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A true declaration of our innocency who in scorn are called Quakers and how we are clear (if we have justice) from the penalties of the late act made against seditious meetings and conventicles as exprest in the preamble and reason of the said Act, &c. by J.S.
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Stubbs, John, 1618?-1674.
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the Earth as may be further proved by those holy Scriptures following Matth. 13. The same day Jesus went out of the House and sat by the Sea-side and a great Multitude were gathered together unto him so that he went into a Ship and sat and the whole Multitude stood on the Shore and he spake many things unto them in Parables and said as you may read more at large in the Chapter And Acts 16.13 And on the Sabbath day we went out of the City by a River side where prayer was wont to be made and we sat down and spake to the women which resorted thither c. at which Sermon of Paul by the River side God opened the heart of Lydia And Acts 20.7 8. Vpon the First day of the week when the Disciples were some together to break Bread Paul preached to them ready to depart on the Morrow and continued his Speech until midnight and there were many lights in the upper Chamber where they were gathered together And Acts 28.30 31. And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired House and received all that came in unto him preaching the Kingdom of God and teaching those things that Concerns our Lord Jesus Christ with all confidence no man forbidding him yet is not this manner of his preaching and teaching in a private House disallowed by the Liturgy Therefore seeing it is thus it is good for all to be wary how they swear or judge that our Meetings are seditious Conventicles and the manner and form in which we meet disallowed by the Liturgy for larger Examples we have for our Practises in the Scriptures repeated in the Liturgy then they have for theirs who have made a great profession of the Liturgy and now perfecutes the Practisers of those Scriptures spoken of in the Liturgy Thridly For our Assembling of our selves together to wait upon the Lord in his Counsel for the help of his Spirit to teach and instructors in worshipping and giving thanks unto him the Almighty God which cannot be reâ—lly and acceptably done but in Spirit and in Truth which is in no wise contrary but according to the holy Scriptures mentioned in the Liturgy neither doth the Liturgy bind to any particular place or time in the performance of these Christian duties where it instructs the Priest to say It is very meet right and our bounden duty that we should at all times and in all places give thanks unto thee O Lord holy Father Almighty Everlasting God c. therefore every understanding Christian must needs see how this approves of the times and places in which the Saints of old worshipped and gave thanks unto the true and living God who met together to perform these duties in their Age and Generation as we do in ours somtimes upon Mountains and other times by the Sea and River sides and often in private houses as we do now and is it not strange you should now persecute us for practising that which you your selves profess Therefore can no man judge us in the manner of our Meetings and about the performance of our heavenly Services therin without reflecting upon our Saviour Christ and his Apostles whose blessed Example we follow and contradicting the Liturgy of the Church of England also in doing to us in these things as they would not be done by themselves St. Matth. 7.12 to be read in the Offertory in indeavouring to afflict us for doing those things which the Liturgy doth not only approve but saith It is our bounden duty at all times and in all places to give thanks unto God yet ought we most chiefly so to do when we assemble and meet together J. S. THE END