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A56996 The Remonstrance of the suffering people called Quakers clearing their innocency from the many false aspersions, slanders and suggestions, which are lately come abroad in the nation causlesly [sic] upon them. 1665 (1665) Wing R1016; ESTC R4321 11,537 18

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both the Life Power and Vertue of all true Religion and holy Exercise to set up the Constitutions and Decrees of man and Ordinances and Imaginations of men in a bodily shew of holy Worship when God requires no such thing of man moreover would impose the fallible Judgments and changeable Institutions of men upon mens Consciences and would be Lords over mens Faith such we cannot own neither have fellowship with but are clearly separated from such things in our hearts and cannot own such with the presence of our persons in conformity to that which we see no ground for neither themselves can give any out of the Scriptures of Truth or from the Examples of the Apostles and primitive Church so called For this thing we have been railed and slandred misreported defamed and evil-spoken of falsly accused evilly entreated reproached mocked stocked stoned imprisoned whipped buffeted our Goods spoiled and our Families sought to be ruined and we not counted worthy to live in our Country and Land of our Nativity Therefore Devices have been made and Engines formed against us and Laws and Acts made that we must either conform to that which no man as yet hath convinced us of either by discourse word or writing or else we cannot enjoy our Liberties as men in the Nation but must be banished as persons unfit to live among men or in our natural habitations separated from our Wives and dear Children in jeopardy of our Lives if we return in seven years nay in peril daily in loss of Goods Mulcts Fines long Imprisonments and he that doth the most mischief unto us thinks he doth God the most service and the Kingdom the best office But as the enemy of mankind the Devil and Satan ceaseth not to represent the best of the Lords works in a bad form even so doth his Instruments the Lords People and of their life and works to stir up a dislike in Peoples minds against them and therefore the greatest Truth by some hath been counted the greatest Heresy The Jews the alone Church of God in that age all the Gentiles hated and the Nations that knew not God whom God reproved Christ the Prince of Peace was said to be a Samaritan and to have a Devil and to cast out Devils by Beelzabub the Prines of Devils and to be an Enemy to Caesar and a Friend of Publicans and Sinners and a Blasphemer and a Breaker of the Law of Moses and a Transgressor of the Ordinances of the Jews and what not He was numbered amongst Transgressors and a Murderer preferred before him and he that was given for the Light of the Gentiles and the Salvation of Israel and of all to the ends of the Earth was counted as the Troubler and Disturber of their State and Government And so it happened to all his Followers and the Prophets that went before Elias was reckoned by Ahab his Enemy and the Troubler of Israel and likewise Micah and Jeremiah were reckoneo as men fallen away to the forreign Enemies viz. to the Babylonians in the the time of Zedekiah because he pleased not the Princes of Zedekiah they put him in the Dungeon his feet stuck fast in the mire Isaiah was counted a Troubler of the People and a Disturber of Jerusalem and the Country so that they said Speak no more of these things unto us for we will not hear them What should I speak of Paul of Peter of James of Stephen of Silas of John and of all the Holy Men of God of John Baptist of all the Believers among the Jews of all the Believers among the Gentiles and of the suffering Brethren in the Apostles dayes and of all the suffering Christians by the Romans and in the ten Persecutions in latter years in Europe where the Name of Christ was published so that the best of men have been in all ages reckoned by the Powers of the world and People thereof the greatest Malefactors and have been counted not worthy to live but Enemies to States and Governments Turners of the world upside down Seditious Pestilent desperate Wicked Ringleaders of Sects Setters out of strange gods Deceivers Deluders Despisers of Princes Enemies to Churches States to Common-Wealths and Enemies to all mankind Disturbers of Reace of Misbehaviout and what not In a word not one of the faithful People of God in any age or generation but they were condemned and censured as Evil-doers and were made to suffer as such the most by some publick pretended Law or if I may say perverted Law or other whereby they were judged or else by making some Law or other to suit their intended purpose to be a cloak and a cover unto them of some shew and seeming Reason why they so proceed in a seeming way of legality to blind the minds of People that it was done by the force of some Equitable Power and that all that were Transgressors of such Ordinances and Laws though never so repugnant to the mind of God yet all ought to obey them And they that suffered by them were reckoned as Evil-doers And so all the Saints have suffered and were condemned by the world But Christ is come for this very end to convince the world of Sin of Righteousness and of Judgment and will condemn that Judgment which is acted by the power of the Prince of this world because he shall be cast out and must not for ever sit as Judge over the Heritage of God for then the Lord's Heritage would be laid waste and the Destroyer and his Instruments trumph in their wicked enterprizes We who are brought forth in this last age of the world and have been made to tremble because of the Word of the Lord and the dread of his Holiness that we have seen and known called reproachfully Quakers We have been a suffering People since the Lord hath called us and chosen us out of the world to bear witness to his Name and to that everlasting Truth by which freedom from Sin is witnessed which the Prophets and Holy Men of God of old the Apostles and Members of the Church of Christ were made Testators of and we are Members of the same Body and do believe no other things than that which all the Prophets bare witness unto and all the Apostles and Ministers of Christ and Members of the Church of Christ which is his Body believed and no other Hope or Faith have we or profess we than that which was once delivered unto the Saints of old in the pure and holy Plantation of the Gospel nor no other belief have we either as to Doctrine or Practice but that which is consistent with the Church of Christ and according to the Scriptures of Truth And though we have had greas opposition yet hath none convinced us of Errour or of Evil-doing in point of practice as walking in the societies of men but we have endeavoured with great diligence to make our Calling and Election sure and that we might have a Conscience void of offence