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A95605	Some prison meditations in the 7th moneth, 1657. Being a free-gift sermon mainly touching the religious robbers, or spiritual murtherers, the sermon and prayer-sellers of the the former, later and present times; even to the whole company of mystery-Babylons merchants and members a warning.	Taylor, Thomas, 1618-1682.	1657 (1657)	Wing T582; Thomason E929_1; ESTC R207617	12,954	24

if any put not into their mouths they prepared war against them and yet like all hypocrites vvould lean upon the Lord in vvords say Is not the Lord amongst us no evil shall come unto us And whether these murtherous Priests vvere not one with those that Christ Jesus cried vvo against in Matth. 23. who were sayers and not doers who loved to be called of men Master and bound heavy burthens upon the people and touched them not with one of their own fingers but shut up the kingdom of heaven against men and would neither enter in themselves nor suffer others And finally ask them whether such men now as stand over the people for Teachers though under another Name and making another profession in words yet if they be found in the foresaid steps doing the foresaid deeds of those forementioned false Teachers are not to receive the same judgement and to be cried against and denied and forsaken by all the children of light now as formerly yea or nay And now Hosea thou holy Prophet of God thou hast said and laid down these two Doctrines or high Charges against the people in general and against the Priests in particular The first That the people in general are polluted with blood The second That as Troops of Robbers wait for a man so the company of Priests murther in the way by consent How dost thou prove and make these good for the Gileadites are deeply concerned in it and they will have thee to make it good or suffer for default Yea by the spirit I make it good thus Gilead is a City polluted with blood because they are such as work iniquity and the Priests murther in the way by consent because they commit Iewdnesse And this is witnessed not only by the Scriptures but also by the same spirit of truth that gave it forth in all the children of light to be so But Hosea thou must not be tried per pares that is them of like condition or quality with thee to wit the holy Prophets and children of God who are Witnesses with thee against the abominations of their times and sins that rules in Priests and people for that will not satisfie nor serve the Gileadites turn for so the great men of all sorts in City and Countrey would be found faulty But these Priests and people think it fit according to their Nation-Law to have a Judge and Justices fit upon the Bench and to have a Jury of Inquest summoned and to have a Bill of Indictment found against thee and then if thou plead thy innocency and say thou art not guilty of doing them any wrong but only thou spoke as thou was moved by the spirit of God then thou must have as they pretend a fair trial for thou must know that the Gileadites cannot believe thy Witness nor any for thee from that spirit only but this fair trial must not be by spiritual men who only are able to judge of spiritual things for the Gileadites know not their voice no more then thine Oh Prophet but it must be further by another company of these men whom thou hast said are workers of iniquity and polluted with blood and so are parties and these must judge of thee and these sayes the world are a Grand Jury a company of substantial men of the Country sworn men Mark out of the Doctrine of Christ for his yea is yea and his nay is nay without an oath And these men the Grand Jury must bring in their Verdict as they call it against thee for they have found thee guilty for thou hast nothing on thy side but plain truth without mans testimony or an oath and the Judge of the Court one of the chief men among the Gileadites that is versed in Law matters thinks it fit thou should be fined to pay a sum of money for thy offence oh Prophet thou man of God! and be kept in prison Summer and Winter that matters not until thou pay it But what oh Prophet if thou hast neither liberty in thy spirit nor outward ability to pay thy Fine What course must be taken with thee Well for that O Prophet Gilead matters not but imprisoned thou must remain for so Gilead will be quiet of thee and thou cannot come into their Synagogues Markets nor other Assemblies to cry against their sins and disturb them for the people and Priests would live quietly in their sins and they would not be disturbed neither in the time of their service nor otherwise And Hosea that thou mayest have no occasion to find fault with the Jury or the Judge one of these Priests whom thou hast by the spirit declared to be murtherers and lewd men have taken an oath in open Court against thee and dost thou think that though ded for a witnesse against this generation of cruel hearted men whom the beast and false prophet hath raised in his defence and against the Kingdom of Christ Jesus and them that follow him how full have the most part of the prisons in all this land been with guiltlesse sufferers under cruel bondage with unjust dealings and false judgments have gone forth from some of your mouthes you that have been set to judge over the people who should have been a terror to the wicked but have rather strengthened the hands of evil doers and been a terror to righteousuesse so much as is possible the great whore which sits upon the beast hath made your Rulers drunk and stagger with envy and hatred and persecution and works of wickednesse against the upright Wo is me for you what have you brought forth even iniquity by Decrees and injustice by Ordinances and false judgment by Lawes alas alas your destruction cometh as an armed man upon you Was ever the like heard or any president in any generation before you for imprisoning just men for declaring against sin and the abominations of the times as you have done many and for imprisoning men because they cannot put off their hat to you and respect your persons and so transgresse the law of God and because they cannot swear and so break Christs command For this you have imprisoned many and caused them to suffer because of this may not you fear and tremble before the Lord God and your faces gather blacknesse at this when you consider it Did ever any that were set to judge in the earth among men so abuse their power and subvert it so quite to another end than wherefore it was committed to them May not shame cover you all to commit men to prison for the exercise of pure conscience towards God because they cannot swear or respect mens persons or maintain Idol-shepherds and Idol-temples and worships which is abomination to the Lord and for taking peaceable men out of peaceable meetings and out of their travel on the High-wayes and first whipping them and sending them to prison the example of this which you have done never went before in any age and therefore have

SOME Prison Meditations In the 7th Moneth 1657. BEING A Free-Gift SERMON Mainly touching the Religious Robbers or Spiritual Murtherers the Sermon and Prayer-sellers of the former later and present times Even to the whole company of Mystery Babylons Merchants and Members a Warning Hos. 6 Chap. Vers the 8. 9. it is written Gilead is a City of them that work iniquitie and is polluted with blood And as Troops of Robbers wait for a man so the company of Priests murther in the way by consent for they commit leudness LONDON Printed for Giles Calvert at the Black-spread-Eagle neer the West end of Pauls 1657. SOME Prison-Meditations NOW all you people and Priests of the Earth amongst all your observings and gatherings of Doctrine observe with me and take diligent notice of these few short plain Doctrines or Lessons from hence and tremble and repent to wit 1. That workers of iniquity are a filthy and bloody people 2. That lewd Priests or Teachers are murtherers and layers in wait for blood 3. Where the Priests or Teachers are nought such as follow them are not good and so like Priest like people as here 4. Lewd Priests and murtherous-minded men false Teachers have in all ages been many a mighty band fitted to devour But Hosea how didst thou escape this bloody people and these murtherous Priests these lewd workers of iniquity Did they not murther or imprison thee or sue thee at their Courts for a disturber of their peace or for a slander How didst thou poor Lamb escape these Wolves these boody murtherous Priests and people Thy brother Amos the Prophet was accused by one of these murtherous Priests for a conspirer against the King in the midst of the House of Israol and that the Land was not able to bear his words Amos 7. 10 c. And thy brother Jeremiah was cast into a dirty Dungeon almost unto death besides the other beatings and stockings and imprisonings that he suffered from one of these lewd Priests and the sinful Princes for his witness sake in that generation as it is to be seen in Jer. 38. and other places of that Book And thy brother Zacharias son of Barachias was slain by this bloody generation between the Temple and the Altar for his witness sake Matth. 23 35 And all the rest of thy brethren were evil intreated of this bloody murtherous generation of Priests and people for their testimonies sake And the Heir himself Christ Jesus the Head when he appeared was cruelly murthered by these bloody Priests and such as followed them and consented with them and that for witnessing forth truth against the wickedness and lewdness of the bloodie City and venemous Priests their Teachers as is all over in the Scripture of truth to be read and is now also in these present daies found true in experience by all thy suffering Brethren and Sisters Oh Prophet who are reproached and persecuted of this present evil-generation of the Priests the Teachers and the people under them under the Nick-name of Quakers And therefore we having such a Cloud of Witnesses and fellow-sufferers for the truths sake going before us we may be comforted and incouraged in all our tribulations knowing that we are hereunto called not only to believe but also to suffer for Christ his Name sake that so we may fill up the measure of the afflictions of Christ in our flesh for his bodies sake which is his Church Further oh all people you may hence observe and take diligent notice for your good that it hath been an old custome of the worlds Teachers such as are called of men Master Matth. 23. and who preach for hire Mic. 3. and seek their gain from their quarter Isa. 56. I say that it hath been an old custom of such Wolves to murther souls and people of God for in some Scriptures is mention made of the spiritual and in others of the bodily murther that they had and would be guilty of And further take notice that these banding Priests are a lewd generation which in other expressions is all one as to say Thieves Whores Harlots and so indeed are they also in Scripture usually said to be and therefore typed and set forth under the name of painted whorish Jezzabel and the wel-favoured Harlot and here under the similitude of Troops of Robbers waiting for a man and Paul calls them Ministers of Satan having a form of godliness denying and resisting the power and truth of godlinesse And therefore oh all people you are exhorted by the spirit of truth to turn away from them yea and commanded to come out from amongst them upon pain of eternal death Jer 23. throughout Rev 14. 8 9 10 11. Rev. 18. throughout 2 Cor. 11. 13 12 15. 2 Tim. 3. 5 c. Rev. 2. 20 c. Read Scripture and see if these things be not so and fear the living God and bow to truth and be exhorted and perswaded all people now at length to learn wisdom and to understand whom you follow for you see the Scripture tells of murtherous lewd Priests that stood over the people for Teachers in former days and in Christs time there was Scribes and Pharisees hypocrites who were taken by the blind people to be sufficient guides and Teachers whom Christ called blind guides children of the devil painted Sepulchres whited Walls yea Vipers and Serpents And so you people that gather together to the Steeple-House which you call your Church when you hear your Teachers who now-a-daies go under the name of Ministers with you take a Scripture and out of it chuse a verse or so of a chapter according to their wills for filthy lucre and calls it their Text and from it draws Doctrines and Reasons and Uses as they call them ask them whether there be any such company of false Teachers now-a-daies in England to be found as this Scripture speaks of who as troops of Robbers wait for a man so wait to murther in the way by consent and who they are and what and who they murther and with what they murther and how these murtherers may be knovvn vvhat be their fruits for by their fruits ye shall know them saith Christ And ask them further Whether these false Teachers vvhich the Prophet Hosea here calls lewd murtherers be not the same in nature with those vvhich Isaiah in the 56. chap. and 10. v. of his Prophesie calls greedy dumb dogs that sought their gain from their quarter and could never have enough and the same that Jeremiah spoke of in ch. 5. ver. 1 2. 23. ch. of his Prophesie throughout That stole the word from their neighbor and used their tongues and said he saith when the Lord never sent them and so could not profit the people at all And vvhether they be not the same that Micah the Prophet Mic. ch. 3. 5 c. speaks of who preached for hire and divined for money and spake peace to the wicked for the gift sake but