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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40257	Something in answer to a law lately made at the first sessions of the General Court held at Boston in New-England, May the 28th, 1679 : and published by their order, Edw. Rawson, Secretary : the title of the law, viz. Meeting-houses not to be erected without licence, &c.	Fox, George, 1624-1691.	1679 (1679)	Wing F1911; ESTC R36421	11,382	20

the Kingdom of God and those things that concerned the Lord Jesus in his own Hired House and no man forbidding him and received all that came in unto him to wit his Hired House So Paul had a Meeting-place in his Hired House for all that came unto him But the New-England Priests and Governours it seems would have forbidden him if they had been in that day and not let 〈◊〉 an House to Hire for Paul to preach Christ in no more than you will now let the People of God called Quakers have Meeting-Houses and Wayes unto them And was not the Church in Philemon's House so was not his House a Meeting-place see in Philemon And doth not Paul say in Col. 4.15 Salute the Brethren which are in Laodicea and Nymphos and the Church which is in his House Had they not a Meeting-place then in his House to worship God in And Priscilla and Aquilla the Church was in their House Rom. 16. and had they not there a Meeting-place then in Priscilla's House to worship God in And the Apostle Paul saith in 1 Cor. 14. When the Church is met together in one Place Now though the Church did meet together in one Place or in a House yet the Church is built upon Christ the Rock which the Gates of Hell cannot prevail against as in Matth. 16. So it is not like for the New-England Magistrates and Priests for them to prevail against this Rock nor the Church that is built upon it neither can they sell this High-way of Light and Righteousness that leads to it But what if the New-England Governours Priests had lived in the dayes of Philemon and Priscilla and Aquilla and the Romans and the Corinthians who kept the true primitive Christian Meetings in their Houses would not the Horn of their Law have pushed their Houses down and thrown them out and have made Forfeiture and Sale of and Demolished the Houses Lands and High-wayes to them and yet professed themselves Christians and the Scripture their Rule herein Oh! that ever men should make a Profession of God and Christ and Christianity and yet Themselves who did flee in the time of Persecution for the Liberty of their Consciences do persecute others for their tender Consciences that cannot bow to their Image that they have set up in the Wilderness of America And as for the Differences arising in Towns and on other Pretences as you say there have been Attempts by some Persons to erect new Meeting-Houses c. Answ Now have not your Governours and Priests and Elders been the Cause of the Differences and is not every one to be fully perswaded in their own Hearts and Minds For whatsoever is not of Faith is Sin And by what Law of Old England have you Power to take peoples Lands High-wayes and Houses from them and make them Forfeit Sell and Demolish them if that you do own the Laws of England which are to preserve people in their Houses Lands and Properties But your Laws will take them from people and Sell and Demolish them with their Lands High-wayes because people worship God in them really in Spirit and in Truth which the Devil is out of this is more than Pretence And because they cannot own nor joyn with you Persecuting Rulers and Priests in your pretended Worships no more than the three Children could joyn with Nebuchadnezzar's For if that persecuting spirit in the Priests Rulers of New-England can worship God with it that do Whip and Hang and Burn in the Hand and Banish upon pain of Death and Cut Off Ears and Spoil the Goods of the Servants of Christ and now to make Forfeiture and Sale of and to Demolish their Meeting-Houses Lands and Wayes to them If this persecuting Spirit be a Worshipper of God then Pharaoh and Nebuchadnezzar and Herod and the Beast and Whore were Worshippers of God and the Chief Priests and Jews that Crucified Christ and Saul with his Authority and Licence from the High Priests to persecute were Worshippers of God But Paul will tell you whilst he did such things he was a Mad Man and so your Madness hath been known herein and not your Moderation and Sobriety And the Truth which we have received profess and practise layes no Foundation for Error nor Heresie nor Schism nor Sedition nor for Perpetuating Divisions nor Weakening the Places where they dwell in the comfortable Support of the Ministry settled amongst them as you say For there is no other Foundation to be laid but what is laid already to wit Christ Jesus who was the Foundation of the Prophets and Apostles And all the Believers in the Light as Christ commands build upon him the Foundation which the spirit of Schism and Error and Heresie and Seducing cannot build upon But the preaching of Christ and his Gospel disquieted Diana's Worshippers as now it does you And the Jews Priests and Elders Scribes and Pharisees were disquieted yea the very Birth of Christ made such an Uproar in Jerusalem where was the highest outward Profession and Worship in the World And also Herod gathered the Wise Men and Priests together to know where Christ should be born and they said At Bethlehem and then Herod slew the Young Children for his sake And did not you the Herods of New-England Whip and Banish and after HANG four Servants of Christ when he was manifested in his people in New-England Herod-like And so hath not the Forming of Christ in his People made the New-England Magistrates and Priests and Professors all of an Uproar and that by your Law now the people of God shall neither have Land nor Houses to meet together to worship God in his Holy Spirit and Truth who cannot live under your persecuting murdering Priests spirit For Christ saith Such as destroy Mens Lives though it be even their Lives who would not receive him they do not know what Spirit they are of themselves And therefore how can we trust our Bodies Souls and Spirits in the Hands of such Uncomfortable Mischievous Ministers For they preach War and Bloodshed and Persecution and that is not the Gospel of Peace And the Wars and Strivings and Fightings arise from your own Lusts and not from the Truth nor Gospel of Peace For would you think it well if the King should send over some Bishops set up his own Religion among you which he judges is better than yours and make a Law that you must all come and hear the Common-Prayer if not you must he Hang'd on the Gallows as you did the Quakers and have your Ears cut and branded with a Hot Iron and have your Bodies both of Men and Women stript to the Waste and Whipt until your Bodies are made like a Jelly and your Womens Paps cloven in the midst with whipping and your Goods spoiled and Houses taken from you and forfeited and Land and Houses and Wayes all sold and given to the use of the Country what would you say to this Have not you served the