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A41424 A cry of the just against oppression Goodaire, Thomas, d. 1693. 1660 (1660) Wing G1087; ESTC R28246 9,147 10

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wickedness spending your precious time in Pride Pleasures and Vanity satisfying the lusts of the flesh and take counsel of that wicked spirit which works in a mystery in your hearts and in all the hearts of the children of disobedience and so make laws or put any unjust lawes in execution whereby to destroy the Innocent then will you be found guilty before the Lord of their blood which will lie heavy upon you And so by doing these things you will provoke the Lord to anger and he will appear against you and bring his fierce judgments upon you and cut you off suddenly from off the face of the earth and give you your portion with the wicked and ungodly where there will be weeping and and wailing and gnashing of teeth Therefore as you tender the good of your own souls and the glory of God let Gods people have their libertie to worship him in spirit and in truth and to exercise a good conscience towards the Lord and do not go about to limmit the holy One but let the Spirit of truth have its free liberty to declare through the Lords Servants and Prophets and do not persecute them that do you no wrong nor harm nei●her in your persons nor estates but desires the good and welfare both of your souls and bodies and the good of all men But we cannot for conscience sake give flattering titles to man least for so doing our Maker soon take us away Job 32. 21 22 Neither can we respect mens persons for if we do we deny the faith of Christ and become transgressors of the righteous Law of God Jam. 2. Neither can we satisfie the wills and mindes of men contrary to the will and mind of God and where God commands one thing and a man another we shall chuse rather to obey God then man now if you persecute us for these things before mentioned we shall suffer unjustly by you and we shall have peace with the Lord in our sufferings and we shall be justified in his sight when you will be condemned by Gods witnesse in your own consciences for so acting against us therefore repent and fear the Lord and deny your selves and your own honour and glory and rule for God and aim at his honour and glory only and turn to him with all your hearts and cease to do evil and learn to do well seek judgment relieve the oppressed and take off their heavie burdens that God may have mercy upon your poor souls and remember your latter ends for you must all give an account to the just God for the deeds you do in your life time and every one must be rewarded according to your deeds without respect of persons and for every idle word that men shall speak they shall give account in the day of Judgment and see now that for the time to come ye walk more circumspectly then you do or have done not as fools but as wise men guided by the wisdom of God in all things that so you may redeem your precious time which formerly you have spent in pride and vanity and in satisfying the lusts of the flesh to the great dishonour of God Ephe. 5. 15 16 17 18. and now begin to bring forth the fruits of Holinesse and Righteousnesse and do justly love mercy and walk humbly before the Lord that God Almighty may be honoured and glorified by you and in you and this the Lord requires of every one of you from the highest to the lowest and if you do not do these things you do not answer the end for which you are created and brought into the world And now while you have time prize it for this is the day of your visitation and do not despise and reject the Counsel of the Lord through his poor despised servant for if you do and count it a thing of nought and continue in your evill wayes and persecuting the Servants of the Lord verily I declare unto you by the Spirit of Truth that God will despise and reject both you and your prayers and all the prayers of them that pray for you and he will not hear them and you cannot escape the wrath of the Almighty so long as your hands are full of blood and your hearts full of Iniquity Isaiah 1. 15 16 17. Written in the Common Goal at Oxford the 20th day of the 7th Month 1660. From one who desires the good and welfare of all and not the destruction of any in their sins but rather that they may come to repentance and live who am known by the name Thomas Goodaire The End LONDON Printed for Thomas Simmons at the signe of the Bull and Mouth near Aldersgate 1660.
direction I have passed through Warwick-shire Worcester-shire Hereford shire Glocester shire and part of Northampton-shire and so into Oxford-shire to visit the people of God and to confirm and build them up in the most holy faith which all the world that lieth in wickednesse is enemies to at present and to turn people from their evill wayes to the light of Christ which shines in their hearts which whosoever believes in it and obeys it it will give them the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ And in all my passing through these Counties before-mentioned I was not staid nor questioned before I came to Chadlinton in Oxford-shire to one Benjamin Staples house who is now prisoner with me and the same night that I lodged at his house the Constable of the Town with some others came about the middle of the night to search his house having a Warrant from those called Justices to apprehend all Rogues Vagabonds and sturdy Beggars and especially one Ludlow and the Constable finding me in Bed charged the man of the house to see me forth coming in the morning which he did and in the morning the Constable had me to Chippin-Norton before the Commissioners and I came before one which is called Sir William Walter and another which is called Sir Thomas Feniston and the man of the house went along with me and they asked my name and what businesse I had in that Country I told them my name and what my businesse was that I was directed by the Lord to come into those parts to turn people from darknesse to light and from the power of Satan to God but that answer did not satisfie them and so they tendred the Oath of Allegiance both to me and the man of the house that was with me I told them I could not swear for Conscience sake and the other friend said the same and I shewed the reason why we could not because Christ and the Apostle hath forbid it and saith swear not at all but in all your Communication let your yea be yea and your nay nay for whatsoever is more is evil and the Apostle saith My Brethren above all things swear not at all neither by heaven nor by the earth nor by any other oath but let your yea be yea and nay nay lest you fall into condemnation and I told them further that I loved the King and his friends and all mens persons and should never plot nor make insurrections nor take up a carnal weapon against any man nor against any government and this I promised in the presence of the Lord and before them and many others but nothing would satisfie them that could be spoken except we would swear which the aforesaid William Walter pressed often for us to do or else we must go to prison and so we could not neither can we swear for or against any for Conscience sake it being contrary to Christs command but shall chuse rather to suffer then disobey Christ and so they caused each of us a Mittemus to be made and sent us forth-with to Oxford goal where we now are and this is the onely cause for which we are imprisoned and so cruelly dealt withall by the Jaylor his Wife and Son which is as followeth Upon the 15. day of the 7. Month called by the world September we was brought to the common goal at Oxford and delivered up to Henry Tharpe which is now Jaylor and presently after we came in he commanded his Son to put Irons upon me which he did upon both my legs as they do upon Thieves and Murderers and one of the Irons was so strait that it hurt my leg and put me to much pain and one friend desired the Jaylor to let them be taken off and wider put on if he would put on any he answered if I would give money for taking them off and putting on others I might have it done but I could not for Conscience sake give money for so doing because I have done nothing whereby I deserve to have any lions put upon me for it was done in wrath and envy and not for any just cause and so I chuse rather to suffer then satisfie that covetous mind and shortly after the Irons was put on they put me and the other friend into a stinking room where was nothing neither to sit down nor lie upon but the cold floor and one friend asked the Jaylor if he would suffer a little straw to be brought into the room for us to lye down upon but he would not suffer it and except we would give four shillings eight pence every week for our lodging onely we could have no other place and so we chose rather to suffer this hard ship then to uphold such great oppression and when they could not prevail with us to give them so much money as is before mentioned for our lodging then the Jaylors wise was full of wrath and envy and pushed me to and fro and abused me both by words and actions and there are some other friends which are prisoners now and hath been above two years for Conscience sake because they cannot pay Tythes which Christ came to end and the Jaylors Son is so very wicked and cruel that he strikes them with his hands and kicked one of them with his foot and abuseth both them and us very much with his evil tongue calling us Dogs and Devils and many more wicked words which we bear and suffer patiently for Christs sake and we shall not render evill for evill but take all things patiently which is done unto us knowing of a Truth that they that are thus cruell against us without a cause are led and guided by the same Spirit that murdered Christ Jesus the Lord of Glory because he testified and declared against the world that their deeds was evill therefore they hated him and sought false witnesse against him and mocked and abused him and afterward put him to death and the servants of the Lord are not greater then their Master for if they called the Master of the house Belzebub and many other wicked names what will they not do to them of his houshold and all that follows Christ for their example and comes to live a holy godly and harmlesse life must expect to suffer persecution by this wicked and perverse generation for they that walked after the flesh in all ages ever hated and persecuted them that walked after the Spirit even so it is with this generation as it was formerly but blessed be the Name of our God that gives us patience and counts us worthy to suffer for his Names sake for he hath not called us onely to believe but also to suffer with him and he that denyes to suffer with him and for his sake shall never reign with him Now hearken O ye Rulers of the earth what the Spirit of Truth saith unto you through his Servant King Parliament and Counsel if