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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B23163	To both Houses of Parliament Friends here is a few things for you to take into consideration.	Fox, George, 1624-1691.	1660 (1660)	Wing F1952	3,139	1

To both Houses of Par●iament Friends here is a few things for you to take into consi●●ration I IN Righteousness and Truth dwell for that preserves both Governors and Government and People in Peace II Let no man that 's a Curser a Swearer a Drunkard heady high minded furious rash covetous and loves gifts and rewards and respects persons bear Office and Rule for such will not be like meek Moses but will bring the wrath of God both upon people and Magistrates as in former Ages hath been seen but set up such as loves mercy and do justly walks humbly with God and hates covetousness Mica 6. such God requires and such as doth not respect mens persons and are not convinced of the Law as transgressors Jam. 2.5 And these will be to the praise of God of Government and Governors and these differ from Pharoah Herod and Nebuchadnezzar that knew not the Kingdom of the most High to rule in sons of men therefore to the witness of God in you come down to and consider of these things that the Nations and Dominions may be ruled as a Family III. And let no one be put to death for Cattel or Money or any such outward things for by the Law of God they was to restore fourfold and if they had it not to be sold for their theft and so let them restore and the Apostle saith in the Gospel Let him that stole steal no more but labor in the thing that 's good so let him live that he may repent These things lay upon me to write to you and let no man be imprisoned or persecuted because that for conscience sake they cannot swear Mat. 5. but obeys Christs Commands and the Apostles Doctrine that saith Swear not at all lest they should fall into condemnation of the Devil and evil Jam. 5. but speaks Truth and doth Truth and Justice at Yea and Nay in any Places they are put in or Court according to Christ and the Apostles Commands who is our Lord and Master IV. And let none be persecuted because they cannot for conscience sake towards God put off their Hats and respect mens persons at which many hath been imprisoned and fined which hath been like the Pharisees a mark of unbelievers that be from the witness in themselves John 5. such as seeks the Honor that 's from above only that will never stain we would have all to be cloathed with that and honor all men in the Lord and have all men in esteem and say that they that Rule well in Truth in Justice and in Righteousness are worthy of double honor for every one that hath murther in his heart may give honor with the Hat deceitfully V. And let none be persecuted for not maintaining a Ministry that they know in their Conscience is not of God which destroys both Edification and Comfort quencheth the Spirit and limiteth the holy One and despiseth Prophesying that is if any thing be revealed to another that sits by let the first hold his peace this was order in the true Church for ye may all prophesie one by one and this is according to the Apostles Doctrine which is disorder among the contrary Cor. 1.14 and Peter said Acts the second and Joel 2. that the Lord would powr out his Spirit upon all flesh and his sons and his daughters should prophesie which many witness Glory and honor be to the Lord God for ever And meek Moses said he would that all the Lords people were Prophets and stopt and rebuked him that complained of them Numbers 11.29 verse VI. And let none be persecuted and imprisoned for warning Drunkards Cursers Cheaters Fighters and Quarrellers to repent in Streets Markets Cities and Towns and to tell them that they be out of the Life of Christ and the Apostles and shame their profession which Magistrates that be faithful and fearing God should have kept down these things and not have turned their Sword upon the Righteous and men that hath reproved sin in their Gates hath been to them a Prey Consider these things for it is your time now and consider them in your time that to the Lord God you be faithful and valiant for his Truth upon Earth keeping to the Light that shines in your Hearts that gives the knowledg of it 1 Cor 2.4 and the Truth in the inward parts which is the stay of the mind and word in the heart which is to be obeyed and done in which is the Wisdom that 's pure and from above Rom. 10. and this is th● ingrafted word which is able to save the soul which is immortal ●nd bring it up to God from whence it came Jam. 1.21 and this w●●● be alwaies with you taking heed to it in Counsel Wisdom and Ju●gment and it will soften and it will harden if it be not obeyed ●●d they that do not obey it hurt their own souls and they canno● say by the testimony of the ingrafted Word that their souls are save and let all your Laws be drawn up into a short volume that every●ne in the Nation may know them and the end of them that they ma● not distract people about Opinions of them but that all may know ●●e full Law and its end for many men not knowing of them puts i● to others to do for them not knowing them themselves and so come to be overthrown and undone and great charges which if things were ●hort it would prevent this that every one might know it And let all Writs Indictme●ts Warrants and Mittimusses have no more in them than can justly ●e charged upon people and that 's the way to keep things sweet and wholsom and if those things were looked into you would see abund●nce more in them than needs be put in which grives the hearts of the ●imple and righteous And let none be persecute● about the word Thou to a particular person as many have been b● them that takes more honor and worship to themselves than they g●●e to God who saith Thou and Thee to God And let no Prisoners lie lon● in Goal but let them come speedily to tryal for they learn badness ●ne of another and let none keep Goals but sober men that they may b● patterns and examples of good to Prisoners And let none keep Ale-hous● or Taverns but wholsom people and such as fears God and are able to lodg Travellers that there may be no bad houses to nourish wick●dness which grieves the Souls of the Righteous And let all things be done i● Love that keeps down the Spirit of Strife where the vain gloryi●g is and mind the Law of God and the Gospel and let your actions be accordingly that all your Dominions may be as a Family and rul●d in mercy Truth and Righteousness and that establishes Rulers an● People in Peace And let no one be persecut●d about Church-worship and Religion for Christ rebuked Persecutor and such as would revenge and told them that he came to save mens lives and the Apostles weapons was not carnal but spiritual that ●hey wrastled with about Religion Now mind them that wrastle with f●esh and blood whether these be spiritual weaponed men as was the Apo●tle and have the mind of Christ Now such as will invent Forms and Worships and set them up and compel others to bow unto t●em mind and consider and take heed of such and that for Christ h●th shewed how people may worship God and in what John 4. And they that fears the Lord and meets often together and speaks often one to another which are his Jewels Malachy 3. be tender to such as you tender your souls for the Lord God hath reproved many for harming his Prophets Psalm 105. And let no one be persecuted for worshiping God in Spirit and Truth for Christ said to the woman of Samaria neither at Jerusalem nor at this Mountain but they that worship the Father must worship him in Spirit and in Truth for he seeks such to worship him and the hour was come and now is For Jerusalem and the Mountain was places to which they came for to worship out of many Nations and therefore the Jews persecuted the Christians that came off their Worship and Temple and Priesthood and witnessed Christ the Everlasting Priest-hood and the one Offering that ended all the other Offerings and they that received him their bodies was the Temples of God and Christ and all Christendom about their Worship is on heaps they not being in the Spirit and the Truth in which is the Unity in which Spirit and Truth the God of all Truth who is a Spirit is worshiped From a lover of your Souls and eternal good and that Righteousness and Truth may be established among you G F. a Prisoner in Lancaster Castle LONDON Printed for Thomas Simmons at the Sign of the Bull and Mouth neer Aldersgate 1660.