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A76750	The Cry of blood. And Herod, Pontius Pilate, and the Jewes reconciled, and in conspiracy with the dragon, to devour the manchild. Being a declaration of the Lord arising in those people, of the city of Bristol, who are scornfully called Quakers, and of the manifold sufferings, and persecutions sustain'd by them from the priests, rulers, professors and rude multitude, contrary to law, liberty, justice, government, the righteous ends of of the wars, and the Scriptures of truth. Together with a true account of the material passages in substance between the rulers and them at their several examinations, and commitments, and at two general sessions of the publick peace: and of the tumults, and insurrections, with other necessary observations, and occurences. Gathered up, written in a roll, and delivered to John Gunning late mayor of that city (being the fruits of his year) for the private admonition, and conviction of himself, and brethren concern'd, and named therein: with a letter declaring the end, and reason of what is so done, (of which a copy followes in the ensuing pages) / Subscribed by Geo: Bishop, Thomas Goldney, Henry Roe, Edw: Pyott, Dennis Hollister. And now after five moneths space of time published, for the reasons hereafter expressed.	Bishop, George, d. 1668.	1656 (1656)	Wing B2990; Thomason E884_3; ESTC R27277	101,853	169

abode within Therefore who hath believed this report And to whom is the Arm of the Lord revealed Where is there faith to be found on the earth for this coming of the Sonne of Man Though his Coming forth to Us be as the rain as the later and former rain on the earth Who can abide this day of his coming and who can stand now that he thus appeareth as a sanctuary to those who sanctifie him in their hearts and make him their fear and their dread But for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the Houses of Israel for a gin and for a snare to the Inhabitants of Jerusalem And many among them shall stumble and fall and be broken and be snared and be taken and the testimony and the law be bound up and sealed amongst his disciples How are the Priests and the Rulers and the Churches so called and professors of all sorts and this City of Bristol moved thereat What seekings out where he is born What contrivances to murther him What reproaches of Deceivers Witches Sorcerers Jesuits Franciscan Friers Blasphemers Devils are cast upon them in whom he is appeared What false reports of denyers of Ordinances and of Christ dying at Jerusalem and of the Scriptures of disturbers of the peace are raised upon them Yea what abuses incivilities rage madnesse insurrections Tumults riots illegal bonds and imprisonments Oppressions persecutions bloodthirstinesse and murtherous resolutions How are all forms factions and interests in the City reconciled and made friends and united though at enmity with each other from the beginning in this day to Crucifie Jesus in these his Saints Presbytery with Independency Independency with Anabaptisme Anabaptisme with Notionists and professors at large and Ranters and they with the Episcopals and the multitude of prophane and loose livers and all with the Rulers and the Rulers with them and the Priests their leaders in things contrary to Law and Justice against those people who are made offenders in nothing but their obedience to the Lord How have all Forms and opinions lost the Crosse which they received from these Rulers and this people and from other different forms as they in their severall times have witnessed any thing of reformation in letter or spirit in things Civil or Spiritual upon the coming forth hereof which even then was exercising on some of them by the Rulers And how are they all joyned together in one Yea the Priests and other professors out of the Countrey come hither and say also A confederacy to lay the Crosse on these servants of the most High and such a Crosse every way as never knew any before Nay all the professions in this City together and which did not the Lord chain up for his Seeds sake and the Law of the Land restrain would with more fury pour out the blood and more greedily tear the flesh of the people of God than ever was witnessed in the former ages in the most tyrannical and bloody persecutions whereby they bear a Luke 21. 13. testimony to those servants of the Lord that they are the Disciples of Jesus and to themselves that they are not his disciples But are of that b John 1. 3. 11. 12. wicked one who slew his brother because his works were evill and his brothers good And having lost the Crosse they have lost the power and life of truth and the beeing the Disciples of Christ as saith c Luke 14. 26. to the 34. Mat. 10. 37 38 39 40. 16. 24 25. Mark 8. 34. 15. 38. 10 21. Luke 9. 23 to the 27. Christ himself He that taketh not up his Crosse daily and followeth me cannot be my disciple For the Crosse is alwayes what the Truth received of the world and what themselves received of the world when they witnessed the truth Yea it s d Mat. 10. 22. 24. 9. Mark 13. 12 13. John 7. 7. 15. 18 19. 17. 14. 1 John 3. 13. portion is to be hated of the world because it is not of it and the e John 15. 19. world loveth its own The Rulers stand in their old spirit of darknesse enmity and persecution and those who received the Crosse and who were hated of them all along as they were witnesses for the truth are come to them and fallen in with them being indeed now of the same root and principle If the f Luke 14. 34 35. salt hath lost its savour wherewithall shall it be salted it's good for nothing but to be cast on the dunghill saith Christ Let them sit down and sadly consider it Any kind of form or profession any kind of Priests Raylers Covetous proud Lyars Drunkards or others outwardly more strict it 's no matter what or who so this new kind of Religion as they call it though it is what was from the beginning Jesus Christ yesterday and to day and the same for ever may be rooted out of the City Nay though it be to the losing of their Civill interest the price of their blood and sufferings Save Barabbas Crucifie Jesus And he is no friend to Caesar nor the Government of the City that will not have it so And occasions are sought for and haltings looked after and Emissaries sent about to find matter to slander the Lord of life risen in his Saints Though blessed be the Lord who hath g 1 Sam. 2. 9. guided the feet of his Saints so that they have not wherewithall justly to slander their holy Calling But the wicked shall become silent in darknesse And thus hath the Lord who hath been so much defired and expected come in this Ministry of Spirit and life first to the Independent and baptized Churches so called in this City who were offended thereat and stumbled Then to the City But the Priests Rulers and the generality of the people through their means reject and persecute it though many of the Churches so called and divers hundreds in and about the City have received him and do believe in his Name and do bear testimony with many thousands more that the Lord is come and their testimony is true But as it was of old That very Word of the Lord spoken by the Prophets for which they were persecuted and put to death by the Rulers and people of Israel being recorded and transmitted to posterity the Scribes and Pharisees who lived in the dayes of Christ h Mat. 23. 29. to the end received in the letter and owned as the Scriptures and seemed to be so offended at their Fathers for slaying the servants the Prophets that they built their Tombs and garnished their Sepulchres and said If they had lived in their Fathers dayes they would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the Prophets And yet Christ Jesus the Sonne of God the Messiah that holy and just one of whom the Prophets spake they crucified and witnessed themselves as he testified to their faces to be the children of those who

whom you are led Captive to do his will And this is that which we wish and long for even your salvation For you must die and if the tree fall towards the South or towards the North in the place where the tree falleth there it shall be and sad will be your portion if it falleth in opposition to Jesus the Judge of all whom we bear witnesse you now persecute Nor Rocks nor mountains will in that day cover you from the wrath of the Lamb And therefore have we laid things plainly and clearly before you But if ye shall still harden your hearts and go on in the perversenesse and stubbornnesse of your spirits in opposition to the truth We call Heaven and Earth yea the Righteous God and Judge of all this day to record against you that we are Clear of your blood and your destruction will be upon your own heads Remember that ye are thus warned in your life-time Witnessed by those who are true Lovers of your Soul 's eternal good though reproachfully called by you and the world Quakers and persecuted as such Geo Bishop Thomas Goldney Henry Roe Edw Pyott Dennis Hollister Bristoll the 12th day of the 9th month 1655. For John Goning late Mayor Joseph Jackson Richard Vickris Miles Jackson John Lock Geo Hillier Henry Gibbs William Cann Geo Knight and Gabriel Sherman Aldermen of the City of Bristoll The foregoing Letter with the following Epistle and Declaration was delivered to John Goning aforesaid the 18th day of the tenth moneth 1655 since which a patient and silent waiting there hath been to see whether upon this gathering up of the wickednesse which from them hath gone forth into the earth and returning it convicted and judged by the light of Jesus Christ and the Lawes of this Nation to that of God in every one of their Consciences shame would cover their faces and they turn unto the Lord But seeing they still resist the witnesse of God and of late have again and do still continue to run on greedily in the way of Cain persecuting and imprisoning the just who witnesse the Sacrifice that is respected of the Lord which testifies against that unto which he hath no respect for their so testifying in obedience to the movings of the Lord neither regarding Justice or Mercy the Law of God or the Nation contrary unto which are their actions as may appear when what they have done therein shall be brought forth and made publick nor having respect to the widow or the fatherlesse whom they afflict and oppresse though the Lord hath said Thou shalt not afflict any Widow or fatherlesse child if thou afflict them in any wise and they cry at all unto me I will surely hear their cry and my wrath shall wax hot and I will kill you with the sword and your wifes shall be widowes and your children fatherlesse Exod. 22. 22 23 24. Nor their own souls but despising the riches of the goodnesse of God and his forbearance and long suffering not knowing the goodnesse of God leading them to repentance are after the hardnesse and impenitency of their hearts still treasuring up unto themselves wrath unto the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous Judgment of God which shall destroy the adversaries who will render to every man according to his deeds That we may stand clear of their blood and leave nothing unattempted to which we are directed of the Lord that may be for the stopping of them in their way and recovering them from the evil thereof that so repenting and being converted their sins may be blotted out and their souls saved in this day of refreshing which is come from the presence of the Lord which is the longing of our souls even that not one of them should dye but rather that he should turn from his iniquity and live Therefore as we have for above a years time patiently endured what their wills have exercised without resisting without seeking any reparation Though after such a manner have been the sufferings as in the following declaration of them is rehearsed waiting when the witnesse of God in every one of them would have been by them minded and they wearied in their manifold persecutions of the innocent And as when we saw after so long forbearance that they neither considered what they had done nor laid it to heart nor said it is Enough We drew up together and set in order before them much of what they had done and shewed how contrary it was to the Law of God and Man and to Justice and Humanity to the end that seeing their nakednesse therewith as in a glasse by the light of Jesus Christ shame might cover them And as we have since waited for the space of five moneths to see whether their iniquities being so laid before them and so testified to their faces they would blush or be ashamed that so their transgressions might be hid and their sins covered and what they have done against the truth be no more remembred by the Lord or be rehearsed before man which was and is the desire of our Souls the Lord is our record and the end both of our forbearance and spreading of what they have done before them So now through a deceived heart which hath led them aside and a rebellious mind which still carries them on against the truth those ends being hitherto frustrated and instead of them a Violent persecution having been and being still prosecuted wherein they have imprisoned divers for the testimony of Jesus whereby that which we drew up together and privately delivered to them and intended for the raising up of shame as a garment to cover their nakednesse being by them thrown aside and that which should be their shame coming to be gloried in which is all we have hitherto heard from them in relation thereunto We have brought forth to publick View at once what hath been done by them at severall times not in secret but before the Sun And thus openly do we reprove those who have thus sinned openly and rejected private admonition if so be shame may yet overtake them and they smite upon their thigh and say What have we done And of their blood are we clear in the presence of the great and terrible God of Heaven and Earth whose witnesse what we have done shall stand for him against them in the day when he shall come to judgment which on them hastens apace And to that of God in every mans Conscience shall we be made manifest that we have not dealt with Them as they have dealt with Us or as men use to deal with an enemy but with another spirit rewarding Them good whereas they have rewarded Us evill To the Reader Reader THou wilt perhaps marvail That in these dayes wherein Religion seems to have ascended the Throne and Justice and Righteousnesse to have sate down on her right hand and on her left as the glorious issue of many bloody wars Wherein Liberty of

killed the Prophets And therefore he said unto them Woe be unto you ye Serpents ye generation of Vipers how can ye escape the damnation of Hell Wherefore behold I send unto you Prophets and wise men and Scribes and some of them ye shall kill and crucifie And some of them shall ye scourge in your Synagogues and persecute them from City to City that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias the sonne of Barachias whom ye slew between the Temple and the Altar Verily I say unto you All these things shall come upon this generation Matth. 23. from 29. to 37. Even so That i John 1 1 2 3 eternal word of life which the Apostles heard and saw with their eyes and looked upon and handled with their hands and bare witnesse unto with the Saints in their time as that which was with the Father from the beginning and manifested unto them k John 16. 13. Acts 15. 28. leading them into all truth for declaring of which and walking therein as the spirit not the form for there was no letter for much of what they did moved and l Acts 2. 4. gave them utterance they were persecuted put to death as the vilest of men and the off-scowring of all things by those who were called the devout and honourable and the Rulers and the people of the Jews who stood in the letter and in the form of those things which were once commanded of God but then abolished by the coming of Christ whom none of the m 1 Cor. 2. 6 8. Princes of the world knew for if they had they would not have crucified the Lord of glory being at least much of it committed to writing and handed with the rest of the Scriptures of truth to these later times the people of this generation embrace the declaration thereof Crying out against the Jews for persecuting and killing the Prophets and Apostles and crucifying of Christ after whose name they call themselves in whose doctrine and worship and in the fellowship and order of the Apostles and the Churches of the the Saints in their times they pretend to abide and for it and the Scriptures wherein they are recorded are they zealous even to blood though not according to knowledge as these later dayes have sadly witnessed And yet those who in this day of the Lords appearing do witnesse the Prophets and Apostles and their doctrine and Christ Jesus and the Scriptures and what is said therein of the Saints and their conditions in life and power in spirit and letter do receive from those who pretend to them all and to the Scriptures and yet are not so much as in the letter or form of doctrine declared therein the very same measure of reproach and persecution as did the Prophets and Christ Jesus and the Apostles and the Saints of which the Scriptures testifie read the one and compare the other therewith and judge though as to blood they have not as yet reached further than of those in other parts of this Nation who are dead in prison and of the blowes they have received And of others who by beatings have had their blood drawn even in the Steeple-houses as well as other places and mingled with their sacrifices of which this City giveth instances because the Lord who saith unto the raging Sea Hitherto shall thy proud waves go and no further hath bounded them by his power but they who contrary to Law and Justice and to that liberty which hath been allowed themselves and to the Scriptures which they would be understood to own and to be ruled by have proceeded so far and with so high a rage as this following Treatise to say nothing of what hath been acted in other parts of this Nation doth make to appear What cruelties would they not exceed in all former times had they Law for it or power in their hands And how doth this Generation manifest themselves hereby to be in the same spirit with those and in their steps which persecuted and killed the Prophets and Christ Jesus Luke 11. 49. and the Apostles and the witnesses of truth to this day filling up the measure of their fathers iniquity Wherefore the wisdom of God hath and will raise up his cloud of witnesses whom they do devise wicked devices against and dig as low as hell and imprison and persecute from City to City and from County to County and execute cruelties upon That all the blood of the Righteous shed since the foundation of the world may come upon them And venily it shall be required of this generation The Cry of Blood c. MAny of the people of God in and about the City of Bristoll as in divers other parts of this Nation having a long time wandred from mountain to hill from one from to another seeking rest but finding none and divers receiving no satisfaction from the Forms in which they walked and wherein they did abide in expectation of the glorious appearing of the Lord Jesus in spirit and power according to the Scriptures It hath pleased the Lord whom they sought at length to hasten to his Temple and out of his tender mercies to visite them with the day-spring from on high and not only them but many others who sate in darknesse and in the shadow of death thorough the everlasting Gospel of his dear Son Which though hid from ages and generations for many hundreds of years yet he hath now begun to make manifest with mighty power in the hearts and by the ministration of many whom he hath raised up to declare and publish the same and to bear witnesse to his great and terrible day approaching upon the Inhabitants of the earth And to the redeeming of his Sion with Judgment and her Converts with righteousnesse Unto which thousands of pretious Saints in this Nation and many hundreds in and about this place who are turned by the power thereof from darknesse to light and from the Kingdom of Satan unto God having born their testimony and set to their seals the Devil is come down with great wrath knowing his time is short and stirs up the beast and the false Prophet the Rulers of the earth and the Merchants of Babylon to make war against it with a rage reaching up to Heaven But the Lamb even him who rides upon the white horse the Word of God who is called Faithful and true and in righteousnesse doth judge and make war out of whose mouth goeth a sharp sword with which he sha●● smite the Nations and rule them with a rod of iron on whose vesture dipt in blood and thigh is written King of Kings and Lord of Lords having all the Armies of Heaven following him on white horses shall overcome and have the victory for his Kingdome is an everlasting Kingdom and his Dominion is for ever and ever And the beast shall be taken and

The CRY of BLOOD AND Herod Pontius Pilate and the Jewes reconciled and in conspiracy with the Dragon to devour the Manchild BEING A Declaration of the Lord arising in those people of the City of BRISTOL who are scornfully called Quakers and of the manifold Sufferings and Persecutions sustain'd by them from the Priests Rulers Professors and rude multitude contrary to Law Liberty Justice Government the righteous ends of the Wars and the Scriptures of Truth TOGETHER With a true Account of the material Passages in substance between the Rulers and them at their several Examinations and Commitments and at two general Sessions of the Publick Peace And of the Tumults and insurrections with other necessary Observations and Occurrences Gathered up written in a Roll and delivered to John Gunning late Mayor of that City being the fruits of his Year for the private Admonition and Conviction of himself and Brethren concern'd and named therein with a Letter declaring the end and reason of what is so done of which a Copy followes in the ensuing pages Subscribed by Geo Bishop Thomas Goldney Henry Roe Edw Pyott Dennis Hollister And now after five moneths space of time Published for the Reasons hereafter expressed And they cryed with a loud voyce saying How long O Lord holy and true dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth Rev. 6. 10. And shall not God avenge his own Elect which cry day and night unto him though he bear long with them I tell you that he will avenge them speedily neverthelesse when the Son of man cometh shall be find faith on the earth Luke 18. 7 8. And the same day Pilate and Herod were made friends together for before they were at Emnity among themselves Luke 23. 12. For of a truth against thy holy Child Jesus whom thou hast anointed both Herod and Pontius Pilate with the Gentiles and the people of Israel were gathered together Acts 4. 27. And the Dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered to devour her child as soon as it was born and she brought forth a man child who was to rule all Nations with a rod of Iron and her child was caught up to God and to his Throne and the Dragon was wroth with the Woman and went to make war with the remnant of her seed which keep the Commandements of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ Rev. 12. 4 17. And the Devil shall cast some of you into Prison Rev. 2. 10. London Printed for Giles Calvert at the Black-spread-Eagle at the West-End of Pauls 1656. To you John Gunning late Maior Joseph Jackson Richard Vickris Miles Jackson John Lock George Hellier Henry Gibbs William Cann George Knight and Gabriell Sherman Aldermen of the City of Bristoll WEE with the rest of the people of God in this City who are in scorn and derision called Quakers have for many moneths together patiently and in silence born and suffered manifold persecutions from your selves and the people of this Town thorough your encouragement without seeking reparation though with a very high hand and with exceeding hard measure they have been executed upon us waiting when the witnesse of God in every one of your Consciences with which we are One and which one day will witnesse us and our sufferings and the Truth for which we suffer eternally upon you except you repent would have been hearkned unto which would have opened the eye in every one of you which the God of this world hath blinded and have shewn you Jesus whom without a cause in us you persecute and have filled your faces with shame for the evill of your doings and have caused you to mourn over him whom you have pierced with a bitter lamentation even as a man that mourneth for his onely son and have raised up in you the righteous principle of God from whence true Judgement would have proceeded that so the Cruell mockings bitter revilings illegal bonds and imprisonments and other grosse abuses with which we have been by you and thorough your means exercised might have ceased and you led to repentance and the Salvation of your souls which are pretious in this great and notable day of the Lord Jesus After which we long and our Bowels earn the Lord is our witnesse even that you might come to the knowledge of the truth thorough Faith in his blood for which things sake all that we have received from yor hands would have become to us sweet and pleasant But seeing neither the forbearance and long suffering of God nor our patient and long abiding under all your wills and lusts nor the fear of man to the penalty of whose Lawes you lie very obnoxious nor naturall affection nor Common humanity which would lead you to tendernesse and mercy and Justice and to do to others as you would be done unto your selves nor the Consideration of what hath been our carriage especially of some of us to you notwithstanding that we have received alwaies the worst of usages at your hands above what you could think of expect or hope for have not prevailed with you but instead thereof you are become more hard rewarding Evil for Good and Cruelty for Kindnesse declaring your sin as Sodom the shew of your Countenance witnessing it against you and having breathed forth new and fresh persecutions against the witnesses of Jesus in which † Temperance Hignell One of them hath lately suffered to the losse of her life When as wickednesse rageth in the streets And who is there found amongst you that doth it punish We have gathered up much of what the Truth and we and our friends for witnessing thereof have suffered by you into one body and have demonstrated how contrary your actions therein have been to Law and Scripture the Rules by which you pretend to order all your affairs and to Liberty and to Justice And although you can expect no such thing at our hands yet that it may appear that another spirit ruleth in us than the spirit of this world and how desirous we are that you should know and be convinced of the evill of your way and turn unto the Lord We do herewit hin the Close of the year before we publish it present it to you even to that of God which is pure and just in every one of your Consciences to which we speak that as in a glasse with the light of Jesus Christ by whom the world was made wherewith he lightens every one that cometh into the world which convinceth you of sin you abiding still and cool therein may come to see what you have done and the spirit and principle from which it hath proceeded to wit of Darknesse and of the Prince of this world who throughout all Ages as now by you hath raised persecution against the Principle of Light the Seed of God as the Scriptures testifie and that by him you may be delivered out of the snares of the Devil by

with him the false Prophet that worketh miracles before him and which he deceived and they both shall be cast alive into the lake of fire burning with brimstone And the fowls that flie in the midst of the Heavens shall eat the flesh of Kings and of Captains and of mighty men and of Horses and of them that sit thereon and of all men both free and bond small and great that gather themselves together to make war against him that sits on the white horse and against his Army And all the fowls shall be filled with their flesh Of the rising and progresse of this Sun of righteousnesse and the persecutions raised against it in this City is the intent of this Treatise The particulars whereof shall be set down in order Some of the brethren near Kendale in Westmerland being moved not by man nor the will of man but by the Lord to come to Bristoll to which place they were wholly strangers as they were to every Inhabitant thereof to declare what he should there Command them in obedience thereunto came thither on the 12th day of the fifth moneth called 12th of the 5th moneth 1654 John Audland came first to Bristol July 1654 in the Evening And having the next day delivered the word of the Lord there given them in charge to the Independent and Baptized Churches so called And having testified the things of the Kingdom to a few others who were waiting for the Redemption of Israel The day following being the 14th of the same moneth they passed away towards Plymouth in Devonshire the witnesse being raised though in so short space of time by the power of the Lord and severall both of the Churches so called and others putting their seales to the truth of their testimony Being come to and departed from Plymouth to London one of the Brethren aforesaid to wit John Audland was mightily pressed in spirit to visit Bristoll again and therefore returned thither about the beginning of the 7th moneth following called September Beginning of the 7th month 1654 John Audland came the second time and John Camm with him with whom John Camm being moved of the Lord came also and spake publiquely as the Spirit gave them utterance And truly such a wide door and an effectual was opened which none could shut as hath not been known in any age in this Nation for the people being as Corn ripe for the Harvest pressed in by multitudes in this day of the Lords power and the witnesse which at first was risen but in a few to whom the Word of the Kingdom was communicated like to Elijah's cloud seemed to fill the whole Heaven The places of meeting were too streight the Assemblies thereupon in the fields though in the winter season were multiplyed to two three nay sometimes to near four thousand people And many of all sorts professions Ranks ages and sexes some of whom as eminent as any in that City in that which is called Godlinesse became obedient to the truth whose minds being turned to the Lord witnessed the power and life of Jesu● in measure and Redemption within from the fashions and customs of the world and their former vain Conversations and professions and this Ministry through which they were begotten again to a lively hope through the resurrection of the dead to be of the Lord. Persecution begun At this manifestation of Jesus the Priests and Rulers with many professors of all opinions and the worser sort of the City were exceedingly moved And as the joyfull Sound went forth into the Countrey round about whereby many were brought i●to the obedience of the truth So the members of the many-headed beast there and the false Prophet joyn in confederacy with them in making war against it And even some who as they have in their time and generation born their testimony to any thing of simplicity and power in Religion or have owned the publique interest have constantly been maligned and opposed by the Magistrates and people fall in and become one with both strengthening their hands and stirring up their hatred against the Truth And although they thereby justifie the oppositions themselves have received and allow the persecuting Principle which when it was their own case they condemned and give Judgment upon and prepare trouble for themselves and weaken the publique interest in which they are concerned and have lost the Crosse which the servants of the living God have alwaies witnessed against the adulterous generation yet so blind are their eyes that though they see they perceive not so gross are their ears that though they hear yet do they not understand yea their hearts are waxen fat lest they should see hear and be converted and healed fulfilling the words of Christ who saith For Judgment am I come into this world that those who are blind may see and those who say they see may John 9. 39. be made blind and their sin may remain And now who Esay 42. 19. is blind but my servant and who is deaf but my messenger seeing many things but he observeth not opening the ear but he heareth not And indeed to those who have known and lived in that City for the space of 18. years last past and do impartially weigh things to have beheld their Episcopacy persecuting Puritanisme so called with reproaches riots imprisonments and accusations of plotting against the Kingdome under pretence of religious meetings which they would make Conventicles Puritanisme in the throne turned into Presbytery opposing Episcopacy as Popish and Independency as Heresie and Schisme Independency got into the Chair trampling under Presbytery as Antichristian and others above them as Notionists Anti-Ordinance men c. Each taking their turn and time and applying themselves unto and making use of the Powers of the earth for the pulling down of the one and setting up of the other And now to see Episcopals Presbyterians Independents Baptists Notionists Ranters and the rude rabble of ignorant and dissolute people the Priests and the Rulers aforesaid reconciled joyned and folded together as Herod Pontius Pilate and the Jews in exercising the very same reproaches and persecutions wherein themselves suffered from each other and from the Priests and Rulers and in a higher manner against those who are called forth to witnesse Jesus now made manifest in them it would be very strange but that this is the portion which the truth hath received from the men and professions of the world throughout all generations and which returns to it as a testimony Neverthelesse as death and hell could not hinder the resurrection of Christ but he arose the third day according to the Scriptures so the confederacy aforesaid with all their policy and power have not been able to extinguish the light that hath shined but the more they have sought to quench it the brighter it hath appeared and so will it encrease to the perfect day for the Lord is risen and the word is gone forth out of his mouth

to the Law not their own wills and lusts And to the righteous ends of the late Wars for Rights Liberties Fundamental Laws and administration of impartial and equal Justice And to the a Exod. 22. 21. 23. 9. 12. Deut. 9. 12. Deut 10. 18 19. Lev. 19. 33 34. Psalm 146. 9. Ezek. 22. 29. Heb. 13. 2. Law of God which requires strangers to be entertained and cherished and loved as thy self not to be vexed or oppressed That His b 2 Chron. 36. 15 16. Isa 44. 26. Matt. 22. 6. Jer. 7. 25 26 27 28. Messengers be well entreated and hearkened to That the c Psal 82. 3 4 5 6 7. Exod. 23. 2. 6. 7. Deut. 16. 18 19 20. 27. 19. Innocent be protected and defended in Judgement That the d Deut. 1. 17. 2 Chro. 19. 6 7. Judgement given be the Lords Yea to Common humanity when men shall leave all that is dear unto them out of love to their souls at the command of God travel many hundreds of miles and freely speak to them the word of God as having known the terrour of the Lord and desiring only to approve themselves in what they deliver to every mans e 2 Cor. 4. 2. Conscience in the sight of God according to the Scripture and being not chargeable to any And a case wherein every Englishman is concerned And whether these Priests be not found out of the Doctrine of Christ Jesus and his Apostles and in the steps of the false Prophets High-Priests Scribes and Pharisees who throughout all their Generations caused the true Prophets and Ministers of Christ to be brought before Kings and Rulers to be f 2 Kings 22. 24. Matt. 26. 67 68. smot on the face to be imprisoned g Jer. 20. 3. Acts 16. 29. stockt h Acts 16. 22 23. 37. 22. 19 2 Cor. 11. 24 25. Acts 5. 40. Heb. 11. 36. whipt i John 9. 22. 24. 35. John 16. 7. cast out of the Synagogues k Matt. 8. 24. Acts 16. 39. Acts 2. 18. 5. 40. 1 Thes 2. 7. 8. commanded to depart their Coast and to speak no more in that Name yea to be l Heb. 11. 37. Acts 7. 58 59 60. Matt. 23. 29 to the end Acts 12. 19. 26. 10. put to death Christ himself to be m Matt. 27. 20. 35. Crucified as n Matt. 27. 63. 2 Cor. 6. 8. deceivers o Acts 21. 28. changers of the Lawes and p Acts 16. 21. Customes q Acts 17. 6. movers of Sedition r Acts 24. 5. turners of the world upside down s Acts 24. 5. pestilent and mad fellows u Luke 23 2. disturbers of the Peace w Luke 5 24. John 10. 37. Matt. 26. 65. Acts 6. 11. 13. perverting the Nation x Luke 7. 33. John 8. 48. blasphemers and y 2 Kings 9. 11. Jer. 29. 26. Jo. 10 20. Acts 26. 24. Luke 23. 2. Devils 'T was Amaziah z Amos 7. 10 11 12 13. that bad Amos depart Bethel and Prophesie no more there for it was the Kings Court 'T was the a Luke 8. 37. Gadarens that desired Christ to depart out of their Coasts because the Devils he cast out were got into the Swine And 't was the b Luke 7. 53. Samaritans that would not receive him because his face was as though he would go to Jerusalem If any one come in his own name or in the name of a Synod or some Church so called as bred up at the Universities or skill'd in the Tongues such a one is received settled maintained and defended be he what he will as to his qualifications and never so ignorant of the power and life of Jesus or unfit to speak even to men of which this City affords instances but they who come not in their own name or will nor by the will t 1 Kings 18. 20. Acts 16. 20. of man but in the name and power of the eternal God whereby they are made able Ministers of the everlasting Gospel and witnessed to be so in the hearts of thousands though they covet no mans silver nor gold though their conversation be as becometh the Gospel yet they must be charged to depart this City and the Liberties thereof Designing against the Government suggested This their first Attempt proving successess for their command in their own wills contrary to Law was not observed and these waters of the Sanctuary flowing higher and higher and spreading themselves much in the hearts of the people the Priests and Rulers are grieved thereat and new consultations are had concerning them And because that generally those who embraced the Truth were such as had alwaies been faithful to the Interest of the Common-wealth and of unspotted reputation and in that regard were likely to be heard by the chief in Authority should they complain because of their oppressions from these Magistrates the generality of whom are well known to have endeavored the destruction both of the Common-wealth and the friends thereof and that some other ends might be accomplished It was thought requisite therfore Representations were made at White-hall and Westminster that these were disaffected persons to the Government who under the notion of Quakers and under that pretence were suspected to be carrying on some design against the Government That there are thousands at their meetings even in the Fort that the safety of the Garrison was in immediate danger by those tumultuous Assemblies Among whom were many Cavaliers and that the Officers of the Garrison were friends to those people that so being brought under the prejudice and jealousie of Authority will lust might the more freely be acted upon them for the future and and be owned therein whieh suggestions were so far from truth that there was nothing administred that might give a rational ground of colour for any such practices those meetings being in peaceableness and though thousands made them up yet their quiet carriage and diligent attention was such as demonstrated another spirit than that of this world and another Kingdom than an earthly which if the truth was spoken out was that which indeed gave the trouble And to this false and adulterous generation an open charge is hereby given to prove the least title of any thing in design against the present Government in any who are Convinced of the Truth and do truly own this Ministration or any thing in all their meetings of a tumultuous nature or that gave any just suspition of conspiracies on their part or that is indeed criminal before man the Principles of those people tending to the laying down of carnal weapons and to the taking away of the occasion of war and disturbance and to the bringing of people off from that ground of evil doing to which the Magistrates sword is made a terrour It was Haman that suggested to King Ahashuerus that c it was not for the Kings profit to suffer the Jewes Hester 3. 8. 9. scattered

Chief in Authority may consider whether this be not an endeavouring of the subversion of the Fundamental Lawes and Liberties of the English Nation and a very sad and high oppression under which those honest people in that City do sigh and groan and fit to be enquired after Order of Sessions That if any such disturbance trouble or other disquietment be hereafter made done or committed in the Churches as aforesaid the Minister be also desired not to hold dispute or other publique debate there with the Party or parties so offending but to perswade the hearers to repair home quietly to their severall Families and habitations and not to hearken to or runne after them Reply Poor Priests who being not able to defend before the people what you deliver to them as Doctrine nor to make appear to the faces of those whom you falsly accuse and rail on as Antichrists Seducers c. that they are such Nor to try what shall be said to you from the Lord nor to answer the Queries sent you long since by those whom you oppose Nor to prove your selves true Ministers of Christ as you professe your selves to be Indeed it concerned you to obtain the Magistrates Sword to guard your Pulpit every way though contrary to Law that none by speaking may put you to it And that if any shall so do you may refuse to reply lest you offend the Magistrates who have desired you the contrary And for you this is an easie answer People Repair home quietly to your habitations and Families and do not run after nor hearken to these men 'T is the Magistrates desire we should so perswade you and that we hold no publique dispute or debate with them Oh ye Generation of blind Guides Are ye not ashamed to pretend your selves Ministers of Christ and yet dare not to submit your Doctrine before the people to whom you speak to be tryed by the Scriptures Are ye not ashamed to accuse charge and bely others who are absent in the place where you would be accompted to speak as the Oracles of God and yet dare not hear them make good what they assert and clear themselves to your faces before those to whom you have accused them Do ye not blush to be guarded by a materiall sword and to have recourse thereunto that none be permitted to oppose and examine what you deliver and if any shall attempt to do it be the occasion what it will he must be silenced and his person imprisoned and perhaps his brains knockt out by the rude multitude who make up what you call your Churches And to stand under such a desire of the Magistrates not to debate not to dispute Ye disingenuous and dumb Shepherds Did the Prophets and Apostles of Christ so or the holy men of God Did they not speak freely and hear and answer freely and did they not approve what they said to the testimony of every mans Conscience in the sight of God yea even to those that opposed themselves Did they not go into the Synagogues and into the Temple and to Mars Hill and to the School of Tyrannus and to the Places of meeting where they came both of Jew and Gentile testifying and reasoning of the things appertaining to the Kingdom of God the work of their Ministry Did the Athenians whom you call Heathens refuse to reason with Paul even in their Market-place daily and on Mars Hill concerning their Idoll gods which were made with hands or of Jesus whom he preached and declared to be the onely true God blessed for ever or did they tumult him or desire the Magistrates to imprison him for so doing Might they not all speak one by one in the Churches of Christ who were living stones built upon the living Foundation And when any thing was revealed to another that sate by was not the first to hold his peace and when the 1 Cor. 14. 23 24 25. unbelievers and unlearned came in did they tumult beat or imprison them or were they not convinced of all and Judged of all and so the secrets of their hearts being made manifest fell down on their faces worshipping God and reporting that God was in them of a truth Were that a Church which you say is so and were they unbelievers and unlearned that come in amongst you according as you say Is the Spirit that ruleth in you and your actions such as doth convince them so and make manifest the secrets of their hearts that falling down on their faces and worshipping God they report that God is in you of a truth Or are not your actions such as Cain's who hated and therefore slew his brother and the spirit that is in you that of the evill one even of the Prince of this world that ruleth mightily in the Children of disobedience as your fruits make manifest Did they call to the Magistrates for help in this or any thing belonging to the Kingdome of Christ which consists in spirit and in power and is to be managed and carried on by weapons onely of the same spirituall nature Nay did not the false Prophets Chief Priests Scribes and Pharisees and those who stood in their generation apply themselves to the Magistrate against them yea to the people Ye men of Israel help made they not tumults and insurrections and stirred they not up persecution against Christ and his Apostles thorough all the parts where they preached Were it not the Jewes who went from City to City and from Region to Region to stirre up the Gentiles against them who before heard them quietly and amongst the Jewes were it not those who are called the devout and honourable that raised the persecutions And who believing not and being moved with Envy took unto them leud fellowes of the baser Acts 17. 4 5 6 7. Acts 13. 50. sort gathering a Company and setting whole Cities in uproares assaulting houses and seeking to bring them out to the people Crying out to the Rulers these that have turned the world upside down are come hither also whom Jason hath received and these all do contrary to the Decrees of Caesar saying that there is another King one Jesus As it is at this day Is it not a shame to all men of Natural Learning to be thus defended none to oppose none to object against what is publiquely held forth as Doctrine upon pain of tumults and imprisonments if there be but an attempting to speak Do ye not blush to be under or desire such a protection whereby you may speak lye falsly accuse rail blaspheam yea and what you will in your Pulpits and none must question you publiquely under the penalties aforesaid Well! you are out of the Doctrine of Christ and his Apostles and ere long yea the day is at hand wherein your Baal must plead for himself and even those who guard him and his Prophets shall be content to have the tryall before the people which is the God that answereth by fire and shall deliver

Steeple-house door and Miles Jackson followed them and commanded Committed him to be carried to Bridewell So Priest Farmers Clarke took him by one arme and his under Sexton by the other and had him away the Sexton Pinching and haling him forwards with much earnestness and using very bitter words to him saying why doest not thou come faster whilest the Clerk held him by the other arme keeping him back At length the Sexton got him to himself so haled him to Bridewell the tumult following him thither and charged Bridewell with him a Constable being then come to them the Cle●k saying to the Officer that Alderman Miles Jackson and Alderman Vickris commanded them to bring him thither where he was moved to write to Priest Farmer in these words Ralph Farmer THou that pretendest thy self to be a Minister His Letter to Priest Farmer of Christ but art found in the step● of the false Prophets and Scribes and Pharisees which were Hypocrites as thou art to whom the Wo was and the same Wo is thy portion who hast the chief place in the Assemblyes and standest praying in the Synagogue or Idols Temple where I found thee when I was moved from the Lord there to go to bear witness against thy deceit and abominable worship which the Lord abhors for thy hands are full of blood who goest in the way of Cain to envy and runnest greedily after the errour of Balaam for gifts and rewards though thou coverest thy self with the Prophets words and the Apostles words which lived the life of what they spake which thou dost not I have a sure witness in thy Conscience bearing me testimony if thou wilt hearken unto it thou stolest the words of David's Psalms 17. 18. and readest to the people to fill the time of thy lying Divination and there thou readest Hear the right O Lord attend unto my cry Give ear unto my prayer that goeth not out of feigned lips O thou full of all subtilty in the light of the Lord thou art seen and let that in thy Conscience witness against thee whether thy prayers are any thing else but what thou hast feigned and made up in thy imagination and sellest them to the people for money the Lord hath proved thy heart and weighed thee and thou art found lacking and thy Kingdome is falling and must down by the mighty power of the Lord plot thou never so subtilly against the Lord and his Anointed thinkest thou to cover thy self with reading David's words who did love the Lord and he was his strength and his rock and his fortress c. But thou Deceiver was it or is it so with thee who when I stood silent and peaceable before thee thou couldest not stand nor go on in thy Witchcraft but thy looks made manifest who was thy God and where thy strength lay even in the powers of the earth by whom I was there commanded to be taken out of thy presence and there thy people with whom thou withall pretendest to serve the living God beat me before thy face and in that thou callest the Church too and so haled me out and cast me into Prison and called me a Disturber who disturbed no man but the man of sin in thee was disturbed and feared to have thy deeds come to the light Now consider what thou hast done and art doing and repent for else the Judgements of the Lord will overtake thee and his heavy hand will be upon thee and there shall be none to deliver thee This was I moved of the Lord to write to thee that thou mightest see thy deceit and know that his Judgements will be just upon thee in the day when he will plead with thee and there shall be none to deliver thee From him who is a lover of righteousness known to the men of the world by the name of From Bridewell in Bristoll the 4. day of the 7. month 1655. Christopher Birkhead The fury of their persecution beginning thus to Benjamin Maynard 9 day 7. month 1655. speaking to Priest Paul break forth afresh on Christopher ●irkhead it ceased not there but on the ninth day of the seventh month 1655. Benjamin Maynard being moved of the Lord to go unto John Paul Priest and coming into the Steeple-house where he was speaking out of his high place to the people the Lord moved him powerfully to say John Paul in the presence of the Lord be silent And as he was speaking further one of the Priests hearers clapt his hand on Benjamin 's mouth not suffering him to speak and many others came about him two of whom brought him to Bridewell where he was continued a Prisoner till the Tumulted Imprisoned in Bridewell 10. day 7. month 1655. Examined next day at which time he was sent for before the Mayor and Aldermen who demanded of him wherehence he had the command to go to John Paul He replyed from the Lord and that he was to obey his command rather than the will of man To which Henry Gibbs Alderman returned that he knew of no such command Then after some other questions not worth the rehearsing to which he made answer one of them told him he must suffer and asked he was whether he had any Sureties or would finde any He replyed nay Then they commanded the Committed Keeper to take him away He demanded a Mittimus but the Mayor said his word was a Mittimus so they sent him to Newgate Prison The next day after which he sent a Letter to John Paul in these words TO thee John Paul I was moved of the Lord His Letter to John Paul Priest to write I do charge thee from the presence of the living God to cease from thy deceit for thou takest the Saints words and makest a trade of them the Lord did send his Prophets to cry Wo against such as thou art thou and such as thou art say and cry peace to the wicked where there is no peace by the Light of Christ you are all seen to be out of the Doctrine of Christ therefore turn into that of God in thy Conscience which sheweth thee sin and evil if thou actest contrary to it it will be thy condemnation for you are all such as feed upon the fat and feed not the flock therefore the hand of the Lord is against you all Wo be to you that are covered with a covering but not with my spirit saith Christ for you that are covered with any other covering your beds are too short and your coverings too narrow for they will not hide you from the presence of the Lord. From him who is a Prisoner for the Truths sake known to the World by the name of From Newgate Prison the 11. day of the 7. month 1655. Benjamin Maynard Nor did their persecution end here but on the sixteenth Margaret Thomas 16. day 7. month 1655. sp●aking to Priest Farmer day of the same month Margaret Thomas being moved of the Lord to

her blood drawn and some of her Cloathes torne off her back in the Steeple-house for speaking to Jacob Brint Priest of Temple after all was ended as aforesaid and after in the street by the rude multitude by whom she saw her life was in danger having not been well in her body from that very time that she was so beaten and misused was carryed out of the Prison in a basket very dangerously sick of which in Temperance Hignells death three dayes after she was carryed dangerously sick out of Prison three dayes after she dyed being turned out with the rest upon the Baile aforesaid leaving her blood for the testimony of Jesus on the heads of her Persecuters who thirsted so much after hers and her fellow witnesses of the Truth For whom to be thus beaten by the Tumult was not punishment enough in the eyes of these Magistrates though she informed them thereof but to prison they send and continue her notwithstanding that she had broken no Law of which they have her life in issue and her bones being laid in the same Steeple-house yard where her body was bruised and her blood drawn Instead of calling to accompt and punishing according to Law those by whom she thus suffered not one of whom hath been questioned and punished as the Law requires to this day But Benjamin Maynard against whom only of the seven as is said Judgement was given at the Sessions as an offendor of Maries Act is still continued a Prisoner Thus are we the People of the Lord trampled underfoot and persecuted as a thing of nought Thus are the Liberties of those who have stood for the Liberties of their Countrey and have kept close to the Publique sleighted and violated Thus are the Innocent and Peaceable whose principles lead out of transgression and from that which is the occasion of the Magistrates sword tumulted imprisoned and abused when transgressours are let go unpunished Thus is Judgement turned into gall and wormwood and the fruit of righteousness into Hemlock so that Justice stands afarre off Truth is fallen in the streets and Equity cannot enter By a generation of men who have alwayes been enemies to Reformation and to the life and power of Godliness as it hath been witnessed in its severall dayes who have endeavoured what in them lay the destruction of the Liberties of their Countrey and of those whom they persecute for owning the same who have and do strengthen the hands of evill doers and are wrath and fury to those who do well who cause Injustice to run down as a streame and unrighteousness as a mighty water and neither regard the Law or their oathes And yet nevertheless are called and call themselves Christians and require that honour which God never gave to any in authority Of whose Malignancy misgovernement and other qualifications a particular accompt could now be given were it the intent of this discourse in which nothing of reflection hath been intended or used but where their own injustice hath given necessary occasion and therein but a little of what might be mentioned though it they may expect if they administer further necessity That so all people may know aswell what are the men under whose lusts and wills these people do suffer as their sufferings and the manner of them And to these things these men have been and are encouraged because they suppose the people whom they oppresse in so high a manner are bound up in their Consciences from prosecuting their remedy in the Law and have experienced them quietly to abide under their Cruelties and injustice till themselves being weary of oppressing them have caused their release otherwise it s not unlikely especially being innocent but they had passed untoucht as have severall who have taken the boldness to ruffle it with them and whose resolutions to try it out they have well understood of whom particular instances could be given it being well known how little Courage they have to deale with such though in the discharge of their oathes and duty and how fearefull to engage where they know men will not receive wrong at their hands especially in such cases as these whereby they are so obnoxious to the penalties of the Lawes And amongst those who indeed have the spirit of men in them to injure and oppresse because they thinke those whom they so cause to suffer will not return again nothing is accompted more base and unworthy being that of which the nature even of many brute beast is not guilty But much more is it in Magistrates whose Judgements should be the Lords not their own and who ought to execute Justice without respect of persons according to the Law and not otherwise and indeed were there no such thing as Law for the rule of those in power but all things Arbitrary had Law and Liberty been never the subjects of Contest by the sword had Liberty and Law fallen in the Contest or been necessitated to termes of composition or been betrayed therein by the treachery of their opposites it had been a great mitigation to the outward sense of these peoples sufferings and reasonable matter of bearing and silence But now that of late Liberty and the Fundamentall Lawes have been not onely in deep and perillous contests by the sword but have through the presence of the Lord been throughly vindi●ated and the enemyes thereof destroyed and totally subdued and the Captain Generall of their forces possessed of all power Military and Civill and the constitution of the present Government protecting such as professe faith in God by Jesus Christ in the profession of the faith and exercise of their Religion from which it saith it shall not be restrained except in the cases of Popery and Prelacy and such as under the profession of Christ hold forth and practice Licentiousness for those who have borne the heate of the day the misery of war the hazard of their lives in the field and other where for and with the Publicque interest aforesaid to which they have been firmely faithfull active and unmoveable throughout all changes and particularly against these very men who have sought to destroy See the Act of Parliament dated the 8 of Octob. 1655. and O. P. his Proclamation 21. Sept. 1655. prohibiting delinqu●nts to beare office or to have voyce or vote in Election of any publick officer it and them and all friends thereof and who ought neither to be in Office nor to choose any one into Office to be trodden under foot scorned and persecuted by such generation in the violation of Law Liberty and Justice and Governement as hath been demonstrated as the issue of all these wars and blood Let the impartiall judge whether all things considered there were ever such high sufferings and intollerable oppressions and whether the case of these people be not their own for what is done Arbitrarily to the violation of one mans Liberty is done unto all Though as to their inward man they are still quiet in the will of God in this houre of his Patience Rejoycing that they are counted worthy to suffer any thing for the sake of Christ And knowing that thorough great tribulation they must enter into the Kingdom of God And these things are rehearsed for no other end than the manifesting of Deceit and declaring of the manifold unjust cruell persecutions of the Innocent for the Testimony of Jesus in that City Hearken unto me yee stout hearted that are far from Righteousness I will bring neer my Righteousness it shall not be farre of and my salvation shall not tarry And I will place Salvation in Sion for Israel my Glory Isa 46. 12 13. That which is seen in thee O Bristoll upon the Earth out of which growes the Briars and Thorns which is covered with darkness which is Foggy whose trees scarce bear leaves whose Winter is appeared and come who is Judged not with the hearing of the ea● nor with the seeing of the eye whose tree scarce bears its own seed on whom the rod must come and whose trees must be broken down and bundled up for the fire and gathered up of the Earth before it be drest and it be brought into order who are as dry trees when the Sap is in the root husky and bald which the wind clutters together which blowes up many by the root The Lord is hedging up together and bringing the wilderness into a narrow place and plucking it up and making it fit for himself and burn up the wood with fire The night is gone the day is come rejoyce ye Children that be at work whilst it is day labour for with fire and Judgment will the Lord rule which cleanseth away the dark aire which fire take away the venome as the fire through the Wildernes goes Read and Consider Ye whose eyes are open for the Lord is dressing the earth and his husband-men are at labour who reign above bryers and dry trees That crawle one among another but many dead briars and wood lyeth upon the ground that bears not fruit to men much less to the Lord which must be plucked up and burnt that the earth may be clean that it may come to enjoy her Sabaoth it hath layne long undrest and rough and thorny and briary and that which cumbreth it hath reigned but now the Lord of the Harvest and Vineyard is risen to cleanse that which plowes up is enterd and turnes over goes on and overthrowes that the ground may be fit for the seed He that hath an ear to hear let him hear the Lord is hedging up that wherein lodgeth the darkness the bryers and thorns and coverings and shutting it up and bringing to the unquenchable fire and making the earth fit for his seed who will gather it into his garner Thus bryers and Thornes and Trees stand in battell against the Lord whose fire is coming upon them The End