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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89841	A lamentacion (by one of Englands prophets) over the ruines of this oppressed nacion, to be deeply layd to heart by Parliament and Army, and all sorts of peeple, lest they be swept away with the besom of destruction, in the day of the Lords fierce wrath and indignation, which is near at hand. Written by the movings of the Lord in James Nayler. And a vvarning to the rulers of England not to usurp dominion over the conscience, nor to give forth lawes contrary to that in the conscience. Written from the spirit of the Lord in George Fox.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.; Fox, George, 1624-1691.	1654 (1654)	Wing N292; Thomason E727_9; ESTC R202148	14,622	20

professors of the world Others suffer for denying to swear at the commands of men after the customs of the world when Christ sayth Swear not at all for what is more than Yea and Nay cometh of evil and the Apostles warneth the Saints above all things not to swear by any Oath whatsoever which all that have entered into Christ have denyed for he is the Oath and Covenant of God forever Others suffer because they are moved of the Lord to go into the Streets and Markets to declare against all manner of sin which abounds there and to call all to repentance and to declare the great day of the Lord at hand and his wrath to be revealed upon such abominable practices and a snare is layd for him that reproveth in the gate and they suffer as disturbers of the Peace but what Peace is this which is disturbed by the crying out against sin but Drunkards Swearers Lyars Ballad-sellers are suffered in the streets and markets and are not counted Disturbers of the Peace Is this the Saints Peace which stands in Righteousness or the Worlds Peace upholden by man of sin Others whom the Lord hath called to leave houses and land wives and children fathers and mothers and hath in love to poor souls sent them out to declare his love to the world and the glad tidings of the Gospel freely these are taken under the name of wanderers and strangers because they have no earthly possessions amongst you some of them by your Law you imprison some you whip out of your Towns some are beaten stoned and shamefully intreated though they ask you nothing neither are free to receive any thing from the world if they would give them but do wait on their Father for food who sends them their journey and thus you entertain strangers contrary to the practice of all the Saints in all Ages and the commands of God and the Apostles who warned not to forget to entertain strangers for some thereby have entertained Angels unawares but as the men of Sodom did compass Lots house who had entertained strangers so do these compass the houses where these are threatning to pull down the houses and dash their brains against the stones in the wall and this is done when such are with them who go under the name of Magistrates and Ministers and the innocent are haled out and sent to Prison though nothing can be charged against them but as strangers who have no habitation among them And for such offences as these do the poor despised little ones of Christ suffer the worst sort of Imprisonments that can be invented in dark holes under Tyrants who will not suffer their Brethren to visit them and all this while all manner of sin at liberty and Drunkards Swearers Lyars and Whoremongers and such like men of Belial are become the fittest men to be set up to witness against the innocent and many of those who sit to judg them are guilty of divers of the foremencioned crimes themselves and thus the wicked are set up to make the Righteous offenders for a word who are none in deed nor can they be convinced of the breach of any just Law and this is not done in secret that you know not of Oh you that bear rule in the Nation and ought to relieve such for then might you have an excuse but it is done in the Cityes County Towns and Courts where Justice ought to relieve such and you know this and are silent but it is that you may be left without excuse at the great Day of Account which is near at hand even the Day of Sions recompence which hath long been troden under foot by the earthly powers and now will you profess your selves to be Christians the Scripture your Rule or so much as talk of the practices of the Saints when such works as these are found amongst you which were acted by the Heathens and formal Professors against the Saints but never practiced by the Saints against any neither have you any ground for them in Scripture O how will you appear before the Almighty whose professions and practises are so unsutable and justice and mercy is talkt of but not brought forth Wo wo wo unto you who have not used your power to relieve the oppressed do you thus requite the Lord who hath set you free from your Enemyes and hath set you to rule for him over his People Is this according to your promises made to him in the day of your fears when you were little in your own eys and now that he hath set you free and you are exalted shall his poor simple little ones suffer in bondage under you as under the Tyrants and Bishops before you and you not once say they are our Brethren nor your hearts pity them Are you building your Houses and setting your Nests on high and Sion lyes waste troden upon Wo is me for you you high ones how are you fallen from that tenderness I have seen in some of you when you were sufferers with the People of God! but now the sufferings of the Saints are made a talk at your feasts to fill your mouths with laughter and you can eat and drink and rise up to play and stretch your selves upon your Beds of ease but the afflictions of your Brethren are not layd to heart Wo to you that are at ease while the simple are ensnared by their Enemyes God is highly displeased with you and he will not establish you who have neglected mercy and justice Hearken O ye Priests and give ear O house of the King for judgment is towards you who have been a snare upon Mispah and a net spread upon Mount Tabor to catch the innocent you have not been carefull to relieve others when you had power neither shall you deliver your own selves at that day You are seeking to be high but you shall finde one above you who is angry with the proud and will bring down the mighty from their seats that he may relieve the oppressed and let the Prisoners go free and the Lamb shall take the Kingdom How are you deceived who have somtimes been the wisdom of the Nations in that you have pulled down others and set your selves in the same heigh how is your judgment failed you to think that all this shaking and overturning hath no further end but to set up flesh and to exalt one man to rule over the conscience of another by his own will where Christ should reign as King for ever do you here as you would be done by do you not act contrary to the Scriptures and practice of all the holy men of God who durst never sit in the Throne of Christ persecute or imprison any for Conscience Oh that you had taken councel at the fear of God then had you stood in your places and should have known his secrets and that his intent is onely to exalt his Son in Spirit in the fall of proud flesh so should you

persons and his minde that lusteth and goeth forth from the pure in this conscience there the spirit is erred into the earth and for the earth as Balaams was then that minde speaks evil of the truth And this Law is made already which is the Law of God need not be made again but all are to wait to receive it which is perfect and is a ground against all unrighteousness and Sinners where it is received it is understood what it takes hold upon which was added because of Transgressors not for the Righteous but it preserves the Righteous and gives way for the Truth it meddles not with the Righteous as laying any thing upon them for it doth not respect any mans Person it takes hold upon all who act contrary to that in the Conscience it doth not meddle with that in the Conscience which is pure which is perfect that is its own and that saith the Law is holy just and good in its place but it is for them which are without and it doth not speak evill of the Magistrates which are in this Law and have received it which is perfect but of the Evil the Law judgeth which is perfect but it exalts justice and dominion Dominion which is according to the Soul and that in the Conscience it is for the keeping them who act contrary to that in the Conscience in order a limit to the Lust for it sayth Thou shalt not Lust for who act contrary to that in the Conscience run out of Order that there shall be none that abuse themselves with mankinde no Fighter and how full is the Land of them nor no respecters of Persons and all who acts according to this in the Conscience that in the Conscience is but one in it there is no damnable Heresie nor no Blasphemy nor no licencious practises for they arise out of that nature that acts contrary to that in the Conscience without the fear of the Lord and that speaks evill of Magistrates and Magistracy and destroyes the Common-wealth for this in the Conscience guids into the fear of the Lord. Now you not having received this perfect Law but makeing Lawes in your wils and mindes contrary to this in the Conscience and above this in the Conscience who acts according to that in the Conscience cannot submit to them for those Lawes are changable but this is for ever which was added because of Transgressors and takes hold upon the Sinners and Transgressors outward to the hewing down of such But you that go to make Lawes in your wils against the Righteous and meddle with the Righteous and them that act according to that in the Conscience which is according to the Law of God which is perfect and for ever the Law of God will hew you all down which is for ever as it has done many generacions before you and the righteous Seed suffered in all generacions by such Lawes therefore to that in your Consciences I speak to wait upon the Lord that you may receive the Law of God which is pure which is just which is perfect according to that in the Conscience for there is Woes and Plauges gone out against this Nacion lest you be swept away with the seed of evill doers and in the way as your Fathers who have transgressed the pure Law and that in the Conscience and stroven with the Law which is in the will to keep down that in the Conscience for there At the second Session of Parliament in the ●irst year of Mary Chap. ● has been a Law an Act made which Act did the Martyrs suffer by in Queen Maryes dayes who was the maintainer of Popery this has the English Ministry who profess the Ministry of Christ got to limit the Spirit of the Lord to keep them in their Pulpits and it has been their Guard and they cry against Popery and themselves maintain the Popish Law to prison and to persecute them that have the Life of the Scriptures made manifest in them Oh never profess Christ and guard your Church and Ministry as you call it with a Popish Antichristian Law let this never be mencioned in Ages to come as it is mencioned in this Age how many have suffred by her Law and suffers now and yet you cry up the Gospel and cry against such as act according to that in the Conscience but this is a shame to those who have received the Gospel of Christ and walk in the Spirit that gave forth the Scripture and have the pure Law of God whereby many have been imprisoned and are Prisoned Now consider and see your selves if you have not made and maintained this Act against the Scripture when the Scripture sayth If any thing be revealed to another that sits by let the first hold his Peace for yee may all speak one by one and the Teachers of the World put up Peticions to you against them who have been moved of the Lord to speak his word so here Teachers and you who be in Authority you both act against Scripture your Law it is against the Scripture and their Teaching is against the Scripture and so its just with God to hew you all down together for the Minister of God sayd You may all Prophesy one by one if any thing be revealed to him that sits by let the first hold his Peace and Moses gave that Liberty who had received the Law from God and that was in all the Churches of the Saints that they might speak one by one Now here you that make a Law contrary to that in the Conscience and you that put up Peticions for a Law have cleared your selves both makers of the Law and seekers for the Law not to have the Spirit of Moses and his Lawes which are perfect and not to have the Spirit of the Minister of God of Paul who gave that Freedom that all may speak one by one and here yee do limit the Holy One and the Spirit of the Lord God and so ty People up in Forms and Sects and bring up damnable Heresies and Blasphemies who bring People contrary to that in the Conscience for that is but one in ten-thousand and is according to the Law of God which is perfect and the Law of God takes not hold upon that A warning to you all and be warned and fear God Now in the Church of God where they spoke one by one there was no disorder nor distraction where all were guided by one Spirit the Law has nothing to do with the Church of God that is the Pillar and Ground of Truth and they are in Peace and Unity and the Law was never made for such Christ is the Head of the Church the Head of the Body who is the end of the Law and therefore silence all Flesh who would make a Law upon Christ from making Lawes for the Church of Christ The perfect Law of God takes hold upon such who are Murtherers who act unrighteousness them that abuse