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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

Cross where that precious oyntment covering and living bread for your souls is And ye that say your humble servant Sir or your servants servant bowing and cringing using many vain words Are ye not lyers and hypoctites ye or nay And is not the woe from God to the hypocrite And is not the lyer for the lake when ye say your humble servant Sir c. Are not your hearts haughty puft up in pride and living in it And are ye not wanton scornets mockers and persecutors of the innocent Are these the fruits of true humility Nay nay see Gal. 5.22 23 24 25 26. and there ye shall read the declaration of the fruits of true humility and in the light of Christ Judge your selves and ye shall not be judged for ye that use that deceitful salutation saying I am you servants servant ye are of Hams Generation Gen. 9.25 And that that is in high esteem amongst men is abomination to the Lord. Therefore repent while ye have time for the day is come and coming that an account shall be given for every idle word And by your words saith Christ shall ye be justifyed and by your words shall ye be condemned Math. 12.36 27. Therefore all who to the light and life of Christ in any measure are come and by it are guided cannot use your vain words nor bow to your deceit not use your fashions which to them are past away and for that cause ye persecute them to death and no murtherer hath eternal life abiding in him 1 Iohn 3.15 But where do yeread in all the Scriptures that any did require any such thing as putting off the hat and fining of men and casting of them into prison if not done Did ever Moses who was as a King a Priest and a Prophet to Israel or David and Solomon who were Kings ever compel men to such a thing Solomon said my son give me the heart not the hat Is not the hat an ornament of the body may ye not as well compel the servants of the Lord to pull off their shooes as their hats And why do ye compel the male servants of the most high God to stand bare headed before you more then the Females Oh! the loftiness and haughtiness of man I will saith the Lord God of Hosts stain the pride glory of all flesh an woe to the crown of pride Do ye not shew your selves to be those whited Sapulchers which appear very beautiful outwardly or with a seeming humility but are within full of hypocrysie and all uncleanness And although some of you say Abraham Lot c. bowed yet they did not bow to the wicked but it was to the Angels or Messengers of the most high God although Jacob bowed seven times Blessed is he that readeth and understandeth Jacob was then in returning to his fathers house thus saith the Lord to you O ye Edomites or the house of Esau because Esau your father and ye his children pursued his brother with the sword did cast off all pity and his anger did tear as yours doth perpetnally and he kept as ye do his wrath for ever Therefore thus saith the Lord the house of Jacob shall now be a fire and the house of Joseph shall be a flame and the house of Esau shall now be for stubble and no one of your fathers house shall remain the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it And to whom then shall the seed of Iacob bow but unto me saith the Lord God of hosts whose alone right it is But may I ask you a question what spirit is this that is so much contending for honour before men bowings putting off the hatt c. Is it not that spirit that was in Saul when the spirit of God was departed from him Or is it not that that was in Haman that vexed him because Mordecai could not bow to him Or whether it be not that which was in the Chaldeans and Nebuchadnezzar who had prepared an hot fiery furnace to cast the Innocents in because they could not bow to there image Or is it not that spirit that would have had the Lord Jesus to have bowed or fallen down and worshipped him yea or nay which Christ reproved and said Get thee hence Satan It is written thou shalt worship the Lord thy God c. Mat. 4.10 11. But Paul saith concerning the holy fathers of old Abraham Isaac c. Brethren I would not have you to be ignorant that all our Fathers were under the cloud and passed through the sea c. But now the star of Jacob is risen the Cloud is scattering the Lord again as in the ancient of daies is smiting the tongue of the Egyptian Sea in the seven streams this is enough to the wise And all that but to Mount Sion are come a Law from God they have received which saith Thou shalt not bow c. And the Scripture doth testifie that Peter a Minister of Christ and his holy Angel did deny and forbid bowing unto them for when Cornelius would have fallen down or bowed to Peter he denyed it and said stand up for I my self also am a man Acts 10.25 26. And when the Angel came unto John Iohn 19 10. 22.9 Exod. 20 45. Deut. 5.8 9. Phil. 2.9 he fell down and would haue worshipped the Angel But he forbad it saying see thou do it not I am thy fellow-servant and of thy brethren the Prophets which keep the sayings of the book worship God which is a spirit And unto me saith the Lord God shall every knee bow both in Heaven and in earth So that it is evident that there is not one Scripture that doth require any such thing as putting off the hat or bowing But the Scriptures do testifie against it and forbid it as I have proved before except it be that of Solomon which saith The evill shall bow before the good and the wicked at the gate of the righteous And although Moses said Thou shalt stand up before the hoary head yet he did not say they should put off the hat or bow c. And as for you who are contending for flattering titles of honour which yee say Paul gave to Festus Agrippa c. Luke to Theophilus Iohn to the Lady c. This cover is too narrow for your deceipt in the light of Christ are ye seen judged and denyed for when Paul said noble Festus c. and O King Agrippa c. Paul spake as he found by them for they were more noble than the Tumultuous Jewes who took him to wit Paul with Sylas and cast them into the inner Prison Acts 26.22 23 24 25. and made their feet fast in the stocks And the Magistates rent their clothes and beat them uncondemned c. Acts 22.25 But when Paul came before Festus and Agrippa they were more noble than those aforesaid gave him leave peaceably to give an account of his faith and the hope that was in him

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

and the abomination that maketh desolation c. And although David was a sinner yet when he saw his sin he repented and sate on the ground and made Sack-cloth his garments and prayed the Lord to blot out his sin and his iniquities and to create in him a clean heart and renew a right spirit within him which David did witness the Lord had done for him and had delivered him out of all his trouble and said I will praise the Lord for ever mark because he hath done it c. Ps 51.9 10 52.9.54.7 And although Paul did cry out O wretched man that I am c. yet he did after witness and say the law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus had made him free from the law of sin and death and over death he did triumph and thanked God that he had given him the victory over his sin through our Lord Jesus Christ Rom. 7.25 and 8.1 2 37. and ch 6.16 17 18. 1 Cor. 15.55 to the end This may serve to satisfie the simple and for a witness against thee Rob. Hill who falsely reportedst that I said Paul was not a Saint or born of God when he said O wretched man c. Thou askedst me whether he was not a sinner I answered that he that was born of God did not commit sin c. But thou by thy consequences concludest and falsely reportedst as aforesaid Let the wise in God judge to whom I refer my self I had been silent herein knowing it is honourable to cease from strife had I not been told of it by several people since I came into prison for it is near two years ago that the words were spoken Now let all the wise in heart judge whether or no Iob David and Paul did not witness a cleansing from their sins and iniquities and witness a perfect holy life or perfection contrary to that Doctrine of George Long and others who quote them for examples to people that they may live in sin for terme of life which is just the Doctrine of the Pope who in his ground differeth little from the Priests of England though in some particular circumstances they may for the Pope and his Jesuits and Fryars tell the people they cannot be free from sin or perfect whiles they are on earth but tell them there is a Purgatory where they must be cleansed after death for which many of them do give their whole estates to the Pope his Fryars c. to pray for their Souls after death that they may be freed of out Purgatory which they say is a place of torment and go to Heaven And hence it is through their subtilty and craft they have gotten so many Abbies c. and other yearly Revenues as they have part of which is now become their Successors to wit the Priests of England and hence was the ground to wit from the Pope of Glebes and Tythes for which the Priests of England contend so earnestly and sue men at Law c. And the Pope his Jesuits and Fryars c. say the Wafer or bread is Corpus Dei the Body of God and the Wine his Blood after they have consecrated it as they call it and some of the Priests of England say the same and the Pope and his Priests c. wash or sprinkle little Children and call that Baptism and they use a form of words at their Graves burying of their dead and they stand praying in the Synagogues and Pulpits and preach from a Chapter and Verse and have Parsonage-houses Gleabs and Tythes and some of them preach for hire moneys c. All which the Priests of England for the greatest part of them do the like and against such dumb greedy Doggs who could never have enough but preach for their gain from their Quarters the Lord sent Isaiah to cry Isa 56.10 11. and against such the Lord sent Jerimiah to cry which did commit the horrible thing in the Land the Prophets prophecying falsely and the Priests bearing rule by their means and the people did love to have it so as ye people of England do but what will ye do in the end thereof ye shall lye down in sorrow Isa 5.30 31. Isa 50.11 and against such the Lord sent Ezekiel to cry who did make a prey of the prople and destroyed Souls for dishonest gain Ezek. 34.3 4. and 27.4 And against such the Lord sent Micah to cry which did preach for hire and divine for money as your Priests and Divines do Micah 3.10 11. And Christ said ye shall know them by they fruits and against such Christ Jesus cryed who stood praying in the Synagogues and were called of men Master and had the chief Seats in the Assemblies and the uppermost rooms at Feasts Mat. 23.6 7. Now all people who have been learning the way of truth from your priests some 20 30 40 years some more some less and have given them great Gifts and Rewards and yet ye are as ignorant of the true way to eternal life as ye were the first time you went to hear them and look with a single eye on your Priests and see what difference there is between their Doctrine and that of the Popes Therefore be ye warned of them all people before the terrible day of the Lord come upon you and consume you as stubble for in that day the wicked shall be as stubble which is come and coming and with the Rod of his mouth will he smite the earth and with the breath of his lips will he slay the wicked therefore while ye have time prize it and repent for though there be a righteous holy life to be attained through Christ Jesus Isa 4.4 whose blood cleanseth from all sin yet those whom he doth redeem by his Spirit of burnings and of judgement from sin Rom. ● 6 he doth redeem them henceforth not to live in sin but unto him which dyed and rose again he that hath an ear to hear 2 Cor. 5.15 can hear to serve him mark in newness of life and if ever any of you come to witness a perfect holy life either Priest or People in any measure ye must come to witness a real not feigned forsaking of your evil wayes and a daily dying and crucifying of that life that now liveth in you with all its lusts and affections Gal. 5.24.25 16. Rom 6.4 And the life that ye have sl●ne whiles ye have nourished your hearts as in the day of slaughter to be raised by the power and glory of the Lord God even as Jesus was raised from the dead c. And therefore your saying ye hope ye shall be saved from your sins and ye believe Christ dyed for your sins and by faith in Christ ye shall be saved c. It is not your speaking those words and living in sin will serve your turns for Christ is come and coming to give to every one according as their works shall be And therefore that beliefe that doth