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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	world_n	worship_v	worshipper_n	399	4	11.4448	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77975	The vvofull cry of unjust persecutions, and grevious oppressions of the people of God in England, through the injustice of some of her rulers, and wikednesse of teachers and people, who hasten to fulfil the measure of their forefathers cruelty. With a lamentation over them all who rewards the Lord evill for good, and is a warning to them all for repentance; shewing that the coming of the Lord is nigh. And this may serve for an answer in full, to all such who have persecuted by violence, by word or writing the innocent people in scorn called Quakers. With a short addition, which shewes unto all, the ground of persecution; in its first cause, and the enmity which is betwixt the two seeds, is clearly discovered, by a friend to the suffering seed of God, E.B.	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.	1657 (1657)	Wing B6058; Thomason E927_1; ESTC R207590	26,005	39

because they could not swear respect persons with hat or knee and so were witnesses for the Lord and his Kingdome which stands in righteousnesse and against the power and kingdom of the Beast which stands in iniquity in fainednesse and flattering titles and disobedience to the Son of God and many hundreds are wofull unjust and oppressed sufferers at this day by false imprisonment and spoiling of goods because they cannot pay Tithes that abominable and crying oppression by which the Beast chiefly maintains his false Prophets and because the unchangable Priesthood is witnesed and the changable denied and Christ the light of the World followed therefore is this suffering laid upon the just and many are sufferers under hard tasks because they cannot maintain the Idol temples and Idol worships and Idol Priests which the power of Antichrist upholds against the power of the Son of God and against the new Covenant of life where God in spirit and in truth is worshipped without respect of places dayes or men or things and the true worshippers they worship God in the spirit and in the truth and cannot be subject to dayes places or things appointed and ordained by the power of men and false prophets and how many unjust fines and false inditements have been most illegally charged upon the innocent in many Courts and Judicatories through this Nation and all in the defence of the kingdom of the man of sin lest his authority should be abated and the authority of Christ Jesus exalted many cruelties have been done and injustice acted both by Rulers and People against such which no evil could justly be charged against nor yet the transgression of any just law by any one of them O! horrid grievances and cruel oppressions hath been brought forth in this Nation by such who should have eased the oppressed and set at liberty the captives such who should have judged justly the cause of the poor and heard the call of the oppressed have turned judgment backward from the poor and equity have found no place to enter but truth hath fallen in the streets and justice and mercy have perished from among men and the poor hath been oppressed and they that have departed from iniquity have been made a prey to the mouthes of devouring Lions for some of the Judges have been as ravening Wolves and as greedy devouring Foxes the Lambs of Christ have been chased by the wicked and his power for their life O how have the oppressed groaned in this Nation under false judgment to ages and generations for ever may it be recorded for a witnesse against this generation of cruel hearted men whom the beast and false prophet hath raised in his defence and against the Kingdom of Christ Jesus and them that follow him how full have the most part of the prisons in all this land been with guiltlesse sufferers under cruel bondage with unjust dealings and false judgments have gone forth from some of your mouthes you that have been set to judge over the people who should have been a terror to the wicked but have rather strengthened the hands of evil doers and been a terror to righteousnesse so much as is possible the great whore which sits upon the beast hath made your Rulers drunk and stagger with envy and hatred and persecution and works of wickednesse against the upright Wo is me for you what have you brought forth even iniquity by Decrees and injustice by Ordinances and false judgment by Lawes alas alas your destruction cometh as an armed man upon you Was ever the like heard or any president in any generation before you for imprisoning just men for declaring against sin and the abominations of the times as you have done many and for imprisoning men because they cannot put off their hat to you and respect your persons and so transgresse the law of God and because they cannot swear and so break Christs command For this you have imprisoned many and caused them to suffer because of this may not you fear and tremble before the Lord God and your faces gather blacknesse at this when you consider it Did ever any that were set to judge in the earth among men so abuse their power and subvert it so quite to another end than wherefore it was committed to them May not shame cover you all to commit men to prison for the exercise of pure conscience towards God because they cannot swear or respect mens persons or maintain Idol-shepherds and Idol-temples and worships which is abomination to the Lord and for taking peaceable men out of peaceable meetings and out of their travel on the High-wayes and first whipping them and sending them to prison the example of this which you have done never went before in any age and therefore have you exceeded in oppression in injustice in cruelty and false judgment all your fore-fathers the Pope nor Bishops hardly ever brought forth such things but the Lord will reckon with you and plead the cause of the oppressed against all you oppressors yea and will give unto you a recompence of reward according to your works ye that have exalted your selves against the innocent shall be brought down to the dust of misery and the Saints shall reign and rejoyce over you when the Kingdom of Christ Jesus the Lamb shall be set up over you all and your beastly power dashed to pieces as a Potters vessel when he whom you have persecuted and his followers shall rule with a rod of iron and break you asunder and this shall shurely come to passe therefore consider it ye that thus deal in your anger against the Lord and his chosen for the Lamb shall get the victory over the Beast and over you all that seek to defend him and that strive under his power for they that are with the Lamb are Called and Faithful and Chosen O! therefore be awakened be awakened ye heads and Judges and Rulers of the people remember and repent the Lords hand is stretched forth against all oppression and oppressors and his wrath is kindled against the wicked ones and his power to overthrow his dominon which long hath reigned in the Nations and now though he seeks to defend himself against the Lamb and his followers by injust dealing yet the out-stretched arme of the Lord shall bring deliverance to his chosen who hath been made havock upon in their liberties and in their estates some cruelly suffering in prison and others by spoiling of their goods and none of these for evil doing but upon false suspitions and envious jelousies and secret surmisings without any ground of occasion given but by wickednesse have many of you sought occasion to make offenders by laying snares for the feet of the harmlesse and innocent you have made men offenders for a word and perverted innocent words and actions that you might make to your self a ground to persecute and have sought a cloake to cover your cruelty in the sight of men but naked and bare are

evil work and you have not known that there is no divination against the holy seed O! what will become of you when he Lord is arisen to plead with you for these things the cruelty and oppression of the Rulers shall be added to your account and the sin of the people which you have swallowed down it shall be laid to your charge for you have strengthened the hands of evil doers so that none could turn from his evil way but have by you been hardened therein and from you prophanesse have gone forth to the ends of the earth Woe woe is approaching what account will you render in the day of the Lord you will all be speechlesse in that day when the swift witnesse doth arise therefore to all you I am moved to write who have set your selves to gain-say the truth and to write against the people of the Lord whom you call Quakers who walk in the truth and have received the truth from the Lord whom you have reproached and slandered in secret and also in open print in the face of the world and have laid many cruel and false charges and accusations against them and to all that hath or ever shall hereafter bend your tongues and pens to utter wickednesse and falshood by writing or otherwise Repent and cease your wickednesse for the wrath of the Lord is kindled against you and take this for an answer in full to all your books and false reproaches we are of God and he that is of God heareth us and the whole world lyes in wickednesse and we have the testimony that we please God and he is our God and we are his people and he hath chosen us and we have chosen him and the name of the Lord is our strength and his covenant of life is with us and among us hath he fullfilled his promise and his spirit is poured forth and sons and daughters do Prophesie and one king reigns upon mount Sion and the night to us is far spent and the day is dawned and the darknesse of the night which long hath overshadowed the world in which no man could work is from us fled and the marvellous light is risen and we are them whom God hath gathered according to his promise Ezek. 34. from the mouthes of Idol-shepherds which once made a prey upon us and the glory of the Lord is revealed and the time is come of Restoration and of bringing back out of the captivity of darknesse where all have laid with a vail of darknesse spread over all their faces and we are eye-witnesses of his glory and it is given us to taste and feel and handle the Word of Life which lives for ever therefore I say unto you all it is a little thing to us and not respected to be reproached by you our life you cannot reach nor our glory deface and you we know to be them who God never sent but must fullfill your measure of wickednesse till the time of your overthrow which draws near upon you all and despisable shall you be to all that fear the Lord and love his wayes for your nakednesse and shame shall be uncovered and them that have loved you shall be filled with the indignation of the Lord against you all your writings and books and lyes and Senders and false reproaches uttered in publick and private shall go into the pit from which they came and shall return upon your own heads and when your vail of slanders and false aspersions is taken off then shall we as we are appear and till then all your evil brought forth against us we bear in patience and love your revilings rather than your praise wherefore with shame put off your armour and lay down your crownes and stop your mouthes in the dust and bow and tremble before the just God and before the lamb who is risen to make war against the beast against you his fals Prophets whose generation must grow feeble and become weaknesse in this the day of the Lord your time is at an end wherein it was given you to reign and to seduce and deceive the Nations and now shall the sonne of God be exalted and the kingdoms of this World shall become the Kingdomes of Christ hear and consider this all ye that exalt your selves against the Lord and his way and are established in the throne of unrighteousnesse under the beastly power if any man hath an ear to hear let him hear the light is risen and these things are made manifest and with the light of the world in all men shall they be witnessed to be truth and the state of things as they are at this day and if you can discerne the times and the signes of times and the changing of times here you may read and understand blessed are all that have an ear to hear TO all ye Heads and Rulers Judges and Magistrates Mayors Bailiffs Goalers and Constables and all others whatsoever governors Priests and people who have and do persecute the children and servants of the Lord the Saints of the most high God who feareth the name of the Lord and walketh in his way who are not of this world but redeemed out of it and are despised among men as all the generation of the just every where to all you persecuters and violent doers this is a word from the Lord God Repent repent for evil have you done in his sight and vext his soul and grieved his spirit and heaped up wrath against the day of wrath and multiplyed your transgressions and the measure of your Iniquities are well nigh filled up ye have set your selves against the Lord and your hands you have strengthened against his people you have rejected the day of your visitation and you have not regarded the day of your salvation you have plainly made it manifest that you are that generation which killed the just and that you are of the seed of evil doers the works that you have brought forth do plainly declare that you will not Christ to reign amongst you nor his government to rule over you who have thus persecuted the innocent without cause by false imprisonments and false judgments and hard dealing and reproachings and revilings consider your waies and what you have done search your hearts and let it take place in you all how have you persecuted the just how have you stretched forth your hands and dealt cruelly and violently with the meek of the earth how have you troden under foot the poor and needy and greatly oppressed the upright hearted who have not rendred evill for evill but forgiven you and prayed for you and wished well unto you and born in patience without complaining all your injustice and cruelty and have not sought vengeance against you even such hath God chosen more than many and them you have despised and persecuted more than any and laid heavie bonds of oppression upon them and doubled their task through your hard-heartednesse least the seed of God