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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75788	A true declaration of the suffering of the innocent, who is hated and persecuted without a cause. Wherein is discovered the zeale of the magistrates and people of Banbury, persecuting and imprisoning them that are sent of the Lord in love to their souls to warn them of the evill of their wayes. Declared in a letter sent to William Allen, called justice of peace, with an answer to the false accusations charged upon the innocent. Also their proceedings laid open, and proved to be contrary to the Scriptures. / By Anne Audland, whom the world scornfully calls Quaker.	Audland, Anne, 1626 or 7-1705.	1655 (1655)	Wing A4195; Thomason E829_7; ESTC R207394	7,605	8

A TRUE DECLARATION OF The suffering of the innocent who is hated and persecuted without a cause Wherein is discovered the zeale of the Magistrates and people of BANBVRY persecuting and imprisoning them that are sent of the Lord in love to their Souls to warn them of the evill of their wayes Declared in a Letter sent to William Allen called Justice of Peace with an answer to the false Accusations charged upon the Innocent Also their Proceedings laid open and proved to be contrary to the SCRIPTURES By Anne Audland whom the world scornfully calls QUAKER The adversaries of the Lord shall be broken to pieces out of heaven shall he thunder upon them The Lord shall judge the ends of the earth and he shall give strength unto his King and exalt the horne of his annointed 1 Sam. 2.10 And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will poure out in those dayes of my spirit and they shall prophesie Act. 2.18 LONDON Printed and are to be sold by Giles Calvert at the Sign of the Black Spread-Eagle at the West-end of Pauls 1655. A TRUE DECLARATION Of the suffering of the Innocent who is hated and persecuted without a CAUSE c. WIlliam Allen Justice of Peace so called but little peace I finde in thee We came to the Towne of Banbu●y on the 13th day of the 11th moneth and being strangers we tooke in at the Lyon The next day being the fi●st day of the week wee went to a meeting which we heard of in the Towne and when the meeting ended we were moved to go to the Steeple-house to speake the word of the Lord to Priest and People and in obedience to the Lord we went and stayed till the Priest had done and then my friend spoke to the Priest and the rude multitude came and hurried her forth as the customs of the Heathens is Then I spoke to the Priest Man here see the fruits of thy Ministry and presently the rude people hurried me forth Then came one and tooke me by the hand and questioned me what untruths their Minister had spoken and I answered That they that are out of the Doctrine of Christ all they spoke was untruth And though they say The Lord liveth surely they sweare falsely Jer. 5.2 Then another asked me if the Lord did not live I answered yea I know he liveth Now there are two Boyes that hath sworn against me that which I did not speake their blood will be required of them that caused them to erre And know this O man that the Lord God will be avenged of all unjust Justices and he will make his power known in the destruction of his Enemies Therefore feare him and beware of persecuting his ●●rvants for justly shalt thou be judged according to the deeds done in the body shalt thou receive thy reward To the light in thy conscie●ce do I direct thee it will let thee see all thy actions and from whence they arise whether from the spirit of meeknesse or from thy perverse will which the Lord will judge righteously To that in thy conscience I speake which will witnesse for God against all deceit This was I moved to write to cleare my conscience of thee and leave thee without excuse that when the book of Conscience is opened thou mayest remember that thou wast forwarned in thy life time A friend of the Truth and a lover of thy Soule who is a prisoner of the Lord for the Truths ●ake at Banbury whose ●ame in the flesh is Anne Audland WHereas I am accused in a Mittimus for certaine blasphemous words saying That the Lord live●h no● I answer these words are false and never spoken by me The Lord is my Redeemer and I know that my Redeemer liveth and my soule magnifieth him and my spirit rejoceth in him and here I deny your false accusations and blasphemie it is your owne words and not what I sayd and you that accuse falsely know not the living God the Heathen knows not God and the Heathens rage but the Lord will be avenged of all his enemies and plead the cause of the innocent And they are blasphemers which say they are Jewes and are not but are the synagogue of Satan And whereas I am accused for causing a tumult in the Church when the Minister was going to execute part of his Function and likewise to assault the Minister I answer This is likewise false Lyars must be cast into the lake The Church is built of living stones elect and precious and there is order kept in the Church And I did not cause a tumult neither did I assault the Minister as yee call him and that which is called part of his Function is an invention and there is neither command nor example in all the Scripture that ever any of the Ministers of Christ did sprinkle Infants and call it a Function and here you have no Scripture to prove your Function as you call it And he that practises such things for the which there is no Scripture leads people into the inventions and so they are not profited at all as it appears by your owne words that they were in a tumult O blush and be ashamed of that which you call your Church who are so suddenly in a tumult Was there ever such a thing heard of amongst the Saints that they would be in a tumult when one came in peaceably among them not offering wrong to any Here you shew your selves to be children of your Fathers who lived in envy haling out of Synagogues carrying them before Rulers and casting into prisons them who was called of the Lord to beare witnesse against their deceit and here him called the Minister is made manifest to be one that runs before he was sent and so never profitted the people and so like Priest like People Therefore give over and never call it a Church who are fighters and strikers scoffers and scorners tumulters and false accusers as your fruits makes it daily appeare And some of you confesse that they are in danger of their lives that comes among you the people are so rude Now you that are Magistrates ought to punish evill Doers Fighters and Lyars and false Accusers but such have liberty and dare do it in your Church as you call it and you present as he that caused the Mittimus to be made doth confesse That there was a tumult when he was present and they that tumulted are not punished but the fault is layd upon the innocent who was beate and abused but offered violence to none And so they said Paul was a pestilent fellow and they tumulted Paul but Paul did not cause the tumult So you are made manifest of what generation you are and you shall be rewarded according to your deeds And from the Lord I declare That he will visite for these things and plead with you for all your hard speeches and all your ungodly deeds and give you your portion with hypocrites except you speedily repent and

reproach amongst you and the Lord is highly displeased with you for these things and he will make enquiry for blood you know that the blood of the innocent hath been shed in your streets one that came amongst you and offered violence to none was beat and abused and lost much blood amongst you and yet you are not ashamed to professe your selves Christians when as these actions proceeds from you and your care is how to wound the innocent secretly that so your deeds might not be brought to the light but it is in vaine for you to dig deep to hide your councell from the Lord Woe unto you that deviseth to worke mischeife in the darke and say who seeth us and consults together to shoot your arrows secertly against the poore The Lord sees you and knows your hearts and your very thoughts which you think against the King in your bed chamber there is a bird of the ●ire that carryes the voyce And the Lord will bring eve●y worke to judgment with every secret thing whether it be good or evill and the oath in secret shall be tryed and the Lord will sit as Judge amongst the Judges and you shall all be weighed and those of you that a●e found wanting the Lord will cast you by though you be as high and mighty as Belshazzar was and if you be angry with mee for telling you so and forewarning you in your life time the Lord will judge you for it for he is tender over his little ones and in as much as you persecute one of them ye do it unto him and you that imp●ison the innocent and they may not see their accusers is this according to the Law of God or is this to judge for God and not for man nor self ends without respect of persons They that were set over the people to judge them according to the Law of God were just men fearing God and hating coveteousnesse just men we●e to judge the unjust for the unjust cannot judge true judgement See what charge Jeh●shaphat gave unto them he set over the people 2 Chron. 19.6 7 9. Saying to the Judges take heed what you doe for you judge not for man but for the Lord who is with you in the judgement wherefore now let the feare of the Lord be upon you and take heed and do it for there is no iniquity with the Lord our God nor respect of persons not taking of gifts And he charged them saying thus shall ye do in the fear of the Lord faithfully and with a perfect heart Now all you that denies a perfect heart and are respecters of persons you cannot judge with a perfect heart and such are not judges for God who judges not not with a perfect heart but are respecters of persons but they who fear God and do faithfully with a perfect heart such Judges and Magistrates I own who are just men such rules for God and is a terrour to the wicked and for the praise of them that do well and such am subject to for conscience sake but they who were the servants of Christ Ministers of Chr●st when they were commanded by the rulers that which was contrary to the cōmand of Christ they said whether is it better to obey God or man judge ye and I say the same and they which command any thing contrary to ●he command of Christ which rules and reigns in his people and is one in the male and in the female such are not just men fearing God and judging faithfully with a perfect heart and such who do not fear God and have not a perfect heart such knows not the voyce of God but Christs sheep who follow Christ and are sent of God knows his voyce Now Magistrates and people will say how may we know that you are sent of God as Pharaoh sayd to Moses who sent thee and he answered the Lord sent me to bid thee let Israel go free and Pharaoh sayd I know not the Lord neither will I obey him and let Israel go free such are they who fear not God nor know not his voyce and such cannot discerne the things of God Magistrates nor people who fear not God and have not a perfect heart now consider if you judge me according to the Law of God when you heard all that was against me and did accuse me but would not hear the accused and the accusers face to face nor those that was by who would have witnessed against those untruths charged upon me but put them forth and said what have you to do here notwithstanding they said they came to bear witnesse to the truth see how Moses charged the Judges Deut. 1.16 17. saying Heare the cause between your brethren and judge righteously between every man and his brother and the stranger that is with him ye shall not respect persons in judgement but ye shall hear the small as well as the great ye shall not be afraid of the face of man for the judgement is Gods and Deut. 16.18 19 20. The Judges and Officers was to judge the people with just judgement thou shalt not wrest judgement thou shalt not respect persons neither take a gift for a gift doth blinde the eye of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous that which is altogether just shalt thou follow that thou mayest live and inherite the Land which the Lord thy God giveth thee now this is true Judgement and takes hold upon the unjust but here you do not act according to the Law of God who doth respect persons and doth not hear the small as well as the great which you have not done who have committed me to Prison and I had not liberty to speak face to face with my accusers and so I am falsly accused and imprisoned upon a false accusation he that knows all secrets is my witnesse and he will plead my cause and he will judge righteous judgement upon all the Heathen and the Lord comes with his Saints and this honour have all the Saints to execute upon the Heathen all the judgements written but the Heathen ought not to Judg the Saints but the heathen rages the heathen persecutes prisons falsly accuseth the Saints and the viols of wrath is now to be poured out upon the wicked and the Saints shall take the kingdom rejoyce in God for ever and ever which giveth them victory over the world and gives them strength to rejoyce in tribulation praises to the living God for evermore And so I warne you all people Magistrates and Teachers to feare the Lord God least his wrath and indignation break forth against you and the decree be sealed and he take you away with his grievous stroke and there be no remedy for God is my witnesse that my desire is for you that you may know the things that belongs to your peace so to you all I have cleared my conscience and I am free from your blood glory to the Lord for evermore who hath given me to beleive and suffer for the testimony of Jesus so I remaine a witnesse for the truth and a prisoner in bonds at Banbury for the truths sake who am innocent but falsly accused and slandered and reproached but the reproaches for Christ is my riches whose name in the flesh is The 5 day of the 12. month 1654. Anne Audland FINIS