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A27405	The cry of the oppressed from under their oppressions, ascending up to Him, who will rebuke the oppressor and devourer, and deliver the innocent some of the sufferings of the people of God, called Quakers, concerning tythes and oaths, &c. : by the branches which are a new springing forth of the remainder of the bitter root of Episcopacy, which yet remaineth unplucked up in the rigid presbytery ...	Benson, Gervase, d. 1679.; Fox, George, 1624-1691.	1656 (1656)	Wing B1900; ESTC R18287	26,890	50

Alexander Hebblethwait Iames Corney Because they could not for conscience sake swear and give in their answers to the Bill of Complaint of Richard Atkinson of Garsdale Iames Burton of Dent and Iames Tompson being for tythes were committed prisoners to the Fleet by Robert Nicholas and others the called Barons of the Exchequer where they yet remain in prison Nottinghamshire William Cleater is now prisoner in the Fleet upon the same account at the suit of one Dove Williamson a called Minister which said Williamson had one of his leggs shot with a Canon bullet he being in one of the late Kings Garrisons G. B. his Queries concerning Tythes c. 1. When there was no King in Israel every one did that which was right in his own eyes Iudg. 17 6. Was it so yea or nay 2. When there was a King in England did he well in suffering divers of his subjects to be imprisoned without any cause shewed And when for their deliverance they were brought before his Justices there to undergoe and receive according to the Laws of the Land no breach of any Law being proved against them and yet they returned back to severall prisons without being charged with any thing to which they might make answer according to the Law And were they the Kings friends that advised so to doe yea or nay 3. Whether did the Parliament well to lay before him in the third year of his reign in the Petition of Right that and other things imposed upon his subjects contrary to the lawes and their just liberties as a grievance and to desire from him That all his Officers and Ministers should serve him according to his laws statutes of his Realm as they tendered his honour and the prosperity of his Kingdome And did the King well when he said Let right be done as is desired yea or nay 4. Whether the Statutes of England be a part of the Law of England And whether is the Law of England a Rule in it self both for Magistrates and people to walke by yea or nay 5. Whether the Law of England be the higher Power or the Judges and Lawyers opinions which may be gained for money And whether are the Justices the Masters of the law or the Ministers of the law 6. Whether he is subject to the higher power who lives and walks according to what the Law requires or he that follows the opinions and inventions of men when in plainnesse the law requireth one thing and their opinions and inventions are another thing 7. Whether is he a faithfull Minister of the Law and fit to judge of mens lives libertie and estates who writes one thing and mean and does another who takes an oath to judge according to the law and yet quite contrary to the law commands mens persons to be imprisoned and their goods to be taken from them 8. Whether do the Justices act according to the●r Commissions or Patents who passe judgement against the peoples liberties and estates where there is no law of the Nation to warrant such their judgments but on the contrary the law of the Nation saith in express words it shal not be lawful for any so to do 9. Whether is he the Minister of God yea or nay that feigneth or suggesteth a lie or owneth or joyneth with such as he knoweth doth feign suggest lies to the end they may have a pretence or colour to draw people before their judgment seats which they call Courts of Equity which if the lies which is the foundation of many Bills of Complaint were taken away they then had no colour of action in such Courts neither is there any law of this Nation to warrant such actions as is confessed in severall of their Bills of Complaints 10. From whence is that Law and for what end was it given that is not equall And is that equal which is not iusts ors equitys which is not lawfull 11. Whether is the Proviso in a statute a part of the statute yea or nay If nay why was it inserted If yea then they that act contrary to it are convinced of it as transgressors 12. Whether were not the Courts Temporall and the Courts Spirituall two severall Jurisdictions and so accounted and adjudged by the late Kings and Parliaments of England And whether had not the late Kings and Parliaments power to make lawes and to declare what was law yea or nay And was it not declared in expresse words by the King and Parliament in the 24 Hen. 8. Chap 12. That rights of Tythes Oblations and Obventions the knowledge whereof by the goodnesse of Princes of this Realm and by the Lawes and Customes of the same appertaineth to the Spirituall Jurisdiction of the Realm 13. Whether is the Statute of the 2 3 Edw. 6. Chap. 13. of force yea or nay If yea is it not therein provided and inacted That if any person do substract or withdraw any manner of Tythes Obventions Profits Commodities or other duties or any part of them contrary to the true meaning of the said Act or of any other Act heretofore made that then the party so substracting or withdrawing the same may or sha●l de convented sued in the Kings Ecclesiasticall Court by the party from whom the same shal be substracted or withdrawn to the intent the Kings Judge Ecclesiasticall shall and may then and there to hear and determine the same according to the Kings Ecclesiastical lawes and that it shall not be lawful unto the Parson Vicar Proprietory Owner or other their Farmers or Deputie cōtrary to this act to convent or sue such with-holder of Tythes Obventions or other duties aforesaid before any other Judge than Ecclesi●sticall yea or nay If nay then why are the people punished as transgressors of that law which is repealed And if yea then why are the People convented and sued for with holding their Tythes c before the temporall Judges and in the temporall Courts contrary to the said Act 14. Whether doth not he or they who give their opinions and make it their practice to convent and sue men in the temporall Courts of this Nation the people thereof for substracting and with-drawing their Tythes Oblations and Obventions c. And say it is lawfull for them so to do give the law the lye And are these Ministers of the law who gives the law the ly who say it shall be lawful when the law saith it shal not be lawful Are not such unreasonable men do not such go about to make the law of none effect through their Traditions and set up for self-ends their own opinions and inventions in stead of the lay yea or nay 15. Whether is it not provided in the statute of 32 Hen. 8●cap 7. in these words viz. Provided alwayes that the last Act shall not extend nor be expounded to give any remedy cause of action or suit in the Courts temporall against any person or persons which shall refuse or deny to set out his

THE Cry of the Oppressed From under their OPPRESSIONS Ascending up to Him Who will Rebuke the Oppressor and Devourer and deliver the Innocent Some of the Sufferings of the People of God called QUAKERS Concerning TYTHES and OATHS c. By the Branches which are a new springing forth of the remainder of the bitter Root of Episcopacy which yet remaineth unplucked up in the rigid Presbytery Presented to Publick view Eccles. 4. 1. So I returned and considered all the Oppressions that are done under the Sun and behold the tears of such as were Oppressed and they had no Comforter and on the side of their Oppressors there was power but they had no Comforter Eccles. 5. 7. If thou seest the Oppression of the Poor and violent perverting of judgement and justice in à Province marvel not at the matter for he that is higher than the highest regardeth and there be higher than they London Printed for Giles Calvert at the Black-Spread-Eagle at the West-end of Pauls 1656. TO THE READER READER CHrist Jesus the true Prophet saith Beware of false Prophets which come to you in Sheeps cloathing but inwardly they are ravening Wolves Yee shall know them by their fruits Matth. 7. 15. And was ever such fruit brought fo●th in any age And in the 23 of Matth. he cryes Woe to the Hypocrites and they were such as devour Widows hòuses and for a pretence make long Prayer And was ever such devouring of the houses of Widows therefore shall they receive greater damnation And Peter in his 2 Epistle chap. 2. he discribes false teachers to be such as through covetousness and with feigned words make Merchandize of the People and was ever such Merchandize made of the People Now these and such like be the fruits of the corrupt tree and of the false Prophets Hypocrites and false Teachers But the man of God doth flee such things and doth follow after Righteousness Godliness Faith Love Patience Meekness I Tim. 6. 11. And they who were Ministers of Christ though they had power to eat and drink I Cor. 9. 4. the Labourer being worthy of his meat yet saith the Apostle we have not used this power but suffer all things lest we should hinder the Gospel of Christ for better saith he were it for me to die than that any man should make my rejoycing vain what then is my reward Verily that when I Preach the Gospel I may make the Gospel of Christ without Charge that I abuse not my power in the Gospel vers. 18. Now these be the fruits of the good tree and of the true Ministers of Christ who saith by their fruits ye shall know them Now Reader with a single eye read the late practices and some of the fruits of several of the most godly Ministers as they are called in the Northren parts of this Nation And let that of God in thee which calls upon thee to do to all men as thou would be done unto judge of them by their fruits whose Ministers they are By their fruits saith Christ ye shall know them The true Minister of Christ he used not his power to take what the power did allow him but thou shalt finde that many of these men who are called godly Ministers have not only used their power as they call it the Law of the Nation but abused their power and in many particulars exceeded the Law the Statute which speaks of treble damages which is their power which gives three pence for a peny which is much which were they but men they would not exact or take more than they call theirs And were they Christians or Ministers of Christ they would not seek their own but every man anothers wealth 1 Cor. 10. 24 For the Ministers of Christ did not seek theirs but them 2 Cor. 12. 14. For the Children ought not to lay up for the Parents but the Parents for the Children But these have made themselves manifest by their actions that they are no Fathers they are so unnatural but cursed Children as Peter speaks of 2 Pet. 2. 14. And now see the Scriptures fulfilled and witnessed which saith Call to remembrance the dayes that are passed how that after ye received the light ye indured a great fight in afflictions partly while ye were made a gazing stock both by reproaches and afflictions and partly white ye became companions of them which were so tossed to and fro and such took joyfully the sooyling of their Goods knowing in themselves that in heaven a better and more enduring substance was laid up for them Therefore ye despised ones in whom and upon whom the Scriptures are fulfilled and fulfilling who have received the light wherewith Christ Jesus the Covenant of light and life hath you enlightened and in it believed cast not away your confidence which hath great recompence of reward for ye have nced of patience that after ye have done the will of God ye may receive the promise I or yet a little while and he that shall come will come and will not tarry Now the just lives by Faith but if any man draw back my soul shall have no pleasure in him saith the Lord but ye are not of them who draw back unto perdition but of them that believe to the saving of the soul in your unity is your strength and in your faithfulness doth he rejoyce who is one with you in his measure G. B. The Grounds why Tyths once commanded are now denied as also why Oaths once used are now laid aside TYths were a Command and Ordinance of God and the first Priesthood had a command to take Tyths of the People according to the Law Heb. 7. 5. But the first Priesthood being changed and the second Priesthood witnessed there is made of necessity a change also of the Law vers. 12. And the Law being changed and the Commandment disānulled which the first Priesthood had to take Tyths vers. 18. Tyths of necessity must also be taken away But it is said That Tyths now are not required as of Divine right but upon a civil accompt To which it is answered There is no Law in this Nation publick that doth give Tyths or require the payment of them to any Parson Vicar or Minister as they are called upon such an accompt as Civil The law saying Tyths are due to God and holy Church 27 Hen. 8. Cap. 20. And where no law is there is no transgression and are not they unreasonable men that require that which the law which is reasonable doth not allow And if there were such a law how could that law be wholsom which should set up that which Christ Jesus the King of righteousness hath disannulled or write again the hand-writing of Ordinances which he hath blotted out and to his Crosse nailed And yet the Servant in his place and who in the house was faithful was worthy of his wage which was according to the law and till the time of Resormation But the Son is free-born who the