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A61660 Friends and all people, consider grieve not Gods Spirit, nor limit the Holy One ... Stodart, Amos. 1660 (1660) Wing S5706; ESTC R32676 4,194 8

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these things be proved against us that we are Plotters and if we had but the Liberty that Paul had All that are Prisoners and all our Accusers brought face to face before the Rulers and let us see what any one hath against us for it is below an English man and a Christian that so many should lye in Prison for the worship of God And we believe it is contrary to Law that so many should be sent to Prison and kept in Prison without any Warrant or Mittimus as there are now about two thousand in prison taken up out of their houses streets and beds many sober people that desires to live godly and peaceably whose lives and examples the world cannot bear though Religion they hold up by the same words that declare the same life that we live in And as concerning Meetings the Pharisees the Sadduces and the very Heathen suffered the Christians in the primitive Times to meet upon Hills Mountains High-wayes by the Rivers and Ships as Paul did at Rome where the Emperors Seat was he was suffered to preach two yeares together in his own hired house among the Heathen and Christ the Apostles were suffered to meet from House to House and preach in Jerusalem among the Jews though they met by thousands And the Church was in Aquila and Priscilla's House And the Christians now that think themselvs wiser fuller grown and of a greater age then the Churches in the primitive times cannot suffer the tender people of God to meet in Houses now but call it Heresie VVill not they rise up in judgment against you that suffered the Apostles to meet in that time beyond whom you profess your selves to be in words but are short of their life And concerning Swearing our yea is yea and nay nay and if we be found breakers of that then let us suffer as for breaking an Oath now it is evident that it is for Conscience-sake that we cannot swear at all For many hundreds of our Friends have been imprisoned suffered other wrongs because they could not swear in Oliver's days and the other changeable Powers since him several Oaths being put to them and what we promise unto the King he will finde us more faithful to perform then many that out of fear turn under every Power and swear to every Power Is now the Preachers preaching up Artaxerxes Decree a Heathen King for a Gospel-Command among Christians which was onely to the Jews for the building their outward Temple Oh that men should not blush to hear it What to banish What to take away goods and lives from them that do not obey Artaxerxes Decree Might not Christ's Doctrine and the Apostles convince you Did he not rebuke the Zeale of such who would have fire to come down from Heaven to consume such as were contrary-minded to him And did not the Apostle say they wrestled not with flesh and blood And did not Christ say the Temple should be thrown down that was set up by Artaxerxes Decree and not one stone left upon another And did not the Apostles go into the Temple to bring people off from the Temple and tel them that the Most High dwelt not in Temples made with mens hands that their bodies were the Temples of God And was not Stephen stoned to death for denying the Temple witnessing Christ the Substance Act. 7 Yea that Temple which was set up by Artaxerxes Decree them that did not obey it were to be hanged or banished or goods taken away So all people may see that this was to the Iews from the Heathen and not to the Christians by this Doctrine you may justifie that the Apostles did ill in preaching the Name of Christ when the Council forbad them And we do challenge all the Priests in Christendom for to make it good and give us an Example where ever the Apostles that came before Emperors Kings Powers that preached up this for Gospel or Doctrine or preached it among themselves that were gathered into one body into the faith and belief of Truth as it was in Jesus who came to save mens lives give liberty and not to spoil mens goods that was never preached up by Christ the Apostles but such as are Ministers of the Law Heathens Decrees builders of the Jews Temples which the Apostles and Christ brought them off from Heathens Decrees and the Law and the Jews Temples and Types and brought them to the substance Christ ended them And why do you not go and do the Jews work if you be Jews and build the Temple which thing doth not belong to Christians but to you that preach Artaxerxes Decree and you that preach that for Gospel knows not what it is and preach from him and not from Christ and that people that are led by you are led into Heathenism who build up that which Christ and the Apostle throw down THE END London Printed for Robert Wilson 1660.