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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29619	A single and general voice lifted up like a trumpet, sounding forth the Lords controversie concerning London, with her governors, priests, and citizens that walk in the manners, customs, and way of the heathen, that know not the dreadful God who is Light among them, neither like to retain God ... with somewhat directed to the ear of Thomas Atkin, called alderman of the said city : a reproof to his perverse and ungodly proceedings, message, and two letters ... also a letter from a servant of God in the said prison to Thomas Allen, Mayor of the city ... / by Daniel Baker.	D. B. (Daniel Baker), fl. 1650-1660.	1659 (1659)	Wing B485; ESTC R32851	25,174	40

done in the body be condemned or justified as is the ground and nature by which they are conceived and brought forth these are the true sayings of the sure word of prophesie that gave forth the Scriptures of Truth he that can believe and receive it without offence let him The Coppy of Thomas Atkin his Letter is as followeth DAniel Baker I saw you at my Lord Mayors gate upon the twenty ninth day of October last being the first day when he came from Westminster you were in a wild posture more like a mad man then a sober person you were then advised to return to your house but you still continued there in drawing a great concourse of people about you to the great disturbance of the peace of this City drawing Cut-purses and Pick-pokets about you a fit time for such persons to commit Robbery you were then deservedly carried to the Counter by force by Porters as I am informed who were paid for their pains taken about you if you had gone willingly you should not have been drag'd thither A Friend of yours desired me to discharge you to that end I sent for you to come unto me intending to have admonished you to make no such disturbance for the future and then to have discharged you but you writ me a Letter and sent me word by your Keeper that you would be dragged out as you were carried in this is false and if that be your mind when you desire your Liberty get a keeper to bring you to me and I shall give a discharge in the mean time if you want any fitting accommodation in the Counter it is your own fault I pitty your condition the Lord open your eyes and so I Rest Leaden-hall street London the 18 of Nov. 1659. Your well-wishing Friend THOMAS ATKIN Friend I have received thy Letter and I did not tear it to pieces after I read it as thou didst mine But how is it thou art so dark and blind though thou saw me at thy Lord Mayors gate Why could not thou see to do justice and relieve the oppressed within and without and cease from pevishnesse and perversnesse madnesse and folly for it is high time for thee to learn moderation and sobriety and cease from false accusing the Lords Servant whom thou say appeared more like a mad man then a sober person in a wilde posture know thou that the Servant is not above his Lord of whom such as crucified him said he is mad and hath a Devil and if they called the Master of the house Belzebub how much more them of his houshold and however I appeared to thee know it was the Lords Truth and Testimony I declared that season against your abominations I spake the words of Truth and sobernes as any moderate men may read in a Book Tituled A certain Warning which is fulfilling and is to be fulfilled upon the heads of such as are with thee in thy Life and Nature Thou say I was advised that day to return to my house I say it becomes not a Ruler to hearken to or to speak a lie which I turn back upon thy head for I heard none speak such words to me and forasmuch as thou say I continued there drawing a great concourse of people about me drawing Cut-purses and Pick-pockets about me and thou say a fit time for such persons to commit a robbery then I say such vile transgressors are beholding to the early Rulers that occasion so fit opportunities so frequently more especially in the wicked City London of all Cities and Towns throughout the Nations and I say how is it that thou art so dark and sottish that thou can lay such a charge upon me as the cause of such transgressors or concourse of people gathering together Behold I tell thee this filth is not to lie upon the head of the Innocent but to be turned back upon the head of the transgresser from whence it came and art not thou together with many more of the earthly Rulers Mayor Aldermen and Citizens of this wicked City inexcuseable herein let the Lords witnesse in all sober peoples consciences judge of this matter And if such a small number of persons gathered together at the Mayors gate were a fit time for Cut-purses and Pick-pockets to commit robbery I query how fit and large opportunities have they so frequently given them by the Rulers of the earth which forget Justice and Judgement as thou have done and to relief the oppressed and rather exalt folly and vanity and heathenish customes which captivates the minds of people out of Gods fear at such seasons when the Mayor Aldermen and great Earthly wise men that have lost the key of knowledge the oppressing Lawyers and Rabbies with their folly and vanity and heathenish customs and idolatrous abominations with them is carried through the open streets of the wicked City when so many thousands of people are gathered together to see the Beast that carries the Whore arise out of the troubled Sea and to behold your vanitie and wicked folly and dark inventions and vain glory and excesse which you wast and consume upon your lusts which war against your souls when so many poor widdows and fatherlesse halt blind and lame creeples so plentifully lye crying and lamenting up and down your streets and Mass-house doors and corners of Allies for want of bread food and rayment and honest employments to be set at work at them that can work The Lord God will assuredly account with you for these things and for his Creatures which you so greedily waste and consume upon your ungodly lusts and thou say I was deservedly carried to the Counter by force by Porters and what is my crime thou charge me with both in the Mittimus and thy Letter to me viz. I occasioned a great Tumult of people to be gathered together drawing a great concourse of people of Cut-purses and Pick-pockets about you say thou to me But heark Friend hast thou a Law for such Crimes or is this of thy own making Now if there be such a Law in force to be equally ministred or executed upon all without respect of persons which is but reasonable and all Laws should be grounded upon pure Reason that occasion great Tumults of people to be gathered together amongst whom doubtlesse may be transgressors of all sorts such as the Priests keep ever learning what to say but do not like themselves Then what will become of all the earthly wise men of London what must they not all deservedly be carried to prison I may appeal to the chief Authority in the Nation and if the Lords faithful and true witnesse in their Consciences will condemne me Lo I submit but who occasioned any or the greatest tumult or coucourse of people to gather together whether the Rulers and wise men of London in exalting their folly vanity and vain glory which the everlasting God will stain and bring to contempt or I that in the fear and power