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A55863 A brief narrative of the proceedings of Doctor Parr, and some of the parishioners of Mary Magda'en [sic] - Bermonsey in the county of Surrey against certain people called Quakers, inhabitants of the said parish, for not paying and complying with an illegal tax, laid under pretence of repairing their church ... Rawbone, Joseph. 1677 (1677) Wing P346; ESTC R182375 28,455 42

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Deeds done in the Body are written therein And the time will come upon them when this Book shall be opened and Men shall be judged according to what is written therein And remember the Testimony of a good Conscience both in the day of Health and Prosperity and in the day of Sickness and Adversity in Life and Death is of more vallue then all the World And in any of these States and Conditions a guilty defiled Conscience or a Conscience that through custom of doing Evil becomes as Seared with a hot Iron and a hard Heart is a grievous Plague and sore Judgment from God and an inevitable sign and forerunner of Everlasting Vengeance and is indeed the Fruit and Effect of Evil or of sleighting and despising the voice of God's Witness and the striving of his Spirit in Peoples Hearts and Consciences But the answer and Testimony of a good Conscience is of God and is as a Well-spring of Life to those that have it where Blessings and Peace are enjoyed in the inward Man amidst of all Adversity Exercises and Tryals that may attend both the outward and the inward and such can lie down in Peace notwithstanding all the Spirit of Enmity and Cruelty can work against them whether it arise from an ignorant blind Zeal about Religion Church and Worship as very much doth in Christendom not only against those called Quakers but one Sect against another Some of them being so full of Zeal and so empty of Knowledge that they think they do God Service to accomplish the Ruin of such as are not of their Church c. Or whether it arise from corrupt Interest Prejudice and Evil will the ground is one though the end be various The Lord give all People Wisdom to see their way out of the same that they may be not only Christians in Name and Profession but in Life and Nature Then all Enmity Cruelty and Violence would cease and Love and Brotherly-kindness would abound And then People would lie down like Lambs together in that holy Mountain or Mountain of Holiness where no destroyer is where no Violence Cruelty and Oppression is And this is the hearty desire of every true Christian for their Neighbours and all People who never were nor ever will be found seeking the hurt or ruin of any man threatning nor envying any because they conform not to the same sort of Religion and Ceremonies that they are of Whoever are found in this Spirit of Envy and Evil against their Neighbours and Country-men about matters of Faith Sacrifice and Worship are of the Generation of Cain the first Envyer and Murtherer about Religion and such are not Christians indeed neither doth the Law of God nor their Neighbours dwell in their Hearts nor the Fruits of the Spirit appear and grow amongst them which Fruits are Love Joy Peace Long-suffering Gentleness Goodness Faith Meekness Temperance against whom there is no Law for the whole Law and the Prophets is fulfilled in this Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy Heart and thy Neighbour as thy self read Matth. 22.37 38 39 40. and Gal. 5.14 to the end of the Chapter and the Lord prepare your Hearts to consider what you read that you may not only profess the holy Scriptures but love and obey them and receive that grace of which they testifie which taught and enabled the Primitive Christians to live the Life of Holiness they call for and to avoid the contrary that you may not alwayes be like silly Women laden with Sin and led about with divers lusts ever learning but never able to come to the knowledge of the Truth which makes free but that you may know deliverance from the burthen of Sin and bondage of Iniquity and from the Lusts that lead aside and come to be made wise unto Salvation and to feel the love of God spring in your Hearts and Blessings and Peace attend you in your comings in goings out lyings down and risings up even that Blessing and Peace which the World cannot give nor take away And that you and all people may come to inherit possess and enjoy inward Peace with the Lord and heavenly Consolation in the Spirit and Life everlasting is the hearty Desire of your Friends and Neighbours in Derision called Quakers who are redeemed from the spirit of Envy hatred and Evil-will from the spirit of Cruelty Violence and Revenge into that Love which desires that Peace on Earth and Good-will to Men may more and more encrease and abound and so far as it is possible make it their daily Practice and Endeavour to live in Peace and to follow Peace and Quietness with all men according to the Doctrine of the Christian Religion which whosoever obeys and walks according thereto are preserved out of all Strife Contention and Evil-Will Prejudice Enmity Cruelty and Violence and who ever are found bringing forth these Fruits let their Talk and Pretence to Religion and Christianity be never so great they are certainly corrupt Trees and disobedient Children in whose Hearts the Enemy of God and Man rules and they have not the Love of God and their Neighbour abiding in them nor the Answer of a good Conscience neither are they Christian indeed though they profess the Name which will stand none in stead in the Day of Account Let all such to whom this may come remember they have been told so and it is the Word of Truth to them whether they will hear or forbear Now we the Quakers so called do solemnly testifie in the sight of God Angels and Men That we do not refuse to pay Tythes to Repair old Mass-Houses commonly and ignorantly called Churches or to pay Priests and Clarks Wages Easter-Reckonings Midsummer-Dues and such like out of Wilfulness or Stubbornness or out of any Enmity Prejudice or Evil-will against any man's person whatsoever but really and truly upon the Account of Conscience to God knowing and believing that we should sin against God and the Light of his Spirit in our Hearts and wound our own Consciences in so doing And we do upon the same account refuse to come to those old Mass-houses vulgarly called Churches to hear a man of unclean lips and corrupt heart Say common Service to God but Do none read over common Prayer formally and customarily without the Spirit of Prayer sing David's Psalms turned into Meeter by Queen Elizabeth's Fidlers or Musicians but not with the Spirit nor good Understanding hear studied invented Sermons of an Hour long composed in the Wisdom which this World teacheth and so not profitable to Salvation being only a profitable Livelihood to men of that Trade who preach for Hire and divine for Money and seek for their Gain from their Quarter and would exact and compel Money and Goods from such as like not their Merchandize if they dwell within their Quarter or Parish Those Prayers Singers and Preachers for Money and Hire are not like Christ's Ministers who received and do receive freely