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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

to do so the mind of the people with slanders and false reproaches and lying imaginations and many conceptions and jealousies against the people of God many of you have made it your study work to bring forth evil by cunning arguments to suggest into the hearts of people that they might not enter the kingdom and even so have you been shutters of the kingdom of heaven against men and would not enter your selves nor suffer others that would Wo unto you you have taken away the key of knowledge and lost it and multitudes of false aspersions and lying assertions have you brought forth without fear by wicked consequence and lying productions that you might take away the key of knowledge thereby and hide it from men and lay stumbling blocks of iniquity before the people to stop the way of the upright and you have travelled to seek occasions of evil against the just and watched for the halting of the innocent that you might glory and rejoyce in their fall and without any occasion by words or actions you have ded five Marks and imprisonment until I should pay it And so because I cannot give them money for their unjust proceedings against me and unchristian dealings with me I am kept here accordingly in the common Goal a prisoner yet free and in that everlasting Truth of God which cannot be bound but tramples upon the neck and head of all deceit more then a Conqueror But from hence all that have eyes may see what little liberty truth can yet get in the earth after so much war and words protested for it And therefore whoever thou art that reads these things know that in England also novv if thou vvilt live godly in Christ Jesus thou must suffer persecution for the Scripture cannot be broken And this persecution novv in England ariseth mainly from the blind zeal that many have for keeping up their Ministers as they call them from being spoken unto in the Assembly either in after or before the time of their preaching especially on the first day of the vveek by them called the Lords day and Sabbath day and this the people are prompted unto by the wicked spirit in their Teachers which cannot endure the light that God hath raised up in his people in these Islands in these dayes and so this is the condemnation of all such children of darkness whether Priest or People that light shines and they love darkness more then light because their deeds are evil And so all may see whether the teachers and people that act in such darkness are going for in the days of Mary the persecutor the Law reached only to a punishing of such as spoke to her Priests in the time of their service but now the zeal of some for them is so increased that neither in the time of their speaking nor in their coming nor going from their Steeplehouse especially on the day aforesaid must their Teachers be spoken unto but they will impute it to the party for an ofence without examining whether there be cause for it yea or nay but the Teacher though he be never so false in Doctrine or vicious in life yet if he be a Parish-Teacher and receive the worlds hire as Tythes Glebe-lands and Augmentations with the State-allowance or upon other Accompts be allowed for a Puklike Teacher by the Nation-Law he is like to be defended and he or she that speaks to them though such a one be never so deer to God and speaks truth in that particular never so clearly is like to be punished as an evil doer And if this be not a provoking of the wrath and hot displeasure of God against thee Oh England then let him that hath understanding declare what more can be and therefore thou art now in time warned of these things that thou mayest by repentance be saved from those things that shall assuredly come upon the wicked But for the present all poor people every where who are in the dark minde unacquainted with the teachings of God in the spirit and light of the holy Annoynting but are following the blind guides that indeavor to get their wickedness established by a Law your misery is great and much to be lamented and the case of such of you as have any true breathings after God is to be pitied and who shall deliver you out of your bondage but he that delivered Israel out of Aegypt and hath in all Ages been a present help unto them in the needfull time of trouble and will still deliver them that fear him out of all adversity So wait upon him and the work is done and be incouraged all that wait upon him for there is no end of his goodness to us for his mercy indureth for ever and before him goeth a devouring fire to consume the Adversaries of his glorious Truth round about and the day is dawned that will leave them neither root nor branch And in this rest I am your deer brother oh all ye free people of God! and in the patience and sufferings of Christ your fellow-servant for the imbondaged seeds sake Thomas Taylor To the Judges Justices Juries Teachers and people of the Nation who profess themselves to be Christians and the Scripture to be their rule and yet account themselves disturbed if any speak unto them and cry against them in their Assemblies or Streets in the name and word of the Lord without any authority from man a few Quaeries 1 Quae. WHether was that a disturbance in Christ Jesus when he went into the Temple at Jerusalem a figure of his body and made a whip of smal cords and with it without any authority from man whipt out the buyers and sellers and overthrew the Tables of the Money-changers and commanded the Merchandize to be taken thence Yea or nay Mat. 21. 12. c. 2 Query Whether was it a disturbance in the young prophet of God that was sent to cry against the Altar at Bethel whereon the King Jeroboam sacrificed even in the time of his worship or the disturbance was not on the Kings own part who put out his hand against Gods servant in Gods work and whether the withering of that hand was not an evident sign on whose part the disturbance was 1 Kings 13. 1. c. Yea or Nay 3 Query Whether did Jeremiah the Prophet disturb the people of Israel when he spoke unto them and cryed against them terribly in the Word of the Lord ordinarily in their Assemblies and gates of their Cities yea or nay Or did not they disturb him in puting him in stocks prison for so doing Consider well of it and give judgment accordingly Jer. 20. and Chap. 26. and chap. 37. and 38. 4 Query And whether was it wicked Ahab King of Israel and his house that had sinned against God or Elijah the prophet of God who cryed against their sins that disturbed Israels peace yea or nay And whether the wicked Kings Judgement or the holy Prophets Iudgement will you be of in this matter See 1 Kings 18. 17. c. 5 Query And whether Amos who prophesied even in the Kings court and chappel the sword upon the Kings house and desolations upon all their sanctuaries was a disturber in so doing or so accounted then that we read of save onely by one wicked Priest as you may read Amos 7. 7. c. And whether Ionah preaching repentance in the open streets of Niniveh for a whole day together was a disturber or a friend to their city yea or nay see Ion. 3. 4. c. 6 Query And whether the King and people of Nineveh who instead of persecuting him the Lords Prophet did repent at his preaching shall not rise up in judgement with this present generation and condemn it yea or nay 7 Query Whether did Paul the Apostle disturb the Iewes and Gentiles in their synagogues and markets when he reasoned of the things of Gods kingdom and disputed as it were daily with them there as you may read in the Acts of the Apostles And whether you who account your selves disturbed with the like things doing in these dayes do not allow of the Iews persecuting of him for his works sake then Yea or Nay 8 Query And whether the same Paul in the Corinthians when he said In the true church all that have any thing reuealed unto them from God may speake one by one and when he that is speaking heares such an inspired one begin to speak he to wit the first is to hold his peace that all things may bee heard and all edified I say whether Paul in preaching such doctrine preached disturbing doctrine yea or nay And lastly it is required of those that iudge others for disturbers in such cases as these that they do set down what is the true and infallible rule of trying doctrines and spirits by in these dayes or for ever hereafter that they let the thing alone These from the Lords Prisoner Thomas Taylor THE END Jer. 20. 1 c. See Mat. 23. 34 c. Lu. 13. 33 c. ch. 22. 23. Joh. 8 25. Matth. 23.

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 former later and present times Even to the whole company of Mystery Babylons Merchants and Members a Warning Hos. 6 Chap. Vers the 8. 9. it is written Gilead is a City of them that work iniquitie and is polluted with blood And as Troops of Robbers wait for a man so the company of Priests murther in the way by consent for they commit leudness LONDON Printed for Giles Calvert at the Black-spread-Eagle neer the West end of Pauls 1657. SOME Prison-Meditations NOW all you people and Priests of the Earth amongst all your observings and gatherings of Doctrine observe with me and take diligent notice of these few short plain Doctrines or Lessons from hence and tremble and repent to wit 1. That workers of iniquity are a filthy and bloody people 2. That lewd Priests or Teachers are murtherers and layers in wait for blood 3. Where the Priests or Teachers are nought such as follow them are not good and so like Priest like people as here 4. Lewd Priests and murtherous-minded men false Teachers have in all ages been many a mighty band fitted to devour But Hosea how didst thou escape this bloody people and these murtherous Priests these lewd workers of iniquity Did they not murther or imprison thee or sue thee at their Courts for a disturber of their peace or for a slander How didst thou poor Lamb escape these Wolves these boody murtherous Priests and people Thy brother Amos the Prophet was accused by one of these murtherous Priests for a conspirer against the King in the midst of the House of Israol and that the Land was not able to bear his words Amos 7. 10 c. And thy brother Jeremiah was cast into a dirty Dungeon almost unto death besides the other beatings and stockings and imprisonings that he suffered from one of these lewd Priests and the sinful Princes for his witness sake in that generation as it is to be seen in Jer. 38. and other places of that Book And thy brother Zacharias son of Barachias was slain by this bloody generation between the Temple and the Altar for his witness sake Matth. 23 35 And all the rest of thy brethren were evil intreated of this bloody murtherous generation of Priests and people for their testimonies sake And the Heir himself Christ Jesus the Head when he appeared was cruelly murthered by these bloody Priests and such as followed them and consented with them and that for witnessing forth truth against the wickedness and lewdness of the bloodie City and venemous Priests their Teachers as is all over in the Scripture of truth to be read and is now also in these present daies found true in experience by all thy suffering Brethren and Sisters Oh Prophet who are reproached and persecuted of this present evil-generation of the Priests the Teachers and the people under them under the Nick-name of Quakers And therefore we having such a Cloud of Witnesses and fellow-sufferers for the truths sake going before us we may be comforted and incouraged in all our tribulations knowing that we are hereunto called not only to believe but also to suffer for Christ his Name sake that so we may fill up the measure of the afflictions of Christ in our flesh for his bodies sake which is his Church Further oh all people you may hence observe and take diligent notice for your good that it hath been an old custome of the worlds Teachers such as are called of men Master Matth. 23. and who preach for hire Mic. 3. and seek their gain from their quarter Isa. 56. I say that it hath been an old custom of such Wolves to murther souls and people of God for in some Scriptures is mention made of the spiritual and in others of the bodily murther that they had and would be guilty of And further take notice that these banding Priests are a lewd generation which in other expressions is all one as to say Thieves Whores Harlots and so indeed are they also in Scripture usually said to be and therefore typed and set forth under the name of painted whorish Jezzabel and the wel-favoured Harlot and here under the similitude of Troops of Robbers waiting for a man and Paul calls them Ministers of Satan having a form of godliness denying and resisting the power and truth of godlinesse And therefore oh all people you are exhorted by the spirit of truth to turn away from them yea and commanded to come out from amongst them upon pain of eternal death Jer 23. throughout Rev 14. 8 9 10 11. Rev. 18. throughout 2 Cor. 11. 13 12 15. 2 Tim. 3. 5 c. Rev. 2. 20 c. Read Scripture and see if these things be not so and fear the living God and bow to truth and be exhorted and perswaded all people now at length to learn wisdom and to understand whom you follow for you see the Scripture tells of murtherous lewd Priests that stood over the people for Teachers in former days and in Christs time there was Scribes and Pharisees hypocrites who were taken by the blind people to be sufficient guides and Teachers whom Christ called blind guides children of the devil painted Sepulchres whited Walls yea Vipers and Serpents And so you people that gather together to the Steeple-House which you call your Church when you hear your Teachers who now-a-daies go under the name of Ministers with you take a Scripture and out of it chuse a verse or so of a chapter according to their wills for filthy lucre and calls it their Text and from it draws Doctrines and Reasons and Uses as they call them ask them whether there be any such company of false Teachers now-a-daies in England to be found as this Scripture speaks of who as troops of Robbers wait for a man so wait to murther in the way by consent and who they are and what and who they murther and with what they murther and how these murtherers may be knovvn vvhat be their fruits for by their fruits ye shall know them saith Christ And ask them further Whether these false Teachers vvhich the Prophet Hosea here calls lewd murtherers be not the same in nature with those vvhich Isaiah in the 56. chap. and 10. v. of his Prophesie calls greedy dumb dogs that sought their gain from their quarter and could never have enough and the same that Jeremiah spoke of in ch. 5. ver. 1 2. 23. ch. of his Prophesie throughout That stole the word from their neighbor and used their tongues and said he saith when the Lord never sent them and so could not profit the people at all And vvhether they be not the same that Micah the Prophet Mic. ch. 3. 5 c. speaks of who preached for hire and divined for money and spake peace to the wicked for the gift sake but