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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28148	A certaine sound, or, An alarm sounded to the persecuting episcopalians in and about the cities of London & Westminster those bloody cities in many whoredoms, and to the rest of that sect throughout the nations who prophanely, bloodily, or maliciously now have, or heretofore have had any hand in persecuting the innocent servants and prophets of the most high, for the exercise of their pure conscience to the Lord God their creator.	Billing, Edward, 1623-1686.; Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.	1665 (1665)	Wing B2899; ESTC R32746	9,660	15

Innocent Flock it cannot be so for they shall then dread though they now make merry over the Lords Witness and Witnesses that most dreadful and irrevocable malediction Go ye cursed yea when such come to dye the Light of Christ Jesus with which every man is enlightned that comes into the World shall arise in the Conscience to the utter condemnation of all those who in their life-time have despised or disobeyed it Then shall the betrayers of the Just and hard-hearted imprisoners of the innocent to death for obeying it know what it is to be a Iudas or a Pharaoh Then shall the worldly-wise and rich with the false divining Hireling their frontier and leader who serpent-like to save self have bowed to and even twisted about every green and dry tree that in the deceit hath stood up feel the Parable of Dives and know that Lazarus the poor poor in Spirit in the faithfulness is the Seed that doth and must inherit Now if you be men and would be deemed in any measure rational to posterity for what you do have done against us positively declare what 's the evil these People called Quakers as a people have done or if you have ought against them but for their worshipping the living God of Heaven and Earth in Spirit Truth and Righteousness nay farther if they have left undone any thing that they ought to have done in the Spirit of God and according to the Scriptures of Truth make it appear for our souls delight to be and are subject to the higher or highest power and in my heart I intend most willingly and for conscience sake actively to be obedient to every Ordinance of man which is or shall be made for the Lords sake I say by plain Scripture command of Jesus our Lord or pure example from his holy Apostles detect our principle and practice if you can and without supposition or false allegation orderly set forth to the world what detriment we have brought upon the good People of these Nations since it pleased the Lord first to raise us up therein and also what the evil is that we have done you who have thus spilt and drank our blood without Mercy Have we done ought against you except reprove you for your rending and damming Superstition and Idolatry prophane and unmanly as well as antichristian Persecution with the rest of your superabounding evils and uncleanesses in which you wallow that you might repent amend your lives and be saved I say again produce your charge against us under your hands plainly and directly setting forth and declaring matter of Fact only without allegation dubious supposition or any manner of clandestine trick or intreague of State-Policy dissonant to Scripture or forreign to the matter that it may be transmitted to the ends of the earth or at least so far as your spirit hath traduced or made odious us or our Principle that all reasonable and unprejudiced people in the world may judge whether it bear in it cause enough thus to kill us in your Coals and Holes force and banish us out of our Nation where of we are as free-born as your selves And when you have thus manifestly plainly and publickly emitted your charge into the world then lay by your Swords Clubs Goals and ungodly Laws and bring forth your Priests also with whom if not for whom you thus engage Soul and Body and let them publickly thorowly and equally dispute your and their Religion and what they can vive voce face to face say or rather prove against us or our Principle in Religion who in the Spirit of Truth serve and fear the Lord by you called Quakers I am sure if they your Priests be spiritual men or but so much as spiritually minded it cannot be denyed on their parts And this would be a good way to try Spirits and for you and them to try and hear Truth and be tryed by it and true Religion is a Spiritual not a State matter and whoso is found in the Error let the smooth stone of David be slang into their hearts by the hand of a holy man to convince and the Sword of the Lord run through and through them as his most holy Spirit shall give utterance And if to that they will not submit leave it to the Lord of the Harvest for further or contrary to this no Man or Power upon Earth hath Commission from Christ Jesus to act So consider well what Church you are of and whose Servants and Ministers you are that instigate the Rulers who are too apt of themselves to imprison and hew down the Innocent with carnal swords promp and help Parliaments to make Laws against us move the inferiour Magistrates to execute them and cause dissolute Souldiers to tear us out of our holy Meetings from thence drag and drive us into your Goals and Dungeons there to be kept till Banishment or Death whereby in the Curse you rend assunder the endeared Husband from the tender and faithfull Wife whom God hath joyned together dislocating the blessed Child from the righteous Parent the faithful Servant from his honest Master and calling the Master from the Servant c. If this be Christian or Apostolical I know not what is Antichristian and Diabolical Most certain I am Precept from Christ Example from his Apostles or the least seeming vestage in any of their Writings for such doings you cannot pretend and the right generous English Spirit abhors such Salvagism as Hell Then in this matter who are you like or to whom may I compare you but your selves Except in that of your Oaths of Alleageance and Supreamacy you run parallel with the Roman Episcopalians in the late Marian Persecution with the Sacrament of their Altar the one they used as a Roman Gin against the then Martyrs the other you impose as an Antichristian Snare upon Us the now obeyers of the true Christ who saith Swear not at all c. For often-times when neither your selves your late made cruel Edicts nor the Multitude who for the most part have been for you against us can raise seeming plausible matter enough against the truly Innocent to ensnare and incasserate their persons Then I have often seen and observed your last subterfuge to be viz. O but will you take the Oath of Alleageance and sometimes it 's Will you take the Oaths of Alleagiance and Supremacy whenas for pure Conscience-sake we who profess Christianity and are Christians indeed as wel as in words cannot may not dare not swear by Heaven Earth Evangelists or any other Oath whatsoever because the promised Messiah and performed Oath of God of whom Oaths under the Law were a Type hath commanded us in express words But I say unto you Swear not at all but let your yea be yea and your nay nay c. and his Apostle Iames saith Above all things my Brethren swear not So that being absolutely commanded by the Son of God and precautioned or rather confirmed by his

A Certaine Sound OR An Alarm sounded TO THE Persecuting Episcopalians in and about the Cities of London Westminster those Bloody Cities in many Whoredoms And to the rest of that Sect throughout the Nations who prophanely bloodily or maliciously now have or heretofore have had any hand in persecuting the Innocent Servants and Prophets of the Most High for the exercise of their pure Conscience to the Lord God their Creator London Printed in the Year 1665. A certain Sound or an Alarm sounded to the Persecuting Episcopalians c. TO that Spirit in the power of the living God of Heaven and Earth I affirm that there is an immortal Lilly sprang up as also an eternal River flowing freely without money or outward price through the Nations the Root of the one being as far out of your reach to destroy though you do dig as deep as Hell as the immense Fountain and everlasting Current of the other is out of your vultrous sight which way to withhold from the heart and conscience of the truly thirsty For our Testimony in the Light of Jesus from that eternal Fountain is powerful and clear and shall have its full and infallible effect though now resisted by the whole seed of evil-doers to the utmost of their perishing strength and the numberless and most immerciful Cruelties which you inflict upon the innocent People of God are so far from depressing the everlasting Gospel which we preach Us or our faithful Testimony therein and against your false ways and abominations that it doth shall add life growth to the truth of our for-ever blessed and most precious Cause and cause your selves indellibly to be recorded to Posterity as you are when the Name of the holy Witnesses to Martyrs for the Truth of our God shall remain as a sweet-smelling savour living for ever though their Bodies die by your hands And some of our very little ones now living shall rejoyce in their souls before the Lord God of their Fathers that they were the off-spring of a Martyr or that their parents in any measure stood faithful to God in this your day of heavy Persecution And that I am in the eternal sight of this if my God think me worthy I am ready to seal with my Blood though my Sepulcher for declaring this Truth should be on the Bridge and four Gates of your City And as though that accursed womb of your bloody Cities to wit Newgate that now dismal Pest-house were not big enough to devour the Sheep of Jesus your Saviour in which as Prisoners for the Truth at least Forty of his innocent Lambs called Quakers have laid down their Lives through as is most like the Pestilential infection of that place since the Lord 's just hand of Vengeance hath brought it upon these your Cities of many Whoredoms as the beginning of their sorrows Beside about Sixty of the same Royal Seed and Fold have been Prisoners till death in that one Goal since your Act against Conscience was made also sealing their Testimony with their Blood as became the Martyrs of the Most High And yet as if all this innocent Blood with the rest of your innumerable Imprisonments Blows and Bruises unjust Fining Praemuniring Confiscating of Estates making Widows and Fatherless ruining Families frequent shedding our Blood in your Streets and Canels at our holy Meetings c. were not enough even to implore as it were Gods further Vengeance upon your heads you drag and drive from that your Goale of Newgate at one time to the Water-side and there force into a Barge Boat or Boats Fifty four of the Servants of your Creator from thence hurry towards an old sorry rotten Ship which was ordered to receive transport them beyond the Seas like Slaves and Vagabonds for no other offence given to you on their parts but only serving the living God according to his most holy way to which bad Vessel side these freeborn Innocents being come and not having freedom in the Lord at the command of your Goalors and their Accomplices voluntarily or actively to go in to the Ship themselves thereby to acknowledge a crime or that criminal which God in the Law of his Christ our Redeemer allows to wit their meeting often together to wait call upon his most holy Name in Spirit and Truth without restriction of time place or number for obeying this Royal Law of God conferr'd on the Universe in the Messias our Immanuel the absolute Supream and alone Head of our Church and disobeying your Edict to the contrary they are sentenced to Banishment I say because of this with a good conscience they could not voluntarily go into the Ship and consent to their own unnatural aswel as unlawful Banishment and Slavery The Souldiers and some of the superactive baser sort of whom Paul complained that were imployed by you to drive and hale the Innocent like Sheep to your slaughter who resisted them not without tenderness or contrition by way of scorn cryed Throw out the Tackle throw out the Tackle that we may hale up the Kings Goods which accordingly they did fastening it about the Bodies of the Innocent and so slung up into the Ship the Lambs of the living God as they do Cattel and other Lading who indeed as found faithful notwithstanding the derision of the Ishmaels of this age are the good and peculiar Treasure of the KING of Kings for whose sake earthly Kings and Rulers have and again will be rebuked in the day of further Revelation of his most terrible Indignation which hastens Being thus inhumanely and utterly contrary to the Law of this Land forced on Shipboard their Lodging such as it was was appointed under a base low Deck where they were ramm'd together like other Stowage and this very bad Ship being bulgy leaky or the like the Water came in upon them and ran frequently under them where they lay by which means and the suffocatious heat that might arise through their being so cramb'd together it's like the Pestilence encreased among them whereof at least Twenty seven of the Bodies of these so misused fifty four are dead And notwithstanding the Ship is yet unsailed riding at anchor in the River of Thames Gods just judgment having overtaken her Master who was about three moneths-since clapt up in prison for debt the Mate having left him and the Ship several of the Mariners being dead of the Pestilence others of them come away whether convinced of the unlawfulness of their undertaking I shall not here determine having not spoken with the men face to face but of this I am certainly enformed That the more ruffinlier sort who stayed behind did or threatned to fire Guns after them when they left the Ship and came on Shore this being put altogether Viz. what has befallen the Ship-Master his Mate leaving him the death of several of the Mariners and some of them forsaking the rest the Ship as yet unable to sail having been