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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94089	A true declaration of the bloody proceedings of the men in Maidstone in the county of Kent: who write themselves, John Allen, mayor, Lambert Godfrey, recorder, John Chantler, constable, against John Stubs, William Caton, who by the scornful generation of men are called Quakers.	Stubbs, John, 1618?-1674.; Caton, William, 1636-1665.	1655 (1655)	Wing S6072; Thomason E843_2; ESTC R202134	8,916	8

to have persecuted and abused the Servants of the most high God whose eternall power is made manifest in them by which power he doth them preserve and keep in the time of tryall Therefore to that in all your Consciences do we speak that with the Light in you the unjust may come to judgment and so you may learn to judge according to that and that will bring you to lay the Law in its place upon the transgressors for the which end it was added because of transgression and here them that do well will be praised and incouraged by you and the evill doers terrified and this will be acceptable with God and such a power we honour in our souls and are subject to for Conscience sake so we have cleared our Consciences to you persecutors at Maidstone in laying open your crueltie against us without cause that herein you may see the evill of your doings and be ashamed and so come to repentance that for the time to come you may be awarned how you exercise your cruelty upon the innocent to that which is just in you all we speak which is your condemnation for your unjust proceedings Iohn Stubs VVilliam Caton CAIN was the Vagabond and the fugitive who had no habitation in God but wo from God proceeded against him for said God to him if thou do well shalt thou not be accepted if not sin lyes at thy dore and he did not well and he was wrath and his countenance fell and he was a persecutor of him that was in the faith and a Murderer and you be the Vagabonds and the Fugitives who persecute them that be in the faith though you may Sacrifice as Cain did your Sacrifice God doth not accept but wo from God doth proceed against you that are in Cains way persecutors envyers and Murderers full of wrath whose countenance falls as your fruits hath made appeare and the Vagabond fellows would have murdered Paul and the wandering Stars spoken of in Iude went in Cains way which is Envy Murther and Persecution which Abel is not which was in the faith and the faith is one the Apostles which were in the faith they saw the Vagabond fellows they saw the wandering Stars which went in Cains way and Balaams way from the Spirit of God with which Spirit we see such who are born not of the Spirit but of the flesh persecuting them who are not of the flesh but of the Spirit whose Sacrifice God accepts The Son of Man was no Vagabond he had no place to lay his head and the Apostles were no Vagabonds who had no certain dwell●ng place and such who are spoken of in the Hebrews who were in the Faith which were imprisoned and in Bonds with scourgings and tempted and afflicted and tormented and destitute but these were so at the Town called Maidstone through the Faith obtained a good report who are such as the world is not worthy looking unto Jesus who is the author and finisher of their Faith running their race with patience enduring the cross and despising the shame and knowing and seeing Jesus him that endured such speakings against of sinners in him we have faith from whom we have received it which gives us victory over the world which brings to inherit the promise And you at Maidstone who have shewed your unworthiness in not receiving the Servants of the Lord but by cruelty and persecution shaming your Religion Teachers and Church Now the folly of it is manifest to that in all your Consciences I speak the Light which comes from Christ Jesus who saith I am the Light of the world and lighteth every man that commeth into the world there is your teacher to let you see what you have done there is your condemnation for this is the condemnation the Light saith Christ and remember in the day of your calamity and condemnation that in your life time you were warned and that the messengers of God were amongst you G. F. FINIS London Printed for Giles Calvert and are to be sold at the Black-Spread-Eagle near the West-end of Pauls 1655.