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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30074	Several testimonies given forth by Jeffery Bullock against that evil spirit by which he had been led to oppose the truth and people of God, both by word, writing, and printing books, for several years last past.	Bullock, Jeffery.	1686 (1686)	Wing B5426; ESTC R33263	1,819	5

SEVERAL TESTIMONIES Given forth by Jeffery Bullock Against that Evil Spirit by which he had been led to oppose the Truth and People of God both by Word Writing and Printed Books for several Years last past Sudbury the 25 th of the 8 th Month. 1686. WHereas in an Hour of Darkness and Temptation I have been drawn forth by the Enemy of my Soul that hath led me out in envy enmity and great wilfulness through my departing from the Holy Light and pure Witness of God in my own Conscience to Write and cause to be Printed and Published divers Books and Papers which were unsound pernicious and contrary to Truth in reproach of God's Truth and People and their holy way and order into which Truth hath led and setled them and not only so but have also defamed the Children of Truth and enviously opposed them not only by writing but publickly in meetings and by retaining the council of the Adversary of my Soul was carried on further so that ungodly act in Wilfulness and Stubborness to break that Holy Command of Christ who saith Swear not 〈◊〉 all Yet contradictory to the Witness of God in my own Conscience I did Swear and now after all this my wicked doings the pure Witness of God is risen and hath set all these my Sins in order before me and Sin now is my Souls burthen Wherefore that my Soul may find case and favour and forgiveness of God in Humility of Heart and Contriteness of Soul do condemn all these my wicked works and that it may be clearly and particularly evidenced I condemn by name all my said Books viz. My Book Intituled Antichrist's Transformations within discovered by the Light within My Book Intituled One Blow more against Anti-Christs Ministers c. Being a reply to Giles Barnardiston's answer to my first Book Also my Book Intituled A Testimony against the Sixty Six Judges called Quakers that wrote an Epistle against John Story and John Wilkinson Also my Book called Gross Errors detected or many of the Doctrines of the leading Quakers disowned All which Books are for Judgment Moreover I desire that all such that have read any or all of the said Books that you take heed to your selves that nothing in them do you hurt for certainly it was the dark and evil Spirit that guided me therein to write and publish them by which I did dispite to the Spirit of Grace therein and I desire that all that have any of the said Books that you destroy them as I have done them in my own possession that they may all be oblitterated and that they may never be spoken of or remembred any more The hand of the Lord lieth heavy upon me for these things therefore let all take warning by me that you may be kept out of the snares and baits of the Devil but as every one keeps to the Light and are obedient to God's Witness and Holy Grace placed in their hearts it will preserve them in way of Truth and Uprightness for ever Subscribed with my own hand the day and year above-written Jeffery Bullock POSCRIPT WHatever I have spoken or caused to be Printed against George Fox or the Order that is amongst those called Quakers I do disown it And as to what I have held forth that the Soul is mortal and that there is no future state I do utterly disown the same believing it came from the same Power of Darkness that brought forth the fruits above-mentioned that I have testified against Jeffery Bullock Subscribed above and here in the presence of us Mary Bullock his Wife Johannah Kemp. John Baker Thomas Clark Francis Waldegrave Ezek. Sheldrick Arthur Cotten John Furly The contents of this Paper and his Name written with his own hand was owned since before Anne Bullock his Daughter Sudbury October 4. 1686. This to be delivered to the Court. In my coming unto the Hall and Swearing I grieved the Spirit of God and did despite to Christ the Light and sinn'd against the Spirit of Grace and I would have come my self and a borne my Testimony against the things but the day of God's Vengeance is upon me and I have lost my natural strength that I fall in going about the House from me Jeffery Bullock Jacob Lea. John Fowler Andrew Bates John Baker Jonathan Christmass Israel Robards Ezekiel Sheldrick And to be at Unity with the Light within is more to be valued than Ten Thousands Worlds POSCRIPT THough I have condemned my self for the act of Swearing it being contrary to the command of Christ yet deny not my Allegiance to the King but do own the same J. B. Jeffery Bullock having sent these Papers to us and desired they might be made publick for the easing his troubled Conscience and clearing Friends and Truth we have permitted them accordingly to be Printed and though he hath thus far cleared the Truth the hand of the Lord remains still heavy upon him and how the Lord will deal with him we know not but must leave the issue to God desiring if it be his will he may find forgiveness of his sin and may lay down his head in peace with the Lord. THE END