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father_n	know_v	see_v	son_n	19,837	5	5.8352	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31659	A true relation of the unjust proceedings, verdict (so called) & sentence of the Court of Sessions ... against divers of the Lord's people called Quakers, on the 30th day of the 8th month, 1662 / published for the honour of God, the vindication of the innocent, and the information of people, by John Chandler.	Chandler, John, 17th cent.	1662 (1662)	Wing C1929; ESTC R35804	14,248	24

met in pretence of Worship therefore we are not guilty of this Indictment Fourthly The Evidence did not swear that we were met in Contempt of the King his Laws and Statutes for we were met in the Fear and Counsel of God which is not an evil but a good Example to others not against the Peace but against the ground of strife not against the King's Honour and Dignity but in the ground of all true Honour and Dignity therefore not guilty of that Indictment Our Meeting-doors were open and therefore by the Law not a Conventicle which is to plot and contrive mischief which it is manifest to all People was not our intent therefore not guilty of that Indictment nor deserving such a cruel Sentence Now all People who have any sence or seeling of the measure of God's Spirit in their hearts may see and discern that this persecuting spirit is no other but that which was in Cain when he slew his Brother about Sacrifice and Worship for no other but that same spirit hath persecuted about Religion and Worship from Cain to this day who because of that spirit are and ever have been driven out of God's presence as Cain was and so are become open Enemies to that Innocent Life in all the Faithful which was in Abel whose Sacrifice God accepteth at this day as he did his GIve ear O King O Parliament O Judge And Justices who bear the Saints a grudge Who have or may promote as men of strife A wicked Statute for to take their Life Behold all People of the English Nation A Law set forth against the Separation Made by a Council Signed by a Queen Long laying dormant now reviv'd ageen Horrid Design ever to be accurst To leave the late Act and to take the worst Which blames a harmless People by its Lies As wicked and seditious Sectaries And such like falshoods which the Priests with all Ill Magistrates possessed have and shall Until the Beast and Prophet false are cast Into the Lake when they have done their last The while let 's talk a littl ' of your abuse To leave y' at least the more without excuse What have we said or done we fain would know Before we die the Land we can't forgo That ye should thus us sentence right or wrong Sure not by God's Law but your own so strong Did ever men just Judgment more pervert Christians in name but Hypocrites in heart If we should hold our peace the Stones might cry With rumbling voices to the Heavens hie What do ye say to Christ and Christians In Ages past inhabiting all Lands Who separated from the wicked train Of Idol people where they did remain What to the Sect declar'd of in the Acts And Paul accus'd by th' Jews of heinous facts Who being spoke against in ev'ry place Yet you 'l not dare in words them to deface See then how like your Fathers ye do walk Who of the Scriptures then did prate and talk Who justified the Saints that went before And yet condemn'd the present ones as sore Repent repent be humbled in the dust And bite those tongues that did condemn the Just Yea rather rent your hearts which took content To Prison Banish kill the Innocent For if we felt not Light Life Truth and Love We durst not thus so boldly to reprove Well come what will Glory to God on High That we three Months in Prison are to lye Wherein if not submit the Cross to fly Then to forswear these Lands or else to die But we must hearken to our Master's Call Who saith within us Swear ye not at all For he hath brought us unto Yea and Nay And him we are resolv'd for to obey ' Cause we through Grace are sure to gain by loss This makes us love the Seed and kiss the Cross O Immortality most glorious sight Which through the Gospel God hath brought to light O hellish darkness and eternal pains For all th' impenitent reserv'd in chains And persecuting Antichristians Both Great and Small who do defile their hands With blood or any thing that may offend The Lambs of Christ that hold out to the end Th' All-powerful Mighty Judge to such will say Within their Consciences Depart away Ye cursed ones into eternal fire Prepar'd for evil Angels in mine ire For ye not only have not visited My Babes and Brethren dear when hard bested But wrong'd them much by various enmitie And doing thus y' have done it unto me Come come ye Blessed shall Christ Jesus speak Within his Flock whose hearts now melt and break For the Abominations committed And who by Suffring now for him are fitted Receive the Kingdom and the endless Life I 'le be thy Bridegroom thou shalt be my Wife For thou hast holp my Poor in want and need And born the burdens of the Suffring Seed And loved me above all Earthly thing So I into this Glory do thee bring Then ye that know the Father and the Son And Sp'rit that brought you out of Babylon What the good Husbandman in you hath sown See that it grow and do not smite your own Fellows nor eat and drink with th' drunken but Feed them lest he do you in sunder cut As Hypocrites for 't is a sudden Day See how it dawns Hark how he comes away Even so come Lord Jesus come quickly JOHN CHANDLER THE END