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A89853	Several petitions answered, that were put up by the priests of Westmorland, against James Nayler and Geo. Fox, servants of the most high God, persecuted by the priests of the world, as Jesus Christ and the apostles were persecuted by the Jewish high priests for the witnessing of the truth, and testifying against the deceits of the world. With the answer to an order given forth by the justices at Appleby sessions, contrary to the law of God, and the laws of the land. Also, an exhortation to the people, to mind the light of God in them, the teachings and leadings of the spirit of truth; the which if it be obeyed, will lead and guide them into all truth.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.; R. F. (Richard Farnworth), d. 1666.; Fox, George, 1624-1691.	1653 (1653)	Wing N316A; Thomason E703_4; ESTC R3636	42,778	72

that which we preach is not after man neither according to mans will but by the will of God For we are not made Ministers by Oxford and Cambridge for that we deny Gal. 1. 21 12. Gal. 1. 1. We stand condemned by you who are Ministers of the Letter and not of the Spirit who are Ministers by the will of man and your Call and Authority is by the will of man Obj. Hvae filled it in some parts with very sad divisions Answ Truth did make division when Deceit was at peace For Christ said I come not to send peace on the Mat. 10. 34 35 earth but a sword for I am come to set a man at variance against his Father and the daughter against her mother the daughter in law against the mother in law and here is the Scripture fulfilled Pr. Obj. Stirred up much wrath and strife even between the neerest relation Answ It seems hatred wrath and strife were within now truth hath stirred it up When the strong man armed keeps the house all the goods are at peace till a Mat 3. 27. Luke 17. 20 21. stronger come and dispossesses him and spoyls his goods and here is the Scripture fulfilled where the 1 Cor. 6. 19. 1 John 3. 8. power of truth dwels and the Kingdom of God is come who are indeed the Temples of God the works of the Divell destroyed hatred malice wrath strife heresie and blasphemy pride hypocrisie and dissembling where the truth rules these are destroyed and where these rule truth rules not and consider all you pretended Ministers what you have been doing all this while that there is so much wrath and strife to be stirred up when the truth comes for that is it that sets at variance O all people consider what blind guides you have been led withall why spend you your money for that which is not bread and your labour for that which satisfieth not Ho every one that thirsteth Isai 55. 1 2 3. come freely without mony and without price hearken diligently unto me saith the Lord that your souls may live Pr. Obj. And powerfully seduced multitudes of people from the truth Answ Whereas we are accused as seducing people from the truth it is false for how can they be in the truth who live in malice cnvy strife and wrath for they that live in that nature are turned from the truth which according to your own words much of that is Mat. 15. 9. Col. 2. 22. 1 John 2. 26 27. stirred up The Lord hath sent us and made us to come into this County to draw up people unto himselfe from the Doctrines and Worships of the world John 11 7. All people are seduced by you whom God hath never sent for I will prove by the Scriptures that you are seducers and draw people from the teaching within them to follow your imaginations what you can study out of the letter which the holy men of God spoke forth freely the which now you make a Trade of And Iohn 1 Joh. 2. 26 27. said These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you you need not that any man teach you but as the anointing teaches you all things Now if an hundred or a thousand people should come and deny all you Priests and witness they had this anointing within them then this Scripture being fulfilled John 15. 25. and you denied such you go about to persecute which witness this anointing within them and need no man teach them Herein you shew that you have not the same spirit that was in them that wrot that Epistle but the spirit of the world the world did not know them then which were taught by that anointing but hated them as you do now them that witness the same annointing ye hate ye are the Antichrists of this world and hate them who are not of this world and seek to bring them from their teacher within to follow you who go in the way of Cain to envy and after the error Jude 11. of Balaam Here you shew your selves to be seducers and such we do deny but to every mans conscience do we look to be made manifest and we do not seek to draw any one from the anointing within them but do exhort all there to wait and abide for the promise which is eternall life to them that abide in the anointing 2 Cor. 4. 2. 1 John 2. 25. 2 Tim. 3. 3. but you false accusers are without which the Scripture speaks of Pr. Ob. And from the worship of God Answ That is false to say we draw any from the truth for we can do nothing against the truth but for the truth as the Apostle saith but all corrupt wayes we deny and abhorre and the worship of the wicked we deny who have not their names written in the Lambs Book of life and God is not worshipped with mens hands neither dwels he in Temples made with hands and for witnessing this Steven was stoned to death when the high Priests examined him which generation you shew your selves to be in the same nature holding up outward Temples and Synagogues which we deny and seek to draw people from these things God is a Spirit and he that worships him must worship him in spirit and in truth and this worship we own Rev. 13. 8. Ioh. 4. 22 25. Acts 19. 27 24 and draw people to it up to God from all beastly worships outward Customes imitated of man which is an abomination unto the Lord. Pr. Ob. To imbrace their corrupt and dangerous doctrines and pernitions ways which things are so notoriously known to all men that live in these parts that we need not here say any thing to acquaint your selves with it Ans Corrupt Doctrines pernicious ways we deny which are all your ways you proud Baals Priests for 2 Pet. 2. 2. 15. 2 John 1. 9. Luke 7. 9. he that doth abide in the Doctrine of Christ hath God and he that doth not abide in the Doctrine of Christ is of the Divell Iesus Christ is made manifest who witnesses forth the eternall truth to poor souls who have lived in darkness and blindness these many hundred years have the dark ministery reigned but now the God of power is uttering his thunders and Rev. 10. 34. making his power known and the eternal word of God is made manifest in us this we witness which we preach forth to the glory of our Father Praises praises be unto thee alone Lord God Almighty who art now setting up thy own Kingdom And the same judgement do ye give upon us as the Jews did upon Christ and the Apostles for the Apostle while he was in the Jewish Religion in their outward worship as you are now they looking for a Christ coming without them as you do now at which time Paul was at peace with them but when he did preach Iesus Christ that was revealed Acts 21. 27 28 30. in

the County and together with some others their companions and Proselytes who are risen up among our selves in it have filled it in some parts with very sad divisions and distractions stirred up much hatred wrath and strife even between the nearest relations and powerfully seduced multitudes of People from the Truth and true worship of God to imbrace their own corrupt and dangerous Doctrines and follow their pernicions wayes which things are so notoriously known to all men that live in these parts that we need not here say any thing to acquaint your selves with it And though these men tell people where they come that they are sent to them from God to declare what he hath revealed in them and labour to perswade them that they come to them with the Authority of the Apostles of Christ yet our selves do confidently believe and know them to be wicked men deceivers and the very Ministers of Satan as may appear 1. By the Horrid Blasphemies which they have uttered 2. By the damnable Heresies and dangerous Errors which they have avouched All which they tend not onely to the disturbance of the publique Peace and safety of the Common wealth but to the subversion of all Government we do in all Humility addresse our selves Humbly and earnestly praying as you tender the Glory of God and the good of so many souls as are or may be iudangered by their impious principles and practices that you would be pleased to make use of that Authority where with the Lord hath Invested you speedily to provide for the safety of true Religion and the publique Peace by checking the wicked endeavours and proceedings of these men which we humbly conceive may be at least by ordering James Nayler and George Fox c. being strangers to depart out of this County and to return to their own homes Francis Howgill to be of better deportment specially towards the Magistracie and Ministry of England And by enjoyning John Ayrey Alexander Dixon and the rest of the speakers and followers that live in this County to abide at their own Homes study to be quiet and do their own business labouring in their own calling which is the Apostles rule and not to wander up and down the Country as Seducers to draw Disciples after them save only in a way of Travell as private men about their own occasions and the Lords Gracious guidance of your selves in the affairs of so great concernment we shall ever pray c. This is a true Coppie of the pretended Ministers and professors in this County given up at the Court at last Sessions at Appleby Severall Petitions answered that were put up by the Priests of WESTMORLAND Priest TO the Right Worshipfull the Justices of the peace for the County of Westmorland Answ Them that are right deny Acts 19. 27. John 5. 44. John 4. 22. Prov. 20. 3. Rev. 14. 7. all worships and worship God and honor the Lord All honour and glory be given unto the Lord. Now Man where is thy honour Yet I honour all men in the Lord. Priest Obj. The humble Petition of divers Ministers and other inhabitants in the said County who earnestly desire the glory of God and the peace of his Church and this Commonwealth Answ The Ministers of God never put up a Petition Gal. r. 1. John 18. 35. to an outward Magistrate to maintain the Church of God Here you shew your Ministery is of man and must be upheld by an earthly power and here you shew that Church is carnal and must be maintained by a carnall weapon as the Jews did which came against Paul and said he was a pestilent fellow who did witness Acts 24. 5. Acts 17. 6. Col. 2. 17. forth the substance Jesus Christ of all these types and figures which the Jewes lived in therefore his doctrine did overturn them to the letting forth of the Gal. 3 13. 1 Pet. 3. 19. seed for that Mind that held up the Figure did not own the substance Jesus Christ when he was come Now all you pretended Ministers of Christ Jesus 2 Tim 3. 5. Mark 3. 22. Christ is come and made manifest in his Saints you who have the form deny him and the power and some call it witchery some of the Divell but that Nature can do no other for it is the same naure that was in the Jewes who would maintain their way and hold up their customes and persecute him that was the substance and called him Divell But the Church Jesus Christ is the head of and the Church is the pillar and 1 Tim. 3. 15. Col 1. 24. Rev. 5. 9. ground of truth and Christ hath redeemed his Church with his blood and who are redeemed by the pretious blood of Iesus Christ are of the Church and them I do witness and not one of them shall be plucked out of John 10. 29. his hand whom the Father hath given me saith Christ John 10. 28 29 30 31 My Father which gave me them is greater then all and no man is able to pluck them John 18. 36. out of my Fathers hands I and my Father are one Then the Iews took up stones to stone him Christ hath no carnal weapon to maintain his Church for his kingdom is not of this world Pr. Obj. Humbly sheweth that James Nayler and George Fox men whose countrey habitation profession and condition is to us generally unknown Answ It is true our habitation is with the Lord and our Countrey is not of this world neither are our conditions known unto the world for who had the power of truth was never known unto the world where the same power is made manifest 't is so now the world John 15 19 20 Heb. 11. 14 15 16. John 15. 18. knows them not therefore they hate you and persecute you the Scripture's here fulfilled As they have done unto me so will they do unto you saith Christ Here the Scripture is fulfilled Pr. Obj. Merely of their own accord without any pasport or license or authority that they can shew or we ever heard of entred into the County and together with some others their companions and proselites risen up among our selves Answ The Ministers of God never were sent forth Mat. 23. 24. Gal. 1. 1. Jer. 23. 31 32. by the authority of man Here you shew your selves to be blind guides indeed Paul an Apostle not of man nor by man but by Iesus Christ neither was the Gospel he preached according to man and this do we witness that our authority is not from man neither our call from man for he that speaks of himself speaks a lie and all you who speak not from the mouth of the Lord are fals Prophets and there you shew your selves to be no Prophets of the Lord no Ministers of the Gospel for if you were the Ministers of the Gospel and had not received it of man nor your Gospel according to man then would ye witness us for

concernment we shall ever pray Answ You are blinde without the truth and Prov. 28. 9. your prayers are an abomination unto the Lord and they who have the gracious guidance of the Tit. 2. 11 12. Lord will witness us for the free grace of God that brings salvation you have turned into wantonness it teacheth them to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts them we own where this grace doth guide we have unity with them but where this free grace hath appeared and is turned into wantonness them we deny and there is your conditions the grace of God hath appeared in many of the Justices which hath brought them from under your bondage which will not be your Executioners to execute your wrath and malice upon the harmless innocent people It hath been of late that they who lived under your Ministry the Lord alone was pleased to manifest himself in them so that they are brought to deny you and declare what was freely revealed in them presently you cryed out against them and had them before Magistrates to suppress the truth praised be the Lord who hath enlightened many by and with his own light and is setting up his own Kingdom to his own glory praises praisesbe unto the Lord God Rev. 11. 15. Almighty never did the Apostles go to any Magistrate to suppress people strangers who witnesse forth the power of truth in any where it appears that you have not the same Spirit that was in them It is the evil in you which would have the truth it self suppressed It is of great concernment for you to stand up to maintain your Kingdom for if truth rise ye shall lose your Kingdom eternally shall you witness us to be no Seducers be ye witnesses against your selves Mat. 23. 31. that ye are witnesses against the power of truth Another Petition put up by the Priests in Westmerland Priests Petition TO the Right Honorable the Justices of peace for this County of Westmerland Answ That which is Right Honorable is that which is pure which is of God which worships the Father of heaven and earth now all people fear John 5. 41 44. the Lord Jesus Christ and see if there be not corruption within that would be honored and worshipped as ye read in all the Scriptures they who honored the Lord Iesus Christ cryed against deceits and Iesus Christ testified against the works of the world and the Apostles testified against the same but that which was pure they John 7. 7. set up in their souls and so do we and honor in our souls Priests Petition The humble Petition of several Gentlemen Ministers of the Gospel and others friends and servants to Iesus Christ his Gospel truths and Ordinances and the general wealth of this Commonwealth and Nation Answ Never did the Gospel Ministers put up a Petition to a Magistrate to maintain the Gospel nor the servants of Iesus Christ wherein it appears Mat. 10. 10. 2 Cor. 10. 14. 2 Cor. 3. 6. 1 John 3. 12. John 4. 21 22 23 24. that you are Ministers of the Letter which is carnal and death and you must have a carnal weapon to hold you up for shame give over your Profession and you profess humbleness your humbleness is to persecute here you shew forth the nature of Cain and void of the knowledge of Iesus Christ and the Ordinances of Iesus Christ was never set up by man but man who lived in his own will was ever against them and you know not his Ordinances for they that knew his Ordinances were not persecutors but Paul before he was a Minister of Iesus Christ and knew his Ordinances he came with Letters from the Priests to persecute the Saints who believed in Iesus Christ and were of one soul and Acts 9. 2. Acts 22. 4. Acts 20. 7. Acts 4 32. met together yea in the night time all night where it shews you have but the form not the power which must be turned away from according to Scripture Priests Petition Sheweth that in the late wars we or the most of us did expose lives liberties estates and relations with all other personal advantages in the just defence of Religion and Liberty in concurrence with and maintenance of the just proceedings of our Parliament after the prosperous effects whereof we expected the settlement of the grand ends of our Engagement and so much the more as being the promise of the Parliament the vows of their affections the price of our prayers purses hazards losses banishments and the blood of many thousands our fellow servants in the work of God freely sacrificed in the quarrel of this Nation what hath been done in the settlement of our Civil Rights Peace and wholsom Law we bless God for and the Parliament as his Instruments nor can we but acknowledge what hath been done by them in the cause of God as their Acts against Adulteries Fornication Swearing Drunkenness Sabboth-breaking Ordinances against Promoters of Heretical Doctrines Acts against Ranters or Blasphemers may the Lord increase the number of these things Answ If ye will own the wholsom Law ye will own us but this is but a pretence for who owns the wholsom Law denies all corruption this is but a pretence whereby ye make a colour to make them that live in the truth to appear odious unto the world setting forth your selves unto the world Pharisee like and there to make the pure truth odious through your envious mindes but the day doth declare all things your end will 1 Cor. 3. 13. make it manifest though you pretend your selves to be Ministers of the Gospel yet your ends will 1 Cor. 3. 13. shew you to be bloody Cains and it doth now begin to appear the second birth is brought forth which doth not own your sacrifices this birth you 1 Cor. 15. 47 48 49. seek to slay Pr. Obj. Yet so it is that in this County severall persons proselytes of one Geo. Fox and James Nayler do in the time of our Assemblies ordinarily in a way of contempt and scorn come in anong us with their hats on at time of our prayer or singing used in our Gongregations some of them shew violent actions in time of Sermon or prayer or singing and cry out aloud with horrible clamors slanders abuses reproaches against our Ministers Answ That is false for our friends shew no violent actions but are against them but come peaceably in and if they be moved by the Lord to cry aloud who art thou that wilt withstand the Lord Do not you read in the Scripture that the Lord sent his Prophets and bad them cry aloud and spare not And as for clamors Isa 58. 1. we utterly deny it is your own and as for slanders abuses reproaches we utterly deny it is your own we are against all filthy minds that give forth reproaches but we speak the same language the Scripture doth from the same Word that gave it forth and your

44. selves to be in envying the righteous seed where it is brought forth but God of his infinite power and love doth preserve his little ones from your hands from devouring them to him be all honor and glory and praise who maintains his own truth and sets up his own Kingdom whose sword is his Word and to it shall all Nations bow though you and many others who are now fighters against Heb. 4. 12. God and would have the Magistrates to help you t is hard for you to kick against the pricks but Acts 9. 5. God hath raised up a light in many of the Magistrates to see your deceits and your envy is made appear Priests Petition That their main drift is to engage the people against the Ministry by reason of Tythes crying out with open clamor against Tythes as Unlawful Antichristian to the necessary overthrowing of the Laws to that purpose bringing an odium upon the Government and tending to stir up sedition in the people to withdraw their due obedience from the Laws and Government of England Answ The receiving of Tythes is Antichristian Are ye all blinde did ever any of the Apostles or Christ receive Tythes or commanded any such thing was not he the end of the Law and where the Spirit of Jesus Christ is it testifies against you who neither walk according to the Law nor Gospel for whom he made Ministers Mat. 10. 10. 8. he sent them forth freely without a bag or stick or scrip without two coats freely ye have received freely give the workman is worthy of his meat but here 's no Tythes no Augmentations now you are not here in the steps of them whom Christ sent forth but shews that you run before you be sent and where the Spirit of the Lord is stired up in any it cries against all such unrighteous wayes Whereas you speak of a necessary overturning the Law there in you shew forth your weakness and a mingle-mangle of your mind As for bringing an Odium upon the government it is false for the righteous Law of God we honor and set up in our souls and that is to govern that which is unruly and unjust As for stirring up sedition as for drawing people from the righteous Law of God that is your own condition under a pretence of making people believe we deny government and the law that is false If you vvere as carefull and vvatchfull in your own Kingdom over drunkards blasphemers swearers fighters liars if you were as watchfull over them then you might say you vvere friends of the government and of the righteous law but if any come into the markets and reprove such things or read a paper in the market against uncleanness such you hale out stone and persecute herein you shew there is no friendship with the Law but if a man bring a sieve of Ballads or Jest books Rimes or Theames and sing these in the markets those are suffered these Libels are not minded which shews now your venome against the truth and against them that speak from the mouth of the Lord. Pr. Petition That besides what others perhaps may know of the blasphemies of them we do plainly see and know that their practises do exceedingly savour of Sorcery the quakings swellings roarings foamings and such as we never Gal. 3. 1. Jam. 2. 4. heard of but such as were possessed of the Divel of persons at their meetings and especially of young children Answ You can judge no otherwise being of the generation of them that persecuted Christ calling truth blaspnemy but blasphemy we do deny sorcery practices we deny and we see you in that geeration in witchcraft and sorcery drawing people to follow your invention who have painted your selves with others words mystery witchcraft all who are drawn from the Spirit of the Lord within to follow your imaginations are bewitched by you with evill thoughts An as for quakings roarings tremblings you say you never heard of and before you professed your selves to be Ministers of the Gospel and yet are ignorant of the Scriptures you are blind and do you make your selves so openly blind and ignorant as not to hear of quaking Moses when he heard the Lord speak unto him he trembled and durst not behold and Moses quaked and exceedingly feared and the whole mount quaked And Acts 7. 32. Daniel when he heard trembled and his breath and strength was gone And Habakkuk he trembled Dan. 10. 11. Habak 5. 16. Acts 9. 6. 1 Cor. 2. 3. Poil 2. 12. Job 4. 14. quivered his belly shook that he might rest in the day of trouble And Paul he trembled when he came among the Corinthians he was with them in much weakness and trembling and he bade the Saints work out their own salvation with fear and trembling And Job he trembled and David he quaked and trembled his bones did Psal 119. 120. Isai 66. 2. 5. quake And Isaiah said Hear the word of the Lord all ye that tremble at his word And Christ said Your brethren that hated you and cast you out for my names sake said Let the Lord be glorified but he shall appear to your joy but they shall be ashamed And do not you cast us out in your mouthes as the filth and off-scouring of the world Is not here the Scripture fulfilled Jer. 5. 22. And Jeremy which was sent to speake unto the people the word of the Lord said Hear this a foolish people without understanding will ye not fear me will ye not tremble at my presence who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea and such a people then upheld Priests that bare rule by their means so doe you now And David he roared and watered his bed with his tears and his flesh wasted till he could number his Psal 6. bones will you say that all these were possessed with the Divell The same power of God we witness now as was then and we witness the Scripture fulfilled and have a cloud of witnesses which are recorded in the Scriptures it shews that they have not heard his voyce which shakes the Heb. 12. 1. Psal 2. 19 20. earth who denies the Letter are not Ministers of the Letter Pr. Pet. And Giving too sad a suspition of it and the more by reason of the known suspitions upon Geo. Fox to deal with the Divell before ever he came to us in these parts Answ Whereas you speak of a known suspition you have a suspition and know nothing he that knows doth not suspect but hath an infallible judgment to judge truth from error with evil thoughts ye judge as they did of Jesus Christ Jam. 2. 4. Mat. 10. 15. who called the Master of the House Beelzebub which generation it appears you are of And as for dealing with the Divel it is your own for I do witness the works of the Divell destroyed for where Iesus Christ is made manifest the works of the Divell are destroyed

did for they asked to release Barabas and crucifie Jesus the innocent and gathered the Elders against him to seek to put him to death so do you now where he is made manifest who are of the same generation Priests Petition 2. The protection of our selves and our Ministers from violence or disturbance in our worship of God and suppression of offenders Answ Where did the Saints or Ministers of God seek to a Magistrate to protect their worship but Acts 24. 5. on the contrary they were persecuted of such which the Jews and Priests did incense them to which is the same you do now as the Jews who came against Paul and said he was a pestilent fellow a mover of sedition a stirrer up of heresie a Ring-leader of the Sect of the Nazarens turning the world up side down and teaches contrary to our Custom and this holy place he told them God dwelled not in Temples made with hands neither was he worshipped with mens hands Acts 17. 24 25 which outward custom you are upholding now in the same nature that they were in when the Jews brought Paul to Felix holding up their own customs by an outward Law as imprisoning him Paul had no Law to maintain him but the Law of God and the eternal Word to guide him and Mat. 23. 4. Gal. 1. 1. Isaiah 33. 22. the same we do witness against all the powers of men but the power of God let every soul be subject too Priests Petition 3. Execution of the Statute against Sabboth breakers and such as under pretence of Religion are in no Religious Assemblies that day Answ All that live in pretence of Religion and not in power is nothing all that owns pure Religion owns us and all that owns the Sabboth the eternal Rest the eternal day owns us but while people have met together to set up you who in the week day invented fashions and on that day put it on so the eye goes out looking at new fashions and in the week day follows oathes drunkenness prophaneness pleasures and such practises we deny but to live righteously soberly in this present world this we own and whom you finde wrangling walking in uncleanness cursed speaking fighting drunkenness upon such you should lay the Law for the Law was made for the Lawless but you pretended Ministers seek to bring upon us bounds who are redeemed from these ways through the love and power of God if you were the Ministers of God you would go about to bring people from under all Law up to God but you shew your selves to be of that generation which shut the Kingdom of heaven from Mat. 23. 13. men which Kingdom is a Kingdom of peace this we witness Priests Petition 4. Charge to all differing judgements to meet together each Lords day peaceably and not to spread themselves to several places for disturbance Answ If any be moved by the Lord to come into your Assemblies to speak the word of the Lord unto them for your souls eternal happiness would you have this limitted this is your intent to limit the Holy one of Israel As for disturbance we all deny and to draw people up to God that we do out of all carnal ways for God is a Spirit and will be worshipped in spirit and in truth and this worship we own and who are here denies all your Temples and Priests herein is one Priest Jesus Christ the Biship of our souls for they who received the Substance denyed the Priests and they met together the first day of the week and when any was moved to go forth they went and witnessed forth the Substance to them that lived in the Shadows this we do and now to deny you Priests being ye cannot witness your call the Temple which God never commanded they that are in the Temples of God do This dark Ministry hath long reigned over people and kept them in bondage underimitated forms but Luke 1. 79. now God is raising a light in his people to gather them up to himself to live in love and unity one with another Pr. Pet. 5. Suppression of persons living without any calling Answ Then this suppression must come upon your selves for you cannot witness that ever you were called of God or sent forth by Jesus Christ to preach the everlasting truth for if you were you would not raise up persecution against them that witness a call from the Lord who of you receive whipping stocking stoning prisoning buffeting and haling us out of your Assemblies who do pretend your selves to be Ministers of Christ wait to have that suppressed in your selves that persecutes then you will not seek to oppress the just for your own ends that ye might be maintained in your beastly worship and your Antichristian ways Priests Petition 6. And your witnessing against all blasphemers of the name of God especially such as are contained in the Acts of Parliament Answ If you would have them witness against all Blaspemers then they must witness against you who calls evil good and good evil and vents forth so many Blasphemies against them who live in the power of truth Priests Petition And if the application of any effectual remedy lie not within your power that you will dlease to joyn with us in this desire and transmit this cause to the knowledge of the Right Honorable the Councel of State as a cause so nearly concerning the peace of England and we shall ever pray c. Answ You would have a Law or an Act forth under a pretence to suppress the truth under the name of Blaspemy because it doth shake your Kingdom who live in your self ends for ranting ways and blaspemy we utterly deny and takers of Gods name in vain which you do in every word you speak because ye know him not he is merciful to the just and unjust but you shew your cruelty against the just and persecute them Here you shew forth your serpentine nature and would beget others in the same envy to joyn with you to be the stronger to tread down the truth as it is written The Beast shall make war against the Lamb but the Lamb get the victory praises praises for ever be to the Lord God Almighty you say the Lords Prayer Forgive us as we forgive them that trespass against us but you persecute them that seeks your souls health seeking you and not yours their prayers are an abomination to the Lord. And what is Right and Honorable will Prov. 28. 9. Iohn 5. 44. Prov. 20. 3. Rev. 14. 7. deny all you and your Petitions for they who owns God and Christ owns us who owns peace owns us and we them in our souls but all the pretenders of God and godliness who live in uncleanness and ungodliness denying the power that cuts down iniquity which we own and set up Therefore all people whose mindes are now bent to raise up persecution and Priests who stands railing in your Pulpits incensing ignorant people