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A40257 Something in answer to a law lately made at the first sessions of the General Court held at Boston in New-England, May the 28th, 1679 : and published by their order, Edw. Rawson, Secretary : the title of the law, viz. Meeting-houses not to be erected without licence, &c. Fox, George, 1624-1691. 1679 (1679) Wing F1911; ESTC R36421 11,382 20

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and make them forfeited and sell them and the Ground and High-wayes to them And where did ever Christ who is King of Kings and Lord of Lords who sent his Disciples into all Nations to preach the Gospel to every Creature under Heaven give any command to his Apostles and Disciples that them that would not receive their Gospel some of them they should Hang others they should cut off their Ears others they should Whip Imprison and spoil their Goods and brand them with an Hot Iron and some they should Banish upon pain of Death pluck down their Meeting-Houses make them forfeited sell demolish them the Land High ways to them Now shew us a Law from Christ and his Apostles for this your practice or else acknowledge your selves to be no Christians And the Scriptures of the New Testament are not your Rule neither have you an Example for this your Practice in all the Scriptures of Truth And will not ye for a piece of Bread transgress the Command of Christ who saith Freely you have received freely give Prov. 28.21 And do not your Teachers eat the Bread of Idleness But the Apostle saith They that will not work shall not eat And do not you Workers of Iniquity go about to eat up God's People as you eat Bread and devour them as David saith Psal 14. Psal 53. And have not you Gnashed upon them with your Teeth And do not you think but the Lord will break the Long Teeth of the Ungodly Psal 58. Psal 35. And have not your Teeth been like Spears and Arrows Psal 57. But see what Christ saith in Mat. 13. how in the end the Wicked shall wail and gnash their Teeth who in their Life-time have gnashed them against God's People and haled them before their Judgment-seats as Christ fore-told his Disciples And have you not condemned and killed the Just which have not resisted you and baled and drawn them before your Judgment-seats as in Jam. 5. And did not James pronounce Wo against such And have not you lifted up the Fists of Wickedness smote them with it And doth not Isaiah testifie against such Fists and Fasters Isa 48. And doth not the Apostle exhort the Christians to pray and lift up holy hands without Wrath and Doubting 1 Tim. 2. And are not you Breakers of this Command with your unholy hands and fists of wickedness who in your Wrath have Hanged and Whipped and now would make Forfeiture pluck down sell and demolish the Meeting-Houses of the People of God with their Land and Ways to them And doth not John say in the Revelations The Beast with his Horns was like a Leopard and don 't you know the Nature of that spotted Beast And his Feet were like a Bear and hath not your Bears Paw with your Claws been felt and seen the Marks are seen on the Backs of the Righteous And hath not this Beast a Mouth like a Lyon to devour and the Dragon the Destroyer gives unto this Beast his destroying power and the Dragons Seat and great Authority which is to destroy and not to save And hath not he given you in New-England this Seat and Authority to destroy the Lambs of Christ and to make war against him and his Followers but the Lamb will overcome Rev. 13 17. And your Faith is not the true saving Faith that works by Love but a destroying nor your Gospel is not the true Gospel of Peace and Glad-tidings who destroy mens Lives but a destroying one and your Religion is not the true Religion which is to visit the Fatherless and Widows c. who destroy mens Lives and make Fatherless and Widows and your Church is not the true Church but the Whore who drinks the Saints Blood which the true Church of Christ never did and your Worship is not the true Worship of God in his holy Spirit and Truth but from the foul unclean spirit that is out of Truth which destroyes men in their Estates and Lives and not save them and your Way is not the true and living Way Christ Jesus who never hanged nor spoiled the Goods of any that could not follow him as you have done to such as could not follow you and your Foundation is not the true Foundation who have hang'd and branded and whipt and spoiled the Goods of them that would not build upon it which Christ and his Apostles never did though he was a Lamb slain from the Foundation of the World and at last crucified by your Generation And what a dreadful Fear are you in of your False Religion and Faith and Way and Worship for what Fines have you laid on Masters of Ships that bring over the Servants of the Lord and Fines upon them that do receive them and Fines on them that do bring or receive a Book as your Laws declare Oh what a pitiful fearful evil Spirit you are of And the Apostle saith Quench not the Spirit and why should you quench the Spirit in any And he saith Despise not Prophecy is not this despising of Prophecy who will not suffer such to come among you to prophesie And how far from the Apostles Doctrine are you who saith Prove all things and hold fast that which is goode 1 Thes 5. And the Apostle John saith These things have I writen unto you concerning them that seduce you but the Anointing that you have received of him abideth in you and you need not that any man teach you but as the same Anointing teacheth you of all things and is Truth and is no Lye and even as it hath taught you ye shall abide in him Now are not the New-England Governours Priests and Elders these Seducers that hang banish whip prison brand with an hot Iron spoil their Goods make their Meeting-houses forfeited and sell and demolish their Houses and Lands and Wayes to them of such as cannot forsake the Anointings Teachings within according to the Apostle's Doctrine which Teachings of the Anointing within brings them to continue in the Son of God in the Father which Anointing they cannot forsake to follow the seducing spirit of you and your persecuting Priests who have hanged some and branded some and banished others and whipt and spoiled their Goods and now made a Law to forfeit their Meeting-Houses and Lands wayes to them But all these things cannot separate them from the Love of God which they have in Christ Jesus And as the Saints have formerly said Who shall separate us from the Love of Christ shall Tribulation Distress Persecution Famin Nakedness Peril or Sword as it is written For Christ's sake we are killed all the day long we are counted as Sheep for the Slaughter and you Slaughterers who have your Slaughtering-place to slaughter and hang God's People in But in all these things we are more than Conquerors through Christ who hath loved us And the Devil and his Angels with all his Principallities and dark Powers are not able