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<HEAD>The Oppre&s;&s;ed Pri&s;oners COMPLAINT Of their great OPPRESSION: With a loud Call to <HI>Englands Magi&s;trates</HI> for the exerci&s;e of Impartial <HI>Ju&s;tice,</HI> before the Wrath of the Lamb break forth. With a brief Relation of the unparallel'd Proceedings of the Court, at the <HI>Old Baily,</HI> <DATE>the fifth day of the fifth Month, 1662.</DATE></HEAD>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. <HI>3.2.</HI></NOTE>REpent, O <HI>England,</HI> for what thou ha&s;t done</L>
<L>To God's dear Lambs, and to the holy One;</L>
<L>Oh hearken to the doleful hideous Cry</L>
<L>Of God's dear ones, that in your Pri&s;ons ly.</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Exod.</HI> 22.22 23. <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 59.14, 15.</NOTE>The Fatherle&s;s in thee, Oh <HI>England,</HI> cry</L>
<L>And groan, becau&s;e of Bonds and Cruelty;</L>
<L>For great Oppre&s;&s;ion, it doth much abound,</L>
<L>As touching Ju&s;tice, it cannot be found.</L>
<L>The Widows now, indeed, are made a prey,</L>
<L>Their bitter Cryes are heard, &s;till, day by day;</L>
<L>And in the ears of God their Cryes do come,</L>
<L>They &s;hall be heard by Chri&s;t, the holy One.</L>
<L>Wo unto <HI>England</HI> then, when God &s;hall plead</L>
<L>The righteous Cau&s;e, of Innocents; indeed</L>
<L>If <HI>England</HI> now &s;hould plead, it is not guilty</L>
<L>Of any crime that now is counted filthy,</L>
<L>What mean you then, by halling every day</L>
<L>God's Wor&s;hippers to Pri&s;on; Yea, I &s;ay,</L>
<L>What Law of God have we indeed offended?</L>
<L>That by your Souldiers we are apprehended,</L>
<L>And in your filthy Goals are fa&s;t &s;ecur'd,</L>
<L>And yet no Crime again&s;t us is procur'd;</L>
<L>What &s;in is done? or Law have we offended,</L>
<L>That Ju&s;tice &s;tops, and &s;urely is &s;u&s;pended?</L>
<L>If that Offenders we, indeed, mu&s;t be,</L>
<L>Wherefore in Court, our Charge, could we not &s;ee?</L>
<L>What is the Crime that we committed have?</L>
<L>Let's hear we pary, for Ju&s;tice we do crave:</L>
<L>For we indeed, as free-born <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> men,</L>
<L>For Ju&s;tice cry, which is our Right: agen</L>
<L>What Charge is laid again&s;t us, in this day,</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">Dan. <HI>6.5.</HI></NOTE>Save in the matters of our God, I pray?</L>
<L>Is <HI>Liberty of Con&s;cience</HI> now a Sin,</L>
<L>Tho promi&s;ed by <HI>the WORD of a King.</HI></L>
<L>Beware, O Rulers, then, how you oppre&s;s</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Acts</HI> 5.28, 29.</NOTE>God's Heritage indeed, who do no le&s;s</L>
<L>Than his mo&s;t Royal Law &s;trive to obay</L>
<L>By meeting in his fear, yea day by day:</L>
<L>Take heed, oh Rulers all, how you oppo&s;e</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Mat.</HI> 18.6.</NOTE>The marked one of Chri&s;t, whom he hath cho&s;e.</L>
<L>Oh tender, as the Apple of his Eye,</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Deut.</HI> 32.10</NOTE>Are they to him: Harm them not lea&s;t you dye.</L>
<L>The day will come that you will howl and cry</L>
<L>Becau&s;e of Torment and of Mi&s;ery.</L>
<L>Repent oh then, for what you have now done,</L>
<L>Ye Magi&s;trates, and hearken to the Son.</L>
<L>In <HI>London</HI> &s;treets you needs mu&s;t here a cry</L>
<L>Of Cruelty, and &s;ore Captivity;</L>
<L>Offenders &s;cape, and ju&s;t men apprehended,</L>
<L>Surely for this our God is much offended.</L>
<L><HI>Nine &s;core</HI> Pri&s;oners, in <HI>Newgate</HI> now doth ly</L>
<L>For Ju&s;tice, Ju&s;tice, there aloud do cry;</L>
<L>Be&s;ides many Goals, in <HI>England</HI> round about,</L>
<L>God's Heritage are Pri&s;oners without doubt.</L>
<L>Mo&s;t Poor, and from our Wives and Children rended,</L>
<L>And here abus'd, when we &s;hould be defended.</L>
<L>And when unto the Bar we there did come,</L>
<L>Looking for Ju&s;tice, but yet finding none,</L>
<L>We call'd to &s;ee accu&s;ers, face to face,</L>
<L>But met with Violence, to your di&s;grace:</L>
<L>When no accu&s;er in your Court was found,</L>
<L>A Snare, immediately, you did propound.</L>
<L>And when in &s;oberne&s;s we made our mone,</L>
<L>That no &s;uch thing, in Con&s;cience, we could owne,</L>
<L>But Ju&s;tice did there come for to behold:</L>
<L>Your Officers and Halberteers were bold</L>
<L>To pull and hale poor Pri&s;oners at the Bar,</L>
<L>While we aloud for Ju&s;tice crying were.</L>
<L>In&s;tead of &s;hewing Ju&s;tice in that day,</L>
<L>Back to the Goal they haled us away.</L>
<L>Where patiently, through grace, we do abide</L>
<L>Till God the Controver&s;ie &s;hall decide.</L>
<L>Take heed oh Rulers all, and now give ear,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Jam. <HI>5.9.</HI></NOTE></L>
<L>The coming of our Lord is very near:</L>
<L>Fulfil the righteous Law of God,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mich. <HI>6.8.</HI></NOTE> oh then</L>
<L>In doing ju&s;tice to the &s;ons of men:</L>
<L>And learn to walk in humblene&s;s of mind,</L>
<L>Then to God's cho&s;en ones you will be kind.</L>
<L>And do them Ju&s;tice, while it's call'd to day,</L>
<L>Before grim Death doth &s;natch you quite away:</L>
<L>For after Death to Judgement you mu&s;t come</L>
<L>And give account to God, what you have done.<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 5.10.</NOTE></L>
<L>At his Tribunal Seat, oh you mu&s;t &s;tand</L>
<L>To an&s;wer to your Charge; it is at hand.</L>
<L>Where Chri&s;t and Con&s;cience will be your accu&s;er,</L>
<L>Right, Evidence will be without refu&s;er.</L>
<L>Oh with the Adver&s;ary then agree,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Mat.</HI> 5.25.</NOTE></L>
<L>Yea while you find him here now in the way,</L>
<L>El&s;e dreadful will the day of Judgement be</L>
<L>To Rulers, and all Goalers, they &s;hall &s;ee.</L>
<L>Repent therefore before it be to late,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Luke</HI> 13.3.</NOTE></L>
<L>And labour to e&s;cape the cruel baite,</L>
<L>That Satan layes to catch your Souls therein,</L>
<L>And harm no more the Children of the King.</L>
<L>The Judgement day will prove mo&s;t dreadful &s;ure,<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 <HI>Chron.</HI> 16.21, 22. 2 <HI>The&s;.</HI> 1.8, 9.</NOTE></L>
<L>Repent O <HI>England,</HI> better fruits procure:</L>
<L>For dreadful will the Lamb of God be then,</L>
<L>To all &s;uch Rulers, that do rule for men.</L>
<L>Come let the Captives of the Lamb go free,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>I&s;a.</HI> 58.6.</NOTE></L>
<L>To &s;erve there God and King with Loyalty.</L>
<L>'Tis not your Pri&s;ons, Bars, or Boults will &s;care</L>
<L>God's Children dear, or make them for to feare.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Luk.</HI> 12.4, 5. <HI>Heb.</HI> 10.34.</NOTE></L>
<L>The &s;poiling of their Goods, or Bani&s;hments al&s;o</L>
<L>Will not make &s;uch decline the truth I know,</L>
<L>That do engage to meet now in God's fear,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>I&s;a.</HI> 55.6.</NOTE></L>
<L>According to his will, they mu&s;t appear;</L>
<L>His righteous Laws, they mu&s;t and will obey,</L>
<L>And to their Meetings go, yea day by day.</L>
<L>Therefore take heed oh Rulers what you do,</L>
<L>Harm not Chri&s;ts pretious flock, though they are few;<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;al.</HI> 2.10, 11, 12.</NOTE></L>
<L>For God him&s;elf it is that takes their part,</L>
<L>But rather to <HI>Gamaliel's</HI> Coun&s;el hark,</L>
<L>Refrain from the&s;e men, and let them alone,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Acts <HI>5.34.</HI></NOTE></L>
<L>For if their coun&s;el be of God, he'l own</L>
<L>What they &s;hall do, and with them he will go,</L>
<L>'Gain&s;t Rulers all, who &s;eek their overthrow.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Acts <HI>5.39.</HI></NOTE></L>
<L>This Remnant of the Lord, whom he hath cho&s;e,</L>
<L>Fear then, thus day by day &s;till to oppo&s;e,</L>
<L>And careful be you fight not again&s;t him,</L>
<L>Lea&s;t he in pieces tear you for this &s;in.</L>
<L>Therefore repent, and hearken to his voice,</L>
<L>And &s;et the Captives free, that have made choice</L>
<L>To follow Chri&s;t, the Lamb of God, indeed</L>
<L>For follow him they mu&s;t, and will with &s;peed.</L>
<L>His day of Vengeance is now drawing nigh,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Jer.</HI> 51.6.</NOTE></L>
<L>Repent, oh <HI>England,</HI> and at Chri&s;t's foot lye.</L>
<L>The day is nigh that Vengeance it mu&s;t come,</L>
<L>Decree'd by God, the Father and the Son:</L>
<L>When the &s;ixth Angel with's Vial doth appear,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Rev.</HI> 16.12, &mdash;15. <HI>Ezek.</HI> 24.6, 7, 8, 9. <HI>Jer.</HI> 51.35, 36, 37. <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 3.10, 11, 12. <HI>Rev.</HI> 1.6.</NOTE></L>
<L>We may conclude, that Je&s;us Chri&s;t is near.</L>
<L>Then wo to tho&s;e that per&s;ecuters be,</L>
<L>Chri&s;ts dreadful Wrath and Vengeance they &s;hall &s;ee.</L>
<L>The Vials of God's Wrath on &s;uch will come</L>
<L>For all the violence to <HI>Zion</HI> done.</L>
<L>Break off your &s;ins by righteou&s;ne&s;s, I pray,</L>
<L>Then happy &s;hall you be, as Chri&s;t doth &s;ay,</L>
<L>And reign as Kings with Chri&s;t, upon his Throne,</L>
<L>If ye repent, &s;urely he will you owne.</L>
<L>For all the Violence to Sion done,</L>
<L>Repent O <HI>England,</HI> and now ki&s;s the Son.<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. <HI>2.</HI> la&s;t.</NOTE></L>
<BYLINE><HI>Written by</HI> S. B. a Pri&s;oner for the Te&s;timony of Je&s;us.</BYLINE>
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