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truth_n	heart_n	holy_a	lord_n	3,976	5	3.5961	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37213	A brief manifestation, or, The state and case of the Quakers presented to all people, but especially to merchants, owners (and masters) of ships, and mariners : also to all planters or occupiers of lands in the English and forreign plantations : shewing the (causless) cause of their present and cruel sufferings ... hereby warning them all not to joyn hands against the innocent nor willingly suffer their ships ... to transport (nor to buy) any of them for slaves ... / written on behalf of the suffering people of God (called Quakers), ... the first day of the eighth month, 1664 [by] T.D.	T. D. (Thomas Davenport)	1664 (1664)	Wing D372; ESTC R28586	6,720	10

and Murderers changed and others impanelled which may serve for their purpose how are others brow-beaten and threatned which cannot in good conscience the Evidence not being clear answer that spirit of Cruelty in our Persecutors to bring us in Guilty how are many of us thorow unjust proceedings sentenced to Transportation and Exilement from our Native Country Wives Children and dearest Relations into Forreign Parts and Places of the World there to seek our bread amongst strangers Much more might we say of the Cruelty and Oppressions we meet with from some fierce and forward spirits who are Ministers of the Laws both Civil and Ecclesiastical as they are called who summon us to their Courts for not coming to their Parish Worships fining and imprisoning us in many parts of this Nation endeavouring thereby to vex us and to weary us out and force us to conform to that which our God hath shewed us he abhors And now Friends what is the cause of all this Cruelty that 's thus daily exercised upon us even for no other cause but for keeping a good Conscience towards God who hath loved and purchased us with a great price even with his own Blood that we should be no longer our own but the Lord's who hath endeared us to him and engaged our hearts to bow to and worship him and in whose Fear we cannot but meet together to wait upon him and to seek his Face more and more whose Presence hath so often refreshed and gladded our hearts in our Assemblings and Meetings together And by this our meeting together we bear our Testimony for the Lord and his Truth thereby declaring to all men that we own him alone to be our Law-giver our King and Guide in all matters that concern his Worship and he doth and will come and save us And also by this our meeting together we exhort one another strengthen and build up one another in our most holy Faith praying in the holy Ghost with all prayers and supplications for Magistrates and for all men that they with us may come to know be obedient to Christ Jesus the Light that lightneth every man that cometh into the world and by his Blood which is his Life may come to receive remission of sins and an Inheritance among the Saints in Light And likewise by this our meeting together we find an Increase in the pure Love which thinketh no evil one to another and to all men yea to our very enemies desiring from the bottom of our hearts they may repent them of all their Sins and of all the Blood Cruelties and Persecutions they have unjustly committed upon and against us of all which things we are justified of the Lord and have an assurance that it 's well-pleasing and acceptable to him as we abide in the Fear of his most holy Name Which holy practice of meeting together was required of and found in the People of God of old as in Mal. 3. 16. Then those that feared the Lord spake often one to another and the Lord hearkened and heard it and a Book of Remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord and thought upon his Name And so was the Apostle's Practice and Exhortation to the Saints Not to forsake the assembling of themselves together as the manner of some then was and now is but so much the more to exhort one another as you see the Day approaching Which holy Practices we own and do witness and that as the Day approaches to wit the Light ariseth and draweth nearer and nearer to us by its heat vertue and splendor Even so much the more are we enclined and engaged in our hearts to meet and assemble together to wait upon the Lord till he causeth it to arise and shine and overspread the whole Earth And for these Causes as aforesaid and for such holy Ends do we meet together and for no other God Almighty is our Record that we speak the truth unfeignedly from our hearts and not as we have been falsly accused and reported of by time-servers and men-pleasers for meeting seditiously to plot or wickedly to contrive Insurrections in contempt of the King and his Laws and to the breach of the Publick Peace and that we are an Obstinate People and will not be subject to Authority All these and many more the like slanders and false accusations do we daily undergo by some that are fierce and cruel in their spirits against us endeavouring to incense the King against us and to procure Laws to be made to destroy us and that all people may even deliver us up to the spoil as a people not fit to live amongst them But we believe the King hath a Witness in his Conscience which oft-times speaks for us viz. that we are not such a People as reported of and he hath not approved of some Cruelties that have been of late exercised upon us And as for the People which are our Neighbours and know us with whom we do converse will justifie us and say we are a very diligent and peaceable People and do much pitty us saying We deserve no such thing at their hands Yet notwithstanding all the Cruelties that are exercised upon us if our own persons were only concerned we could hold our peace but in as much as the spreading of the Everlasting Truth and honourable Name of the Lord God Everlasting is deeply concerned and that the Blood-guiltiness of many cries so loud for Vengeance which is ready to be poured forth And also that all who have yet had no hand in such Cruelties might hereby be warned WE from these deep and weighty Considerations are moved in our hearts to lay these things before you that if it may be a stop might be put to any further exercise thereof and that neither ye who are Merchants or Marriners or any other might have any hand in the execution thereof in any measure either by permitting your Ships or Seamen to be the Transporters of the Innocent or any other wayes of Cruelty whatsoever Now Friends having thus laid our Case before you and opened our hearts thus unto you concerning our Principles Practices and Professions towards God and our Demeanours and Behaviours towards the King and his Government with our Deportment and Conversation towards all men also something of our Sufferings and the Innocent Causes thereof all which will certainly plead for us and therefore to God's Witness in all your Consciences do we appeal for true Judgment in this case that is to say whether we have deserved such Cruelties to be inflicted upon us who are an Innocent People and guilty of the breach of no Just Law Neither are we guilty of the breach of this Act upon pretence of which we now suffer which Act is to suppress Seditious Conventicles and therefore not Innocent Meetings and to prevent the growth of such Sectaries who at their Meetings contrive Insurrections c. as by the Title and Preamble which is the Reason