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A27405	The cry of the oppressed from under their oppressions, ascending up to Him, who will rebuke the oppressor and devourer, and deliver the innocent some of the sufferings of the people of God, called Quakers, concerning tythes and oaths, &c. : by the branches which are a new springing forth of the remainder of the bitter root of Episcopacy, which yet remaineth unplucked up in the rigid presbytery ...	Benson, Gervase, d. 1679.; Fox, George, 1624-1691.	1656 (1656)	Wing B1900; ESTC R18287	26,890	50

Heir is and abides in the house for ever whose the inheritance is and his gift is free and all who of his gift are made partakers who is the Son of righteousness they are free indeed for freely they have received and freely they give who so readeth let him understand yet subjection to every Ordinance of man for the Lords sake I have learned For the earth is the Lords and the fulnesse of it and therefore if any in Authority do take the earth or any part of it from me and give it to another I resist him not nor any other whom he shall appoint for ye must needs be subject not only for wrath but also for conscience sake for so have I learned Christ to submit my self to every Ordinance of man for the Lords sake whose the earth is But to put forth my hand to give that which is the Lords over which he hath made me a Steward and me commanded with my substance to honor him I dare not for conscience sake give that which is the Lords to uphold that which he hath abolished and disannulled for that were to his dishonour And yet by reason of oppressions the multitude of them the oppressed cry and the Lord will hear the cry of the oppressed For because of swearing the land mourneth Jer. 23. 10. yet the servant of the Lord swore in truth in righteousness and in judgement but in the house for ever the servant abideth not but the Son abideth for ever who saith Swear not at all but let your yea be yea and your nay nay in all your communications for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil These things spoke Jesus to his friends to whom all things that he had heard of his Father he made known but the servant knoweth not what his Lord doth The servant swore who abode not in the house for ever but the Son who abides for ever who doth the Will of God he testifieth what he hath seen and heard and no man receiveth his Testimony who saith Swear not at all but he that is of God Joh. 3. 32. And saith the beloved Disciple We have seen and do testifie that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the World but the World him hates because he testifies of it that the works thereof are evil Joh. 7. 7. he that receiveth the Sonstestimony is come out of all oaths and strife the occasion of them to the yea and nay in all his communications and hath set to his seal that God is true and every man alyar that denieth the testimony which God hath given of his Son as all do who are out of his Doctrine but who abide in the Doctrine of Christ their yea is yea and nay nay in all their communications and they do the Will of God who his Commandments keep and such shall never be ashamed but freely they testifie to all of what they have seen and heard And blessed are they that receive his testimony in whose mouth there is no guile And as to witness bearing to the truth and of it before men it is according to the Doctrine of Christ Matth. 18. 16. That in the mouth of two or three Witnesses every word may be established And this was practised amongst the holy men of God and amongst the Saints as the Scriputures of truth do declare which were written for our learning And of these things they are Witnesses who have believed in him who is the Light of the World the true Light which lighteth every man that cometh into the World Of which Light he beareth Witness who is called Ger. Benson A brief Declaration of some of the Oppressions and Sufferings of those people the World in scorn calls QUAKERS in the Nothern parts who daily suffer the spoyling of their Goods and imprisonment of their Persons by reason they cannot for conscience sake pay Tythes and other customary dues as they are called Oblations Obversions Easter-reckonings Mortuaries and such like Popish Inventions so that they are daily drawn before the Judgment Seats and required to answer the unjust demands of their Accusers upon their oathes thereby endeavouring to ensnare them who for conscience sake cannot swear at all their souls being made subject to the Commands of Christ Jesus who saith Swear not at all but in all your communication let your yea be yea and your nay nay for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil As likewise the names of several others in other parts of the Nation who are sued for Tythes In the County of Cumberland Graystock Parish RIchard Peacock for Tyth of the value of 8 s. 4 d. had taken from him for Richard Gilpin Priest of Graystock one Mare apprized by those that took her away at 2 l. 6 s. 8 d. John Slee for Tythes of the value of 6 s. had taken from him for the said Gilpin one brass Pot woth 16 s. The same for Tyth of the value of 14 s. had taken from him for the said Gilpin five Sheep worth I l. 2 s. 6 d. one of them being another mans Margaret Slee Widdow and Richard Slee her son for Tyth of the value of 8 s. had taken from them for the said Priest Gilpin four Sheep worth 18 s. Agnes Buckbarrow Tho Buckharrow and Rich. Buckbarrow for Tyth of the value of 16 s. had taken from them for the said priest Gilpin one Steare worth I l. 16 s. John Mark for Tyth of the value of 6 s. had taken from him for the said Gilpin seven pewter Platters worth a 11 s. The same for Tyth of the value of I l. 3 s. had taken from him for the said Gilpin one milch Cow worth I l. IOS. John Todhunter for Tyth of the value of 1 s 10 d. had taken from him for the said Gilpin one brasse Potworth 10 s. The same for Tyth of the value of 4 s. had taken from him for the said Gilpin another Pot and two pewter Platters worth 18 s. Tho. Slee for Tyth of the value of 8 s. had taken from him for the said Gilpin two stone of Wool worth 14 s. These were taken away by Warrant from the Justices upon the oath of a man that lived five miles from some of them and that knew not their Goods but swore what he heard reported Jo. Bewley for Tyth of the value of 19 s. had taken from him for the said Gilpin three brasse Pots and five pewter Platters worth 4 l. 10 s. Iohn Sowerby for Tyth of the value of 6 B. had taken from him for the said Gilpin one Pot worth 12 s. Io: Udall for Tyth of the value of 4 s. had taken from him for the said Gilpin one brasse Pot and one Pan woth 13 s. 8 d. Richard Peacock for Tyth of the value of 1 l. 4 d. had taken from him for the said Priest one Horse worth 2 l. Tho. Barker for Tyth of the value of 14 s. 2 d. had taken from him for the said Priest one

or their Tythes or shall detain with-hold or refuse to pay his tythes or offerings or any parcell thereof but that in such cases the person or party being Ecclesiasticall or Lay person having cause to demand or have the said tythes or offerings thereby wronged or grieved shall take or have their remedy for their said tythes o● offerings in every such case in the Spirituall Courts according to the Ordinance of the first part of this Act and not otherwise And doe not such whether Ecclesiasticall or Lay persons otherwise who sue people for tythes and offerings in temporall Courts for the same Answer yea or nay 16. Whether there is any transgression where there is no law And whether there is or ought to be any trebble dammage adjudged where and when no tythes are due And if there be no law of the Nation to warrant the temporall Judges to try the right of tythes the law saying that the tryall therof appertaineth to the spiritual Jurisdiction by the laws customs of the Realm Then how can it be lawful for the temporall Judges to give judgement in their temp●rall Courts for treble damages or any Jury to find treble damage for not dividing setting forth or not paying their prediall tythes o● or for taking or carrying away the same before the tenth part of the same be divided or set forth when there is no law of the Nation to authorize them to heare or determine of the right of tythes who are temporall Judges in their temporall Courts 17. Whether do such Justices and Juries who act contrary to the aforesaid statute or any other tender the honor and prosperity of the Nation or serve the chief Magistrate thereof according to the lawes and statutes thereof And if not is not their crime as great as their predecessors who suffered for such things And are not they inexcusable before God and Man who have condemned others for so doing and now do the same things Answer yea or nay Read and understand Weigh and give advice ye learned Councell of the Nation as you are called for according to your deserts will your reward be whosoever of you these Queries under your hands in writing shall answer according to truth and return to any of the people called Quakers WAs there ever such merchandize made of any people since the world began as these fals teachers have done in our age before mentioned Was there ever such oppression and such heavy burdens laid upon any people since the world began as these false Priests and teachers have done in our age that the Reader may find before mentioned Have they not out stript all the burdens all the grievous burdens of the Pharisees which they themselves will not touch with one of their fingers Was there ever such devouring ravening by all the false teachers since the world began as these do in our age which take a way the peoples goods cattel Horses Sheep Oxen Platters Kettles Plow-geare and what they can lay their hands on for a Prophet spoyling peoples goods and making havock of them who can but say the measure of iniquity reaches to the full Was ever people made a prey upon and devoured by the false teachers in all the ages past since the world began as they are by the false teachers in this our age which makes a prey upon the people devours them and treads upon them that are fed and eats the fat cloaths with the wool Was ever people so bitten wth the teeth and prepared war against since the world began as they are in this our age who cannot put into the mouthes of the fals teachers which brings the people all on heaps who would pluck the skin off their flesh and bite them with their teeth whiles they put into their mouthes they cryed peace unto them but they are fallen in the night whose doth appear oppression violence and spoyling the goods of people hath not the hearts of the simple been long deceived by such and doth not the folly of these now appear unto all men and are not manifest that have the love of money that teaches for filthy lucre who pierce themselves through with many hurtfull lusts who have the love of money which is the root of all evill which things the man of God must flye Marrk how many prisons have been filled in this Nation by them for the love of money yea how many have been prisoned to death witnesse Lancaster Colchester York and Exceter such as are prisoned to death which the Priests are raging against was ever Balaam so mad who loved the wages of unrighteousness who was in the error as are the teachers in this age who are so greedy of gifts and rewards nay if men will not give it them they wil take it by violence summon them up into Courts upper Bench Exchequer Chancery Common Pleas to answer before the Barons of the Nation and there cause poore men to come up these Priests some for 4 or 5 shillings some for less two hundred miles poor labouring men and thus they use them without any pity or compassion and if they wil not pay them takes their Pots or Kettles or Platters Priest sends to take them away or Plow-gear Was ever the like heard in all ages since the world began Are not these they that makes the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ chargeable And are not these things a shame to all Christians that their teachers should make such fruits manifest nay their Colleges at Cambridge where they make their Ministers have caused some to be cast in prison for not paying them their tythes Here the mother and her sons both make havock one was prisoned at York till he died for not paying tythes prisoned another to death by Priest Shaw for not paying him tythes Now if these things doe not shame all Christian Magistrates and Rulers what will that have not a feeling in them with these sufferers And if this be not a dishonor to truth and the Gospel what is and Christ who sends forth his teachers freely as they receive so to give Now if you cannot see that you and such teachers are contrary to Christ and his Apostles the God of the world hath blinded your eyes and you are such as Jeremy speaks of in the horrible and filthy thing the Priests bear rule by their means and the people love to have it so but what will you do in the end thereof Never did so much nakedness appear in any age you read of as doth in this age among them which are not wotthy to have the name of teachers of truth which generations to come will be ash●med of since the days of the Apostles in this night of apostasie and darkness Hath the false teachers got up tythes yea and of the people will have treble damage if they will not pay them by whose means many come to lose almost their whole estates having it taken from them for the priests The Apostle shewed that tythes were taken away and the command disan●lled by which they were payed and the hand-writing of Ordinances blotted out George Fox FINIS