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A44231	A brief relation of some part of the sufferings of the true Christians, the people of God, in scorn called Quakers, in Ireland, for these last eleaven years, viz, from 1660 until 1671 with an occasional treatise of their principles and practices briefly stated, whereby the innocency of their cause, for which they so suffer, is not only plainly demonstrated, but also from all false asperations and causeless pretences sufficiently vindicated / collected by T.H. and A.F.	Holme, Thomas, d. 1695.; Fuller, Abraham, d. 1694.	1672 (1672)	Wing H2514; ESTC R7372	56,059	82

A Brief Relation Of some part of the SUFFERINGS Of the True Christians The People of God in Scorn called Quakers in IRELAND For these last Eleaven Years viz. from 1660. until 1671. With an Occasional Treatise of their Principles and Practices briefly stated whereby the Innocency of their Cause for which they so suffer is not only plainly Demonstrated but also from all false Aspersions and causless Pretences sufficiently Vindicated Collected by T. H. and A. F. Heb. 10. 23 25. Not forsaking the Assembling of our selves together as the manner of some is Heb. 7. 12. The Priesthood being changed there is made of necessity a Change also of the Law Acts 13. 15 If ye have any Word of Exhortation for the People say on Mat. 5. 34. But I say unto you Swear not at all Jam. 2. 9. If ye have Respect to Persons ye commit Sin Exod. 20 9. Six days shalt thou labour Printed in the Year 1673. THE PREFACE READER THere having been a great Defection from true Christianity in the long Night of Apostacy whereby gross Darkness hath overspread the Nations foretold by the Apostles That Antichrist Deceivers grievous Wolves false Teachers Core-like false Worshippers should ensue these ushered in the Apostacy which began in the Apostles dayes and grew so great that they became Persecutors of the True Christians as indeed false Worship and Persecution are inseparable Companions For John by the Revelation of God to him saw the Beast which the Dragon had given his Power unto after he had persecuted the Woman which fled into and was fed in the Wilderness 1260. dayes and the Man-Child caught up to God set up his Worship and compelling thereto and the false Prophet deceiving them that had worshipped the Image of the Beast And he also saw the great Whore sitting upon the Beast which was to be worshipped forty two Moneths having a Golden Cup in her hand wherewith she deceived and by her Sorceries enticed the Nations to commit Fornication with her and so corrupted the Earth and made her self drunk with the Blood of the Saints and Martyrs of Jesus c. Hereby John saw in the Spirit the great and long Sufferings of the true Christians the Church and People of God in the time of the Apostacy by the false Christians the false Worshippers who having lost the Power and Spirit by which the Apostles and primitive Christians were led and guided how to worship God in Spirit and in Truth set up fair and gilded Forms of Worship Jeroboam-like of their own making and inventing and at length lost not only the Power but the very Form of Truth and true worship and then being in the Enmity did compel to their Worship and Cain-like persecuted to Death the true Worshippers the true Church and people of God witness several Histories of the Papal Persecution of the true Christians in all Kingdoms and Countries where the Power of Rome extended it self and so continues in many places to this Day And how can we do less then charge the rise of Christians so called persecuting for Religion to proceed thence For they were the first Authors of Force and Vioience in matters of Faith and Opinion in Religion amongst Christians the Inquisition being chiefly entrusted to the Order of Dominick who first preached this Force and by whose means many true Christians were put to Death for not abjuring their Principles and true Faith in Religion and this was the first Example of putting Erring Persons to Death in the Church of Rome for Christianity doth not punish Corporally people for erring Spiritually but indeed Popery doth And of the same mind were divers ancient and modern Writes who said That people must be enformed to embrace Religion with Reason and not compelled by Violence for nothing violent or injurious can be Religious because Reason and not Force ought to convince That God never loves to plant his Church by Violence and Blood the Condition of Christians being rather to be persecuted then to persecute What Cruelty among Christians is acted under the colour of Religion as if we could not be Christians unless we crucifie one another And by Compulsion no man can make a a Hypocrite to be a true Believer but on the contrary many may be made Hypocrites For people in the Matters of Religion and Worship of God should rather be drawn by the Spirit of the Lord in God's Authority then driven by the Terrors of Magistrates or forced by the Penalties and Punishments of outward Laws of Men And how can that Service and Worship be acceptable to God which for its Authority hath only the Force and Fear of Man without the Faith and Fear of God John also saw the Whore the Mother of Harlots judged and the downfall of her Pride and the Merchants of the Earth that were enriched by Trading and Trafficking with her lamenting her Fall and the Man-Child come to rule the Nations with a Rod of Iron smiting them with the Sword of his Mouth and the holy City new Jerusalem the Mother of us all discending out of Heaven from God prepared as a Bride for her Husband and in this Holy City there was no Temple the Lord God and the Lamb being the Temple of it and the Lamb the Light thereof and the Nations of them that are saved shall walk in the Light of it c. Here John the Divine had a Sight of the restoring of the true Church to its primitive Purity and Institution in Faith Worship Discipline and all Gospel-Order And now the Day of God's great Love and rich Mercy to Mankind is dawned again after the long Night of Apostacy since the Apostles dayes and the Everlasting Gospel is preached again and he that made Heaven and Earth is to be Worshipped again in Spirit and in Truth and many are turned from Darkness to Light and from the Power of Satan and the Dragon's worship unto God and the Church is returning out of the Wilderness and making her self ready for the Marriage of the Lamb an Invitation to the Supper is proclaimed and the Way to the Holy City discovered And it having pleased God to bring us forth in this Blessed Day and Happy Age wherein the true Light hath appeared in which we have believed and are turned thereto by which we are come to see the first day's Work of God's new Creation Light separated from Darkness and to see over and beyond this long and thick dark Night to God's Day the Light that manifests Sin the Deeds of Darkness the Works of the Devil and hereby we are come to the Foundation Principle again of many Generations and to the true Religion to see and know the true Worship of the primitive Christians again so to be led out of all By-wayes Will-worship Rudiments Traditions and Presciptions of men to Worship God aright which is in the Spirit and in the Truth which Christ Jesus set up above 1600 years ago for we are of and for the

indeed they and he too ought he made two Calves of Gold and set up one at Betbel the other at Dan and falsly called them the Godds which brought Israel out of Egypt and it became a great Sin for the people worshipped them and went not to the Temple as they were commanded of God And he made an House of High-Places and Priests of the lowest of the people such as he knew being raised so by him would serve his Ends and call the dead Images Godds and his invented ways and worships the True Worship that were not of the Sons of Levi and therefore false Priests and not of God's appointing or making And he ordained Feasts Offerings Sacrifices Altars c. in some resemblance of the Worship at Jerusalem thereby to please the People and feed their Fancies with a doing something in imitation of the Worship at Jerusalem and by offering upon the Altar there Burnt-incense c. and feasting the people that it became a great Snare and Sin of Idolatry and turned away their Hearts from serving the Living God to serve Godds or rather more properly no Gods of Gold and the Works of mens hands and this very much provoked the Lord insomuch that whilst Jeroboam the King and the People were at their invented Worship at the Altar at Bethel there came a Man of God a Prophet out of Judah and cryed against the Altar the false Worship and the King put forth his Hand and said Lay hold on him as many do in our dayes and his Hand withered or dryed which by the Prayer of the Man of God was healed and restored again 1 King 13. 1 to 10. Neither did Jeroboam set up this his Worship as judging it in his Conscience to be the true Worship of God for he knew it was his own invented Worship and devised Way as is plain in 1 King 12. 27 33. but rather politickly prescribing a Way and Worship like in some things to that at Jerusalem to keep the People from the true Worship and to busie their minds in an active way of Worship by Priests of his own making who would say or do any thing he would have them their Places and Maintenance depending on him and also to strengthen himself in his Kingdom rather seeking his own Greatness and Preservation then the Honour and Glory of God that had bestowed such a Kingdom and Dignity unexpectedly on him and as the Author● of so fair and gilded a Way of Worship thereby wholy to allure and engage them to him and his Idolatrous Worship who having so sinned against God knew no other safety or strength then the good will and number of the People and several of the Kings of Judah and Israel were false Worshippers and against them and their said false Worships several Prophets of the Lord bore Testimony and reproved them as did Zechariah Michaiah Isaiah Jeremiah Ezekiel Malachi and several other Servants of the Lord which kept the Law of God then as we do now the Gospel and served the Lord in their Generations and knew him whom they served and could not forsake him and his Laws to joyn with the Idolaters and false Worshippers that knew not the Living God and for bearing Testimony against the false Worshippers and reproving them for their Will-worship Idolatry Sin and Wickedness were Persecuted imprisoned and some of them put to Death And it is to be well observed That not in all the time under the Law when Sacrifices Offerings Temple-worship c. as Types and Figures were set up by the Command of God none were lyable or compelled as we read of to worship there but the Jews and them that were of their Religion So that the true Worshippers were never Persecutors in any Age but false Worshippers have ever persecuted them that truly serve and worship God in sincerity of Heart therefore let not Persecutors think or look on themselves to be true Worshippers true Christians whilst they are in that Nature and let them but seriously examine their Hearts in the Light and Spirit of Christ Jesus and they will know that they find not acceptance with God in their own Services nor Peace of Conscience and true Satisfaction of Soul in their Worshippings and that 's the very Cause why they malign others and Caiu like envy and persecute sometimes to Death them that are more Innocent and that find Peace with God and Acceptance in their worshipping Thirdly The Lord having been thus worshipped before and under the Law and having a further and another Way of Worship in and by manifesting of the promised Seed to be clothed with Flesh John 1. 17. For the Law was given by Moses but Grace and Truth came by Jesus Christ who was the Substance of the Law of all the Offerings Sacrifices Altar and temple-Temple-Worship which could not make perfect as pertaining to the Conscience all which he ended by his Coming and being offered up a Body being prepared him to do the Will of the Father and then Sacrifices of Righteousness and worshipping God in Spirit and in Truth ordained of God and declared by Christ for when Christ came he did not joyn with the publick Worship but reproved them that drew nigh with their Tongues and honoured God with their Lips and their Hearts far from him Mat. 15. 8 9. as many do now adayes and told them In vain they worshipped that taught for Doctrine the Commandments of Men and called them Blind Leaders John 7. 28. 4. 23. and he often went into the Temple the publick Place of Worship for the Jews and reproved them and set up the true Worship of God over all false worships in the Spirit and in the Truth which differed from the National Worships and as many as came to the Gospel Worship to worship God in Spirit were separated from the Jews and Gentiles Publick and National Worships and did often testifie against them in their publick Places and reproved them in the Streets and other Places for which they were persecuted by Unbelievers and false Worshippers that knew not God And Christ Jesus being come of whom Moses prophesied and said Acts 3. 22. He must be heard in all things and he being Head of his Church it s his Prerogative alone to establish the Worship and Order thereof and he only hath Power in all Spiritual Matters over his Body his Church and People who are oblieged in point of Duty to obey and observe his Commands and Institutions and not the Prescriptions of any other for God never was is or will be worshipped acceptably any otherwayes then in his own Will and Way And Christ Jesus for publishing the Everlasting Gospel and setting up his Father's Worship in Spirit and in Truth by ending the Law with its Ordinances and temple-Temple-worship c. and for testifying against Sin and Wickedness the works of the Devil and for all other his good Words and Works he was persecuted and put to Death by the chief Priests Elders Scribes and