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A89302	The cry of oppression, occasioned by the priests of Englands pulpit-guard, which is a popish law that was made by Queen Mary, to guard her friars and Jesuits. With a true discovery of the unjust proceedings of those called magistrates of Bathe; wherein is a lamentation over them, and a warning unto them to repent, lest they perish for ever. / By one which is hatefully called a Quaker ... known to the world by the name, Thomas Morford.	Morford, Thomas, d. 1693.	1659 (1659)	Wing M2728; Thomason E989_23; ESTC R204878	34,580	48

said should come in the last dayes of whom saith Christ Ye shall know them by their fruits Mat. 7.20 And these are the fruits of the false Prophets to wit sporting themselves with their own deceivings mark ye that are makers of Feasts with your Priests while they feast with you having eyes full of Adultery and that cannot cease from sin take notice beguiling unstable souls an heart they have exercised with covetous practises mark cursed children which have forsaken the right way of the Lord and are gone astray following the way of Balaam who loved gifts and rewards as ye Priests do the wages of unrighteousness 2 Pet. 2. from verse 1. to 15 from the 10 Verse of Jude to the 19. And in those two Chapters ye may read a true discovery of the Priest and false Prophets And thou George Long saidst at the time aforesaid to T.C. that the Quakers preach the Doctrine of the Pope to wit Perfection Now whether the Doctrine of Perfection be a Doctrine of the Pope or false let the light of Christ in all judge for the blessed God his servants and Prophets and Christ Jesus and his Ministers preached the Doctrine of Perfection the Lord said to Abraham Walk before me and be thou perfect Gen. 17.1 And Moses his servant preached perfection and said Thou shalt be perfect with the Lord thy God and not follow them that use Divination c. Deut. 18.11 12 13. David preached Perfection 1 Chro. 28.9 and said Know thou the God of thy Fathers and serve him with a perfect heart Hezekiah did witness he had walked before the Lord in truth and with a perfect heart and had done that which was good in his sight 2 Kings 20.3 And Solomon preached Perfection and said 1 Kings 18.61 Let your heart be perfect with the Lord our God to walk in his Statutes and keep his Commandements and Prov. 11.5 The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way mark George Long but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness And Isaiah that holy Prophet preached Perfection saying Thou wilt keep them in perfect peace whose minds are staid on thee Isai 26 3 4. And the Lord Jesus the everlasting Covenant of God preached Perfection saying Be ye perfect even as your Heavenly Father is perfect Mat. 5.48 And Paul his Minister preached Perfection not with enticing words of mans wisdom but in the demonstration power and Spirit of the Lord howbeit he preached wisdom amongst them mark that were perfect and therein did Paul strive and labour according to the mighty workings of the Lord in him mark to present every man perfect in Christ Jesus and therefore having these promises saith Paul see what the promises were 2 Cor. 6.3 last verses Let us cleanse our selves take notice ye that say that man cannot be free from sin on earth from all filthiness of fl●sh and spirit perfecting holiness in the fear of the Lord and he said they were not come to the Mount that might be touched but ye are come unto Mnunt Syon and unto the City of the living God Heavenly Ierusal●m and to an innumerable company of Angels to the general assembly and Church of the first-born which are written in Heaven and to God the Judge of all and to the spirits of just men made perfect And Epaphras a servant of Christ laboured fervently in prayers that they might stand perfect and compleat Read these Scriptures 1 Cor. 2.4 5 6. 2 Cor. 7.1 Col. 1.28 Heb. 12.18 to 23. Col. 4.12 Heb. 6.1 John 17.23 1 Iohn 4.12 17 18. Now let all that fear the Lord judge whether the Doctrine of Perfection be a Doctrine of the Pope yea or nay or whether G. Long which denies the Doctrine of Perfection doth not deny the Doctrine of Christ and so is an Antichrist 2 Iohn 9. and tells the people they cannot be freed from sin while they are on earth and yet saith if they have Faith to believe that Christ dyed for their sins they shall be saved and so applies the Promises to that nature which the judgements of the Lord are to preaching peace to the wicked to whom God hath said There is no peace and to confirm this Doctrine of imperfection tells people that Paul was a sinner and David was a sinner and that Iob was not a perfect man witness to this against thee George Long Francis Stokes of London to whom thou saidst when I sent by him to thee a few Queries which thou never yet answeredst which I shall send some of them once more with some others unto thee and Priest Sangers at that time thou saidst Iob was not a perfect man and so thou blasphemously chargedst God to be a lyar which said Satan hast thou considered my servant Iob that there is none like him in the earth a perfect man one that feareth God and escheweth evill Iob 1.8 Therefore thou George Long hast spoken wickedly against God Thou thinkest that he is altogether such a one as thy self but he is a pure and holy God and hath reproved thee through me the least of his servants and set thy sins in order before thee as Psalm 50.21 for although Iob said in the anguish and bitterness of his soul and spirit that mark if I should just fie my self my own mouth would condemn me if I say I am perfect it would prove me perverse yet the Lord said Iob was a perfect man and the Word of the Lord is true Iob said he was as one desperate and did confess his words to be as wind ch 6.26 for he was not suffered to fetch his breath by reason of the anguish and bitterness of his Soul and he desired the Lord to take his hand and dread off him And in all this Iob sinned not with his lips Iob 2.10 And Iob said My face is foul with weeping and on my eye-lids is the shadow of death mark not for any injustice in mine hands for all my prayers are pure and he said My Righteousness I hold fast and will not let go my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live here Iob did confess his perfect holy life Job 16.16 and 27.6 And the Lord said again chap. 2. Satan hast thou considered my servant Job that there is none like him in all the earth c. and still he holdeth fast his integrity although thou hast moved me against him to destr●● him mark without a cause Iob was a perfect man and none spake of me the things that were right like my servant Job saith the Lord God Almighty Iob 42.7 And therefore thou George Long art a forger of lyes who saidst Iob was not a perfect man Thou art a Physitian of no value and the wrath of God is kindled against thee and all you wicked ones who are searching for the sin and failings of the holy Fathers of old thereby thinking to keep people in sin for terme of life and also to hold up the horrible filthy thing in the Land

THE Cry of Oppression Occasioned by the Priests of Englands Pulpit-guard which is a Popish Law that was made by Queen Mary to guard her Friars and Jesuits With a true discovery of the unjust proceedings of those called Magistrates of Bathe Wherein is a Lamentation over them and a Warning unto them to repent lest they perish for ever Isa 10.1 2. Woe unto you that decree unrighteous decrees and that write grievousness which they have prescribed to turn aside the needy from judgement and to take away the right from the poor of my people Isa 33.1 And when ye shall cease to spoil ye shall be spoiled and when ye shall cease to deal treacherously they shall deal treacherously with you Psalm 12.5 For now will I arise saith the Lord for the oppressing of the Poor and for the sighing of the needy I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him By one which is hatefully called a QUAKER hated and persecuted without a cause a Prisoner for the Word of God and testimony of Jesus he by whom the world was made which said They shall hale you out of their Synagogues and before Magistrates and shall cast you into prison and if they kill you mark they shall think they do God good service Known to the world by the Name Thomas Morford LONDON Printed in the Year 1659. THE CRY Of OPPRESSION Occasioned by the Priests of Englands Pulpit-guard which is a Popish Law that was made by Queen MARY to guard her Friars and Jesuits With a true discovery of the unjust proceedings of those called Magistrates of Bathe Wherein is a Lamentation over them and a Warning unto them to Repent lest they perish for ever VPon the 27 day of the Third Month called MAY in the Year according to the Worlds Account 1655. I was moved of the living God to go into the Idol-Temple in the City of Bathe and there was one Priest Sanger Priest of Martins Parish near the place called Charing Cross in London standing up praying in the high place and as I stood by a chief seat in that Temple or Synagogue in which were two or three Priests there came unto me he whom they call their Sexton and said it was Prayer-time and would have had me take off my hat but I spake not a word unto him yet heard I a voice saying unto me The prayers of the wicked are abomination to the Lord. And the witness of God arose up in me very swift against the false Prophet and against all the rest of the false Prophets and Sorcerers that were there at that time from many places of the Land that was speaking lies in the Name of the Lord saying Hearken unto the W●rd of the Lord albeit the Lord spake not unto him neither did the Lord send him therefore did he not profit the people and so dreadful and terrible was the power of the Living God on me and in me that I did exceedingly quake and tremble his Word was in my bosome as a fire I was weary with forbearing I reeled like a drunken man and was ready to sink down to the ground so heavy was the burthen and indignation of the Lord in me against the Sorcerers and false Prophets But after a little while the Lord by his secret power did stop the mouth of the false Prophet which was speaking lies in his Name c. before I had spoken the Word of the Lord but then immediatly was I forced to roar out the burthen judgements and indignation of the Lord against the Sorcerers and false Prophets and the terrible day of the Lord a day of bowling howling that was and is coming upon them then presently they were in an uproar and he called their Sexton with others fell upon me haling and beating of me that Christs words might be fulfilled which said They shall beat you in their Synagogues and hale you out of them and hale you before Magistrates and cast you into prison c. And another as it was said cried out Stab him hear the fruits of your Ministry Then came the Constables that then were of the Town Robert Chapman and Walter Gibbs and haled me away presently to prison and as I was haling thither the bruits that held me by my arms did strive to break or wrest them but I was preserved by the strength and power of my God out of their rage and madness Praises to the Lord for ever On the next day I was brought before Iohn Biggs Mayor that then was and Matthew Cliff that then was called a Justice they asked me wherefore I came to disturb their Minister I answered the Lord sent me and truly so he did to bear witness against him for he was a deceiver and a false Prophet and hath deceived you but they were not willing to dispute the cause with me but sa●d except you give security to be of good behaviour you must go to prison again I demanded by what Law they judged me they answered they had a Law so I required to hear it then they commanded their Clerk to read their Law to me which was done and that Law they read to me and judged me by was a Law made by Queen Mary which killed and Martyred the servants of God called Protestants in her daies to guard her Friars and Jesuits But had not those that sate as my Judges been wilfully blind and ignorant as well as malitious but had had the least measure of the wisdom and spirit of God which ought to be the only Guide and Counsellor of all faithful and just Judges and Magistrates which judge for the Lord in Righteousness and not for gifts and rewards truly they would have found a clause in that Law whereby they might justly and truly have judged me guiltless of transgressing of that Popish Law it self for in that Law are these words that is to say If any one shall wilfully malitiously and contemptuously c. let or disturb any Preacher or Preachers in his or their Sermon c. that then they should suffer according to that Law But the Lord that searcheth all hearts and knows the secrets and intents of all hearts is my witness that I went not into that Temple or Synagogue at that time by the wilful malitious contemptible will of man but only in obedience to the movings and Spirit of the living God which movings are contrary to the will of man he that hath an an ear to hear can hear and understand yet so contrary to the true sense of the Law I was had to prison again Now let the light of Christ in all judge what ground the Priests stand upon and have for their Ministry that are not able to stand or defend themselves without a Popish Law to guard them neither they nor any else can deny it for it was read to me and by it have I been wrongfully kept in prison and by those that were the Ministers of it above nineteen months but I denied to