O London, London, is there no bowels of compassion left in thee! is all given up to obduracy and hardness of heart? Wo is me for thee dost thou sport thy self, and make such actions thy mirth? and must our inno∣cent blood be mingled with thy daily Sacrifices? why do you hunt our lives, as a Partridge is hunted upon the Mountain? and is it because our Religion is different from yours? do you think to force us to yours by shed∣ing our bloods? I tell you nay, that will never be we abhor in our souls all such actions, and do also loath that cursed way of (Heaven driving) which never was practised by true Christians, but by cruel Heathens altogether, and such as were professed enemies to every appearance of God and will ye of this generation practice their cursed bloody works, that ye may pull down the plagues of God upon you and your posterity, as they did? and have ye not read, how that the wicked and blood-thirsty shall not live out half their dayes? think ye God eternal is not as just as he hath been, and that he will not recompence your work into your bosom? Oh London, Lon∣don, how am I smitten for thee! Oh, how am I bowed down under the un∣heard of wickedness that is committed and practised daily, and then co∣vered up in thy skirt! Oh, where is the man in power, that seeks to sup∣press vice! I say, he need not hunt it in the twy-light, or search into cor∣ners and holes for it but at mid-day, and high-noon, in the chief streets of thy City, and every where else doth it appear? is it past the Magistrates power, or cannot his sword comprehend it? I say, if so, then an overflow∣ing scourge from the hand of the Lord, is as natural for you as your food and sustenance and I faithfully believe from God it attends you. Oh fear, dread and tremble, ye Citizens of London, and others and as if there were no Law in England, but club Law: Was there ever such things acted in times of peace, and at such time as it is said, the restorati∣on of the antient Laws of England is? I tell you, I have read the Hi∣story of the Martyrs in Queen Maries dayes, but then they dealt with them by Law, though exceeding wicked and cruel, yet not by club-Law, as now doth not this exceed Bonner and Gardnor's cruelty? for they would still en∣deavour to convince before they murdered but you wil kil before you con∣vince, all which considered, far exceeds their cruelty: Must innocent blood be the cry in this great City, that must bring down the fierce vengeance of the eternal God upon you, and to make an utter desolation, devastation, and to lay it on heaps? I tell you, the Cry is heard, and Judgement is at hand therefore lay it to heart all people: And as for the acters of this bloody Tragedy, your portion you will have in the Lake, amongst your Brethren.
Therefore who is not astonished at such bloody actions, to have persons come with swords drawn, and other wea∣pons, and with unheard of violence, to cut and hew, and knock down, sparing neither age nor sex, spilling so much blood as there was who will not blush at such actions? And as though we were appointed for nothing else, but to satiate the minds of blood-thirsty men, and to do it by order, as they say. by some of the trained Bands of the City of LONDON.HEarken and give heed, ye that are called Magistrates, and likewise all People, of what condition soever, of this great City of Lon∣don and elsewhere: What have we the poor innocent people of God called Quakers done, that such cruel and bloody usage we should receive from your hands? Have we been at any time found plotters against the life of any person? or have we been sowers of sedition? or have we been peace-breakers, or tumult-raisers? or any that have in the least fo∣mented mischief, or trouble to the Government? I say, the God of our life cleareth us in all such cases. A Hue and Cry after BLOODSHED OR, A short Relation of that inhuman, barbarous, cruel, and bloody Tragedy, acted upon the Innocent People of God called QƲAKERS, at their Meeting, at Bull and Mouth within Aldersgate, upon the 31.
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