mockings and cruel words of envy and tearms of cruelty against the innocent hath this generation brought forth in this day wherein the dragon with his Angells hath joyned battel against the Prince of righteousnesse and they that follow him and whole Gog and Magog is gathered together to compasse the Camp of the Saints about and to fight against the beloved City the Judges and Rulers with their train of subservant officers as Bayliffs Clarks Goalers Constables with all that to those belonged have with a high hand persecuted and laid oppressions by hard-heartednesse upon the backs of the poor and distressed and the scorners and liers and prophane wretches have bent their tongue against the just in uttering lies slanders reproaches back-biting nick-namings and false-accusing and all manner of evil speehes and false reproaches and the just have been burthened by all this and thus they that have been departed from iniquity have been a prey to Rulers to act their injustice upon and to the people to utter their slanders and to do cruelty against and the teeth of evil doers have been set on edge to bite and devoure and to satisfie their maliciousnesse upon the sufferings of the upright people and from the Judge upon his throne to the begger upon the high-way all have had their hand dipped in this cause of cruel and unjust persecution and the Lord hath considered and harkened from his holy habitation and numbered up the summe of all your iniquities that he may repay and recompence upon your heads wo unto you unjust Judges and corrupt men who have abused your power And wo unto all that do oppresse by hard dealing who have offended the just and defended the unjust Wo unto all you scorners liers back biters and reproachfull tongues the Lord is coming to take an account Your sins cry for vengeance against you and though your hands and tongues have been strengthened to speak and act ungodlinesse by the evil example of your rulers yet your own iniquity shall you bear in the day of the Lord and though your rulers and judges have been strengthened in their unjustnesse and mercilessenesse by the false lying teachers and diviners of false visions which have seen vanity yet their own iniquity shall they bear every man shall die for his own sin Wo unto your teachers they have eaten up the sin of rulers and people and covered iniquity and transgression by flattering and lying words they have daubed with untempered morter and healed up the wound deceitfully and cryed peace peace to the wicked that have walked in the imaginations of their own hearts when unto such the Lord never spake peace And now whereas the Rulers and people have stretched forth their hands to vex the Lords people and have through unjust judgment and grievous oppressions and unmercifull dealings troden the innocent under foot and made them a prey to their mouth and divers waies have persecuted in cruel manner the followers of the Lamb yet also have the wise men of this world even the Priests and Teachers who have led the people and have caused them to erre and have set themselves as in battle array against the Lord and his way and people How have you hardened your hearts and made your forehead as brasse against the Word of the Lord and you have been as the fountain of all this wickednesse acted against the just and strengtheners of the hands of ungodly men the Heads and Ruler you have strengthened in their cruelty of false judgments by your arguments of strife in subtiltly you have been as nursers of all this persecution and wickednesse and have interceded for oppression to cause the just to groan whom the Lord hath raised to testifie against you the judges they have given regard unto you and the people they have taken you for examples who have been cursed presidents to the Rulers and people who have followed your cruel steps of malice and envy and from the head to the tail they have drunk in your poisonus doctrines and made themselves drunk therewith and out of reason in their furious zeal of madnesse and all have taken council together to slay the harmlesse from off the face of the earth some by false judgment and oppression and others by cruel abusings as beatings and stonings unheard of or unequalized in generations of late O ye Priests and Teachers and wise men and Scribes how many of you in this Nation joyned hand in hand to betray the innocent by your false doctrines and lying divinations and have filled and sought

if any put not into their mouths they prepared war against them and yet like all hypocrites vvould lean upon the Lord in vvords say Is not the Lord amongst us no evil shall come unto us And whether these murtherous Priests vvere not one with those that Christ Jesus cried vvo against in Matth. 23. who were sayers and not doers who loved to be called of men Master and bound heavy burthens upon the people and touched them not with one of their own fingers but shut up the kingdom of heaven against men and would neither enter in themselves nor suffer others And finally ask them whether such men now as stand over the people for Teachers though under another Name and making another profession in words yet if they be found in the foresaid steps doing the foresaid deeds of those forementioned false Teachers are not to receive the same judgement and to be cried against and denied and forsaken by all the children of light now as formerly yea or nay And now Hosea thou holy Prophet of God thou hast said and laid down these two Doctrines or high Charges against the people in general and against the Priests in particular The first That the people in general are polluted with blood The second That as Troops of Robbers wait for a man so the company of Priests murther in the way by consent How dost thou prove and make these good for the Gileadites are deeply concerned in it and they will have thee to make it good or suffer for default Yea by the spirit I make it good thus Gilead is a City polluted with blood because they are such as work iniquity and the Priests murther in the way by consent because they commit Iewdnesse And this is witnessed not only by the Scriptures but also by the same spirit of truth that gave it forth in all the children of light to be so But Hosea thou must not be tried per pares that is them of like condition or quality with thee to wit the holy Prophets and children of God who are Witnesses with thee against the abominations of their times and sins that rules in Priests and people for that will not satisfie nor serve the Gileadites turn for so the great men of all sorts in City and Countrey would be found faulty But these Priests and people think it fit according to their Nation-Law to have a Judge and Justices fit upon the Bench and to have a Jury of Inquest summoned and to have a Bill of Indictment found against thee and then if thou plead thy innocency and say thou art not guilty of doing them any wrong but only thou spoke as thou was moved by the spirit of God then thou must have as they pretend a fair trial for thou must know that the Gileadites cannot believe thy Witness nor any for thee from that spirit only but this fair trial must not be by spiritual men who only are able to judge of spiritual things for the Gileadites know not their voice no more then thine Oh Prophet but it must be further by another company of these men whom thou hast said are workers of iniquity and polluted with blood and so are parties and these must judge of thee and these sayes the world are a Grand Jury a company of substantial men of the Country sworn men Mark out of the Doctrine of Christ for his yea is yea and his nay is nay without an oath And these men the Grand Jury must bring in their Verdict as they call it against thee for they have found thee guilty for thou hast nothing on thy side but plain truth without mans testimony or an oath and the Judge of the Court one of the chief men among the Gileadites that is versed in Law matters thinks it fit thou should be fined to pay a sum of money for thy offence oh Prophet thou man of God! and be kept in prison Summer and Winter that matters not until thou pay it But what oh Prophet if thou hast neither liberty in thy spirit nor outward ability to pay thy Fine What course must be taken with thee Well for that O Prophet Gilead matters not but imprisoned thou must remain for so Gilead will be quiet of thee and thou cannot come into their Synagogues Markets nor other Assemblies to cry against their sins and disturb them for the people and Priests would live quietly in their sins and they would not be disturbed neither in the time of their service nor otherwise And Hosea that thou mayest have no occasion to find fault with the Jury or the Judge one of these Priests whom thou hast by the spirit declared to be murtherers and lewd men have taken an oath in open Court against thee and dost thou think that though ded for a witnesse against this generation of cruel hearted men whom the beast and false prophet hath raised in his defence and against the Kingdom of Christ Jesus and them that follow him how full have the most part of the prisons in all this land been with guiltlesse sufferers under cruel bondage with unjust dealings and false judgments have gone forth from some of your mouthes you that have been set to judge over the people who should have been a terror to the wicked but have rather strengthened the hands of evil doers and been a terror to righteousuesse so much as is possible the great whore which sits upon the beast hath made your Rulers drunk and stagger with envy and hatred and persecution and works of wickednesse against the upright Wo is me for you what have you brought forth even iniquity by Decrees and injustice by Ordinances and false judgment by Lawes alas alas your destruction cometh as an armed man upon you Was ever the like heard or any president in any generation before you for imprisoning just men for declaring against sin and the abominations of the times as you have done many and for imprisoning men because they cannot put off their hat to you and respect your persons and so transgresse the law of God and because they cannot swear and so break Christs command For this you have imprisoned many and caused them to suffer because of this may not you fear and tremble before the Lord God and your faces gather blacknesse at this when you consider it Did ever any that were set to judge in the earth among men so abuse their power and subvert it so quite to another end than wherefore it was committed to them May not shame cover you all to commit men to prison for the exercise of pure conscience towards God because they cannot swear or respect mens persons or maintain Idol-shepherds and Idol-temples and worships which is abomination to the Lord and for taking peaceable men out of peaceable meetings and out of their travel on the High-wayes and first whipping them and sending them to prison the example of this which you have done never went before in any age and therefore have