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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

be judged by that Law for I told them it was a Popish law made by that wicked Queen Mary which killed the servants of the Lord but they answered they could not help it for it was not repealed Now if it be not repealed let all the wise in God judge by what followeth by a Law of Queen Elizabeth touching Common-prayer c. Act 10. Chap. 2. last Clause it s said That all Laws Statutes Ordinances c. wherein or whereby any other services Administrations Sacraments or Common-Prayers are licensed or set forth to be used shall be from henceforth utterly void and of none effect But if you say it is not repealed by the Statute aforesaid yet prove I it void from that first Principle of the Laws of England in the Book Doct. Student Chap. 2. to this effect That the Law of God is the only true ground of all Laws and that all Laws Statutes Ordinances Customs or Prescriptions whatsoever that are contrary to the righteous Law of God are all null void and of none effect c. And also in OLIVER the Protectors Articles of Government Article 35. are these words viz. That the Christian Religion contained in the Scripture be held forth and recommended a● the publick profession of the Nation c. Article 37. That such as profess Faith in God by Jesus Christ though differing in judgement from the Doctrine Worship and Discipline publickly held forth shall not be restrained from but shall be protected in the profession of the Faith and exercise of their Religion so that they abuse not this Liberty to the civil injury of others and to the actual disturbance of the publick peace on their part c. Article 38. That all Laws Statutes Ordinances and Clauses in any Law Statute or Ordinance to the contrary of the aforesaid Liberty shall be esteemed as null and void Now this is according to the Law of God and to the Christian Religion and is contained in the holy Scriptures of truth to go into a Synagogue or Steeple-house and there to ask a question or to dispute or to bear witness against the false worships it being the manner of Christ and his holy Prophets and Apostles so to do 1 Kings 1.2 Luke 2.46 And it was and is the order in the holy Church of Christ as the Scriptures testifie to wit That if any thing be revealed to him that stands by let the first hold his peace for ye may all prophesie one by one 1 Cor 14.29 30. and therefore it being according to the Law of God and to Christian Religion and the Faith in Christ Jesus professed and exercised by the Lord Jesus and his Ministers and being no civil injury to any nor disturbance to the publick peace on my part to go and bear witness against a false worship and hireling Priest I ought to be protected therein as in the exercise of the true Christian Religion And therefore undoubtedly your said Popish Law is repealed void and of none effect as I have proved before And therefore ye Rulers of Bathe have unjustly like unreasonable men kept me a prisoner above these nineteen months and have not convicted me of the transgression of the righteous Law of God which ought to be your Rule Deut. 14.17 18 19 or any Law of the Nation As I was informed some of you called Magistrates said if ye should let me go without giving you Bonds of Security for good behaviour as ye call it that I would sue you at your Law for wrong imprisonment Vengeance is mine saith the Lord who is come and coming to give to you according as your Works shall be and to him do I commit my cause who will in his righteous judgements ease him of his adversaries and avenge him of his enemies The light of Christ in your consciences will be your Judge and condemnation which condemnation will be forer torment unto you than the loss of all your outward riches or glory or any other judgement that man can inflict upon your carnal bodies so your fear and jealousie I do deny and your evill I do not resist but in patience do suffer your wrong till he for whose testimony I suffer work away for my deliverance out of the hands of unreasonable men And in a few dayes after my first committing to prison John Biggs that then was called Mayor sent William Baker his Serjeant with this Message as he said if I would say I was sorry and to that effect for what I had done he would set me at liberty to which I answered that I was so far from being sorry for the testimony that I had borne against the Priests that I would seal it with my blood if it were required and to this my answer the Keeper of the prison that then was which since hath left the prison was witness yet notwithstanding William Baker went and told his Master the Mayor that I said that if I were out of prison I would go and do the like again which was false and the Keeper of the prison did witness so to William Bakers face for which William Baker gave him very uncivil language and for that cause a little while after John Biggs would not suffer my Friends that came to visit me to come at me while he was in his power but commanded the Keeper to keep me in the inner prison yet William Baker gave me to my face very fair words and did witness that what I then said to him was truth the Lord lay not this sin to thy charge William Baker for thou didst falsly accuse me at that time the light of Christ in thy Conscience is my witness but it was that the Scripture might be fulfilled which saith That in the last dayes men shall be traytors heady high-minded proud covetous boasters blasphemers fierce despisers of those that are good and mark false accusers c. 2 Tim. 3.1 2. And on the fifth day of the Ninth month 1655. that being the day of their Sessions the Rulers of Bathe sent for me to their Sessions before them and when I came into their Court. John Boyce that then was called Mayor asked me if I knew before whom I stood for he with others of them were clothed in Scarlet and Velvet but the end will be woe I answered I did so he commanded to take off my hat and it was done and one of them gave it me in my hand and I put it on my head again Edward Parker one of their Bayliffs or Sheriffs that then was standing by me being filled with rage and madness as well as Wine or strong Drink haled my hat off my head again and struck me in the face I asked them if they sat to judge me according to Law and contrary to Law did suffer me to be struck in their Court and said God will judge and smite you but there was such a rude noise amongst them that they could scarce hear or understand what each other said for their

neither were they offended at Paul when he Thee'd and Thou'd them And they judged him without partiality and said we find nothing worthy of death or of bonds in this man c. And so they were truly noble in their judgments to Paul and to this Pauls words do much accord for when he came to the Bereans he said they were more noble than the tumultuous Jewes of Thessalonica in that they received the word with alreadyness of mind and searched the Scriptures daily whether these things Paul testified of were so c. Acts 17.10 11. And hence was the true ground of Pauls saying Noble Festus O King c. which was for their noble and true judge ment of Pauls innosency as is aforesaid And when Luke said most excellent Theophilus c. It was for his love to the truth of Jesus which Theophilus was instructed in And Paul said he accounted all things but dung in comparison of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ c. And Solomon saith The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour but the way of the wicked seduceth them But such a one was not Theophilus who was instructed in the way of God and therefore Luke a servant of the Lord Jesus thought good to give him a more perfect understanding of all things from the very first in order concerning the Lord Jesus c. Luke 1 1 2 3 4. And hence was it that Luke did account Theophilus excellent or more excellent than Herod Pilate and the wicked high Priests who seduced them to kill the just One And when John wrot to the Elect Lady it was not one who lived in idleness pride wantonness lusts excesse of ryoting whose apparrel was laced with silver or gold or used plaiting of the hair or looked for flattering titles or respect to her person But it was one who was covered with the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit who had her children walking in the truth whom I love saith Iohn mark in the truth and not onely I but also all they that have known the truth which truth leads out of all the evills aforesaid read 1 Pet. 3.1.2 3 4. Pet. 4 3. Iam. 2.1 2 3 4. for though John did not speak those words yet Peter and James did for the most part the spirit of Christ was but one in them and ye who are called Ladies Maddam c. in the light of Christ judge your selves whether ye have the fruits of the Elect Lady or whether ye are any of those vertuous women spoken of Pro. 31. who are doing good not evill all the dayes of their lives seeking the wool and flax working willingly with their hands not in vain toyes but with the spindle and distaffe or whether ye are not with some of your husbands who are plotting and wresting the judgement of the poor and needy living in all manner of sin and evill persecuting the innocent yea or nay these are not the fruits of of true Humility or Nobility nay nay to the light of Christ in all your consciences I speak And whereas some of you say we hold there is no Heaven nor Hell but that in the conscence ye are false accusers for if in this life onely were our hope of Christ 1 Cor. 15.19 we were of all men most miserable for they who to the life of Christ by faith in him in any measure are come can say with Paul that all our present sufferings are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us which hath been hid from ages and generations but now is made manifest in his Saints Christ the hope of glory And in love to this glorious life we have in measure received as the earnest for obedience to the faith of the eternall inheritance as we abide in it our dearest relations of all visible created objects whatsoever and our lives also are not dear unto us in comparison of it And we know that when this our earthly tabernacle shall be dessolved we have a building with God not made with hands 2 Cor. 5 1 ● mark eternall in the Heavens for in this we groan earnestly c. and they who to this life are come as I said before in any measure can witness the great torment and tribulation they have passed thorough Acts 14.22 which is the portion for everlasting of the wicked Psa 17.14 Psa 13.5.67.8 Job 21.6 to 15. who have their portion of ease joy pleasure only in this life and have more than heart can wish whose eyes stand out with fatness their houses are safe from fear neither is the rod of God upon them their bull gendereth and faileth not their Cow calveth c. your children dance have the Tymbrel Harp rejoyce in the Organ therefore they you their parents say unto God depart from us for we desire not the knowledge of thy wayes Mat. 25 ● to the end and what is the Almighty that we should serve him c. And ye spend your dayes in wealth persecuting the innocent but in a moment go down to the grave And to such Christ is now saying Depart from me ye cursed take notice into everlasting fire woe is me for you ye wicked ones Repent while ye have time this is the day of your visitation salvation proffered unto you who are wanton in pleasure on the earth nourishing your hearts as in the day of slaughter ye have condemned and killed the just and he doth not resist you And as for you who have gone up and down to get men to subscribe to your grievous Prescription which ye have prescribed against the innocent saying they who are called Quakers deny the Sriptures and are Jesuites witness to this ye of Marshfield thereabouts and others saying they deny Magistrates and Ministers Government c. thereby thinking to cover your wickedness that ye have purposed against the guiltless I who am a Servant of the living God and a fellow feeler and partaker of their sufferings am moved of the Lord to send forth this as a witness against you who have done and are doing so wickedly for so we who are scornfully called Quakers hated and persecuted without a cause do own Magistrates and good Government whether the King as supream or any other Governors who are of the Lord sent for the punishment of evill doers and for the praise of them that do well for so is the will of God c. for no Magistrate ought to be a terror to good and godly men or any other good thing But if he be he bears the sword in vain the sword so the Lord will be turned against him and cut him off as were Ahab Jehoash and others as the Scripture testifies that did oppresse his people nay look to our dayes remember Wentworth of Ireland the late King with other of that generation Take notice ye that are in authority are ye better than they Nay ye are