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woman_n	spirit_n	truth_n	worship_v	2,361	5	9.8392	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58446	A Relation of the inhumane and barbarous suffering of the people called Quakers in the city of Bristoll during the mayoralty of John Knight, commonly called Sir John Knight commencing from the 29 of the 7 month 1663 to the 29 day of the same month, 1664 / impartially observed by a private hand, and now communicated for publick information by the said people.	Reinking, William, fl. 1645-1665.	1665 (1665)	Wing R838; ESTC R33989	86,091	151

people but guilty of an unlawful assembly with which thou being not satisfied they withdrew again and thus delivered themselves Not guilty according to the Inditement This gave so great a satisfaction to the Hall and the generality of the people that were therein which was very many that some manifestation thereof was given the people then present being glad in their hearts that innocent men and such as these were and those unto whom they appertained were not found guiltie and that the City thereby so far was unconcerned in a verdict against them it being to their great grief and consternation of spirit that such men for their Consciences should be thus put upon the wrack and sought to be destroyed but this their joy and gladness of spirit vexed thee to the very heart that thou wast so baffled which thou couldst not forbear to manifest and so to prove undeniably thy self what hath been here asserted viz. that thou designedly soughtst their suffering for upon the general shew that past the Hall upon the publication of the verdict as aforesaid thou as a man sensible of thy disappointment in that which thou hadst so designed and laboured to accomplish couldst not contain thy self such was the over-ruling hand of the Almighty for his truth and his people that in vehement passion as a man concerned in the contrary and so didst appear as an unjust Judge which sought the suffering of the Prisoners and was not indifferent which a righteous Judge ought to be and rather inclining which the law doth to the acquitment than to the suffering of the Prisoners saidst tthou couldst not endure to sit there and see thy Sovereigns Laws trampled under soot or words to that purpose who didst trample thy Soveraigns laws under foot in seeking to make them to suffer who by thy Sovereigns laws were acquitted and so didst demand of them whether they would take the oath of allegiance which thou before toldest them thou wouldst do if the Jury did acquit them but in this thou wast disappointed also for the rest of the Justices would not yield to it as judging it a thing unreasonable then to put the Oath to them when they vvere cleared of vvhat they stood indited by their Countrey This dissatisfied the Hall exceedingly to see thee sitting on the Bench as Judge to act so contrary to Justice for thou shouldst rather have shewn thy self as glad of their liberty the law acquitting them hadst thou been unconcerned than to have manifested thy desire to have had them to suffer and hadst thou been a wise man in thy generation thou wouldst have so done But oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments and his wayes past finding out he knew thy heart and therefore would not suffer thy fig-leaves to cover thee but brought thee forth stark naked to the worlds view in thy Wolfs dresse and then stop'd thee in thy course so that thou couldst not neither prevail in this of the oath yet their liberty thou didst detain who should have been acquitted and to the next day adjournedst them yet neither then nor to this day suffered he thee to have what thou wouldest upon them who bore Testimony to his name for which we glorifie his name for ever Thus passed the proceedings of the first day the next day being the 13th of the 11th month George Bishop Edward Pyot John Gibbons Nehemiah Pool George Oliver Thomas Morris James Sterridge Benjamin Cottle and John Spoor were set to the Bar and an Inditement of the same nature exhibited against them before the Jury who were Richard Codrington foreman Francis Little John Clark the elder William Loop Hump. Barecroft Walter Payne Thomas Wright Peter Rosewell John Collins Dep. Marshall John Bradford Roger Willoughby and Rich. Legg and they were demanded to answer guiltie or not guiltie to which they pleaded not guilty of the Inditement in manner and form as was therein expressed which their plea being entred the Town Clerk asked them whether they would proceed to Tryal now or traverse it they answered presently if they pleased so the witnesses were called to prove them at the meeting and thou calledst for the Depositions that were taken at their commitment as if thou wouldst have had them read the Prisoners said that there must be nothing produced in Court but viva voce by word of mouth the Town Clark said to thee it was so whereupon the reading of them was forborn the witnesses then being called upon to be sworn the prisoners desired that it might be a little laid aside because they had somewhat to say which happily might save them some labour and so they began and said and confessed that they were at the meeting in Broad mead and upon the day mentioned in the Inditement and that they were there to wait upon the Lord and in obedience to him and to testifie to his sovereignty over the Consciences of men as to worship who was Lord of all and soveraign in the conscience who was a spirit and would be worshipped in spirit and in truth not at Jerusalem nor in this mountain as Christ said to the woman of Samaria and that such the Father sought to worship him whose fear towards him is not to be taught by the precepts of men and so began to shew and would have done from the three childrens time and so throughout all Histories to this day how that there were a people that bowed not to the worships of the times but gave testimony unto and sealed with their blood the dominion that is everlasting in the Conscience and the soveraignty of him there who is Lord of all against the laws of men that sought to infringe and did usurp upon his dominion in the conscience who lives for ever and would have given reason and undeniable demonstration for this and have made it out but thou interruptedst them and wouldst not suffer them to speak but with much vehemency didst cry out that thou couldst not endure to sit there and hear a Religion instilled into the Court a Religion contrary to the laws of the Kingdome and that the laws of England were the supreme Conscience of England and suffered them not to speak further as to this ground or reason of their so being there though the attention of the Hall was very great and in deep silence though very full being willing to hear that great point opened viz. the soveraignty of God in the conscience as to worship which was so near to them all for conscience is in every man and every man would worship God according to his Conscience and would not have it dealt withall nor thou thy self to the witnesse of God in thee we speak as thou didst to them This being the matter so much in controversie onely they had so much liberty further to speak and to shew that their meeting was not in contempt of the lawes or with force and arms to