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A45535 For the magistrates & other officers in Huntingtonshire who have been concern'd in the spoiling the goods of the innocent who meet together in obedience to the requirings of the good spirit of the Lord to worship him in his own way Hardmeat, Tobias, d. 1703. 1676 (1676) Wing H700A; ESTC R28058 5,868 10

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For the Magistrates other Officers in Huntingtonshire who have been concern'd in the Spoiling the Goods of the Innocent who meet together in Obedience to the Requirings of the Good Spirit of the Lord to Worship him in his own Way COuntrymen unto whose Consciences my Life and Conversation with many more of my Friends hath been manifested to have been peaceable and seeking the Good of all People and our Assemblies to have been peaceable and our Meeting together to edifie one another in that which is good And now what have you against us saving the Law and Worship of our God Unto the Light of Christ Jesus in all your Consciences I do appeal for Justice herein It is not unknown unto you how that I with many more of my Friends have been deep Sufferers in our Estates under Pretence of Virtue of a late Act to prevent and suppress Seditious Conventicles but wherein I and my Friends are guilty doth not yet appear farther then it is the Wills of Men it shall be so Now Friends and People I do acknowledge it is and hath been my Practice ever since I was convinced of the precious Truth as it is in Jesus to meet with the People of God and to sit down and wait upon him in his Fear and to worship him in Spirit in Truth and to draw near unto him from whom I have often felt Spiritual Refreshments unto whose Honour and Glory my Soul ascribes the Praise forever and evermore But now as to that Act which you pretend to act by 1st It is entituled An Act to prevent and suppress Seditious Conventicles which I do deny being guilty of frequenting any Seditious Meeting it is those Rude Drunken Informers who have often disturbed our Peaceable Meetings and therein shewn themselves Seditious and Violent against us who were alwayes found and known to be Peaceable in our publick Meeting places until they have broke the Peace and made a Disturbance And it should have been the Magistrates place to have punisht those Rude Informers who have so often disturbed our Peaceable Meetings who meet together for Good and not for Evil. 2dly The Act s aith Who under Pretence of Tender Conscience have or may at their Meetings contrive Insurrections as late Experience hath shewn Now I do appeal to God's Witness in your Consciences whenever had you any such Experience of us But I do affirm that you have had large Experience to the contrary for Twenty Years and upwards where our Meetings have been established by the Light and Power of the Lord Jesus But if you say We know not but in time we may and therefore we would prevent you Herein will not both Nature ancient Laws and good Conscience witness against you Who will punish a person or people who doth well because you are jealous that in time to come he or they may do Evil Besides Doth not God's Witness in your Consciences witness for us that our Principle leadeth to Good and not to Evil let God's Witness in your Consciences be judge in this and of other Matters and then Righteous Judgment assuredly will be given 3dly That Act forbids the number of Five or above besides those of the Houshold Now I say if five or four three or two meet for Evil they ought to be punished according to the Nature of the Evil acted but if two three four five or five hundred meet together for the Good and Edification one of another in the Lord they ought to be incouraged and the Magistrates ought to preserve them therein and for this End pay we Tribute that we might be preserved in Body and Estate and live a peaceable Godly and quiet Life in all Honesty under the Government but if otherwise we must suffer for our Obedience to God it is our Principle patiently to suffer under them that are set over us and so commit our Cause unto the Lord and this was the Practice of Christ Jesus our Lord and his faithful Followers when he was in that Body prepared to do his Father's Will and his faithful Followers after his Departure when they were endued with Power from on high And so I would that all our fellow Creatures male and female did rightly know us and our Principle that so they might come and sit down with us and receive an Earnest of that Inheritance and Riches which no Evil Instrument can take away and a Place in that Habitation which is Everlasting Friends People if we were but only Pretenders to worship God we were then of all People most miserable but Thanks be to God through our Lord Jesus Christ he hath given unto us not only that Knowledge that we can say it is the Truth but Praises to his most holy Name he hath also given us to feel taste and handle of the Word of Life whereby we know sensibly all things in this World to be of no Value in Comparison of the Riches of his Love to our Souls even to as many as walk before him with a perfect and upright Heart Christ Jesus our Lord who was numbred amongst Transgressors above Sixteen Hundred Years since as you may read in the Scriptures of Truth he set up this Worship in Spirit and in Truth which we bear Testimony unto and suffer for when he testified the End of the Worship in the Mountain and the Worship at Jerusalem and said Not in this Mountain nor at Jerusalem but they that worship the Father must worship him in Spirit and in Truth for the Father seeketh such to worship him Friends and People we were Strangers as well as others but Christ Jesus the Shepherd and Bishop of our Souls sought us out and by the Arm of his Almighty Power hath brought us to be a People who were in Dayes past not a People to God but Strangers and Aliens and wandring upon the barren Mountains and desolate Hills of divers Professions seeking Rest but found it not until the compassionate Creator who beholds the secrets of all Hearts beheld us in our Blood loaden with Sin and Iniquity and had Compassion on us and did reach forth a Hand of Help unto us and by the Light of his Son Christ Jesus did shew unto us the Way in which we should walk wherein we have and do find Rest to our weary panting Souls praises to his most holy Name for evermore So Friends and People there is great need of our Faithfulness in so weighty a Concern as this wherein so great a ●tress lieth of our Eternal Happiness by being faithful unto him that hath called us for if we deny him before men then will he deny us before his Father which is in Heaven and whosoever loveth any thing more then him will not be found worthy of him And now be it known unto you our Country Folks that it is our Rights to enjoy our outward Estates which the Lord hath lent unto us and made us as Stewards of amongst you where the Lord hath cast our