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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66605	The memorial of the just shall not rot, or, A collection of some of the letters of that faithful servant of the Lord, William Wilson who departed this life the tenth day of the fifth month 1682 ... together with several testimonies concerning his faithfulness in his day : unto which is added a brief accompt of some of the buffetings, imprisonments, and spoiling of goods he patiently suffered for his testimonies sake.	Wilson, William, d. 1682.	1685 (1685)	Wing W2955; ESTC R30210	52,995	72

unto another and the Lord harkered and heard it and a book of rememberance was written for them that feared the Lord and thought upon his name as we are Witnesses of is those days though we be hated of men not knowing the Scriptures and as we have believed Christ and the Scriptures so do we keep his commands who saith he that loves me keeps my sayings who saith Swear not at all and in obediance to this very thing we stand who suffers here in Lancaster Castle because we cannot Swear nor break the Commands of Christ which if we should it were a shame to us and below our honour and Scollarship which we have learned in Christ that never Swear and so taught his Disciple who sufferred for his Doctrin in their days as we do more in our days with much Joy of heart that we are counted worthy to suffer for his sake and bear our Testimony to all the world that God is true and every man a lyer who doth not truth and so remaines in his sins which truth sets free from and so we trample upon those things which is below if we bear our Testomony unto death as some of our friends and brethren have already done in these nasty holes and stinking Prisons where men may easily get their death I could gladly find to be with thee that we might reason together upon the things of which so greatly doth concern our everlasting peace and honour in the Lord which is far above all the honour in this world in my Eye it is above the hat and knee which men may throw in the mire and where lyes it then but that honour which is from above is placed in the heart and is there to remaine for ever and if it were about other things as matters concerning the Kings service I could relate unto thee my sufferings to be great as to me and none of you took care for me then I might then do as I could for you and I have sufferred since in Clivers days for that service and I was in Prison for my Conscience sake at Carlile and that unjustly too what is it I am born to do to suffer still and that unjustly too both then for the King and now by his friends and never had as much as a penny pay to this day cannot that I believe was was Casten and gathered in their days for me as Edward Benson of Hyclose John Midlefel of Langdale knew them but the times turned so their minds turned and kept what they had for ought I know and little regarded my Imprisonment and poor coming home which made me think it of my self being so poor and knew not how to mend it when others mockt at me and I might have gotten away as they did which shewed their Lovalty to the King to be but small when mine was made manifest so I think it were little enough if I had my pay now to help mee in Prison and I hope pity will now in thy heart towards towards my Wife and little Children that they may not want or else what Charity lives with thee so it s for my Religion that I suffer here which I love to reason for with Ministers or Magistrates or any men that fears God of Heaven and loves the Seriptures which is useful to desid Controversies about Religion and this is the thing that is settled in my heart and my desire is that I may labour in the fear of the Lord and not be chargable to any man and live a Godly life and lay open wickedness and deceipt to the view of the whole world as the eternal God move it in my heart unto whom I stand in obediance and dare not swear at all Thy friend and Neighbour Willam Wilson and a lover of thy souls and everlasting peace and if I could Swear I should take that Oath as soon as any that you set much by Lancaster Castle the 9th of the 12th Month 1663. A Letter to Edward Stanley of Dalegarth in Eshdale EDward Stanley I desire the read this paper over to the end with patience if thou canst E. S. thy ungodly deeds shews thee forth to be an ill example amongst thy Neighbours and they that fears not God learns at thee and loves thy evil deed and thy ungodly ways is a strength to to those that fears not God but with thy self would not have God nor good men to live among you but strives with strength and cruelty to shut the Contry of them that fears the Lord and worships his most holy name which ungodly men and cursed Swearers is not fit to name the Lord remembers all thy doings that thou hast done against his people that fears his name and he will not forgit thy cruel doings that thou did unto John Gunson his wife and little Children and James Stanton and his Innocent life in which he lives unto God and darest not be offenced in Christ for all the world if thy weight had been ten times greater then that thou hast already laid on him he hath so truly learned Christ Oh the Lowing of John Gunsons Beasts when he caused their Ears to be cut off shall rise up in Judgment against thee and the harmless Sheep thou took from James Stanton shall plead his innocent cause and condemn the to thy face and every Fleece of Wool thou took from him shall cry out against thee and all their goods thou so evilly got shall do thee nor thine no good and they shall live and praise the Lord when thou shall fear and shame to hear of thy ungodly deeds the very name of God shall fear thy Soul and good men thou shall shun and Hills and Mountains shall thee fly O whether wilt thou run we are not afraid to Worship God his Truth will bear us out it is no other thing we suffer for and therefore we are stout and doth not fear the loss of all that ever we possess the Lord will plead our harmless cause and will deliver us And all our Foes will scattered be as dust upon a Hill When he will gather his Lambs that doth his holy will Remember how thou went about to do his People wrong VVho in his fear together met though not contemning long The Lord considered well their cause and knew the need they had And brought them home again in time which made the needful glad And therefore we are not to fear the worst that man can do For serving of so good a God that will consider so I have believed the God of heaven that maketh all mankind And do not fear to worship him who ever be left behind Consider well the Poor mans state that liveth near to thee And do him good if that thou canst it will thy comfort be For he would do to thee no harm I fully do believe Nor wrong the things belongs to thee whatever one would him give Or say to him in such case the Lord hath taught him so To Pray for