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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89302	The cry of oppression, occasioned by the priests of Englands pulpit-guard, which is a popish law that was made by Queen Mary, to guard her friars and Jesuits. With a true discovery of the unjust proceedings of those called magistrates of Bathe; wherein is a lamentation over them, and a warning unto them to repent, lest they perish for ever. / By one which is hatefully called a Quaker ... known to the world by the name, Thomas Morford.	Morford, Thomas, d. 1693.	1659 (1659)	Wing M2728; Thomason E989_23; ESTC R204878	34,580	48

over-head into the room where I was because I gave notice to the Keeper and did not give my consent for him to break the rest of the prison when he was put up again he threw down his piss or Urine several times over the place where my bed was that it might run down upon it Upon the 17 day of the said Ninth Month came Anne Blacklin and several other Friends with her to visit me and desired the Keeper that they might come into prison to me but his answer was that the Mayor had commanded not to suffer any to come in except my Wife so Anne Blacklin and those other Friends went to Matthew Cliffe the called Mayor and desired him that they might be permitted to come into the prison to me but he told her she should not come in to me nor see my face for he said I had abused their Minister and was a Railer then she bad him send for me before his face and convince me of evill or being a Rayler but that he refused to do and said he would send for me the next Sessions and then if I did not what he did require of me he would send me to Bridewel and so he rudely and unbecoming a Magistrate to so evill entreat a stranger and give such an evill example thrust her and her Friends out of his house and would not suffer them to come into prison to me though she told him she came a purpose from Bristol to visit me and in a few dayes after came Iames Travers and Iohn Wickham to Bathe and desired the Keeper to let them into the prison to me but the Keeper or his Wife told Iohn Wickham that the Mayor had charged them not to let in any but my Wife for if they did he would take away the keyes from them and Iames Stirredge and Iames Travers went to Matthew Cliffe Mayor to know of him what Law he had to keep me so close prisoner he told them he had a Law but shewed them none and would not suffer them to come into prison neither would he give leave to any that ever asked him to come in to visit me to come in And whereas thou Matthew Cliffe and ye Iohn Boyce and Iohn Biggs who were Mayors before him with others of your company do accuse me for Railing Railing I do deny and do not use or bring railing accusations against any man and so that slander I do return back again on your own heads who are the false Accusers and in the nature of Railers Did I rail at thee Iohn Boyce and thee Matthew Cliff and the rest of your company on the 5. day of the Ninth month 1655. when ye passed in pride and pomp with your pipes sounding before you through the gate to Thomas Scrines house to feast where ye feasted and enflamed your selves with Wine and strong Drink without the fear of the Lord I say unto you Did I rail to tell you as it was it was in the dayes of Noah so shall it be and is in this the day of the coming of the Son of Man They eat saith Christ they drank c. bid you repent with a lamentation over you mind the light of Christ in you which shewed you sin and evill and reproved you for it for that was your Teacher for your Teachers without you have deceived you and I said and now affirm again that the Lord will stain your pride and glory and this I was moved of the living God to speak unto you for which ye caused me to be shut into the inner prison before ye came back and used me so uncivil and brutish that night at your Sessions as I said before And did I rail at thee Matthew Cliffe the 9. day of the Ninth Month 1655. because I asked thee as thou passedst through the gate when thou wouldst fear the living God and do Justice Or did I rail at thee the 16. day of that month I being moved of the Lord to go out into the outward prison the inner prison door being but a very little while before left open which I believe was the mind of the Lord so to have it and immediatly thou passedst by with thy Mace before thee to the Idol Temple and the Word of the Lord came unto me saying say unto Matthew Cliffe Thus saith the Lord God of hosts Except thou repent and meet me the living God by Repentance I will cut thy life off from the earth and thou shalt go down to thy Grave in sorrow and when thou art on thy bed of Torment remember how thou sleightedst the day of thy Visitation and this was the Word of the Lord unto thee The light of Christ in thy Conscience and in all your Consciences shall eternally witness me to be true and this was the substance of whatever I spake to any of you as aforesaid which for the clearing of Truth and my Innocency and taking off of your reproach I was pressed in my spirit to send forth this as a testimony against you for it is no more than what is contained in the holy Scripture of truth and let the wise in God judge And I say unto you as Eliah said to Ahab who are in Authority from the greatest Prince to the least of you all that ye are they that disturb and trouble the Nations in that ye do not keep the peace which ye ought to do but suffer the Lords servants whom he hath sent unto you to preach his everlasting Gospel freely and to fore warn you of his great and mighty day that is come and coming upon you all and of his great wrath and fierce indignation that he will assuredly pour forth upon you except you speedily repent to be beaten with sticks and stones dirted whipped stocked and to be cast into prison and there to perish by long and sore unjust imprisonment and ye are those that have itching ears heaping up to your selves Teachers to wit your hireling Priests which prophesie falsely and divine for money and speak peace to the wicked which put into their mouths and against them that do not they prepare war And so ye are those that do hold up the horrible filthy thing in the Land and cannot endure sound Doctrine but are making havock of the servants of the most high God and ye do plainly manifest your selves to be such Princes as the Prophet Ezekiel called Ravening Wolves which made it their prey to shed blood c. Ezek. 22.27 And to tell you plainly from the Spirit of the living God what ye are is no railing but the day will come ye will confess it to be more honesty and faithfulness in them that so do from the Spirit of the Lord than it is in them that preach peace to the Wicked So my grievous and unjust oppressions I have received from these unreasonable men I leave to the Lord and all that fear his Name to judge thereof Oh! all ye Inhabitants of the Earth

neither were they offended at Paul when he Thee'd and Thou'd them And they judged him without partiality and said we find nothing worthy of death or of bonds in this man c. And so they were truly noble in their judgments to Paul and to this Pauls words do much accord for when he came to the Bereans he said they were more noble than the tumultuous Jewes of Thessalonica in that they received the word with alreadyness of mind and searched the Scriptures daily whether these things Paul testified of were so c. Acts 17.10 11. And hence was the true ground of Pauls saying Noble Festus O King c. which was for their noble and true judge ment of Pauls innosency as is aforesaid And when Luke said most excellent Theophilus c. It was for his love to the truth of Jesus which Theophilus was instructed in And Paul said he accounted all things but dung in comparison of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ c. And Solomon saith The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour but the way of the wicked seduceth them But such a one was not Theophilus who was instructed in the way of God and therefore Luke a servant of the Lord Jesus thought good to give him a more perfect understanding of all things from the very first in order concerning the Lord Jesus c. Luke 1 1 2 3 4. And hence was it that Luke did account Theophilus excellent or more excellent than Herod Pilate and the wicked high Priests who seduced them to kill the just One And when John wrot to the Elect Lady it was not one who lived in idleness pride wantonness lusts excesse of ryoting whose apparrel was laced with silver or gold or used plaiting of the hair or looked for flattering titles or respect to her person But it was one who was covered with the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit who had her children walking in the truth whom I love saith Iohn mark in the truth and not onely I but also all they that have known the truth which truth leads out of all the evills aforesaid read 1 Pet. 3.1.2 3 4. Pet. 4 3. Iam. 2.1 2 3 4. for though John did not speak those words yet Peter and James did for the most part the spirit of Christ was but one in them and ye who are called Ladies Maddam c. in the light of Christ judge your selves whether ye have the fruits of the Elect Lady or whether ye are any of those vertuous women spoken of Pro. 31. who are doing good not evill all the dayes of their lives seeking the wool and flax working willingly with their hands not in vain toyes but with the spindle and distaffe or whether ye are not with some of your husbands who are plotting and wresting the judgement of the poor and needy living in all manner of sin and evill persecuting the innocent yea or nay these are not the fruits of of true Humility or Nobility nay nay to the light of Christ in all your consciences I speak And whereas some of you say we hold there is no Heaven nor Hell but that in the conscence ye are false accusers for if in this life onely were our hope of Christ 1 Cor. 15.19 we were of all men most miserable for they who to the life of Christ by faith in him in any measure are come can say with Paul that all our present sufferings are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us which hath been hid from ages and generations but now is made manifest in his Saints Christ the hope of glory And in love to this glorious life we have in measure received as the earnest for obedience to the faith of the eternall inheritance as we abide in it our dearest relations of all visible created objects whatsoever and our lives also are not dear unto us in comparison of it And we know that when this our earthly tabernacle shall be dessolved we have a building with God not made with hands 2 Cor. 5 1 ● mark eternall in the Heavens for in this we groan earnestly c. and they who to this life are come as I said before in any measure can witness the great torment and tribulation they have passed thorough Acts 14.22 which is the portion for everlasting of the wicked Psa 17.14 Psa 13.5.67.8 Job 21.6 to 15. who have their portion of ease joy pleasure only in this life and have more than heart can wish whose eyes stand out with fatness their houses are safe from fear neither is the rod of God upon them their bull gendereth and faileth not their Cow calveth c. your children dance have the Tymbrel Harp rejoyce in the Organ therefore they you their parents say unto God depart from us for we desire not the knowledge of thy wayes Mat. 25 ● to the end and what is the Almighty that we should serve him c. And ye spend your dayes in wealth persecuting the innocent but in a moment go down to the grave And to such Christ is now saying Depart from me ye cursed take notice into everlasting fire woe is me for you ye wicked ones Repent while ye have time this is the day of your visitation salvation proffered unto you who are wanton in pleasure on the earth nourishing your hearts as in the day of slaughter ye have condemned and killed the just and he doth not resist you And as for you who have gone up and down to get men to subscribe to your grievous Prescription which ye have prescribed against the innocent saying they who are called Quakers deny the Sriptures and are Jesuites witness to this ye of Marshfield thereabouts and others saying they deny Magistrates and Ministers Government c. thereby thinking to cover your wickedness that ye have purposed against the guiltless I who am a Servant of the living God and a fellow feeler and partaker of their sufferings am moved of the Lord to send forth this as a witness against you who have done and are doing so wickedly for so we who are scornfully called Quakers hated and persecuted without a cause do own Magistrates and good Government whether the King as supream or any other Governors who are of the Lord sent for the punishment of evill doers and for the praise of them that do well for so is the will of God c. for no Magistrate ought to be a terror to good and godly men or any other good thing But if he be he bears the sword in vain the sword so the Lord will be turned against him and cut him off as were Ahab Jehoash and others as the Scripture testifies that did oppresse his people nay look to our dayes remember Wentworth of Ireland the late King with other of that generation Take notice ye that are in authority are ye better than they Nay ye are